The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC 3OURNALS.

TIMES.--The House of Commons agreed last
night, by a majority of two to one, to the purchase
of the site of the Exhibition Building. It had been
previously agreed that this vote should be first dis-
posed of, and that a little more time should be al-
lowed for the more controverted part of the propo-
sition. The purchase of the site, however, as Mr.
Gregory showed himself well aware, commits the
house very far. The site can only be used for the
promotion of art and science, and, unless any gen-
tleman can discover new methods for the promo-
tion of these objects, the site must either lie idle or
be used very much as Lord Palmerston and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer have proposed. They
do not propose to transfer to South Kensington
either the National Gallery or the learned bodies
now at Burlington-house. They propose to begin by
locating in the Exhibition Building the Museum of
Patents, now huddled up in one small apartment at
the South Kensington Museum, the National Por-
traits, now hardly visible, and the Collection of Na-
tural History, which has loug been bursting its
bounds in Great Russell-street. After the evidence.
the authorities, and the examples that have been
adduced, it can no longer be doubted that these
wants must be measured by acres, and that the
acres in the heart of the metropolis are too costly to
be bestowed upon objects not absolutely requiring
that position. With many of our readers, we should
be very glad to see all the public collections in-
stalled in magnificent and eternal edifices, as exten-
sive as the Cretan Labyrinth and as indestructible
as the Pyramids, in Trafalgar-square, or Piccadilly,
or the Strand. But everybody knows that we might
as well wish the Heavenly Jerusalem to be planted
to-morrow in Leicester-square, or the Garden of
Eden in Soho. It has been triad and tried, till no-
body will try it again. A vote is to be asked first
for the site, then for the building ; and if the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer should ever find the house
ready to invest in land at £50,000 or perhaps
£lOO,OOO an acre, and to cover it with magnificent
edifices, the occasion will only provoke a new
war of architects, librarians, sculptors, painters,
naturalists, and other men of art and science,
proverbially the most irritable of the human
species. There is not the remotest chance of
the thing being ever done in the way that we
could wish, and in the way that a great nation
ought to do it. We must go to a suburb, and we
must house our more bulky and increasing collec-
tions where we can. If a man has only himself
to take care of, he may take a pleasant lodging in
Pall-mall or Mayfair; but if, with a limited income,
he has a large family of small children, he must be
content with a house in the suburbs. That is the
question which was settled in the House of Com-
mons last night. The figures spoke for themselves.
Two or three acres even in Bloomsbury, covered
with buildings in character with the British Museum,
will cost as much as 17 acres or more at Brompton.
Parliament can only be reckoned on for a certain
sum, at the outside, and, as space is indispensable
for the purpose, we must get as much as we can for
the money within a mile of Hyde-park-corner. In
anticipation, however, of the deferred debate upon
the purchase of the Exhibition Building, Mr. Gre-
gory undertook to represent a gentleman who gives
us in this way the benefit of his professional advice.
Mr. Mallet, who has formerly been employed by
Government himself, and who either expects or does
not expect to be employed again, has gone over the
building, and made himself thoroughly acquainted
with its deficiencies. His conclusion is that, except
the four walls, there is absolutely nothing there
that we should not have to replace with more sub-
stantial materials and more complete workmanship.
When this is the case, he warns us that we do, in
fact, only get the four walls for our money ; and,
as those four walls have to be stuccoed and orna-
mented, and even then will be open to criticism, the
value received for our money sinks very low indeed
in Mr. Mallet's estimation. The argument is that
which has been stated elsewhere with an eloquence
and wit unfortunately much easier on the negative
side of all questions than on the affirmative. It is
so much easier, to prove a house uninhabitable than
habitable, and to prove every human being a fool
than the contrary, that we wholly despair of success
in this arena. Mr. Mallet, even when chaperoned
by Mr. Gregory, reads very flat after the brilliant
effusions we have perused elsewhere. While the
satirist makes his utter nonsense and absurdity at
least amusing, the architect is only savage, abusive,
solemn, and stupid. Even were we to grant every
word that he says—and we do not grant it—
that would still leave wholly untouched the most
important reasons for purchasing the building
as it stands, and making the best of it. In the
first place, besides the four walls, which are ad-
mitted to be something tor the money, there is
the general plan, to which scarcely an exception has
been taken. As a mode of utilising a block of 17
acres, it is about as good a plan as could be sug-
gested. Government proposes to work upon that
plan. It does not propose at once to raise the whole
structure to that scale of solidity by which Mr. Mal-
let measures it and finds it wanting, but to proceed
bit by bit, as space is wanted. It is not necessary
to floor the whole building at once, or to warm the
whole building at once, or to give the whole half-
mile of Picture Galleries a fireproof floor at once, or
to substitute brick piers for the iron braces on which
the " stand-up " now depends all over the building
at once, or to complete the fittings all at once, or to
substitute planed surfaces for rough all at once. If
we begin with half the south Picture Gallery, and
three acres for the Patents, and five for Mr. Owen's
collection, we shall do enough for the present. The
rest of the building may remain in its present state,
which, after some very heavy storms of rain last
week, is, we may say, perfectly weather-tight. The
proposed destination need not touch the nave, which
will thus remain available for temporary exhibi-
tions, for flower shows, for promenade concerts, for
Volunteer reviews, for ceremonials, and for many
other purposes, which it will be very easy to sneer
at, but not so easy to prevent being both popular
and useful. The nave may always be kept open,
and retained in its present state, bearing the same
relation to the adjacent courts and galleries as West-
minster Hall bears to the Houses of Parliament and
the Courts of Law. For this use it will not require
any change or much repair for many years. Of
course we could wish the situation higher, and the
floor more raised above the natural surface, but
the situation is, at least, many feet higher than that
of the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Abbey.
POST.—The political isolation of Russia is becom-
ing daily more decided. The policy of the Cabinet
of Berlin having completely alienated the people of
Prussia from the Government of the country, her
only ally is a fast breaking reed surely destined to
fail beneath the hand that leans upon it. A few
more ill-judged acts of friendship on the part of
Prussia will place not merely that Power but Rus-
sia herself in direct antagonism with the rest of Eu-
rope. She has therefore nothing to trust to but the
diplomacy of her statesmen, and it is not likely that
they will neglect the opportunity furnished by the
notes about to be addressed to St. Petersburg by the
Western Powers and Austria, to prolong the situa-
tion over as great an interval as possible. The sen-
sible diminution of the ancient prestige of the em•
pire, the disorganisation of the army, the wretched
condition of the fleet, the exhausted state of the
finances, the still incomplete social reorganisation of
the country, the precarious position of the nobility,
the difficulty of exciting the fanaticism of the pea-
sants, the absence of any European ally, and, above
all, the feeble and undecided character of the Em-
peror himself, are so many reasons why those who
control the destinies of the empire wish for time,
and why to gain it they will appear in the first in-
stance disposed to grant concessions which may
delude Europe, and for a moment suspend any
manifestations of discontent which may be about to
break out in fresh provinces. That they will em-
ploy this period in an honest endeavour to reconcile
what is possible to Russia with what is satisfactory
to Poland, is more than we can hope ; but that,
while professing to be actuated by liberal and
humane sentiments, the Government at St. Peters-
burg may in reality profit by the occasion to employ
measures of even greater severity than they have
hitherto done is extremely probable. Our last
accounts from St. Petersburg indicate already a ten-
dency in this direction. We learn upon undoubted
authority that, for the third time during the last
three months, a discussion has taken place in the
Cabinet as to whether it will be wise to leave the
Grand Duke Constantine still at Warsaw, or
whether it would not be better to recall him imme-
diately, and at the same time enforce more rigorous
measures against the insurrection. While on the
obneegn to f
handive itisodreesiigrn yn y
abslethipaattnho new incentive should
with the Poles, the
suppression of the insurrection at all costs is a point
of the first importance. It would seem that this
question has been discussed with much warmth,
and that opinions were all the more divided on ac-
count of the animosity and personal jealousy which
exists against the Grand Duke in certain quarters,
and which would seek to keep
him as long as pos-
sible removed from St. Petersburg. The result of
these discussions is reported to have been that,
unless some unforeseen eventuality should arise,ne
the present status quo was to be allowed to
the severe
tocon tie
until the autumn; that is to say, until
renderw'eathear n
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When
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thatlter time
more
ecomes,i appropriate
the
comparatively
mild measures employed now have failed to suppress
the insurrection, the Imperial Government will
take advantage of the six winter months to re-
establish its authority at all hazards and at any
cost; and as the measures which will then be

prelfloyecetd
crweidlilt boen sacamrceeralybeorfofa
trhiaetulnarepecrailaclulfaatmec4tc:
it is likely that the Grand Duke Constantine
then be retailed and replaced by General Berg.
Meantime, we caeot congratulate either his i,rn:
periel Highness nor General Mouravieff on the, last
exercise of their aathority. The hanging of the
priest Konarski at Warsaw, and of Count Leon
Plater at `Vilna, are acts which are certainly not
justified by the exigencies of the situation. Count
Plater was a leading member of one of the,
wealthiest and most distinguished noble families in
Poland; and although it is true that arms wcre
found concealed on his estate, it is asserted that
he was ignorant of the fact, and innocent of
all
complicity with the insurgents. Under any circatn-
stances, he was entitled to a trial and a more
honourable death than that of a common malefactor.
We should consider that an earl in this country
must have taken a very leading part indeed in ad
insurrectionary movement to justify his being hung
without trial in a public market place ; and if thew
are the comparatively mild measures for which the
Russian Government intend to substitute others,
still more stringent, we do not wonder at the Grand
Duke having been relieved flow the duty of ,rt
en-
forcing them, though we are at a loss to conceive i.
what they are to consist. Meantime the summer la
passing away, and while the Great Powers are
changing diplomatic notes and making propositions 2
the numbers of widows and orphans in Polend
crying aloud for help are daily increasing*
Unless some Power more energetic and cote
rageous than the rest steps in, the autumn
will close upon a nation's agony, the time for,
action will be past, and the protraction 0'
negotiations over the next few months will lea
Russia with her hands free at the end of them. The
result may be the momentary suppression of the
movement, but it will not be the extinction of the
national sentiment. Throughout every class 015
feeling has gathered force and vitality just in pro-
portion as the prestige of Russian power has de-
clined ; and the experiences of the past year, though
bitter and disastrous, have been so far encouraging
that they have shown the extent of the patriotieln
and the moral resources of the people, and the firew
which has now blazed with such fury it will need
more than a winter's frost to extinguish. If it be
the object of the great powers to secure the peace
of Europe, they must not be put off by vague pro-
mises and dilatory pleas on the part of Russia. It
is probable that the notes will be sent to St. Peters-
burg at once, and there can be no reason why We
should not get an immediate and decided answer
upon the matter of the treve, or armistice, or what-
ever the interlude may be termed. If the reply of
Russia upon this point is unsatisfactory, it will be
impossible to let the matter rest at that stage. 01
may be that Austrian statesmen foresee this con"
tingency, and are prepared with a new policy 13
lieu of those propositions which have cost so much
discussion, but are of so little practical value. We
have already indicated whatin our view that policy
should be ; but if the occasion is allowed to 01111
by, it may be taken advantage of by others, and
the peace of Europe may be endangered by the very
Powers who most desire to preserve it.
HERALD,—The proposal made by the Govern'
went to expend £484,000 in the purchase of 17 acres
of land in South Kensington, and the completion of
the building used for the Great Exhibition of 1862'
is one which is sure to elicit a great variety of or
mons, not only from member- of the House of Coo':
mons but among persons outside who have at hear'
the interests of the nation and of the metrJpolitan
city. There is no doubt, we suppose, that a veri,
good bargain has been made when 17 acres of 10°
in a good position, one that at a future day alai be
in the centre of London, are to be had at a price of
about £7,000 per acre. In the Oxford-street IT'
provements the land cost £57,000 an acre. In
prolonging Coventry-street the price of £119,000
an acre was paid. If 17 acres in South Kensington
are. cheap at £120,000, the International Daub"
Lion ,
on building is not dear at £BO,OOO. It would cost
much more to cover this space of ground with all
kind of shed for any sort of purpose. To this voteir
of £200,000 we have no objection to make. IY.
said
cannot say the same of the £284,000 which aresaw
to be required for the completion of the Exhibitiot!
building. For what is this euormous sum wanted
The building is to be rendered substantial, Oa
front is to be stuccoed, and the glass domes are.to
be changed into solid domes of brick covered With
lead. Might not the money be much better ex-
pended in deVeloping into a handsome structure
what is now, by common consent, a very ugly
building and a great disfigurement to the western
part of the metropolis? Why do not the Geyern-
ment take the advice of a committee of architects
on this matter ? Captain Fowke may be very
skilful in the art of constructing convenient sheds
for temporary purposes; he is not the sort of man
whom Augustus would have employed in rebuilding
Rome, or Napoleon in beautifying Paris. The
building has many patent faults which need to be
rectified. The length of the nave is broken and
spoiled by the rise of six feet at each end. The
domes are squat and ugly, and give heaviness to
the ends of the building, leaving the centre weak.
Even the contractors, whose business it was not to
design but to execute, proposed to erect a large dome
in the centre as a plan far preferable to having two
smaller ones at the ends. Then the terminal towers
at the east and west angles, in nobody knows what
style of architecture, might be removed altogether
with great advantage. The ends of the transepts,
of flat unsightly woodwork, which completely spoil
the view from the Horticultural Gardens, should
surely be made into an architectural feature. Let
the building stand, by all means, and let it be cora-
pleted, but do not suffer it to remain a damning
blot upon the taste of the country, an
occasion of scoffing to supercilious visitors from.
the Continent. If the plan of restoration exhi-
bited at the building and in the South IC-c°:
sington Museum were carried out, we might have;
structure of which the nation need not be ashamed
Lord Palmerston may despise architec•ure, a°
think it impossible for any building in London
to be beautiful. For our part we think that fill'
.half a million of money we ought to have a bow"'
ing which should be pleasing to the eye at the sail
time that it satisfied our material requirements. PP
what is to be done with the building when we have
it on our hands ? It is quite a mistake to supPos,e
. that retaining this structure we are in any W"
providing for the enlargement of the British Museoni
or the transfer of the National Gallery of Paintings:
The natural history collection could never be housedt
under a building roofed with glass. If the great
building were given to Professor Owen he would
fill it with whales, and then ask for more room. The
contents of the National Portrait Gallery may be
conveniently housed in the picture galleries of the
late Exhibition. Ile Patent Museum, liable tonne
limited expansion, may perhaps be lodged in the ree
mainder of the structure, which may be used also
on occasions for exhibitions in connection with the
Department of Sciences and Art and public soirees.
But one thing we do insist upon, whatever is done
with it. If we are to spend all this money, let 03
have a fair return for it. The building must not
only be completed substantially, it must be re°:
dered worthy of the nation in an architectural point
of view. It must become an ornament, and not re
main a disfigurement to London.

MULTIPLICATION GP RATS.—Mr. Buckland row
lates that a celebrated rat-catcher told him a little dog
his, called Tiny, and under six pounds in weight9l
killed 2,525 rats, which, at the end of three years, had the.
been permitted to live, would have increased to the astound
ing number of 1,633,190,200 rats
To-day's telegram is brought to us with lightning speed h 9
magnetic force. The same power, and with the same succe.„,l3vr.
is employed by Mr. Herring in his magnetic brushes.
Hassan reports "I regard them as the most perfect brushed
hitherto made, as respects their mechanical construction
and their magnetical action." They are the remedy for gr%
hair, neuralgia, rheumatism, Sac. N.13.--Counterfeits Ar'
being made. Offices, 3t, Basinghall-street, London.

Births.
BOWEN.—On the 12th inst., at Queen's-gardens, I-IYdg'
park, the wife of Charles Bowen, Esq., of a son.
CHADWICK.—On the 14th inst, at at New Hall, Warwicl‘:
shire, the wife of John De H. Mavesyn Chadwick, of 0

son.
HARR-B.—On the 14th inst , at Briton, the wife of Mr.
Horatio Harris, of a son.
Marriages.
DowLING—FLEET.— On the 13th inst., at the Old Church'
Brighton, Frank Dowling, Esq., of Addlestone, Surrlt
to Isabel, youngest daughter of W. Fleet, Esq , of 2,
Richmond-terrace, Brighton.
GARNETT—SINGLETON.—On the 13th inst,, at St. Mark'of
Regent's park, Richard Garnett, Esq , of the British
Museum, to Olivia Narney, only daughter of Edward
Singleton, Esq., of co. Clare, Ireland.

Deaths.
BOROUGH.—On the 14th inst., at 23, Grafton-street, the
Hon. Lady Borough, widow of Sir Richard Boroug
Bart., and only surviving issue of Gerrard, Ist Irisc°l3l3
Lake, aged 88.
BERTL—On the 14th inst., at 3A, King-street, Saint
James's, Florence Borti, aged 23.
C AF.R —c
.0s„ a theage
dl4lto.hinst., at Lee-grove, Blackheath. At.'
Wm. thur Lascelles Beckwith, second son of W. Carr, s(l.'
Of
PAYNE.—At Havre, suddenly, Henry Payne, ..-'sq"
Ford-park, Mutley.plain, Plymouth.
WELLS.—On the 12th inst., at Dalston, Mr. Rchd. Wells,
aged 51.
Car
WYATT.—On the 11th inst., at Ryde, Isle of Wight,
tain Henry B. Wyatt, R.N., aged 77. J.

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No. 22,142.

LORD IVILLIAM LENNOX'S BIOGRAPHY.
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NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR .OF "NO CUUItC•I."
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THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE,
JUNE 39, 1863.
A Grand MELANGE DRAMATIQUE will take place in
AID of the FUNDS for a NATIONAL METROPOLITAN
MONUMENT to SHAKESPEARE, under the immediate
Patronaze of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales, before whom 60 eminent artistes will have the
honour of appearing. —Hon. Sec., Mr. Adolphus Francis, 43,
Cumberland-street, llyde-park.

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Every Evening will be performed Selections from the
following Operas :
Verdi's LA FORZA DEL DESTINO ; and
Flotow's MARTHA.

Supported by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, &c.;
Messrs. Albert, Green, Bernardi, Finish, Kimberley, and
W. Evans, with full band and chorus.
Conducted by Mr. Jonghmans.
Drew Dean's Flute Solos
UNSWORTII, the modern Demosthenes.
Euicne, W. Randall, J. Hutchenson, and the marvellous
ARTHUR and BERTRAND.
" These two Parisian clowns have carried the art of
tumbling to apparently the highest pitch of perfection, and it
is impossible even for the most staid of visitors to avoid
being amused by their origi nAI gambols. They elicit shouts
of laughter and applause."—Times, April 7, 1863.

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This Evening the
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Clowns. and BERTRAND,
ARTHUR LLOYD'S burlor him esque Drama, arranged expressly
f.
A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH'S new Comicalities, Sc
SAM COLLINS, with new Songs.
UNSWORTU, the celebrated Stump Orator.
EUGENE, and G. HUTCIIINSON.
GRAND SELECTIONS from OPERAS, GLEES, and
CANTATAS.
Principal Artistes —Miss Russell, Miss Townley ; Mr. Green,
Signor Bunali, and Signor Tivoli.
Conductor, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission--Hall, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is.

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NOTlCE.—During the Week the Selections will be—" Der
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"Don Giovanni," &c.
LEVY, the great wonder on the Cornet-a-Piston, plays
from half-past Nine to Twelve.
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MR. T. CARRICK begs to announce to his
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Cartes de Visite, 10 for 10s. 6d ; 21 for Ll. Miniatures on
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body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
Ind closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
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hours later the party of Federal cavalry which sub-
sequently so fluttered the doves at Richmond, and
from which at other points we narrowly escaped,
burst upon Ashland, and inflicted some slight da-
mage upon the railroad and upon the astonished
little town. On Saturday we travelled at our best,
pace from sunrise to sundown, and were rewarded
by hearing not far distant the heavy filing which
commenced about four in the afternoon of t aturday,
and continuing long after dark announced that we
were approaching the neighbourhood of what was
rightly expected to be the bloodiest battle of the
war. Sleeping near Guiney's station we were close
to Chancellorsville at nine on the morning of Sun-
day, and. I found that my anticipations that I should
be on the spot in time to witness the struggle were
fully and happily realised.
Wednesday, April 29.
This morning, under cloak of an opaque fog, a
large body of Federals arrived unmolested on pon-
toons below Fredericksburg, and, clinging closely
to the river bank, spread themselves right and left,
surprising two or three parties of Confederate
pickets, which were surrounded before it was known
a Yankee had crossed the stream. Simultaneously
a far larger body crossed the north branch of the
Rappahannock at Kelly's and other adjoining fords,
while Gen. Stoneman, with a powerful cavalry and
artillery force, struck in towards Culpepper Court-
house, and began to spread with impunity over Vir-
ginia, breaking his men up .into parties, by whom
various raids were undertaken, which General J.
E. B. Stuart was for seven days powerless to check
or to chastise. The suddenness and simultaneity of
the enemy's operations, the apparent sagacity which
guided them, the magnitude of the varied force
which assumed them, the consciousness that General
Lee, deprived of his " old warhorse," Gen. Long-
street, was far weaker in numbers than he has ever
been since he left Maryland, combined to create
uneasiness in the breasts of his staff, which was only
relieved when they comforted themselves by watch-
ing the unruffled calmness of " the old Tycoon" (as
they affectionately call him)• Without bustle or
agitation his dispositions were made, their general
policy being to leave Gen. Early at Fredericksburg
with a sufficient force to guard the hills from Hamil-
ton's Crossing to Marye's Heights, and on down to
the river, while Generals Lee and Jackson with the
rest of the army slowly turned their faces westward
along the turnpike and plank roads. Upon the
afternoon of this day Gen. Stuart delayed the Fe-
deral advance in the neighbourhood of Kelly's Ford
by, cutting the head of one of their columns between
the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers, and taking
prisoners from three different army corps. And
here it may be an assistance to the reader to repeat
the official order under which, since the last battle
of Fredericksburg, the Federal army has been re-
distributed and reorganized :
" GENERAL ORDERS (No. 6).
"Head-quarters, Army of the Potomac, Camp,
near Falmouth, Virginia, Feb. 5.
" I. The division of the army into Grand Divisions im•
peding rather than facilitating its current business, and the
character of the service it is liable to be called upon to
perform being adverse to the movement and operations
of heavy columns, it is discontinued, and the corps organi-
zation is adopted in its stead. They will be commanded as
follows :—First corps, Major-General John F. Reynolds ;
second corps, Major General D. N. Couch; third corps,
Brigadier-General D. E. Sickles (temporarily) ; fifth corps,
Major General George G. Meade ; sixth corps, Major
General John Sedgwick ; eleventh corps, Major General
Franz Sigel; and twelfth corps, Major General H. W.
Slocum.
"11. Hereafter the corps will be considered as a unit for
the organisation of the artillery, and no transfers of batte-
ries will be made from one corps or division to others
except for purposes of equalisation, and then only under
the authority of the Chief of Artillery.
" 111. The cavalry of the army will be consolidated into
ono corps, under the command of Brigadier General
Stoneman, who will make the necessary assignments for
detachment duty.
" IV. The foregoing changes in command will be made
as early as convenient.
"V. The Major Generals commanding Grand Divisions
will report to these head-quarters the names of such staff
officers as are for assignment for duty in the execution of
this order. "By command of Major General Hooker,
"JOSEPH DICKINSON, Assistant Adjutant General,"
THURSDAY, April 30.
The three army corps which had crossed at Kelly's
Ford were, it is believed, joined this morning by
two other corps which crossed at the United States
Ford, and together they swept onwards in a fine
broad front towards Fredericksburg along the turn-
pike, plank, and Spottsylvania Court-house roads,
the last being the direct route from Fredericks-
burg to the Virginia Central Railroad, by which
on our first entry into Secessia, Colonel Wol-
seley and I proceeded on our way to Rich-
mond. The full strength of each army corps
should, I believe, amount to 20,000 men ; but,
making allowances for the inevitable shrinking of
regiments, it is computed that General Hooker's
army at this point could not have been ;ess than
80,000 men. With them marched a band of
pioneers, or sappers and miners, 5,000 strong—in
other words, mechanics accustomed to handle
timber, fell trees, and build bridges ; lumbermen
from Maine and carpenters; men who are clad in
uniform in order that they may be exchanged if
taken prisoners, but whose arms are the pick,
shovel, and the axe, an their employment to work
at intrenchments while the soldiers rest. Contrast
with them the Southern army, composed of men
who for the most part never touched spade or axe's
before the commencement of this war, who works
with tools insufficient in number, worn with use,
and all of them captured from the enemy, and who
fought on this occasion in the ratio of three fagged,
weary, and hungry against seven fresh and pam-
pered men.
General Lee, anxious to ascertain whether Gene-
ral Hooker designed to march straight on Fre-
dericksburg or, in pursuance of the plan by him
exhibited to the Congressional Committee which in-
vestigated General Burnside'e failure, to strike
deeper into the country, moved leisurely towards
Chancellorsville, holding all his troops except Gene-
ral Early's division closely in hand. But when
General Anderson's division, stationed in the neigh-
bourhood of the United States Ford, recoiling
before the immense Federal host, heralded its
advance, General Lee threw up earthworks half-
way between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville,
and there arrested the advance of his foe. General
Hooker did not press him hotly, but, in his turn,
fell slowly back towards Chanc6llorsville, followed
still more slowly by the Confederates. On the even-
ing of this day General Stuart attacked the Federals
upon the Spottsylvania-road, and inaugurated one
of those "free fights" into which in this war nigilt
conflicts ordinarily degenerate. The 3d Virginia
Cavalry charged the sth, the sth charged the 3d,
Major Von Borcke, of General Stuart's Staff, had
his horse killed by one of his own men, everybody
fired at anybody and anybody at everybody, but the
result was that "all's well that ends well," inas-
much as, after losing 50 prisoners, the Federals,
notwithstanding their immense numerical superio-
rity, fell back, and were heard no more on the
Spottsylvania-road.

vine. Within these works the Yankees stood
thickly and savagely at bay, their powerful ar-
tillery massed on some 13igh ground a little in the
rear. Their position was fearfully formidable—
repulse, if the works were attacked solely from the
front, seemed inevitable—the loss of life to the
assailants anyhow must have been ghastly. Under
these circumstances General Lee resolved to out-
flank the flanker. _ _ _

SATURDAY, Illay 2.
If ever a man was adapted for the execution of a
plan daring and hazardous in the extreme, but de-
pending for its safety upon the celerity and audacity

of its execution, assure; y that man was Stonewall
Jackson. With the first break of dawn he plunged

with his three famous divisions—the first eom-

manded by A. P, Hill; the second, in the absence
of Trimble, by Coulson ; the third, lately under
D. H. Hill, by Rodes, into the country road which

leads to the Furnace. At the Furnace he ascended
a hill, and was viewed by the 'enemy from an ad-
joining bill called Fairview, and heavily though
harmlessly shelled. With his usual temerity he
sent word back to General Lee that the Furnace-
hill must be held by one regiment until his artillery

and waggons had got by. A South Carolina regi-
ment was accordingly sent there, but was, I believe,
shortly carried forward in company with the
cavalry, and in its place three or four companies of
a Georgia regiment were left to guard the critical
spot. The enemy, discovering the weakness of the
guard, attacked and took the Georgians prisoners.
The last of Jackson's batteries was passing as the
Georgians were captured, whereupon Capt. Brown
unlimbered his guns, opened on the Federals, and
drove them back. He then passed on after Jackson,
whose waggons had to fall back and pursue their
General by a more circuitous route. Marvellous to
say, it never seems to have suggested itself to Gen.
Hooker, although this large body of Confederates
passed under his nose, that his rear was in danger,
or that Gen. Lee, greatly weakened, was lying
within a few hundred yards of the mighty Federal
host of 80,000 men.

At four in the afternoon Gen. Lee, knowing that
Jackson could not be far from his destination,

opened fire steadily along his whole line, feeling the
gigantic masses of his intrenched foe. For two
hours and a half a heavy fire was interchanged
between the hostile batteries, each party holding

its own line. Suddenly, about half-pest 6 in the
evening, the rattle of musketry was heard in the
distance, followed by the loud boom of artillery,
and instantly General Lee passed word along
his lines, " Jackson at work ; press them heavily
everywhere." Swift and sudden as the falcon
swooping on her prey, Jackson had burst on his
enemy's rear, and crushed him before resistance
could be attempted. Passing right over the plank
road, and extending almost up to the Ely's Ford-
road, getting behind Chancellorsville, the three
noble divisions raced gallantly forward, drunk with
the animal joy and inebriation of battle. Not a
trench had been dug, not a tree felled, not a stick
raised to resist them; the unconscious Federals en-
gaged in cooking their supper—one regiment on
dress parade—heard in the sudden volley of Jack-
son's long line the knell of their doom. An intel-
ligent Virginian farmer, Mr. Green, taken prisoner
by the Federals, heard one of their Generals say to
his men about six o'clock, " Jackson and his rebels
don't dare face us to-night. Get your suppers
ready, boys, and enjoy yourselves." With faces
turning eastward, secured, as they fancied, by the
dense masses of their friends within the intrench-

ments in front, without a thought of their rear, the
Federals rummaged their knapsacks for all the
luxuries with which Boston, New York, and Phila-
delphia pamper and recruit their Sybarite soldiery.
Before that supper could be eaten the un-
washed, unkempt, starving raggamuffins of the
South bad burst on them from the west, and scat-
tered them, nerveless, panic-struck, helpless, like
chaff before the blast. Major Peyton, of General
Lee's staff, found a coffeepot, with cups round it,
standing in the wood. He poured the liquid out,

but it was so hot he could not drink it.
What might have been the result but for one
casualty which alone almost countervailed the vic-
tories of a week who shall say ? Formation or
order the Federals had none ; reserve, tactics, orga-
nisation, disposition, plan, all went down before
the whirlwind suddenness of the surprise. The less of
the Confederates was ludicrously small; their advance
like that of a white squall in the Bay of Naples.
Night had fallen, About 8 o'clock General Jack-
son rode forward with two or three of his staff along
the plank road, and advanced 150 yards in front of,
his foremost skirmishers, peering with those keen
eyes which you might fancy could be seen through
the densest gloom forward into the night. He
turned to ride back—a heavy fire from one of his
own regiments, hailing from South Carolina, but
whose number I will in mercy withhold, saluted
him. One bullet struck his left arm four inches
below the shoulder, shattering the bone down to
the elbow. The wound was intensely painful; he
half fell, half was lifted from his horse. An aide
galloped back to A. P. Hill to report that Stone-
wall Jackson was wounded and lying in the road.
General Hill galloped hastily up, flung himself from
the saddle, began, choked with emotion, to cut the
cloth of Jackson's sleeve, when suddenly four of the
Federal videttes appeared on horseback, and were
fired on by.the Staff officers. The videttes fell back
upon a strong and swiftly advancing line of Fede-
ral skirmishers. Gen. Hill and all the officers and
couriers of both Staffs bad no alternative but to
mount and ride for their lives, leaving Jackson
where he lay. Right over the ground where was
stretched the wounded lion the Federals advanced.
Within their grasp lay the mightiest prize, the most
precious jewel in the Confederate crown ; but it was
not destined that Stonewall Jackson should be
struck by Federal bullet, or yield himself prisoner
to a Federal soldier,
As General Hill and his companions galloped
back they also became the target of the same luck-
less North Carlolinians. General Hill's boot was cut
by a bullet, but his leg uninjured; Colonet Crutch.
field, chief of artillery to Jackson, was seriously, if
not mortally, wounded; Boswell, of Jackson's Staff,
killed ; Howard, engineer to A. P. Hill, knocked
from his horse, but whether killed, or wounded, or
a prisoner, is not known ; two or three couriers
killed. *Without losing a moment, General Hill
threw his own skirmishers forward, backed by heavy
supports, and the ground on which lay Gen. Jack-
son was again occupied by the Confederates. But
in the meantime two more bullets, both from his
own men, had struck him as he lay on the ground,
ono passing through the wrist of his shattered arm,
the other entering the palm of his right hand and
coming out through its back. He was at once car-
ried to the rear, and his arm instantly amputated
under chloroform. Grave fears were entertained
that he would lose his right hand also, but I am
happy to add that they have since abated. Again
may it be hoped that, if he is wanted, Stonewall
Jackson will carry into action a guilelessness, sim-
plicity, and unselfishness which are all his own, and
combine with them Cromwell's fiery zeal, saintly
earnestness, and dauntlessness of purpose.
Never was it more apparent than this evening
what Jackson's presence and influence are tot
io .
n
men. With his wound ceased the fiery despera
of their onslaught ; tidings of it flew like wildfire
through the ranks; the routed Fdedenrdalstofookunbdeatiritemo-f
and canister selves no longer closely ps I
grace as they poured grapecaster down the
10 General A. P. Hill
plank road. Between
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on the calf of his leg
was struck by a bit ofhim
which caused a painfuls_hecicodn.tusAiotn,wanp.m
dfo.rced
General
reluctantly from the
General Lee withdrawn
J. E. B. Stuart was bti
from his cavalry commanrd, and put temporarily at
the head of
Gen. Jackson s corps, stripped as it was
of his own
two leading Generals who have hitherto
its dangers and glories without being
partaken
arrested by disease or stricken by bullet.
SUNDAY, May 3.
In interpreting a battle the narrator is under.

The day passed uneventually. General Lee con-
tinued to advance, General Hooker to fall back.
But as they neared Chancellorsville the former
penetrated the latter's purpose in retreating, when
he discovered that about 500 yards in front of Chan-
cellorsville, in the midst of a dense thicket of black:
jack, the Federal pioneers had thrown up very
strong intrenchments at right angles to the turn-1
pike and plank roads with an abattis of felled trees
bristling outwards in front, and seemingly defying
the passage of any living and walking animal. Ren-!
ning southwards for about a mile from the plank;
road, the Yankee works turned short to the west
until they again met the plank road be-
tween Chancellorsville and Orange Court-
house, towards the latter of which points (as
I have already said) the plank road deflects in a
south-westerly direction after leaving Chancellors

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the necessary disadvantage of describing as succes-
sive iucidents which actually took place simul-
taneously along the whole line. This disadvantage
is increased if, as in the present instance, simul-
taneous operations are progressing at both ends of
a 15. mile stretch. The eye and mind oscillate
between east and west—between the Confederate

battery at Marye's Heights and the Federal works
on the slope at Chancellorsville—doubtful which
way to turn when both places demand notice, or
whither in the first instance to address attention.

At Chancellorsrille the battle, hardly intermitted
hroughthe night, opened furiously with the earliest

dawn of day. Last night it had raged principally
to the left of the plank road as you travel from
Orange Court-house to Chancellorsville ; this
morning it was mostly transferred to the right,
as the right wing of the Federals, recoiling
before Jackson's onslaught, was doubled back on
the Federal centre. Morning found the Fede-
rals entirely within their lines, which ran from
the neighbourhood of the river across the turnpike
and plank roads, back again, at a right angle, to
the same plank road, after it has left Chancellors-
vine, and turned southwards. The slope up which
the road from Orange ascends, and which is one of
the few spots in that densely clothed region which
is bare of trees, was defended by ordinary earth-
works, but behind them was massed a wealth of
artillery such as no other modern field of battle
has witnessed. Against this slope with earliest
morning advanced in three divisions what, whether
he lives or dies, will never cease tO be called
-" Stonewall Jackson's corps." First advanced the
division of A. P. Hill, now commanded by Gene-
ral Heath; next advanced the" Stonewall" division,
under General Coulson ; last, and in reserve,
advanced D. H. Hill's division, now under
command of General nodes. Through a perfect
tornado of shot and shell hurtling through the
woods, And rending trunk and limb and bush and
sapling, as though a hurricane of iron hail had
rushed from the clouds, steady as regulars, inexor-
able as doom, advanced, division after division, the
fiery Militia of the South. Who that has seen the
listless, sleeveless, ragged, mendicant-like units
which compose the Southern host, dragging them-
selves wearily and painfully to the front, with
pleading eye and dejected mien, could imagine into
what a thunderbolt of war the aggregate of these
units grows and ascends when death and danger
lower in their front? Onward, right onward they
press ; they have gained the edge of the torn and
riven woods, they burst into the open, and here,
for the first time, Heath's Division falters under
the tempest of shot rained upon it from the
heights. At this critical moment the Stonewall
division, which should have given Heath in-
stant support, ineffectively handled, as is alleged
to me by its commanding General, failed to ad-
vance, and disaster and repulse seemed not impos-
sible; But a man was found equal to the perilous
emergency, as General Rodes, animating his men
with voice and gesture, commanded the third, or
reserve division, to advance over friend or foe and
storm the heights. Nobly did they respond to his
call. Under the inspiration of their presence and
example Heath's division slowly and sternly re-
covered itself, and together they swept up the slope,
and never rested till the well-known battle-flag of
the rebels was flying from the earthworks torn
from their foe.
If in this narrative something like censure of the
Stonewall division is expressed, it is nothing less

than justice to state that on the preceding evening
a charge made by this division, and of which the
exact particulars are unknown to me, elicited the
very highest encomiums from General Jackson, and
was continually mentioned by him for the first two
or three days:after his wound. The prompt presence
of mind and gallantry of Gen. nudes were' to 'the
full appreciated by Gen. Lee; and a recommendation
that he should be advanced to a major-generalship
was by the latter instantly forwarded to the War
Department at Richmond. Meanwhile the Federal
lines, as they sweep round and face eastward, were,
as I have said, defended by works more formidable
than the slope at Chancellorsville. The trunks of
trees, about the thickness of a man's thigh, had
been ant down, trimmed of their branches, and laid
longitudinally to the height of four feet, the in-
stertices between the logs being banked with
earth. More scientific or better engineered works
I have never seen. In front the lopped branches
were interwoven with felled trees, and an abattis,
difficult and impenetrable beyond description,seemed
to defy attack. To four brigades of Gen. Anderson's
division was intrusted the perilous task of storming
works strong enough to have stood a siege, and de-
fended by vastly superior numbers of Federals. I
am warned by the length to which this letter is ex-
tending that your readers' patience must well nigh
be exhausted. But there were no more gallant rushes
during six days of unprecedented gallantry than
those of the brigades of Posey's Mississippians and
Wright's Georgians against the almost impregnable
intrenchments of their foe. With admirable sagacity
Gen. Stuart had fastened upon the hill called Fair-
view, and opened upon the flank of the Yankees an
enfilading fire of 20 Napoleon guns. Simulta-
neously right up to the breastworks rushed
Posey's and Wright's brigades. They spring into,
and upon the felled trees and matted branches—
they bound like tigers inta the works, and drive
the panic-struck Federals headlong from their cover.
Never shall I forget the yell which rent the sky,
and announced that the enemy was broken. Yield-
ing works—from which ten times their number
should never have driven determined men, leaving
behind them knapsacks, canteens, overcoats, oil-
cloths, books, cards, paper, newspapers, muskets—
the Federals rushed quailing to the rear, and never
stopped until they bad got behind the building at
Chancellorsville, beyond which their artillery opened
a heavy fire.
liThe battle at Chancellorsville was over for the day. The
loss of Posey's and Wright's brigades, notwithstanding the
terrible works they carried, was slight. But in the three
divisions of Jackson's corps the loss in killed, wounded, and
missing could not have been less than 6,000 men. Such a
sight as the inside of the Yankee breastworks, just after
they had left them, never may I see again I With astonish-
ing accuracy Stuart's enfilading fire had torn through their
ranks. In every variety of attitude of death, torn, rent,
and shivered into scarcely distinguishable relics of humanity,
lay what so lately had breathed and moved, Still more ter-
rible and strangely appalling was the road from Chancel-
lorsville towards Orange Courthouse, along which, and on
either side of which Jackson had descended to the harvest,
of death. Tumbrils overthrown,, caissons exploded, horses.
dead and dying, sometimes with broken legs, sometimes:
with ghastly wounds, human bodies in every most of
ing and death tortured, and riven trees, and,
tigl6'd
all, a crackling fire running swiftly throng
dreadful thoughts of
black jack brushwood, and suggesting
most agonising
wounded and helpless men perishitshgeb;rethe_
blood with horror as
death known to humanity, z
turn
utterable
eyes to heaven, to gain a
the spectator in agony
them,tterahle and woful anguish of
moment's relief from

earth, for the first time, I encountered
eked, evenly balanced, but not, even
General Shortly
of that • t humour which
so devoid quaint of which
at that time,
Lee, calm.
reicrga riaa otu: iunc t ire onk nf he answered that they were pre
vein runs through his composition. In answer to
that things were not going everywhere as he wished
so richlre
them, "for," said he, "we have lost Marye's Heights." I
mature, that
hearty
then learnt that at an early hour upon Sunday morning
the Federals had made two or three abortive attempts to
storm the heights, which were held by one Mississippi re-
giment (the 21st) on the top, and another Mississippi regi-
ment (the 18th) in the lane at their base. A flag of truce
was sent in by tho Federals, asking to be allowed to bury
their dead and carry off their wounded. To this consent
was given by Col. Griffin. It is scarcely necessary to add
that the real object of this flag of truce was that its bearer
might ascertain the strength of the Confederates holding the
hill. Scarcely had the flag got back before three heavy bodies
of Yankees, in all not less than 20.000 men, burst from the
town of Fredericksburg, from the river road leading towards
Bowling Green, and from the west of Taylor's Hill, and
made at the double quick for the heights. One large body
came across Bernard's Flats, in front of the eminence known
to your readers as Lee's Hill, and ascended Maryo's Height,
from the rear; another column burst up the plank road, and
were on the defenders before effectual resistance was Pos-
sible ; but gallantly and datuitlessly did the Mississippians