The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-07 00:00:00

other quarter.
Another important cavalry expedition has
taken place in '
Brigadier-General Scammon from
A cavalry force,as
Western Virginia.
to cut the Virginia and
under Colonel Tolland, of the 34th Ohio mounted
infantry, and Colonel Powell, of the 2d Virginia
Nah'iyilrrgoiaidii'3e't Wytheville, has been suc-
captured Wytheville after a severe
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uir:ylss.s,tcoserieTn,
Railroad
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afingdht7,
otoookstaln2do
of arms.
Our loss was about 655, two pieces of artillery,
killed and wounded. Colonel Tolland and Captain
de Law, of Cincinnati, were killTh enemy ed, and Colonel
Powell severely wounded. e
17 killed and 5 wounded. Oar troops were fired on
by the citizens from the houses. The town was
totally destroyed. The command reached Fayett-
villa on Thursday after a hard march. The Con-
federate guerilla General Morgan appears to be
hunted like a hare through the South part of Ohio.
The main force of his band having been captured
he made his escape from the state, but the pursuit
of our troops was crushing. He was met by the
militia under Hall, after crossing the Muskingum
River, but escaped into Guernsey county, where be
tore up the railroad, &c., and burned the depot.
After this he went to the town of Washington.
The latest accounts we have of his movements state
that at 11 o'clock yesterday he was driven out of
Washington, and had proceeded to Winchester on
his route to the Stenhenville and Indiana railroad,

pursued by our forces."
The subscription for the poor negroes who suf-
fered by the riots exceed 27,000 dollars.
The following is the congratulatory order issued
by Governor Seymour to the New York militia:—
" STATE OF NEW YORK.
" Temporary Head-quarters of the Commander-in-
Chief.

New York City, July 24.

" The governor and commander-in-chief of the
military forces of the state of New York, upon the
return of those regiments of the National Guard,
who, upon his order, with a promptness and ala-
crity which excited the admiration of the whole
country, went forth on a sudden call of danger to
other states, expresses to them his thanks for their
gallant and successful service, which has been alike
honourable to them and to the state, whose name
and arms they are proud to bear.
" By the ready and vigorous assistance thus ren-
dered, the soil of Pennsylvania was relieved from
the presence of the invader, and aid was given to
the national armies which helped to win the victory
at Gettysburg. The people of the state of New
York will remember with pride and honour with
praise their fellow-citizens who had prepared them-
selves for this great work by a long period of
drill and discipline at a time when general en-
couragement was withheld. It required no
little moral courage to uphold our militia system
when it had fallen into disrepute ; but this
has been done by the citizen soldiery of
New York; who have nobly maintained their
organisation, and by their example and zeal revived
a martial spirit throughout the state which we
must regard as our surest protection in the hour of
danger. It has shown the utility of that section of
our national constitution which declares that a
well-regulated militia being necessary for the
security of a free state, the right of the people to
keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' So
careful were our fathers upon this point that they
exempted the musket from seizure and sale before
they placed the tools of the mechanic and the im-
plements of husbandry beyond the reach of the cre-
ditors' grasp. They confided the safety of the re-
public to tho hand. of tho oitizerlQ, and keoured to
them the musket es they did the ballot, for the de-
fence of their rights and the protection of their in-
terests. Time has demonstrated their wisdom.
" If our militia system is allowed to decay, all our
institutions are weakened. The militia is the main
strength of the executive to maintain the laws, put
down insurrection, and repel invasion. Within 30
days the unformed militia of this state have gone
forth to assist their brethren beyond our limits and
have returned to put down riot, arson, and robbery
at home. They have aided in defending the na-
tional flag and honour up
states; battle-fields of other
states; and, that done, their tread upon the pave-
ments of this great city brought back a sense of
security to its disturbed and endangered inhabit-
ants. It would neither be just to those gallant
soldiers, nor true to the occasion, in commending
their prompt obedience and honourable service, not
to add an expression of the gratitude due to them
for their just appreciation of their constitutional
duties, and the labour and time they have given to
preparation for the work of usefulness and honour
which they have now accomplished. The state of
New York has already furnished 226,000 volunteers
to the national service. It now contains within its
limits more than 300,000 persons liable to service
in its militia.
,6 The proper organisation of this great force will
not only preserve the power and safety of the state,
but enable it to be even more beneficial in its aid to
the nation and to other states than it has been here-
tofore.

A FRENCH DAVID COPPERFIELD AND " BETSY
JANE"—As seen in the record of the Birth of Victor
Hugo in place of the expected but for ever apocryphal
Victorine I says Madame the Biographer in one of the
earliest pages of that charming memoir of her illasttions
husband, already reviewed in The Sun—"Vieterine was
expected, but Victor came, and when he made his appear',
ance one would have said that he knew he was lu)!
wanted. He seemed even to come into the world
y,
brothers; reluctantly. He had none of the good looks
to jape,
he was indeed so small, so delicate, u
Pto
that the accoucheur declared he was not likelytory
of his
I have often heard his mother relate the Jl!B.,ife. nay-
birth. She said he was not longer than a table.:-ced.iiini
in g dressed him in swaddling clothes, theYsPon that tiers
an arm-chair, where he occupied so
littleo;Pthe same size.
would have been room fora dozen lasetrebh ra. He was so
His brothers were summoned to lar'kwiiike a human being,
ugly,' said his mother, 'and was ao
yrs, only eighteen months
that their fine boy Euginet wh:ried out when he saw him,
old, and could hardly t3Pe"k: In this moribund state he
" Oh, what a little anitnallshe
registers of the first section
was taken to the Main:. Wien of a boy, born at half-
, of Besancon attest tlLltildi ventose, an X. de la Repub..
past ten at night DeP
1802), under the name and pre-
lique' (26th Fah
.!.,The uugo. The moribund did not die.
names of Victor
.7 ar
in speaking of himself, What pure
He has since Balsvilat vows, what love, were lavished upon
wdhnaittir hsinl, in a twofold sense, the child of his per-
him an
tinacious mother "
ICELAND.—The general aspect of Iceland is one
of utter desolation. The mountains are destitute of
herbage, and the valleys are filled with cold morasses.
Grass springs on the slight elevations above the swamps,
in the dells, and around the lakes. By drainage, a large
per tentage of marsh might be reclaimed ; but some must
always remain hopeless bog. The extraordinary amount
of swamp is due to the fact that the ground is frozen at
the depth of six or eight feet, so that when there
is a thaw, the valleys are flooded, and the water, unable to
drain through, rots the soil. In many places a stream is
thus completely absorbed, and a considerable tract of land
rendered impassable where the labour of a few weeks
would give it a channel and transmute marsh into pro-
ductive meadow land. Many bottoms are filled with an
amazing depth of rich soil, the wear of volcanic rock,
abounding in the constituents necessary for vegetable
life. Yet the ignorance of agriculture prevailing in the
island has deterred any from turning them to advantage, by
draining off the icy water which nips and destroys the ten-
der grass, ready enough to spring. Besides these swamps,
there are stone bogs on all high land, caused by the break-
ing up of the tufa rocks, through the united action of frost
and snow; a bed of soft mud and stone is thus formed,
which is particularly trying to the horses, who sink in it
to their knees and cut their hoofs with the rocky splinters.
—Baring-Gould' s Iceland.
CANADIAN MAILS.--The Montreal OeeaM Steam-
ship Company's screw steamer Hibernian sailed yesterday
from Liverpool for Quebec. Besides the Canadian roils 13
took out a large cargo, and had 40 cabin and about 28006
steerage passengers.

(From the Spectator.)'
The Greys are in a genealogical sense .
hundred years old, though they claim, or th,
" Peerages" for them, a much higher antiquity. Sir
Thomas de Grey was a gallant soldier in the wars
of Edward 111., and held among other manors in
Northumberland that of Howick, but the historiare
who cares about accuracy instead of heraldic pro-
babilities will prefer to date the existing family
from Sir John Grey of Berwick, who was alive in
1372. His son, Sir Thomas Grey of Berwick and
Chillingham, had, by his wife Jane, a daughter of
John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, two sons, frem
the eldest of whom. Sir John Grey, were derived
the Lords Grey of Powys, Eerls of Tankerville ire
Normandy, who became extinct in 1531. This Sir
John was a distinguished soldier under Henn V.,
pushed his fortune's iu the war which so neatly ended
in the conquest of France and ruin of England, and
was at last killed with Thomas, Duke of Glerence, in
tiiedieastrcusdefeat which that Prince suff,-ra at the
hands of the French King's Scotch auxiliarks.
From his brother, Sir Thomas Grey'of Warke, de-
scended, through three intermediate generations,,
Sir Ralph Grey of Chillingham, in the reign of Henry VIII., who possessed a moiety of the manor
of Howick. His second son, Sir Ralph Grey of
Chillingham, who ultimately became his heir, was
the father of the first Lord Grey of Warke, who
apno ipmo
Ipoorr tsaind to paaor
dt in
for thesome
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mwea ro,
ofto udg_ ha
as
on
played
spetahkeer of the House of Lords. The great-grandson
of this Lord Grey, though a man devoted in heart
to the same cause, is probably the one ancestor of
whom the family is ashamed, being Forde, third
Lord Grey of Warke and Earl of Tankerville, one
of the very few men of his time and class ever con-
victed of a want of nerve sufficient to overpower
alike the pride of class and the sense of duty. He had
the courage to stake head and lands in resistance to
James 11., and accepted the command of Monmouth's
cavalry, but fled with it from the field of Sedgemoor.
ate seved himself by giving evidence arsainst his
friends, and his intrigue with his sister-in-law, Lauy
Henrietta Berkeley, which gave rise to a cause
célibre, seems to have outraged even the ideas of
that wild age. His trial is one of the strangest re-
cords of real overmastering passion ever written.
He committed a great crime, but it is impossible
to read the dully picturesque report in the State
Trials without perceiving that the private defence
of the accused noble, that he was utterly over-
mastered by his over love, was true—an admission
which in the majority of such cases would be utterly
false—that by one of those strange accidents which
are never impossibie, yet so seldom occur, he had in
Henrietta Berkeley found his double, and that for
once, in open court, before all England, Paul Fer-
roll's dream was realised—the dream of a love
which could survive alike ruin, and sarcasm, and
crime. At the last moment, when all ignominy
might have been tee oided, and Lord Grey Ihad
worked himself up to promise he would never see his
paramour again, he broke down, and refused all
terms unless he were permitted to see her. The
case was ultimately withdrawn, why, was never
explained. His sole surviving child, a daughter,
carried the estate of Chillingham into the family of
Bennet, Lord Ossulston (Arlington of the Cabal
belonged to these Bennets), who was therefore
created Earl of Tankerville, and her descendants to
this day own the great Chillingham Park, and the
breed of white wild bulls, and divide with the
Greys of Howick and the Percies the political in-
fluence of Northumberland.
Sir Ralph, the father of the first Lord Grey of
Warke, had a younger brother, Sir Edward Grey of
Howick, whose descendant, Henry, was in 1736
owner of the whole of the manor of Howick, and
was created a baronet. Two of Sir Henry's sons
died unmarried, the eldest having represented
the county in 1754 and 1762; another was
killed in a duel with Lord Pomfret, and
the fourth, Charles, was the founder of the
existing peerage. He was a soldier of some mark
and distinguished himself so far as anybody did in
the American war, fought with Earl St. Vincent in
the West Indies, and in 1801, under the Addington
administration, was raised to the Peerage as Baron
Grey de Howick, and in 1806 was created Viscount
Howick and Earl Grey. He died Nov. 14,1807,
leaving his dignities to his eldest surviving son
Charles, second Earl, una of tee eeelei
political greatness of the family. He was elected
in 1786, being then only twenty-two, member for
Northumberland, and throw himself with ardour into
political life. Like all his family he was a determined
Whig, followed Fox, shared in the convivialities of
Carlton House, and perhaps believed that the Prince
who had betrayed every human being who trusted
him would not betray a Grey. He was soon known
as one of the small group of aristocrats who clearly
foresaw the future, who contended for Catholic
emancipation, the removal of the disabilities of the
Dissenters, the reform of Parliament, the suppression
of the slave trade, and the purification of the ad-
ministrative machine, which had slowly rotted into
an engine for efficient corruption. In 1806 he
entered the Grenville Cabinet as First Lord of the
Admiralty, and on the death of Fox succeeded him
as Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The question of
Catholic Emancipation formed, however, a bar to
his further rise under George 111.—Whigs in those
days having convictions as well as traditions—tanof
on the Regent's accession he was like the re
his party betrayed, the King hoping
g C oath which
for a hundred perjuries by to compound
a TkheeepEinrekl,Onfortified by a
enneicthner.
he did not comprehend.
pride such as only
Car-
dinal, or a Brahmin ever
a n English
way'ihounds h Ilhl
yiegv efPeneelwes
compromised nor g
al opinions,
ning made a
around him some of the leading Whig
and drew arou
mov-emay.eent towards Liberal . • • a
statesmen, Lord Grey stood haughtily aloof, pro-
claiming
in no whispered voice his want of con-
fidence.
The people admired his consistency, and
on the accession of William Iv., he was the
oc
tsre
en ise edd headth o of tkhoe Whigs,
Wellington
d
as Premier.
Then came the Reform struggle, in which the un-
bending character of the earl was the very mainstay
of his party, and enabled them for the first time in
English history to effect a complete transfer of
power without an appeal to arms or a change of
dynasty. Mr. Roebuck will have
it that the earl
quailed at last, and would, had thebeen firm,
King
have declined to swamp the Upper House ; but the
statement is inconsistent wit • h
the fact that the vote
could have been • carried by the elevation of elder
sons and other devices wit • h out that possibly disas-
trous result. Be that
as it may, in Ole first Reform
Administration the special character of the Premier
and the special uses of an aristocracy came out
in their strongest colours. No Parliament ever
sat which " dangerous" tendencies were
more apparent. Brains had grown hot in the
contest, and the people were more than half inclined
to plunge at once into the unknown, and effect
farther radical changes in the constitution which
had worn so well. Fortunately for all the empire
except Ireland—which under the new middle-class
power lost its best chance of final re-organization,--
every mood of the popular mind had to be strained
first through the aristocratic sieve, which
when it included Earl Grey had very close meshes
indeed, and time was allowed for the trial of an
organisation which, after thirty years of deter-
mined and not inglorious effort, now once more
seems feeble, because throughout an empire
whose powc_r, as Pozzo cli Borg() said, " has earth
for its base," there is nut out of Ireland a grievance
sharp enough to stir the national blood
oliti. Ear! Grey re-
tired in 1834 from official life but thepcalilence
of his family founded on his reputatioa has not been
diminished in the hands of his successor—a man in
whom all his father's qualities seem
intensified, 11
he were not the most impracticable of mankind there
would be in England no ono with a chance against
Earl Grey, and his administration of the colonies,
still but partially ussierstood, will one day be found
to have involved as bold, as successful, and as im-
portant a revolution as that which his great father
carried through. At this moment there is, perhaps,
no family in England more largely employed in the
Public service than that which looks to Earl Grey
as its head, and scarcely one in which there have
been so few conspicuous failures.