The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-16 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.--This Days

TATTERSALTIS.—This EVENING.
DERBY.
14 to 1 agst Paris (taken)
20 to 1 agst Blair Athol (taken)
20 to 1 agst Forager (taken)

HAYMARKET THEATRE,

On Saturday evening a new and original" comedy,
entitled " Silken Fetters," by Leicester Buckingham, Eeq.,
was announced for representation; and accordingly a very
crowded and brilliant audience assembled; but
the andici-
pations of many were disappofinted, for the "new" comedy
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must be admitted, however, that Mr. Buckingham. has
completed his task with ability, skill, and judgment.
leading incident of the piece is one that produces The
but a pleasant reflection; in fact, the comedy is so intenselyanthilg
French that the wonder is how he could have succeeded so
well in adapting it to the tastes of an English audience
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Scribe's
earliest
The plot may be briefly related as follows :—A certain
young man, one Herbert Travanion, having a taste for
literature, rejects the offer of an uncle, a wealthy merchant
in Bristol, to enter his counting-house, and comes to Lon-
don to seek his fortune as an author. Arrived in town,
he finds fortune-making not so easy an operation as
he imagined, and he is doomed to undergo hardships
he little expected. However, as a musician he
attracts the attention of the Countess of Windermere, one
of the leaders of the beau monde, and his fortunes seem to
brighten up, Through thii influence of the Countess hie
plays become accepted, his poems published, and Herbert
Travanion, from an unknown and friendless man, becomes
one of the lions of the day; luxury opens her portals to
him, and his dreams of affluence and splendour resolve
themselves into reality. Travanion, dazzled by the beauty
of the Countess, becomes, as he supposes, deeply in love
with her, and the lady's husband, the marquis, being, as
she imagines, dead, nothing stands in the way of their
marriage. This takes place, and in a short time after, to
the consternation of the newly-married pair, a letter ar-
rives, informing the Countess that her first husband is still
alive, and that he will be in London almost immediately.
This, of course, renders the second marriage invalid, and
Herbert, who has mistaken gratitude for love, is ready to
resign the Countess in favour of his first love, Clara Hazle-
ton, but the Countess is not so easily resigned to the diffi-
culties of her situation. Notwithstanding the arrival of
her first husband the Countess proposes flight to Her-
bert, as he is the only man she really roves. A.
spell is on Herbert, he knows not which way to turn, when
luckily Mr. Caleb Codicil, a bustling, meddling, good-
natured lawyer, after having involved the unfortunate
Herbert still deeper in difficulty, effects an arrangement by
which peace and happiness to some, if not to all, is brought
about. Herbert marries Clara, and the Countess, recon.
cued to the loss of her lover, quits England with her
husband for the West Indies.
With respect to the acting of the comedy, the performers
did not seem to be perfectly in love with their parts. Mr.
Howe 'as the Marquis, and Mr. W. Farren as Herbert,
both had what is termed up-hill work of it, and, although
now and then there was a telling line or two for them, yet
the tone of the charticters was unpleasant, and both, to a
great extent, had the audience against them. Mr. Charles
Mathews' Caleb Codicil was the life and soul of the piece,
in fact, to his inimitable acting was the success of the
comedy mainly indebted. Mrs. Mathews, as the Countess,
acted with great intensity, and succeeded in making tli
part deeply interesting by her ferVour and impressiveness.
Miss Maria Harris as the innocent little country girl,
andp l ei t y
had
enthusiasticsw esweetest
generald at the fall of
Clara,e actedappla
applause
with theas
est sim
acknowledged
the curtain, and after the principals a
the honour of a call, the adapter, Mr. Buckingham, had to
make his bow.

ADDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—Tho
addition of 29 pictures to the National Gallery
marks an epoch in its history. They belong to a class of
works in which it was by no means rich. This class is that
produced by early Flemish and German masters. Twenty-
two of the works now for the first time before the public may
justly be named Prince Albert's Gift, because, as the in-
scriptions affixed to them attest, they are given by her I‘l4l-
- "in fulfilment of the wishes of the Prince Consort."
Prince Albert's gift consists of the following works :—N°
701, " The Coronation of the Virgin," with the principal
incidents of her life in a small triptych; the Virgin i 5
shown in the centre compartment crowned by her Son; °n
the interior sides of the wings arc, above, ~ The
o.
An-
nunciation," below, ~ The Birth and Crucifixion
sl
Our Lord ;" on the exterior sides of the wings
are, above, " The Expulsion of Joachim from the
tit
ple' and 'The Angel appearing to him foretelling, 0..",“_"...,
of the Virgin' ; on the second line, ' The Mo_cLteiningple!,Ja:d
claim and Anna at the Beautiful Gate of tb..enl, , The rre-
' The Birth of the Virgin' ; on the third It It e
, The Marriage
sentation of the Virgin in the Temple',
of the Virgin.' Painted in tempera Y
Child,
surrounded. by
1a67.--No. 702, ' The Madonna andby
Andrea di Lbueigal;,iao_f
a glory of Cherubim,' tempera, by Padua,
Aloisi, called L'lngegno, cil ca 1.
cchio, born
T.1:4 f 'D
ka
donna and Child,' by Pintfuri
Cos"°
the ....'irs," lea
to = -3:77:3: 'orfsf4 d ifal
1513.--No. 704, ' Portrait onziso,born 1502,
Matthew, Cathe-
of Tuscany,' by A. 13'50bn,,,,
t
1572.—N0. 705, ' Three
John
the Evangelist,. l em.
rine of Alexandria, 1 died 351.--
pera, by Stephan in the Temple,' by . the
Cologne,
No. 706, ' The Pri:celjnatuna:tri°nor,fssien,' alias the Meister
1463-90. No. 707, Two
Von Werden, litrotby, part of an altar-piece, of which
Master of ' The
Saints,' Peter and
Dorothy,
the Munich Gallery, by the Mas-
her portions are
Crucifixion,' circa 1501. No. 708, ' Tho
the other
e
ter of ' the Colonegbibm
by Margaret Van Eyck, sister of
Liverbsbetewrgeen
Madonna and
buried circa 1430. No. 709, ' The Ma-
Hubert and
John, buried
John Memling, died circa 1495.
Monk,' by 11. Vander Goes, died
of a
IsTo. 710, `Portrait
, M ter Dolorosa,' and No. 712, ' Ecco
No, 711, a
1475. ,it Vander Weyden the younger, died 1529.
Iloam,' b-' - ' Virgin and Child in
Ma-
donna
-13 ' The
and Infant
a Gardea,' by Jan
15..55. N. o,
,714, ' Mother and Child, in a
No. 1 l
Cornelis Lugolbertsz the elder, died 1633
715 lho Crucifixion,' with St, John and
Numbers ,
Four Mar} s ; 7i6, ' St, Christopher carrying the
the
Infant Christ,' and 717, ' St. John on the Island
LMantitV,:pedi,'"ll,y , _
of Patmos,' writing the Book of Revelation, by
Joachim de Patiair, died 1548.—N0e. 718, ' Mount Cel-
vary, Christ on the Cross,' St. John, the Virgin, the Mag-
dalen, Longinus, and another so;dier ; and 719, ' The.
Magdalen,' holding a vase of ointment, by Henrik des
Bles, died circa 1550.—N05. 720, ' The Holy Family at a
Fountain, St. Joseph offering fruit to the Saviour; and 721,
' Portrait of a Lady,' by Jan Schonrel, died 1562.-I''-
722, ' Portrait of a Lady,' in a large white cap, attributed
to Sigisumnd Holbein, brother of Hans the Father, living
1540. The following pictures are purchases for the NationalAony
Gallery, made during this year :—No. 726, ' Christ's
,g,,,he
in the Garden,' by G. Bellini, died 1516.—N00. 47-278.
`The;
Trinity,' tempera, by Pesellino, died 1457. r : ,26,
donna and Child,' by Beltraffio, died 1516.—N0.
~ '
Adoration of the Kings, Bratuantinu, lfivleL.
last picture is not yet placed.—Atianoti" 1525. The

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA,

(From the Correspondent of the Tunes.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.

It may appear incredible, but we have up to this
mor nent no intelligence to communicate of the pro-
gr€ F.: 8 of military operations. The experience of the
laf it two years has sufficiently familiarised us with
the phenomenon, yet it tasks all our powers of com-
prehension to realise the fact that some of the
greatest armies the world ever mustered, stirred by
the most intense feelings of Cain-like animosity the
human heart ever harboured, under the most auspi.
cious circumstances of bright, bracing, inspiriting
wf;ather, should run on week after week, month
alaer month, so close to each other that the pickets
,an one side fling "chaff," when they do not pop lead
at the sentries of the other ; and yet the news from
beginning to end of a whole autumn season should
be no news.

The summary of one week's information reads
like a parody and a mockery, rather than a repeti-
tion of the foregoing one. " All is quiet in the army
of the Potomac." " Sumter has undergone from the
Union batteries the heaviest bombardment that ever

took place. From s'indown on Wednesday till sun-
down on Thursday the Federals fired 1,200 shots
from 15-inch mortars and 300-pounder Parrots."
"They might as well have fired at the moon. The
enemy gave back noise for all this noise. The rebel
loss is seven wounded."
From Tennessee the bulletins are even more fiat,
stale, and unprofitable. General Thomas never tires
of exalting the heroism of the victors in the fight of
the 28th. " General Hooker," he writes, took many
prisoners, among whom were four officers and 103
men." The rest must have been cattle. Hooker him-
self had 350 officers and men dead and wounded.
Gen, Grant had reached the camp at Chattanooga,
where "since the bloody battle on the Chickamauga,
the army had settled down in the usual quiet of
camp life." Some way, it is generally felt, must be
found to break this dead lock. " Bragg must be
evicted from his present position. This is the busi-
ness of General Grant ;" but he takes his time
about it like his predecessors. Complaints are raised
by people competent to form a judgment on such
matters that the Federals are leaving too many
troops in their rear. "It is held to be necessary to
guard strongly all roads, and to garrison all towns.
An immense army is held between Nashville and
Louisville. In those cities themselves the military
authority is omnipresent. The streets are swarm-
ing with soldiers, the military hand is everywhere."
From these statements we may gather-1, That the
position of the army of the Cumberland is yet in-
secure ; 2, that rebel guerillas overrun the land in
every direction, gathering together, sometimes,
when strengthened by Bragg's cavalry, into bands
several thousands strong; 3, that the allegiance of
Tennessee and Kentucky, even in the largent centres
of population, is not to be relied upon.
This is election day in New York. We learn it
from the newspapers, for otherwise one would not
be made aware of the fact by any unusual stir per-
ceptible in the town. The truth is, these State elec.
tins have been not inaptly compared to those
"scrub races with knock-kneed, broken-winded
screws with which the multitude are entertained,
while their betters are making ready for great
sweepstakes." No popular vote of importance will
be elicited in America, till the time comes for the
Presidential election, a year hence.
Governor Seymour has been " stumping " at

Utica, at Rochester, and on Saturday evening at

the Cooper Institute in this city. It is difficult
to dislike Mr. Seymour, for he is a gentle, amiable
man, or to withhold one's esteem from him, for he
is well-meaning and honourable—though he is
reviled by his adversaries in downright American
fashion as if he were a common pickpocket. But,
whatever regard one may have for the man, it is
difficult to deny that, as a politician, he is in a false
position. No one can dwell at greater length on the
horrors of the American civil war, no one can with
greater minuteness enumerate the evil it inflicts
upon the country. "The President," he informs
us, " has in progress of this war demanded a
total of two millions of men ; he asks for 600,C00
more—more than 1,400,000 have already gone forth
to the battlefield." " Experience has shown," he
continues, " that every year wastes one-half of our
armies. If it now numbers 700,000 men, each day
diminishes its number by 1,000." To carry on this
murerous war the country is " burdened with a
debt, which is variously estimated to be from
1,500,000,000 dols. to 2,000,000,000 dols. and so
he goes on, talking of " inevitable bankruptcy,
national ruin, social anarchy, and disorder." But,
when he has said all this, could any man believe

that he ends by declaring that " he is in favour of a
vigorous prosecution of the war 9" He is as willing
to " put forth the exertion of every material power"
as any one of his opponents. Only, while the Re-
publicans wish to employ " force, force alone," he is
disposed to " superadd the power of conciliation."
What cannot be achieved by subjugation he would
hope to effect by compromise.
This is, and ever will be, the stumbling-block for
these amiable Union• Democrats. They agree with
the Republicans that " the Union must be saved,"
that " the Constitution must be upheld!' Were
they to come into power to-morrow, they would con-

Bider themselves bound to carry on the war—nay,

to push it on with still greater vigour, but they
would give the Southerners to understand that they
wished for peace ; that they would make peace with
them on any terms that might save the Union
and
uphold the Constitution. This presupposes,
of course, that there is a corresponding dispo-
sition to
mr. s reconciliation and reunion in the South.
se:crone tells us " there are hundreds and
thou
of Unionists at the South ; nay, more, he
believes that
et this hour a majority of the Southern
People, if
they of this jucould return once again within the
by its Constitution,
and feel themselves protected
Thoin, would again come back to their
allegiance."
Who
Mr. Seymour's opinion, the
conceit of a roan
knows
oolives in Albany, deep in offi-
cial business, And
fromws no more about the South
than what he learn:
beaisay. But, place him
to-morrow at the hea
him,
not only with
the
President's
the Government, invest
wrhesident's, but with all a
dictator's powers, and
would he do ? What
would he do if he found that South would hear
nothing of conciliation or
abhorred ii
but insisted
on separation from the
all
mr.i ankee ? This is
the Republican answer to
all
probability,
speci-
ous arguments ; and since, in
out of the
say, the Opposition would not
s foreeparesent Ad-
ministration only
scf ape of this war any sooner than ilea
ministration with all the people'
can best be secured by undivided action,
very
possible, indeed, that, long as Mr. Seymones:
was, it
,did not convey the whole of the orator's
mind. It is possible that, like his friends Fernando
Wood and Vallandighamt the Governor of New
York cares less for the Union and the Constitution
than for peace, and that, where conciliation might
be found impracticable, he would not shrink from
separation ; but, were it so, it would prove that
either his character is not sufficiently strong, or
that the time has not yet come for him to be out-
spoken on this subject. The hour and the man for
that object may, perhaps, never come. Tne longer I
live among these Americans the stronger I feel the
conviction growing upon me that it is neither power
of eloquence nor prestige of authority that can move
them out of their fond conceit of national Union.
They must have their country, their continent,
their world all to themselves. They will make
one people so long as such an object can be
attained by " the expenditure of the last
dollar, or the sacrifice of the last man." They
are a boasting, vainglorious race, and delight
in hyperbole;
believe
theyaremainly
go forth themselves in earnest. They will not
Can as fighting men so long as con-
scriptsbu substitutes, and natives can bribe
foreigners, andY Whites can impress Degrees. As
with all commercial and industrial people, they will
.fight with gold
k
they.
will
not
give
up
theaper) rather than iron ; but
game without a long,
stubborn, desperate strife and they will side with
those, no matter how ruthless and
th fanatical, who are
least likely to "lay hands
the
peaeee.plough and look
alt-price poli-
back ward," ostracising
ands rice
at
ticians of the Vallandigharn school,
lack
Seymour and his milk and-water r ce_t
oiou
and
of efforts
conmliation theories.
There is, in the meanwhile, no

made to minister fresh stimulus to the innate san-
guineness and endurance of these stiff-necked
Yankees. The papers here incessantly r, eat that
" the suppression of the forces of the no-. ellion can
and should be completed within the next six
months." It is difficult to guess wlO re the fools
deceived by these mad predictions. Privately, no
one dares to assert that the war will end at the close
of three or 36 years.
Again, there is no end of crowing at some alleged
improvement in the state of the national finances.
" Within seven months," we are told, " the
people
of the North have subscribed and paid for at par
over 330,000,000 dols. of six per cent. bonds." The
amount of 5-20 bonds taken by the people in the
course of last week was over 36,000,000 dols. ; on
Saturday and Friday alone 23,000,000 dols. of such
bonds were taken. This is hailed by many as a proof
of the people's confidence in the Government and
faith in the destinies of the country. The Opposition,
however, sees little reason to congratulate the Go-
vernment on the results of these operations. " A
great parade is made of the stock sold," they say,
" but little is said of the certificates paid;
30,000,000 dols. of 5-20 bonds at 6 per cent. were
sold by the Treasury, but as large a sum
of certificates at 5 per eer.t. was sold ; and
35,000,000 dohs. of 6 per cent. certificates of in •
debtedness are maturing. The Government realises,
actually, very little money. The process is simply
converting paper, on which it pays 5 per cent, in
" greenbacks," into other paper, on which it pays 6
per cent. gold—i.e., at the present state of gold 9
per cent. The necessity of issuing more paper
money is not removed thereby. In fact, the opera-
' tion is one to put more paper in the market, after
the conversions which have been effected.
' Without presuming to enter into the merits of
' this financial question, which seems to me to puzzle
Americans even more than strangers, there is no
doubt but the "inflation of the currency," as they
love to call it--the rise in the premium of gold and
in the price of all commodities—is severely felt by
the lo west classes ; labour is not to be procured on
any terms, and there are incessant strikes among
mechanics of every description. These Northerners
console themselves with the assurance that their
enemies are worse off than themselves. " Mr.
Memminger," say the Confederate journals, " still
grinds out, night and day, currency of which
it takes five dollars to buy a pound of pork,
and one dollar to buy a pound of flour." The
Northerners repeat these statements, and fancy
they can easily reconcile themselves to gold at
1464 when they hear that at Richmond "it takes
12 dollars of paper to buy one dollar in gold." No
doubt it will take time to break down the almost
boundless prosperity of the North, and the ruin of
the South is daily being accomplished. But the
North should consider that the Confederates are
fighting for dear life ; that any amount of sacrifice
is cheerfully made if thereby the great object can be
accomplished; and if that object is frustrated, the
bankruptcy of the South will fall with all its
weight on the victorious North, and it will be a
consolation, however meagre, for the Southerners
that their country should fall as utterly ruined, de-
solate and worthless, a prey into the hands of its
conquerors, as the despair of its defenders could
contrive to make it.

The Democrats are very indignant against the
Government for sending home thousands of soldiers

that they might vote in this day's election. Over
4,000 of these transportation tickets were received,
at oue single office in Washington on Saturday last.
From 20,000 to 30,000 men are said to have left
Meade's army on a ten days' leave of absence. The
complaint of the men in opposition is chiefly that
the public money has been squandered in the interest
of ane party, as the soldiers to whom furloughs have
been granted were all declared Republicans, while

the Democrats sued in vain for leave of absence.
They protest, besides, that by thinning the ranks of
the combatants the position of the army is impe-
rilled, as it was at the time of the Pennsylvania
election, when, owing to the same cause, Lee was
enabled to drive up-Meade to the defences of Wash-
ington. " What," they say, " if Lee should happen
to be particularly anxious for battle during these
days 9—he must be at the trouble to seek the Army
of the Potomac at New York."

Several persons have been arrested at Columbus,
Ohio, charged with a " diabolical plot to upset the
Government of the State, or, at least, to release the
State or war prisoners, more than 3,000 of whom
were confined at Camp Chase and in the Columbus
Penitentiary. Among these is the famous John
Morgan. The liberated captives were to cross the
Ohio River at Maysville, probably to initiate a gue-
rilla warfare in the rear of the Army of the Cum-
berland. The whole charge rests on the assertion
that one of the alleged conspirators had supplied
the money for the purchase of axes and chloro-
form. The persons arrested are Mr. Cathcart,
late School Commissioner, Mr. Crisop, Mr. Slade,
and Dr. Gazelle (obscure persons, but suspected of
Copperhead tendencies), and two washerwomen,
Mrs. Parmenter and Mrs. M'Donald, who had
busines at Newport, a suburb of Cincinnati on the
Kentucky side of the Ohio, and are supposed to
have been the bearers of treasonable correspondence
The prisoners have been admitted to bail on 10 ,000
dols. securities each, and have retained as their
counsel the Hon. George Pugh, late Democratic
candidate for the Lieutenant-Governorship of the
State, and the most eloquent barrister in Cincinnati.
Nov. 4.

No news of deeds of arms to-day, but only the
anticipation, vain and vague as usual, of something
that may come to pass to-morrow. The results of
the elections were such as all sensible persons anti-
cipated. According to the returns of the Democrats
themselves,the Administration has obtained a majo-
rity of more than 15,000 votes in the State of New
York. The city itself, though it still gave the De-
mocrats an absolute majority of 21,000 has fallen
short by 10,000 of the majority by which Governor
Seymour was elected last year. There is no doubt
but the success of the Republicans has been equally
great in Massachusetts, Illinois, Wisconsin, Min-
nesota, Michigan, Missouri, and Kansas, where
partial elections came off also yesterday, everywhere
with the best order and calmness; indeed, with an
apathy which naturally sprang from security on the
part of that party which has actually achieved the
victory. The peace-at-any price men have gone to
the wall, with Fernando Wood and Vallandigham.
The war-with-conciliation men have followed them,
with Seymour and his friends. It will take no
small amount of adversity to sober these Yankees ;
still, no one can predict what would happen were
the Southerners to hold out in their present posi-
tion till the next Presidential election.

Prophetic Vision of the American War.

That deep thinker, and philosophic, though somewhat
dreamy writer, S. T. Coleridge, 30 years ago wrote as fol.
lowa to a friend :

" January 4, 1833.
"Can there ever be any thorough natural fusion of the
Northert. and Southern States ? I think not. In fact,',the
Union will be shaken almost to dislocation whenever a very
serious question between the States arises. The American
'Union has no centre, and it is impossible now to make one,
The more they extend their borders into the Indians' land
the weaker will the national cohesion be. Bat I look upon
the States as splendid masses to be used, by and bye, in the
composition of two or three great governments.

foreign «S. T. C."
g 4 When New England . , " April 10, 1833.
in itself, taxes the adra:s7olllc-- may be considered a State
manufactures in
and thereby forces
order to cherish manufacture, :ft.
the Carolinians, another State oflitts°w;
such desire or
higher price, it
feroas law which
little intercommunication, Which itself, with which there is
interest to serve, to buy worse arucless:oart%
tiainsti,t bieeause of the
the
New tat is a
is, in fact, downright tyranny of the
most sordid, kind. 'What would you
should tax every person in Devonshire
benefit of every person in Yorkshire? And ;atPectliliary
feeble image of the actual usurpation of
deputies over the property of the Southern States. England
"S. T. C.,

THE WAR HAS COST THE AMERICAN GOVERN_
MENT about £150,000,000 a year; at least, the
official statement of the indebtedness of the Union on lst
May, 1863, was 964,000,000 dollars, and is for Ist Septem-
ber 1,228,000,000 dollars, an increase of £13,200,000 a
month. Taking the dollar at a fifth of a pound, which is
very nearly its value, the debt is now (November Ist)
£260,000,000, and the liabilities perhaps £40,000,000 more,
or £300,000,000 in all. By this time next year it will be
£450,000,000,