The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-11 00:00:00

THERMOMETER.

This morning
This day at Two o'clock..
Barometer-30.28.
Wind—E.; light, and fine weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
VIII s DAY.—Morning, 10h. 29m.—Afternoon,-11h. 3m.
To-fammow.-Morning, llh. 37m.—Afternoon, h. zn.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1863.

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The advance of the Confederate army, if not
made at the pas de charge, has been made
at least en masse into Pennsylvania. There
it is, apparently, that General LEE has chosen his
new battle-ground. Swiftly and surely the line of
doom, seems to be drawing round the Northern
capital. Southern cavalry had been seen to pass
within fourteen miles of Washington. A portion,
this was, it is understood, of a considerable body of
the Confederate troops commanded by General
FITZIITJGH LEE, then moving eastwards so close
to the north of the Federal metropolis—llendiog its
way seemingly in the direction of the Washington
branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railway. Both
'Washington and Baltimore—when these latest
advices left per the Scotia—were in hourly
expectation of attack, and no wonder, assuredly,
under the circumstances. Knowing that incident
just related, knowing it as an actual and undoubted
occurrence, so very recently and within so brief a
distance from the capital, it reads rather dubiously,
among these new telegrams brought freshly from
the seat of war—that vague and hesitating
announcement, to the effect that the Federal
army was supposed (!) to be on the north side
of the Potomac is a position to cover the
northern and western approaches to Washing-
ton ! If they had nothing better than that to
turn to by way of a new encouragement
to their fading hopes at New York at the
close of June—it may be certainly counted as little
more :than a hope holding on by the eyelashes.
Extraordinary excitement is reported as prevailing
in Philadephia, in point of fact through the whole
state of Pennsylvania. Excitement amounting
almost to a panic—undeniably to a manifest
sense of consternation. Appeals to the citizens
to arm themselves and to defend their
homes by a defensive war it routrance had been
made by the authorities. The immediate response
to which appeals had already been the pressing
northwards of thousands upon thousands of
fugitives, young and old, men, women, and
children, bearing with them in their flight
their household goods and chattels, their cattle and
their merchandise_ New York itself, meanwhile,
in the midst of all these disastrous tokens of southern
triumphs and successes, contrasting vividly every-
where with Northern defeats and discomfiture,—
New York, all the while, evidencing nothing more
remarkable than a Yankee version of a sort of Sir
CHARLES COLDSTREAM apathy, or a Lord DUN-
DREARY indifference. The meaning of all wnich is,
of course, that the Federal population has by this
time lost all real heart in the contest. The Northeens
generally have no faith whatever in the capacity,
or even in the honesty of their rulers. The
prestige of Mr. LINCOLN'S Presidency, if it ever
really and truly bad any worth speaking of, has
long and long ago melted into thin air, leaving not
a vestige of its ghostly self anywhere recognisable.
Mr. SEWARD and his colleague, while sharing in
the rapid increase of their Chief's unpopularity,
have, by their fatuous policy, shared also in the
flagrant discredit attaching to those who have by
their words, written and spoken, by their advice
and by their acts, tended so wilfully and appreciably
to precipitate his fall. Perfectly on a par with, if
not even materially surpassing by its magnitude
and intensity, the unpopularity of the Federal ad-
ministrators—there is the glaring and certain'y
justifiable unpopularity attaching to these rapidly-
appointed Federal Commanders-in-Chief! Cora
manders-ir.-Chief, in reality, who, throughout the
whole of this extraordinary war, may truly be said
only to succeed—each other! General HOOKER,
following in this, consistently to the lost, in the
wake of his unhappy predecessors, has now, in
his own turn, disappeared from the command of the
Northern army. As the gingerly wording of one
of the telegrams has it, "he has been relieved, at
his own request"—General MEADE, an entirely
new man, assuming his vacated place as
Leader of the Federal Army of the Potomac.
So that all this increasing clamour recently
raised among certain infatuated believers (still !) iu
that Brummagum BONAFARTE, the young NAPO.
LEON as he has been dubbed—General M'CLELLAN,
has proved, when all was said and done, of no avail.
Again General M'CLELLAN'S name has been passed
over--again the Cabinet at Washington, or rather
it should be said, of cot' rse, the
PRESIDENT at the