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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1863.

NEW NOVEL BY MR. IN ILLS.
Just ready, in 3 vols.,
THE EVIDENCE.
By W. G WILLS, Esq.,
Author of "Notice to Quit," &c.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

Naval and Military Intelligence,

level surface was obtained which enabled the ships to be
kept clean inside and free from foul collections in the bilges,
a thing impossible previously in iron ships. The cements
were, however, liable to crack, and they did not prevent the
oxidation of the iron inside, and they were capable of being
applied only under certain cireumstances of heat and posi-
tion. These objections, it is said, do not attach themselves
to the use of the Spence ship-lining composition. It is
elastic, and will not crack by any straining of the ship—it
is oleaginous, and prevents any oxidation or corrosion of
the iron ; and, to conclude, it is a perfect non-conductor of
heat or cold, and therefore furnishes the required means for
lining the mess•clecks or cabins of iron ships. Her Majesty's
screw iron sloop Sharpshooter, at Portsmouth, of 603 tons
and 150 horse power, has her starboard side internally, from
keel to upper deck, coated with this composition, and the
Buffalo, screw iron sloop of 440 tons, at Woolwich, is also
being coated with it. As a proof of the necessity existing
for protecting the rivet-heads on the inside of iron ships'
bottoms, we may mention that her Majesty's screw troop
ship Urgent, now in No. 8 dock at Portsmouth, has her
bottom plates riveted together by rivets an inch in dia-
meter, and that some hundreds of these are oat of her
bottom, having had their heads on the inside of the ship,
destroyed by the motion of the bilge water and sand or grit.
The fine new transport ship Empress, Captain Ellis,
1,313 tons register, recently purchased by Messrs. Honlder
Brothers, of Leadenhall street, yesterday hauled alongside
the T pier at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, in pre-
paration to embark the 4th battalion Military Train
under orders for service in New Zealand. The Empress
will undergo her last official inspection this morning by Sir
R. Dacres and staff, commanding the garrison at Woolwich.
The troops will embark in the course of the following after-
noon and take possession of their quarters, and, according
to present orders, the vessel will sail on Monday morning.
The battalion consists of Lieut.-Col. O'Brien, in command ;
Major Gray; Copts. Green and Witchell; Lieuts. Sewell,
Creagh, and St. Aubyn ; Ensigns Leir and Davis; Capt.
Reeve, paymaster; Quartermaster Lambert, Lieut. and
Adjt. Shackleton, Veterinary-Surg. Appleton, one medical
officer, 267 non-commissioned officers and privates, 38
women, and 50 children.
The steam storeship Balaclava has arrived at Woolwich
Arsenal, after a perilous voyage from Scotland, and has
commenced discharging her cargo of returned stores. The
Balaclava bore up in Yarmouth Roads during the violence
and again proceeded to sea on Sunday morning,
when
as enveloped in a thick dark fog, and struck on
asandbank
off Wells Point. She came off at high water
The whole of the guns, shot, shell, and other War De-
partment stores belonging to the screw frigate Emerald, 35,
600 horse power, Capt. A. Cumming, lately attached to the
channel Squadron, have been landed at the Ordnance wharf,
Chatham, and the other stores deposited in the dockyard.
The Emerald is entirely dismantled, and will be paid off at
the Nore to-morrow, and placed in the steam reserve.
A general order from the Horse Guards, signed by Sir J.
Y. Scarlett, K.C.8., Adjutant-General, has been received
withoutofthe
shegale,
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damage.
at Chatham, announcing that her Majesty has been pleased
to approve a new description of sword belt, with three rows
of gold embroidery, for field marshals, general officers, and
generals on the staff, and a similar belt, with two rows of
embroidery, for staff officers under the rank of general offi-
cers,aonin lieu of those now prescribed by regulation, which
reu d not sufficiently strong for service. The Duke of
Cambridge directs that all general and staff officers on active
employment shall furnish themselves with the new sword
belts, according to the pattern deposited at the Horse
Guards, and general officers not actively employed will
adopt the new pattern as they may require to replace those
now in use.

THE NAVY.

VALETTA, Oct. 31.—There have been very few move-
ments of ships of war in this port since the departure of the
last mail. Her Majesty's ship Icarus, 11, screw sloop, Com •
wander N. Salmon, V,C., arrived on Saturday night from
the Pirzeus, with mails and despatches. She had orders to
return with the mail due on the 7th from Marseilles, but will
have to remain here to repair damages sustained in a colli-
sion with a large French screw transport, the Ardeche,
which was proceeding from a port in France to Alexandria.
having troops on board for Cochin China. The collision oc-
curred at 4 in the morning of the 22d inst., 60 miles from
Cape Matapan, and was nearly proving fatal to the Icarus.
Owing to weather being hazy, the mast head light of the
French steamer was mistaken for that of a sailing-vessel,
as she carried no other lights. The English was steering
west, half north, at the rate of six knots, and the French-
man south-east, at a speed of nine knots. On perceiving a
collision was inevitable, the order was given on board the
Icarus to starboard the helm, which, although contrary to
the rule laid down, was the only means, under the circum-
stances, of saving her from being run into amidships, in
which case she would have probably been sunk. As it was,
the French vessel struck her violently on the starboard
quarter, breaking in the bulwarks, laying her side open al-
most to the water-line, and carrying away her mizenmast
and mainroyahn est. The Ardeche lost bowsprit, figurehead,
foretopgallantmast, Such was the violence of the shock that
it was feared at first she was going down. A bluelight was
burnt as a signal for the French ship to stand by until the
extent of damage was ascertained, and it having been found
that no leak had been sprang in the Icarus, and that her
steering apparatus was still in good order, the two vessels
parted company. On the 24th she fell in with her Majesty's
despatch boat Psyche, Lieut.-Com. Sterne, 40 miles from
Malta, which had left that day for the Pirams, and the op •
portunity was seized to send a report of the accident to the
commander-in-chief. No blame is attached to Commander
Salmon or the officers of the Icarus for the unfortunate oc-
currence, which is generally attributed to a bad look-out on
board the French ship, and the fact of her not carrying the
usual steamer's lights, The Icarus has been admitted into
dock for repairs, which it will take some six weeks to com-
plete. The vessel will then proceed home to be paid off.
Her Majesty's surveying tender Growler, Staff-Commander
Stokes, returned on Tuesday from surveying operations in
the direction of Sicily, and will leave again in a few days to
continue the survey of the Malta Channel. We are still
expecting the Hydra, C, paddle-sloop, Lieut.-Commander
G. R. Wilkinson (temporary), from England. This vessel
is to replace the Medina on the surveying service. The
Gibraltar, 81, Capt. Prevost, which left Plymouth on the
7th inst., and is to relieve the Queen, 76, Capt. C. F. Hill.,
yar, has not yet made her appearance. The only men-of-
war here just now are the Icarus, Medina, and Boxer. The
Chanticleer, 17, Commander Stirling, left to-day with a
mail for the Pirmus, and despatches for Admiral Smart.
The following are the names of the officers and the strength
of the 23d Regiment, which left on Saturday last for Gibraltar
in her Majesty's troopship Orontes :—Lieut. Col. Bell, V.C.
and wife, Lieut.-Col. Gubbios, Surg. Tydd and wife, Capt.
Douglas, Capt. Shadwell, Capt. Tupper, and Capt. Holroyd,
Paymaster Leet, Lieuts. Cary, Lees, Lewis, Napier, and
Kenny; Ensigns Fitzgeorge, Williamson, Luxford, Knox,
Patterson, Ramsbottom, Watson, and Graves; Quarter-
master Burden, Assist.- Surg. Greig and wife, 839 non-
commissioned officers and sohiiers, 41 women, and 65 chil-
dren. The following also took passage by her :—Assist.-
Surg. Kelly, R.N,, Lieut. Calder, R.M., Ensign Lead-
beater, 25th Regiment ; Messrs. Innes and Bain, 172 sailors
and marines, 50 invalids, 22 women, and 36 children, and
Mrs. Spratt and family.
A letter from the Pirteus of the 19th of October says •
" A court-martial was held on board her Majesty's ship
Trafalgar on the 7th inst. to try a private of tbe Royal Ma-
rine Light Infantry, of her Majesty's ship Marlborough,
on the charge of making use of insubordinate language to a
sergeant of the Royal Marines when on duty at the National
Bank at Athens. The Court found the prisoner guilty, and
sentenced him to be deprived of a good conduct badge, to be
placed in the second class for conduct, and to be imprisoned
for three months in one of her Majesty's gaols. Another
court-martial was held on board the Trafalgar on the 15th
and 16th inst. on Lieut. Mangan, of her Majesty's ship
Meeanee, upon a charge of drunkenness. The prisoner was
found guilty and sentenced to be dismissed from her Ma-
jesty's service. The following ships of war remain here:—
English—The Marlborough, 121, Capt. C, A. Fello wes, flag
of Vice-Admiral Robert Smelt, K.H. ; the Trafalgar,
74, Capt. T Mason ; the Queen, 76, Capt. C. F. Hill-
yar. The Meeanee, 80, Capt. A. Wodehouse, arrived on the
14th inst. from Kalamata, and remains in Salamis Bay.
The Foxhound, 4, Commander W. H. Anderson,also arrived
on the 10th inst. from Kalamata with the mails and des-
patches brought there from Malta by the Meeanee. The
Magicienne, 16, Capt. W. Armytage, arrived on the 16th
inst. from Nauplia and Patras. The St. George, 86, Capt,
the Hon. F. Egerton, arrived this morning from Kalamata,
and remains in Salamis Bay, and the Orlando, 46, Capt. G.
Randolph, arrived on the 18th inst., and is also in Salamis
Bay. Her Majesty's ship Trident arrived yesterday morn-
ing with mails, &c., from Malta, and left this evening for
Syria. French—The Magicienne screw frigate (flag of the
Rear-Admiral commanding the Levant station) and the
Mouette paddle-sloop arrived a few days ago. Austrian
—The Dandolo screw corvette ; and the Frederick screw
corvette (bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Tegit-
hoff), arrived on the 15th inst., and the Wall screw-
gunboat. Italian—The Tancredi paddle-wheel steamer,
Turkish—The Braussa.screw corvette, Greek—TheAthena
paddle-wheel steamer, and one screw gunboat. The
Prussian paddle-steamer Preussische Alder arrived on
the 7th inst. from Malta, en route to Constantinople,
where she is to be stationed to attend on the Prussian
Minister at the Porte. The screw aunboai Blitz arrived in
company, and in tow of the Alder for about three miles, as
when just off the Pirtous the cover of her cylinder sprung.
It will take some time to effect the necessary repairs. On
the morning of the Bth the Prussian gunboat Basilisk ar-
rived from Malta. The Blitz and Basilisk are to be stationed
at the Pinous. The Preussische Adler sailed on the 14th
for Constantinople. On leaving she got on shore just outside
the Pillars, but shortly afterwards was floated again with •
out assistance, and proceeded on her voyage. She is to touch
at Syra on her way."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S-YESTEIMAY.

The interior of the subsciption-roomthir afternoon pre-
sented a marked contrast to the scene of bustle and excite-
ment on Monday last. The few subscribers who strolled
in in the course of the day grouped themselves in close
et ti ng on
proximity
to the fire, while they discussed the
effect and
consequence of the past Cambridgeshire.
B future events was almost a dead letter, the
only feature worth naming being the increased anxiety
to get on Golden Pledge for the Autumn Cup ; but offers
of 7 to 2 were not sufficiently tempting to lead to any
investment ; 6 to 1 was accepted about Catch-'em-Alive,
and a point more would have been taken about Fair-
water. For the Derby 1,000 to 4,) was booked about
Birchbroom, and 1,000 to 30 laid agat Historian to £5O.
Closing Prices :

LIVERPOOL AUTUMN CUP.
7 to 2 agst Mr Owen's Golden Pledge (off, take 4 to 1)
6 to 1 agst Mr W. Day's Catch 'em-Alive (taken)
6 to 1 agst Mr Cartwnght's Fairwater (offered)
10 to 1 agst Mr T. Hughes's Earl of Surrey (taken and off)
10 to 1 agst Mr T. Hunt's Blithefield (offered)
10 to 1 agst Mr J. Day's ns Trumps (taken and offered)

THE DERBY.
25 to 1 agst Lord Westmoreland's Birchbroom (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mr W. Day's Historian (taken)

UPTON-ON-SEVERN
THURSDAY STEEPLECHASES.
Tll5 SOVern Bank Steeplechase (FTar"i;
' --CaP)t of 10 goys
each,h ft, with 100 added. Four miles. 13 subs.
Mary Ann,
.......... (Stevens' 1
Piff Paff, i lOst 121 b
list
he following also ran. :—Yaller Gal, Socks, Grey Peter
T
y Ann and Piff Paff, 3 to
and Rufus. .
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al
, 7 to 1 agst Rufus, S to
1 agst Grey Peter.
Won by a short neck only. Only two passed the post.
steeplechase Cup, value 20 sous. Three
Socks fell and broke his back.
miles.
The Farmers'

Bang Bull, 12st
General Ragg, 12st (Mr. Davidson) 2
Bonny Lass, 12st (Mr. Roberts) 0
Foxhunter, 12st (Mr. Gough (dis.)
Betting-6 to 5 agst Foxhunter, 2to 1 agst Bang Bull,
6 to 1 agst General Ragg.
Won by two lengths. On returning to scale an objection
was lodged against Foxhunter for having gone the wrong
side of a post. The stewards, upon investigating the case,
awarded the stakes to Bang Bull, who came in second.
lrs. Plate
Two miles. (Handicap) of 40 sovs ;
w
The Upton Steeienpnleecrha
winners

The Admiralty have directed that a report shall be made
by the officials of Portsmouth Dockyard and the officer com-
manding the Admiralty yacht Enchantress of the results
which have attended the trial of Spence's patent non-con-
ductive and non-combustible composition, which has been
applied to coat the boilers, cylinders, and steam pipes in the
hydraulic engine house at the south corner of the dockyard,
and the steam pipes and valve boxes of the Enchantress's
superheating apparatus, with the iron casing which encloses
the latter above the deck. Without pretending to any
knowledge of what will be the tenor of these official reports,
we may simply state what has been accomplished. The
great heat produced in all confined spaces where steam ma-
chinery is at work, whether on shore or on board ship, is
well known. The metal surfaces, such as the boilers and
steam pipes, are generally covered with substances as nearly
non conducting as possible, in order to lessen the radiation
of heat and prevent contact with the more exposed parts of
the metal surfaces. Felt, lead, and wood sheathing have
been the substances employed for this purpose. It is evi-
dent, however, that these substances, however applied, could
only partially remedy the evil, while their use must always
be attended with considerable danger. This latter point
has been frequently illustrated on board ships of war, and
indeed most strikingly by the recent return of the Pelorus
to Devonport, after sailing thence for foreign service. One
of her boilers by some means became empty, and therefore
soon redhot, and as a certain result set fire to the felt, and
sheeting, and to the ship. To prevent a recurrence of this
accident, as well as to cover a highly-heated iron surface
on the upper deck, the Enchantress's superheating appa-
ratus and funnel casing were coated with the new composi-
tion early in July last, and nothing can be more satisfactory
than the non-conducting qualities which it has been found
to possess when the yacht was under steam, or its present
condition and appearance. rho cylinders, boilers, and steam
pipes in the hydraulic engine-house have been coated with
the composition now 16 months, and steam there has a daily
(except on Sundays) pressure of 601 b. The bare hand may
be placed on the boilers or steam-pipes, as, indeed, it may
on the Enchantress's superheating apparatus, without the
slightest inconvenience. 'ti,w heat reached in these super-
heaters ranges from 250 deg. to 400 deg. The material
used can be applied by any ordinary labourer. When dry
it is coated with a covering of paint, This is what has been
already acsoutplishe It What is being now attempted is
confined to the internal skin of iron ships, and is here chiefly
used as a preservative, but in a secondary tieW, again as a
non=conductor. On the docking of her Majesty's iron screw
troopship Megaara, some three or four years since at Ports-
mouth, after being paid off on her return home from
lengthened foreign service, it was discovered that nearly the
whole of the intcrnal rivet-heads of her bottom plates below
the water-line were eaten off level with the interior surface
of the plates, and many of the rivets had therefore dropped
out of their holes and were gone altogether. The ship's
plates were, in fact, chiefly held in their position on the
framing by the external pressure of the water, and thus any
undue strain on any one part either by striking on a reek or
straining in a gale of wind, would in all probability have
opened up the ship' s bottom and caused her, with all on board,
almost instaneously to sink, An iquiry took place, and the
conclusion arrived at was that the never-ceasing motion of
the water, with the girt from the bilges, destooyed the rivet-
heads and damaged the edges of the plates, and that someprotecting covering was needed. ibis led to the
h introduc-
tionriveL-
of Portland cement and other material
heads and edges of the plates Were thus protected, so long
find admit the water, end
as the °merit did uct crack

Inkerinan, lOst 71b (Mr. Edwards) 1
Ironsides, 9st 111 b (Mr. J. Lamb) 2
Miss Maria and Harkaway gelding also ran.
Betting-3 to lon Inkorman, who won in a canter by
ten lengths.
Th© Worcestershire Cup, value 100 sovs. Three miles,
over a fair hunting country.

Tupsley, 12st ..............
Rufus, 12st slb (Mr. Drake) 2
Huntsman, llst lb (Mr. Ivens) 3
The following also ran :—Wild Duck, Measham, Medora,
Nereus, and Nabob.
1 on Medora, sto 1 abet Nereus, 7 to 1
agßsteNttianbgo—b.3l to
Wou by a length ; four lengths between second and
third Medora fell.
_

HEREFORD MEETING—THURSDAY.
The Trial Stakes of 5 sous each, with 25 added ; weight for
ago, with selling allowances. Three-quarters of a mile.
Mr T. Parr's Buckland, 2 yrs, 6st slb (£5O) .. (G. Sopp) 1
(£5O) (E Taylor) 3
(59) .. (J Mordaaa) 4
Mr. Mellon's Fletton, 3 yrs, st 71b (£5O) ..(Maidmeni) 2
Mr R. Sly's Belladrum, 3 yrs, 7st 41b
Mr Kempson's Jessie, 2 yrs, Sat 121 b
Mr Adams's Ledbury, 4 yrs, g5O) .... (J. Holman) 5
Betting-3 to 1 agst Jessie, sto 2 agat Fletton, 3to 1 each
agst Ledbury and Buckland.
Won by a length, four lengths between second and third.
The winner was bought by Mr Barber for 130 guineas.
The Herefordshire Stakes of 10 soya each, with 60 added ;
winners extra. A mile and a half. 12 subs.
Mr T. Parr's Blondin, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (Heslop) 1
Mr Brodi.'s Lothian's King, 5 yrs, 7st 91b.. (Grimshaw) 2
Tourist, The Monk, and Pearl Diver also ran.
Betting-9 to 2 each agat Tourist and Blondin.
Won by three lengths. Only two passed the post.
The Town Plate (Handicap) of 3 soya each, with 25 added,
for all ages. Half a mile.
S. Sharpe) 1
,s
Mr Saxon's Littlecote, 3 yrs, 7st 41b ... .. .
Mr Kempson's Jessie, 2 yrs, Est 4lb ..., (..( Grimshaw) z
Mr T. Stevens's Pinkepoe, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b ..(Maidment) 3
,
IL Taylor) 1
Mr Lincoln's Rowena, 4 yrs, 7st Blb ........
<., t rinkepoe, 6 to
.
Betting—Even on Littlecote, 5 to 2 as
1 agst Jessie.
fornd andl 5
with 30 added;
third. Won
Theby t hr e
winnere len gwt hass, twobou g
guineas. says each,
lengths
Mbre.t wAenednr
eswo second o
winners extra. Two miles.
The Hurdle Race Handicap of 5
Mr Wadlow's Pot Pourri, 4 yrs, list (in. 101 b exf ra)
(W. White) 1
Mr Herbert's Whitehall, 3 yrs, 081,;;_ , _
yrs, gat
(Holman) 2
Mr Brayley's Brother to Springbok, 3
o. Olt • • (James) 3
Mr O'Malley's oh m (ped. unknown), Linea, Ust 131 b
(Mitchell) 4
Tho following also ran :—Consternation, Miss I'm,.
thorn, and Rapture.
Betting-5 to 4on Pot Pourri, 3to 1 agst Whitehall, 6
to 1 agst Miss Hawthorn.
Won by three lengths ; a bad third.

The Nursery Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 50 addod for 2
yr-olds. Three-quarters of a mile.

Mr Brayley's Victoria Cross, Est 61b (Mordan) 1
Mr Morgan's Cosotte, 6st 111 b (Sopp) 2
Mr Drake's Eugenie filly, Est 41b (Tomlinson) 3
The following also ran :—Golden Cross, Cutaway, Life-
buoy, Bianca filly, Wildman, and Imposition.
Betting-5 to 2 agst the Eugenie filly, 3to 1 agst Wild-
man, 4 to 1 agst Golden Cross, 11 to 1 each agst Lifebuoy
and Bianca filly.
Won by a neck; the oarae between woad and third,

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' exertion to have their State quollt4/KEI t..„i..%`'ee
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ously canvassed by both parties. -
are very sanguine of success.
,
An official despatch from General Burnside, dated
Knoxville, Oct. 17th, states that a cavalry bt igade
from his command encountered the rebels at . Blue
Spring, and after a sharp fight drove them ft, om
a strong position. General Shakleford, with 7a.'s
ce.valry and a brigade of infantry, continued in pur-
suit, the Confederates making a stand at every im—
portent position, but he finally drove them com-
pletely out of Tennessee, captured the fort at Zolli.
coffer, burned the long railroad bridge at that place,
also five other bridges, three locomotives, and 35
cars. His advance was ten miles beyond Bristol_
The Federal loss in the fight at Blue Springs was
about one hundred killed and wounded. The
enemy's loss was much greater. One hundred arid
fifty prisoners were taken.
Parson Brownlow and Horace Maynard made
speeches at Knoxville, October 13th, endorsing the
administration, and favouring immediate emancipa-
,on in East Tennessee. _

STAMPED ....sd.

AMERICA.

(Per the City of Baltimore.)
NEW YORK, OCT. 24.

General Meade had an interview yesterday with
President Lincoln, and returned afterwards to his
post. The reports of his being removed from com-
mand are, therefore, untrue.
Information, believed to be perfectly reliable, has
been received at Washington that Lee is sending
to Bragg two more divisions of his army, and that
it is his intention to retire with the remainder of
his army to the defences at Fredericksburg, where
they will, as the rebel authorities be ieve, prevent
any demonstration against Richmond by that route,
or up the bank of the James River. They calculate
that the injury done to the Orange and Alexandria
Railroad will prevent any attempt this season to
advance against Richmond by the Gordonsville
route, and they regard any movement up the
peninsula as impracticable at this late season.

UnionistO in large numbers Were said to be
join-
ing the army of General Burnside.
The following is from the _Richmond Enquirer of
October 16th :

General Gregg's cavalry yesterday (23d) made a
reconnaissance within two miles of the Rappa-
hannock, end returned without finding the enemy.

peace
Save on our own terms we can accept no
whatever, and must fight till doomsday rather
than yield an iota of them, and our terms are:—
Recognition by the enemy of the independence
of the Confederate States.
Withdrawal of the Yankee force from every foot
of Confederate ground, including Eentucky and

The Orange and Alexandria Railroad has been
repaired one mile beyond Bristow Station. Forces
are engaged night and day repairing the damages
done by the enemy.

The discipline and morale of the army are said to
be fine, and both officers and men have great confi-
dence in General Meade.
There are no indications whatever of a general
engagement. It is estimated that the Federal
losses during the late desultory campaign in killed,
wounded, and prisoners, will not exceed 1,500 men.

Missouri.
Withdrawal of Yankee soldiers from
Maryland
until that State shall decide by a free vote whether
she shall remain in the old Union or ask admission
into the Confederacy,
Consent on the part of the Federal Government
to give up to the Confederacy its proportion of the
navy, as it stood at the time of secession, or to PaY
for the same.
Yielding up of all pretension on the part of the
Federal Government to that portion of the old
territories which lies west of the Confederate States.
An equitable settlement on the basis of our abso-
lute independence, and equal rights of all accounts
of the public debts and public lands, and the ad.
vantages accruing from foreign treaties.
These provisions, We apprehend, comprise the
minimum of what we must require before we lay
down our arms. That is to say, the North must
yield all—we nothing—and as they have waged a
wicked and causeless war upon us, they ought in
strict justice to be required, according to usage in
such cases, to reimburse to us the whole of our ex-
penses and losses in the cause of that war. Assuredly
as we completely ruin their armies, so surely will
we make them pay our war debt, though we wring
it out of their hearts. And they know it well ;
therefore they cannot make peace except through
their utter inability to strike another blow. The
stake they have to forfeit if they lose the game is
as vital as ours. So is the stake to be won. It is
no less than the entire possession of our whole
country, with us in it and all we own, to have and to
hold to them and their heirs for ever.
Once more, we say, it is all or nothing. The
Confederacy or the Yankee nation—one or the other
must go down, forfeit its national existence, and
lie at the feet of its mortal enemy.
Meade's army and Itosencranz's once scattered,
Lee can get no more armies. The draft turns out
manifestly fruitless. Both the German and the
Irish element are for peace. The Yankees have to
bear the brunt of the war themselves; but in the-
meantime their inevitable bankruptcy is advancing
like an armed man. "Hungry ruin has them in
the wind," and it cannot be long before the Cabinet
at Washington will have to consider seriously
terms of peace, under auspices and circumstances
very different from the present. For the present,
let the war roll and thunder on, and God defend the
right.

The Richmond Examiner of the 20th, says :
" Meade i€ 3 believed to be resting at Centreville
after the fatigue of his prodigious skedaddle. His
retreat is considered to have been so masterly as to
have dimmed for ever the laurels won by M'Clellan
in that branch of warfare. He fell back with more
celerity than Pope, and with more success than
either ho or M'Clellan. While we admire the
success of his escape, we shall always wonder why
he exposed himself in a manner to make his flight
necessary. If it was his design to flee as soon as
menaced, why did he ever come to the Rapidan.
One would suppose that from the Rappahannock to
Washington was a sufficiently long race track.
What his next movement will be, it is impossible
to conjecture. Perhaps, as he was so successful
in running away, he may advance again.
" If he does advance again to the Rapidan, he
can hardly do so in less than a month, as it will
take him at least that time to reconstruct the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad, which, by the
exertions of both armies, has been pretty thoroughly
demolished from Culpepper Court House to Ma-
nassas Junction."

e has been a cry for
Re-
viewer.—For many years there ENGLISH OPERA.—Defined by a Saturday
permanent
with splendid schemes, on paper,
a national opera. Successive manfaeg.etrhsehave come forward
ra in our native tongue. Yet
works of native compose
i
estab-
lishment of a theatre in which nativ'e singers should sing
which its propounders place it, and crumbles into very
each scheme in turn tumbles from the lofty pedestal on.
ordinary materials. A distaste for Er glish opera cannot
bei
public, who are quite ready to appre-
date
good opera of any kind, and who flock to
etch
andarge d
reward
the theatre when any piece but slightly above the USLIEL. I
feeble run of ;English opera is produced. There is, more-
over, a strong wish among the lovers of music for the de-
velopment in this country of a school of dramatic compo-
sition; yet, with all this demand, with all the increased at-
tention which music has lately received, and with all the
improvement in the national musical taste, the hopes of a
national opera are as small as ever. The cause must surely
be found in our composers and our managers. The former
allow their pens to be guided, not by their musical and
dramatic feelings, but by the wishes of their publishers,
and, in place of composing for the stage, write what will
suit the milder atmosphere of the drawing-room, This is
the crying vice of our English operatic writers. If they
have by them a pretty ballad or a sparkling song, they
care nothing for dramatic situations, but bring it in
head and shoulders, that they may get good terms from
Bond-street, which thus obtains the best possible
advertisement of the merceau by its being sung by the
pet singer in the new opera, with which it has perhaps
no more in common than Achilles with the distaff. The
best opera writers are guided by different principles.
Take " Fidelio " or " Der Freyschutz"—there are Vat ono
or two pieces in each of these operas bearable off
the
stage, and one can count upon one's ten fingers all thati.
Meyerbeer's operas yield for drawing-room consumptio _
The same is true of Auber in a less degree ; and although
Mozart's music and that of the great Italian col:epos:Tian_
be listened to with pleasure apart from the story, e ne_gaid
ing as it does so much pure melody, yet the iseffect.ot we
for
greater when the passages are heard in the
_seeiinanstxuthese
which they were composed, This happensanbwen aa great
composers, being really operatic com
and paints the
musicians, clothe the situations and
an seers;
dramas with music which tells the
is to write
passions they wish to express. This
en___s, unconnected
but to string together a series of isolatedi
ik:ii
the necklace of
by any unity of purpose, gives a result,
intrinsically valu-
a savage, in which each stone mnyd barbaric, exciting no
Ptheeseecrrhgaracters of their
able, but the whole is tawdry
out his book so as to
sthis is the course of the
for his publisher ; and
avers leasagree
have the greatest number of
to allow to advantage the exe-
Einngitisischoneetemnappeleaetri.oono.te3:aledeeyts
as they are generally writtennantent
of Miss B, or the volume
the sent
they of
a large demand from,
they fancy will suit their respective
ut,g gentlemen who attend the
ladies and yo
reproduce such pieces for the benefit
the ti
youngofe
r Dire.noteAs
of 9
i‘
out what
opera to find
circles in which they rap .
infliction) of the move as musical
(or 1 long as this system lasts, so long is a National
lights.
,S°:saibie ; and our composers had better busy
OPora anP- •songs than voices, and iumd
themselves with single
it intoiahteallYf-a-dozen of their best ballads taken
ettedropu
at random from their desks, filling LIP with a noisy chorus
or two, bestowing some pains perhaps upon a solitary con.
carted piece, fitting the prima donna with a sufficiently
difficult rondo finale, and imagining they have written an
opera.

A REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF POCKET-PICKING
is said to have recently happened in London. A
gentleman from the country received a large sum of money
in sovereigns, lie bought a sort of canvas bag for it,
thew'a tklkpeodaeltong the streets, all the while keeping his hand in
where the purse was, with a desperate determi-
nation not to be done. All at once, to his astonishment,
his purse was gone. He at once went to a policeman, by
whose assistance he had the singular good fortune to find
the thief who had taken his purse. The gentleman was 50
amazed at his purse being taken while his hand had neverc
left his pocket, that he offered to forgive the thief, if ii
would tell him how it was done. The thief then Paid
a
" I happened to see you receiving the money,a andain
followed
you. followed
'
you. I saw you buy the bag-purse, and
g
After a time I tickled your ear with af°tither ; un-
consciously you took your hand out of your par; ket to
e
remove what you thought, perhaps, wasea-nPdocwils
you were rubbiigg your ear, I got the fly;
,andbooty.
Once