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London, England, 1863-04-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1863.

One amusing fragment of intelligence is brought
to us in these last advices from the American seat
of war. It is to the effect that that unfortunate
Admiral FARRAGUT has, after all, proved himself
to be exactly too clever by half. Having contrived,
as we know, to slip adroitly past Port Hudson, with
flying colours at the mast-head of his flag-ship the
Hertford—poor Admiral FARRAGUT all of a sudden
wakes up to a recognition of the fact that he has
fairly and quite deliberately trapped himself ! Fears
are rife, we learn, among his sympathisers, that
both his own vessel and its companion in suc-
cess (and misfortune !), the Albatross, may come to
grief there most inopportunely. Reasonable fears
enough, they would seem to be, moreover, when we
learn that not only are the Hartford and the
Albatross isolated from their hitherto co-operative
gunboats, but that actually those far-seeing and
much-contriving Confederates have no less than
three rams, there, in between Port Hudson and
Vicksburg, the beleaguered but impregnable !
Learning which, we cannot but look forward, with
the liveliest interest, to the next news that may be
brought to us from the Mississippi.
All that the Federals appear to live upon just
now, in the way of favourable prospects, may be
epitomised within the compass of a single vague
rumour in reference to the reported pre-
parations made or making at Richmond with
a view to its evacuation. As yet the un-
likeliest move well imaginable, on the part of
the Southerners. The Northerns, however, have
so little to cling to in the way of hope, that
to that most dim ands ague anticipatio of a some-
they hold on n ,(to emelloy
thing that may haPPi
one of their own vernacular phrases of exaggeration)
by the eyelashes. Richmond—perhaps—one of
these fine days—may, within the limits of a bare
possibility, be evacuated. At the feeble suggestion
of which, there -
is a cry of Jubilate from the New
Yorkites and the Washingtonians. Nay, nor is this
all, in their manner of revealing the extent of their
credulity —in their way of believing what, in Shak-
sperian diction, the wish is father to! There
come to us, this time, across the Atlantic, tid-
ings of something like a popular demon-
stration among the Federals in favour of
—whom is it supposed ? Why, of noless infamous
a personage than General BUTLER! Admiral
WiLKES would have been bad enough, had he been
selected as the object or hero for another ovation.
But—General BUTLER ! Why, the force, we won't
say of folly, of absolute audacity on the part of the
Federal population could certainly no further go
than this. The acclamations greeting General
BUTLER the other day in the midst of his en, husi-
astic fellow-citizens are nothing less than an outrage
to our common humanity. As such they will be
regarded, too, not alone in England, but far and
wide throughout Europe. And when the New
yo-k journals can say, as one of them actually
does, in so many words, that " General BUTLER'S
denunciations of England, and his predicticns of
retribution for the wrongs she has committed, were
ith the utmost enthusiasm at
received and echoed w
surely, of Dis
the Academy of Music"—(the.ll4ll,
cord and not of Harmony)
only sentiment in
'Fired, on this side the ocean, will be those of simple,
"trazd, unmitigated contempt. Of all the pre-
posterous exhibitions yet made in the glare of pub-
licity by Yankee bounce, that of which this de-
monstration in favour of General BUTLER and
against England was the most signal exemplar, i
without any doubt at all about it, the most utterly
ridiculous. Here is the Federal Government