The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-06 00:00:00

HEREFORD MEETING-THURSDAY.

The Trial Stakes of 5 aovs each, with 25 added; weight for
age, with selling allowances. Three-quarters of a mile.
Mr T. Parr's Buckland, 2 yrs, Gat 51b (£5O) • (G. Sopp) 1
Mr. Mellon's Fletton, 3 yrs, st 71b (L5O) (Maidment) 2
Mr R. Sly's Belladrum, 3 yrs, 7st 41b06). J. Riordan) 502(( E.ATarydlaon) 4
Taylor)
Mr Kempson's Jessie, 2 yrs, sst 121 b (
Mr Adams's Ledbury, 4 yrs, Bit (£5O) .... (J. Holman) 5
Betting-3 to 1 agat Jessie, sto 2 agat Flotton, 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 sous each, with 60 added ;
winners extra. A mile and a half, 12 subs.
Mr T. Parr's Blondin, 3 yrs, ist 61b
Mr Brodia's Lothian's King, 5 yrs, 7st 91b.. (Grin:alhal 1
) 2
Tourist, The Monk, and Pearl Diver also ran.
Betting-9 to 2 each agst 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.
Mr Sa%on's Littlecote, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (11. Sharpe) 1
Mr Kempson's Jessie, 2 yrs, Est 41b .... (J Grilnshawt))
2
Mr T. Stevens's Pinkepoe, 4 yrs, 7st 12Ib (Maidmen 3
Mr Lincoln's Rowena, 4 yrs, 7st Blb
Betting--Even on Littlecote, sto 2 agst Pinkepoe, to
. Taylor) 4
1 agat Jessie.
third.e The winner len gwt hgas, tbwoouglhent gbtyhsmbre.trudenreswecsofnodrl4s
and
Von
guineas.
tprao.f 51sovosmeailcehs,. with 30 added ;
The Hurdle RacweinLinaenrdsiecxa
(Holman) 2
Mr Wadlow's Pot Pourri, 4 yrs, list
stw (in. 101boevx White)
1
Mr Herbert's Whitehall, 3 yrs,
Mr Brayley's Brother tod Supnriknngobwokn,),3aygresd,,99sts.t.l(3Jlabmcs) 3
Mr O'lslalley's ehnl (pe•
(Mitchell) 4
Tho following also ran :—Consternation, Dliss iittw.
thorn, and Rapture. 3
Betting-5 to 4on Pot 1. ourri, to 1 agst Whitehall, 6
-st Miss Hawthorn.
Won by
,hthreef Three-quarters
t; e
ras badof a third.mile.
yr
to 1 ap,_
~,,dicap of 5 says each, with 50 added for 2-
qss, 6st 61b (Mordan) 1
The Nurseryh..elds.
Mr Brayley's Victoria CI, - (Sopp) 2
Mr Morgans Cosette, 6st 1116, (Tomlinson) 3
Mr Drake's Eugenie filly, 6st 41b,, "Toss, Cutaway, Life-
The following also ran :—Golden 'nu.
buoy, Bianca filly, Wildman, and Impositi. -q-st Wild-
Betting-5 to 2 agst the Eugenie filly, 3tol .w huoy
man, 4 to 1 agst Golden Cross, 11 to 1 each agat

and Bianca filly.
Wor. by a 7r,:ek the some between seeowl and third,

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
bis army to the defences at Fredericksburg, where
they will, as the rebel authorities believe, 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.
General Gregg's cavalry yesterday (23d) made a
reconnaissance within two miles of the Rappa-
hannock, and returned without finding the enemy.
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.
The Ilkknow' Examiner of the 20th, says :—...
" Meade is 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 he 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 J unction."

The following telegrams are from the Richmond

papers ;

CULPEPPER COURT-HOUSE, OCT. 17.

The heavy rain yesterday caused the Rapidan
to rise, and the bridge careened last night, ren.
dering it impassable for the present. The battle
at Catlett's Station proved to be a cavalry skir-
mish, in which we took some prisoners. There
was hard fighting late on Wednesday evening at
Bristow Station. We were driving the enemy
back, when skirmishers fell upon M'lntosh's bat-
tery, supported by Cook's brigade. Gen. Cook
was wounded early in the action. His brigade
was thrown into confusion, during which the
enemy succeeded in taking five pieces of artil-
lery. Reinforcements coming up we pursued the
enemy towards Dumfries. Our 13ss is about 500
killed and wounded. Fifteen hundred prisoners
have been gathered during the day.

GORDONSVILLE, OCT. 18.

The enemy have been driven back to their
fortifications at Centreville, to which they have
been flying for several days past pursued by our
forces. They have destroyed in their flight such
stores as they could not take with them. The fight-
ing has been with small bodies as our forces would
come up with them. The battle at Bristow station
was an engagement between parts of the two
armies. It is reported that but for a deserter going
over to the enemy and giving information, the day
our forces commenced moving, we should have
achieved a much more substantial success.

GORDONSVILLE, OCT. 20.

One thousand Yankee prisoners, captured last
week, are expected here to-night. The Rapidan
bridge will be repaired by to-morrow morning.
(From the Richmond Sentinel, Oct. 21.)
The force reported to be moving on Abingdon
is believed to be the same cavalry and mounted in-
fantry, commanded by Foster, who was so easily
whipped in September at Zollicaffa by two regi-
ments of Cerse's brigade. They numbered then
2,000, and can hardly have increased more than a
few hundred. If these are all we have to contend
with, as we believe they are, our salt works are
safe for the present. We wish we could say as
much for East Tennessee. That valuable section
will never be free from Yankee inroads until we
retake Cumberland Gap,
Richmond papers contains the following :
MISSIONARY RIDGE, OCT. 17.
Gen. D. H. Hill has been relieved, and Gen.
Breckenridge placed in command of his corps:
The recent heavy rains have caused a freshet in
the Tennessee river. The bridges over
-Chicka-
mauga
and Chattanooga Creeks have been swept
away. For the first time in four days we see the
sun. The bridges are being rapidly repaired. The
enemy's pontoon bridge along
the town was sub-
merged. Sigel's corps is reported to have been at
Stevenson on the 14th.

Confederate accounts from Charleston up to the
21st October, state that a brisk fire is maintained
upon the Federals with no response. The Ironsides
is asserted to be leaky since the torpedo attack. She
steamed around Cumming's Point on the 21st. One
more Monitor had joined the fleet. The French
ship Tasiphon had arrived ; her commander, De
Marivaux, is said to be a cousin of the Emperor.
The _Richmond Enquirer of the 21st states that
Gen, Price with a force of 20,000 men is marching
upon Little Rock, with only six thousand in
front
of him. He is said to be on his way to Misesn r
Gens.
l A
serious disagreement had taken p
Price and Holmes, causing considerable demoralisa-
tion among their troops. It was, however, finally
settled to their mutual sat i
8 faci.n.
A despatch from
that Bragg is reported to hPliavis.crossed' dated Oct. 21, states
crsed the Alabama
and Tennessee Railroad, and transported his sup-
plies to Rome and Selma
re
President Lincoln'spiy
to the Missouri-Kansas
great dissatisfaction to the
delegation has
Se regivens to remove Gen. Schofield.
Radicals.
on a visit to Niagara
f"usheave gone
" The Bussiansi invitations have been given them
Municipal
and Washington.
The Philadelphia, -it Boston, .
to visit
be ariangements for the grand ball to them in
New TYork are not yet completed.
me Governors of New York and New Jersey 1
,>. ,

Save on our own terms we can accept no peace
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 Kentucky and.
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.
Anequitablesettlement on the basis of our abso-
lute independence, and equal rights of all accounts
of the public debts and public lands, and the add
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. Tho
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.
Oxide more, we say, it is all or nothing. Tho
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 Rosencranz's once scattered,
1-,,.,e 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 bo long before the Cabinet
at Washington will have to consider seriously
terms of peace, uuder auspices and circumstances
very different from the present. For the present,
let the war roll and thunder on, and God defend the
right.

Re-
viewer.—For many years there
ENGLISH OPERA.—Defined bhyasabSeeantudy Re-
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the works of native composers n
estab-
lishment of a theatre inownhpiachenatoiuvre
native tongue.
syineg
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each scheme in turn tumbles from the
crumbles into the lofty pedestal
very
on
which its propounders place it, andordinary materials. A distaste for Er glish opera cannot
be charged upon tghooodpuobpleirea, who oaanr:
kind,qui quite
andreadyv
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the appre.
ciato and re
theatre when any piece but slightly above the usua I.
feeble run of ;English opera is produced. There is, more-
over, a s
trong 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 msreeatt 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. Th©
best opera writers are guided by different principles'
Take " Fidelio " or " Der Freyschutz"—there are but ono
or two pieces in each of these operas bearable off the
stage, and one can count upon one's ten fingers all that
Meyerbeer's operas yield for drawing-room consumption.
The same is true of Anber in a less degree ; and aithouoga:
Mozart's music and that of the great Italian composersin.
be listened to with pleasure apart from the story,
.:
tenfold
jug as it does so much pure melody, yet the effect. is
,r
greater when the passages are heard in the
bseeituaaase
the:
which they were composed. This happensas
we..
as great
composers, being really operatic composerhsara "
eters of their
musicians, clothe the situations and thetocry
and paints the
dramas with music which tells the
iss to
write an opera;
passions they wish to express.
but to string together a series
by any unity of purpose, gives a result
may
be
intrinsically valu-
able, a savage, in which each stone mond
barbaric, exciting no
thounneceounnaeeceteedi
Phis
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composers
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and tiroe
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the young fancy will suit their respective
so long a National
immediately reproduce such pieces for the benefit
voices, and circles in which they move as •
of the .
lasts,
is musical
(or infliction), long as this system
opera to,
lights. So
Opera impossible;
bongs than
with singlego on choosing a story
themselves. .
t into half-a-dozen of th •
and putting i their best ballads taken
at random from their desks, filling up with a noisy chorus
or two, bestowing some pains perhaps upon a solitary con.
certed piece, fitting the prima cknner 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. Ile bought a sort of canvas bag for it,
walked along the streets, all the while keeping his hand in
the pocket where the purse was, with a desperate determi-
nation not to be done. All at once, to his astonishment,
his purse was gone. Ile 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 so
amazed at his purse being taken while his hand had nevero
left his pocket, that he offered to forgive the thief, h
would tell him how it was done. The thief then said
" I happened to see you receiving the money, and
_au
you. I saw you buy the bag-purse, and. again
un-
you. After a time I tickled your ear with feweraurse-pocket to
consciously you took your hand out of your parse-pocket
fi and while
remove what you thought, perhaps, was onec
you were rubbin your ear, I got the 12°°rY
Trek.

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