The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDOr, MONDAY EVENIL'A G, JULY 21, 1862,

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PORTUGUESE THREE PER CENT. LOAN, 1862.
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LITERATURE.

Lucilla : an Italian Story. Edited by the Hon.

Mrs. Macdonald. 2 vols. Hurst and Blacicett.

This must be considered an historic sketch of the
condition of Italy towards the close of the fifteenth
century, rather than a tale of individual adventure,
and the writer is, evidently, somewhat inexpe-
rienced. The groundwork of the tale is furnished
by the attempts of Charles the Eighth of France to
possess himself of the city of Florence and the
kingdom of Naples. In the first, owing to the
patriotism of the Florentines, he failed, and in the
last he was only successful for an extremely brief
period. Lucilla, the heroine of the story, of Greek
descent, had been stolen when an infant by a Jew
named Malvezzi, and was supposed to have been
" taken to Rome by the cursed man, and there bar-
barously murdered, so that her blood might be in-
fused into the veins of a nobleman who was of
Greek extraction, and consequently required Greek
blood, according to that wicked impostor." The
nobleman died, but the girl, it appears, survived,
and was brought up by the Jew as his own child,
and, as she was extremely beautiful, he had her
taught every accomplishment, intending, ultimately,
to sell her to the Grand Seigneur. But it so hap-
pened that at the time the French took possession
of Naples, the Jew and the girl were in the fortress
called the Castel dell' Novo, which was stoutly de-
fended by a devoted adherent of the King of Naples,
named'Ludovico Trivulzio, whose son Annibale, and
Lucilla being thrown much together, naturally fell
in love. Not liking his quarters, the Jew attempted
to open a treasonable correspondence with the
enemy, which was discovered, and he was confined
in a supposed secure dungeon. An inscription in
Hebrew on the wall, however, informs him of a secret
passage, by which he escapes, makes his way to
Naples, and is welcomed by one of his compa-
triots. Meanwhile the fortress is taken by assault,
but the two Trivulzii escape also by the secret
passage, carrying with them Lucilla, and take re-
fage in the mountains, where a few of the partizans
of Ferdinand, the Neapolitan king, had assembled.
A change now takes place in Neapolitan affairs;
Charles retires to France, leaving Montpensier
regent. The appearance of Ferdinand with a fleet
is the signal for insurrection ; the French are
driven out, and the tale ends with the entry of
Ferdinand, the death of the Jew, and the happi-
ness of Annibale and Lucilla. The historical in-
cidents are, in the main, correct, and it is to them
the tales owes its chief interest.

''appreciative
Churches ; and''
Science
caen
o d r
Language,"
appreciative notice of Handel sill his works. The
collection of pictures at the International Exhi-
bition affords matter for an article on the English
School of Painting. The theological topics dis-
cussed are " Ritual Uniformity, a Protestant Inno-
vation,"
atui
" Dollinger on the Church and the
C
the remaining articles treat of
"Peaks and Passes,"
"The Turkish Empire," and "The Great Exhi-
bition."

The London Review.
Under the head of" The Mormons at Home," we
find an examination of
no f e
mt hye ato o C ia•epcteani
nt
BWorks o
theton
.rel
that
relative
Of
tfi v
tehe peopletrustworthiness
by
Ai
gentle-
man the writer
but defended in his p
says--" Mormon polygamy is all
almost as much stress a
ags e
as ;Loart ,t
eart
Da nayy rsaatien, t haenl
tahy
es
fact that the majority of mankind are in favour of
this institution, and seems as if he would have
small objection to run with the multitude. He
appears to have little respect for one system of re-
ligion more than another, and is continually mak-
in g comparisons of the most flippant and irreverent
kind." To M. Remy the writer gives credit for
more earnestness, but states that his religious views
disqualify him from pronouncing a satisfactory judg-
ment on the doctrines and religious tendencies of
Mormonism, though he is at the same time by no
means its apologist. Both agree, however, that
Utah is a model city. " Order, tranquillity, clean-
yantdhalntdau closer acquaintance only
characteristics of the plaseterYtOaraesttrhaen
al clean-
liness, sbso,
und to comfort,
s a stranger; and
aonbdviowues
serves to confirm this agreeable impression. Work
is the With the exception of
perhaps orpstdheer Porfestihdeenday.
t—and he is neither unable
nor unwilling to lend a hand now and then—every-
bodyt:les it an
is not surprising,, and has attained, ind
obstructions, a
u
s r
works. Masons, carpenters, blacksmiths,
gardeners, reapers, farriers, herdsmen, woodcutters,
tailors, shoemakers, brick-
makers,makers e
gunsmiths,f turners, in a word,
gunpowder
and saltpetre,
allmw i°l°sl eolcrrstsl3o ef
bo surveyors,trtse'rsd,i
labourers
here, and all are as busy as the working bees in a
hive. The very children are utilised and taught
from early years the worth and dignity of labour.
The result of all this is that the infant colonies
u
itsear
p- d actualerrosdifficulties
awn
eat
nyn
lt.
then, that the creedobtains many converts, especially
as there is a "Perpetual Emigration Fund" for the
purpose of assisting the poor on their journey ; and
supplies
a l imarvellouseofs alal unheard-of
the total number of Mormon emigrants from
Europe from 1840 up to 1849 was 30,584. "But,"
says the writer, "a more organised and systematic
effort to elevate the lower classes—to promote their
material comfort—to improve their sanatory con-
dition—to give their children a good, serviceable,
and Christian education ; and, above all, a deter-
mined evangelising aggression upon the spiritual
ignorance and depravity which are the bane and
disgrace of the older homes of Christian civilisation.
would soon render it impossible for the coarse,
vulgar, and blasphemous rant of Mormonism to
obtain even a hearing among lie
The re-
views of M. Esquieros' work on the English
and of " Froude's History of England, vols. v. and
vi.," will attract the general reader, and the topics
of the remaining articles are " Renan on the She-
mitic Tongues," " The Portal Family," " Vocation
and Training of the Christian Ministry," and
" The Bicentenary of Nonconformity."

The Medical Critic and Psychological Journal.

A lengthy review of the evidence and arguments
in the Wyndham case will be sure to attract atten-
tion. In " Counter Practice" we find a discussion
as to the propriety of chemists prescribing as well
as making up medicine. " Romantic Psychology"
touches on " A Strange Story." " The Health of
the Royal Navy" is an important article on the
ventilation of ships of war, and especially of iron
steamers; and "Drunkenness, Psychology, and In-
sanity" form the topics of the remaining papers.

The Journal of Agriculture, and the Transactions of
the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scot-

land.

Among the contents of this number will be found
,‘ French Views of British Agriculturists," end
"Notes on Novelties at the Agricultural Machine
Department of the Great Exhibition of 1862, by
Robert Scott Burn," as well as an elaborate paper
on " The Effects of the Severe Frost of December,
1860, and January, 1861, on Trees and Shrubs," by
Robert Hutchison, of Carlowrie, Kirkliston.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMEBIC-4.

(From the Times' Correspondent.)

NEW YORK, JULY 4.
New York was yesterday in a state of panic. The
facts relative to Gen. 111'Clellan and the series of
bloody battles on the Chickahominy, as published
in the papers—all the correspondents agreeing in
the main incidents—threw a gloom over the whole
city. The struggle that commenced on Wednesday,
June 25, and was continued every succeeding day
until Tuesday, July 1, and which may have been
renewed at this hour, is one of the most obstinate
recorded in the history of any people. The details
of the carnage are sickening to read of. Mr. Secre-
tary Stanton, though he would allow no facts to
be transmitted by telegraph, is not yet the lord and
master of the post-office. He permitted the one
agency to designate the result as " a substantial
victory" for the Union arms ; a piece of ambiguity
that set the public thinking and that alarmed Wall-
street so much as to send down the prices of Go-
vernment and every other kind of stock. The United
States Six per Cent. Bonds of 1881 fell two per
cent. ; the 7 30 Treasury Bonds five per cent. ; and
every kind of railway and other share partook of
the contagion of consternation and receded from
three to six per cent. The Post-office, over which
the Government exercises no discretionary power,
represented the matter in a clearer light. News-
paper reports and private letters confirmed and
augmented the bad impression produced by the
War Secretary's telegram, and showed M'Clellan to
have been out-generalled as well as out-numbered ;
to have taken up, in the first instance, an untena-
ble as well as a most unhealthy position in the
swamps between the Pamunkey and the Chickaho-
miny, and, in shifting his base of operations to the
line between Chickahominy and the James River,
to have lost upwards of twenty thousand men;
and this, not according to the report of his op-
-1 ponents, but by the confession of his own friends
—spectators of the series of bloody encounters by
which the change was effected. His army is repre-
sented to have numbered 95,000 men, so that his
forces were doubly, or more than doubly, decimated.
One man out of every five in his army was either
killed, wounded, a prisoner, or a deserter, and the
whole force only
escaped annihilation by consum-
mate luck rather than consummate skill. The Fede-
rals, brave as they were, do not appear to have
fought with the desperate yet orderly courage of
the Confederates on any one day of the murderous
struggle, if the reports of the Federals themselves
are to be depended
upon ; and as yet no statement
has come to Richmond to throw a light on the tardy
but great success which has rewarded the Con fede
rate cause. The two most furious battles of the
series appear to have been fought ou Friday, the
27th, and on Monday, the 30th of Jane. Friday's
battle was fought at a place called Gaines's-hill,—
a mill; where a panic, almost equal to that of Bull
Run, was, with the greatest difficulty, prevented.
c. scores of gallant officers," says the Tribune's cor-
" endeavoured to rally and re-form the
respondent,
stragglers, in can
while many officers forget the
;
pride of their shoulder straps and the honour of their
manhood and herded with sneaks and cowards."
Elsewhere, the same correspondent speaks of the
bewildered men,"
" frightened host" and the "poor

and can only add, in extenuation of their panic,
that they had to fight as one against three. The
rout at last became general, in spite of the exer-
tions of the Prince de Joinville, General Butter-
field, and others, to turn the tide. Several officers
actually discharged their revolvers at their own sol..
diers to prevent the rout. But all was in vain. The
Division was belten ; and the men knew it. In
their desperation they seem to have thought that
they might as well die by the hand of their own
officers as by that of the enemy, and resisted all
threats as well as all blandishments to renew the
hopeless fight. On Saturday, the 28th ult., the bag-
gage trains of the army were started through the
dense forest called " White Oak Swamp," and the
army continued its retreat, harassed at every step by
the fire of the relentless enemy. " Sunday morning
came," says another correspondent who witnessed
what he describes, " and soon brought with it a
strange stampede of hundreds of mule teams with
thunders
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the mass into frantic motion was electric from one
team-
sters, misunderstood by the soldiers
shook the nerves of the timid, and, ni instant,
naaetrhgmee
advance,
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af
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ward, scattering drivers, soldiers, and officers. The
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first to ran, and the correspondent indignantly adds
that if he knew the names of any of them he would,
certainly publish them." And how did the Con-
federates behave ? " Mark me, Northern friends,"
says the same eyewitness, " the rebels fight with a
desperate courage. They go with orderly joy upon
the muzzles of our guns. Neither French nor Bri-
tish infantry ever charged field batteries with
steadier fury." And whence, it may be asked,
" comes the difference between the two ?" The
Northerners—so many of whom are not Americans,
but Irish and Germans, fight for pay, and have no
real or abiding interest in the struggle. The South-
erners, on the other hand, fight with indomitable
pride and hate for home, for country, ,for their in-
vaded soil, for liberty, and independence. This
is an element of the conflict that the Federal Go-
vernment ought to understand, and which if
thoroughly present to the minds of the Northern
people ought to predispose them, even at this last
hour, to receive with gratitude the friendly offices
of any European Power that shall be generous and
chivalrous enough to help them to untie the knot
which their swords cannot cut through, and solve a
difficulty that will admit of no other solution so
little galling to their pride or so little perilous to
their future happiness as a nation.
The last battle of which a detailed account has
been received was on Monday, June 30. It is de-
scribed as the mostterrific of the series,and tb have cost
the Confederates 4,000 men in killed and wounded.
They have no deserters. No estimate has been made
of the Federal loss, but it must have been at least
equal to that of the foe, and was probably superior,
for General M'Clellan had to leave his dead and
wounded in the possession of the enemy, and to
spike his siege guns and leave them on the field
after burning the carriages, circumstances that are
not consistent with any explanation save that of an
overwhelming defeat. A later despatch from Gene-
ral M'Clellan to the War-office, brought by the
Prince de Joinville, and dated on Wednesday, July
2, reported that he had made good his new position
on the bank of the James River on Tuesday July 1,
that his men had behaved splendidly, and that he
had only lost one gun. People willing to be com-
forted and to look at the bright side of things
plucked up their spirits at this news ; Wall-street
took neart of grace, and stocks went slowly up again
though not to their former height. On Wednes •
day, the 2d, and Thursday, the 3d, the fighting was
not renewed.

And it was while this news was fresh in the pub-
lic mind—while every one in New York was de-
vouring the newspapers with grief and rage—some,
perhaps, not without secret joy, that the great holy-
day of the Americans was celebrated. At the time
at which I write, this memorable day—the 4th of
July, the anniversary of national independence, the
day by which it was fondly hoped the great rebel-
lion would be crushed for ever ; the day upon which
vengeance was to be taken on the Southern leaders
and the hand of forgiveness to be stretched out to
the Southern people, has come, and almost gone.
But, alas for the pride of the north ! It has not ful-
filled any of the hopes in which its people indulged,
even so lately as a month ago, or verified any of
the prophecies which the statesmen of Washington
have not wearied of uttering for the last twelve-
month. If it did not dawn upon an overpowering
and decisive defeat, it dawned upon a costly reverse
and a sad humiliation. Did any loyal American, as
loyalty is undersood by the Federal party, asks him-
self this glorious 4th of July what the day meant ?
Did he reflect that " Independence Day," as it is
called, was but the commemoration of an act of
treason that, in being successful, acquired
the high name of patriotism ? Did he re-
member that New York and the North
stand in a position similar to that occupied by
George 111. and his Ministers ; and are engaged, as
he was, in combating what is called a "rebellion,"
though not by so strictly legal a riglat as George
111. had to employ the word ? Perhaps not. The
people celebrated the day in the customary manner,
with parade of soldiers, with salvos of artillery,
with drum and fife, and martial music, with waving
flags, with frantic oratory, and superabundant
" Buncombe," and with displays of fireworks in the
streets and squares, for the delight of small boys and
drunken " rowdies," but to the sore annoyance of
every one else, and not less so because paid for at
the public expense, and costing 8,000 dols. How
the day was passed in the South will be known
hereafter. The Southern leaders and people no
doubt remembered that what George Washington
and his fellow-patriots were, 86 years ago, they are
now ; that as he fought they are fighting ; that
they owe no such allegiance to the Federal Power
as their forefathers owed to the King of England ;
that as Washington's great enterprise might have
failed had it not been for the aid afforded by a
foreign Power, so they also, if true to themselves,
as he was, will sooner or later receive the assistance
of Europe, or otherwise smile their independence.
This heavy and sanguinary blow to the fortunes of
the republic, though it allowed children to enjoy
t
the day as if nothing had happened, deprived it
of all heartiness in the eyes of men, and rendered
it at the best but a miserable mockery of rejoicing.
Every rocket, every Roman candle, every cath
wheel that was employed in celo'eboroaotion men,o of the
day day was a burning shame,
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liberty. Even as it is, and with all the toleration
that corrupt politicians are apt to feel for those Who
are only a shade more or less corrupt than them-
selves, a heavy reckoning will yet be demanded for
the disasters of Richmond, unless General M'Clellan
should in the meantime be fortunate enough to re-
trieve them. But this is not likely. The slow en-
gineering work of the last two months has to be
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his
highly splen -
tages of his new base of operations .and
-did engineering may come to naught.
The President's call for 300,000 men all
is
approved. But will it be successful in raising the
men ? Or, if raised, will the number, large us it is,
be sufficient to end the war Tempted by a month's
pay in advance, by a personal gratuity of 2 dais.,
and by an immediate payment of 25 dols. an ac-
-40,000 or 50,000 Americans and 250,000 Irishmen
tcoo u4lOl ofor t biesbounty
she f
pleorom,
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that
and Getmans may present themselves
.at the re-
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cers ur t i
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will be found to lead them into action. Mr.
Chase has not been consulted in the matter. Nor
cl oantightel mcoenNb'eerrtocrde
was it necessary. Although before such en army
can exist, except in regimental rolls, it will cost no
less than 11,700,000 or 2,340,000 sterling—the price
of getting the men together; what signifies the
cost ? Is there not a steam printing press at Wash-
ington printing off paper dollars, night and day ?
And is it not as easy, time being allowed, to print
off 100,000,000 as it is 11,000,000 ? Were the North
in danger of invasion by the South, or were there
any real peril to the national capital, the President
would only have to ask for 500,000 or 1,000,000 of
men, with bounty or gratuity ; and they would
rise to the stamp of his foot ; but it is not quite
so certain, even with all the pecuniary induce-
ments so freely offered, that 300,000 men will
obey ]pis summons for the invasion of the South.
The truth is, that the people are losing heart in the
war. The difficulty of subjugating the South does
not seem to impress them so vividly as it does the
Government, with the necessity of making effort
upon effort, each stronger than the one before it, to
bring it to an issue ; but, on the contrary, appears
to strengthen the idea that subjugation is hopeless,
or, if not hopeless, that it is not worth its cost,
either in blood or money. For this reason the sug-
gestion is pnt forward by all who are in favour of
a l'outrance that if the men cannot be raised by,
voluntary enlistment, sweetened with a liberal
bounty money, it will be necessary to resort to a
conscription. It is not probable, however, that the
Government wilt adopt a course so hazardous. The
nation is not in danger. No Power in the world
threatens its independence. The only attempts upon
its liberty come from within, from such people as
General Butler and Secretary Stanton ; and a con-
scription for the sake of conquest is something so
new in our day among a free people that any one
may be excused for his incredulity who refuses to
believe in it. The suggestion, however, is a sign
of the straits to which the North is reduced, not-
withstanding its late naval and military successes,
and shows how effectually it is undermining its
own liberties in the vain attempt to subjugate its
neighbours. _ _

The great meeting of the Democratic, the pro- I
slavery, or the pro-Southern party, which was held t
on Tuesday evening, the let inst., in the large hall
of the Cooper Institute loses much of its interest after
the mighty events upontthe Chickahominy ; but as
a sign of the revolution tnat is working in the public
mind deserves notice. The ostensible object of the
meeting was to advocate the vigorous prosecution
of the war, with a view to the restoration of the
" Union as it was," consequently with the institu-
tion of slavery re-adopted and re-affirmed in the Con-
stitution. Its real object was to express a covert
sympathy with the South. Several meetings have
been held at the same place by the Emancipation
League under the leadership of prominent members
of the Republican and Anti-Slavery Party, also with
the ostensible object of vigorously prosecuting the
war, but with this difference, that the promoters
and speakers did not desire the restoration of the
old Union, but the establishment of a new Union, a
Union as it ought to be, without slavery. All those
meetings have been thinly attended, the room never
having been more than half filled upon any occasion.
The speakers have sometimes been women, and
oftener clergymen—rarely politicians or statesmen
of any note. But the meeting of Tuesday night
was of:a different character. The hall was crammed
to suffocation by men. The Sunday School element
was absent, and the overflowing candidates for ad-
mission finding it impossible to obtain entrance
constituted a meeting of their own in the open street.
The principal speaker was Mr. Fernando Wood,
ex-Mayor of New York, and brother of the Hon.
Benjamin Wood, one of the members for the city,
whose bold but undelivered speech to Congress has
only been taken up by the New York
papers since
it was brought to their notice in the Times. Mr.
Fernando Wood fills in relation to the Democrats
the position held by Mr. Thurlow Weed among the
Republicans. He is the wire-puller of the party—
a kind of Coppock in elections, a sort of Secretary
of the Treasury for the dispensation of patronage,
a man to whom all the secrets of party organisation
and all its personnel are familiar; who keeps a list
of all who are to be bought and all who will buy
them ; who knows the exact price of every needy
and corrupt knave in this city, and the liberality
of every rich and ambitious Democrat who desires
to purchase their aid or their votes. If any one
could fancy that the late Mr, Coppock combined
with the anomalous functions of the office he held
those exercised by Sir Wm. Hayter, or the present
Whip of the party, and that in addition to these
he was the highly popular Lord Mayor of London
and a first-rate speaker, he would have some idea of
the claims of Mr. Wood to the attention of a public
meeting and the confidence of his party. Nobody
was listened to before he appeared. Nobody re-
ceived any attention afterwards. He was the
and
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