The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-23 00:00:00

Box-office open 1 rota 10 to 5.

THEATRE-R0 Y AL, HANiM ARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, at Seven MRS. WHITE. Mr. Comp-
ton, Miss Caroline Hill, Mrs. IS. Fitzwilliam.
Alter which, at a quarter to 8, will het erformed (1' 6th time)
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN Asa ard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA
he
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BANDISTA. Senora Peres Neva, Senor Ricardo, and t
Corps do Ballet
To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST,

I,ls OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
189th Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day."
THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneeti Deel sb.
Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund Falconer Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston, and Miss M. Hudson.
After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and
Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T
JIELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at
7. Box-office open daily from 11 tills.
Commence a 7

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.
Viss 3f. Harris.
After which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fabien
and Louis de Franchi, Mr. Charles Kean; Messrs. Jordan,
Everett, R. Cathcart, Meadows, &c. ; Mesdames Fielding,
Chapman, R. Leclercq, Henderson, and N. Chapman.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED.
Commence at 7. No half-price.

NEW THFATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.
Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
TO-NIGHT, ICI ON FABLE FRANCAISE : IVlessrs.
J. L. Toole, Billington, Emery ; Misses K. Kelly, Laidlaw,
K. Bland, and Mrs. H. Marston.
To be followed by THE COLLEEN BAWN. Messrs.
C. Verner, Emery, Billington, Stephenson. 14.burne, C. J.
Smith ;Romer; Miss Ades Bendette, Miss Woolgar, Mrs.
Billington, and Mrs. H. Lewis.
To conclude with THE SHILLING DAY. Messrs. J. L.
Toole, I'. Bedford, Emery, Miss Latimer, Mrs. H. Lewis.
Co mence at 7.

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RBURY HALL.
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STECKEL,
The Greatest Trapeze Performer in the World, at 10 o'clock.
Immense success of the Grand Selection from Donizetti's
Opera,
" DON SE BASTIEN,"
(Produced here for the first time in this country).
Arranged and conducted by Mr. J ongtmans.
Principal Artistes—Miss Kussell and Signor Tivoli.
The Great Comic Trio, Eugene, Duley, and Unsworth
(the original of the celebrated Stump Speech, " Or any other
man Also the following array of Comic Talent, viz.:—
E. Marshall (in Paul Pry), J. G. Fordo, A. B. Hollings-
worth, Miss Georgina Smithson, and Joe Brown, the re-
nowned Dancer.

TH E OXFOR D,
6, OXFORD STREET.
The miraculous STECKEL, Champion of the Trapeze, in
new and unapproachable feats.
Verd 'a "LA TRAVIATA," "IL TROVATORE,"
" SIMON BOCCANEGRA," ttc. Sre. ; G. Linley's " JOLLY
' BEGGARS ; " G, A. Macfarren's " MAY DAY. " Principal
Vocalists Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs.
Morley, Greene, and Albert. Full Band and Chorus. Musical
Director, Mr. F. Jonihmans.
Comic—Miss Caroline Parkes, Mr. W. Randall, and those
unrivalled Ethiopian Comedians, Ramsey, Newcomb, Little
Bob, E ugen
nand Unsworth (the original " or any other man").
Admissio, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes,
10s. 6d.
Shortly will be produced Verdi's Great International
Exhibition Cantata.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, JUNI?, 23, 1862

A. week's later news from America leaves
M'CLELLAN in the position he retained at what is
now to be known as the tattle of Fair Oaks. In-
deed, the constant rain had so swelled the Chicka-
hominy that the valley was impassable for troops,
and enforced an armistice of many days. During
that time he has, however, been making assurance
doubly sure, for he has been reinforcing his
army by considerable additions, but whether to
the extent of 60,000 men, as reported, may be
doubted. He has now given us an exact account
of his loss in the last bloody battle ; it amounts to
89) killed, 3,627 wounded, and 1,222 missing-
-6,739 in all. This, therefore, is his least loss. What
that of the Confederates was we have no means of
knowing accurately. 8,000 was mentioned in a
Richmond paper; from the nature of the last day's
fight, it having been a battle with the bayonet, it
must have been severe.

There is no information at all trustworthy of
Confederate proceedings. We are left to conjecture
whether they will evacuate Richmond, as they have
done so many places, before the Federals know
anything about it, or whether they will fight to
desperation. If the former be their intEntion, the
weather has singularly favoured them; since, on
account of the swollen state of the River Chicks-
hominy, which keeps the Federals five of six miles
north of the city, they could not pursue them, nor
even,know what is going on. We hear no more of the
rumour that the Federal gunboats had forced a pas-
sage before Fort Darling, from which they were;
repulsed in the recent attempt. We fear the worst
though a fierce attack, repulse, and subsequent
evacuation of a place seems to be quite a Confede-
rate line of things ; yet Richmond, their capital,—
with the loss of which they would be far worse off
than. Italy without Rome, which he has not yet
had_may prove
an exception. If they cannot
bring up forces
in proportion to the rein-
forcements Isi`CLELLAN is receiving, of
which they are
sure to hear, they will
probably not fight ; but if any of BEAU-
REGARD'S army can get ~,„-u by the a • •
can
adequately
al
toenl
yg
route open to it, in time, and they
reinforce themselves, they will then
tp: battleobably fightmay
to desperation, and the locality Of b
deserve the name of Aceldama.

In the West the Federals appear to be entirely
triumphant. BEAUREGARD'S army seems to be
melting
away, probably from want of the means
of
support. They have stripped the country, for
HALLECK finds the women and children of all
classes perishing for want of food, the men having
been forced into the army. Money, be says, is use-
less, food must be sent {hem, and, to the credit of
the North, this is being done with the utmost
promptitude and generosity, A great number of
prisoners have been taken who at first wished to
be exchanged, but, on second thoughts, have pre•
ferred to take the oath of allegiance to the Federal
Government. Perhaps they find they have better
commons for carrying a Federal musket. BEAURE-
GARD'S loses by casualties, prisoners taken,
and desertions are estimated at from 20,000 to
30,000. Some of the last arc men of Tennessee and
Kentucky, who were being taken south between
more trusted regiments. •

The naval victory on the Mississippi was com-
plete, and was followed by the surrender of the
river capital, and Port of Tennessee, Memphis. But
one of the Confederate gunboats got away, and she
was being por;ued. We are not told how many
vessels the Federals had, but we know from a pre-
vious account that they Were in a superior condi-
tion. The rebels had eight. On this occasion we
had a little illustration of naval fighting with
"Rams." The commander of the "Rata Fleet"
gives us a description of his work. Republicans as

the North are, they seem 'to think royalty and

prowess go together, for one of these steam rams

is named the Queen, another the Monarch. The
Queen struck a Confederate boat, and stuck to
it some little time, but on drawing out its iron
beak the Confederate began to sink. But the
Confederates played the same game, and the Queen
herself was struck and disabled, though not fatally.
The Monarch then went to work, and sunk the

boat that struck the Queen. Another boat strikes
the Monarch, but the Monarch heeds it not ; on
the contrary, her Majesty dashes into and
beats in the sides of the Beauregard, who
also gets a shot into her boiler from
another gunboat. Meantime the Monarch dashes
at the Little Rebel, but not having enough head-
way, pushed the smaller ship before her, the com-
modore and crew escaping—how is not said—in
boats, probably. Then the Monarch seeing the
Beauregard sinking, and desirous to save a trophy,
turns round and tows her into shoal water to cradle
herself there. Our Admiralty will surely endea-
vour to get full particulars of this renovation of the
battles of antiquity—battles fought with brazen
beaks and banks of oars—and now on the Missis-
sippi with beaks of iron and steam for the motive
power. Assuredly, it will not do to build our gun-
boats and larger ships too fast.
Memphis surrendered in better style than New
Orleans. There does not seem to have been much
cotton burnt, or much if any waste of propeztY
and with a little mob resistance, the Federal flare
was hoisted on the public buildings. The Union-
ist sentiment was, however, not to be
found. The Mississippi may be said to be quite
open, for Vicksburg can oppose no resistance to
the combined fleets. But the North has
still three important seaports to take,
Mobile, on the Gulf of Mexico, has had a squadron
beleaguering it some time, but is not yet captured
nor do we hear that Fort Morgan, which guards
the channel has been taken. Savannah, in Georgia,
has been left unmolested, even since the fall of Fort
Pulaski, its only important defence, but against
Charleston a serious move has been made. The
Federals have taken possession of islands which
command the place, and they will be sure to make
an example of the Traitor City, the prime mover in
the Rebellion, and the first to fire on the Federal
flag and trail it in the dust. The cry in the North
is that Charleston must be made like Sodom and
Gomorrah !
On the whole, the Federal arms seem to be again
everywhere triumphant. BEAUREGARD'S army is
dispersing; FREMONT is in hot—too hot—pursuit
of JACKSON ; M'CLELLAN is in his position before
Richmond, largely reinforced; and waiting only the
falling of the waters ; and it hardly seems probable
that the Confederates, who failed to crush a part of
his army first, can now crush or resist the
whole. To all appearance a battle substantially
decisive of the great military campaign must be
heard of in a few days. The only alternative sug-
gested is, that the remains of all the Southern
armies should make their way to Texas. This,
however, would be useless. The North would
never let them rest there ; and woe to the French
EMPEROR if he should venture to acknowledge the
South, receiving in return its acquiescence in a
French protectorate of Mexico.

The Cotton Famine increases. In Blackburn
alone the number of unemployed now exceeds ten
thousand. Of these 1,000 are receiving, certainly,
irregular employment just for the time being, at
the rate of a shilling a-day from the local board of
guardians. Enough, and probably (in:remembrance
of their families) but little more than enough, to
keep body and soul together. While a solitary
thousand out of the ten thousand and upwards
thrown out of regular employment by the compul-
sory closing of the factories in Blackburn and its
immediate neighbourhood, are thus humanely kept
alive by the care of the guardians of the parish—
not less than 9,500, it is calculated, are there abso-
lutely without any occupation whatever. It will be
uuderstood,then, through this single instance of the
town of Blackburn, how lamentably true was that
remark made the other evening in the House of
Commons by the hon. member for Stockport, to the
effect that the cotton famine meant in realty a
dearth of food—destitution—starvation. And the
deplorable results of this lack of the raw material
of cotton go on increasing and multiplying. As
the summer advances, and the terrible winter sea-
son comes more distinctly within our ken, at but a
very little distance from us, there in perspective—
the miserable plight of the poor factory operatives
at Blackburn—(fixing our regard for awhile upon
the state of things just now visible at Blackburn
simply as a case in poin!)—the utterly forlorn con-
dition of those poor factory operatives at Blackburn
appears every day to become more and more
piteous, and more and more threatening.
To show how seriously beyond the average is
the general amount of destitution now Billet-
ing that particular locality, it will be enough to
bear in mind for a moment the afflicting contrast
brought to view, upon a comparison of the returns
laid before the guardians by the relieving officers
of the parish, in the single week but jusj past, and
those which were in the same way presented to the
guardians for the corresponding week in the last
twelvemonth. The week particularized was no
other in point of fact than the one ending on last
Saturday. During that week more than eleven
thousand (11,193) persons had been relieved. A
cost being thereby imposed upon the parish of
£660 2s. 4d. Whereas in the corresponding week
last year the exact number relieved was set down
at 2,432 persons—this comparatively moderate ex-
tent of parochial relief necessitating an outlay of
of £132 9s. 4d. It is particularly lamentable to
learn, as we do, that out of the eleven thousand
and odd who a week ago received aid in kind
from the parish authorities at Blackburn, over
four thousand of these (4,064) are described
in the returns as " ablebodied." Altogether the re-
, oipients cf parochial relief down at Blackburn are
known to have already increased since last year at
the rate of more than 600 per cent,—the advance
in the mole way in the number of those seeking and
obtaining
relief this year and last year in the con-
tiguous districts of Darwin and Oswaldtwistle,
showing-an increase at a rate of little more than
100 per cent. „ .
haul a single year, remember!
at that on© district of Blackburn an increase in
the amount of the local destitution of considerably
being witnessed down in the manufac-
turing6oo per cent.!
overthat one particular,
from that one isolated illustration of the state of
imagined how
it
may
alarmingbethe consequences
tilifgs
dniossvtricts,
of the cotton famine have become. Besides all that
very serious, how very
has been here mentioned in regard to the actual
state .of things at this moment down at Blackburn,
there is a supplementary intimation yet to be made
to the
effect that nearly two hundred (190) more
inmates than there were last year aro -now
housed in the Blackburn Workhouse. All this
while, apart from the energetic efforts made to re-
lieve the prevailing distress in that locality by the
parish guardians, the Relief Committee is hard at
work, and that unceasingly, in the same generous
endeavour. The members of that benevolent Re-
lief Committee having within the self-same week,