The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1865.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-GREAT TRIENNIAL
HANDEL FESTIVAL.
MESSIAH, Monday, Tune 26, 1865.
SELECTION, We inesday, June 29, 1865.
ISRAEL, Friday, June 30, 1865.

The Programme of arrangements, with the price of Tickets,
and the block plan of eitalis, is ready for issue, and may be
had on written or personal applict, ion, Irons and after Mon-
day next, the Bth of March, at the Festival Tick t Offices,
Crystal Palace, and Exeter Hall. It ;nay also be had at the
principal Pius is Werehousea in London gild in the Provinces ;
and besides numerous other places abroad, at the offices of
the Fouth- E s ern, and Lonaon, Chatham, aryl Dover ItaP-
way Companies, at Paris, Brussels, Cologne, Calais, Boulogne,
Ostend, (her t, Antwerp, &c.
The two Ticket Offices as above will be open from 10 a.m.
on Monday Marchl3, for the issue of vouchers securing seat
according to the numbered plans which will then be open to
inspee ion. written applications, containing remittances,
and arriving at either of the Ticket Offices on or tel the
first t cst on the 13th, will be attended to alternately with
personal applcations.
By order.

Cryst3.l Palace and Exeter Hall, March 3, 1865.
NOTE.—Persons preferring seats in any particular block
are rcco4imended to apply for them as early as I ossible alter
the opening of the Subscription Books on the 13th of March.
Even the Crystal Palace, with its vast space, has limits of
so emmodati n which cannot be exceeded ; and the demand
at each of the three previous Festivals for seats in particular
blocks having been greatly in excess of any possible supply,
the necessity for the foregoing intimation must be apparent.

MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr.
JOHN PARRY; in THE RIVAL COMPOSERS. in
which the Sisters Pry will appear, with THE BARD and
HIS BIRTHDAY; and to cone ude with MRS. ROSELEAF
AT Tit 11 SEA- S I DE. By Mr. John Parry. Every Evening
(except Saturday) at Eight; Saturday Afternoon, at Three.
- -R0 YAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRA LION, 11, Regent-
street. Unreserved seats, Is., 28. ; stalls, Is. ; stall spring
chairs, ss.

OPERA DI CAMERA, the SOLDIER'S LEGACY, by
Mactarren, and TOO MANY COOKS, by Offenbach. Every
TUEz.DAY and T EIURSDAY, at Three.

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HE 0 X FORD,
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury 1141 Company (limited.

ORPHEE AUX ENFERS (Offisnbach's brilliant Opera
Comique), is achieving an unprecedented success. Vide, the
Song "King of &coils ;" • The Hymn to Bacchus ;" and
the spirited "Hilliho " Chorus, by 14::urydice, Diana, Cupid,
and .horns; the side-splitting "Couplets," by Minerva,
Diana, Venus, Cupid, Pluto, and Chorus ; at d fidal Minu,t
and Galop. Principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz-
henry, Barrie, Tyrrell, and Walmsley; Messrs. Greene and
Lasceiles.

Comedy, by Mr. George Hodson (the celebrated Comedian
and Mimic), W. Randall, Little Bob, Miss Kate Balfe. and
Les Nois Ferret; Cavalini.

Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

Every Evening at Half-past S, ven. Admission—a:ea, 6d.;
stalls and balcony, ls.; private boxes, 10s. 6d.

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the most extraordinary Entertainment in Lotdoa (inclulng
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The usual Operatic Sele^tions by Hisses Russell, Barrie,
Hays, Godden, ac.; Messrs. Lalcelles, Harland, Eeaumont,
Kimberley, &c.
Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Extra Comedy by Mr. and Mrs. Randal', Mr. Hilton,
Stacey, Woodman, Little Bob, George Hodson, &c.
Admission—area, ed.; stalls and balcony, le.

ROYAL CAMBRIDGE MUSIC HALL,
Commercial-street, Shoreditch.
(Close to the Great Eastern Terminus%
Sole Proprietor, Mr. G. W. NUGENT.
Operatic Sele.tion, SONNAMBULA. Prima Donna, Miss
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GRAND CASINO. CONCERT. First time in England,
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Dance Untie.
Conductor, M. LUIGI CURTI.
Admission, OnC
Manager, M. GRENET.

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THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to thn 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
'han 455 poor. friendless, young females were rejected tront
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few
of the most recent cases:
F. V., aged 16, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
M. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., axed 15, fallen, mother dead,
A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents,
M. H.. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. H., aged 17, fasten, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents lead,
S. B. aged 17, fallen, both par nts dead.
M. A. W. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead.
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
• oung girls, almost children, from the age of s to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen •street, Cheapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and Co.. Lon.bard-street.

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R.N. I Thomas Baring, Esq., MP.

TREAStiRERS.
R. (.1. L. Bevan, Esq. Robert Hanbury, Esq.
This Institution is designed to supply a great national
want, viz., an asylum for the orphan daughters of sailors in
the Royal Navy and Merchants service and of Marines.
It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic
service, and provides a home free of exoense for former
inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the
temptations they might otherwise be exposed to.
Tne Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU-
TIONS to meet the Im:remit g applications through the
recent storms and loss cf lite at sea, and to enable them
eventually to obtain premises more commensurate vr,th the
necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000
sa,lors annually by casualties alone, without including those
who may perish by war.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the bankers, Messrs.
Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre-
tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill.
R. SWEETING, Hon. Sec.
CHARLES NASH, Sec.

BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—IIOMO33pathie practitioner;
and tho medical profession generally, rcemmend coca;
as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doc-
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there were to be obt fined no preparations of cocoa either at.
tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut
was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully
manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Ep ps, of London,
Homoeopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1819 to turn
his attention to this subject, and at length succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first
to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined
by the perfect ttituratoa it receives in the process it passes
thro gh, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo-
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Adulteratio a s," says —" Cocoa contains a great variety of im-
portant nutritive principles—every ingredicat necessary to
the growth and sustenance of the body." Again; "As a
nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee
or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a
breakfast cup, filled up with bolting water or milk. Secured
in tin-lined ilb., Ob., and 11b. labelled packets, and Bold by
141 groom confectioner's, and chemists,—Dinmj

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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TIMES.—At the dose of the fourth year of the
war the Federals have gained a victory which will
recompense them for many labours and encourage
them to pursue with renewed vigour, the conquest
of the South. Charleston, the cradle of the rebel-
lion, the focus of secession, the real metropolis of
the Confederacy, has at last succumbed to the
Federal arms, and is in the possession of a Northern
army. This event seems not to have been unexpected
even at the South. The tone of the Richmond
journals indicated that some such catastrophe was
at hand. 'There was an exhortation to resistance
which seemed to be inspired rather by apprehension
than confidence. The South thought, perhaps, that
Charleston might be saved by a rising of the people
of South Carolina. The event has shown that this
judgment was ineorrect, and the chief city of the
rebellion has fallen as easily as New Orleans or
Savannah. On the 13th of February the Federal
army had arrived at Orangeburg, and the Confede-
rate forces fell back in the direction of Columbia,
the capital of the State. The Federal forces pursued
and in a very short time had succeeded in occupying
this important though not extensive town. Of the
actual evacuation of Charleston which followed we
have but meagre details. It appears that the sur-
render had been expected by the Confederates, and
that the more opulent inhabitants of the place had
taken away their families and their goods and left
the city ready for burning. On the night of the
17th of February the place was abandoned, and the
Federals entered without resistance, two hundred
pieces of artillery falling into their power. Part of
the Federal troops crossed from James Island in
boats and took possession of the city without find-
ing any opponents, but the upper part of the city
had been fired, and >nearly 6,000 bales of cotton
appear to have been destroyed. The influence of
this victory can hardly be exaggerated. Although
the Federals may not gain many military advantages
by it, although the blockade may not be more effec-
tive now that they possess the town than when they
controlled the entrance to the harbour, yet the moral
effect of the capture of this celebrated city cannot but
be most powerful on the conduct of the war. Not
only during the four years of the war, but during
the long political struggle which preceded it, the
people of the North have constantly looked upon
Charleston as the metropolis of separatist opinions.
It is against Charleston that the most fervent
apostles of abolition have inveighed, that the most
eloquent preachers of negro rights have harrangued.
At last the fortune of war has placed the
hated city in their power. This third-rate town
—for such it would be considered either in England
or America—has been identified with the opinions
of a powerful political class in the old time, and of
late years with the success of an anti-national insur-
rection. It. is natural to suppose that when the
news reached the Northern cities that Charleston
had surrendered without striking a blow they thought
that the crowning victory had been granted to their
arms. The breaking of the blockade is at an end
as far as regards the chief port of the Confederacy,
and the assurance which was obtained by gaining
the command of the harbour is made doubly sure
by the capture of the city itself. After having cap-
tured New Orleans, Savannah, and Wilmington,
the Federals could not have gained a more accep-
table prize than the city of Charleston, the taking
of which rules their supremacy at sea, and imprisons
the Confederates in their own territory to carry on the
war from the resourceswhich nature has given thein.
It is not so much, however, the actual loss to the
Confederates by the capture of Charleston which is
of importance as the proof which the event gives
that the population of the south-eastern States are
no longer able to oppose the march of the Federal
armies. The advance from Savannah to Charleston
seems to have been as easy as the march from
Atlanta to Savannah. The Federals have now
several armies in the field, large in numbers, well
disciplined, accustomed to war, well supplied with
all the necessaries of a campaign, and to oppose
these the Confederates have only the obstinate
courage of their population, who seem resolved to
bear every extremity rather than return to their
allegiance to the old Republic. How, then, shall
they continue the struggle ? That they are deter-
mined to continue it can hardly be doubted. The
meeting the other day between President Lincoln
and Mr. Seward on the one side and some Confe-
derate delegates on the other has had no other result
than to make the people of the Southern States
more resolute in their policy. What, then, is to
be the new plan of defence ? We are told that the
Confederates are ready to abandon the seacoast
towns and trust their destinies to the defences of the
interior. Undoubtedly this is now their best, and
indeed their only policy. But whether they will be
able to arrest the progress of the Northern armies
by these means is very doubtful. The Federals by
improving their means of transport, by gaining a
knowledge of the country, and by being able to
make their way unmolested by the diminished
bands of the Confederates, have now the power of
penetrating every part of the Southern States. That
they will go anywhere, and during their march
really hold the country in subjection, we must
expect during the remainder of the war. The
trust of the Confederates, probably, is that this
occupation, like that of the British during the revo-
lutionary war, will lead to nothing. They think that
the-extent of their country is. too great for it to be
conquered and held. This confidence has been strik-
ingly manifested, at Richmond and at other places
in the Confederacy, in the meeting which have taken
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people to maintain the struggle they have so boldly
challenged and so steadfastly carried on. They are
hard pressed, but they show as yet no sign of waver-
ing, and we must expect new campaigns in the in-
terior before the decisive battle of this war is won.
But the contest will now be waged under different
conditions. Although the help given by European
nations in spite of the blockade may have been ex-
aggerated, yet the cessation of supplies from the
outer world which must be the consequence of the
operations at Charleston and Wilmington will have
an effect on the tactics of the Confederates. Hence-
forth there is a war to be waged between a people
possessing the uncontrolled command of the sea and
another which,though debarred from all intercourse
with the world or the possibility of efficient help,
yet retains a considerable territory, and will doubt-
less continue to show in defending it the obstinacy
which has been witnessed during the last four years.

lIERALD.—This is the Fourth Day of March, in the
year 1865. It is a great anniversary for America. It
is pencil-marked in the Book of her Constitution.
Forty-eight hours hence a Senator will move, at
Washington, that the United States, in gratitude
for their prosperity and reputation do constitution-
ally acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.
Whom, however, do. they obey this morning ? Once
more Abraham kincoln, who dispenses with all
thought of a conscience or a future, trafficing in
blood upon butcherly battle-fields, and crowning
himself King of the New World of Golgotha. The
fourth day of March is
it doubly significant in the
American annals. It brings the hour of the Presi-
dent's triumph ;was the day when, nearly two
centuries ago, multit▪
udes of red Indians assembled
near the site of the present city of Philadelphia,
moving through the woods in vast and dusky masses
to ratify a treaty wi▪ th William Penn. There, with-
out banner, or mace, or guard, or chariot, the Quaker
conciliated the Sachems; and well might the Sachems
marvel could they witness the horrors which blacken
around the heads of their successors in the American
land. Their own barbarism is eclipsed ; the civili-
sation which was to supplant it is already extinct ;
the people talk vainly of God, and destroy His
works without reason, compunction, or remorse.
They propose to recognise a Supreme Being ! And
they deluge the soil with blood. Never was Chaos
more profound. It is a huge wandering tumult from
the shores of one ocean to the brink of another. It
is a savage and shocking degeneracy of the human
race. The world has witnessed spectacles equally
startling ; but where ? Nowhere, except in China,
Hindostan, Egypt, and Tartary. Yet, this is a
people which offers to legalise a belief -in the Deity !
There is a terrible sarcasm in the measure just
" tabled" at Washington; and there is, moreover,
a fearful rebuke to Yankee despotism in the anni-
versary of the fourth of March. Whether conclud-
ing a treaty or celebrating a constitution, how would
the generations of America—the generations which
fought through bitter wars, and founded an edifice
of liberty which became a ruin before it reached its
proper height—have felt could they have anticipated
the circumstances and omens of this day ? Would
they have remembered William Penn and the Red-
skins, the will of George Washington, or the Pre-
sidency, grotenned And brutalised by Abraham Lin-

coin ? Would they reflect upon the exaggerated
eloquence of their statesmen, who one after another,
have exulted in glorifying in their ears " the death-
less unity of a people" whose unity exists no longer?
When Humboldt wrote his chapter on Cosmical
Space, and suggested that America from a social
point of view might some day be seen as an
enormous wilderness " full of fighting atoms," he
jestingly predicted a grim and fatal truth. All
the genuine progress of the Republic has been
checked ; she may appear to flourish, butis
morally and materially, in her Northern territories,
decaying in numbers, in commerce, in credit, m
manufactures, and in money. The North boasted
once that a thousand children of Europe came daily
to its bosom, ministering to its opulence and power.
When they land now, as they do from Germany
and Ireland, to what destiny are they consigned if
not to that of the wretched recruits whom a callous
general ordered to the front merely "to absorb the
enemy's fire?" And yet America is expected to be
jubilant upon this fourth, and memorable, and glo-
rious day of March ! Some while ago a traveller
wrote, with reference to America, to the effect that
a book might be written upon it every six months
by the same person, visiting the same scenes, and
yet possess the charm of novelty. There are novel-
ties indeed in the New World—novelties of idea, of
manners, of indecency, of law and warfare, of jus-
tice and chivalry—of all, in fact, which makes up
the contrast between civilisation and barbarity.
Look at the Americans now, at the date of
their grand political celebration, and what do
we behold ? Not even the solemnity of a civil
war. Only fury, levity, and an atrocious dis-
regard of nature ; only a charlatinism which
has ceased to dazzle ; only riot, destruction, and
brutality. There is a legend extant which tells how
the First Napoleon, into a dream invented for him'
by some artistic poet, felt wounded in his heart when
he reviewed his dead legions in the Elysian fields of
Paris ; but the pang his conscience felt must have
been as nothing compared with the sting to Abraham
Lincoln, were it credible that the representative
rail-splitter ever had a conscience at all. This must
be, to the President and his countrymen, a miserable
anniversary. Happy are the Americans who dwell
far from Washington and New York, engaged in
hewing timber, in the haulage and floatage of it
down the rivers, and in tasks not stained with blood.
Happy they whose log-huts are perched among the
remote creeks, who relish an untrammelled existence
in the forest, who are lumberers and drudges of the
raw field, and whose culture is, in reality, ten thou-
sand times purer than that of the Broadway. They
may be afflicted by social animosities of their own ;
they may have their feuds and factions ; they may
remember the political preacher who ten years ago
went among them exclaiming, " You will, when
you attack the South, have a Dictator instead of a
Presdent ;" but did they ever think that the sun
would rise upon such a fourth of March ? They
had been threatened with a servile war ; they had
been told that, amid civil strife, the negroes would
battle their way to freedom and establish an
Arrican Government amid the sons of Japhet.
They had been warned of disruptions between
Oregon, California, and the United States. But
did they ever believe that an American Federacy
would go begging over the face of the earth for con-
scripts to slaughter American citizens ? To them, to
the simpler denizens of the New World, as to the
Christian and compassionate people of the old, the
bloody tidings of each resultless campaign must come,
darkened with hues of horror. Once it was said
that the life of a Redskin in America was not esti-
mated as more sacred than the life of a buffalo. But,
as if under a fearful Nemesis, the Yankees have bid
against Nature, and their lives vanish by myriads, to
the tolling of a great death-bell which for years has
not been silent. Franklin used to talk of " wise
heads and iron wills" as essential to the flourishing
of his countrymen. Where are they now, when they
are most wanted? A civil war, of horrible ferocity,
spreads itself like a deadly exhalation over the land,
and there is not a single American statesman in
office competent or willing to guide his nation out
of the disastrous abyss. America, as an American
orator ejaculated once, is " England without a
past !" This fourth day of March disposes us to ask
her politicians upon what calculations they base
their calculation of chances for the future. They can
have no pride in their present position—they can
have little hope—they have seen their constitution
wrecked, and where are they at this hour ? In a
word, what are we expecting, from day to day, from
their vast and teeming continent ? Intelligence of
war, of carnage, of misery, and social degradation,
over which a people, celebrating a disgraced anni-
very, must blush and be bitterly ashamed.