The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-30 00:00:00

reinforcements. It is very clear that even when
the waters of the Chickahominy subside MTLELLAN
does not feel himself strong enough to attack Rich-
mond till he is largely reinforced.

The movements of General JACKSON show how
strong the Confederates are. His able exploits had
the effect of enfeebling M'CLELLAN, by depriving
him of the conjunction of M'DowELL, who, him-
self strengthened by the forces he had received from
BANKS, was to have joined him for the grand at-
tack. Instead of this he was obliged to keep where
he was to save BANKS and the city of Washington.
Worse than that, the Valley of the Shenandoah,
from which JACKSON drove BANKS, is one of the
most fertile in wheat in Virginia, and everything
looks as if the Confederates intended to make it their
granary for an autumn and winter campaign. It
were folly to prophecy the results of military move-
ments, but there is no reasonable probability of
M'CLELLAN being in a position to act with prompti-
tude at Richmond, and the North is getting soli-
citous about him.

But even should JEFFERSON DAVIS fall back
from Richmond as BEAUREGARD did from Corinth,
it would only be to go farther south and move into
the interior, where, away from Federal gunboats,
the Confederates might protract the war, as the
Federals would find it utterly impracticable to
conquer the vast interior. Indeed neither North
nor South shows the least symptom of yielding.
Each demands and easily gets reinforcements for
its vast armies, and as the last result there can be
little doubt that the South would rather put arms
into the hands of their negroes than allow the
North to do it. When the North has threatened
emancipation and arming the negroes rather than
tolerate secession, the South has always replied
that two could play at that game, and that if it
came to the question of submission to the North
or of arming the blacks, the latter would be chosen.
We have every reason to believe it would. Let
then the temper of the two great American com-
munities be considered, and the means which des-
peration Could put into the hands of the weaker
side, and we can see little or no prospect of an
early cessation of the war. The Federals will never
relax their hold of the forts and rivers, nor the
Confederates of the interior, and while this state of
things lasts cotton will never leave the Confederate
interior through ports occupied by the Federals.
Once more, therefore, we venture to sustain the
advice of those who urge on Manchester a vigorous
cotton campaign in India. It is difficult for a large
trade to get out of its routine, or for such buyers as
they have been, to believe that their money will not
attract that for which it is offered. In this case it
will not without a helping hand. Not only must
Government, especially Sir CHARLES WooD, the
chief obstacle, be watchfully pressed to do its share
of the work—that of conveyance and irrigation;
but Manchester must send her agents amongst the
Ryots. They must go with advances of money in
hand for the Ryots, who are too poor to cultivate
without it, while the native usurers would grind
them with fifty or sixty per cent. interest. Ths In-
dian Government must furnish a good law for se-
curing the advances, and they can then be made
by English capital on easy terms. The same per-
sons would be the agents for purchasing the cotton,
and seeing it propel ly cleaned, packed, and con-
veyed—and thus European superintendence and
European money may quickly do for the cotton dis-
tricts what it has already done for the tea districts
in Assam. Is it too much to expect of the queen
of manufacturing cities that she would at once take
vigorous action in a case in which her own trade is
so entirely at stake ? It is time that her manufac-
turing princes did something worthy of themselves
to rescue their trade from longer dependence on the
uncertainties of American slavery.

Mr. HORSMAN must now recognise, we should
imagine, that he has been rather too precipitate.
A like qualm must be forcing itself also through
the " second thoughts" of Lord ROBERT MONTAGU.
His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH has small
reason truly to feel himself under any very weighty
load of obligation to those champions of his privacy
in Whitehall-gardens who, by their excited inter-
position in his behalf in the House of Commons,
have already contrived rather seriously to injure
still further an originally bad and damaged cause.
Pea de zele, said TALLYRAND to the embryo diplo-
matist. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH might well
have hinted the advisability of a like discretion on
the part of those friends of his grace who have so
very recently and so very actively been "encumber-
ing" him with their help! Festina lente—is the
motto emblazoned under the device of the PLUN-
KETTS on their old heraldric escutcheon. Alas for
the interests of the Duke of BUCCLEUCH and
QUEENSBERRY in the matter of his adroitly (not to
say cunningly) renewed lease of Montagu House
—Festiva lente is by no means the favourite
axiom apparently either of Lord ROBERT
or of Mr. HORSMAN. They have in turn
not only hastened, they have positively
jumped—to a conclusion ! A. letter is addressed to
Mr. HIGGINS by the right hon. the Chairman of the
Thames Embankment Committee, himself also a
Cabinet Minister. A series of letters have appeared
recently in the columns of our chief morning con-
temporary. The Mr. HIGGINS for whom Mr.
COWPER'S private letter was intended is known
to be officially connected with the journal referred
to. Nothing more is required by Mr. HORSMAN—
a right hon. gentleman who piques himself upon
seeing through a millstone as well as—any other
man ! He sees se clearly through this millstone at
rate that he makes an attempt forthwith to hang it
about the neck of Mr. COWPER by way of summary
punishment ! Only—in the very act of doing this—
he miscalculates his own position in regard to the
millstone so egregiously (somewhat after the
manner of JACK KETCH in the well known de-
nouement of the street-tragedy of " Punch")
that his own head, instead of his intended vic-
tim's, gets impaled within it. And Mr. HORSMAN
and not Mr. COWPER—suddenly makes an abrupt
descent in public estimation accordingly. Mr.
but
cap
not only can see through the millstone,
thrust his head through it until it rests
(collar-wise) upon his own shoulders—the result
being eminently bathetic! The most ludicrous anti-
climax almost that any one of us could very well
have imagined. I

Such an elaborated and
as they were formidable series of
Charges
those directed on Friday
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member for Stroud against
Mr. nightc oblyv
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against
Ar. I-hoax/is, by implication,
(the right Mr. HIGGINS we mean), and also and in
a particular manner against the Times newspaper!
This was, recollect, at the very last Si •
tting, of the
House of Commons. Here, however, is Monday only
and now Mr. HORSMAN has been enabled to "Mark
how plain a tale can put him down !" Mr. HIG.
GlNS—[and, once for all, when we write here of
Mr. HIGGINS, we refer to the veritable Simon Pure,
and not by any means to Lord CHELMSFORD'S Mr.
HIGGINS, the all-but Master of Lunacy,]—Mr. HIG
GINS has addressed avery plain statement of facts in-
deed to our leading morning contemporary. He puts
these facts down upon paper as recently as yester-
day, and they make their appearance this morning
in the columns of our contemporary. It is impos-
sible not to see at once that they are perfectly

conclusive. Mr. HORSMAN'S accusation against Mr.
COWPER, it will be remembered, is very briefly,
but very distinctly, to the effect that the latter fur-
nished Mr. HIGGINS with the materials for making
charges, through the " leading journal," against
the members of the Thames Embankment Commit-
tee, and charges of nothing less, in truth, than
meanness and subserviency. Hear, now, what it is
that Mr. HIGGINS himself has to avouch upon the
matter in question—" Entertaining," he writes,
" as I confess I do, a very decided opinion respecting
the report of the Committee, I expressed it to Mr. COW-
PER, with whom I have the honour of being slightly
acquainted, on meeting him accidentally about a week
ago." Observe, here, at the outset, that the
opinion is Mr. HIGGINS'S opinion—an opinion ex-
pressed by him to Mr. COWPER, and not instilled
into Mr. HIGGINS'S mind by Mr. COWPER. Before
this chance conversation of about a week ago between
these two gentlemen then, and still, of course, but
very slightly acquainted with each other, Mr.
HIGGINS had already seen a resolution of the
committee, reported and commented upon ; in con-
sequence of which he remarks," I therefore inquired
of Mr. COWPER whether the report of the commit-
tee and the evidence taken before it had been
published. He told me that they had not yet re-
ported, but that as soon as they did report he
would send me a copy of the evidence. I saw and
heard no more of Mr. COWPER or the evidence in
question till Saturday morning, when I read the
debate of Friday night with astonishment, as
I had never obtained any " materials" of any
kind from Mr. COWPER, nor had I ever had the
honour of writing to or receiving a letter from him
on any subject whatever. Mr. HORSMAN must,
therefore, see that if, as he appears to suppose, I
have done anything towards poisoning the public
mind on the subject of the Thames Embankment
Committee, it would be highly unjust to cast the
blame of what I have done on Mr. COWPER, or to
seek to make him responsible for any misdeeds of
mine, past, present, or to come." Than this, cer-
tainly, nothing by possibility could be more con-
clusive. The words above quoted in italics speak, in
effect, for themselves. They point the moral and
adorn the tale of the misdirected letter which—in
an evil hour for Mr. HORSMAN, more perhaps
than for anyone else—reached the hand of Lord
CHELMSFORD'S misguided son in-law. Mr: HORS-
man has argued from false premises. And, as a
matter of course, he has in consequence arrived at
a wholly erroneous conclusion. And assuredly,
!from the bitter animus shown by him on Friday
night in the House of commons, we cannot for one
instant find it in our heart to condole with him
upon the very distressing consequence of his own
almost spiteful precipitation. At the very moment
he himself is about to fling mud—with a capital
aim—at his antagonists, lo and behold he has him-
self floundered into a quagmire up to his very lips,
add (morally speaking) has all but disappeared

THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS ALICE.

(Front the Court Journal.)

Her Majesty's gift to the Princess Alice is a beautiful
bracelet studded with pearls and diamonds, with the like-
nesses of the Queen and the Prince Consort, set round with
pearls and diamonds ; on the top the Royal coronet, and at
the bottom the likenesses of the Princess Alice and the
Prince Louis, with their monograms. The Queen also pre.
sents the Princess with three rings, which are in accord-
ance with the prevailing fashion of gifts at great weddings,
namely, a ring of diamonds, one of emeralds, and one of
rubies. We believe the production of these chef d'ceuvres
of jeweller's work was intrusted to a great house near Hano-
ver-square.

The Prince of Wales's present to his sister on her mar-
riage is a parure, or bodice, of emeralds and diamonds, and
a tiara of the same precious stones. The Royal bridesmaids
present a tea service of silver gilt. The Prince Consort's
presents were preparea last year, oerore vecemper ; they
consisted of two bracelets, a splendid brooch, and a tiara of
diamonds and emeralds. We believe her Royal Highness
the Princess Royal will present the Princess Alice with a
handsome ebony dressingcase, ornamented, and lined
throughout with the richest silk velvet, fitted with highly
chases, engraved, and engine-turned gold-mounted articles,
the crown and cipher elaborately worked on each. It was
made by Mr. West, of St. James's-street.
Soon after the marriage the Prince and Princess will
leave Osborne for St. Clare.

The death of the Grand Duchess of Hesse has, it seems,
caused some change in the plans and arrangements of Prince
Louis and the Princess Alice; for there seems to be no
doubt now that the Prince and Princess will reside for
some time in the year, if not permanently, at Darmstadt,
where, indeed, a residence is being prepared for their recep-
tion. Their first sojourn will be, however, at Frogmore. A
considerable portion of the trousseau of Princess Alice is
already packed up for transmission to the Continent.

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The foreign Royal family to be present at the wedding
on the Ist of July will be the Crown Prince .of Prussia,
Prince and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Coburg, Duke and
Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince and Princess
Charles of Hesse, Prince Henry of Hesse, and Prince Wil-
liam and Princess Anna of Hesso.

We un•lerstand that, in consequence of the strict privacy
with which the Royal marriage ceremony will be performed
on Tuesday next, that the Princess will only be attended to
the altar by bridesmaids of the Royal Family—namely, the
Princess Alice's three sister's and the Princess Anna of
Hesse.

We hear that, in consequence of the indisposition of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York will
officiate at the marriage of the Princess Alice and Prince
Louis of Hesse.

It is expected that her Majesty will again visit Windsor
on the 21st of July for a few days previous to her departure
for Scotland. The Queen will reside at Balmoral until the
middle of September, when her Majesty intends visiting
Germany. On or about the 15th of October, her Majesty
will again take up her residence at Windsor Castle for the
winter season,. •
Tho Royal servants will be required to leave off their
mourning for two days only, the Ist and 2d of July.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were :—Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke
of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of
Newcastle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right
Hon. T. M. Gibson, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, Lord
Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Following the usage which
has long obtained on the presentation of the honorary free-
dom of the corporation of the city of London to distinguished
persons and great public benefactors, the Lord Mayor will
entertain Mr. George Peabody at a public banquet at the
Mansion •house, on the evening of Thursday, the 10th of July,
on the occasion of his receiving that mark of distinction, the
highest they can confer, at, the hands of the Common Council.
With respect to the grand entertainment to be given in
honour of the Viceroy of Egypt, at the Mansion-house, on
the evening of Saturday next, it is right to state that it is
an act of hospitality on the part of the Lord Mayor, distinct
from one which had been intended by the corporation to
the illustrious stranger. First among the foreigners of dis-
tinction visiting this c•luntry, whom the Common Council
desired to invite to the forthcoming entertainment at Guild-
hall, about the middle of July, was the Viceroy, but on his
Highness being consulted as to a day that might suit his
convenience he is understood to have intimated that as his
stay here was limited he should be obliged to forego the
intended complinient.
THE SPECIAL SERVICES AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
—Yesterday evening. many hundreds of persons who were
attracted to Westminster Abbey by the announcement that
the Bishop of Oxford would preach, failed to obtain admis-
sion, the nave, in which service was performed, having be•
come tensely packed in the course of a few minutes after the
doors were opened. Prayrrs were intoned by the Rev. Pre-
centor Haden, and the lessons read by the Dean. The
Bishop preached from the new pulpit, taking his text from
the 12th chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes, 7th verse,
" The spirit shall return unto God who gave it," In the
course of his very eloquent and impressive sermon, which
was listened to with profound attention, his Lordship paid
a touching tribute to the memory of Bishop Mackenzie and
tncoaattthilvleeelioef Earl Canning, who was buried in the Abbey only a
few days previously,
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