The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-15 00:00:00

txges on the part of the North. Pecuniary ex-
haustion not hindering defensive operations in the
South ; floods of paper money hiding from viow the
real pecuniary exhaustion of the North. The South
resorting, without offending its population, to con-
scription ; the North threatening conscription, in
vain, to induce its population to accept unheard-of
bounties for enlistment. Three hundred thousand
volunteers demanded by ABRAHAM LINCOLN—a
tenth of them procured; and a second demand for
three hundred thousand more to enlist till next
spring. How the Southern Government responds
to these Northern demands we are not told. How
the people respond we see in their renewed aotivity
in all the Southern and Border States which are
seats of war. There seems not to be a single symptom
of either or both parties giving up—unless it be the
backwardness of the North to enlist.
The latest news seems pretty well to account for
the backwardness. It is not easy to see where a
recruit could look, and wish to join the ranks.
M'CLELLAN offers him nothing but sickness, or
weary waiting with occasional skirmishes. Nothing
like marching to assured victory. His position,
indeed, seems rather to grow more perilous. His
opponents seem to be not only on each Fide the
James River, up which his supplies and reinforce-
ments must come, but to be threatening his fleet
itself,from the city with ironsides which his tardy
movements have allowed it to build. From what
is reported, it would not be surprising if the Con-
federates should render the James River as unman-
ageable as they made the Potomac all winter. If
so, M'CLELLAN, after defending himself, as we are
told the place enables him to do, would have no
alternative but to follow the example of his prede-
cessor in the Peninsula, Lord CORNWALLIS. we read
of M'CLELLAN'S ordering his men to prepare for ac-
tion on the 29th ; but it was not to act against
Richmond, but against the formidable STONEWALL
JACKSON ; and that because he could not learn
where this übiquitous soldier actually was, or
where he was likely to strike next.
Perhaps a recruit might like the look of things
with General POPE as well as anywhere. With
him he would be allowed to quarter himself freely
on Secessionists, and to make use of such of their
property as was necessary in war. A rather ample
limitation in the eyes of an Irish or German sol-
dier. But POPE has, so far as we can see, work
enough in holding the upper part of the Shenan-
doah Valley, and enabling the inhabitants of Wash-
ington to sleep in peace. He, too, is as much in
fear of finding JACKSON down upon him as M'CLEL-
LAN is, and another Confederate General, EwELL,
is certainly watching him so near that only mutual
fear can long delay an engagement. Through all
the rest of the Northern line of attack nothihg, or
worse than nothing, is doing. On the Atlantic,
Charleston and Savannah detain their portions of
the Federal army and navy before them, but they
to have no fear whatever of any serious attack.
Mobile appears to have been relieved, and on the
Mississippi the Confederates have regained much
of their strength since they drove Commanders
FARRAGUT and DATIS from Vicksburg. We should
not like to be exactly in BUTLER'S position at New
Orleans, since, if the gunboats should fail to pro-
tect him, between the climate and the Federalist
troops in that quarter, he would certainly be driven

:o a surrender. The Arkansas seems quits to have

infuriated the Federal naval commanders, and they
made a spirited, but unsuccessful attempt upon her
under the guns of Vicksburg. But she still lives to
run down and destroy, it may be, great numbers of
Federal transports, and pobsibly some gunboats.

As little can recruits look for much to stimulate

:he warlike ardour in their bosoms by service

in the Border States. It seems but ignoble work.
Through the greater part of them, the Federals have
quite enough to do to watch for guerillas, who may
pounce upon their pickets, or any small body of
them before they are aware of it. The truth is,
the PRESIDENT and his friends to the last reso-
lutely refuse their natural allies. They justify all
that is said of their anti-negro feeling by the advo-
cates of the South here. They will continue to
prove that, in recognising the North as the United
States, we recognises Government hostile to negroes,
hostile to their emancipation, hostile to allowing
them to fight for their own liberties and the
Union. The PRESIDENT told the Border
States that the Abolitionists pressed hard upon
him—we now have their reply, and it is "to
save the Union you must throw over the Aboli-
tionists, and give up the emancipation and confis-
cation policy," while the Governor of Kentucky
convenes his Legislature to consider the whole
"situation," and to provide for the safety of Ken-
tucky institutions. The trembling PRESIDENT re-
joins by promising once more to accept negroes
only as labourers, not as soldiers." How can
this country be justly accused by the North of
sympathising with slaveholders, when the North
itself shows a far stronger sympathy with them ?
So far as slavery is concerned we may as con-
sistently recognise the South, as we have hitherto
recognized the North.

Scarcely worth a song, or a fig, or a straw—are
nearly synonymous phrases expressive of a very
small amount of value. But JENNY LIND and the
Singing Bullfinch ought certainly to go far towards
striking out of the list, the first of those three odd
little types of worthlessness. Until very recently
that wonderful automaton the Piping Bullfinch was
bringing in at the great Exhibition from £4O to
£5O a day, or between £2OO and £3OO a week to
swell the funds now collecting for the relief of the
distressed among the manufacturers of Lancashire.
There were not wanting those among the more
humane as well as among the more curious visitors
to the Swiss Department who were willing any day
out of the six to " pay the piper" for the benefit of
the poor famishing operatives. At the rate of
Ss. a head, the hearers of the marvellously pretty
little acoustical phenomenon were always ready to
gather around it, to listen to its performances.
1 And so soon as one assembly of visitors had been
taril v
It'll't same rate of payment upon the same momen.
Ratified in this way, another was speedily collected
Ettated spot set apart for this in every way
exceptioulti
hibition. Portion of the Great International Ex-

Suddenly, 1101.,
bullfinch vas
there was a stop put to all
prohibited from singing. .
this. The bull
in aid
of the
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People offered their eZas
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ver:udfferers from the Cotton
ganeashire
FacacruurninueliantiLn
sterling addi-
tiontot
yi,,,,,undred pounds
francs. GIBBON'S Venus was still iio,: £4O or 1,000
perhein diem—g
in. the Re.
of neighbo°,lv
man Court, " the cynosure
t • still t'g
eyee
Mn.rroN's Majolica F0110)1111 plash
and
sparked and glowed with prismatic 001.0tha as
delightfully as ever under one of Captain Foviust,ti
gigantic bell glasses. The Bronze Wrestlers
still struggled for life or death upon their
pedestal in the nave. The Russian fruit, carved out
of precious stones, made some of the thirsty gazers'
mouths water to have a bite at them. The stu-
pendous steam hammers still alternately shook
the whole of the annexe (horrid Nord !) in which
they yet carry on their Cyclopian labours— and
then delicately cracked a nut without crushing the
kernel, The colossal organ with its forest of stops