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afterwards a Member of Congress, Speaker of the
House of Representatives and Governor of Massa-
chusetts. At the outbreak of the civil war he was
engaged in the managenent of a Western Railway,
which position he relincuished to volunteer his ser-
vices as a soldier in support of the Union. He is a
strong anti- slavery man but, unlike Generals Fre-
mont, Hunter, and others, has never allowed his
sentiments on that quotion to interfere with his
duties as an officer.
Till late last night the city was kept in alarm by
rumours, which no one eculd trace to any authority,
that General M'Dow ell had been compelled to re-
treat—no one knew how or wherefore. This morn-
ing, however, there is certain intelligence that in-
stead of retreating he hat advanced eight miles from
Fredericksburg on the read to Richmond, to carry
out, it is to be supposed, the plan of co-operation
with M'Clellan which lel to his reinforcement at
the expense of General 3anks, and thus proluced
the paroxysm of war fever that has convulsed the
whole system. M'Cltllan makes no sign, but
everybody has such confidence in his patient saga-
city and good fortune that all delays are excused,
and he is cheerfully allowed his own time to do his
own work, untroubled by any criticism or com-
plaint. No one seems to think that any calamity can
befall him, except, perhaps, the Southern Generals
at Richmond and the whole Southern people.
It is not likely that many persons in England
remember the name or existence of Governor
Andrew of Massachusetts, though there was a time,
in the midst of the excitement that arose out of the
stupid act of Commodore Wilkes in seizing Messrs.
Mason and Slidell on board of the Trent, when his
name was known in England in connection with a
very violent and foolish speech, in which he " en-
dorsed" that illegal proceeding, and did his little
utmost to stir up discord or war between Great
Britain and the United States. The Governor has
again made his appearance before the world, and
again made himself ridiculous. In answer to the
President's demand for additional troops, addressed
to him in common with all the other Governors of
the Northern and Western States, this egregious
person took it upon himself to read Mr. Lincoln a
lecture on the ethics of the war, and virtually to
deny the right of the President to call upon Mas-
sachusetts for any more soldiers, unless he would
" sustain General Hunter" and emancipate the
negroes of the South. He said that the call upon
Massachusetts was so " sudden and unexpected,"
that " he had not the materials for an intelligent
reply," that the young men of the State " were
pre-occupied with other views," but might be got
together in " forty days," provided the Govern-
ment at Washington would send them arms and
equipments ; and that they did not want to go to
the South " unless they could fight with God and
human nature on their side"—in other words, un-
less the Southern negroes were armed and set free
to fight alongside .of them. From all this it
was abundantly clear that Mr. Andrew is one of
those who only care for the restoration of the
American Union if it can be restored after his own
fashion ; that he either does not understand that
to make the war an abolition war would certainly
prolong it for the 20 years during which President
Davis declares he can Wage it inspite of defeat and
discouragement, or that he considers the emancipa-
tion of the negroes in the South and the ruin of the
Southern planters to be results worth the unspeak-
able miseries that such a war would entail, and not
the least of them the loss of the liberties of white
men, both of the North and the South ; and that,
in short, he is as much of a Secessionist as Mr.
Jefferson Davis himself, though he bases his argu-
ments on an opposite theory. The Boston papers
have been warmly repudiating all participation in
the Governor's opinions, and declare his statements
to be a libel upon the people of their State. But
the Qovernor, it appears, had some bowels of com-
passion after all. It was only in the day of pros-
perity that he thought he could snub his superior,
and at the first reverse to the national arms he
hastened to show himself merciful, and to let the
question of emancipation drop for awhile, or as long
as Washington was supposed to be in danger.
On Sunday evening, in the first flush of excitement
at learning by telegraph the defeat of General
Banks, he issued a second proclamation, without a
word on the slavery question or any of the irritating
topics which he touched upon in his first, and called
upon the men of Massachusetts " to oppose with
fiery zeal and courage patriotism the progress of the
foe"—" that wily and barbarous horde of traitors
to the people, to the Government, to the couor-Generalntry,
and to liberty, who had routed j
Banks and were marching upon Washington." The
Ma
people, who were angry at the first proclamation,
found time to laugh at the magniloquence of the
second, and the young men of BOStOD, to the num-
ber of upwards of 3,000, assembled yesterday even-
ing on Boston-common, fully armed and equipped,
to take the rail for Washington, thus stultifying the
Governor's first proclamation, and teaching him—if
he have a mind to be taught—that the Abolitionists,
whom he represents, are but a small and unin-
fluential class.

guns in heavy weather. Some 70 tons of bricks
and mortar have been built into the bottom of the
ship, to prevent the lodgment and consequent stag-
nation of bilge-water. The numerous valves which
are inserted in the lower portions of the various
sectionsof the Warrior arc necessarily shorter down-
ward than the divisions; or, in other words, the
valves cannot conveniently be made to descend to
the angles in the bottom of the ship. Now, the
bilge and waste water which becomes stagnant is

that which lodges in the bottom between the sec-
tions, where it remains undisturbed, and soon be- '
comes putrid. Here it is that the masonry hes
been applied. All the leakage and waste- water will
now be raised to one common level, and also to one
common suction. Six additional Downton's pumps
have been added to clear the leakage from the
water-tight compartments, and sluice valves have
been fitted to the various bulkheads fore and aft.
By these arrangements it is expected that scarcely
a gallon of water can hereafter accumulate in any
part of the vessel, a very great desideratum in an
iron ship of such immense strength, and, conse-
quently, complicated construction, as the Warrior.
In connection with the engines and machinery, the
only work of any importance executed since her
stay at Devonport has been the fitting of two
pairs of sliding doors to the water-tight
bulkhead in the boiler-rooms ; they are put up
in a very superior manner, and answer
their purpose admirably, one man having suffi-
cient power to open or close them. The funnel
casings have undergone extensive alterations to
obtain improved ventilation in the boiler-rooms ;
these casings have been fitted according to the
designs of Mr. Trickett. During the run on Friday
a marked improvement was discernible, and the
arrangement is considered to be the most successful
yet tried. The engines and machinery are in a
most efficient state. It is expected that the Warrior
will leave Plymouth shortly for Queenstown.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. C. J. Sullivan to
the Ajax, additional, for service in the Coastguard;
W. Pitt, chief engineer, and J. P. Lloyd and G.
W. Robins, first-class assist.-engineers to the
Sanspareil.
The andernamed gentlemen were yesterday
nominated to naval cadetships:—Henry O'Neill, T,
E. M. Maxwell, Gordon Glennie, R. Blair Mac-
conochie, W. Edmund Adderley, Hans Hamilton
Brooke, T. Erskine Cochrane, Alvin Corry, Douglas
Curry, J. Durnford, Francis Anthony, Gilbert Gor-
don, C. Harvey, Herbert Kyffin Heyland, Alfred
Campbell Hallyburton Jones, Arthur H. 0. P.
Lowe, the Hon. J. Scott Napier, T. Robertson, and
C. Vernon Strange.

into line, and the battalion pressed slowly forward
giving out a fire, 'Which never checked for an in-
stant, until the word was suddenly given to fix
bayonets, and a brilliant charge, steady but swift,
was executed (accompanied by a continuous cheer)
up to the hurdles behind which the visitors stood.
The corps were then formed up in quarter distanee
column, and Col. M‘Mardo, especially addressing
the'University corps, expressed the pleasure he ex-
perienced in witnessing their performance that day.
die did not mean to tell them that theiz movements
were carried out with perfect, accuracy or steadiness,
but considering the nature of
fartsheir corps, which
was cssen t ialiy temporary to
hers were concerned, and the many calls on their
time which their position in the Universities neces-
sitated, he could not but say that much credimust have
t was
due to their officers and to the men who
paid no little attention to their drill. suggested
ded
the fact of the University corps ha-ving suggest
and carried out the review of that day as a very
important circumstance in connection with the
volunteer movement ; for these corps were Coln-
posed of gentlemen; who when they left the Univer-
sities would be spread all over the country, and
would probably carry the spirit of patriotism which
had induced them to become volunteer soldiers
during the period of their pupilage into other corps ;
and in truth the University Volunteers might be
considered in some sense as representative corps.
Ile thought they had done wisely in associating
themselves for their field day with e. corps so com-
plete, and frow the example of which they might
gain so much as the Inns of Couit. _de thanked
them for the zeal and ability which they had dis-
played, and he congratulated himself on having had
the honour of commanding them.
Two or three volleys were then fired, and about
six o'clock the proceedings of a very interesting and
very successful volunteer review concluded.

SHAM FIGHT IN es us
One of the most successful sham fights that have
yet taken place was executed yesterday in Pan-
shanger Park, Herta, the seat of Earl Cowper. The
noble earl, it seems, had offered the use of his
grounds, and had challenged Viscount Ranelagh to
meet the local corps with', any force that he could
collect in the metropolis. The invitation was given,
or at least accepted, at a very short notice, other-
wise a very large number of the London volunteers
would no doubt have gladly seized so favourable an
opportunity of exhibiting their prowess, but as it
was a very considerable body of men were brought
by 11.30 a.m. to King's-cross station—that remark-
able building whose exterior ugliness has been emu-
lated with such triumphant success by Capt. Fowke.
The railway accommodation, it must be confessed
was extremely rude. It was contrived out of a num-
ber of cattle trucks, temporarily fitted with seats ;
and when the corps first 'saw these carriages there
were slight symptoms of mutiny. Happily, how-
ever, they were soon quelled by the reflection that a
little hardship was rather desirable than otherwise,
as giving the affair a smack of real campaigning.
And in truth it could not be helped. Every avail-
able carriage accessible to the company was wanted
for the ordinary pleasure traffic of the season, and
the superintendent had really nothing better to
offer. After all, the worst inconvenience the troops
had to suffer consisted in the derisive cheers, the
cries of the flock, the cries of the herd, with which
sundry bumpkins down the line expressed their sense
of the joke, as it seemed to them, of treating " the
cheap defence of nations" like so much predestined
butcher's meat.
The weather at starting was capricious enough.
Early in the morning it was beautifully fine, but as
the first train load reached the little roadside station
which is appurtenant to Panshanger there was a
smart shower. It very soon cleared up, however,
and nothing could be more beautiful than the day,
save that, soon after the end of the manoeuvres,
there was another gentle hint of the extreme un-
pleasantness that might have resulted had the un-
lucky volunteers been pursued once more by their
usual malign fortune. There were not many spec-
t.tors in the earlier part of the day, but as the
afternoon wore on considerable numbers of the good
people of Hertfordshire found their way into the
park. Lord Palmerston was there on horseback
from the very first, looking younger and more active
than ever. There were also present—Lady Pal-
merston, the Countess and the Ladies Florence and
Adine Cowper, the Marchioness of Salisbury, the
Marquis Townshend, the Earl of Verulam (Lord-
Lieutenant), Lord and Lady Deere, &c. Colonel
Morris, Deputy Inspector of Volunteers, was like-
wise on the ground.
The local corps present were the Ist and 2d com-
panies Of the Ist Hertfordshire corps under the
command of Captain the Hon. F. Cowper and Cap-
tain Gripper; the 2d or Watford corm, Captain
Reginald Capel ; the 6th or Bishop Stortford corps,
Captain Houblon ; the 9th or Ware corps, Captain
Cass; the 10th or Roystock and Baldock corps,
Captain Simpson; the 10th or Cheshunt corps, Capt.
Goodliffe ; and the 12th and Hitehin corps, Lieut,
Smith. The corps from London comprised portions
of the Engineers, the Tower Hamlets corps, under
the command of Lieut.-Col. Money; the South Mid-
dlesex, Lieut.-Col. Macleod of Macleod ; the South
Middlesex, Lord Ranelagh ; the 2d ',administra-
tive battalion (Barnet, Hackney, &c.), Lieut.-Col.
Williams ; the 39th Middlesex, Capt. Crawley ;
the Volunteer Guards, Captain Bruce; the Vic-
torian Rifles, Capt. Greenhill; the St. George's
Rifles, Lieut.-Col. C. Lindsay : the 19th
Li Middlesex
(or Working Men's College Corps),
Lord Rad-
Bathurst ; the West Middlesex, ent.-Cal.
stock ; the Artists' Corps, Col. Phillips ;
Col. the
Whitehead (be-
Middlesex (St. Pancras, &c.),
since he has taken
ing his first public appearance
and the 40th Middle-
the command of the corps); There was also a de-
sex, Lieut.-Col. Somerset. eshire Mounted R
tachment from the Cambridg the command of Capt.
Ries,
50 or 60 sabres strong, under
bein too weak to
Pemberton. The local corps g
resist the imposing detachments sent down from
London, Lord Ranelagh, in the spirit of mediaeval
chivalry, made over to them the 19th Middlesex,
about
nearly equal bodies, each mustering b
the West Middlesex, the Artists', the 29th, and the
40th Middlesex. This divided the forcea intot l
, twoo

men.
Panshanger Park possesses all the natural beau-
ties which are to be desired in a country seat. It
: it is well wooded, and it boasts of hills and dales
has spacious greenswards. It has, moreover, a
lake and islands; and a laterally broad streamlet
runs through the domain—all
of which are features
which would at once suggest to the military mind
considerable capabilities
commander and the
discipline of his men in the
event of the park ever
becoming the arena of a real
conflict. Lord R 1 ane agh wisely availed himself of
them to give the corps present a valuable lesson in
the art of war. The programme may be roughly
described as an attempt on the part of the forces
under the noble lord's command to force a passage
along a footpath across the park, which was sup•
posed to represent the road to London. Lord
Cowper's army, on the other hand, represented the
army of tho invaded country, and it undertook to
arrest the march of the ruthless invader. Lord Cow-
per accordingly took up a position on the south or
Penshanger side of the river, and establishedstrolg
outposts about the only bridge in the nighbour•
hood. The invaders, marching as from Hertford,
commenced the attack by attempting to force a pas-
sage on the defenders' right, and after a sharp con-
flict they succeed in effecting a lodgment on an
island there. This attack, however, is a mere feint
reinforce•
to induce the patriots to withdraw
meats from their left, and an attack is then made
in force on the bridge. In the meantime the engi-
neers are preparing to throw pontoons across, ready
fur a flank march in case the assault on the bridge
should fail, or to aid in turning the defenders' left.
The attack on the bridge is at first repulsed; then

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the discomfited foeirreinfiiia4 e_ ' kik47
the assault renewed, . This time
beaten; but they 'are neither discourage*lnor s
mayed.; They retire on the London roiN, Filer°
they concentrate and prepare themselves to of
battle again; The invaders rush over the bridge
and form on the height south of the stream. The
invaders begin a terrific attack on them with the
bayonet, but they make no impression •on the ram-
part of British breasts at which they so madly
rush, and after a few moments' hand-to-hand fight-
ing they are driven back. They are then forced to
make a stand on their first position, from which
they make a new attack. This again succeeds, and
the der;ndera are compelled bit by bit to change
their front on their left, the right thrown back.
Beyond this, however-not ring is dose. The battle
may be said to have ht:t7l urged equo Marie ; the
commanders swear a peace, old the mimic warfare
chaeges into a. holiday proces7ion of the corps,
which march in order past the ienl-lictl!enant ot
the county (the Earl of Verularn), and the Whole
proceedings terminate iq re7.l attack upon sune.re•
barrels of mighty ale, whicil by the thoughtful ICi.g,,-
rality of Lord Cowper have been placed under the
greenwood tree for the refreshment of the weary
warriors.

The various evolutions in this rather intricate
programme were admirably executed by the two
commandersavi faonrdhtheirs adj
at
aatg respectiveene
ral staffs,
Capt. Lord
A, t
onh ea
inoer:
l ag
hiesAfuartermaster-general Captain Mallack: of the
Ist Middlesex Light Horse, and for his aides-de-
C!mips Major. Thorpe, of the Tower Hamlets, Capt.
Tempief, of the Ist Dorsetshire, and Sergeant
Harris, Ist :Devon Light Horse. Earl Cowper's
brigade-major W-,8 Captain Toesland, his ad-
jutant-genefal Colonel Butler, and his aides
.Major Taylor.
g
the Earl of Tankervilfd And
The men beliaved'ivith great ste.lanZy to about
ess•
lizacThe firin
had a deleruii*iion, rapidity, an d pc
it that•stae.:almost alarming, even with th,? know-
it
ledge tliai notlag more deadly was in zgid than
blank cEirtridges. The bayonet charges were also
admirably executed ; and the cavalry made seve.ral
episodical charges of a most ferocious character.
The only failure was the bridge making. The river
was so shallow that the pontoons kept getting
aground in a most embarrassing manner. Indeed,
but for the energy and fertility of resource exhi-
bited by a sergeant-major (name unknown), who in
the most reckless manner dashed into the stream
and shoved the boats into position, the bridge would
probably Dof him been constructed at all. As it was
it was only used by the engineers themselves to
cross. The marching of all the corps was creditable,
and of many it was first-rate. Not to make any
invidious distinetions, we may, perhaps, be allowed
to add that the local corps came no whit behind the
best of those from London, a circum,,stance which
raises the gratifying Presumption that the volunteer
force of the country generally is in a state of con-
siderable efficiency. -

A FLOOD IN THE FENS.

A day of disaster came—e
inightuke of pride. days of disaster,
On
which seemed like a doom reb
the morrow of St. Martin, 1236, there was a gale
which seemed as if it never world subside. one
longer it blew the higher rose the sea, till the
pp-
lation was all on the watch to see where it would
break in first. It rolled in a long way i:efore it
made a breach, and then it surged over into Wis-
beach, and on and on, till there was no escape for
many of the people, or for their cattle. Bodies of
men, women and children floated to and fro amidst
the carcases of oxen and horses, and boats were
driven hither and thither, out of reach when most
wanted. For eight days and nighi2 the gale con-
tinued; and when wind and water calmed down
the people were ruined. Great efforts were made
to repair the breaches and drain the lands; and
all seemed safe again when, in 1253, the same
misfortune happened again. The king then com-
manded that the repairs should be well executed
and it is probable that the inhabitants did as well
as anybody then knew how ; but the case of the
shifting soil, the peat, now swelling and now sink-
ing, the incalculable pressure of the water when
changes rere made, far or near, was too hard for
the knowledge and skill of the time and the people,.
For centuries there was a succession of inundations
at very unequal intervals, and invariably a new
settlement between, with fresh hopes that the CRl-
bankments were at last secure. There were strifes
also among the inhabitants when, from time to
time, some great man threw water over upon a
neighbour's laud to drain his own. The courts
decided, now for one side and now for the other
and there was a pulling down of dykes, and
obliteration of new channels and restoration of old.
ones. We have plenty, of evidence of the mischief
done, and of the wonderful energy of the people in
returning to live on lands so often drowned.In
digging, we find here the floor of a house, there
trunks of large trees; and again, a churchyard, or
a stackyard, or a bit of paved street or causeway,
or a group of boats, sunk in the silt. A mi sth's
forge has been found in one place, and a line of
tan-pits in another ; and a cart-wheel, and Flicks
of human dress, distinctive of several Yeigns'--
Once a Week.

MURDER AT BRIGHTON.

The inhabitants of Brighton were shocked on
Sunday night by a rumour that a murder had been
committed in Church-street, and which proved too
bar-
true, for the sentry on guard at the infantry
racks had shot one of his comrades dead as he
entered the gates. Both the deceased and his
assassin are young Irishmen, of about the same age,
23 years, and belong to the same troop in the 18th.
Hussars, which regiment they joined from the
The name of the former is John
Antrim Militia.
O'Dea, and of the other, John Flood. The facts
'witnessed as 'l3.
conclusive, for it is not often that the
commissaiorne
motive, it alp-
of the offence in crimes of murder is
this case, and from inquiries into the
regiment have indulged
re
each other for various
pears the men of the abovuep
in holding court martinis
course, was not known to th officers,
petty things which they may have done.
and
was This,uu only
this melancholy result of prac-
ticalbroug.ht to light by
Flood, there is 110 doubt it will put
in the regiment,
Joking) to which
has been subjected twears a
a termination.
once tried by one of owho bears a high character
and good-conduct stripe,
half," and on e annoyances, and has been
l theseled tom otackketraibu,,ndaolzs
sen-
tenced to and compelled
with another Sunday was threatened by the de-
ceasedeann dandaday used O'D trial. He had on the previous
and 's saddle, and neglected to elee.n it
afterwards,
they had a at noon on Sunday when they mt-t
few angry words about it, ending in
O'Dea telli •ng him that on Monday he would bring
him before a court-martial and charge him with
leaving the saddle dirty. Flood was one of the
guard for Sunday, but O'Dea was off duty, and they
saw no more of each other till nine o'clock on Sun-
day night, when the latter returned to barracks
with two or three others, just after the guard had
been relieved, and Flood was sentry at the gates.
It was quite dark, and as O'Dea passed
out,through;
Flood, who was talking to the others, called
"Is that you, Jack?" O'Dea
said, " Yes;" and Flood pushed
turned round and
the others a little
on one side, levelled his carbine at O'Dea,
The ball entered the centre of his chest, P
and fired.
assed out
at the back, went through the side of a ladder, and
was picked up flattened at the foot of the barrack,
wall. One of the men immediately knocked }locl
down, but it was too late, and but for the sergeant
of the guard a second murder would, in all proba.-
men were to
bility, have been committed, for the
enraged and excited that it was with the greatest
f
difficulty they wore kept rom the murderer, who
was at once taken to the guard-house. Ile there
if O'Dea was dead, and was told
asked the sergeant
that ho could live ortly a minute or two longer,
whereupon he rushed upon the sergeant anti made.
ttempt to draw his sword, but bein, u
an a b tueh the
smaller man of the two he was quiet] •
'\ put back
and handed over to the custody et• su -... ,
I,heaintendent
Bornden, of the borough police. wi
.time arrived. Ho then feigned drunkennesslo/had
bY this
that beer had been smuggled in!'o , stating
not believed, and when he was token him, but this was
station an emetic was given, to the pellet.).
:Nit.. White, asked him if he and the chief ellha r,
charged with, namely, " knew what he was
snootincr
O'Dea," for the , and killing John
minutes after he was
soor fellow died in a very few
and deliberation, sa.d shot. Flood, with calmness
only wished that' 1 he knew very well, and he
another man who, he said, had
also bantered li.
time, for he had toleild, t
hheandl
whatbeen hwithe
Nv O'Dea
0u
doat
And
had he shot them both he could have mounted the
scaffold 'with pleasure. He seemed to care nothing
for what had happened, and in less than an hour
after he was locked up he vvas sou
10 round. asleep. Every
man it appears is served with ds of ball
cartridge, which he has witk him when on guard.