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London, England, 1862-07-30 00:00:00

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federates. In the very centre and north of Ben- •
u the Confederates are alive and harrassing,
putting them in fear for the capital of the State
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itself. Kentucky is one of the most important of
the Slave States, and has been anxious to play a
double game. Its slave population is comparatively
small, and it wished to abide by the Union,
yet not to quarrel with the Confederates.
The Federals in such a State easily acquired
the upper hand, and pressed on successfully
in the spring, even to Tennessee It would almost
seem as if all these spring conquests were about to
slip from Federal hands—it is certain that the Con-
federates are reported to be making captures there
in a way which quite alarms the Federals, and will
give them warm military work during the warm
weather. They appear to have commenced to carry
out JEFFERSON DAVIS'S threat, for we actually find
them coming into Indiana, and seizing on a plane
there of the name of Newbonrg. It is true there
is a little of the Parthian character in their attacks.
Those who car tured Murfreesborough in Tennesse,
and made two regiments prisoners there, instead of
advancing to the frightened capital, Nashville, fell
back with their prisoners and booty to their old
station of Chatanooga. In Western Virginia, STONE
WALL JACKSON is described as aiming again at
Harper's Ferry, the truth is that he is more likely
to go anywhere than where report has anticipated
him. Mr. LINCOLN thinks POPE the best man to
match him ; but though POPE was active in the
West under HALLECK, we imagine he is no match
for JACKSON.

The political news from 'Washington is hardly
more favourable to the Federals than the military
news. HALLECK is expected from the west to take
the command of the Federal armies, POPE and
M'CLELLAN retaining each their respective posi-
tions in eastern and western Virginia. But, if a
speech in the Senate is to be trusted, the conse-
quences of M'CLELLAN'S mismanagement surpasses
anything with which we were too sadly familiar in
the Crimea. Mr. CHANDLER affirms that
158,000 men altogether had been sent him.
If this be true, he must indeed, as the
speaker added, have lost his men by tens
of thousands in the swamps before Rich-
mond. If these charges be facts they quite
account for what follows—the difficulty of obtain-
ing recruits. Bounties of £lO, and of £5 down and
a month's pay in advance, do not seem to render
army work palatable, when every place has the
record of its sick, killed, or wounded before it.

Congress, however, has not been idle. It has
just terminated its session, but if it could not vote
victory it could vote money, when paper can make
it. It has done so we are told to the extent of
appropriating £160,000,000; of this £112,000,000
have been for the army, and £20,000,000 for the
navy. It has also compelled the President to sign
its confiscation of rebels property bill; it would
not accept his proposed modifications, and only
conceded that it should not apply to previous acts
of rebels. Mr. LINCOLN and his Cabinet are now
left in sole command.

The Parliamentary changes that have taken
place between the present time and the close of the
last session, are many of them sufficiently remark-
able to be worthy of note here before the now
rapidly approaching date of the prorogation.

Parliament met this year, it may be remembered,
on Thursday, the 6th of February. It will be dis-
missed from its labours, according to an arrange-
ment that it is hardly probable will be modified,
within less than a week—viz , on Tuesday next,
the sth of August. The duration of the session,
therefore, is in every way according to rule. That
rule setting apart, upon the average, as nearly as
possible, one-half of each year to the varying toils
of the Legislature. So that—as it happens—the
session of 1862 is, really and truly, as nearly the
exact six months as could be; in fact, within a
single day of it. As mat.), as Eleven changes had
taken place, however, it should be observed at the
very outset of our remarks upon the fluctuations of
men end parties, between prorogation and proroga-
tion—as many as Eleven changes had already taken
place among the members of the House of Com-
mons during the lapse of last recess, before Parlia-
ment assembled on the 6th of February. One of
the Eleven new members elected within the interval
of that recess, owed his seat to the promotion of its
last occupant (Mr. MELLOR) to the judicial bench.
Another (Mr. MORRISON) to the advancement of
its last occupant (Viscount VALLETORT) to the
Upper House in succession to his father as Earl of
ViouNT EDGECUMBE. Two others among the Eleven
new members elected during the recess were
doubly noticeable in their way for, inasmuch, as
they were new members who had been chosen by
newly created constituencies. These were Mr.
LAIRD, elected for Birkenhead, and Mr.
TURNER for South Lancashire. The remaining
Seven (making up with the preceding Four the
total number of Eleven already mentioned), owed
the opportunity of their election in each instance to
the demise of the previous representative. As
member for Lincoln, Major SIBTHORP disappeared
from the public scene not very long after his well
known father the eccentric Colonel—Major SIB -
THORP being succeeded in his turn by the present
member, Mr. SEELEY. Two only of the other half
dozen deaths need be here particularised, the other
Four deceased members being in no way remark-
able. Tbose Two here alluded to we would, how-
ever, especially mention, as they relate to the
disappearance from the House of Commons of
public characters, who, each after his own fashion,
was essentially a Representative 'Man. One of
them, in fact, was no less a person than the Right
Hon. Sir JAMES GRAHAM—so long the First Lieu-
tenant, or in ether words, the Fidus Achates of the
late Sir ROBERT PEEL—Sir JAMES leaving behind
him the reputation of one of the most skilled de-
baters, and beyond all doubt of it one of the ablest
administrators, of the age. The other of these
two notable men deceased during the last
recess was a representative of a very dif-
ferent reputation, one regarded by many (that
is by
141"13' of those whom Mr. THACKERAY
would call the ". "old Tory swells"), as a sort of
luaus nature, a
Gentleman Radical, Mr THOMAS
DI COMBS, M.p. f°lt Finsbury. As his successor
in the representation
of Finsbury, stepped in—Mr.
WILLIAM COY ! As sir
was at the date of the last Pro
JAMES GRAHAM'S succes-
sor in the representation of (~. .
rhale—M.r. EDWARD
POTTER. And so modified tee_
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with the tie, Elevenro-
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tary cricket match__
grand parliamen not at, Lords,
gthaetiolino,u4s'ecCaesn ict in "
the 6th of Februaty.
but—at Commons, on
,
While there Were thus "eleven " changes in the
House of Commons before the 6th
of February there
havebeen "sixteen" since then.
altogether"twenty_
seven" changes between Prorogati°n and Proroga..
tion. Four out of the Sixteen were in consequence
of the demise of representatives—aroong em
Sir GEORGE DASIMOOD,
the member for High
Wycombe;
poor
Mr. SLANEY, the me le
ber for
Shrewsbury, who died from the rf&et,. of a lament-
able accident at the Great Exhibition building; and
that worthy and able country gentleman, whose
words were always listened to with interest 'in the
House, whenever he spoke there, as he often did,
Mr. EDWARD CAYLEY, the representative,