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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1863.

The intelligence brought by the Asia is startling
enough. The surrender of General LEE, though
confidently looked for in New York, will take many
in this country by surprise. The evacuation of
Richmond and Petersburg, though the natural pre-
cursor of this event, was not altogether conclusive
of LEE'S defeat. It agreed so well with that Gene-
ral's known opinions, also, as it happens, the
opinions of his most distinguished adversary, and
followed so quickly on the voluntary abandonment
of Savannah, Charleston, and other places, that
there was no reason to doubt that the generalissimo
of the Confederate armies would yet be able
to make a resolute stand, or to evade his pur-
All such expectations have, how-
ever, been disappointed. Influenced apparently
by the desire of obtaining better terms for the brave
men under his command, General LEE, after some
corresponding with General GRANT, agreed to a
wholesale surrender on honourable terms ; and the
great event has excited general enthusiasm through-
out the North. It is not surprising that the citizens
of Washington and New York should be excited at
this termination of the great Virginian campaign.
The army which has held their best generals in
check for so many months, which has held its
ground against superior forces during such a pro-
tracted period with unflinching courage and un-
shaken resolution, has laid down its arms,
and the first military commander of the
Confederacy has held discretion to be the
better part of valour, and has acknowledged the
hopelessness of further effort. The terms which
General GRANT offered to his redoubted adversary
were not, however, such as to compel a wholesale
acknowledgment of defeat. By their moderation
and good sense they reflect credit on the United
states commander, who represents a people by no
means famous for their magnanimity in success. He
demands no acknowledgment of the supreme autho-
rity of the Washington Cabinet nor the universal
presidency of ABRAHAM LINCOLN. He confines him-
self entirely to military matters, simply requiring that
the officers should give their individual paroles not
to take arms against the United States until
properly exchanged, and that each commander
should sign a like parole for the men under him.
The arms, artillery, and public property are, of
course, to be given up to agents appointed by
General GRANT, but the officers are to be allowed to
retain their side-arms, horses, and baggage ; and
officers and men are to be allowed to return home
unmolested so long as they respect their parole and
the laws in force where they reside. These terms
were such as General LEE could honourably
accede to, but it is noticeable that his
surrender was Purely a military one. It referred
exclusively to the force under his command, and
did not include the general
principle of Southern
Independence. Ills post is very likely to be
overlooked in the first excitement of the sur-
render, but it is worthy of consideration
nevertheless. Of course it is at once evident
that the Confederacy has received a severe, Possibly
an irremediable, shock, that its hopes of prosecuting
t'ie war with vigour are virtually at an end, and
that the suspension of hostilities may be speedily
looked for. Still this is not the same thing as the
s Thjugation or surrender of the South. Davis and
his Cabinet, the members of the Senate and
the Congress, JOHNSTON'S army, and the
population of the States are all parties con-
cerned, and these, as yet, have made no open con-
fession of their weakness. They cannot, indeed,
compete with GRANT in the open field, but they can
maintain a guerilla warfare, a passive resistance

suers.