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tarred during the years 1820, 1821, and 1822,
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That " Philip" has made a stride this month is
unquestionable, but we doubt if he has advanced
much in the good graces of the reader. He is now
married and has a child, but quarrels with and in-
sult his employer, who has treated him with civility
and invited him to dinner. In fact, he behaves very
much like a snob—some would use a harsher term.

" Brown, Jones, and Robinson" no longer bore us
with their struggles," and we are thankful to be
at length delivered from " Agnes of Sorrento."
The tale called "A Fit of Jealousy" is well written,
and has a good moral. "Fire-dump and its Vic-
tims" treats of that scourge of the mines. The
physiological paper is, as usual, excellent. It is
styled " The Brain and its Uses," and thus con-
cludes :

The invention of towns were a pure gain to humanity, if
due admixture of the country life can be secured. And to
obtain this advantage for our labouring populations is one
of the great tasks of our age. Our physiology teaches us
that the vice and misery of our great towns can never be
combated successfully in the strongholds which they have
made their own, and fortified for ages—the courts and alleys
where the poisonous atmosphere combines with all hateful
sights and sounds at once to deaden and to irritate the ner-
vous sensibility. From the continued breathing of a vitiated
atmosphere inevitably arises either apathy or a craving for
intoxicating drinks; in all probability, each in turn. The
dark blood, accumulating in the vessels, at first acts as an
irritant, and then reduces the organs to a state of lowered
activity ; both conditions alike exciting the taste for poison-
ous doses of alcohol. To deliver the brains of the industri-
ous poor from these oppressive demons of bad air and hate-
ful sights, were a task worthy of the highest ambition.
Nor is it foreign to our theme. For of all work for the idle,
or change for those who have been overborne by their own
pressing cares, what but a genuine interest in the pains and
aspirations of those who need our aid comes nearest to the
true "use of the brain ?"

The article called " First Beginnings" discusses the
preliminary signs of insanity. That "On Growing
Old" speaks of the compensations brought by :Id-
vancing years. In "The Inner Life of a Hospital"
we have a description of the management of one of
the great London establishments ; and Mr. Thacke-
ray, in his Roundabout Paper, " The Notch on the
Axe," treats his readers to a hit of mystification.
Moreover, in this number he resigns his post. His
farewell address appeared last week in 2he Sll2l.

Duffy's Hibernian Sixpenny Magazine.
The article in the present number which claims
the merit of utility, is that on " Canada and Ire-
land." The writer has evidently a strong feeling
against this country, is deeply impressed with the
wrongs of his own, advises his countrymen to
escape bondage by emigrating to Canada, and looks
forward with faith and hope to the time when that
colonywill be a great Irish Republic, or Empire,
we
are not sure which. The tales comprise "The
out.
quarters of St. Andrew's Priory," "The Two
Lenores," and "Pains and Penalties." There is
an essay "Norse, and tkelic Popular Talus," and
under the onhead
of " An Ugly Subject" we have a
disquisition upon ancient and modern poisons.

Illustrated Dublin Journal.

This, which seems a compromise between the old
Penny Magazine and the cheap illustrated journals
of the day, contains tales by Gerald Griffin and
Blanchard Jerrold, with numerous minor articles.
Prominent among them are descriptions and illus-
trations of Irish Ruins, and various interesting
localities.

EXTENSIVE FIRES.--Yesterday morning a fire, in
a comparatively brief space of time, laid in ruins the Crown
and Sceptre Tavern, Woolmore- street, Poplar. The adjoin-
ing house, let out in tenements, has also sustained damage
by fire, and the poor occupants were uninsured.—A fire also
took place in the premises belonging to Mr. Gentle, a grocer
and tea dealer, carrying on business in Pembrook-road,
Waltham-stow. Fortunately the building and contents
were ineured in the Imperial Fire-office.

'rem the Special Correspondent of the Tithes.)
The enemy hating retired from Manassas and
fallen back behindW
wThinenyinhgadiata;onthaey "bloodlesscould
tAheSHINGTON, MARCH 17.
obvious that the Federals could not pursue them,
in
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et hrl%l
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indignation
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victory," but if, after
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becausep a pe rs
were found in the embrasuairstesu,
y over were
the deraapwt
capture
drawing
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wooden They
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guns
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placed there to deceive any
ese
off' their forces. They are
facetious
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pedlar."Ge
n. M'Clellan
But, omitting w
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He must
allusions to this matter, let us speculate as to the
course
will now pursue.
fight, and that as speedily as he can. All his army
is falling back on Alexandria and
Washington, for
the purpose of making an attack on Richmond. It
has been discovered that Manassas does not lead to
Richmond. Those who at al) a remember what has
been written in these columns may recollect that in
1111,1q-Aupf ur
•tured to exoe
press an opinion-that Fortress Monroe
was the true base of operations against Richmond.
If Norfolk falls, the Confederates cannot hold their
capital; and if Richmond is taken, Norfolk is ren-
dered untenable. The possession of Suffolk would
endanger Norfolk and the whole line of positions,
of which it is in some sort the key- Burnside may
be feeling his way there, but nothing is now known
of his movements. He has received reinforcements,
and is probably waiting to concert movements for
his advance with the corps about to take the field
in a new direction. The strategy now proposed,
recognising the importance of a vital blow at Rich-
mond, will in all likelihood be this :—A feint will
be made on Norfolk with that ee ; ob• t JGeneral
Heintzleman, who is now embarking
his corps at
Alexandria, will land with a strong force under the
guns of Fortress Monroe, and make every appear-
ance of preparing to dash upon Norfolk on the
flank, cutting the line of railroad. This feint it is
expected will draw from Richmond a large number
of the Confederate troops. Heintzlenaan's feint will
be aided by the assembling of a larger force afloat,
with gunboats, steamers, tugs, &e., near Fortress
Monroe. When all is ready, and the enemy have
been drawn to Norfolk in sufficient numbers, Heint-
zleman, suddenly turning his face from Norfolk,
towards the North, will march straight up the
peninsula which is formed by the James River and
the York River upon Richmond, while M'Clellan,
with a corps of some 35,000 or 40,000 men, advances
on a parallel line from the side of the York River.
Some such plan will be followed, I have reason to
believe, from what I have q heard.
- -10 me it seems
open to most serious objections of various kinds;
but it has the great plea of necessity. What if the
Merrimac comes out of Norfolk and smashes the
whole flotilla in detail or in gross ? It is said that
steps have been taken to provide against that fearful
sortie. What they are no one knows except those
who have taken them. But I sincerely hope they
may be more effectual than the plan of firing shells
filled with cayenne pepper at her, which has been •
proposed to the President, in the hope of choking
and sneezing off the men at the guns ! What if the
Confederates destroy Burnside's farce, and then,
having the rail from Norfolk to Richmond, through
Suffolk and Petersburg, secure, throw themselves
upon the detached expedition which has to march
some 74 or 78 miles from Newport News to Rich-
mond, either going by Great Ilath44,
rtierrrtreti:ROTßOirraNnity-l'eoafFtireli feet and
gun-
ta.ta,-orAtsging the shore, and tn that ease en -
t•Prfig lintienge'dilTotilties from cretins. 4,,
crossed, from marshes, and from such rivers as the
Warwick and Chickahomaney ! However, no one
can foresee what may take place. As the man who
first told me that he had seen the President's own
draught of a despatch refusing to give up Mason
and Slidell, and approved it thoroughly, was a day
afterwards in raptures with Mr. Seward's surrender
of them, represents vast masses of people in the
States, so has he among soldiers his type in the
general who always disapproves what is done, and
praises that which cannot or will not be done. Be-
fore this despatch leaves Boston the wires may be
charged with the news that General M'Clellan has
ceased to command even the army of the Potomac.
The outcry of the Abolitionists is furious ; sup-
ported by the public disappointment, and by their
increasing strength, they will make a victim of a
Breckenridge pro-Slavery Democrat,, as they say
the General is, if they can. Every word /le says
or writes is canvassed and criticised. Even his
proclamation, which need not be overloaded with
eulogy, offends them, because he appears in it to de-
plore the war. " Sad ; not a bit of it—great and
glorious war !" The most absurd intentions are
attributed to him. It is whispered that he designs
to make himself Dictator. With this end in view
he has surrounded himself with foreign princes and
nobles that he may be the nucleus of a Court. He
cannot send a small cavalry escort across the river
with his wife's carriage without provoking cen-
sure and jealousy. Much of this feeling has been
caused by the odious adulation and nauseous flat-
tery of those who sought to gain his favour call-
ing him ridiculous names, and comparing him to
"young Napoleon" and " old Fritz," to " Julius
Caesar," " Alexander," and even " Hercules." Ge-
neral M'Clellan appears to me to be really a mo-
dest man, one to whom such slaver must be loath-
some in the last degree. Whatever his political
principles may be, he is not likely to aim at any
place higher than that he has lost—the command of
the United States army, for his ambition is that of
a soldier. It is positively asserted in a Washington
paper that he will be deposed, and that General
Sumner will succeed him. General Banks has been
summoned here from Western Virginia. All is
commotion in the political and military world. It
is known toe wall that Mr. Secretary Stanton has
formed au unfavourable opinion of General M'Clel-
lan, and does not hesitate to pronounce him a failure.
A witty Minister here said some time ago " The
Americans have two generals—one is physically
dead ; the other is not yet born." When reminded
of his saying lately he exclaimed " The last has been
born since, but he turns out to be an abortion." All
this is in the last degree unfair. I have received
no courtesy—scarcely indeed ordinary civility from
General M'Clellan, owing in all probability to his
dread of such censure as was directed against him
because he was reported to have taken Inc with him
in a ride through the lines of the army last August;
but in justice I must say that ho has done that which
few others I have met with in the United States
could have effected. His defect may bo that he
regards matters with a microscopic eye through a
military fleldglass. He does not consider what the
political effect of this or of that movement or delay
may be, nor does he act on comparisons of forces.
But his difficulties have been great. To sum them
up in two words, he has no military organisation ;
up to a short time ago he had no army. That which
he now commands is for certain purposes of war not
an army, even now. General M'Clellan felt that as
well as any one, but he erred perhaps in considering
that the enemy were better than himself in that
respect. Let us look into this matter a little more
closely. The excellent material of the rank and
file of the American army i 3 admitted. Recently
there has been a marked improvement in their look
on parade and in their brigade field•days. Dressed
in line, or moving in field evolutions, ono was
forced to admire their steadiness, their fine appear-
ance, and the change in discipline and aid which had
apparently been effected in so short a time But
still, from what I saw yesterday, I am led to think
that for certain purposes of war this enormous force
is not an army, properly so called. It has no co-
hesion, no internal organisation, no Generals—there

Junction, and they were also met at Rappahannock,
where the railroad crosses the north fork of the
river of that name. While the cavalry were en-
gaged in making these reconnoissances, in which
they encountered great impediments from the nature
of the country, and had a slight skirmish with the
enemy, the infantry and guns were falling back on
their old positions, or moving back to Alexandria.
Under ordinary circumstances it would be consi-
dered discreditable to any officer in Europe to have
allowed his enemy to retire under such circum-
stances ; but when one remembers the want of ex-
perience of those in the Quartermaster-General's
department, who should have made themselves
acquainted with the enemy's position and move-
ments, the fact will appear less inexcusable. In-
deed, the Quartermaster-General's department is
not charged with this duty in the United States'
army, and if it be not discharged by the topographi-
cal engineers or the Generals it is left to itself.
How many abortive attempts were made could
not be counted on both hands. The utter want of
dash on the part of the cavalry, and, indeed, gene-
rally, has been noticed on both sides. It proceeds
from want of confidence in their leaders on the part
of the volunteers. The regular cavalry were trea-
sured up like gold. They were too valuable to be
risked in reconnoitring in brushwood, and so it
Was LUIIL uu it-usw, •ao rat- Lib WV tau -
ever gained of the force of the enemy or of their
movements till they had all taken flight bag and
baggage, and left even their upper batteries on the
Potomac under the very eyes of the troops on the
other side, and of the gunboats on the river, before
they were aware of it. The same want of enter-
prise on the part of the South forbids the expecta-
tion of brilliant, sudden, and dashing movements
on their part ; otherwise, what could prevent their
falling upon Banks as soon as the mass of the Fede-
rals had moved off from Washington, overwhelming
him, and then coming right down on the capital
from the Maryland side, and checkmating the move
against Richmond ? Nothing to be sure, but defi-
ciency of means and skill, perhaps of men. The
secret and open dissatisfaction with M'Clellan,
based on his inaction, has found a means of ex-
pressing itself. It was rumoured that he had only
been forced to march by the orders of the President,
who had deposed him from the command of the
army as soon as he got him in the field, and who
did not acquaint him with his intentions except
through the medium of a newspaper. The Secre-
tary of War was reported to be displeased also.
Out issues into the field the sub-committee of that
terrible investigating Congressional borer which
digs into the " conduct of the war." They satisfy
themselves the enemy had few or no heavy guns,
and less than 50,000 men at any time of their stay
at Manassas. The wooden cannon distress them.
They have, it is said, drawn up a report most
damnatory of the military conduct of Gen. M'Clellan,
and the Republican organ in this city positively
announces that he will be deprived of all command.
After issuing his address to the troops General
M'Clellan came back to Washington. Next day, as
his columns were returning to their camps, there
descended such a storm of rain as only falls here
and in parts of India. All Saturday and all through
the night it beat on the drenched regiments and
turnedithe earth beneath their feet into viscuons
paste. In company with Colonel Wetherall (chief
of the Staff in Canada), who has been attracted
here by the desire of seeing the vast army which
his neighbours have put in the field, I rode over
to
phuatv ethaemlooktua, tatuhdelmmenu.st Ista
N,eretest
yesterday
to
ywatshaat,seif-
magnificent in material," as Gen. M'Clellan says,
they are not so " admirable in discipline ;" that, if
" excellently armed," they are not so well equipped.
On approaching Alexandria, through very hard bits
of causeway here and there cut into pools filled with
mud, soldiers, armed and unarmed, were sauntering
along the roads or making their way with painful
efforts to join their regiments. The streets were
full of them also. Mud, of course, was to be ex-
pected, and where it once caught, there it lay. A
field battery, which had just returned, was posted
round a church, the horses yet uncleaned, the guns
covered with mud.

The wharves and quays of Alexandria were full
of life; hundreds of waggons passing to and fro
with warlike stores to the river side, where a fleet
of steamers is lying to receive them, and the army
corps, which is embarking there. The men did not
seem in good spirits; indeed, some had indulged
in very bad ones, though it is just to admit that
there were not more than a dozen cases of " drunk
and incapable " to be seen by the roadside. Turn-
ing towards the Seminary, which stands very
much in relation to Alexandria as the Observatory
to Greenwich, though the intervening plane space
is far wider in the former, every hill, every
hollow, all the slopes and wood sides were covered
with camps and bivouacs, artillery and infantry
and commissariat carts all mingled togethr2r, while
enormous trains of white tilted waggons crept up
and down the mud tracks, and disappeared over the
hill tops among the trees, or were lost in the streets
of the city. Along all the roads, all over the coun-
try, were soldiers in blue gray overcoats, bedraggled
trousers, toddling or stumbling or splashing along
in single files or in groups ; no officers' staff or re-
gimental brigade, divisional or officious, to give auy
one orders, or to get anything into shape. Turning
into a field where were four batteries of artillery,
we had symptoms of want of uniform system,
though not of efficiency. The horses were light, in-

of soldiers ;" that in defence or in line it is not to be
despised by any troops; that it is unmanageable

and ill organised; that in matters of detail, such as
the service of small ammunition in the field—de-

tails of vital importance—it is miserably deficient;
but that with service and experience the Americans
have all the means of becoming a most formidable

military Power.

THE PRESTON ELECTION.

As this election approaches the agitation of local
politicians increases. The walls of the town are
completely covered with squibs
eus andencniottnaa
srpt
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avra
nvec
iaaos
trnifi dv
—se.
agricul-
tural sa Thethd
religiousOn
ecnsrcetrehi dbe e oodf t
haMse
rr
a.
hi Melly—unitarianism—is
hand,
le,
object of great attack on the part of the Comma-
districts, or of carrot and turnip growing coin-
yravaAles. Rumours of bribery are very rife, and
the impression on au blava avßeav% to be that money
will play an important part on the dap Oreie-atroff.--
On Sunday, it is reported, the Conservatives engaged •
an immense staff of men to distribute at all the
Catholic chapels in the town a small circular or
handbill, addressed "To the Catholic Electors of
Preston," and to the effect that Mr. Melly belonged
to the Liberal and revolutionary party ; that the
Liberals were the active, determined, and energetic
supporters of revolution throughout Europe ; that
they were at this moment engaged in a great war
against the Catholic Church. When the facts
were known to the priests, they protested against
the circulars, and condemned in very heavy terms
the distribution of them. The Roman Catholic Bishop
of Liverpool, who had come specially to preach that
day at St. Augustine's Catholic Church, denounced
the distribution as a gross, unfair, and mean politi-
cal trick, and totally at variance with the legitimate
rules of electioneering. On Monday night, Mr.
Melly addressed a large meeting of the electors in
the Theatre Royal, Mr. Aspinall, the Recorder of
Liverpool, was present, and likewise addressed the
assemblage.—Manchester Guardian.