The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-26 00:00:00

riIHEAT RE-RON AL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee Mr. J. B. 13uckstone.
THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB.
After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (132 d time)
OUR AMERICAN COUSN. Asa 'frenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
anew S Followed bySpanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA-
BAN DISTA. Senora Perea ,Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the
Corps dc Ballet.
To conclude with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.

fleet on the Mississippi has also turned up. Eight
in number, and iron clad, it attacked six boats under
Commander FOOTE, and after an hour's action lost
two by their being blown up, and one by sinking,
and "injured" one of the Federal boats. They re-
treated, it is added, under the guns of FOOTE ;
whether this is intended to say that their courage
or iron plates enabled them to do it, or whether it
is a misprint for the " guns of the fort," that is Fort
Pillow, from which the account comes, further
accounts will show.

0 YAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
1.5.) Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
165th Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day.”
THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish.
Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund Falconer • Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston, and Miss M. Hudson.
After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetic,al, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and
Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T
HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
n Box-office open daily from 11 tills.
Commence a 7

At present the Confederates appear to have the
better army and general on the Mississippi, sur-
rounded as this, too, is, or nearly so; but the Fede•
rals speak with respect of its immense strength.
The latter, having taken New Orleans, are now
engaged in the capture of Mobile, the only other
city whence BEAUREGARD could obtain supplies—
with what success is not yet known. The ac-
counts of the cotton burnings are contradictory.
Positive as they seemed at first, they were after-
wards contradicted. Then again they were re-
peated. The truth can only be guessed at, which
we take to be that damaged cotton bales, per-
haps spoiled by use for fortifications, and some
which, it
was supposed, the Federals might seize
h
for, and which could not be re-
moved,witout pwearyeidnegstroyed; but we see no reason now
to believe that a bale was burnt which the
holders hoped they could save and turn into
meney. The account of General BUTLER'S admini-
stration of martial law at New Orleans reads very
harshly. But, doubtless, as there are two parties
in the City, stringent measures are neeessary to
keep the peace. That he should send the corpora-
tion to prison seems natural enough, after the little
specimen they gave the world of their behaviour to
those who had so clear a de facto authority over
them.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
T HIS EVENING, THE LOST LETTER : Messrs. Wid-
dicombe, Higgie ; Miss Howard and Miss Rose Leclercq.
Alter which, at a quarter to 8, THE WIFE'S SECRE C.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean ; Messrs. Everett, J. F. Cathcart,
&c. ; Miss Chapman and Miss N. Chapman.
To cenc'ude with THE TWO POLTS. Mr. Widdicomb,
Biss R. Leclercq.
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Commence at 7. No half-price.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-
soIe Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT :
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington, Stephenson Miss
L. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly,
and Mrs. H. Marston.

To be followed by THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion
Boucleault, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford, Phillips,
Stephenson, Powell, Romer ; klrs. Billifigton, Mrs. H. Mar-
ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss DenTIL

Commence at 7.

C A NTERBURY HALL AND FINE
ARTS GALLERY. _ _

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The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11.
Grand Selections from " Lucrezia Borgia," by Miss Rus-
sell, with Band and lull Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh-
mans.
Great success of UNSWORTII, in his celebrated Stump
Speech "Or any other man " the original), and EUGENE,
in his Burlesque Singing and Dancing, at Ten o'clock.
JOE. BROWN, the renowned American:Prize Jig Dancer
for a few weeks only.
Also the following Comic favourites -Mr. Randall, Mr.
Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, and Miss Caroline Parkes
in her new entertainment.
Messrs. Morton and Stanley beg to inform visitors to Lon-
don during the Exhibition that the GALLERY of PAINT-
INGS well be Open, tree. between the hours of Twelve and
Two o'clock on and after Monday.

The blockade is, by proclamation, relaxed at New
Orleans, and at Beaufort or Port Royal. Vessels
can sail from foreign ports to these ports, by ob.
taining licences from the American Consul, the
licences showing that nothing contraband of war
has been shipped on board the vessel obtaining one.
Similar precautions are required for the return home
In other respects, the blockade remains in full force.
Its effect on the cotton market will be, we apprehend,
but slight. As the chief towns of the South fall
one after another into the bands of the North, the
South must become increasingly unable, not only
to import, but also to manufacture. Its supplies of
the requisites for war itself must become less and
less every month, for, with an effectual blockade,
even if it could sell its cotton, it could get no arms
and ammunition in return. We may be quite sure
the North will not fail to reduce the South to the
last extremity of commercial distress it is in its
power to inflict. And we rather think the time is
coming when the contest will be between conquer-
ing armies and a population with a temper as un-
subdued as that of the Hungarians or Venetians.
Would that, like them, they were free from the
guilt of enslaving others, while they were demand-
ing their own independence, they would then have
our entire sympathy.

rrHE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET._
A. Every Evening.-13ENRI and PFAU on the Flying
e (last two weeks). - The unrivalled Ethiopian Come-
dians,Tn- eznumsey and Newcomb's Minstrels, and linsworth and
Eugene, in addition to a host of comic talent—Operatic Selec-
tions and the cantata of " MAY DAY" (by G. A. Macfarren)
and the " Jolly Beggars " (by G. Linley), supported by the
entire company. including Miss Busse. Mfilme. Enderssohn,
Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert.—Full Band and Chorus.
Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Ball, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, lc ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1862.

On Saturday, the forty-third anniversary of her
MAJESTY'S Birth was, in one direction, at least,
• very beautifully celebrated. Exactly upon that
The whole bearing of the naval and military forty-third anniversary of the very hour and mo.
news from America looks gloomy for the Confede-
meat when—more than a whole generation '
since—
ration. One partial success does not redeem its a quarter to four o clock on Saturday morning,
, first opened
general character at all. The telegram received on her Majesty Queen VICTORIA
Saturday—" Defeated and surrounded "—is indeed her eyes to the light in the country she
a rather Northern summary of the position of the has now been governing happily for close
South ; still, we now see the facts on which it was upon a quarter of a century—perhaps the most
based. The " defeat" was an expulsion without a remarkable of all the great bridges in a metropolis
battle; the " surrounded" was an addition to the especially remarkable for those structures, was for-
number of points from which the Federals are mally inaugurated. A more imperial monument of
marching on Richmond.
the memorable event thus celebrated could hardly
'.,' .A. 1.. r..a.-....1 --., ,17 tu--- 1--b “'''""u", have been devised. It was especially a happy
was within 22 miles of the city, at New Kent thought that suggested it. Far better than any of
Court. house, and the Confederates are supposed to
those ephemeral pomps and ceremonies usually usher-
ing in these fete days of a reigning Sovereign was
intend making their stand about four miles nearer
the city ! they are reported to have retreated that simple little incident which took place at
latterly in good order, the waggons and war when the barriers were thrown down, and the
material moving by day, the troops by night. public were allowed, for the first time, to pass freely
Even from Northern lights we learn that the to and fro upon the new bridge at Westminster.
retreat is admirably accomplished. Yet, after The only courtly adjunct of the occasion being
411 they appear to be more than ever "surrounded." the discharge of a royal salute of " twenty-five"
To the three Northern armies already converging guns—exactly the number of years already noted
on Richmond, North, East, and West, a fourth, down in the living or current annals of the reign
though at present a small one, has begun to move of VICTORIA. Surely a celebration, this, in its way,
on from the South. The veteran Wool., who from is better than all the fireworks and illuminations,
the beginning has held Fort Monroe against all by which the loyalty of the people might be, no
corners, has crossed over Hampton Roads to Fort doubt, very resplendently, but, also, it should be
Willoughby, the point opposite, with 5,000 men, remembered, in a very fleeting way manifested 1
and marched direct on Norfolk and its Navy-yard. The very locality in which the incident we are
This was on the 10th—the distance is not great, here referring to took place, moreover, did not fail
and on the eleventh, the Merrimac, after so many to enhance the dignity and appropriateness of its
changes of fate, was blown up ! We, in Europe,
character, as a permanent monument of the joyful
would have given a trifle for her as a naval curl.
anniversary it served to celebrate. The new bridge,
osity, a study for our shipbuilders, and target thus
makers, and constructors of rams. She is gone gracefully inaugurated, spanning the
noble river that bisects the capital
and with her went the docks for ever, of
her MAJESTY'S empire immediately
within the precincts of the seat of her Govern-
and the yards, and we may add the Confederate
troops in the place, who seemed in no way inclined meat ! Under the shadow of the ancient Abbey
to fight it out with the old soldier, who
that witnessed the coronation, and of the new Pa-
with a moderate force at first, was prepared to hare lace of the Legislature where the Lords and Com-
stifled the great rebellion in its birth. mons of England are assembled session after session
t
The old General, however, was not content to re- to aid the monarch in presiding constitutionally
main inactive looking at the ruins of the navy- yard over the destinies of the Anglo-Saxon race.
and the utter destruction of the Confederate fleet— It is something to be enabled, as we really are
he has pushed on to Suffolk, a town of the highest enabled, to say of the new bridge now actually cora-
military importaace. It commands two railways, pleted and opened down at Westminster, that it is
one south-west to the Carolinas, placing him in
coworthy in every particular of its topographical
the other
mmunication with General BURNSIDE— • '
, through Petersburg, plac-in him in relation with the position. While it is, beyond any question what-
nlrth-west to Richmond
other armies which ever, far and away the cheapest bridge of its size
g
yet erected in the metropolis, it is far and away
are marching on it, and requiring the Confederates
to be prepared to face him in that direction. It
also the widest, the flattest, and in very many par-
was doubtless this change of position of General
ticulars decidedly the handsomest bridge now span-
Wool. from Fort Monroe to the
ning the Thames. Hitherto the widest bridge in
command
London was of course London-bridge, the extreme
of the Suffolk and Petersburg Raabe,"
which suggested the re,presentation of
thye width of which is exactly 53ft. bin. The new bridge
at Westminster being, on the contrary, eighty feet
Confederates being "" surrounded." When We
in width
add to this, the ascent of the Richmond River,
he old bridge there! Again—while the new
—aa nearly as possible double the width of
the St. James, by the Fe'aeral gunboats, now wholly
is y
y
free from fear of any ',Southern fleet, it seems indeed bridge at Westminster is not b means the an
i
ngeat bridge erected in London (Waterloo Bridge
1,380 feet in length, and Hungerford Bridge
like being surrou'Aded. And M'CLELLAN, who b -
eing
as much as 1,636 feet in length) this new bridge at
nvake-sure commander of the CLYDE
seems to be a
school, will (
aisappoint expectation if he has not Westminster (Which i
already become master of Richmond, or will not than London Bridge, a exactly four feet shorter
soon do, it. As we have seen, the two main armies latter 994 feet in I
ge, the former being 990 and the
eagth), has a were but three or four miles distant from each than twelve feet lowe gradient no less
r than the old bridge down at
when the last accounts left.
Westminster. Yet, while all tn
The Confederate advantage we referred to is in and obvious advantages have been -nee varied, great
the West. There they have compelled General bridge is still more con secured, the new
Freicuous
POPE, whom BEAUREGARD had summoned from already reflected 4.71 the waters f
among its rivals
o the Thames, at
Mississippi work, to recross a creek over which he once by t' the
great cheapness and the superior
bad partly advanced—with heavy loss, it is said, on bear:, -
yof its construction. Its cost per square
both aides. As the account is Northern, we know
foot, it is really marvellous to bear in •
mind, is no
that POPE, Who is a good soldier, must have
dufferedf more than £4 sterling—the cost of the old bridge
but we are not required to believe. dine same of his which it has replaced having been ver
opponent, though, it is .
likely enough to be double that, or £7l6s. per square foot—the cost of
y nearly
true, for both
sides are fighting well in Hungerford Suspension Bridge, £4 16s, 63.—the
She West. 1.7.
(n'n had only part of his force cost of Waterloo Bridge, £lo—that of the Iron
across the reek th
0 Confederates advanced to cut Bridge at Southwark, £ll ss. 101—that of Lon-
it off, and their General found himself obliged to don Bridge, £ll Gs. And while such is absolutely
withdraw the partye
Which had crossed, to the pro- the comparative cheapness of the new bridge at
m
tection of the ain body, Which the Confederates scale upon which the whole struc-
Westminster, the
did not venture to cross the Creek and attack. It tare has been raised has been one so vast (as in
was an action which can have no effect on thechief effect the superior
width of it will have already
. -
operations there, but it shows how alive BEATTp innicated) that the materials used in its fabrication
---."'E
GARD is to every opportunity, and how from first to last have been set down at 4,200 tons
Welt his
of cast and 1,400 tons of wrought iron, at 30,000
men fight under him, Ihd Confederate gunboat cubic yards of concrete, 21,004 cubic yards of bricks