The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-05 00:00:00

AMUSEMENTS.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY,
Exeter Hall. Conductor, Mr. COSTA.
To afford strangers to London at this period the opportu-
nity for witnessing the oratorio performances of this Society,
an EXTRA CONCERT willbe given TO-MORROW EVEN-
ING, August 6th, when Haydn's Oratorio, the CREATION,
will be performed.

Prindipal Vocalists :—Madame Lemmens Sherrington ;
Mr, Sims Reeves, and Signor Belletti.
The band and chorus, on the most extensive scale available
in Exeter-hall, will consist of (including 16 double basses)
700 performers.
Tickets of admission, 3s. ; reserved seats in the gallery, Is. ;
stalls, numbered, in the area, half-a-guinea, at the Society's
office, No. 6, in Exeter-hall ;or of the usual agents.
The oratorio will commence precisely at 8 o'clock.

CREATION.-EXETER HALL,
TO-MORROW EVENING.

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED ....sd.

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stated that
General Mitchell was made awareof the facts and
took no notice of them. The New fork press
passes the matter over with slight remark h
is so publicly spoken of here in every
() eie t,Y nt it
so openly canvassed by the press
of Cincinnati
and
inat.
and other cities neater the scene, that it
has be-
come quite impossible for Mr. Lincoln, as Com-
mander-in-Chief of the army, to imitate Turchin's
example, and shut his eyes to the atrocities of
his subordinates. General Mitchell himself
must demand inquiry if he would stand well with
the public either as a gentleman or a soldier ; and,
as for Turchin Find his whole company,if the charge
be true, they should be shot en masse—if such a
death be not too soldierly for brutes like them,who
deserve flagellation first and hanging afterwards as
the more befitting punishment.
Yesterday was the first anniversary of the battle
of Bull Run. What has the North gained in the
interval ? Nothing bat a series of barren victories,
and as much Southern land and water_ as is com-
manded by the range of their guns. A year ago
the Southern armies menaced Washington, and they
Menace it now. A year ago the war might have
been brought to a close by Southern audacity and
the easy capture of the Federal capital. The same
termination is as possible now as it was then—if not
more probable. Charleston, Mobile, and Savannah
all wave the Confederate flag. Richmond defies
assault. The Mississippi is closed against the great
West and its produce by the obstinate resistance
of Vicksburg, and New Orleans is Federal by the
grace of the soldiers of Butler, but Confederate, in
body, heart, and soul, and by no means safe from
a triumphant recapture. The Border States are
shaking in their allegiance, and the little Union
feeling that existed in the South before the bitter-
ness of the past year was excited has utterly dis-
appeared. The twelvemonths have done nothing
for Union, and everything for Disunion. They have
produced enormous bloodshed, enormous waste of
treasure, created an unparalleled amount of private
suffering and public debt, and widened an originally
small—and perhaps bridgeable—gulf into a yawn-
ing chasm, on each side of which stands a separate
nation, with a separate history and separate tradi-
tions, never again to be reunited. Another year—
if the unwise and cruel strife continue
so long—will
but make the division wider, unless the North con-
vert the South into a dependency like Ind- hold
govern it on
it by the same means, and
the same
principles. In this case also, there will be a
yawn-
ing gulf between the two nations, and an end of the
liberties of the American people.

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COMMERCE OF NEW YORK.

The commercial advices from New York this
week state that a feeling of despondency on the
Stock Exchange and"—among the merchants had
become general. Nevertheless, those who had
means -of ascertaining the views of the Washing-
ton politicians were of opinion that it is :dial the
determination of the Government to carry on the
war at any cost until the South shell be t‘TlitiPetd,
and the whole country again brought under one
Government. At the same time it is seen that the
South is more united than ever, and that the waver-
ing of the Border States is likely to hasten that
further breaking up M the Union which many per-
sons have looked upon as inevitable. The necessity
for a conscription was regarded as certain, and con-
siderable apprehension prevailed as to its effect on
the future fortunes of the army. The premium
on gold has thus far been caused simply by the
export demand, and may be expected to fluctuate
in accordacce with that influence, but there are
a large number of operators who believe that
when the national confidence in the impossibility
of the failure of anything American, shall have
experienced a shock in this case,similar to that which
has already been sustained with respect to the mili-
tary power, the panic will be beyond anything wit-
nessed in modern times. The parties
are eagerly
seeking to buy on speculation for credit, looking
forward to the prospect of being able to pay in a
very much worse currency even than the present.
The absence of faith in any news promulgated by
the Secretary of the War Department greatly in-
creases the tendency to distrust, and letters are pri-
vately circulated from the most respectable people
at the South, and especially at Richmond, which
daily aggravate the discouragement. According to
the most trustworthy of these, the fight before
Richmond was of a much more complete character
than has yet been represented. All the hacks,
horses, drays, and carriages in the city, it is said,
were pressed into the service to transport wounded
men and captured property. We have killed,
wounded, and taken," it is added, " at least 35,000
men, 70 to 100 pieces of cannon and immense public
stores, and have caused the enemy to burn many
millions of their property. Two Generals (M'Call
and Reynolds) and three brigadiers, with uncounted
inferior officers in crowds, are among the prisoners.
Our own losses were from 12,000 to 16,000 men,
and the Federal accounts of these battles and of
M'Clellan's situation are ridiculous." The same
letters state that General Bragg is in command
of the army of General Beauregard, who is ill,
and that Generals 111‘Gruder and Price, the former
of whom was reported by the Federals to have
been killed, have been ordered to the west of the
Mississippi. Among the latest reports current at
New York was one to the effect that General
M'Clellan is to be removed from the army on
James River.