The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-23 00:00:00

At the same time, while the Government at Turin
is acting thus cautiously, and as men of the world,
will not h.'nitate to add also upon the instant thus
wisely and determinedly—GAßlßALDl himself, with
his soldier-heart, with his own ever-burning
enthusiasm, hats his full and warmest sympathy
for those who have only erred in his regard
by showing themselves in their true colours as his
ardent followers.

About GARIBALDI'S sympathy with the men just
taken there can be no mistake whatever. He him-
self has said it. And not once, but three times. He
has written in the Pungolo as follows :

g 4 some persons have wrongly interpreted my protest,
published in the Diritto. As an Italian soldier, I could
never have entertained the intention of insulting the Italian
army, the glory and the hope of the nation. I desired to
say that soldiers ought to combat the enemies of the
country, not to massacre and wound unarmed citizens. If
the Commandant of Brescia had been free to act according
to the dictates of his heart, we should not now have to
lament victims among the people. The post of generals is
upon the frontier and the field of battle, nowhere else."
According to the Unita italiana he has thus
addressed himself to the young men taken at Bar-
gamo

Trescarre, May 15, 1862,

My dear Friends,—l advise you to let yourselves be le
and I authorise you to say that you have been called to
Bergamo by me. Tho nation, I have no doubt, will be
grateful to you for your patriotic impulse and your abnega-
tion. I salute you all, and am, with affection, yours for life,

GARIBALD

In the Milan Gazette he has solemnly avowed•

In consequence of Colonel Nl.7l,Lo's arrest yesterday at
Palazzolo, I consider it my duty to declare that that brave
officer had gone and acted exactly in conformity to my
G. GARIBALDI,
So that as to the veritable character of this move-
ment in the north, there cannot—supposing the
documents hers quoted to be, in truth, as they cur
tainly affect to be, authentic—there cannot, we say,
possibly be any even momentary misapprehension.
All the while, the Government and GARIBALDI being
of one accord : with this simple difference—that
the latter is eager for action, and that instantly;
whereas the former is still in favour of a little fur-
ther delay.

The Japanese are certainly making the most of
their time amongst us. Notebook and sketchbook
n hand they are going hither and thither in quest
of information. And it is pleasant to know at once,
in their regard, that it is for them, beyond all doubt,
anything rather than a Pursuit of Knowledge under
Difficulties. As welcome as flowers in May are
their excellencies and their attendants wherever
they go. If it be a Government establishment or
the hospitable mansion of one of our Chiefs of
Society—if it be a commercial speculation that is
inquired into, a public school or a public hospital—
anywhere, everywhere, they are received with eager
interest, and with a cordial reciprocation of curiosity
on the part of visitors and visited.
Already we have followed them respectfully,
through our previous comments in these columns,
in regard to several of their earlier peregrinations.
Since then they have shown unflagging industry.
Now they have gone down the river to our English
Invalides—the refuge, not of our old soldiers, big
of our old sailors, down at Greenwich. There,
in that beautiful old palace, their Japanese
Excellencies have looked and admired and examined
to their hearts' content. They have tasted the beer
in the brewhouse, and the bread in the bakehouse—
to find both excellent. They have scrutinized with
heartily expressed admiration the pictures in the
Painted Gallery—among them that famous one of
Lord NELSON, then Commodore NELSON in his full
dress uniform, white silk stockings and white cash-
mere breeches, boarding the San Josef sword in
hand, in the midst of the tremendous seafight off
Cape St. Vincent. The Japanese taking notes there
(as usual with them everywhere almost) of what
caused them the greatest surprise or elicited their
liveliest approbation. Afterwards they dine at the
famous white bait hotel (unfortunately before the
white bait season) and enjoy with gusto after dinner
at the hotel balcony a scramble for silver and bronze
coin (we can no longer say " coppers") among the
dirty little street boys assembled there in an extem-
pore mob, to look at them. Afterwards—steaming
down the river—they inspect that modern wonder
of the world, The Thames Tunnel—utterly useless,
it is true, but still, for all that, very wonderful.
They revisit King's College Hospital, where seated
at leisure in the operating theatre they witness
some awfully dexterous operations performed by
such perfect masters of their craft as Mr. BOWMAN,
the great oculist, and Mr. FERGUSON, the
great surgeon, and perhaps the greatest opera-
tor now living. From that scene of beneficent
bloodshed, the Japanese take as they do from other
scenes of a less excruciating kind pleasant souvenirs
such as carte de visite* of the famous men whom
they have just met with. As a contrast in every-
thing but name, one of the very next scenes wit-
nessed by the Japanese Envoys is—not again the
hospital of King's College, but King's College itself.
Where they receive an ovation from the scholars
in return for the half-holiday given in honour of
their eastern excellencies—an ovation in the way
of three times three ringing cheers and one cheer
more from the assembled schoolboys. Another
locality visited by these most sagaciously inquiring
strangers was conspicuous among our Schools for
the Blind—whence the Japanese take away with
them books with the raised letters, from which th•
blind students read with their fingers, the Ja-
panese dropping there themselves in return
(through their interpreter, of course, Mr. Mac-
donald) the surprising intimation (apropos to the
numerous cases of blindness before them, caused by
small-pox) the certainly startling intimation that,
during the last 10 years, vaccination has been com-
pulsory throughout Japan ! At a large cutlery
establishment here in London, again, their Excellen-
cies have had great delight in watching the process
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sword-blades to the English workmen by way of a
return compliment--sword-blades immediately pro-
nounced by these competent judges of such ware to
be equal in beauty and value to the blue wavy-
veined or grained lithe and, as one might say,
sinewy blades of your genuine Damascus !

Without pursuing the Japanese Envoys and their
suite of gentlemen diplomatists and liveried atten-
dan ttheir thisptrheastenottne writing.fi morning
without
tracking
when they rode delightfully in open carriages along
the suburban roads and green country lanes, skirted
s much further
movements a t
by so many pretty villas in their picturesque gar-
dens, through Twickenham, past Isleworth, up to
the top of Richmond Hill—without loitering beside
them in fancy as they obtain upon the instant a
panoramic notionof a fertile English landscape from
that famous belle view balcony at the Star and
Garter, whence all the world and his wife, their
children, friends, and relations, have been so long
in the habit of looking out upon the sylvan loveli-
ness of that veritable Riche-monde—we do
certainly feel tempted to throw out one
very alluring suggestion in regard to this
same remarkable Embassy from the Japanese.
If only one of our great publishing houses would
take measures to secure the Copyright of an autho-
rised translation of the °faeut •
l report about to be
prepared a little later on for tho t •
uformatipn of the
Japanese Government—an authorised translatiox

(say by Mr. IVIAcDoNALD)—of the jottings down
by their Excellencies in notebook and in sketch-
book during their wanderings and ponderings here
in this (to them) strange land of England! We
would very confidently predict for such a work as
that, a success far beyond any ever attained by
any recent traveller—even, we will venture to
assert, the brilliant success achieved last season
by M. DIT CIIAILLU'S record of his rovings among
the Gorillas. The interest with which we should
all take a wonderfully novel view of ourselves as
we appear when looked at through Japanese
spectacles!

New Orleans was not captured without trouble
after all. No defences of importance had been con-
structed near the city. Forts Jackson and Philip,
and a fleet of gunboats, such as they were, were
the reliance of the Confederates. The city itself is
as unfortified as London, and for a very good
reason, since if the Mississippi could be entered
by even a small hostile fleet, no works the embank-
ments could bear would save it from destruction by
the shells of the enemy firing over them. But at
the river forts, which should have stopped the ad.
vance of the fleet, the battle was bravely fought—that
is by the garrison of the fort, for the Confederate
naval force appears to have incurred the undisguised
contempt of the commander of the garrison. The
officers of the fleet gave. indeed, a signal proof of
their treachery as well as their inefficiency, for
while the commander of the garrison was engaged
in the Federal commander's ship, under a flag of
truce, these men actually sent down a floating bat-
tery on fire, intending she should explode and
destroy the ship. Lieut. HIGGINS, the Confederate
officer, would acknowledge no connection with the
ships, which he spoke of with the utmost contempt,
and Commander PORTER therefore continued the
negotiations, merely observing—"We can stand the
fire and be blown II?, if you can." The guns of
the burning battery soon went off, but she luckily
blew up at some distance from the ships, killing,
however, one man of the Confederate garrison.
Excepting, as we hive said, their navy, the Con-
federates fought well The Federal commanders,
who thought the crews of the ships ought to be
detained as prisoners of war till the end of the war,
on account of their treachery, give high praise to
the gunners and their officers, and seemed pleased
to accept their surrender with the usual honours.
The attack on the kits was indeed a fierce one—it
lasted six days fron the 18th to the 24th, and it
was said that not fewer than 1,800 shells fell and
burst within the woks of Fort Jackson, to which
the chief attentions cf the confederates were paid.
Two singular and half contradictory effects fol-
lowed. Though so nuola was destroyed, yet the
fire of the forts was little diminished. But, on the
other hand, though the forts were still able to rain
a "hurricane of shot and shell," the gunboats were
able to pass through it all, to get above them, and
to steam on to capture New Orleans, while the ports
were watched by the remainder of the fleet. Ships
clearly beat forts, and forts placed to great advan-
tage, and the ships but wooden ones. The same
ships took two other forts higher up the river,
though they could approach them only by sustain-
ing a raking fire for two miles. Indeed, when all
facts of the captures of ports made by gunboats
in this war are before us, we shall have a fresh and
valuable series of actual experiments in war, for
which common prudence requires us to wait.
As to the Confederate fleet, that of the Federals
seems almost to have treated it with scorn. Every
thing seems to have been taken, burnt, or sunk ;
the battery of 18 guns blew itself up, intending to
have performed a kind of Sampson's last feat. The
potent Manassas, which was to have rivalled the
Merrimac, turned aside from the Mississippi, and
was sent to the bottom by a broadside from her.
Probably cha cs..al rPhi tg.etlnizru, -rr vroiry hAfi of
these Southern boats, or they must have been mos

wretchedly handled, as when once the forts was
passed, under whose cover they did some service,
the Federal ships made very quick work with them.

The Universal Gazette of Berlin says :—" The
honour of Prussia and even the personal honour of the
King have been greatly wounded by the Government of
Hesse. Our envoy-extraordinary was received in an un-
heard of manner. The details will be published in a few
days. General Willisen has declared that if the offender
had not been a sovereign Prince he would have challenged
him to a duel."

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON, CHAT-
HAIi, AND DOTER RAILWAY. —Yesterday an inquest was
held at St. Thomas's Hospital, by Mr. Wm. Payne, the
coroner for the city of London and Southwark, into the
circumstances of the death of William Pennell, age 23,
who was killed at Hensford, in Kent, on the Londm,
Chatham, and Dover Railway, by being run over by seve-
ral trucks laden with ballast. The jury returned a verdict
of "Accidental Death."
The Ost-Deutscie Post of Vienna states that the
Empress was attacked, about a fortnight since, with a rheu-
matic affection in her feet, but up to the present time it has
not exceeded the limits of a simple indisposition.
The cantata composed by Verdi for the Inter-
national Exhibition, and rejected by the commissieners on
the alleged ground that the score was not delivered in time,
is to be performed at Mrs. Anderson's Concert in her Ma-
jesty's Theatre on Friday next, the solo part by Mdlle.
Titiens, with a chorus of 250 voices; and that the grand
march composed by Auber for the same occasion is likewise
to be performed at that concert.
A formal demand has been made at Rome for the
expulsion, in as gentle a manner as possible, of the King of
Naples. The French troops—so the ultimatum says, are
sufficient to protect the Holy Father, but not sufficient to
put down brigandage in the Neapolitan States.
The advices from Buenos Ayres by the French
snail yesterday are dated the 13th of April, and state that
no occurrence of importance had taken place since the de-
parture of the Southampton packet, on the 27th of March.
The elections for deputies to the National Congress were
about to commence immediately, and opinions were much
divided with respect to the all-important question of the
permanent capital of the republic. It was thought pro-
bable that the feeling would be to leave the decision of it
to time, fixing for the present the residence of the autho-
rities at Buenos Ayres merely as a temporary measure
until the conviction of its benefits shall have become
general.

THE LATE POACHING AFFRAY NEAR NOTTING-
RAM.—A few days ago there appeared in The Sun a brief
account of a poaching affray which took place on the fish-
lug Inca. rem Ut LLltl 11.1,11. k.eaptam .nyron, of Thrumpton,
Notts. It was then supposed that one of the poachers was
drowned in the Trent, he and another of the gang having
jumped into the river to escape from the pursuit of the
keepers. Since then one of them has made his appearance at
Thrumpton, and he says that although he heard his com-
rade jump into the river he never perceived him land on
the apposite side, and, not having been since seen, it is con-
cluded that he was drowned shortly after the affray took
place. His name is John Hayes, and up to the time of the
occurrence he lived with his parents at Loughborough (ten
miles from Thrumpton). Yesterday (Thursday) morning
dragging was commenced for the body, but at 4 o'clock in
the afternoon it had not been discovered.
GREAT PERIL OF HER MAJESTY'S MAIL AND
NARROW ESCAPE OP THE POSTMAN.—On Wednesday
evening, about high Water (eight o'clock), the bridge over
the entrance of the St. Katharine Docks having been kept
open for a considerable time beyond that permitted or re-
quired, the postman, with a bag of the evening mail, con-
taining important and valuable letters for the Irish and
Scotch wharves, &c., attempting to dross the lock by pass-
ing over the barges as they were being moved into the
dock,
slipped his foot and fell into the water,
then Providentially this active officer proved
an pt swimmer, and thus saved both the mail and his
o ce x 2teunfortunatelyrfeet
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own life. Notwithstanding the drenching he proceeded to
deliver the letters, wL ieh were saturated with dock water.
This was the second accident the same tido. It is very
desirable that some provision should be made for the foot
passengers during the time this bridge is open—frequently
three-quarters of an hour, this loss of time causing serious
inconvenience. We understand it is the intention of the
wharfingers and others to make a substantial acknowledg-
ment to the postman for his active endeavour to deliver
their letters without loss of time.

HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY.—On Wed-
nesday evening the members of this well-known volunteer
regiment gave the concluding dramatic performance for the
present 4e3son, oftheir head-quarters, Finsbury, and it
was numerously and fashionably attended,