The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-10 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

The ,6 School for Scandal," cast almost as strongly
as it is possible to do in these times, is to be the piece
to alternate with Miss Helen Faucit's performances,
and thus there will be no off nights, as it is. termed,
every evening being equally provided with attrac-
tion, as the crowded state of the house proves.
Mr. Phelps's Sir Peter Teazle is now well known,
and we can only say that it mellows by repetition,
and is a very fine piece of acting ; the emotional
portion never having been more forcibly expressed,
and the dry, sarcastic wit of the exposed husband is
given with the keenest irony. Mrs. Vezin's Lady
Teazle is a charming performance, full of spirit and
feeling. Mr. Walter Lacy plays Charles Surface
lightly and most pleasantly, giving full significance
to the vivacious wit. Joseph Surface is rendered by
Mr. James Anderson with much greater colloquial
power than we expected ; and it is so free from
stiltiness, that we only wish the same natural and
effective style were carried a little more abundantly
into this. gentleman's tragic. performances. The
hypocrisy and the skill of the character were very
cleverly displayed, and his scenes with Lady Teazle
were marked with a fine artistic power. Mr. Barrett
is an admirable Sir Oliver, playing it with great
bonhommie and admirable discretion.

• The scandalous college was represented in a lively
and characteristic way by Mr. Roxby's vivacious
personation of Sir Benjamin Backbite, by Mr. Bel-
more as Crabtree, Mrs. H. Vandenhoff as Mrs.
Candour, and Miss C. Weston as Lady Sneerwell.
Miss Rose Leclercq was a graceful Maria, and Mr.
Fitzjames an effective Moses. The immortal comedy
was indeed in every way rendered effective, and was
most cordially received and enjoyed by an over-
flowing audience.

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, MARCH 9.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

tion gone.
Immediately upon the evacuation of Fort Ander-
son General Hoke retreated before Terry, who,
advancing, found the works deserted, and pressed
on Wilmington. Cox lost 26 in killed and wounded.
A despatch from Gen. "Comstock says :—" Our
troops entered Wilmington on the morning of the
22d inst. After the evacuation of Fort Anderson,
Schofield directed Cox to follow the garrison
towards Wilmington, Terry following Hoke on the
east side of the river. The latter took up a new
ilumnainbgl te'c'tno' but being closely
send troops to the
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west side. The rebels made a stand behind Town
Creek, but on the 20th Cox crossed the troops below
them on fiat boats, attacked their rear and routed
them, taking two guns and 300 prisoners. On the
21st inst. Cox pushed on to Brunswick River, oppo-
site Wilmington, where the bridges were on fire on
March 2. I his arrival.

" The rebels began burning cotton and resin in
the city, and left it that night. We captured in
Fort Anderson 700 prisoners and 30 guns. Citi-
zens state that the rebels burned 1,000 bales of
cotton and 15,000 barrels of resin. The Union
feeling showed itself strongly in the city. Terry
followed Hoke northwards."

The New York papers contain no additional

The New York Herald thinks the fall of Wilming-
ton will ensure the safety of Sherman's advance,
and facilitate operations against Richmond. Should
Hardee and Bragg, concentrating in North Caro-
lina, be reinforced by Lee, and attempt a blow at
Sherman, Wilmington will afford an easy opportu-
nity to reinforce the latter.

The same paper further thinks it was a mistake
to suppose Wilmington was without advantage to
Lee after the loss of Fort Fisher, it being the source
of supplies, besides drawing off a strong force from
Grant. Hoke can now reinforce Lee, but Schofield
can joiu Grant or Sherman with his whole command.
The gunboats will be able to hold the places. With
Grant, Sherman, Schofield, and Sheridan, with
200,000 effective and enthusiastic men on one side,
and a miserably beaten and demoralised .mass of
men, perhaps 60,000, on the other side, no one can
question the result.

The New York Times says the capture of Wil-
mington is now of incalculably greater importance
than ever on account of the relations with Sher-

man's advance.

The Tribune thinks daily events demonstrate
sufficiently that the rebels are not only in desperate
straits, but are aware of it ; the Confederacy is
crumbling from circumference to centre. Its rulers
gather all their force at the central point. The fact
of their gathering strength for one great blow shows
they have no hope left should they fail.

The Tribune learns from trustworthy authority
that Foote, on his way from Richmond, repeatedly
stated that the Confederate Senate, in secret sessions,
considered the cause as virtually lost three months
ago, and acknowledged that only desperate measures
were left for desperate men.

Lincoln has sent a letter to Porter, enclosing the
resolutions of the Congress thanking him and his
officers and the army for their gallantry and good
conduct in the capture of Fort Fisher.
On Sunday morning Sherman was advancing to-
wards and near Winsboro' on the railroad leading
to Charlotte, 30 miles north of Columbia. Beaure-
gard was retreating before him towards Charlotte.
Richmond papers thinks it necessary for Sher-
man's safety that he should continue to move with
his army well massed. This prevented the Confe-

derates, numerically inferior, from attacking him,
but they fell back in good order, keeping up a con-
stant and severe skirmish with Sherman's vanguard.
The . Richmond Whig of Monday says, that
Wheeler repulsed two charges at Aitken on the
10th, but was compelled to fall back, the enemy
consisting of 10,000 cavalry and 4,000 mounted in-
fantry, entering Aitken at noon.
Richmond papers say that Sherman enforces
strict discipline, and punishes all outrages on citi-
zens. He has issued a retaliation order for the mal-
treatment of Union men. It is reported that 10
more regiments have been recruited from contra-
bands who joined Sherman's army in Georgia.
The Petersburg Express says that Grant shows no
disposition to assume the offensive, and has rather
shortened than extended his line, and has withdrawn
to the works on this side of Hatcher's Run.

Heavy cannonading was heard at Dutch Gap on
Monday, and an unusual activity was reported in
Lee's army. According to deserters' reports a Con-
federate attack was threatened. Hill's corps was
under marching orders. A considerable movement
took place along the Confederate lines near Peters-
burg. Grant shelled the town heavily on Monday.

The Herald states that the Confederates had
removed their artillery from the front at Peters-
burg, and surmises that Lee had concluded to
evacuate that town and Richmond, and fall back on
Lynchburg.
Cincinatti despatches say that if Lee evacuates
Richmond he will fall back on Lychburg, and march
through the mountains to East Tennessee or Ken-
tucky.

It is rumoured that the Knoxville division of Lee's
army had already appeared in East Tennessee last

week.

There was considerable excitement in Knoxville
yesterday, from a report that Longstreet was ad-
vancing on the city. A movement of the Federals
was made on Knoxville, in order, it was said, to
defeat Longstreet's plans. Other Federal move-
ments are progressing to prevent Lee's supposed
design against Tennessee. Desertions from his
army are reported increasing.
Lincoln's son has left for the front.

NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 25th, Noon.

Gold, 198 f. Exchange on London, 214 ; on
Paris, 2.53. Stocks steady—New York Centrals,
115 ; Illinois, 119 f ; Erie, 741; Five-twenty Bonds,
111 k. Cotton quiet—Middling Upland 83c. Flour
dull. Wheat quiet. Corn steady. Provisions and
Coffee dull. Sugar declining. Molasses quiet.
Petroleum dull—Crude, 43 ; Refined, 67.

The Southern journals announce that 500 Fede-
rals, from Newbern, passed through Greenville on
the 18th, advancing on Tarhoro. Another force
was advancing up the south side of the Neuse. It
was believed that Foster's force had moved from
Newbern to operate upon the Wilmington and
Weldon railroad.

The Federals were moving from Knoxville. It
was expected they would penetrate North Carolina,
and strike the railroad between Salisbury and Char-
lotte. The force consists of several thousand
cavalry, under Averill.
The Governor of North Carolina has issued a
proclamation, in which he says there will be little
difference of opinion in North Carolina as to the
propriety of continued resistance. No fatal danger
threatens except , depression of the spirit of the
people, and the still more dreadful risk of internal
dissension. He urges the people to lay aside party
bitterness, and be reconciled for the sake of the
country. If the South is determined to be free,
subjugation is as distant as ever.
The Newbern correspondent of the New York
Herald asserts that Mr. Haines delivered a speech
on the 20th , January last, in the North Carolina
House of Commons, in which he fearlessly favoured
the restoration of the Union, and declared Secession
to be a failure.

Preparations are completed at New Orleans for
Granger's expedition to Mobile.
General Hurlburt is expected shortly to establish
the head-quarters of the Gulf Department at Mobile.
Thirty vessels, mostly ironclads, are ready to leave
for Mobile. The evacuation of that city is reported
to have commenced in January. Most of the
cotton has been removed further north, and the
harbour fortifications abandoned. The only impe-
diments to the occupation are the torpedoes, which
are being rapidly removed.
The Guerillas in the Arkansas River are very
active, and are reported to have burned the steamer
Dane and captured an Indiana regiment.

The Confederates are rumoured to be entering
Kentucky from the direction of Mount Stirling.
The Richmond papers announce that Rhoddy has
successfully encountered the Federals in Northern
Alabama, and driven them inside their fortifications.
Lee reports that 38 of Moseby's men attacked
the Federals 120 strong killing and wounding 25.
It is reported that Hooker will shortly receive a
new command.
The Richmond Examiner confirms the removal
of Thomas's army to Virginia. The force left
under Thomas consists of mounted infantry and
cavalry. His object is to open the Alabama river
from its mouth to its source ; to capture Mobile,
Selina, Montgomery, and Columbus ; to destroy
the railroad through Central Alabama, and the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad from Corinth southward.

The proposition to arm 200,000 negroes passed
the Confederate House of Representatives on Mon-
day, but was indefinitely postponed by the Senate
on the following day by a majority of one. The
Richmond Dispatch thinks the bill will be recon-
sidered and passed.

A bill has been introduced in the Confederate
House of Representatives for the impressment of
cotton and tobacco at specie appraisement, payable
in 6 per cent. bonds.

The committee of the House has reported upon
the resolutions, expressing an unalterable deter-
mination to prosecute the war. The committee
invites a mass meeting of the, people to renew the
vows of devotion to independence.

The New York Herald states that General Sin-
gleton and Judge Hughes have left for Richmond
with passes from Lincoln. The leading peace de-
mocrats think it may be another effort at peacto
negotiations. The Daily News asserts that their
mission is a private one.

The late victories have caused Washington's
birthday to be celebrated with unusual enthusiasm
throughout the North.

Wendell Phillips delivered an address, speaking
in glowing terms of the Northern success, and
arguing that the negro should have all the rights
of the white man.

At a meeting of the prominent citizens of New
York a committee was appointed to arrange for a
public expression of gratitude to the naval and
military heroes, and a public celebration of the
recent victories ; and also asking Lincoln to send a
vessel to Charleston to convey General Anderson
that he may replace the Federal flag on Sumter.
A private letter from Sherman says :—" I would
not subjugate the South in the sense so offensively
assumed. All should obey the common law and
submit to the same as we do ; no better, no worse ;
our equals, not our superiors."
The Kentucky legislature has rejected the consti-
tutional amendment for the abolition of slavery.
The Judiciary Committee of the Jersey Legisla-

ture have reported on the bill to ratify the consti-
tutional amendment, with an amendment to submit
it to the people's vote at the next general election.
The Common Council of Jersey City have passed
a resolution declaring the constitutional amendment
as an untimely measure likely to delay the restora-
tionof peace and the union. The Wisconsin Legis-
lature have passed the constitutional amendment.
The Judiciary Committee of the Senate have
reported against the taxation of exports. Sumner's
Freed Men's Bureau-Bill was defeated in the Senate,
and another Conference has been appointed on the
bill.

The House has passed a bill providing for the
prevention of military interference at elections,
also a bill declaring the wives and children of
coloured men entering the Federal service for ever
free, and declaring married such men and women
as have lived together in that character.
The Senate committee have reported an amend-
ment of the tax bill, proposing to reduce the duty
on crude petroleum from 6 to 2 cents per gallon.
The Richmond Whig of Tuesday, in announcing
the occupation of Charleston, says there was no
cotton in the city at the time of the evacuation.
This event should, therefore, inspire cheerfulness
rather than gloom. Sherman can only be checked
by concentrating in his front all the Confederate
troops in North and South Carolina.. If not de-
feated, Sherman will march up the railroad to
Charlotte, thence to Salisbury, Greensboro', Dan-
ville, and so on.

The same paper estimates Sherman's force at
30,000, with a strong cavalry force. He did not
detach any troops at Branchville to move on Charles-
ton.

The Richmond papers infer that Sherman is con-
summating a plan to sever Lee's communications,
finally combining his forces with Grant, and compel
the evacuation of Richmond, or capture it by over-
whelming numbers. This course is pregnant with
peril, and would expose Sherman's army to absolute
destruction in case of failure, while Sherman will be
be met and checked in such a position that the
check will be defeat and destruction.

The Examiner thinks that the comprehensive
plans of the Federals for the capture of Richmond
will fail. The capital, it considers, is safe if all do
their duty, and Congress gives Lee the negroes
asked for. Richmond is in no greater danger now
than it was the last or previous spring.
The steamer Will-o'-the-Wisp has run ashore
and been destroyed at Galveston. The Confede-
derates saved a large portion of the cargo.
The steamer Wren has unsuccessfully attempted
to run out of Galveston.

The schooners Annie Sophia and Pet have been
cut out of Galveston by the Federals.

The New York Tribune looks to Lincoln's inau-
gural for indirect overtures going far to dissolve
what remains of the rebellion. It urges that assur-
ances should be expressed of magnanimity and kind
treatment for the Southern people. The nation
needs peace, not vengeance, and a return to heart-
felt loyalty, not to slaughter.

The New York Herald concludes from the tone of
the French press, and the proceedings in the British
Parliament, that neither England nor France pur-
pose intervening in American officers.
Washington despatches prove conclusively that
the cession of Sonora to France is untrue, and indi-
cate that the relations between France and the
United States will remained undisturbed. Captain
Beales was hung to-day.
it is reported that the appointment of Secretary
to the Treasury has been tendered to Mr. 111‘Cul-
loch, and his name will be sent to Congress in a few
days.
The subscriptions to the 7-30 loan amount to
nine millions and a half since the last report.
The payment of the interest of the 10-44 bonds
due in March will put over $3,000,000 in gold on
the market.

An order has been issued for the extradition of
the Prussian Ferdinand Voightman.

CANADA.
MONTREAL, FEB. 24.
The trial of the St. Alban's raiders is not yei
concluded, on account of the illness of the judge.

MEXICO.
NEW YORK, FEB. 25.

Advices received here from Mexico announce that
Juarez has issued an address to the Mexicans from
Chihuahua, Jan. Ist, in which he says :—" Faith-
ful to my duty and my conscience, I will devote all
my energy to the national defence with the support
and co-operation of the Mexicans, and will main-
tain the Mexican flag."

Juarez further denounces the Emperor Maxi-
milian as a usurper, and an instrument to enlave a
free people.

Houston papers publish a correspondence between
the Confederate Colonel Pyron and General Lopez,
commanding the Imperial troops on the Rio Grande.
Pyron informs Lopez that the Confederate Govern-
ment desires to cherish amicable relations with the
Mexican Government. Lopez replies, confessing
sympathy for the Southern cause. " Being placed
in command by the Emperor Maximilian, the sons
of the Confederacy," he says, " may rely upon full
security for their persons and interests, and upon
hospitality. The organisation of raids against the
Confederates will not be permitted. The Houston
papers further state that Matamoras had ceased to
be a free port.

RUSSIA AND POLAND.
ST. PETERSBURG, MARCH 10.
All the St. Petersburg papers of to-day deny the
assertion that Russia had recently negotiated with
France, England, and Austria, in reference to the
incorporation of Poland with Russia.