The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-09 00:00:00

IHE sing, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1862

on this!" 'Yonder, in the North, the con-
quest, as we have seen, was the conquest of a
province. In the South it was the conquest,
not of a province, but of the whole of
the kingdom of the Two Sicilies I And it was a
conquest as it were by one man,
e rebyonneewgarl uponanda and
glorious reputation. It was the
more colossal scale of the famous feat of arms
boasted of by CORIOLANVS. GARIBALDI might have
said at the close of his campaign, " Alone I did it
—/ fluttered your Volscians at Corioli." And for
the gift of the Neapolitan kingdom in its entirety
to his Majesty King VICTOR EMMANUEL, General
GARIBALDI, unlike the imperial liberator (!) in the
North received nothing whatever in the shape of a
consideration. On the contrary, when at the end
of his marvellous achievements there in the south
of the Roman peninsula, the veritable liberatcr, the
liberator of Italy returned to his little island home
at Caprera—his own native land, Savoy, had
been shamefully sold to the other " libera-
! tor" (save the mark !) the French EMPEROR !
And now that GARIBALDI has been more recently
deluded into placing reliance upon the good faith of
that nominee more of a clique than of the nation,
Signor RATAZZI—the latter, when the pear of bis
intrigue seems to him ripe, grasps it for his own
selfish enjoyment, and warns away from the ban-
quet the man of men among all the chiefs of the Ita-
lian canse—GARIBALDI ! GARIBALDI'S letter to the
Chambers, in which the deceit practised upon
him is bluntly explained, will be found
in another part of our impression of this evening.
It is, in truth, a remarkable document. It has been
sneered at as a sort of arrogant Russian ukase or
haughty Spanish pronunciamento. It is insinuated
that it reads more like the production of Mantra
than of GARIBALDI. There, however, in our columns
this evening, in the reflected form of a literal trans-
lation, are the writer's ipsissima ferba. Let any
dispassionate observer read them, and then say
whether they do or do not read like the truthful
outpourings of that great and honest heart ? GARI-
BALDI'S letter, in effect, speaks for itself. It is
a fatal reproach to RATAZZl—clever, consummately
clever and adroit though the Minister's speech,
explaining it away for the time being, has proved.
" Cast but mine innocence into the scale," exclaims
the heroine of Sir WALTER SCOTT'S most chivalric
story, " Cast but mine innocence into the scale, and
the glove of silk shall outway the glove of iron !"
In the face of Europe, in the presence of all
the civilised races, GARIBALDI might yet more
forcibly cry out, placing his sword like CAMILLUS
in the Balance of Public Opinion, " Cast but mine
honesty into the scale, and the iron blade shall
outweigh the golden sceptres"—even though the
latter were those two bran-new gewgaws, the Impe-
perial bauble of NAPOLEON 111. and the Royal bauble
of VICTOR EMMANUEL 11,

Times are mended since imprisonment, banish-
ment, and even the stake, awaited the heretic. Mr.
ISIDORE HEATH loses indeed "that whereby he
lives" to the amount of £6OO or £7OO a-year; but
he does not lose his life forthwith, and perhaps he
may have, or may find, another " whereby" to live.
All will compasionately hope, at least, that this
may be the case. Mr. HEATH as a clergyman was
altogether an Englishman. He would let his law-
yers fight for him as long as they could, for he had
probably come to the sincere belief that he was as
free to contradict the articles, and so forth, he had
signed,as any lay gentleman who had not signed them
But when called on by the Court to "revoke" or be
deprived, he had, unlike Mr. WALPOLE the other
night, nothing to revoke, not he. He had published
what he really thought, and was not the man to
withdraw it though he saw £7OO a year of good
lawful money slipping from his grasp. All honour
to such men, be they in what line of life they may
—the men whom no penalties or losses will keep
from publishing their convictions, and abiding by
what they have published. From the Atheist to
straitest sect of Evangelicals, we respect from our
hearts the man who dares to think, and to bear the
consequences of thinking aloud.

We cannot, on the other hand, accuse our courts
of persecution. The whole affair of a clergyman's
position and duties is one of siniple contract with
the State. Whether it were right or wrong, the
TUDORS and STUARTS with their Parliaments con-
structed a Christian church after their own notions.
Every part and pinnacle of it they made a
part of the statute law of the land. There
is no such thing as a national Church or an Esta-
blished Church, apart from the statutes which
create it, and the prayer-book with the articles, and
all in it, are declared to be a part of the Act of
Uniformity to be construed with it, and the book
was actually appended to the Act. So long, there-
fore, as our judges shall not desert their province,
and become lawmakers instead of administrators
of the law, we cannot charge them with persecu-
tion in deciding according to the statute law of the
land. Mr, ISIDORE HEATH and all other clergymen
voluntarily pledged themselves to believe in every
part of the Prayer Book to the letter, to conform
entirely to it, and to teach and preach no other
doctrine.

We need not describe again Mr. HEATH'S peculiar
notions. They were iplainly in contravention of

the doctrines, and the book to which he had
pledged his conformity. His notions, whatever
their abstract troth or falsehood, were undeniably,
not only different from, but contradictory to those
of his professed creed. The recital of the points
of contradiction in Mr. HEATH'S published sermons,
by Lord CRANWORTIE, were sufficient to move a
smile, by their obvious contrariety with the
book of Common Prayer, combined with
the apparent simplicity of their author in
asking to be shown wherein he is in error, declaring
that if he differs from the articles and formularies
it is "unwittingly." The impression produced on
our minds is, that it is a case of intellectual hallu-
eination,it not being easy to see how any thoroughly
sound mind could fail to perceive the contradictions
pointed out by Lord CRANWORTH.
The wider question---what subscription, what
diversities of doctrine, a national church ought to
require is one likely to be a good deal discussed in
our times. We shall soon hear from Dr. Lvsit-
INGTON his decision on the " Essays and Reviews,"
and :it will be seen whether adroitness in state-
ment can cover divergence from the real creeds
or the Church, as great as that of Mr. HEAT H
himself. The whole difficulty of the case lies
here, that a State Church ought to be a
National Church, and a National Church it
cannot be, in any fair sense of the phrase, or even
in equity towards all, who are equally subjects, un-
less it comprehends all the diversities of creed and
worship to be found in the nation. Such has been the
opinion of some of the ablest men in the Church,

both in ancient and modern times, and it obviously
points in the direction of abolishing the TUDOR and
STUART Acts of Uniformity, and delivering the
thought and belief of the nineteenth century from
the fetters forged for it by the Legislature of the
seventeenth.

A letter received in Paris on Saturday from
Brussels says that the health of the King of the Belgians
is in by no means a satisfactory state. It is certain that
Dr. Civiale has again left Paris to attend his Majesty, hav-
ing been summoned by a telegraphic despatch.

ROYA

OPERA,

HERR IVACHTEL.

Mr. rye's " Exhibition Season" seems to unfold as it
proceeds some features which are very suggestive of the
great event that has inspired it. Whilst its performances are
gradually extending to every night in the week in order to
accommodate, if possible, the rising tide of our foreign
visitors, its company is enlarging not only in its talent,
but in its nationality, in a manner that appears to us to be
peculiarly analogous. Its singers display a variety almost
as great as that of the exhibi`ors. They are to be classed
as French, Italian, German, Hungarian, and Belgian, and
with a very slight strain of the fact, American and Russian.
They could produce our lyric masterpieces in so many
different languages that the theatre could publish a
" repertoire," which might be called a vocal polyglot Z It
is certainly a curious fact that this company would not
find it difficult to produce some leading operas
in Italian, French, and German, on three suc-
cessive evenings. A more important point, however,
is that their polyphonous character is quite as striking
as their polygenous. Their talent to discourse in the uni-
versal tongue of music is quite as singular as its connection
with such diversity of speech. Herr Wachtel, the last
addition to this extraordinary company, is in no respect the
least. He is, with some one or two exceptions only, the
very finest Lenore robusto since the debut of Signor Tara-
berlik. He has a voice of the noblest quality, equally re-
markable for strength and sweetness, which can rise in de-
clamatory passages to C sharp with perfect ease—whilst in
its mezza voce it is capable of the most tender and subdued
expressions. He is also possessed of genuine passion, and
consequently true dramatic feeling—and whether musically
or histrionically, knows the full use of his gifts. He has
in addition the advantage of youth and a handsome face and
manly person, and therefore the power of sustaining his
efforts with no small amount of illusion. He can not only
assume but look a lover, which is no slight point with the
public. The only abatement that could be made of Herr
Waehtel's claims on Saturday evening was a slight ten-
dency to excess, which, however, is so easily accounted for

that we have a right to assume it will entirely disappear on
subsequent occasions. Saturday was not only his first
appearance before a critical English audience but his first
adventure in Italian, which necessarily affected his enun-
ciation, and therefore augmented the anxiety that would be
most injurious to his efforts. It is further to be remembered
that a tenore robusto is of course expected to make the chief
impression with his power, and that power is just the qua-
lity which nervousness affects the most. Consequently
Herr Wachtel, in his anxiety to impress this quality suffi-

ciently, was not only urged into an occasional excess, which
destroyed the truth of the expression, but failed in the end
itself, in his inability through excitement to command his
voice at the last moment. This was unlucky, especially in
_ _

Edgardo, in which his least successful effort was the " Ma-
lediction," though his sir ging and acting throughout the
scene and his share in the exquisite septett, " Chi mi fret's,"
which conduced so much to its re-demand, were admirable in
the extreme. All his defect, therefore, we have a right to refer
and to limit to the occasion, whilst in his sustainment of
the character generally, and especially in its tender por-
tions, he achieved a success which could scarcely be ex-
ceeded. Nothing could be more delicate than his share in
the " Veronno a to sull aura," and nothing more pathetic

than his delivery of the Fra poco. In these and other
passages he excited the warmest testimonies, and was
called for with great heartiness at the close of every
act. As a singer, therefore, adapted to the passionate
and dramatic wants of modern opera, we consider
Herr Wachtel a very important acquisition. He is the
only one we know of who, when in time he has acquired
the art, will be worthy to divide the ground and succeed to
the honours of Signor Tamberlik. The Lucia of Madlle,
Patti exhibits all the improvement, mental and physi-
cal, which we observed in her " Sonnambula." It is a
far truer and more affecting, because a more passionate per-
formance. It is now animated throughout with a depth of
womanly feeling, which fulfills every necessity of
the musio and the story. We no longer look at a
wonderful girl, but we listen to an earnest woman
—and our sympathies consequently respond just as
thoroughly as they are appealed to. Thus, whilst her act-
ing is so improved, and not more in its more vigorous than
its more delicate expressions—not more in the frantic
energy with which she clings to her lover after the male-
diction—than in the piteousness of her appeal to her
brother to release her from the contract—her singing in due
adjustment to it relies now for its general effect quite
as much upon the depth as upon the brilliancy of its ex-
pression. Taken as a whole, hers is now the most perfect
embodiment of Lucia which we have had since Persiani,
and one that, in unison with the undeniable attraction of
her youth and person, allows of no existing rivalry.
The Enrico of the evening was Signor Belle Sedie,
who, if his voice were only equal to his taste and feeling,
would be the first of modern baritones; and the Raimondo
was a Signor Capponi, who made a successful first appear-
ance, as a basso, possessed of a voice of more than ordinary
pretensions. Of the perfect condition of the band and
chorus we can have no occasion to speak. Its great dis-
tinction was never more obvious, or more honourable than
on this evening. The house was very full.

LATEST NEWS.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

DEFEAT OF GENERAL BANKS.
(Per Niagara via Boston and Roche's Point.)
NEW YORK, MAT 27 (EVENING).
After the attack by the Confederates, already
reported, on the Federal advance, Gen. Banks fell
back to Winchester.

At daybreak on the 25th the Confederates, under
Generals E well and Johnston, 15,000 strong, at-
tacked Gen. Banks at Winchester. Gen. Banks's
force was reduced to 4,000 by reinforcing General
M'Dowell.

The Federal force retreated through Martinburg
to Williamsburg, and crossed the Potomac at Wil-
liamsport from Virginia to Maryland. The Confe-
derates kept up an active pursuit of Gen. Banks all
along the route.
The loss of the latter is therefore considerable,
but the number is not officially reported.
The loss of military stores at Winchester, in-
cluding 50 waggon trains, is large.
The Confederates by this action regain the control
of the Valley of the Shenandoah.
This unexpected advance of the Confederates on
Maryland and Washington has caused intense ex-
citement throughout the Northern States.

Baltimore became a scene of riot and confusion.
During Sunday and Monday, 25th and 26th, all
persons of Secession proclivities were attacked by

,he mob, bat order is now restored.

President Lincoln has taken military possession
of all the railroads in the United States for the

:ranaport of troops.

The Governors of New York, Pennsylvania, and
Massachussetts have issued a call for militia to pro-
ceed forthwith to defend Washington. in twenty-
four hours the New York Ist Regiment, 800 strong,
left for Washington. Many other regiments are
hastening to defend the capital.
General M'Dowell has crossed the Rappahannock,
and advanced six miles beyond Fredericksburg.
The Confederates retreated, destroyed the bridges
behind them, but they are not supposed to be in
force in the neighbourhood.

(Per Niagara, by Telegraph to Halifax, and from

Queenstown.)

NEW YORK, MAY 29 (EVENING).

The excitement concerning General Banks's de-
feat has entirely subsided. His command has been
heavily reinforced at Williamsport and Harper's

Ferry.
The Confederates are reported to have passed
through Martinsburg, and to have returned to
Winchester.

Several volunteer regiments have left for Wash.

ington.

Recruiting for the Federal army had actively re•

commenced.

General officially reports the capture
of Hanover Courthouse, on the railroad between
Richmond and Fredericksburg. The Confederates
were routed. It is stated that the Federals cap-

tared sbo prisoners.

The Federal fleet has captured Natchez, on the
Mississippi. No resistance was offered.
The House of Representatives has offered to pass
a bill confiscating the property of men who shall
hereafter hold office under the rebel Government, or
who shall not lay down their arms within sixty
days after proclamation duly made by the Presi-
dent.

The House of Representatives has refused to pass
a bill confiscating the slaves of rebels.

General M'Dowell. has advanced to Manassas,
end is reported in large force.
The Secessionists in Western Tennessee are again
a aan.ifiprable force assembling to march
upon Hickman.

NEW YORK, MAY 27.

News received at the War Department up to
eight o'clock yesterday evening, contained no ac-
count of the retreat of General Banks's forces from
Witichester to Williams Fort.

An official despatch, received yesterday, fro m
General Banks, merely refers to the crossing of the
Potomac by his forces in perfect safety.

The latest news from Washington states that 300
men of the Ist Maryland Regiment, reported as
having been cut off to 40, have returned safely to
head-quarters.
The rumours that General M.Dowell had aban-
doned Fredericksburg, and retreated to Washing-
ton, are entirely without foundation. At the latest
accounts he had advanced six miles beyond Fre-
dericksburg. The Confederates evacuated their
camp on Saturday night. The Harris light cavalry
scoured the country for fifteen miles from the
Rappahannock, but found none of the enemy.
The President's call for additional troops from the
States has been responded to by nearly half a million
men. Colonel Lefferts started for Washington with
a full regiment fully equipped, amid the greatest
enthusiasm. Several other regiments of militia and
Major Bagley will follow with equal promptitude.

News from Newbern, North Carolina, states that
negotiations have bean entered into between Gene-
rals Wool and Burnside, and the Confederate Gene-
rals Hager and Holmes, for the release of 14,000 (P).
prisoners.

The PetersburgliTVlng states that on the 19th
18 of the Monitor's crew went ashore at City Point
and were surprised by the Confederates. Nine
were made prisoners. The remainder pulled for the
Monitor, and of these nine eight were killed, and
one lost an arm.

Great alarm exists in Richmond, in anticipation
of a coming battle, which must decide the fate of
the city. 200,000 dollars have been appropriated
by the Virginian Legislature to remove women and
children and decrepid persons at the seat of govern-
ment to a place of safety.
The Confederates, under General Joseph John-
ston, are now encamped within a few miles of Rich-
moud ; and the latest advices state that a desperate
defence will be made against the advance of Federals.
Confederate accounts from Corinth state that all
preparations are complete, and that a battle is im-
minent.

There is nothing important from the Virginian
valley.

Advises from the Mississippi flotilla state that
a demand by the Federal Commander for the sur-
render of Vicksburg Was made, to which the Mayor
replied that he was unprotected, but would never
surrender. All was quiet on the 19th.

A gunboat fight, near Fort Pillow, is represented
as another victory for the Confederates.

Martial law has been declared in the city of
Charlestown.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, MAY 29 (Evening.)
Money abundant. Gold, 3'a prem. Exchange
advancing on London. Bankers' bills,ll4l- to 1144.
Stocks dull. Cotton firmer. Breadstuffs declining.