The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, Mg._

ment is seen. The Federals, if report be true, have
destroyed parts of the railroads on which Richmond
depended
e a
for supplies, and this may keep " St d
e
one-
wall" JACKSON from advancing on Harper's Ferry
or Washington. In the West, however, and the
Border States the Confederates show greater
strength. No impression, even by the united Fede-
ral fleets, can be made on Vicksburg. In Kentucky
and Tennessee the Confederates are active in a
guerilla warfare, and if Nashville is a little more at
ease, they have made a successful inroad into
Missouri, and captured a place of the name
Greenfield. This Border State which seemed pretty
well secured, is now obliged to summon out and
organise afresh its entire militia to resist the Con-
federate guerillas. We are not, however, to look
for any decisive action for some time, at least not
in Virginia; the two armies there have both
sustained such losses, that with this and the state
of the weather, they are not likely to resume opera-
tions for some weeks or months. There is, how-
ever, a rumour of something great to be attempted
by the Confederates in the West ; and while the
rivers are low is the time for them to move. We
do not see while the gunboats are at a disadvantage
even on the Mississippi, or while they are occupied
uselessly at Vicksburg why the remains of BEAU-
REGARD'S Corinth army should not seize on and
recapture New Orleans with General BUTLER and
his 15,000 men. The dull time, however, seems to
• have come to America, as well as to England.

GARIBALDI'S admirers—and they count by the
million—will regret the error into which he is
blundering. It is comparatively a matter of indif-
ference whether the proclamation just put forth in
his name is authentic or not—the document now
coming to us via Turin, and purporting to have
been issued by the Italian Hero from Bois Fieuggi,
in the province of Corleone, in the island of Sicily.
Already GARIBALDI has expressed his views far
more plainly by word of mouth than he is now re-
presented to have done pen in band. A single sen-
tence taken almost haphazard, either from his re-
ported address to the Sicilians at Palermo, or from
that other speech of his delivered still more recently
at Marsala, might be pronounced far bolder, as a de-
claration of his intentious, than the whole of his Bois
Fieuggi Proclamation. In the latter instance he
seems to content himself with mere generalities.
" Young comrades !" he cries out to the recruits
now Clustering together (not in overwhelming
numbers !) under his banners, " the holy cause of
our country unites us again to-day, Without
asking where we are going," he continues rather
ambiguously, " with smiles upon your lips, you
have hastened hither to fight against arrogant
foreign rulers. I ask only of Providence to preserve
me your confidence. I can promise nothing but toils
and troubles, but confidently rely upon your self-
denial ; for well do I know you, oh ! mutilated
remnant of glorious battles ! it is unnecessary to
ask of you bravery in the fight, but I must ask you
to preserve discipline, without which no army can
exist." And so on—with absolutely not a word
more explicit as to the meaning of this new move-
ment. In effect it is the very vagueness of the
whole document that almost induces one to regard
it as apocryphal. It is so different from the direct
home thrust of that cry for " Stilletos " raised by
GARIBALDI at Palermo, or from that still bolder
signal for war given by him afterwards at Marsala,
when he exclaimed, more than once, " Rome or
Death !"

Meanwhile the KING himself has spoken out, in
no way ambiguously. Words could not be more
explicit than those put forth in his MAJESTY'S
name on the 3d instant in the form of a Royal
Proclamation. Addressing himself not to any one
section of the Italian multitude, but to all alike, to
the 25,000,000 indiscriminately,VicToß EMMANUEL
calls aloud, through this remarkable document, to
the whole race of the Italians. "To my People"
the proclamation is grandly headed. "At the
time," says the KING, " when Europe is rendering
homage to the wisdom of the nation, it is painful
to see young people, carried away by illusions and
forgetful of the duty of gratitude to our best allies,
make of the name of Rome—that name which is
the desire of all—the signal for war. When the
hour for the accomplishment of the enterprise shall
arrive, the voice of the KING will make itself heard.
Every other summons is that of rebellion and civil
war. The responsibility and the rigour of the law
will fall upon those who will not listen to my
words." Than which—could language, by any pos-
sibility, be plainer ? The words quoted above in
italics virtually pronounced GARIBALDI—of all men
in the wide world, GARIBALDI !—guilty of treason!
A traitor to that cause of which he has hitherto been
the foremost champion ! And while the KING thus
declares point blank against the present rash and in-
sensate designs of the Hero, the Provisional Prefect
of Palermo—his MAJESTY'S representative there in
Sicily—issues thence almost simultaneously a local
proclamation, declaring, with an almost painful
significance, that " the Government cannot renounce
its mission, cannot permit any name, however dear
to the country, to usurp the prerogatives of VICTOR
EMMANUEL." Meanwhile, all along the Roman
' frontiers the French troops have reassumed the
positions they had but so very recently evacuated.
The imperial squadron hovering off the Roman
coast being at the same time put upon the alert,
and the officer in command of it instructed to act
in any emergency that may arise with the utmost
decision and promptitude.
GARIBALDI, in truth, is quite manifestly—so far
as we can judge of the facts—overreaching himself.
A host of armed patriots at his back might doubt-
less enable him to accomplish what he purposes to
accomplish, But—is he not "counting without his
host ?" A few days will show how the great
General's mind is influenced by the attitude now
assumed—in direct antagonism to him and his
doings—by King VICTOR EMMANUEL. The Govern-
ment has been against him in word and in deed for
some time past. Ministers have spoken dead
against him,
m days and days ago, from the Tribune
of the Turin Chambers. The civil and military
instructed by Ministers, are doing their
very
utmost, north, south, east, and west, to put
down the new
ribaldian movement, to prevent
the enrolment Of any more Garibaldian volunteers,
to baulk the Hero of
Marsala at every step of
his towards any new or
has hithertetZtlev daring adventure.
GARIBALDI • ed aside the oppo-
of
• ly trifling im Port;gues, as a matter
of compara
AtiTyTeAzzi and his eoil„
.Persisting in his
and proclaiming
himself to the
last still loyally devoted to the cause of
VICTOR
original designs,
EMMANUEL, At last, however, the KING
has been
constrained to break with GARIBALDI, to stand ,
by
his Ministers, to uphold the dignity of
his crow,
and the independence
resolve—the anxiety
of his Government. Such
being at length the royal re
next is, to observe how that royal
resolve affects
the bearing and, we will add, the loyalty of
GARIBALDI.

How profane it was .of T u ,gh
AYARD to iaub

when Mr. DISRAELI, on Friday night, described
the successful fight of his Holy Tory Alliance. We
are sure the hon. member for Bucks looked
grave
enough as he rehearsed the Magtur,'
at of the Tories
and the Church—hOW could the hon. member for

Southwark look so very differently—or was it the
very gravity of him of Bucks, when talking of the
Church, which forced him of Southwark to smile or
something worse. Recounting the deeds of his party
during the session, said Mr. DISRAELI, "I will say at
least for the gentlemen who sit on this side of the
House that this is a session to which we have no
reason as a party to look back to with regret. We
have, in the first place, this session, after long years
of difficulty, and sometimes almost of despair, tri-
umphantly vindicated the status of the Church of
England." (Hear, hear, and a laugh from Mr.
LAYARD.) This was too much for him who once
vindicated the crucifiers of the Lord, but who new
vidicates the status of the Church—Church not of
CHRIST, but of England. We hope Mr. LAYARD
comported himself penitentially under the re-
buke which immediately followed—" An hon.
gentleman opposite, who I believe I may call
a minister, sneers at this assertion. There aro few
great things left. Among them is the Church, and
we have done this in a manner the most satisfac-
tory, because we have done it by Parliamentary
discipline, which is of no value, however perfect,
unless it is established upon the basis of sympathis-
ing public opinion."

They
have party COBDEN see what
the
for in the leader of the Opposi-
tion.e r
be
merely, A great part of them are not, like Mr.
COBDEN,economists represented
Mr.
they are politicians
tolook
m y
liberal reforms interest them as much as lowering
the income-tax, and amongst those reforms the
elevation of the status of all Christian Churches
is an object as important es that of ex-
tension of the franchise, or of saving a few mil-
lions a year. Not indeed that we depreciate these
last. We have contended for them both through
evil report and through good report, and shall con-
tinue to do so. Just now, however, Mr. DISRAELI
sees fit to glorify himself as vindicator of the
status of the Church ; and we wish the Liberal
party to understand what that means.

We need not say that the Church always means,
in their mouths, the Church of the TUDORS and
STUARTS—the Church settled by the notable Act of
1662, which turned out two thousand excellent
ministers because they could not conform to a
liturgy made avowedly as Popish as possible, that
they as Protestants might be unable to declare
their "assent and consent" to everything in the
Book of Common Prayer. By "the Church," the
Hon. BENJAMIN DISRAELI and Co. never mean all
the Christian men of the country, but all the Chris-
tians who worship by the Prayer-book by which they
themselves worship. TheChurch,according to the cen-
sus of 1851, comprised less than one-half the Christian
worshippers cif this country ; all the other Churches
of this country, which cost the State nothing,
having been found on the Census Sunday to have a
majority of worshippers. Mr. DISRAELI'S boast is,
that he and his maintained the status of Oda
minority Church.

Now, what is the status so successfully defended
by him ? Why, just a status of religious oppres-
sion and intolerance towards the churches of the
majority—a status of civil superiority, because of
their conformity to the Parliamentary creed and
rubrics of 1662—a status of religious tyranny, in
fact, because they have contrived to get all power
into their hands. The creed of all passably liberal
men, in these days, is, that no man ought to be at
the slightest disadvantage, before the law, because
of his religious convictions, or his religious worship,
or even his no-worship. We all surely believe, now,
that religion is an affair solely between a man and
his Maker, and we justly regard it as a remnant of
mediaeval ignorance and bigotry if any man would
assert civil or social superiority over his neighbour
because of his peculiar religious belief. In fact,
"religious equality" is, we may say with Lord
STANLEY himself, " the creed of the 19th century,"
and civil inequality on account of religion is, so far
as it goes, persecution. It is not indeed the gallows
and the stake—we may be thankful for that,
but the men who would depress the status of all
other Churches, to keep a supreme status for their
own, are just the men who, in 1662, would have
sent the Puritans to gaol, and at an earlier period
have furnished the materials for LESSING'S splendid
picture of Jour; Huss now exhibiting in the Egyp-
tian Hall.

We say this advisedly. Softened and enlightened
by the spirit of the age—by the hard fact, also,
that their Church is in a minority in the United
Kingdom—the Church status party, with the Hon.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI as leader, would not burn the
Dissenter—would not imprison him even, or put
him in the stocks—would not even fine him for
neglecting attendance at the parish church, unless
now and then, if he happened to be a poacher and
neglected prayers for hares ; but what of this ?
Small merit this in an age which half shrinks from
capital punishments altogether. The spirit of a
ma❑ is shown by his going as far as he can in any
direction ; and all the age will allow Mr. DISRAELI
is, to fight hard for the remnants and rags of bye-
gone superstition and intolerance; and this he
and his do with all their heart and soul and strength.
This said status of the Church which, by
the way, he reduces to a "thing," if it be a
" great one," means, as illustrated by the Dis-
RAELI exploits of last session, the power
to force the members of other communities to re-
pair the buildings in which the members of Mr.
DISRAELI'S Communion (if indeed it be his) wor-
ship; power to make them whitewash his church
walls, play his organ, pay his sexton, wash his
priest's surplice, and furnish bread and wine for the
priest to consecrate and give to Mr. DISRAELI !
Our readers must excuse our stating the naked
literal fact, for this, and nothing else, is what Mr.
DISRAELI means when he demands that Church-
rates should be retained as they are, and collected
with the poor-rates. He wishes—it is an undeniable
fact—to eat and drink the sacrament, but for dis-
senters to help to pay for what he eats and drinks,
as well as for what they use themselves ! This he
thinks a proper " status" for such a " great thing,''
as the Church of 1662, in A.D. 1862.

Other specimens of " status " relate to parish
burial grounds, which, though they belong to the
whole parish, he thinks should be limited to the
religious use of his Church—to trusteeships in
grammar schools, which though the deeds often
mention only that the trustees shall be "godly and
religious men," and prescribe no creed—cannot, he
thinks, be in the hands of godly men, unless they
be men who swear to the TUDOR and STUART Book
of Common Prayer, since his Church only has the
status of being "godly and religious"—to marriage
laws, which, because his church has a superstitious
prohibitory canon which Free Churches do not re-
cognise, compel all other churches to conform to his
church ; finally, " status" extends even to indeli-
bility orders, the status of his church requiring
that n
once made priests in it, can never get rid
of their ;wie
to
actual
service
and the civil disabilities belong-
ingservice in it, though they may re-
nounce that
service, and become averse to it.
Indeed his pa
xty •
think th
being interpreted into
ante; keeping infidels for its priests. Such,
e status of their church
e
'e N. English, is the
meaning of the DISRAEL/
have vindicated the `f status ofsh that he and his
that great thing".
the Church.

THE CARRION BILL.

•
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—It is to be hoped that the members who
have stood forward to oppose the so-called Night
Poachingeofnhbefore Parliament rises, give
n
intention, at the earliest oppor-
tunity uo session, severally to bring in
tntiiety i Billttheir
the
will,
next
bills for the total repeal of the Game Laws.
Some member might likewise bring in a bill to
abolish all private hiring of the police. The poor
fellows have quite enough to do without this de-
gradation.
It is desirous that during the recess an Anti-
Game Law Society be formed, and communication
kept up with every county in England; and when
members again appear before their constituents
the nefarious scheme lately brought forward be
specially denounced, and measures be taken to upset
its bad tendencies.

Yours, respectfully,
CROAT WELL.

TICKET-OF-LEAVE MEN.

LATEST NEWS•

CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, AUG. 2.

The royal mail steam-ship Europa, from Boston
on the 23d and Halifax on the 25th inst., arrived
here at 4.30 p.m.

She brings 103,405 dols. and 82 passengers. She
landed 67 sacks of mails and five passengers, and
proceeded at 5 p.m. ; all well.
(Per Europa, via Boston and Roche's Point.)
NEW YORK, JULY 22, EVENING.
The enlistments aontinue somewhat inactive.

Vigorous efforts and further inducements to volun-
teering continue to be made.
A portion of General Pope's command has made
a descent upon the Virginia Central Railroad, 35
miles from Richmond, destroyed the railroad, the
telegraph line, and a quantity of Confederate stores.

Great excitement prevails at Nashville. The
Federal pickets have been driven in, and the Con-
federates are reported to be within five miles of

that city.

The arrival of the Confederate ram at Vicksburg
is confirmed ; also that she succeeded in getting
under the batteries at Vicksburg.

Arrangements have been concluded for a general
exchange of prisoners.

President Lincoln has issued an order forbidding
military commanders from exacting the oath of
allegiance from foreigners. In all cases where an
alien is deprived of his liberty a full account of the
circumstances must be sent to the War Department
for the consideration of the State Department.
The Governor of Ohio has issued a proclamation
to the effect that if the quota of troops demanded
is not raised in 40 days he will resort to draughting.
Federal military Governors have been appointed
for Louisiana and Arkansas.
At the request of the British Government General
Butler has recognised Mr. Coppell, the British act-
ing Consul at New Orleans.
A street riot has occurred at New Orleans in con-
sequence of the arrest of a woman wearing a Seces-
sion badge.

The British steamer Adela has been captured eas'
of Abaco.

The New York and City of Washington have

arrived out.

The Asia was intercepted off Cape Race on the
the 21st inst.

(By Telegraph to Halifax and from Queenstown.
NEW YORK, JULY 24, EVENING.

Much public despondency exists, and the people
appear inclined to take more gloomy views of the
position of affairs than at any time since the com-
mencement of the struggle.

The popular confidence in General M'Clellan
appears shaken by the late events before Richmond,
and many of his admirers now assert that he is not
the man of action.

All coin of any description has almost entirely
disappeared as a circulating medium, and postage
stamps of all denominations are generally employed
for small change. The public freely accept them
as currency; many articles of daily use are, how-
ever, advanced in price.
Some anxiety exists to hear the comments in
Europe upon the news of the Federal check before
Richmond.

General Halleck has been officially appointed as
General-in-Chief to command all the land forces of
the United States.

The appointment has been favourably received
by the public.
President Lincoln has issued a proclamation au-

thorising the military commanders to seize and use
for the Federal army all property, real and personal,
in the Confederate States which may be necessary
for military purposes, but not otherwise. Property
may be destroyed for military purposes, but not
otherwise. The military and naval commanders
shall employ as many negroes for labourers as can
be advantageously used for military or naval pur-
poses, and pay them wages,

Reinforcements for General M'Clellan continue

to arrive at Fort Monroe.
Interesting news has been received from General
Al‘Clellan's head-quarters. A portion of General
Pope's command had a successful skirmish with the
Confederate cavalry beyond Fredericsburgh, burnt
their camp, and ceptnred some stores.
An unsuccessful attempt has been made by the
Federal fleet at Vicksburg to destroy the Confede-
rate ram lately arrived at that place.
The Mississippi has fallen so low that the Federal
flotilla before Vicksburg is unable to act.
The Confederates under General Morgan, in
Kentucky, have retreated before the Federals, and
passed throughumberland Gap into Tennessee:

The Confederates are reported to have retired
from before Nashville, and the fears of an attack
upon that city have subsided.
The Confederates after a severe fight have cap-
tured Greenville, Missouri.
The Governor of Missouri has issued orders for
the organization of the entire Militia of Missouri,
to resist the Confederate guerilla incursions.
It is asserted that the Confederates demand the
surrender of the Federal General Butler, for the
alleged murder of Mr. Mumford at New Orleans,
General M'Call if
and that they threaten to hang

refused.
The Africa has arrived out.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money abundant. Gold has declined to 17 per
cent. premium. Exchange, 130, unsettled and
lower. Stocks inactive. Cotton flat and lower.
Breadstuffs lower.

QUEENSTOWN, Auo. 3.

The Royal Mail steamship Scotia arrived here at
8 a.m. to-day. She embarked mails and pas-
sengers, with the latest telegrams, and proceeded
for New York at 4 p.m. ; all well.