The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-29 00:00:00

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EVERY WEEK,
ONE PENNY.

OR YSTAL PALA CE.-TO-MORROW.
V OPEN from NINE TILL DARK.—ONE SHILLING,

CRYSTAL PALACE.--TO-MORROW
AFTERNOON at FOUR.—BLONDIN'S EXTRA-
ORDINARY LOW TIGHT - ROPE PERFORM-
ANCE, will, among others, include the following
feats : Clog Dance, —Basket Dance— Stilt Dance—
Somersaults over Burning Candles—Great Chair
Feats—Le Tour du, Chapeau—Overtures on the Violin—
Flag Dance—Dt uyn Polka—Daring Somersaults. Reserved
seats will be provided.

CRYSTAL PALACE. —TO - MORROW
(FRIDAY).
Orchestra Band at
Great Organ Performance at ..... ... 2.0
Fountains at
Blondin at • • ..,... 4'o
Great Organ Performance at ........... ... 5'30

*** For full particulars of amuscinClas see first page.
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ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT- GARDEN.
This Evening, Balfe's popul Opera of THE ROSE OF
CASTILLE.
Commence at S.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
This Evening, A JOSS IN THE DARK. After which,
the first part of the. AraP. Entertainment at half-past 7.' To
be followed by TEI, COLLEEN BAWN. To conclude with
THE ARABS 0/ TH..14. DESERT. A Troupe of the Beni-
Zoug-Zoug,. Commence at 7.

TnEATiitt-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
This Evening', FISH OUT OF WATER. After M which,
OUR AERJ.CAN COUSIN. With CELOS Y'CALIA.
And TILE CP.,RISTENING.

Commence at 7.

I\T'W THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.
This Evening, THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER.
Followed by ADRIENNE LE COUVREUR. And THE
SrIILLING DAY.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S .
This Evening,, THE RENDEZVOUS.THEATRE After which, at a
quarter to 8, KING HENRY VII:. With THE TWO
VOLTS. Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
This Evening, PEEP O'DAY. Followed by KILLAR-
NEY. Conclude with THE COLLEEN BAWN SETTLED
AT LAST. Commence at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
This Evening, MAZEPPA. Brilliant Scenes in the Circle.
Concluding with a Comic Ballet.

Commence at 7.

S \CRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL.—
' The Messiah " will be again performed This Evening, at
8 o'clock.

MR. and MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS " AT
HOME," at Her Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket, This
Evening. Commence at 8.

W. S. WOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES,
Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Charing-cross.
Commence at S.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay-
market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing.

CANTERBURY HALT.,.—EVERY EVENING.—
Steckel, the great Trapeze performer—Grand Operatic Selec-
tion am usual - Unsworth,lugene, and Daley, the great comic
trio, &c

Commence at 7.

THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERY
EVE \" Ii Corsaro," with full band and
chorus.—The con) to performance of Miss Caroline Parkes
Steckel on the ?'lying Trapeze—The Ethiopian oddities of
Rumsey, Newcomb, &c.

Commence at 7.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1862.

The long-expected retreat of M'CLELLAN is at
length announced. It comes is the form of a
" supposition"—of the truth of which, however, we
can hardly doubt. And, as in the first Federal ac-
count of the seven days' defeats before Richmond,
it was added that the flank movement was for a
"strategic purpose," so now there is a kind of half
intimation of something similar. Much more mo-
dest this time, it is true, for it is only said that it
is not known yet where General M'CLELLAN'S
army would operate. Just the suggestion is thus
made, that amongst possibilities, it might be reck-
oned that the late grand army of the Pctomac, later
grand army before Richmond, and latest grand
army of retreat, had some mysterious scene of ope-
rations in view. The only particulars furnished of
the retreat are, that it assumed a kind of swallow-
tailed form ; bifurcating from Harrison's Landing,
on the left towards Williamsburg and Yorktown,
on the right down the James River ; the former
half of the army being crowded into transports, but
to the saving of their legs, the other half having
more space, but being obliged to walk—possibly
run for it. We are told, however, that the Confe-
derates had not up to that time molested their re-
treating adversaries. Whether unabie to plant
batteries in time on the James River, which the
gunboats also protected, or to spare cavalry and
flying artillery to pursue the fugitives towards
we are not told, Probably the
Confederates, whose strategy has always been so
able, held with the great German General that we
Ought to " build a bridge of gold for a fleeing
eneray." No better habit to teach an enemy
than that of thinking flight safe, and fighting not
necessary, Nothing less prudent than to place him
in the position in which desperation might force
him to victory, and so to teach him courage by
making cowardice useless. Probably General LEE
well understands all this, and, as engaged in a de-
fensive war, only Wants his enemies to "move off."
Where indeed the Battle enemies would "move
on"—he shows them that that is a very different
affair. General POPE wished to de
80, and appa-
rently to come down from the North on ltichmond.
But LEE sends STONEWALL JACKSON to inform
him
that there is "no road this way." In the oPPositb
direction, from Richmond, POPE and BAIMS might
find, like M'CLELLAN, as good and quiet a road as
they wish. But by order of JEFFERSON Davis
and the South, "No roadfrorn the North to Rich.
mond.

Respecting, indeed, the position of JAOKSON and
POPE, the telegrams appear somewhat conflicting
in their accounts of the positions and movements
of the Confederate and the Federal troops. We
gather from them, however—as they are Northern
accounts—that JACKSON must be in a position,with
the 60,000 men assigned him, to forbid Popes ad-
vance. The incidents mentioned look unfavourable
for him. BURNSIDE, who was to have joined him,
keeps aloof, and POPE himself is learning a little
modesty. He finds that reprisals are possible;
some thirty of his commissioned officers were cap-
tured in the late engagement between him and
JACKSON at Cedar Mountain, and these, as Prasi-
dent DATIS threatened, are imprisoned and treated
68 felons, and will be so till POPE recalls his in-
famous order. Already he has begun to do so,
He has issued a proc7aniation that his order has
been abused he now forbids his officers and
men to molest or disturb the property of citizens,
and declares that aos of
pillage and outrage will
be punished. Whether the Southern authorities
will accept an interpretation of the original order,
instead of its recall, remains to t.
us seen. POPE
shows, however, that he thinks it prudent to
change his tone in the face of generals