The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-11 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, WEDNESDAY, EVENING, JUNE 11, 18G2.

profession.
That the change marked out by the New
Orders devised by the Right Hun. the Lord
Chancellor will bring about a very great and a
very obvious improvement, who shall venture to
gainsay ? By breaking the machinery, by destroy-
ing the jennies, by burning down the new factories,
and so forth—if only these things could have been
done upon a sufficiently large scale—the handlooms
would still, perhaps, for a little time longer, have
kept their shuttles flying to and fro, busily enough
to secure for the men sitting at them, and for their
wives and children, the means of earning for a
few months longer a bare subsistence. The end
would still have come eventually, even in that case.
The evil day would only have been postponed a
little while ; and would have been, even then, bur-
thened with the additional penalty of a heavy
punishment. A kindred argument might have been
used against the new fangled system of steam
driven locomotives, and railroads, and railway car-
riages by all the persons interested or engaged in
the old coaching system, from the proprietors down-
wards to the booking-office clerks, the coachmen,
the guards, the luggage porters, and the very helps,
and hangers-on, and odd-men loitering about the
the stable yards. it is a very old story indeed,
from first to last, and admits of a pretty wide
application. It is the very specious objection
raised (by the immediate sufferers) against every
improvement. But it cannot, for an instant,
bear looking into. The good of the many more
than counterbalances the evil to the (comparatively)
very few. To reason thus may sound harsh to
those few, to those immediate sufferers from each
proposed improvement, but the necessity for thus
reasoning is unavoidable. The resolution which
was moved yesterday afternoon by Mr. BETTS, and
seconded by Mr. Pi cannot, unhappily, be pro-

flounced in any way an exaggeration. The rea•

sonableness of it even will be admitted by none
more readily—and we hesitate not to assert, with
confidence, by none more painfully, or more sym-
pathisingly—than by the Lord Chancellor. It is
the resolution, we mean, running to the effect that
the new orders about to come into operation on the
18tb instant—that disastrous Waterloo for all the
poor law writers—will as a matter of dead certainty
have a most prejudicial effect upon a large number
of men who are now honourably supporting their
families as law writers, and who are by the honest

exercise of their abilities in this way giving satis-
faction to the legal profession. " 'Tis true 'tis pity

—and pity 'tis, 'tis true !" But how is the reason
'or this unhappy consequence to be avoided ? By

the Lord Chancellor, the legal profession gene.

rally, the public at large, forgoing the proposed

change for the better ? Impossible. As well might
the handloom weavers have seriously petitioned

Parliament to put down machinery and manufac-
tories, As well might all the Old W. ELLERS

in the land have signed a round robin to the Lords
and Commons, asking that the construction of rail.

ways might have been declared a penal offence by
the Legislature. All that can be done now is to
put a good fate upon the matter. The printing of
legal documents has been the system in vogue
throughout Scotland, and it works there, as a

system, in a manner in the highest degree
satisfactory. A similar system will now be
immediately introduced here in England by
order of the now Lord Chancellor. We have
not a doubt but that it will work amongst us in time
quite as satisfactorily. Meanwhile, at the moment
of the change beginning, we earnestly trust that
every possible effort will be made, both in the pro•
fession and out of it, to mitigate as far as may be
in any way practicable, the ill effects of the tran-

sition period to the immediate sufferers from the
mere fact of the improvement—the law-writers,
the copying-clerks, and the law-stationers.

Again one turn of the scale is somewhat in favour
of the Federals, and "Report" would send it down
with a bump. The Confederates have evacuated
Corinth, and moved south by way of Grand Junc-
tion, and left to HALLECK the task of following
them, if he can. Corinth was a mere village, but
en excellent railway position, and all accounts re-
preseutcd it as a strong military position also, while
BEAVREGARD had done so much artificially that
HAULM was
contemplating only regular ap-
proaches. This
movement, therefore, ought to
indicate that
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both, and t.bese may have given HALLECK
a great
advantage.

As to the nem; prefaced by "it is said," or " it
faith in it,
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orte4 is impossible to put any

and industrious men out of employment. The •
consequences will therefore be to inflict anguish
and privation not only upon themselves indivi-
dually, but also upon the families dependent upon
them for support.
Su;h, however, is the old but inevitable re-
sult of every great and radical change in any
branch of industry whatever, in every highly
civilised community. What brings happiness to
one set of men, brings misery to another. Increased
work, and with it, of course, increased remunera-
tion, are secured to hundreds or thousands, upon
one hand, by the very change that throws hundreds
or thousands, upon the other hand, wholly and sud-
denly out of employment. All transition times,
therefore, are productive of temporary misfortune
to some, though eventually proving (if but wisely
directed) to the indisputable advantage of all. The
riots in the manufacturing districts immediately
upon the first introduction of machinery are yet
borne very painfully, in those parts, in the popular
remembrance. The poignancy of the recollection
is in some measure mitigated, no doubt, by the fact
of their being mostly now traditional. The genera-
tion that witnessed them has almost entirely dis-
appeared. Yet are they still, we repeat, held in
mind by the few aged survivors who actually
witnessed them, or who even took part in them.
And the lamentable details have so frequently
been related from father to son, that, even
upon hearsay evidence, they are familiar to the
mind's-eye of the latter almost as events of yes-
terday. By the introduction of machinery—there
cannot remain any doubt whatever as to the poor
handloom weavers being thrown out of employ-
ment, and they and their families driven to destitu-
tion. Until—that is—the time should have arrived
when they could put their hands to new work,
and labour with a will in some new capacity alto-
gether. Precisely with the same truth, a similar
complaint can now be raised, is now very loudly,
but we cannot but think also very tardily raised, by
those more skilled labourers, the law writers, the
copying clerks, and the law sta►ioners aforesaid.
The printing of the Affidavits and Answers in
Chancery from the 18th instant must naturally and
inevitably militate seriously, nay, we fear in many
instances, disastrously against their interests. Not
a doubt of it. It is very painful, indeed, that it
should be so. But how possibly is it to be avoided ?
It is one of those lamentable results of a happy pro-
gress and a benign improvement, incidental at all
times and seasons to every industry and to every

We can merely note it, and wait to see whether
report is a liar or not. The North has taken
effectual precautions against our hearing anything
but the most favourable version both of its defeats
and successes. This very day a telegram from
New York tells us that ITCLELLAN was about to
open trenches against Richmond, and bring up
Parrott guns from Yorktown; while an evening
telegram says that every morning there was " a
report," that the city was evacuated. The same
respectable informant mentions the evacuation of
Petersburg which lies 20 or 30 miles south of
Richmond. On the same authority we learn that
BANKS is returning to the south of the Potomac.
The information respecting General BUTLER'S
high-handed proceedings at New Orleans appears
to rest on better authority. There is no doubt, we
believe, of his infamous order respecting ladies
who offered feminine insults to the Federal
flag, and the last freaks of the general
seem likely to bring him iato collision with foreign
Powers. He has seized 100,000 dollars (L 20,000)
from the Dutch Consulate, the consul, of course,
protesting ; and is quarrelling with the British
Consul over the imprisonment of several per-
sons " formerly members of the British Guard at
New, Orleans." All the consuls are protesting
against his conduct, but he probably considers them
to be guilty of Southern proclivities. As to the
inhabitants of New Orleans, they continue as hos-
tile and unmanageable as ever. While in Mary-
land itself, the Episcopal Church has contrived to
offer the Federal Government a bitter insult, which
it has no means of resenting.

ANACREONTIC.

BY THOMAS MOORE THE LITTLE.
(From Fun.)
In the heyday of youth, v‘ ith what folly unthinking,
We plunge into Pleasure's delirious stream—
For there's pleasure in eating and pleasure in drinking,
And as yet indigestion is only a dream.

We pierce not the Future, we live for the moment,
The Present is golden, and Youth is divino ;
Dishes ripe with Dyspepsia we taste without comment,
And quaff with impunity logwooded wine.
But, ah I when we find we've such organs as stomachs,
And learn, when a few fleeting years we've seen pass,
That French dinners will middle-aged temperaments
flummox,
And that, anes in the head are produced by the glass;

Ah I then we admit that we slighted each warning,
That Life was swift-footed, and Pleasure but short,
And that headaches most likely will follow next morning
Indulgence too great in South African Port.

That Champagne from the duchy of famed Montebello,
Will old gooseberry play with the biliary ducts;
(And Jaundice, you know, with its rich golden yellow,
Supervenes when derangement those channels obstructs:

And that even the Claret of GLADSTONE'S own vintage,
If drunk to excess (and no matter how small),
Will conduce to that inward acidity's mintage,
Which people low-minded the "mulligrubs" call.

For, ab. I there are demons that lurk in each bubble,
Which brightens the wine .cup, and winks at its brim,
They slip down your throat, your digestion to trouble,
To parch up your mouth and 3 our eyesight to dim,

Yet oft, when at night fast the mirth is careering,
E'en middle-aped Prudence grows careless awhile,
And you swallow the demons, unthinking, unfearing,—
And remember the morrow with only a smile.

But oh ! whea at daybreak your heads throbbing madly,
The Present's Distress blots the bygone Delight,
While you look at your face in the glass and sigh sadly,
" That must have been very bad wine there last night!

Then let from your revels excesses be banished,
And seek with a step somewhat steady your bed ;
Or you'll find in the morn Pleasure's gold has-all vanished,
And left you with only hot coppers instead!

The Austrian Government has, it is said, at the
instance of the Emperor Napoleon, consented to employ its
good offices towards effecting a reconciliation or an arrange-
ment between Montenegro and the Porte, and M. de Mou-
etier at Constantinople and the Duke do Gramont at
Vienna have received instructions to that effect.
The Minister of Marine, it appears, has asked for
a credit of some millions of francs for the Mexican expedi-
tion, and probably the War Minister will request similar
assistance. The reinforcements for General de Lorencez
will go out in October.
OUR COTTON FIELDS.—The first experiment of
cotton. growing on a large scale is now commencing to bear
fruit. Four bales of cotton grown within one mile of the
centre of the town of Ipswich were yesterday shipped by li
the steamer Ipswich to Brisbane, there to be transhipped
for Sydney, and from thence to London, This cotton has
been grown on a ten-acre block of land belonging to Mr.
Penton The land has been cleared, ploughed, and weeded,
and the crop tended throughout by white labour, the pro-
cess of picking being carried on by children wader the
direction of a grown-up person. About one half of the
crop has already been gathered, and the proprietor estimates
the yield at about 400 lbs. of clean cotton to the acre,—
Queensland Times.
LIFEBOATS FOR FRANCE.—The Emperor of the
French has nominated a commission consisting of the Mi-
nisters of Marine and Finance and the Engineer inChief, to
organise a complete system of lifeboats on the French coast
similar to that now so efficiently in operation on the English
coast, chiefly under the control of the National Lifeboat
Institution. France has a seaboard of nearly 900 mike.
Hitherto the means of saving life from shipwreck' on it has
been lamentably deficient. Some engineer officers are now
on the French coast gathering every informatiim they can
on this important subject. It is expected that they will
shortly cross the channel and visit some of the English
lifeboat stations.

GREAT FIRE NEAR BRUSSELS.—OR Saturday
night a terrible fire broke out in an immense wax-candle
factory at Anderlecht, near Brussels. The buildings were
close to the gasworks, and, as it was known that an explo-
sion from the gasometer would destroy all that part ( f the
faubourg, the outbreak of the fire created a complete
panic ; but fortunately individuals possessing more courage
and presence of mind soon showed themselves, and the pipes
being cut the gas was allowed to escape into the fields, and
the gasometer was soon empty. The buildings were
burned to the ground, and merchandise estimated at
600,000 f. was destroyed. The loss, however, both of
buildings and goods, is believed to be covered by the
insurance, which amounts in all to 1,016,000 f.

NO HUSBANDMAN.—During the session at Wake-
field a witness was asked if he was not a husbandman, when
he hesitated for a moment, then coolly replied, amid the
laughter of the court—" No, sir, I'se not married."

A FERTILE PARISIL—A few days the wife of

Mr. Henry Graham, of Mitcham, was safely deliN;;;1 of
three fine children—two boys and a girl. There was one
more child, making four in all, but it was stillborn. The
correspondent who sends us this intelligenee remarks that
during the last three months there have been seven births
of twins in the parish.—Sussex Advertiser.

THE GREATEST PHENOMENON IN THE:WORLD.

—lt may interest some of our readers to hear that William
Champi, the largest living giant, and David Napoleon, the
smallest and handsomest dwarf living, will visit England
next October for the purpose of being exhibited. William
Champi was born at Stockholm, and is 22 years of age.
He is eight feet high, and weighs 3.64 pounds. He mea-
sures 56 inches round the chest; the length of his arms are
40 inches, and his hauls 11 inches; the length of his legs
to the knees are 31 inches, and 21 inches thick ; the length
of his feet 16 inches, and measures round the waist 44
inches. David Napoleon, who was born at Dresden, is
24 years of age, his size being 24 inches, and weighs only
26 pounds. The breadth of his chest is seven inches, the
length of his arms 10 inches, his hands 31 inches, his legs
eight inches, his feu four inches, and measures round the
body 171 inches. William Champi, in 1860, while at Riga,
was invited by a Grand Duke to visit Russia, so that he
may attract a great number to visit him when he arrives
here.

FEMALE ADULT PAUPERS.—Yesterday morning
the following curious return was issued of the female adult
paupers in the -workhouses of the several unions and
parishes of England and Wales, classified according to
character :—Single women pregnant with their first child,
569; single women who have had one bastard child, 2,817;
,single women who have had one bastard child and are preg-
nant again, 292; single women who have had two bastard
children, 1,711; single women who have bad three bastard
children, 877; single women who have had four or more
bastard children, 782; idiotic or weak-minded single women
wi h one or more bastard children, 470; women whose out-
relief has been taken off on account of misconduct, 327;
women, incapable, from syphilis, of getting their own liv-
ing, 543 ; prostitutes, 790; girls who have been out at ser-
vice, bat do not keep their places on acc,..unt of misconduct,
383; girls brought 1113 in the workhouse, and who have
been out at service, but have returned on account of mis-'
conduct, 373 ; widows who have had one or more bastard
children during their widowhood, G 80; married women
with husbands in the workhouse, 1,698; married women

with husbands transported or in gaol, 258 ; married women
deserted by their husbands, 2,:31 ; imbecile, idiotic, or
Weak-minded women and girls, 5,160; respectable women
and girls incapable of getting their living on account of
illness or other bodily defect or infirmity, 5,300 ; respectable
able-bodied women and girls, 2,267; respectable aged
women, 11,610. Total; 39,073.

LATEST NEWS.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT EASTERN.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 11.

The Great Eastern arrived here this morning.
She loft New. York on the Ist inst., and brings
nearly 400 passengers and 56,000 dols. in specie.

NEW YORK, JUNE 1.
(Per Great Eastern, via Liverpool.)

_ .
Refugees at Chicago report that the Federals
have occupied Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Little
Rock, Arkansas.

Refugees arrived at Norfolk report that the
Confederate army at Richmond numbers 200,000

men.

Nothing at all definite has been ascertained as to
where the Confederates have retreated from Corinth.

General Halleck officially reports that the ac-
counts are conflicting as to the enemy's movements,
but he believes him to be in strong force on the
Federal left flank, four or five miles south of
Corinth, near the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
It is confirmed that a portion of General Banks'
division has advanced beyond Martinsburg, and
recaptured Front Royal, taking upwards of 150
prisoners.

General Halleck telegraphs as follows from Co-
rinth, May 30:—
" The enemy's position and works in front of
Corinth were exceedingly strong.
"He cannot occupy a stronger position in his
flight. This morning ho destroyed an immense
amount of public and private property—stores, pro-
visions, waggons, tents, &c. For miles out of the
town the roads are filled with arms, havresacks, &c.,
which have been thrown away by his fleeing troops.

"A large number of prisoners and deserters have
been captured, Their number is estimated by Gen.
Pope at 2,000.

" Beauregard evidently distrusts his army, or he
would have defended so strong a position. His
troops are, generally much discouraged and demo-
ralised.

"In all the engagements for the last few days
their resistance has been slight.
(Signed) "H. W. HALLECK, Major-General."

EVACUATION OF CORINTH BY THE
CONFEDERATES.
(Per Anglo• Saxon via Quebec and Londonderry.)
NEW YORK, MAY 31.
The Confederates evacuated Corinth on the 29th

inst.

The correspondent of the New 3 ork Times con-
siders it possible that the Federal army may go
into trenches before Richmond, and that heavy
Parrott siege guns will be brought from Yorktown.
The Confederates still threaten the Federal lines

at Harper's Ferry.
The latest advices from New Orleans are consi-
dered favourable for the prospect of cotton coming
in. 400 bales had arrived.
General Butler continues to govern New Orleans
with the utmost military rigour.
The inhabitants do not appear to have shown
any symptoms of becoming reconciled to Federal
authority.
Advicas from New Orleans confirm the seizure
by General Butler of 100,000 dole. at the Dutch
Consulate.
The foreign Consuls unanimously protested.
A correspondence has taken place between Butler
and the British Consul relative to the imprisonment
by Butler of British subjects, formerly members of
the British. Guard in New Orleans, who were accused
of sending arms and accoutrements to Beauregard.
The radtter had not been decided, and was still in
abeyance.

Several Trench men-of-war are now at New
York.

(Latest by Telegraph to Father Point.)
NEW YORK, MAY 31, Evening.
General Banks is reported to have again ad-
vanced into Virginia, and to have passed Martins-
burg.
A Federal brigade is reported to be driving the
Confederates out of Front Royal.
The Confederates retreated from Corinth to
Grand Junction, and thence southward.
It was reported yesterday morning that Richmond
was evacuated, and Memphis nearly deserted.
No direct advices have, however, been received
here of the evacuation of Richmond, and the report
is therefore doubtful.
The Few York, Tribune says that a circular of
the Secretary of the Treasury forbids the entry of
all kinds of liquors into the Southern ports lately
opened for trade.
The Maryland Episcopal Convention have ex-
cluded from their committee nearly all the mem-
bers who remain loyal to the Federal Government.
It is reported from Norfolk that Petersburgh has
been evacuated.
union meeting is to be held in Norfolk, and,
if it be satisfactory to General Wool, President
LineOln will be recommended to reopen Norfolk to
trade.
The Hibernian arrived out on the 29th inst.