The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-29 00:00:00

attached a corn doctor and assistants, who will:do
their part to keep the feet of the men in order, either
to overrun the South or run away from it, as strategy
may compel. But perhaps if the Federal army
were treated to a little wholesome neglect in this
matter, and forced to fight shoeless on half rations,
like " Stonewall" Jackson's men, it might convert
some of its drawn battles into decided victories.
Who knows ? Ragged men, with a patriotic pur-
pose, are not to be judged by their clothes, but by
their deeds ; and in this respect " Stonewall" Jack-
son and Gen. Lee—who want no corn doctors for
their troops—might set the Federal Government an
example in economy as well as in dash, and prove
that a pampered army is not necessarily the most
efficient.

Some of the Pennsylvanian Quakers and New
York Shakers have pleaded exemption from the
draught in both States on the ground of their reli-
gious scruples against war. The plea has been al-
lowed in both instances. Emboldened by their suc-
cess, a few Jews of New York city have petitioned
either for exemption or for a change in the diet of
the army. Pork and beans being the staple dish—
four times a week in some divisions, and seven times
a week in others, they claim that compulsory ser-
vice with such food is a violation of their religious
liberty, and that their objection is as valid as that of
the Quakers. Possibly, if the Hebrews ware poor
enough to be unable to find substitutes glad to feed
upon pork and beans, or numerous enough to form
a separate corps, the Government, so careful of the
soldiers' feet, would take the point into its careful
consideration with a view to a remedy. But as it is
the plea will stand as a joke, and the Hebrews will
find substitutes should they be draughted into the
doubly unpalatable service of the Government.
Much dissatisfaction that does not find its way
into print, for fear of the penalties of that elastic
offence, " the discouragement of recruiting," exists
throughout the army. Not only has the bountymoney
due by the Government not been paid in thousands,
or it may be tens of thousands of cases, but the pay
of more than one-half of the army is in arrear. It is
the rule of the service, and the expectation of the
soldiers, that payment should not be delayed beyond
two months, but there are many regiments in the
field which have not received a cent. of pay for
eight months. The soldiers during all that time have
been running up bills, at enormous rates of over-
charge, with the camp sutlers and other leeches, whe
suck them to repletion. Mr. Chase, it appears,
cannot get notes or bills printed fast enough to
meet his liabilities; and it is of no use to print
those for the larger amounts of twenty, fifty, and
a hundred dollars, unless there be a sufficient sup-
ply of small change to meet the small but multitu-
dinous and, in the aggregate, large demands of
retail trade, in military as well as civil life. The
sight of a soldier begging in the streets, though not
frequent, is not altogether unknown in this city ;
and the charge against some of the officers of new
brigades in process of formation of having re-
ceived the funds to pay their men their bounties
and having neglected to do so, in order to have the
use of the money in the meantime, or to advance it
to clamorous applicants at a heavy discount, is so
frequently made as to justify the belief that there
must be fire somewhere to account for so much
smoke. A Washington paper states that there are
requisitions for 45,000,000 doll. (nine millions
sterling) lying unhonoured at this moment in the
Treasury Department, for want of funds to meet
them ; and that this large amount is not only due
to contractors for supplies, but to soldiers for pay.
When soldiers fight out of hatred, vengeance, or
patriotism, as in the South, the pay is a small
matter; but when Irishmen and Germans engage to
fight for money, as in the North, the pay is a matter
which the Government is most unwise to neglect,
and which may cause mischief at a critical period.

211 E NAVY.

Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert,
Capt. G. H. Seymour, C. 8., arrived at Portsmouth

on Monday evening from Antwerp and Sheerness.
She left the Mouse Light the same morning, and
steamed down Channel against a strong gale, meet-
ing a large number of vessels putting back owing
to the violence of the weather, and among them a
four-masted screw steamer, with machinery appa-
rently damaged. Notwithstanding this unfavour-
able condition of the weather, the yacht averaged
13 knots' speed during the passage from the Mouse
to Spithead.
The Trafalgar, 86, Capt. the Hon. T. Baillie, sailed
from St. Helen's Roads, off Falmouth, at noon
yesterday, under canvass for the westward, calling

in at Plymouth Sound for final orders.
The Megmra screw troopship, Commander Hen-
derson, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday, and will
be docked to make good existing defects and prepare

for further troop service.
The Resistance, 16, screw iron ram, Capt. Cham-
berlain, will go into Portsmouth harbour this
morning from Spithead, in order to have certain re-
pairs carried out to her iron capstan, caused in
weighing her second anchor recently at Spithead.
The Defence, 16, iron ram, Capt. A. Phillimore,
is expected to sail from Spithead for Lisbon early
this morning.
The Revenge, screw line-of-battle ship, Captain
Fellowes, flagship of Rear-Admiral Smart, K.H., is
expected to sail from Spithead on Saturday, for
Lisbon and Gibraltar, in company of the Resistance,
if the repairs to the latter's capstan are completed.
A court-martial is ordered for to-morrow on a
marine belonging to the Revenge, to be held on
board the Victory, Port Admiral's flagship.
The Eclipse, 4, screw gunboat, Commander
Mayne, at Portsmouth, on her way from the Nore
for China, is detained to carry out slight repairs to
portions of her machinery.
The Elk, 12, attached to the sailing reserve at
Chatham, has been run into by the brig Britannia,
T. Smith, master, while the latter was beating up
the harbour. The Elk had a portion of her figure-
head carried away, and received other damage.
The screw steamer Vigilant, 4, 200 horse power,
Commander the Right Hon. Lord W. B. Elphin-
stone, which arrived at the Note a few days since
from the east coast of Scotland, has been taken into
dock for the purpose of making good the injuries
she sustained from having been driven on shore on
the Gunfleet Sands during the recent gale. Since
she has been in dock she has been carefully sur-
veyed by the officials; the result has been to dis-
cover that she has seriously injured her stern-post,
and strained her keel and most of her timbers,
loosening her bolts, and causing her to leak
very much. During the time the Vigilant is
under repair at the dockyard the officers and
crew will occupy the naval barracks. The Vigilant
was intended to be despatched to the West Indies,
but, in consequence of her injuries, it will be at
least two months before she can be ready to proceed
to sea. In consequence of this, it is probable that
the officers and crew will be turned over to the Lily,
4,200 horse power, attached to the Ist division of
the Chatham steam reserve, which can be made
ready for sea in a very few days.
Her Majesty's iron troop ship Adventure, Com-
mander Lethbridge, having been thoroughly re-
paired in dock at Woolwich, was yesterday swung
at Greenhithe, for the deviation of her compasses,
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are all counter-sunk, and what is termed " flush,"
so that the outside colouring with which she has
been coated has removed every appearance of the
injury, and the vessel is again as sea worthy as when
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The paddlewheel steamsloop Prometheus, re-
cently on service on the West Coast of Africa, was
yesterday removed from basin at Woolwich, and
will be sent to Chatham for repairs.

The iron paddlewheel vessel Oberon, Lieut. and
Commander G. Morice, from the South-East Coast
of America, has been stripped in basin at Woolwich,
and will be paid off on Saturday nest.

The Admiralty yacht Black Eagle, which arrived
at Woolwich on Sunday with his Royal Highnelia

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