The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-02 00:00:00

take should they have to leave that place.

In the west we learn that the Federals think of
closing the campaign for the hot weather. BEAU-
REGARD has still with him, according to Northern
accounts, a large army in Mississippi; POPE has
given up following him, and the Federals are to be
content for the present with the care of Corinth and
Memphis, ceasing from aggressive movements dur-
ing the summer months. The Confederates will
therefore have ample time to reorganise themselves
in those parts The city of Mobile, situated in its
own fine bay on the Gulf of Mexico, and defended
by the very strong Fort Morgan, is making a
vigorous resistance. The fort at least refuses to
yield. The gunboats could doubtless easily pass it
into the bay, as they did Forts Philip and Jackson
on the Mississippi, but the unprofitable bombard-
ment of the city would be too bad. The Confede-
rates are accumulating force there, and the Federals
do not appear to have a military force sufficient to
hold the place. It is the only place of importance
in those parts now left to the Confederates. Like
Savannah, however, and Charleston, it does not
appear willing to yield easily to Federal demon-
strations. BUTLER reigns supreme at New Orleans
—he hung a man for lowering the Federal flag, and
justifies his infamous proclamation. At Memphis
too the strongest measures are taken—the press is
of course put under supervision, and the sentinels
are to shoot persons who molest the Federal flag.
The Federals seem to understand how to keep
order, as well as Marshal St. ARNAUD did on the
2d of December.
The House of Representatives has at last agreed
to a bill for confiscating the slaves of rebels.
Whether the Senate will assent to it is doubtful.
The PRESIDENT, perhaps, will think it useless, for
he has told an Emancipation Committee that a pro-
clamation of emancipation would fail of its object,
because the constitution itself cannot be enforced in
the South. This is true. Bat it may be doubted
whether Mr. LiNcoLN's determined support of the
pro-slavery clauses in the constitution at first, is
not the reason why the valuable parts of it are not
to be enforced now. Now that the South has hun-
dreds of thousands of men in the field it is useless
to proclaim emancipation, nor would the negroes
believe the North ; had Mr. LINCOLN begun with
attacking the cause of the rebellion, it is doubtful
whether the whites dare have left their slaves and
united in armies which it taxes all the resources of
the North to meet.

The public will learn with pleasure that the
Royal couple married yesterday are to be domiciled
in the native country of the bride. We all remem-
ber how the departure of the PRINCESS ROYAL, so
early in life, to a foreign land, and to a country not
very high in the esteem of England, touched every
heart with a feeling of sadness. " Poor thing, and
so young," was the exclamation we ourselves heard,
as her carriage passed along the street, from the
lips of rough-looking working men, whom no one
would have suspected to be guilty of the senti-
mental. We believe that a proportionate gratifica-
tion will be felt by all classes that our next young
princess is not to be taken from her home ; and this,
indeed, will go far to reconcile us to the
choice of a foreigner for the hand of the
Princess ALICE. He will be now, to us, an English-
man, and our beloved SOVEREIGN Will not be
deprived of the society of that one of her children
who is endeared to her by some peculiarly tender
though melancholy reminiscences. We may well
believe also, and hope, that the creation from the
bosom of her own family of another family circle
in this country, with whom our SOVEREIGN will be
on an equality of social confidence, will do its part
in mitigating the monotony of that sorrow she has
so long borne. His Royal Highness Prince Louis
will commence the first of that series of Royal fami-
lies, which, following the example of the family
whence they spring, are destined, we trust, to com-
fort the heart of our widowed QUEEN, and to
adorn by their character the highest places in the
land.

The wedding itself, if a happy occasion, could
hardly be one signalized by the usual marks of joy
and gladness. The absence of the one who would
have given away his daughter—the presence of the
one, who in the deepest mourning, attended by her
four bereaved children, reminded all that she, who
of all spectators would have been most happy, was
the most sad—these visible facts could but give
their hue to the whole ceremony. Rarely, perhaps,
in the thoughts of all the circle admitted to the
marriage, and in the minds of all who read of it,
have the thoughts of sadness and of joy, of cheer-
fulness and solemnity—of long and painful separa-
tion, and of a hoped for long and happy union, been
more intermingled. Insensible, indeed, must be
the heart which would not be bettered by con-
templating this touching combination of mar-
riage and mourning, occurring as it does in that I
circle in which we almost instinctively imagine
that all is sunshine, unclouded by the cares and
troubles of vulgar life. The young couple enter
on life with unusual monitions of what life is ; nor
can the effect of real court and national mourning
fail, for some time, to give its tone to all their
habits. Not only mere cold etiquette, but we have
little doubt that their own sentiments also, will
, interdict to them those associations and amusements
which would otherwise, and at their age, be so
natural.
Possibly' however, with the quiet tem-
there may be
_which propriety will for a time
perament which is understood to characterise both,
nothing like self-denial in the com-
parative privacy
require of them. It is not •in every case that the
usual social consequenta
of the Honeymoon are
those which the young married couple would them-
selves prefer; and perhaps less so,
in proportion to
the depth of their mutual attachment.