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fear would have done what Mr. STANTON, not What
the generals, have done—fear of disaster, alone,

would have wished Mr. RUSSELL away.

Air. STANTON did not wish to have any correspon-
dents in the army whom he could not punish !
Punish for what P—we naturally ask. It could not
well be for making public facts which the enemy
ought not to know. Against that they had a

double guarantee—Mr. RUSSELL'S character, and
the distance at which his letters would be published.

He had passed from South to North before,
from Confederate to Federal commanders, and
vice versa, and Mr. STANTON well knew that
nothing affecting military operations on either
sides had passed, or ever would, his lips. But had
those who recalled him been so wanting in personal

honour themselves as to suspect that of others, they
had the consolatory fact that his letters could not
return to America in less than a month, when they
could not possibly serve the enemy. If the reason
assigned was a true one, it could only indicate fear
that the army would disgrace itself; and it may
be justly believed that such was Mr. SecretarySTAN-
TON'S fear. Viewed in this light, his recal of a
correspondent who would photograph all things,
is an insult to the army of the Poto-
mac. It is proclaiming to the South and
to the world that the Secretary for War could not
feel sure that the conduct of the army would bear
to be faithfully reported.'
We can hardly doubt, however, that the real
reason for this strange treatment of a gentleman
whom Mr. STANTON himself had, only a few days
before, enjoined the " officers and persons in the
service of the United States to treat with every
courtesy, and to extend to him every protection in
the,/ ry --hub not yet openly tranapirprl Mr.
RUSSELL, indeed, in oue part of his letter hints at
political or personal feeling on the part of Mr.
STANTON against M'CLELLAN, but frankly
adds that he may be doing Mr. STANTON
injustice by listening to such suggestions. At
the same time, after the General had cordially
accepted the presence of such a reporter as Mr.
RUSSELL in his train, to reverse M'CLELLAN'S
orders in what must become so notorious, was a
pretty sure mode of publicly displaying the supe-
riority of the Secretary to the General, and com-
pelling the latter to feel, in a somewhat humili-
ating manner, his legal subordination.
Henceforth, therefore, we shall, in England, miss
one of our helps to a correct conclusion in inter-
preting the numerous, exaggerated, and often
conflicting reports which it is our troublesome
duty to sift, giving the soundest conclusions
we can to our readers. How difficult a task that
is, none who have not undertaken it, and desired,
with a judicial impartiality, to exhibit not a side
but the truth, can easily conceive. Mr. RUSSELL
did aim at this, and his judgment on the spot was
therefore of great value to all likeminded on this
side the water. Of course Mr. STANTON, and the
PRESIDENT have done but what was entirely within
their province; still, England and Europe will hear
of their act with many curious doubts, and unsatis-
fied suspicions.

R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.

THIS EVENING, CASH V. CUPID.
To be followed by, at a quarter to Eight o'clock, a new
and original drama, iit five acts, entitled THE GOLDEN
DAGGERS. Principai characters by Mr. Fechtcr, H.Widdi-
comb, Mr. G. Jordan, Mr. Potter, Mr. J. G. Shore, 1. r. Ca h-
eart, Mr. Moreland; Mesdames E1.w.,41.7 a.,a cd.rwt,t. Le-
clercq.
Mr. A. Harris is happy to state that he has succeeded in
indu,ing that eminent artist, Mr. W. Telbin, to give the aid
of his unrivalled talent in the concluding tableau of the
drama.

NEW THEATRE-R 0 YAL,
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EvEruNG, the new domestic drama, entitled DOT :
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, ,Killington, Stephenson; Miss
Wooigar, Miss Louise Keeley, Miss H. Simms, &c.
After which (4thtime), THE PHANTOM. Ruthven, Mr.
Dion Boucicault. Messrs. J. L. Tools, Emery, Billington,
Paul BLeltord, Stephenson, Sefton ; Misses H. Simms, IC.
Reny, K. Bland, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Billington.
Commence at 7.

ALSTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Wonderful Performance of Mr. Bell's trained Elephants.
THIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE
RAJAH OF NAGPORE, introducing two colossal Asiatic
Nlephants, pronounced by all to be the cleverest animals
ever exhibited.
To be followed by brilliant and daring feats by the un-
rivalled Troupe of Equestrians.
Concluding with a laughable Farce.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

AND FINE

CANTERBURY HALL
ARTS GALLERY.
Thimnense success of the miraculous STECKEL
ronounced 1727 the press to be the most talented performer
wt 0 has appeared before the public),
EVERY EVENING, at Ten o'clock.
Grand Selections from "La Sonnambula," by Miss Rus-
sell, with Band and tun Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh.
mans.
The Comic by Mr. Randall, Mr. J. G. Forde, Messrs. Hil
dobrandt and Ormond, and Miss Caroline Parkes, the accom.
pliethed danseuse.
En gagement of UNSWORTH and EUGENE, late princi-
pal comedians of the Rumsey and Newcomb Minstrels, who
will make their first appearance on Monday next.

THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.-

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A boat of comic talent, including W. Randall and Harvey
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Ballads, Duets. &0., &c. ; and, at 11 o'clock. HENRI and
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toms Flying Trapeze.

By the lamented demise on the 15th instant, a
Athens of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Ambassador
at the Court of Greece, the Crown has lost an able
and distinguished Servant, and the people of these
realms one of their most distinguished and en-
lightened fellow-subjects. Without having any
pretensions whatever to the divine gift of genius,
the Right Hon. Sir THOMAS WYSE, P.C., and
K.C.8., in the recognition of all who had any
knowledge of him whatever, stood forth in the
front rank as a ripe scholar, an able debater, a
graceful and nervous writer, a altillad and inge-
nious diplomatist. Sir THOMAS WYSE has been
now for so many years past far removed from the
scene of his political labours, and from the arena
of his Parliamentary exertions and successes, that
so far as those long past toils and trinmphs are con-
cerned, the brilliant career and abilities of the man
have been in some measure lost sight of by his im-
mediate contemporaries. Daring the last 12 years,
in poielt of fact, that into say ever since his nomi-
nation to the responsible and difficult post of
British Minister at Athens, Sir THOMAS WYSE has
been regarded only through his later character, in
his final capacity, as a Diplomatist. And the dis-
tinction he acquired in that character—the rare and
effective talents he displayed in that capacity—his
continuance uninterruptedly as Ambassador at
Athens ever since his nomination to that office, has
served in a very unmistakable manner to demon-
strate. Even when the Conservative Party was
In England we are ever ready to suspect whatever
last in Power, when the Earl of MALMESBURY was
cannot stand the light of day. When the reporters
last engaged in the conduct of our Foreign Depart-
and the correspondents of the press are excluded,
we almost take for granted that something must be, meat, and when so engaged in the guidance of that
department, that noble earl made so many and such
and that everything may be, wrong. Such will be
changes among our ambassadors and
the first impression, we may be sure, of every sweeping
Englishmen when he learns that Mr. RUSSELL has plenipotentiaries all through Christendom—it was
permission to accompany General 1 remarkable enough and significant enough, upon
been rt'fused
M'CLELL AN'S army in its march to Richmond. For
the very surface, that about the only diplomatist of
Correspondents" in the
distinction left still at his post, unremoved from it
the most port "Gar Own Correspo in spite of every Party jealousy and Party conside- 1
various jouroals are known to the public only by
ration, was the late Ambassador to the Court of
their communic:atione to their respective newspapers.
Greece, the Whig nominee of 18491 There, ever
Their fidelity is not doubted, but their responsibility
is only to the journal they write for, and in the case since 1849, up to the hour of his lamented and un-
is of course sufficient. looked for death—(for thelast news of him previously
of a respectable paper this
No paper in this country could :dispense with tom- , to the receipt of these tidings of his demise had
potency and truthfulness, even in those correspon- 1 given no account whatever of his illness)—there
continuously for upwards of a dozen years Sir T.
dents whose names never transpire. But Mr.
RUSSELL'S communications had a double guarantee. WYSE had held with the consent of all parties, with
He was personally responsible to the English, we the approval of each successive Administration, the
might say to the European, public for all he delicate and difficult, and eminently responsible
post of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Ambassador.
wrote, as much so as anyof our well-known popu-
lar authors. The public knew that even if But little more than a year has flitted by since after
the journal for which lie wrote could have wished an absenceof a good many years from this country his
him to colour his desc2iptions in any particular I Excellency paid a flying autumnal visit to England.
way, he could not have done it. He has a charac- Not a trace was then visible of any decadence in the
ter for accuracy to maintain, not only with his vital energies of the many : aged his old friends
employers, but with the workl. This, with his found him to be in appearance as well as in fact,
obvious ability, gave a value to his correspondence I but not aged more than might have boen rea- I
similar, it is not too much to say, to that of the sonably anticipated. The wear and tear of
i
°Pinions, d elivered in court, of our judges—and for continual anxieties of a public nature, not to hint
lust the seine reason—he wrote, personally, before beyond this passing allusion at other sources of
the 'widest possible public. In giving such frequent anguish of a private and therefore in one sense of a
insertion to his communications, and in attending more sacred character, had—apparently at least
very much
to them ourselves, we have done so, told but lightly upon that clear intelligence and
because *hue we look to all sources, we regarded upon that seemingly sound if not vigorous constitu-
his ()pinions,
Pleasant asi is the form into which tion. Yet with the remembrance of him twit were
they are thrown, as having- a kind of judicial value. only the other day here in London—we now sud-
The ex post facto reasons, for such they evidently denly receive tidings not of his illness, but of
are, ivt for requiring ,
• RUSSELL to return from the his death. The news comes to us so unexpectedly
journey with the army at
the Potomac on which that we can hardly yet realise it. Sir THOMAS
he had already entered, era not such as will exalt WYSE, nevertheless cannot, as the years of man
the American Executive in
our eyes— we say run, be said to have expired prematurely. He had
the Executive—because it
.7ka evidently their passed the " allotted" age—the three score years
work. 111'CLELLAY himself and hie army no more and ten. Born in 1791, he has survived until the
shruak from the presence of an "'tattering, but 15th of April, 1862. Sir THOMAS was the eldest
sympathising European correspondent, than did son of THOMAS WYSE, Esq., of the manor of St.
the armies of Lord RAGLAN or Lord CLy
bt —we John, near Waterford. Educated originally at the
may add, the armies of Its ly and of Austria, till the Jesuit's College of Stoneyhorst, in Lancashire, he
day of Solferino ; , for even the rival armies in Lora_ graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, carrying off
hardy were pleased to have 'with them witnesses of , the honours there from his young contemporaries.
their deeds, who would truthfully eiescribe them.
Educated shortly after this as a student of Lincoln's
Indeed, just at this moment, one of the strongest lan, his ambition
was diverted from the Bar (to
inducements to hope the best for M'CIELI.-.AN and whiell, in fact, he was now called) to the Commons
his staff is, that they had confidence enoue'll in :joust, of parliament. There he first of all repro-
their own skill and power, to welcome the personal sented Tipperary for the better part of three years,
observation of one who they knew wes not b,.1 from 1830 to 18a2—afterwards taking his seat for
either bribed or intimidated. They may mistake ,!he city of Waterford in 1835, a constituency
their enemies' prowess, and even their own, but whic.h he continued to represent up to 1847 inclu-

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