The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-26 00:00:00

THEAT RE-BO IAL, HAYMARKET. fleet on the
Mississippi has also turned up. Eight
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buokstene. in number, and iron clad, it attacked six boats under
THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB.
Alter which, at .
half past 7, will be performed (132 d time) Commander FOOTE, and after an hour's action lost
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenohard, Mr. Buck-
two by their being blown up, and one by sinking,
stone: Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
Followed by anew Spanish Ballet entitied LA CONTRA- and "injured" one of the Federal boats. They re-
BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nene, Senor Ricardo, and the
Corps de Ballet. treated, it is added, under the guns of FOOTE ;
To conclude with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
_ whether this is intended to say that their courage
or iron plates enabled them to do it, or whether it
is a misprint for the " guns of the fort," that is Fort
Pillow, from which the account comes, further
accounts will show.
At present the Confederates appear to have the
better army and general on the Mississippi, sur-
rounded as this, too, is, or nearly so ; but the Fede-
rals speak with respect of its immense strength.
The latter, having taken New Orleans, are now
engaged in the capture of Mobile, the only other
city whence BEAUREGARD could obtain supplies—
with what success is not yet known. The ac-
counts of the cotton burnings are contradictory.
Positive as they seemed at first, they were after-
wards contradicted. Then again they were re-
peated. The truth can only be guessed at, which
we take to be that damaged cotton bales, per-
haps spoiled by use for fortifications, and some
which, it was supposed, the Federals might seize
without paying for, and which could not be re-
moved, were destroyed; but We see no reason now
to believe that a bale was burnt which the
holders hoped they could save and turn into
meney. The account of General BUTLER'S admini-
stration of martial law at New Orleans reads very
harshly. But, doubtless, as there are two parties
in the City, stringent measures are necessary to
keep the peace. That he should send the corpora-
tion to prison seems natural enough, after the little
specimen they gave the world of their behaviour to
those who had so clear a tie facto authority over
them.

OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
165th Night of the continuous run of " Peep o'Day."
THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish.
Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund Falconer . • Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston, and Miss M. Hudson.
After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and
Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T
HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
!. Box-office open daily from 11 tlll5.
Commence a

_ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
T HIS EVENING, THE LOST LETTER : Messrs. With
dicombe, Higgie ; Miss Howard and Miss Rose Leclercq.
After which, at a quarter to 8, THE WIFE'S SECRET.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean ; Messrs. Everett, J. F. Cathcart,
&c. ; Miss Chapman and Miss N. Chapman.
_To conclude with THE TWO POLTS. Mr. Widdioomb,
Mss R. Leclercq.

Commence at 7. No half-price.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

•
THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT :
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billinc,ton, Stephenson ; Miss
L. Keeley, Bliss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly,
and Mrs. H. Marston.

To be followed by THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion
Boueicault, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford, Phillips,
Stephenson, Powell, Romer; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. IL Mar-
ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss Denvil.

Commence at 7.

Cif .4 NTERBURY HALL
ARTS GALLERY.

AND FINE

The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11.
Grand Selections from " Lucrezia Borgia," by MlBB Rus-
sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh-
mans.
Great success of UNSWO RTII, in his celebrated Stump
Speech "Or any other man " the original), and EUGENE,
in his Burlesque Singing and Dancing, at Ten o'clock.
JOE BROWN, the renowned American:Prize Jig Dancer,
for a few weeks only.
Also the following Comic favourites -Mr. Randall, Mr.
Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, and Miss Caroline Parkes
in her new entertainment.
Messrs. Morton and Stanley beg to inform visitors to Lon-
don during the Exhibition that the GALLERY of PAINT-
INGS well be Open, t
er. between the hours of Twelve and
Two o'clock on and att onday.

The blockade is, by proclamation, relaxed at New
Orleans, and at Beaufort or Port Royal. Vessels
can sail from foreign ports to these ports, by ob-
taining licences from the American Consul, the
licences showing that nothing contraband of war
has been shipped on board the vessel obtaining one.
Similar precautions are required for the return home
In other respects, the blockade remains in full force.
Its effect on the cotton market will be, we apprehend,
but slight. As the chief towns of the South fall
one after another into the hands of the North, the
South must become increasingly unable, not only
to import, but also to manufacture. Its supplies of
the requisites for war itself must become less and
less every month, for, with an effectual blockade,
even if it could sell its cotton, it could get no arms
and ammunition in return. 'We may be quite sure
the North will not fail to reduce the South to the
last extremity of commercial distress it is in its
power to inflict. And we rather think the time is
coming when the contest will be between conquer-
ing armies and a population with a temper as un-
subdued as that of the Hungarians or Venetians.
Would that, like them, they were free from the
guilt of enslaving others, while they were demand-
ing their own independence, they would then have
our entire sympathy.

rrHE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET,
1 Every Evening.—HENßl and PFAU on the Flying
Trapeze (last two weeks). - The unrivalled Ethiopian Come-
dians. and Newcomb's Minstrels, and Cnsworth and
Eugene, in addition to a host of comic talent.—Operatic Selec-
tions and the cantata of " MAY DAY" (by G. A. Macfarren)
and the " Jolly Beggars " (by G. Linley), supported by the
entire company, including Miss Russe , Mdme. Enderssohn,
Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert.—Full Band and Chorus.
Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Hall, ed.; Balcony and Stalls, Is. ; Private Boxes, los. ed.

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On Saturday, the forty-third anniversary of her
MAJESTY'S Birth was, in one direction, at least,
very beautifully celebrated. Exactly upon that
forty-third anniversary of the very hour and mo-
ment when—more than a whole generation since—
a quarter to four o'clock on Saturday morning,
her Majesty Queen VICTORIA, first opened
her eyes to the light in the country she
has now been governing happily for close
upon a quarter of a century—perhaps the most
remarkable of all the great bridges in a metropolis

The whole bearing of the naval and military
news from America looks gloomy for the Confede-
ration. One partial success does not redeem its
general character at all. The telegram received on
Saturday—" Defeated and surrounded "—is indeed
a rather Northern summary of the position of the
South ; still, we now see the facts on which it was
based. The " defeat" was an expulsion without a
battle ; the " surrounded" was an addition to the
number of points from which the Federals are
marching on Richmond.
The main Federal army, by these last accounts,
was within 22 miles of the city, at New Kent
Court-house, and the Confederates are supposed to
intend making their stand about four miles nearer
the city they are reported to have retreated
latterly in good order, the waggons and war
material moving by day, the troops by night.
Even from Northern lights we learn that the
retreat is admirably accomplished. Yet, after
all they appear to be more than ever "surrounded."
To the three Northern armies already converging
on Richmond, North, East, and West, a fourth,
though at present a small one, has begun to move
on from the South. The veteran WooL, who from
the beginning has held Fort Monroe against all
comers, has crossed over Hampton Roads to Fort
Willoughby, the point opposite, with 5,000 men,

especially remarkable for those structures, was for-
mally inaugurated. A more imperial monument of
the memorable event thus celebrated could hardly
have been devised. It was especially a happy
thought that suggested it. Far better than any of
those ephemeral pomps and ceremonies usually usher-
ing in these fete days of a reigning Sovereign was
that simple little incident which took place at
when the barriers were thrown down, and the

public were allowed, for the first time, to pass freely
to and fro upon the new bridge at Westminster.
The only courtly adjunct of the occasion being
the discharge of a royal salute of " twenty-five"
guns—exactly the number of years already noted

down in the living or current annals of the reign
of VICTORIA. Surely a celebration, this, in its way,
is better than all the fireworks and illuminations,
by which the loyalty of the people might be, no
doubt, very resplendently, but, also, it should be
remembered, in a very fleeting way manifested !
The very locality in which the incident we are

and marched direct on Norfolk and its Navy-yard.

This was on the 10th—the distance is not great,
and on the eleventh, the Merrimac, after so many
changes of fate, was blown up ! We, in Europe,
would have given a trifle for her as a naval curi-
osity, a study for our shipbuilders, and target
makers, and constructors of rams. She is gone
for ever, and with her went the docks
and the yards, and we may add the Confederate
troops in the place, who seemed in no way inclined
to fight it out with the old soldier, who
with a moderate force at first, was prepared to have
stifled the great rebellion in its birth.
The old General, however, was not content to re-
main inactive looking at the ruins of the navy• yard
and the utter destruction of the Confederate fleet—
be has pushed on to Suffolk, a town of the highest
military importance. It commands two railways,
one south-west to the Carolinas, placing him in
communication with General BURNSIDE—the other
north-west to Richmond, through Petersburg, plac-
ing him in relation with the other armies which
are marching on it, and requiring the Confederates
to be prepared to face him in that direction. It
was doubtless this change of position of General
Wool, from Fort Monroe to the command
of the Suffolk and Petersburg Railway
which suggested the representation of the
Confederates being " surrounded." When we
add to this, the ascent of the Richmond River,
the St. James, by the Federal gunboats, now wholly
free from fear of any Southern fleet, it seems indeed
like being surrounded. And M'CLELLAN, who
seems to be a make-sure commander of the CLYDE
school, will disappoint expectation if be has not
already become master of Richmond, or will not
soon do it. As we have seen, the two main armies
were but three or four miles distant from each
when the last accounts left.
The Confederate advantage we referred to is in
the West. There they have compelled General
POPE, whom BEAVREGARD had summoned from
Mississippi work, to recross a creek over which he
had partly advanced--with heavy loss, it is said, on
both sides. As the account is Northern, we know
that POPE, who is a good soldier, must have suffered,
but we are not required to believe the same of his
opponent, though, it is likely enough to be
true, for both sides are fighting well in
the West. POPE had only part of his force
across the Creek—the Confederates advanced to cut
it off, and their General found himself obliged to
withdraw the party which had crossed, to the pro-
tection of the main body, whieh the Confederates
did not venture to cross the Creek and attack. It
was an action which can have no effect on the chief
operations there, but it shows how alive BEAURE•
GA RD is to every opportunity, and how
well his
men fight under him. The Confederate gunboat

here refeiring to took place, moreover, did not fail
to enhance the dignity and appropriateness of its

character, as a permanent monument of the joyful
anniversary it served to celebrate. The new bridge,
thus gracefully inaugurated, spanning the
noble river that bisects the capital
of her MAJESTY'S empire immediately
within the precincts of the seat of her Govern-

meat ! Under the shadow of the ancient Abbey
that witnessed the coronation, and of the new Pa-
lace of the Legislature where the Lords and Com-

mons of England are assembled session after session
to aid the monarch in presiding constitutionally
over the destinies of the Anglo-Saxon race.
It is something to be enabled, as we really are
enabled, to say of the new bridge now actually com-
pleted and opened down at Westminster, that it is
worthy in every particular of its topographical
position. While it is, beyond any question what-
ever, far and away the cheapest bridge of its size
yet erected in the metropolis, it is far and away
also the widest, the flattest, and in very many par-
ticulars decidedly the handsomest bridge now span-
ning the Thames. Hitherto the widest bridge in
London was of course London-bridge, the extreme
width of which is exactly 53ft. 6in. The new bridge
at Westminster being, on the contrary, eighty feet
in width—as nearly as possible double the width of
the old bridge there! Again—while the new
bridge at Westminster is not by any means the
longest bridge erected in London (Waterloo Bridge
being 1,380 feet in length, and Hungerford Bridge
laVe ems tunaehi nasst e 1; (whichs36fe i
feet ins leenxgaethtl)ythfiosur feet shorternewbridgeat
than London Bridge, the former being 990 and the
latter 994 feet in length),
thehas aold gradient
bridge
downno leasst
than twelve feet lower than
Westminster. Yet, while all these varied, great
and obvious advantages have been
secured, the new
a
bridge is still more conspicuous
of
the
Thames, among its rivals
already reflected in the
waters
asmupeesr,ioart
once by the great cheapness and the
beauty of its construction. Its cost pienrdeqivare
foot, it is really marvellous to bear in mind,
s no
more than £4 sterling—the cost of the old bridge
which it has replaced having been very nearly
double that, or .£7 16s. per square foot—the cost of
Hungerford Suspension Bridge, .1:4 16s. 6d.—the
cost of 'Waterloo Bridge, £lo—that of the Iron
Bridge at Southwark, £ll 59. 10d.—that of Lon-
don Bridge, £ll 6s. And while such is absolutely
the comparative cheapness of the new bridge at
Westminster, the scale upon which the whole struc-
ture has been raised has been one so vast (as in
effect the superior width of it will have already
indicated) that the materials used in its fabrication
from first to last have been set down at 4,200 tons
of cast and 1,400 tons of wrought iron, at 30,000
cubic yards of concrete, 21,000 cubic yards of brick-

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1862.