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THE SUN, LONDM, FRIDAY EVENI G, JULY 11, 1862.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY-
CHEAP EXCURSION to GLOUCESTER, CHEL-
TEN HAM, and HEREFORD.—On SATURDAY, July 12, an
Excursion Train will leave Paddington at. 12.40 p.m., and
Reading at 1.45 p.m., for CIRENCESTER and STROUD
(12s. and es.), Gloucester and Cheltenham (14s. and 75.), Ross
and Hereford (16s. and Bs.), returning at 5.0 p.m. on Monday,
July 14.

a splendid race by a short head. Dusk was beaten five
lengths from Montebello; Mily was a bad fourth, Vis-
count Brignall fif►h, Coronet sixth, Everlasting seventh,
and Sycophant last.

IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETING.

BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY EVENING.

The Selling Stakes of 5 soya each, with 40 added ; 2-yr-
olds, 7st 21b; three, 9st ; four, 9st 101 b ; five and up-
wards, lOst 21b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ; sell-
ing allowances, &c. Five furlongs.
Mr. Sanders's Mountain Doe, 2 yrs, sst 71b (MO)
Grimshaw)
Lord Coventry's Antwerp, 4 yrs, (J.
Bst 41b (x3o) 1
(J. Adams) 2
Mr. T. Hunt's Jacob, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (£30).... (Thomas) 3
Mr. Bruce's Sybil, 2 yrs, sst 71b (X3O) (Ward) 4
Betting-11 to 10 agst Antwerp, sto 1 agst any other.
Montain Doe made the running to the straight, where
the favourite got his head momentarily in front, but was
subsequently defeated after a good race by half a length, a
bad third. The winner was bought in by Mr. C. Fish for
91 guineas.

The great meeting of the ironmasters of this dis-
trict was held in the Town-hall here this afternoon.
All the leading firms were represented; the assembly
was not so numerous as it sometimes is, but there
was a better attendance than inuel of those who are
interested in the trade in other localities; the
Liverpool firms especially were in greater force.
Just as the meeting was commencing the tele-
gram was received announcing the reduction of the
Bank rate of discount to 21 per cent., and almost
simultaneously with it came the intelligence, which
evidently was more gratifying to the meeting, that
the Federals had encountered a defeat before Rich-
mond. The Federal cause has at no time had many
very warm sympathisers in the South of Stafford-
shire and East Worcestershire district, and the new
tariff concocted by. the statesmen of the North, for
the more effectual commercial isolation of the coun-
try, has alienated most of the sympathy which re-
mained for the Federal cause.

The City Plate, a handicap of 50 sovs, for three-yr-olds
and upwards, winners extra. One mile and a half. 6

subs.
Mr. Barnett's Zingari, 5 yrs, 7st 101b....(G. Fordham) 1
Mr. R. Sly's Yorkshire Miss, 6 yrs, 7st 71b.. (Midgeley) '2
Captain Christie's Sweet Jessamine, 3 yrs, 6st
(J. Grimshaw) 3
Mr. Devereux's Sherwood, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (Williamson) 4
Mr. H. Wyatt's Ledbury, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (Jaques) 5
Betting—Even on Zingari, 3 to 1 agst Sweet Jessamine,
5 to 1 agst any other.

The meeting was more animated than had been
anticipated, and a very fair amount of business was
done, much larger than was reported three months
ago, and that too on all descriptions of finished iron.
Undersellers at that time were able to command
better prices to-day, and to obtain orders of best
brands were compelled to pay the trade prices ; and
the general tone of the assembly was such as to in-
dicate that the trade is in a much healthier state
than it was three months ago.
The North Staffordshire makers are full of orders ;
the Welshmen in the hall to-day also report more
favourably of the trade in that quarter than for 12
months past.
The " improved" Morrill Tariff was a good deal
discussed, and with this result—the conviction that
whatever duty the Americans may chose to impose
upon iron imported from this country, they will be
compelled to take it, for even with their greatly
reduced consumption for the last 12 months, and
the exhaustion of their stocks, they have been com-
pelled of late to order freely from this country. In
these circumstances, American duties for the pur-
pose of protection and prohibition are of compara-
tively small concern to the English ironmaster,
with the markets of France and other countries
opening for his productions.
There was a good quantity of pig. iron sold at
this meeting. Hotblaet iron of best quality fetched
£3 2s. 6d. per ton, and stocks have been sold off
since last quarter.
Ironstone, the yield of the district, commanded a
better price than it did in April, and was in de-
mand.

The favourite made the whole of the running, and won
cleverly by half a length ; a head between second and
third.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

The " strategical motives" which have led a gene-
ral to retire, after an attack of the enemy, from a
position which he had occupied in order to make an
assault upon his capital, are purely unintelligible.
It is quite obvious that a retrograde movement on
the part of a besieging army means an untenable
position, a confession of weakness, a measure of
safety. If the English army before Delhi had thrown
their right beyond the Subsee Muridee, and then
had retired across it after two hard fights against a
sortie of the Sepoys, so that their right was obliged
to double back and cover itself behind the left on the
Jumna, even our affection, our hopes, and our fears
could not deceive us into the belief that the retro-
grade movement was made in conseqaence of any
premeditated strategy, and that the attack was an
expected result which must lead to the strengthening
of the new position. If for a moment we take the
Thames as representing the James River, and then
imagine a deep and sluggish stream sweeping round
the city from the north-east, so as to fall into the
Thames below Plaistow-marshes, we have a rough
idea of the relations of the Chickahominy with the
James River and Richmond. To the east of the
Chickahominy, thus represented, let us conceive a
river flowing from the north-west, at a distance of
12 miles from it, which is called the Pamunkey, and
which turns off eastwards into the sea at some point
on the coast of Essex. The Federal generai,having
advanced between the James and the latter river,
finds himself with the Chickahominy in his front.
He throws a portion of his army across the river,
and, having thus established his left, proceeds to
pivot upon it, and to extend his right by the right
bank of the Pamunkey so as to get to the north of
Richmond. Scarcely has he done to, when the
enemy attack the left which had crossed the river
Chickahominy, inflict on it a severe defeat, take
guns and prisoners, and only retire when M'Clellan
throws a large supporting force across the river. A
small cavalry razzia made by the enemy on
his right sweeps round it, destroys com-
missariat vessels in the Pamunkey, and encirc-
ling his whole army, crosses the Chickahominy
below his left, and returns to the " beleagured city."
The communications of the army so situated have
been mainly dependent on the rivers and the sea,
and while the General has been preparing for an
assault on the enemy the corps on which he has
relied for some demonstration on his extreme right
are suddenly attacked by the Confederates under
" Stonewall" Jackson (so-called from his tenacity in
holding to an obstruction of that nature in his fight
with Shields at Winchester last spring), and are
chased across the Potomac. An active offensive
movement in combination with Fremont forces
Jackson to fall back into the Valley of the Shenan-
doah, but, suddenly turning to the east, he crosses
the mountains, and marches straight, with his vic-
torious little army "largely reinforced," whether by
Beauregard's men or not it is impossible to say, and
joins the army of the Confederates at Richmond.
The presence of this dashing leader and his men
seems to invigorate the Southern leaders. On the
26th of June they direct an attack on the right
wing of the Federals between the Chickahominy
and Pamunkey in heavy force. Then comes official
confusion. " The Federals, by order, receded
several miles, hotly pui sued (and therefore run-
ning very hard) by the Confederates." Two days'
hard fighting led to the retreat of the whole of the
Federal army to the other side of the Chickaho-
miny, so that they now lie massed between that
river on their right and James River on their left.
Now, their retreat has left open the whole of the
country between the Chickahominv and the Pa-
munkey to the Confederates. West Point and
White House have fallen into the enemy's hands,
and the head of the York River is once more their
own. If M'Clellan had proprio motu suddenly
transported his army across the river after menac
ing Richmond on the north side, so as to lead
the enemy to throw up works and to prepare for
an attack on that quarter, leaving Richmond at
the side resting on the James River comparatively
weak, we might nnderstand the strategy; but
such a movement after a serious attack, hard fight-
ing for two days or more, "heavy loss," "a hot
pursuit" by the enemy, a contraction of lines
is at least suspicious, strategically considered;
and " making" for the James River looks like a
severe reverse. The proximity to Richmond is gone ;
the menace of the lines is no more; for if General
M'Clellan or his successor makes the James River
the base of operations the Federal army must drop
down lower than Fort Darling unless their gunboats
have worked through the obstructions, which has
not yet been asserted. But Burnside, we are told,
is to attack Richmond. Where from ? When last
heard of he was before Norfolk, on the right bank
of the James River, and if he moves up on Peters-
burg, which is not yet taken, so far as we know,
with his small force he gives Huger a splendid op-
portunity of destroying his detached and isolated
force. If he moved up, covered by the gunboats, he
could not get beyond Fort Darling, and would be
on the wrong side of the river. The telegram is so
obscure that it may turn out. that M'Clellan still
holds the north side of the Chickahominy with his
former left, which is now made his right ; and that
he has massed his former right on the left, between
theChickahominy and the Jamesßiver, preparing to
make an attempt to force the defence, in conjunction
with the gunboats, and Burnside across the river;
but the probabilities are all against such a masterly
plan, which would demand a most complete and
effective organisation and ability in executing com-
bined movements. General M'Dowell, in the new
changes of Federal commanders spoken of, seems
quite out of the field. The successor of Fremont is
a West country lawyer, named Rufus King, but,
though " he never set a squadron in the field, nor
the division of a battle knows," he may be as good
a man as his predecessor without being a great
general. The idea of Pope, who is Commander-in-
Chief, it appears, of the Western army of Virginia,
attacking Richmond after " Stonewall" Jackson's
exploit, is simply absurd. The defeat at Charles-
ton, and the heavy reverse which the Federals have
suffered, will not suffice, perhaps, to bring them to
reason, but they must, at all events, infuse new
energy and determination into the Southern army,
and precipitate the moment when a great aggressive
movement against the Northern armies, weakened
by disease and disheartened by the hope deferred
which will make even the Yankee heart sick, may.
produce such results as shall lead to a cessation of
hostilities and eventually to the termination of the
war.—limea.

Upon the whole the meeting passed off satisfac-
torily ; if the trade was not brisk there was ample
evidence that it is removt d from languor.

The members of the association afterwards dined
together at the Hen and Chickens, under the presi-.
sidency of Mr. Philip Williams.

BURNING OF 2HE PRAYER-BOOK.

For several weeks past there has been a series of
street preachings and hot exhortations in Bedford
by Nonconformists and free-spoken preachers, who
set themselves up as bright and shining lights to
expose the iniquities of this respectable town. Up
to a certain time Bedford was reputed to be far
above the average in point of order, decorum, and
religious observance. The only cause of complaint
was occasional bitter hostility to the Established
Church, expressed by certain classes of Dissen-
ters. Of late, however, certain " hot gospellers "
have most unwarrantably set forth to blacken the
reputation of the town and to denounce its inhabi-
tants as a terribly wicked and idolatrous people.
A constant sowing of seed of any kind is certain to
produce fruit some day or other, and a long tuition
by political Dissenters must be expected to pro-
duce results hostile to the Church, against which
their attacks are directed. The Dissenting viru-
lence against the Church has at last had its culmi-
nating point. True, the church has not been pulled
down and the highway repaired with its stones, as
over-zealous schismatics have desired to see ; but
Bedford has just witnessed an act which cannot but
be regarded as the foretaste of what unbridled fana
ticism and unquenchable hatred to the Church
would rejoice to see accomplished. Among the
street preachers who have been making exciting
harangues in the public places of this town is a
Mr. Jones, who was in the first instance brought
down from London by two Bedford persons. For
some weeks he has been delivering periodical dis-
courses on St. Peter's-green, and has conducted
public baptisms in the river Ouse ; but beyond some
eccentricities of phraseology and startling notions
of theology we have not heard that any great harm
had ensued, except that he had indulged in strong
expressions towards many of the doctrines taught
in Bedford. On Sunday afternoon last, however, he
directed his fulminations more particularly at the
Church, and the vehement manner in which his
addresses were given and the vigour with which his
congregation sang the hymns very seriously inter-
fered with the comfort of the clergyman and con-
gregation assembled in St. Peter's Church close by;
but in the evening the preacher became still more
excited and more extravagant in his remarks. A
vehement denunciation of the forms of the Church
and a condemnation of the Book of Common Prayer
were the chief topics of the evening's discourse, and
as the churches and chapels emptied Mr. Jones's
congregation enlarged ; and about 9 o'clock he gave
a practical illustration to his discourse by snapping
a lucifer match and then setting fire to a Prayer-
book, accompanying the act with an expressed wish
that he could serve the Talmud, Koran, the Mass-
book, and some others in a similar manner. Some
portions of the audience were shocked at this exhi-
bition of wild fanaticism, and expressed them-
selves strongly upon the matter. Others, not
content with a remonstrance, closed in upon the
preacher and his baptized neophytes and tried to
remove them from the green to put an end to
such scandalous proceedings. Others, again, car-
ing less, perhaps, for the interests of religion than
for a spree, suggested that his own plan of baptism
by immersion should be tried upon himself. A rush
was then made to take him to the river, and a mcst
disorderly rout took place. The mob seemed unde-
cided in its course, and some quietly disposed per-
sons advised that he should be allowed to retire.
This suggestion was received with an indignant
shout of " Baptize the fellow ; duck him." One
person said Jones had a right to do as he pleased,
and he immediately received a pummeling for his
pains, and a sort of running scuffle took place. The
crowd surged down Dame Alice-street, then back
again towards St. Peter's, and a move was made
down the High-street in the direction of the bridge.
Some persons here interposed, and remarked that
Sunday night was not a fitting time for such pro-i
ceedings, and these persons were at once roughly
assailed and thrust aside. Severalat him
persons
proceeded to " bonnet" Jones, to spitto
"punch his head." and
some bestowed their attentionskick his
on
nhis shins,"
hat. A. few
while
of his disciples came in for a share of these manifes.
tations of the popular mind. At, this moment a
detachment of the
came up ; they took Mini-
ster Jones under their protcciion, and conveyed him
to the police office, where he remained until the
crowd had dispersed. He then retired to some
friend's house for the night. We understand that
the whole subject is under inquiry. The exaspe-
ration of the public against this and other indigni-
ties offered to the Church in Bedford is very great,
but it is not yet announced what steps will be taken
to prevent a recurrence of the last outrage.—Bed-
ford Times.

THE ISLAND OF ASCENSION.—The Lords Com-
OAssioners of the Admiralty have ordered of Messrs. Bury
and Pollard, Park Iron W orks, Southwark, two of their
patent self-regulating wind engines, for Ascension, for the
purpose of supplying the island with water.

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vain lot protection frotii ifitudi. but for the sake
of our sisters throughout the South, with tears we
implore you not to surrender your cities, in conbide-

tion of the defenceless women and children. Da
not leave your women to the mercy of this merei-
I less foe. Would it not have been better for New
Orleans to have' been laid in ruins, and we buried
up beneath the mass, than that we should be sub-
jected to those untold sufferings ? Is life so pre-
cious a boon that for the preservation of it no
sacrifice is too great ? Rather let us dip with
you, oh, our fathers! Rather, like Virginius.
plunge your swords ir.t ) our breasts, saying this
i 3 all we have to ~;ive to our daughters.

" THE DAUGHTERS OF NEW ORLEANS.

"New Orleans, May 24, 1862."
The Governor of Louisiana has issued an address
to the people on Butler's proclamation concerning
the women in New Orleans. He says :—" It is the
jewel or your hearthF, the chastity of the women
you love, to guard. Let that thought animate
your breasts, nerve sour arms, quicken your ener-
gies, and inspire your resolution. Strike home to the
heart of your foe the blow that rids your country
of his presence. If needs be let his blood moisten
your own grave. It will rise up befcre your chil-
dren as a perpetual memento of race, whom it will
teach to hate now and evermore."

A court of inquiry held at Richmond reported
that the destruction of the Merrimac was unneces-
sary at the time and pace it was effected.
A Washington despatch says that the British
Post-office has withdraws its original proposition
made in 1857, and formally accepted by Postmaster
Blair in November last, for a reduced rate of inter-
national letter postage trom 25 to 12 cents. between
the two countries. The United States Post-office
department did not antic:pate this withdrawal, after
the subject was favourably reopened by the present
Postmaster-General, and upon the British basis.
This result will be very much regretted by the com-
mercial and social correspondents in both countries.

The following additional despatches are published
in the New York papers
OFFICIAL WAR GAZETTE.

" ORDERS RELIEVING GENERAL FREMONT FROM

COMMAND<

" War Department, Washington, June 27.

" Major-General John C. Fremont having re-
quested to be relieved from the command of the first
army corps, of the army of Virginia, because, as he
says, the position assigned him, by the appointment
of Major-General Pope as Commander-in-Chief of
the army of Virginia, is subordinate and inferior to
those heretofore held by him, and to remain in the
subordinate command now assigned, would, as he
says, largely reduce his rank and consideration in
the service. It is ordered that Major-General John
C. Fremont be relieved from command; second—
that Brigadier-General Rufus King be, and is
hereby assigned to the command of the first army
corps of the army of Virginia, in place of General
Fremont, relieved.—By order of the President,

4' EDWIN M. STANTON, SeC. of War."

In the Senate yesterday it was resolved, if not
incompatible with the public interest, to print the
report of Joseph Hall and Robert Dale Owen on
frauds upon the Government. The bill to prevent
members of Congress and Government officers from
taking consideration for procuring contracts, office,
or place under the Government, was amended so as
to apply to those who for any reward, compensa-
tion, or consideration give any contract, office, or
place, and then passed.

In the House, the bill providing indemnity to
loyal citizens for losses and damages to property
through United States troops was discussed during
the morning hour. A bill was reported relating to
the trust funds of the Indian tribes, invested by the
Government in the State Bonds abstracted from the
Interior Department. The bill provides that the
Government shall credit the Indians with the
amount originally invested for them in the bonds
and the payment of the interest hereafter at the
rate of 5 per cent. The House then went into com-
mittee of the whole on the Tariff Bill, and several
amendments were made. An order was made for
the arrest of a certain Murphy of New York, a re-
pudiating witness in the case of Ben. Wood.