The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-26 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LO M)0"

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NTEMORIAL to the Late LORD HERBERT.
L A PUBLIC MEETING will be held at Willis's
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the 28th inst., at which
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more cut up with water and rice fields as you ap-
proach Savannah. As there were materials for
hutting on board the transport, it is probable the
troops will endeavour to establish themselves in
a fortified camp outside Beaufort, and if so, they

had better make it a more eligible selection than
they did at Hatteras. There all sorts of trou'lles
have come upon them. It is positively affirmed that
the 20th •Indiana Regiment is to be withdrawn, and
that the colonel is to be tried by court-martial. It

be a singular weakness it the Uuited States

abandon its barren conquest, but it is now disco-
vered that Oregon inlet, in the same series of sand-
reefs, will peimit egress and ingress to the vast
inland navigation which the possession of Hatteras

was intended to close. From the West there is the

usual unsatisfactory and unintelligible farrago of
telegrams. One fact. seems clear, that Gen. Fre-

mont's dismissal has not produced as yet any of the
serious inconveniences or dangers which were anti.
cipated by his friends and his enemies. The part of
his career which most became him seems to have
been his retirement, and his conduct on taking leave
of his troops. The American papers contain the re-
sults of the committee of inquiry into the manage-
ment of his troops, and it is not possible to read it
without coming to the conclusion that any general
who permitted such frauds to be perpetrated—sup-
posing always they are fully proved—was not fitted
for the service of any State which could not bear
ruin at short intervals. His successor has a difficult
game to play, and it is to be hoped he sees what it is
more clearly than any one here can do. There are
reports of two affairs in the Weat—one, an expedi-
tion from Cairo against Columbus, in Kentucky,
which was partially successful, though attended with
heavy loss and followed by a retreat to their camp,
on the part of the Federalists, after they had, as
they say, taken guns they could not carry off, and
destroyed the enemy's camp and stores. The other
expedition was under the command of Colonel
Oglesby, and " broke up" a camp of Confederates
in Missouri, some 60 miles from Cairo. The loss of
life at Belmont was considerable. This is all we
can learn, except the old news that something great
is going to happen.
" The army in good spirits ; no battle expected
at present." Such is a sensation heading in the
papers to-day, of which an ill-natured person might
say the apposition was argumentative, but it does
not, nevertheless, correctly convey the state of the
situation here. I have made a very curious collec-
tion of some of these same headings, as illustrations
of the condition to which a portion of the cheap
American press is reduced, and of the state to which
it has brought its readers. The most degraded of
these journals—one which is supposed to be in the
pay of the South, and which certainly by the style of
its advocacy brings the North into contempt and does
much to damage the interests of Government abroad,
advises us now and then to take it and its contem-
poraries as the only sources of information on which
reliance can be placed. If we did, a more deluded
people could not exist on the face of the earth, or
one more distracted by contending statements, by
the contorted falsehoods of the hour, by the asser-
tion of to-day made to be contradicted to-morron.
The citizen of New York is quite accustomed by this
time to find that the "glorious victory" of Monday

turns out to be a defeat on Tuesday, and the
" unabashed," though not the unscarred " Defoe,"
leers horribly as he hears the rush of the crowd
outside his office after some big lie in a
second edition, and pockets the cents of his dear
public in the full knowledge that do what he may
they will come to him again. It is a sort of mental
dram-drinking—the " sensation" must be produced
night and morning, and so many times in the day.
The poor victims when the effects are over, swear
they will never touch a drop again, but the craving
is insatiable, and at the accustomed hour off they
run to the bar and swallow their moral juleps and
cocktails notwithstanding their experience of their
evil effects on the constitution. Had we listened to
the advice tendered with such delicious impudence,
we should have actually taken Bull's Run as a vic-
tory, the surrender of Lexington as a splendid feat
as a. aua a number of pitiful sitirmislies as so
many Vittorias or Waterloos. Many of these
actions are brought on by the leaders on both sides
apparently without an object. General Scott was
opposed to them; but, in fact, the Commander-in-
Chief has as little power as the head of any other
department over his subordinates, separated by
thousands of miles from him. If he wants the
power he must take it. It is announced in the
papers that Major-General Havelock, of the British
army, has tendered his services to the President,
and that Captain Short, R.N., has been equally
kind to Mr. Jefferson Davis. The rank of the
former gallant officer, of whom, as brother of Sir
Henry and uncle of the present baronet, one wishes
to speak with every respect, must have been be-
stowed by some foreign Power or an unrecognised
brevet. The latter officer is unknown to fame on
the Navy List. But what of that ? One man is
as good as another ; so is one story as bad as another.
As a charming specimen, however, of the manufac-
turing ingenuity in that line of some of your con-
temporaries, take the veracious statement that Lord
Lyons received Mr. Semmes, captain of the Sumter,
in the Confederate navy, gave him an English pass-
port, and introduced him to Mr. Seward at the State
Department !

NOVEMBER 9,

There is moderate exultation over the votes in
Maryland. The result gives the Federalists a
clear v% orking majority in the Legislature and
State Government, and would dispose of all pre-
tence that there is a numerical majority for Seces-
sion if the voters had been uninfluenced in any
way. Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia subjected
to the same process might produce the same
results, and if they could be put under it there are
thousands of Unionists who would be content to
withdraw from the contest, and leave the other
States to their own devices. The departure of Mr.
Thurlow Weed and Bishop Hughes for Europe
is in pursuance of the resolution, the existence of
which I announced in a previous letter, to send un-
official ambassadors or representatives to England
and France to counteract the effects of Mr. Mason
and Mr. Slidell's mission and to make explanations,
and enter upon negotiations with the two Govern-
ments as well as to sound the depths of popular
feeling, and ascertain the views of leading men in
the political world. There were several candidates
for the important mission. Mr. Everett appeared
in Washington and had several interviews with
Mr. Seward about the time the project was started,
and Bishop M'llwaine and Mr. Kennedy were men-
tioned as coadjutors in the mission. Whatever the
causes, these gentlemen did not go, but Mr. Weed
and Bishop Hughes, two of Mr. Seward's best
friends, faintly disclaim the notion that their voyage
to Europe is on diplomatic business. The former is
the Nestor of the outside politigians who pull "
legs and hands of the players on the stage ; he is an
astute, clear-headed, able man, who has managed the
company on his side of the house for many years with
success and profit, and the newspaper he edits is
one of the best written and most decent in the
United States. Bishop Hughes is a Raman Catho.
lie prelate of attainments and political experience,
moderate for one in his position, skilful, and anti-
English. He has worked the Irish element in the
States for a considerable period, and has used it in
favour of Mr. Seward. It will be a keen encounter
of wits. Mr. Slidell, when he finds himself along-
side of Mr. Dayton in Paris, will, doubtless, feel
very much like an otter swimming alongside an
alderman

NOVEMBER 11

Unless the Confederates obtain a signal success at
Beaufort and force the Federalists into the sea it
is plain they have been placed in a hazardous posi-
tion. The end of the wedge will have been driven
into "the peculiar institution" in its hottest place.
In those Sea Islands live vast populations of igno-
rant negroes, oubject to the SCAnty and Scattered