The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY. EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1861.

decision had been anticipated by the troops, most of
those who had come in from the front being already
on the road to the rear, the panic with which they
came in still continuing and hurrying them on.
At o'clock the rear guard (Blenker's Brigade)
moved, covering the retreat, which was effected
during the night and next morning. The troops
at Fairfax station leaving by the cars took with
them the bulk of the supplies which had been sent
there. My aide-de-camp, Major Wadsworth, stayed
at Fairfax Court-house till late in the morning, to
see that the stragglers and weary and worn-out
soldiers were not left behind.
. I transmit herewith the reports of the several
division and brigade commanders, to which I refer
for the conduct of particular regiments and corps,
and a consolidated report of the killed, wounded,

and missing.
From the latter it will be seen that our killed
amounted to 19 officers and 462 non-commissioned
officers and privates, and our wounded to 64 officers
and 917 non-commissioned officers and privates
Many of the wounded will soon be able to join the
ranks, and will leave our total of killed and disabled
from further service under 1,000. The return of
the missing is very inaccurate, the men supposed to
be missing having fallen into other regiments and
gone to Washington,—many of the Zouaves to New
York. In one brigade the number originally re-
ported at 616 was yesterday reduced to 174. These
reductions are being made daily. In a few days a
more correct return can be made.

Of course, nothing accurate is I:novrn of the loss
of the enemy. An officer of their forces, coming
from them with a flag of truce, admitted 1,800 killed
and wounded, and other information shows this to
be much under the true number.

The officer commanding the 11th New York
Zouaves and Colonel Heinizelman say that the re-
turns of that regiment cannot be relied on, as many
of those reported among the casualties have ab-
sented themselves since their return and have gone

to New York. Among the missing reported are
many of our surgeons, who remained in attendance
on our wounded, and were, against the rules of
modern warfare, made prisoners.
The issue of this hard-fought battle, in which
certainly our troops lost no credit in their conduct
on the field with an enemy ably commanded, supe-
rior in numbers, who had but a short distance to
march, and who acted on his own ground on the
defensive, and always under cover, while our men
were of necessity out on the open fields, should not
prevent full credit being given to those officers and
corps whose services merited success, if they did
not attain it.

To avoid repetition, I will only mention here the
names of those not embraced in reports of divisions
and brigade commanders. I beg to refer to their
reports for the names of those serving under their
immediate orders, desiring on this subject they may
be considered as a part of my own. I claim credit
for the officers of my Staff, and for those acting as
such during the day. They did everything in their
power, exposing themselves freely when required,
doing all that men could do, communicating orders,
guiding the columns, exhorting the troops, rallying
them when braken, and providing for them the
best the circumstances admitted. They are as
follows :

First Lieutenant H. W. Kingsbury, sth Artil-
lery, aide-de-camp.
Major Clarence S. Brown, New York Militia
Volunteers, aide-de-camp.
Major James S. Wadsworth, New York Militia
Volunteers, aide-de- camp. The latter, who does me
the honour to be on my personal Staff, had a horse
shot under him in the hottest of the fight.
Capt. James B. Fry, Assist.-Adjutant- General.
Capt. 0. H. Tillinghast, .Assist.-Quartermaster,
who discharged alone the important and burden-
some duties of his department with the army, ar.d
who was mortally wounded while acting with the
Artillery, to which he formerly belonged, and in
which he was deeply interested.
Capt. H. F. Clark, Chief of Subsistence Depart-
ment.

Major Meyer, signal officer, and Major Malcolm
Nl' Donnell, who acted as aides.
Surgeon W. S. King and Assist.• Surgeon Magru-
der, Medical Department.
Major J. G. Barnard, Ecgineer, and senior of his
department with the army, gave most important
aid.

First Lieut. Frederick S. Plime, Engineers.
Captain A. W. Whipple.
First Lieut. H. L. Abbott and Second Lieut.
S. Putnam, Topographical Engineers.
Major W. F. Barry, sth Artillery, Chief of Ar
lery.

Lieut. George C. Strong, Ordnance-officer.
Major`. H. Wood, Ist I'll an try, Acting Inspector-
General.
Second Lieut. Guy Henry, who joined me on the
field, and was of service as an aide-de-camp.
The following officers commanded divisions and
brigades, and in the several places their duty called
them did most effective service and behaved in the
most gallant manner :--
B rigadier- Gen. Tyler, Connecticut Volunteers.
Ccl. David Hunter, 3d Cavalry, severely wounded
at the head of his division.
Col. S. P. Heintzelman, 17th Infantry, wounded
in the arm while leading his division into action on
the hill.

Brigadier-Gen. Schenck, Ohio Volunteers, com-
manding 2d Brigade, First Division.
Colonel E. D. Keyes, 11th Infantry, commanding
Ist Brigade, First Division.
Colonel W. P. Franklin, 12th Infantry, Ist Bri-
gade, Third Division.
Colonel W. T. Sherman, 13th Infantry, com-
manding Ist Brigade, First Division.
Colonel Andrew Porter, 16th Infantry, command-
ing Ist Brigade, Second Division.
Colonel A. E. Burnside, Rhode Island Volunteers,
commanding 2d Brigade, Second Division.
Colonel 0. B. 'Wilcox, Michigan Volunteers,
commanding 2d Brigade, Third Division, who was
wounded and taken prisoner while on the hill, in
the hottest of the fight.
Colonel 0. 0. Howard, Maine Volunteers, com-
manding 3d Brigade, Third Division.
Colonel J. B. Richardson, Michigan Volunteers,
commanding 4th Brigade, First Division.
Colonel Blenker, New York Volunteers, com-
manding Ist Brigade, Fifth Division.
Colonel Davies, Ne'w York Volunteers, command-
ing 2d Brigade, Fifth Division,

As my position may warrant, even if it does not
call for, some explanation of the causes, as far as
they can be seen, which led to the results herein
stated, I trust it may not be out of place if I refer
in a few words to the immediate antecedents of the
battle.
When I submitted to the General-in-Chief, in
compliance with his verbal instructions, the plan
of operations and estimate of force required, the
time I was to proceed to carry it into effect was
fixed for the Bth of July (Monday). Every
facility possible was given me by the Gentral-in-
Chief and heads of the administrative departments
in making the necessary preparations. But the
regiments, owing, I was told, to want of tran-
sport, came over slowly. Many of them did
not come across till eight or nine days after
the time fixed upon, and went forward with-
out my even seeing them, and without having been
together before in a brigade. The sending rein-
forcements to General Patterson, by drawing off
the waggons, was a further and unavoidable cause
of delay. Notwithstanding the herculean efforts of
the Quartermaster-General, and his favouring me
in every way, the waggons for ammunition, sub-
sistence, &c., and the horses fer the trains and the
artillery, did not all arrive for more than a week
after the time appointed to :neve. I was not even
prepared as late as the 1511 ult., and the desire I
should move became great, and it was wished I
should not, if possible, delay longer than Tuesday,
the lOth ult.

When I did set out, on the 16th, I was still de-
ficient in wagons for subsistence. But I went
forward, trusting to their being procured in time
to follow me. The trains thus hurriedly gathered
together, with horses, waggons, drivers, and wag-
gon managers, all new and unused to each ether,
moved with difficulty arid disorder, and were the
Clll5O of a day's delay in getting the provisions for-

ward, making it necessay to make on Sunday the
attack we should have rode on Saturday.

I could not, with eery exertion, get forward
with the troops earlier tlan we did. I wished to
go to Centreville the secaid day, which would have
taken us there on the 17h, and enabled us, so far

as they were concerned,to go into action on the
19th, instead of the 21st but when I went forward
from Fairfax Court•housc beyond German-town to

urge them forward, I wanold it was impossible for
the men to march further. They had only come from

Vienna, about six miles, ald it was not more than six
and a half miles further to Centreville—in all, a
march of 121 miles; but he men were foot-weary,
not so much, I was told, by the distance march?d
as by the time they hal been on foot, caused by
the obstructions in the rotd and the slow pace we
had to move to avoid ambtscades. The men were,

moreover, unaccustomed `o marching, their bodies
not in condition for that Had of work, and not used
to carrying even the loadof light marching order.
We crossed Bull's Run with about 18,000 men of
all arms, the Fifth Division (Miles's and. Richard-
son's Brigades) on the let, at Blackburn's Ford t
Centreville, and Schenck'3 Brigade, of Tyler's Divi-
sion, on the left of the rcad, near the stone bridge,
net participating in the Train action. The numbers
opposed to us have been variously estimated. I may
safely say, and avoid ever the appearance of exagge-
ration, that the enemy brought up all he could
which were not kept engaged elsewhere. He had
notice of our coming on the 17th, and had from that
time until the 21st to bring up whatever he had.
It is known that, in estimating the force to go
against Manassas, I engaged not to have to do with
the enemy's forces under Johnston, then kept in
check in the valley by Major-General Patterson, or
those kept engaged by Major-General Butler ; and
I know every effort was made by the General-in-
Chief that this should be done, and that even if
Johnston joined Beauregard it would not be because
he could not be followed by General Patterson, but
from causes rot necessary for me to refer to, if I
knew them all. This was not done, and the enemy
was free to assemble from every direction in num-
bers only limited by the amount of his railroad roll-
ing stock and his supply of provisions. To the
forces, therefore, w.= drove in from Fairfax Court-
house, Fairfax Station, Germantown, and Centre-
ville, and those under Beauregard at Manassas,
must be added those under Johnston from Winches-
ter, and those brought u? by Davis from Richmond
and other places at the South, to which is to be
added the levy en masse ordered by the Richmond
authorities, which was ordered to assemble at
Manassas. What all this amounted to I cannot say
•certainly much more than we attacked them with.
I could not, as I have said, more early push on

faster, nor could I deliy. A large and the best
part of my forces were three months' Volunteers,
whose term of service was about to expire, but who
were sent forward as having long enough to serve
for the purpose of the expedition. On the eve of
the battle the 4th Pennsylvania Regiment of
Volunteers, and the battery of Volunteer Artillery
of the New York Bth Militia, whose term of service
expired, insisted on their discharge. I wrote tb
the regiment, expressing a request for them to re-
main a short time, and the Hon. Secretary of War,
who was at the time on the ground, tried to induce
the battery to remain at least five days. But in
vain. They insisted cn their discharge that night.
It was granted, and the next morning, when the
army moved forward into battle, these troops
moved to the rear to the sound of the enemy's
cannon. In the next few days, day by day, I
should have lost 10,000 of the best armed, drilled,
officered, and disciplined troops in the army. In
other words, every day which added to the strength
of the enemy made us weaker.
"In conclusion, I desire to say, in reference to
the events of the 21st ult., that the general order
for the battle to which I referred was, with slight
modifications, literally conformed to ; that the corps
were brought over Bull's Run in the manner pro•
posed, and put into action as before arranged; and
that up to late in the afternoon every movement
ordered was carrying us successfully to the object
we had proposed before starting—that of getting
to the railroad leading from Manassas to the valley
of Virginia, and going on it far enough to break up
and destroy the communication, and interpose be-
tween the forces under Beauregard and those under
Johnston ; and could we have fought a day or a few
hours sooner, there is everything to show how we
could have continued successful, even against the
odds with which we contended.
" I have the honour to be, very respectfully,
"Your most obedient servant,
" InwiN AI'DOWELL,
"BrigAdier-General Commanding."

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-LIVERPOOL, Aug. 23.
CIVIL COURT.

(Bf.fore Mr. Baron Martin and and a Special Jury.)

MILNE AND ANOTHER V. LEISLER.

This case, which vas partly heard and adjourned
yesterday, on account of the indisposition of Mr.
Baron Wilde, was further adjourned until to-mor-
row, Mr. Baron Martin announcing that, if suffi-
ciently recovered, Mr. Baron Wilde would sic to-
morrow and conclude the trial.
Mr. Baron Martin having finished all the common
juries, then proceeded with the trial of the special
jury causes, thu trial of which has, as yet, only just
commenced.

while travelling as Post-office clerk on the defen-

dants' railway.
Mr. Edward James, Q.C., and Mr. Cobbett ap-
peared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Overend, Q.C.,
and 11r. Littler, for the defendant.
It appeared that the plaintiff was employed by
the Post-office as a clerk and sorter of letters on
the mail train to Liverpool, and that on the 23d of
January last, as he was travelling by the night
mail, the train ran into two trucks which had been
left on the line of rails between Ramhill Station
and Liverpool by a luggage train which had broken
down. The result of the collision to the plaintiff
was that he received a most severe cut and con-
, tusion on the side of the head from being pitched
against a part of the carriage. On being taken to
his home he discovered after two or three days that
he had received a double rupture. He was confined
to his bed two months, and at the expiration of
that time was in such an enfeebled state that he
was examined on behalf of the Post-office. and sur-
gical certificates given that, by reason of the rup-
tures and his general state of health, he was no
longer fit or capable of filling his appointment. Up
to the time of the accident he was receiving £l3O
a year as Post-office clerk, and since the acci-
dent he had been pensioned off with £6O a year.
For the defence it was contended—and medical
evidence was called to establish it—that the rup-
tures were of old standing, and that the plaintiff
was still able to do many avocations. The negli-
gence which led to the accident was admitted, and
it was said the defendants were willing to make the
plaintiff reasonable compensation for the injuries he
had received, but he had resisted a reasonable offer.
His lordship expressed a strong opinion that the
negligence having been admitted ; the case was one
for the determination of a sheriff's jury as to the
amount of damages, and ought not to have been
brought into court to the obstruction of other busi-
ness.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff.
Damages, £5OO.
JACKSON V. THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN

RAILWAY COMPANY.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff to
recover damages for an injury sustained on the de-
fendants' railway through their alleged negligence.
It appeared that the plaintiff was a wholesale tea
dealer, carrying on business at Manchester, and on
the 31st of May, 1860, be was a passenger by the
2.45 express train on the defendants' railway to
London. On arriving between Stafford and Crewe,
while the train was going at full express speed, it
ran into a waggon on the line, and the plaintiff re-
ceived severe injuries from the collision to his head
and a shock to his nervous system, which had com-
pelled him almost entirely to relinquish his business,
arid for 12 months he had been suffering from hys-
terical symptoms and from acute pains in his head.
In consequence of his absence from his business,
which before the accident had been a very profitable
one, it had become for a time a losing concern. The
profits during the year 1859-60, the stock being
taken in February, were £1,400 ; but during the
following year the stock taken in February. 1861,
showed a loss of £1,500, which the plaintiff con-
tended was owing to his absence from his business,
attributable to the accident.
His lordship directed the jury that they must be
very cautious in the estimate they made of business
losses, for if the plaintiff's losses were taken to be
the measure of damages it would make the defen-
dants the insurers of man's success in business for
12 months.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff.
Damages, £7OO.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-Aug. 23.

WESTMINSTER —Mr. Arnold handed another
package of letters which he had received respecting
the dishonesty of Farrell Hogg, at present under
remand for felony, to Sergeant Wilson, of the B
division. He particularly alluded to a communi-
cation which lied been received from Aldershott,
stating that a person answering Farrell Hogg's
description had been residing there for a couple of
months under the name of Claude Ernest Gordon
Reilly, and swindling a number of persons. He
had informed some of his dupes, sub rosa, that he
was the Hon. Claude Ernest Gordon Lennox, a
member of the Richmond family, and that he had
been an officer in the 2d Life Guards. He suddenly
decamped, in debt to everybody who had trusted
him, leaving nothing behind at his lodgings but an
empty box and a black dog.
INlr. Arnold said the letter in question enclosed a
photograph of the offender, which, although it did
not help the writer to the conclusion that his credi-
tor was Farrell Hogg, might, in the hands of the
police, be of public advantage. It was quite clear
that a person named Farrell Hogg had long been
carrying on an extensive system of swindling by
taking :espectable lodgings, and then, under dif-
ferent pretences, borrowing sums of money of the
owners and decamping before they went for a

reference.
Sergeant Wilson said there were much more
serious charges against the prisoner. One was the
theft of a gold watch, value I:15. Repeated appli-
cations had been math at the station-house respect-
ing his delinquencies.
Charles Clark, aged 12, living with his parents
at 64, Church-street, Chelsea, was charged with
feloniously assaulting and wounding Charles Neath,
aged 12, of 4, Church-street, Chelsea.
Neath observed Clark placing himself in a posi-
tion on the previois evening to overhear a conver-
sation going on between th mother and aunt of
the former. He told him to go away, which, after
a few words, he did. Returning. however, in a
few minutes, without saying a word, he plunged a
penknife into the prosecutor's left side near the
heart, and then threw the knife into a shop. The
wounded bov was taken to the hospital.

Mr. Arnold inquired whether there was any cer-
tificate to show the nature of the irjury ?
The police replied that they had not one, but the
surgeo❑ at St. George's Hospital who dressed the
wound would attend if necessary.
In answer to questions from the magistrate,
The prosecutor sai I that, although the prisoner
was very saucy, he did ❑othing but desire him to

go away.
A policeman proved that when he took the cul-
prit into custody he denied the charge.
Neath and a relative were recalled, and swore
positively that the prisoner was the offender.
There, were the signatures of two other persons on
the polia-sheet in confirmation of their statement.
The prisoner was remanded for a week, and bail
was refused.

WORSHIP-STREET.— William Lewis, alias
Lundy, a tall, powerful man, looking like a soldier,
was charged before Mr. Knox with assault and
robbery.
At half-past 2on the afternoon of the Ist of last
June Mr. Thos. Barehard, of Holford-street, Step-
ney, stopped opposite the London Hospital in the
Whitechapel-road to see a body of riflemen file by.
He wrs closely surrounded by several men, and
then felt a pressure against his watch pocket. He
looked down, and to his surprise saw his watch in
the hands of the prisoner, who was trying to
wrench it off the pendant. The witness made a
snatch at his watch, but missed it; he therefore
seized the prisoner, and shouted for help. After a
violent contest the prosecutor, with the assistance
of two other persons, held the prisoner till a con-
stable came up and took him into custody. Bingley
and another officer succeeded in getting him as far
as Brown's-lane, Spitalfields, but there a number of
his confederates rushed out upon the officers to
rescue him, and dragged one of the constables away.
On seeing this the prisoner commenced a savage
attack upon Bingley, kicking him about the legs
and body, and striking him about the face and
head, while one of his companions attacked him
from behind and knocked him down. The result
of the combined attack upon the constable was that
he was so injured as to be under medical treat-
ment and unfit for duty for a fortnight. The pri-
soner at that time escaped, and nothing more was
seen of him till a day or two ago, when Kenward,
of the H division, caught sight of him in Smithfield,
and attempted to secure him. The prisoner rushed
into one of the houses in Victoria-street, and, on
being followed and found by the officer concealed
behind a door, he fought so desperately that if it
had not been for the fortunate arrival of one of the
parish beadles he would have escaped again.
One of the officers deposed to the prisoner having
been previously convicted under the Criminal Jus-
tice Act, and sentenced to six months' hard labour
for felony, and Mr. Knox ordered him to be corn-
mated for trial.

CLERKENWELL.— A well-dressed young
woman, who gave thq name of Mary Anne Edwards,
was charged with picking the pooket of Mrs. Sarah
Shepherd of a purse in an omnibus in the City-
road.
The complainant was in one of the company's
omnibuses when the prisoner entered and took a
seat beside her, From what came to the know-
ledge of the conductor, he was induced to watch the
prisoner. In the City-road the latter stopped the
omnibus, and in a hasty manner got out and pro-
ceeded up Hall-street. The conductor, having as•
certained that the complainant's pocket had been
picked and that her purse had been stolen, went
after the prisoner, brought her back, put her in the
omnibus, and drove her to the Angel at Islington,
and there gave her into the custody of Police-con-
stable Clancey, 3SB N. Before the prisoner was
brought back the omnibus was searched. but the
purse could not be found. When the prisoner was
apprehended the purse was found close to her feet.
To got at the complainant's pocket the thief had to
cut through two petticoats ,as well as tp lift the