The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-22 00:00:00

fortuity, even among the regulars in the capital,
and proceeds as follows :
"I have seen two or three squadrons of cavalry. No two
men were dressed alike. Some wore overcoats, some did
not; some wore flannel jackets, some cloth coats; some hats
with feathers, some hats without feathers ; some regulation
fatigue caps, and some any sort of civilian's cap, or hat ;
some had their coats buttoned, some half buttoned, some
not at all buttoned, and so throughout. The horses were
not well groomed, the saddles and bridles were greasy and
dusty, the bits and plates were tarnished and rusty. And
it is rare that you see anything else than this in the streets
of Washington of the regular cavalry. There is greater
neatness and evidence of care in the infantry when on duty ;
yet I have not seen so much as a squad of the infantry uni-
formly and completely dressed, except a guard at guard-
mounting. The nearest approach to a display that I have
seek was at the funeral of the late Commissary-General
this morning. It was an occasion, if ever, in which full
dress and the fullest military decorum in all respect was to
have been observed. I believe that no part of the cortege
was in full regulation uniform ; in fact, I doubt if there is
such a thing in existence as a full regulation uniform. The
privates all wore fatigue caps. On the same gun-carnage
and on the same seat the re were three brown caps and one
blue. In the same plate on of infantry some wore flannel
sacks and some regulati na coats. There was a guard of
honour of sergeants atten ling the hearse. Even these did
not wear the full dress hat One wore a cap-cover, the rest
did not; another wore his risor up, the rest down ; another
wore a full body uniform,t he rest flannel sacks. The only
uniform article was white gloves ; these, I understand, the
men furnish themselves, not the Government. The officers
were not even uniform in this respect ; some wore brown
and some yellow, and some white gloves. A line officer of
the infantry wore cavalry gauntlets. Some wore the full-
dress hat, some caps, some cap-covers. One came on the
ground in a brown citizen's overcoat, and took it off and
strapped it to his saddle without dismounting. The officers'
horses were not well groomed nor decently equipped. One
rode past with a parcel in a newspaper strapped behind
his saddle. Some bad English saddles, some the re-
gulation saddles, with all sorts of stirrups and housings,
Some wore stocks, some standing and some rolling collars '
and one young fellow who, I dare say, is gallant and noble,
but whose want of a true sense of military propriety—ac-
cording to my pre-conceived notions about it—gave him a
squirtose look, wore a big white shirt collar turned sailor-
fashion over his coat collar. The hearse driver (the horses
were not led but driven four-in-hand) wore a brown and
battered hat, a greasy coat of streaked and faded snuff-
colour. you rarely see a cart-driver north of Maryland so
shabbily dressed. By his side on the hearse was a black boy
in plantation apparel."
There are even greater eccentricities than these.
Officers may be seen wearing brass spurs, with the
buckle inside the foot, fixed on white canvass shoes,
infantry sabres, whips in their hands, coats wide
open, tunics wide open, unstrapped trousers gathered
up about the knees, long hair floating in the wind,
and mounted on horseback flashing down Pennsyl-
vania avenue. There is a? this moment a squadron
of cavalry outside my window, whose saddlery ac-
coutrements, bits, bridles, and uniforms would not
be tolerated in a polk of Cossacks of the Black Sea.
In one or two regiments there is such utter lack
of discipline that the best thing General M'Clellan
could do would be to disband them at once, No
strength is gained by the numbers of the rank and
file in battalions of which the officers are not mas-
ters of themselves or their soldiers. The execution
of the soldier who killed Major Lewis, of his regi-
ment, the other day in Maryland, may deter the
ruffians who have found their way into the ranks,
but its approach has not had any effect if one may
judge from what occurred at, as reported in a
Washington paper, the very same place and in the
same camp last night. A private of the 46th Penn-
sylvania Regiment stepped out of the ranks after
evening parade, shot the Colonel of his regiment
with a revolver in two places, and then shot the
Colonel's son. Neither are mortally wounded, but
t seems unaccountable that he should have been
permitted to fire three or four shots by the men
around him, who must have seen him draw the pis.
tol. It would appear by the papers that an oc-
currence of a similar character, but ending more
tragically, has just taken place in England,
but, there no doubt, justice will soon be
done. Mr. Lincoln hesitates to sign the
order for the execution of the soldier who wounded
his major, and there are even legal doubts as to
the legality of the court-martial, which may lead to
his being pardoned. But Gen. M'Clellan is in some
measure bound to punish breaches of discipline by
his own orders. His language in the following
order is plain enough :
" Head-quarters, Army of the Potomac,
Washington, Oct. 1,1861.
" General Orders, No. 19.
"The attention of the General commanding has
recently ben directed to depredations of an atro-
cious character that have been committed upon the
persons and property of citizens in Virginia, and
by the troops under his command. The property of
inoffensive people has been lawlessly and violently
taken from them; their houses broken open, and,
in some instances, burnt to the ground.
" The General is perfectly aware of the fact that
these outrages are perpetrated by a few bad men,
and do not receive the sanction of the mass of the
army. He feels confident, therefore, that all officers
and soldiers who have the interest of the service at
heart, will cordially unite their efforts with his in
endeavouring to suppress practices which disgrace
no name of a soldier.
" The General Commanding directs that, in
future all persons connected with this army who
are detected in depredating upon the property of
citizens-shall be arrested and brought to trial; and
he assures all concerned that crimes of such enor-
mity will admit of no remission of the death penalty
which the military law attaches to offences of this
nature.
" When depredations are committed on property
in charge of a guard, the commander, as well as the
other members of the guard, will be held responsi-
ble for the same, as principals, and punished accord-
ingly.
'4‘ By command of Major-General McClellan.
" S. WILLIAMS, Assistant Adjutant-General.
" Official.—RlCHAßD B. IRVIN, Aide-de-Camp."
There will be a review of the cavalry and guns
at this side of the river to morrow. News there is
none.

The gunboat Steady, which was sent by Lord
Lyons with despatches to Mr. Bunch, at Charleston,
has returned with communications from the Consuls.
BUSINESS AT THE BRITISH LEGATION.

In addition to the extreme pressure of business
on the British Legation, arising from matters con-
nected with the blockade, distressed British sub-
jects, and illegal enlistments, there is now the pass-
port branch, which grows out of the regulation of
the State Department that each British passport
shall be countersigned by Mr. Seward and General
Scott. In the matter of mincrs there is much
trouble. The War Department appears to be over-
whelmed with work, for there is great delay in
replying to the representations of the British Mi-

nister in such cases, and I believe the Adjutant
General has absolutely stated that minors will na

be delivered up to their parents although their en-
listment is contrary to law. Sons of British sub-
.

jecta under age have in many instances enlisted
against the wishes of their parents, who suppose the
Legation neglects its duty because the young men
are not at once discharged. In one of the papers
of this city to-day I find the following paragraph,
referring to the
military collision between the civil and
author- •
Lyons,
on the 44 Jeremiah enlistment question :
was
on
wNeda soldier in the 23d Pennsylvania
Regiment,
'lmla
Judge William H. Ibrought before Assistant-
• Terri y last
ck, of the Circuit Court of this
distriat, on a -writ of habea
the evidence that the said Jeremiah Lyons
and it appearing from
Lyons was a minor, who
entered the service without theeßknaltoiwledge and consent of
his father, Cornelius Lyons,
Baltimore the Court ordered
his release from all restraint or detentionte by reason of his
of the
irregular and void enlistment.
above order of the 2d inst. Jeremiah wrastilegP'i‘6Bage
detained by order of Brigadiez-General Graaita n 'Zed and
Court room
ing the brigade to which the said 23d RegiroZi--mand-
gull: attached.
Judge _Merrick on Saturday ordered that Bri
Graham show cause before him at the Circuit
in the City Hall, on Tuesday (to-morrow), at 12 o'clock,
why a writ of attachment for contempt of court should not
issue against him, and the marshal was directed to serve
the order." _

_______
I enclose some general orders, and the Blair and
Fremont correspondence, from which it may be in-
ferred that the General can lose his temper occa-

sionally. The weather is disagreeably warm, and
very stormy and unhealthy. A balloon reconnais-
sance has satisfied General M'llowell that the Con-
federates are in great force at Manassas.

READING IN CHURCH.—Congregations have no
right to expect Kembles in the prayer desk any more than
llarios in the choir; but they have a right to demand what
the rubric enjoins, that the minister shall "read distinctly
With an audible voice," so that he may be "heard of all
such as are present." And this: but too many of our clergy
cannot do, though I think the Times has somewhat over-
coloured the picture.—Cambridge Chronicle,

s.*livis--Jet-svmi f ' Lapn rota' ovT-Flot-sumi e .N. ,=,
WallAnntr6m 24 March--29 Sept. zrrant'p 'I, finangials

as Treasury dates of the Fishery-park Laws.
THE STAR'S-PERIGEE'AN-LONGITUDE PHILOSOPHY; OR
ELECTRO COMPASS (-) PONTI USE'FRITIT.

CINQUE-PORTAL, Wit-in-G' Dead's-court. —ln
`l3. C. Diez-Cinq'kent 500 if. Polar above below declin.
soar„in astrs-geOgraph. ••:•. to lover's s Arrow oft-
and-on' Diepp's-nouen to Lizard-pt. o'er Ind. Quadra,-,
mlifinaogre.toa'ws
,rLapnreFus..ebye,T, oyerke
culmination
stonate Tropic-wendrope-lay
Anchor
turd
round the fist earth, as of Titus Vespasian's meter, yr 79
on 1824-35 Act for Dec' ca- conchoidal, leet-Crts.
The Botaloigne 'd illegal mist-Comfin-negatta fete of
27-Bth, August'en A.D. 1861—as Eve sham'ci-on " the after-
math-B' head'ng night of Ikon apte'tr—issued the 13th,
old lammass-day from the Jag' ket office (of th' grand master-
mason of Malta's College, St. James'-st., on U. S. c. 33, § 7,
1800-2-13-off Amiens treaty-Nap-1.7), in dupelex, welkin
Paul the capson-scholastic,' by Goal-LEwEs' in Ship way
seal' of traris Zouekirk's ? ' Earth-moving' error. So to—.
" Command oid words, that long have slept—to wake,
Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake."
This langawd Bamfin Out i flot ;ms_,key-loop as, Corn-
hill-st. lits-chaTe/4. "Like GGG-father-131 CowpEn-1712,
like GGG.tchildspri gg PALMERSTON 1861 -as of H.J.Temple
—cites the charter of Bristol L. P. 9 Antics, 24 July, for its
backwarn'ng to six, five, or four," combar- (on's in Lath'm
Span'sh Cabotage) 'curvature ' a Latrinity-ns.', Yer the
sunk -port, Q. inn Jet,ext land wad-set's prior to Pope Nic.'s
tax 1291-97-Doge II Ws 9th, at ShorenAitt, 18-21 pavillion,
Bright-helm-stone meridian of old London, £m-resumed
for" Carthage-mud port-Corhon, Edict Comffn., of Review
in Egypes'lB2B," 9-10 W. 3d, c. 15, for Lt. A.'s arc Bows-
soli-etruscan, Arbitrat' at-rate 'm Pontifiscum—EmSra-
tor" as G' log Osfayo 'twist Turkish ALI, and Codrington,
who in Claudian's 0 'way conic letter-a didn't—
Scorn arbitration as a stin-
9th.] To ninth" and tenth of William's reign." [nO 10th.
Ist. So, no 1581's Earthrolling-bull's, with a Fist earth
Langue@'oi o O'er nemilJet'famen'ys astral, See I Edw.
VI., c. 2, reenact 284-yr. in 1832 by 2-3 Will. IV., c. 92,
sec. 4,—entitled, The Submission of the Clergy Restraint
01 Appeals—as yet pending to Pombal's Brazil-9, in ach-
ita' intervention, 25 Henry 8, c. 19, ¶ 3, Whereas divers
life-titled noblemen, and spiritual sylph'd-persons have
sent out civil-summons, in their own names, as in the
time of the usurped powers of the Bishop of Rome,
contrary to the common law, touching writs in lay causes
of correction, De Jure patronatus and probates of testaments
—Be it enacted, that all such citations or other processes
by advocates or other will-court officers, of the King's
Highness, do bear th E-Quoin-might-rider's fiscustom'ary
endorsement, as well as the 4 Common-clerk's name placed
under citor's Mats de co-quoin' seal, in polar "
.Elm Die
Baaren" Jet] meridian g roof'd : : R cr) chester-bridg'd in
mane Antcec -transit, o'er N. Zea Waithangi'd brother
and sister's 3-ty. as 0. 5.20. E. of Azores (-) Verd ' fulcrum-
ponticulus-hernispheras'm 44st re-ponti-Phi/imore-Te'ad, as
the old longitude-bridge' Eark-dance o'er the L'aide-ley
"In silence, till the cheerful sun
Has twice six months its star -wend run."

Thus—Laganum-Rotalorum's of Kent under s yn-sideral-
lathe epoch for P. £' audits, to Bow towns 5110 N., 13 prefix
over its L'ond on-wave'y bye Wall-in-ford •-• fcirencester
Seven hundreds' on 34-HEN. I.' s mile' r Rayhere Kt., to 1.4
Hen. 4's hogshead of wine Jus-" Ex-change A 1." as of
leva lengu4 in Tenby's alt'mare meet, of Fresh
and salt water Admiral's Court, not of Co-mercer's fa. fa.,
l'Erewing-sup,' as on Jesuit's ward books ca. fa.'d.
Think deep.—or touoh not the empyrean spring'—Hosea.
2dly. Whence, by 1 Fhilip & Mary, c. 7, " No man shall
exercise the office of Justice Conservator (to Water bailiff's
silver-oar, of July, 1521, 81—now Utiecht's Indian-paddle
Treaty of 1713-63, as of Mexico's Philipine isle'd Bohun-
inspector of all a fiscal-f meter-Crts.), who like WoEsEv's
Temple'r shall take en himself 'to direct and serve his own
prlcept.' Hence this cinq Negative ; since (by Russn-Dutch
loan on America's double-hdd-eagle-RoPeck, 91's Mingan
trust-acts of 1832), pension'd Church-Queen's" in ai—of a,
by civil list, —tho' in 6'er"Xeft facce"—have ceased to be
the head of Malcolm iff.'s G.G.G•BOII monetary Trust in
presbytera'aindred and at your peril disobey this law
—for "one and all as breast-high'd on Agricola's E:cot and
'lot hand-up lITMERAq typic, on Caesar's silver coinage
for electing the yearly Abkari < cess phat's on 29th Sept., or
Slmi-call-mete—magistrates, in union Echo-wall, to the 24th
March one,l,of *Red Indian w. " murri nomine"—life.
" To gain the race he eager tries ; his forfeit life's the stake."
27, Aug. 31,1861 [unpaid-jan.ter martyr 19 yrs], London,

PETER BASQUE; g The flag-union Jag, Ist Fruit-
a. m M p.m. ftacca-cornhill'd-tribuneaslncome-tax-
• hI freeman, Antipod'n crown-colon j 1 chief
• Bulo4grK of 1842, The criminal law's Eitradi-
o Temple. tion Gap, 3 'mile off-shore Sea -constable
Labouchere. bearing Xamerica's paddle of Admiral's
[2 March, '4l] court over Canterbury's ge-Guizote set-
H. M. Perley, tlement for New Zealand's deadprooffit
3 Sept, '4l's Crt., its °dal N-af poy Stil'lord Warden
Gap I viz'r. —tho' eruelly set up a medaled T'atecca-
machine, in " paccarizo gentis imagines." •* N.
CHARLES ACRERLEY, J.P. of Carib-allyci f
Enoland, elected 29th August, 1825 (by Ad- .•• : :
miral G. Hamond, Stuart de Rothsay's Sec- Crown-
rotary; Marcus HiII—SANDYS, Lay-presbyter' 8 egu,
on Can'ng's Holy Alliance abolition, of King- A
clubs), the Standard meter-bearer of 1837—Lt. I
R.N. i pay'd double- oathii'd victim—supporter Si
of Red Mohawk PETER 10 yrs, by Indian Mary Peu Qu'
March's murder-tie 1820 " per virginale Rien
tenerum corpus christe' transit, thro' Quebec's
Hamilton-Dalhousie, in E. Elder' duty for HIS S.P.Q.R,
and own's State-birth provision, as the Mon-
tague Subsidy first-fruit loan, 1814'20's Major Trevsor-
Cartwright's succossorial Onra-U'homo, (to trove.
1322'99's red-turban'd Hen. Quadra Manfre-
, dum'y de ,aecearia,' on H. s's colona'd martin 5; I].• V
to GONSALVI 1816 regolamento-159, by Pius 7th on.
Scotch-Bailie Urban Bth's capacity-oath of 1749, Ad-
vocate STUART wortley-Newcomen s) en Gonfaloniere'
1824 passed is C. A.'s naming Act 1-2 W. 4, Na. 54,
as th" goin'd popied Luther- calvin, for lay seignorage-
trust, over W. Russell and Stanley's Dead-hand (1683)
yet-attaints, in secret propaganda (Sion Hill) agency.
To all metre-roded ' Councils General' in nature's Year-law,
under 1835's Municipal and Reform Acts to Mayor's local
supremacy (against New" Comffn 'Grippe-Jesus' Christian
Clubs, 11 Geo. 111, c. 55, male or female," as at the Burgh-
ports 1772's on the Shoreham resignation, aver-bull' srun of
Clement 14th's Jesuit Dead-Guilds Jos. Abolition, for Lay-
resumption of life-set Exchanges of land), over the yearly
Poor-law Guardians—as are for the time being—on 1603's
church Canon in vestry'red lettered Transepta succession
—an aft-Tow'ring, by Q. Elizabeth's P. C.-/'nuRLEv-men
for oaths in retro-verge-,1%-sense, for sound office. Whence
stop now, all pensions and ministers' money (for public
works) whereby all Sylph-creeds become self-supports.-- So
be it—for civic Asia-Europe's constabulary vox entry.
"'Tis thus that Heaven its empire doth maintain ;
It may afflict—but MAN, must not complain."
4. Papal-tribunes, of (mirsv minor Exchange-house for
bAl'pointers in o.s. Fiat-earth Tow'r) 1582, on COWPER'g
Huitson 1671's Chiliarchm'r i to St. Michael's PENN for
Fox banana organ Tun' of Hidelburgh. So Heligoland 3ty.,
Jan. 14, May-Copenhagen'd by C. A. of Daphne, 1814,
as the Montague letter 15 P.C. Crown-page before Embassy
FOSTER'S Abbe-locum of Hanover Exmouth's 1816 3ty
in Labouchero's paK clerk, Rothschild's Hessian 10-mart.
. _

1: Foreign Quarterly Review, Nov., 1829, p. 303 ; and
Maritime Register, 17th Aug., 1861, p. 1051.
Survey Arbitrations.—By 9 10 W. in, c. 15, it is enacted,
" That merchants, sole-traders—(and all Antipode'ans, as
those under the 'Turkish, 1809-Dardanell'd Padifhse Jan'
Bailli'd Itreaty,' 1841)—desiring to end all controversies by
arbitration, may agree that their submission of their suit to
an Award or umpirage (as of Africa's 1828 trust on Thony
Monthermer' ACKERLEY, Flag-Lt. of Ocean 74),—0f any
person, should be made "on Captain Cook's nzana rule in
tribal Admiralty red-flag MAon,r4-plea," of his Majesty's
courts of Record ; and in ease of disobedience to such award
on Pa-tow'ring, the parties neglecting or refusing (.t. F. Q.
Review, Nov. 1829),—t0 perform the same, shall be subject
to penalties of contemning e. Rule of Court, "as Pa .tax mis-
sion'd on the Anglo-Saxon Mexi-Spanish trust, yet Cuba-
Philipin'd to 1763-4-state Grants, as reset 31 Jan. 1812-3,
on the Carib-micmac's minor L' Boar' s head, Inn-fan- GNI
and Out fan-Q.-sustenance of (without ‘Locatelle death's or
further maddening poor PETER by exile cast from), family,
for refusing to give up America's Tribal state flag to any
church party, by Derby and Peel's orders with (In.'s rose.
"Heath polar-star'd land Wehr-ring wolf to fawn,
And view with trembling, whom they view'd with scorn.'

j GUILTY (OR NOT GUILTY FICTION) RIDER.
" The sea-WRIT original (now ' police-sheet root
Of' St. Peter's-key Cornhill), spring of civic-suit."
The "not guilty" when GL ILTY is the free and accepted
for county-rate expenses, in all the courts—but, the guilty
on written confession to Female complainant, before hear-
ing—is of right saved (50, E. 3) from a slaughter under the
twofold spiritual and corporeal capacity of the casting voice
in Judge, as prisoner's police arbitrator. The case in ques-
tion being betwixt Mistake-plaintiff, and Martyr-Defen-
dant-tacit, to obtain a iterioted St. AN yrou Court-christian
Baillie-day's •criminal Ad-paper—as the October Laird
o'Cockpen's Ist usefruct, of the French treaty Concordat
in the Marylebone Police-court on Wed., Oct. 2, " Bellew
v. Baillie" committed for three calender months to the cells
with loss of hair—omitting the real Rug'd-pursuer's name
on civil law table-turning, a Flemish-Balieu Order' note
into a police-sheet-charge on Art. 1 and 9 Jan. 25, 1813.'
The freak forgiven prisoner, on over night pre-arbitration
with Plaintiff-rug•-laundress, 13, Frederick-street, for not
having counsel to explain the kneeling facts. So, in SLANE
suggestion,' Mr. Tyrwhitt and the Prison Secretary must
instantly from defunct justice,' rectify this Cassandra hoax
washing-rug' trial between mistress and servant—in order
for instant release and reward, under Chief Justice Bruce-
Bellete-Fortescue's Kt.-Stapleton Stat. H. 6' of 1442—(te
coldbath Vestal-women-jail-keeper's o'er the 600, in TotLill
nun'ery-like prison, &c.) now in civil Bench-warrant, as
genitive'd 'of', sth Victoria, c. 24.—La voila, N. case.
" Provided always, Yea I that, if e'er
Quakers or lady Quacks interfere,
Or take upon them--'as, a scholar'—
' Prohibitory' writ should follow."

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager---Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND.
After which, at Eirfht o'clock. the new and success-
ful comedy of WOMAN; or, Love against the World.
htracters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin,
Bruton, Mrs. Bowers, Miss Murray, and Miss Lydia Thomp-
son.

To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in
which Miss Lydia Thompson will dance a New Volunteer
Quick Step.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

lANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
tc E
11r. SAM COWELL every evening at Nine and a quarter
een.

Also, Grand Selections from
TROVATORE, A V TATA, NOR MA, MARTHA, and
STRADELLA.
By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli,
Mr. Morley, and a powerful Chorus.
The return of Mr. LEVY, who will perform several cele-
brated Airs on the Cornet-a-pistou.
The Comte department comprises Messrs Harvey and
French. " The Nerves "—Mr lirarshall—Mr. Wood and his
talented Son—and Miss Harriet Coveney
Musical Director, Mr. ;Tonghmans.
Admission—Hall, tad. stalls and Balcony, ls.

H

E 0 X p 0 i7-----___
6, OXFORD-STREET. I)
'
EVERY EVENING.
A Grand Selection from Amber's Nvw Comic'Oper „A
CLIWASSIENNE," by Miss Ernst, Messrs. Greeane7--
Messrs.
flerbert, and the Company. Also from-. Verdi's new (irtjtrci
opera, "Simon Boecanzgra," by Miss Russell,
Morley, arcene, Greville, and the Company. .Ralfe's new
,‘ Ihe Maid and her Moorish Knig•ht," by Madame
vßevanadnadu. Frenchilail (r)d.Th,.e Nerves),Baleony
balled, "7
Mr. Levy on the Cornet-a-piston, and varied
Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney,
Mr. and
Mr. E. Marshall, and .
Master Wood,
Private Boxes, 108. ed.—Musical Director,
Messrilsr.rillvar.
and Stalls, is ;
Mr. P. Jongtnans.

men.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
GARDEN.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa
Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison.—Miss PYNE and Mr. HARRI-
SON beg most respectfully to announce that the SEASON of
the Royal English Opera will NOT COMMENCE UNTIL
THURSDAY NEXT, Oct. 24. This Postponement has been
occasioned in consequence of the Rehearsals of Mr. Howard
Giover's New Opera of RUY BLAS not being in such a state
of completeness as would justify the first representation of a
new work. The boxes, stalls, &c., &0., which have already
been secured for last Evening. (Monday), may be transferred
to the Thursday Evening, on application at the Box-office.
The Box-office open from 10 to 5 daily.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT GARDEN.
tinier the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
Will OPEN for the Sixth Operatic Season on THURSDAY,
Oct. 24, 1861, when will be produced (first time) an entirely
New Grand Opera, in Four Acts, by Howard Glover, to be
entitled RUY BLAS.
The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for
booking, or fees to Box-keepers.
Stage-Manager, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting-Manager, Mr.
kelward Murray.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL,
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Open for the Winter Season.
THIS EVENING. MUSIC HAT II CHARMS. Messrs.
D. k'isher, Romer, Warde, Hisses K. Kelly and Laidlaw.
Alter which (257th time), THE. COLLEEN BAWN. Mr,
D. Ltone!mull, D;Fisher, Billington, S. Emery, Stephenson ,
C. ,1. Smith, Romer. Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. H. Lewis.
Toconclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher,
Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7.

FLEA TR g• ROYAL, IIAYMARKET
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backtstorie.

PITTS EVENING, the pprfornannoes will commence with
THE WOLF AND THE LAMB.

Atter which, a new Comedy, entitled THE SOFT SEX
Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Buckstone, Nir. Compton, Mr. E.Villiers
Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &a

With PAUL PRY MARRIED AND SETTLED. Pau
Pry (in a new position), Mr. C. Mathews.
To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS.
Commence a 7..

RO YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
This Theatre will be CLOSED this Evening
To-MORROW THE RENDEZVOUS.
After which, at Eight o'clock, Shakespeare's tragedy of
OTHELLO, with new scenery, dresses, and appointments,
Othello, Mr. Pechter.

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This DAY.—Morning, 3h. 40m.—Afternoon, 3h. 52m.
To-monitow.-Morning, 4h. 10m.—Afternoon, . 4h. 30m.

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THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
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51—lowest this morning and during the night.
59—this day at noon.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 22, 1861.

The great battle has not yet come off, nor does it
appear likely to do so. The PRESIDENT and the
Republicans seem more hostile to emancipation than
ever. The State Convention of Massachusetts lis-
tened to and applauded an emancipation speech by
their Senator, Mr. SUMNER, but when the resolu•
tions, to which it was introductory, was proposed,
rejected them. The Confederates have become the
strongest, militarily, in Kentucky, and the State
has called out forty thousand militia to resist them.
An iron-plated steamer from Liverpool, with a
cargo of guns and ammunition, besides other stores,
including 70 tons of gunpowder, for which a mil-
lion dollars had been paid, cash, in Liverpool, has
run the blockade at Savannah, and conveyed safely
the welcome supplies to the Confederates. A Fede-
ral war steamer, the Fanny, was taken by two or
three Confederate steamers while she was in the
act of unloading 150,000 dollars' worth of property
which she had just taken from Cape Hat-
teras, for the service of a Federal
Regiment on the coast. The Sumpter is still at
large. These are the most interesting facts brought
us by the Persia.
The survey of the whole does not furnish conclu-
sions much in favour of the North. The minor
military operations aro almost all disadvantageous
to it. FREMONT is said to be pursuing the captor
of Lexington, General PRICE, who, however, is
described as a kind of TANTIA TOPEE, who has a
great number of cavalry and no baggage, ready
for Parthian battle, but not easy for FREMONT
to overtake. FREMONT is to follow him, if needful,
into Arkansas, while it is rumoured—but probably
it is only rumour—that M'CuLLocri is marching to
cut off FREMONT from his supplies. The prospect
in Missouri is anything but hopeful, not tomention
the sad squabble between the BLAIRS and FRE-
MONT, resulting in a long and formal accusation
of FREMONT by Colonel BLAIR.

In Kentucky things are not much better. The
Governor favours the Secessionists—the Legis-
lature the Union. Both sides have troops in Ken-
tucky, the Confederates most, but the Legislature
votes them invaders, and calls out the State force ;
which, again, is under the control of the pro-
Southern Governor. Rather a hopeless compli-
cation there. On the Kentucky shore, indeed, of
the Mississippi the Confederates have batteries at
Columbus, by which they were able to rescue a
Southern gunboat, which would otherwise have
been captured by two from the North.

Further eastward in Western Virginia, ROSEN-
CRANZ telegraphs that he can hold his own ; not a
very promising report, so long after the victories
there which first made M'CLELLAN the Hero of the
North. Further eastward still, at Harper's Ferry,
General BANKS' army is not spoken of in very high
terms, and it seems to be held in check as effectually
by General JOHNSTON, as APCLELLAN'S grand
army is by BEAUREGARD a little further eastward,
at IVashington.

What, however, the two chief hostile leaders will
do, it seems impossible to tell. Mr. RUSSELL, who is
now returned to Washington, can no more form a
probable conjecture than we can here. The wooded
and hilly country, is wholly unfit for the
manceuvring of two large armies as single armies
under their respective commanders. Nor have they,
north of the Potomac, any idea of the position of
BEAUREGARD'S right, although they are quite cer-
tain that he is strong enough at Manassas junction.
BEAUREGARD knows full well that he could not
carry the works which defend Washington, but
probably M'CLELLAN equally fears that the NN orks
of his antagonist would not be easily carried by his
troop.s. In this respect the South seems to have the
best of it. Defence is all they profess. Their object
is attained by it. They only demand to be let
alone, and thus far they have deterred the North
from meddling with them, or made it, as at Bull's
Run, pay the penalty of doing so. The North, on
the contrary, has to conquer. It has not made one
step towards its object till it has beaten and driven
back the Southern army. The continued inaction
of the North is, therefore, a prolonged defeat ; that
of the South a prolonged victory. Yet, deeply as
M'CLELLAN, and LINCOLN too, must feel this, they
are not in a position to move. Mr. RUSSELL doubts,
indeed, whether the South has not, at this moment,

as many troops in the field as the north. Certainly
the *South has hitherto surpassed expectation, and

:he North disappointed it. It must even be conceded

that, considering the means at their disposal, the
South has surpassed the North in its venture
daring, and success at sea. The doings of the pri-
vateer Sumpter, and the recent capture of the Fanny,
will be thought highly creditable by all naval

But, from the proceedings of the Massachusetts
convention, it is plain that the war waits on politics.