The Sun. — 1864-10-03 (London, England)

THE BRITISH ARMY AND NAVY REVIEW.—This is an interesting number of a well written magazine. It opens with the first number of a series of papers on Celebrated Trials connected with the army and navy, in which is given an excellent account of Captain Kidd, a famous pirate in the West Indies some century and a half ago. "Military Ballads," an inspiriting theme, form the subject of the nest paper, which is well worth reading. The survey of Leo's second campaign in defence of Richmond does honour to the military discernment of the soldier and to the ability of his historian. In contrast to the record of Lee's achievements we have  that authority in the conduct of native affairs which has been already vested in their hands. Of the policy of realising Ti-on-ori, or some, and, if so, how many, of the other prisoners—of the credence  to be attached to the statements of native messengers respecting Rewi, and of the effect which the detention of the prisoners as hostages may have had in preventing hostile operations, or murderous outs rages, on the part of any of their friends—it is not possible to judge without that knowledge of the cirs cumstances which only presence on the spot can give—and, even if I possessed that knowledge, I should feel that it was extremely haz irdous to give you positive instructions from home, to be carried into sfftc% after an interval of five months from the time at which you had reported the circumstances to me, and when, therefore, the most material changes in those circumstances must have inevitably occurred. What Ido feel it to be my duty to say to you plainly is that the aid of the mother country in men and in money is given to the colony, on the understanding that the military measares which have unhappily become necessary shall be directed by you, in concert with the distinguished General in command. I shall be perfectly ready to support you in any measures which, not breaking positive law of the colony, and after consulting with the General, you may have thought it necessary to take on this subject. I earnestly trust, however, that that sense of consideration due to your position to which your memorandum of the 29th of April you appeal, will have been manifested by your advisers, and that, more especially when they shall have received the full and deliberate statement of the views of her Majesty's Government conveyed to you in my despatch of the April 26 last, they will cordially co-operate with you in the measures which you may feel called upon to adopt in pursuance of your instructions. lam confirmed in this hope by the assurances which Mr R. Wood, on the part of his colleagues and himself, has given me, as you will have seen in his letter to Sir F. Rogers, and by the tone which Mr R. Wood has uniformly maintained in his frequent communications with me during his stay in England. I cannot for one moment believe that your Ministers will be actuated by any other feeling than a patriotic desire to aid you to the utmost in their power; and I trust that, even when their opinions may differ from your own, a paramount sense of public duty will induce them to forget these differences, and cordially to support your efforts and those of Gen. Cameron to promote the cause which, equally with yourself, they have at heart."  further on a memoir of Gen. Ulysses Grant, which gives a brief account of his chequered and eventful career. It is unfortunate that, like most of the American generals. he is given to excess in drink, but his promotion has nevertheless been rapid. Among the remaining papers are articles on "Our Married Soldiers," and " The New French Cruisers."