Memphis Daily Appeal

Interview Between the Correspondent of the London Times and General Lee.—The London Times publishes a third letter from its correspondent in the South. It is dated at Culpeper Court House, where he reports to have met with General Lee. In reporting his interview and conversation with General Lee, he gives the following paragraph:

I will not stop to notice the wholesale destruction of property, English and French, as well as Southern, which would be inevitable if these towns were burnt. But behold, in the fastness of the Southern mountains, there are positions which ten times the power of the North could not carry. Speaking recently in reference to many of the positions, General Lee said to me, "He would be a bold man to follow me where I ask, and fight me where I chose. Take Richmond and the seaboard towns off my shoulders, and I should be the lightest-hearted man in the Confederacy. There are in the mountains resources for making war ammunition without stint, and founding cannon. With the immense amount of the latter on hand it is doubtful whether any would be wanted ten years."

The latter part of the letter is devoted to a plea in behalf of the English residents in the South, and great stress is laid upon England's shabby treatment of her late acting consul in Richmond (Mr. Cridland) who seems to have been summarily displaced after active service.