mce.ved.i boutis a». c.ranee18«ilock,met,in-Col. Brooke gave ua the most imlt; prestive talk'I ever heard, on the great critic before us, the supreme importance of the expected battle onnorthern soil to protect the homes of our people, urging the utmost dilli-gence and bravery. He iolotmcd the officers that he was in substance repeating the talk which Gen. Meade had just previously given to the Generals of the army. He concluded by directing the line officers to go back and harangue their men by companies to the same eflec y writer remembers that while speaking to his own compsny, similar words from iiu8. commandants of companies on the ents, i ^ht and left were sounding in his lean. By 7 o'clock we had taken ,000, 'position in the front battle line, in | column by regiment, fronting towardv lt;