The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-16 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Instructions have been received at the head-
quarters of the Royal Engineer establishment, Chat-
ham, directing the non•conimissioned officers and
Sappers, selected from the depot companies at
Brompton for service in New Zealand, to hold them-
selves in readiness to embark for their destination
on the 25th inst. The detachment goes out to aug-
ment the 6th company, which has latterly become
very much reduced in strength.

Yesterday a numerous party of officers of Royal
Engineers left headquarters,Chatham, to go through
a course of ball practice at the newly-established
Government rifle range near Gravesend.
Orders from the War-office have been transmitted
to the various commanding-officers of Royal Artil-
lery throughout the several districts, in which the
Secretary of State for War, in concurrence with the
Lords of the Admiralty, directs that Pettman's fuzes
be in future supplied for all 8-inch or larger nature
of shells, and that the existing supply of Moorsom's
shells be confined to 32-pounders and under, until
used up.

AMERICA.

REUTER'S TELEGRAM,
(Per the City of London.)
QUEENSTOWN, Sept 15.

The Inman steamship City of London, from New
York on the sth inst., arrived here at 1.30 p.m.
She brings 281,400 dots, in specie, and 159 pas-
sengers. She proceeded for Liverpool at 1.40 p.m.

NEW YORK, Sept. 5, Morning.
The siege of Charleston continues. The position
of affairs has not materially changed.
It is reported from Washington that the Ame-
rican consul at Frankfort hoisted the Mexican fig
on his own responsibility.
The panic in the stock market continues.
Admiral Dahlgren is reported well.
The confirmation has been received of Stuart's
raid into Maryland.

General Grant has left Vicksburg for New
Orleans.

Senator Jun Lane has made a speech at Lcavens-
worth, Kansas,of a most bloodthirsty character. He
believed in a war of extermination of the frontier
counties in Missouri. If that could not secure
safety for Kansas people, all counties should then
be exterminated until they were secure.
The Governor of Kentucky's inaugural address
takes up the ground that the Southern States by
rebelling did not change their status. They can-
not be remitted to a territorial condition. All,they
have to do is to return to their fealty. He objects
arming negroes. Kentucky desired to preserve
the Union upon a constitutional basis.
The Missouri Republican State Convention has
denounced the military State organisation as pro-
slavery.
The Union ticket has been elected in Vermont
and California.

A mass meeting of conscripts has been held at
Brooklyn, calling on the citizens to subscribe to the
municipal loan to aid conscripts. It is estimated
the conscripts will cost Government nearly 4,000
doll. per man.

The steamer Warrior has been captured north of
Sortugas,

LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO CAPE RACE
NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (Evening).

Advices from Charleston are to the 3d inst. A
general engagement occurred on the Ist between
the iron-clads and Forts Sumter, Wagner, and
Moultrie. The forts were much damaged.

A renewed attack was to be made on Fort
Sumter.

The advance of Gen. Steele's army has driven the
Confederates, 7,000 strong, across the Bayou
Melorie bridge in Kansas, killing and wounding
100 and capturing 200. The Confederates burnt
the bridge. According to information received at
Washington from General Burnside, part of his
cavalry had arrived at Knoxville; others were on
the line of the East Tennessee and Virginia rail-
roads, north-west and south-west of Knoxville.

LIVERPOOL, Sept. 15.

The Canadian mail steamship North American
has arrived, with advices from Quebec to the 3th
inst.

The following is President Lincoln's letter
Executive Mansion, Washington, Aug. 26,
lion. James C. Conkin.

My dear Sir, Your letter inviting me to attend a mass
meeting of unconditional Union men, to be held at the
capital of Illinois on the 3d of September has been received.
It would be very agreeable to me thus to meet my old
friends at my own home, but I cannot just now be absent
from this city so long as a visit there would require.
The meeting is to be of all those who maintain uncondi-
tional devotion to the Union; and I am sure that my old
political friends will thank me for tendering, as I do, the
nation's gratitude to those other noble men whom no par-
tisan malice or partisan hope can make false to the nation's
life.

There are those who are dissatisfied with me. To such I
would say :—You desire peace, and you blame me that we
do not have it; but how can we attain it? There are but
three conceivable ways. First, to suppress the rebellion by
force of arms. This lam trying to do ; aro you for If
.
you arc, so far we are agreed. If you are not for a second
way is to give up the Union. I am against this, ; if you are
you should say so plainly. If you aro not for force, nor yet
for dissolution, there only remains some imaginable com-
promise. Ido not believe that any compromise embracing
the maintenance of the Union is now possible. All that I
learn leads to a directly opposite belief.
T i
ho strength of the rebellion is in its military—its
army. That army dominates all the country and all the
people within its range. Any offer of terms made by any
man or men within its range in. opposition that army is
simply nothing for the present, eecause such man or men
have no power whatever to enforce their side of a compro-
mise, if one were made with them. To illustrate :
Suppose refugees from the South and peace men of th,
North get together in Convention and frame and proclaim a
compromise embracing a restoration of the Union. In what
way can that compromise be used to keep General Lee's
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