The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-20 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S ETLEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTIA.
(Via Crookhaven.)

NEW YORK, AUG. 10, Morning.

rho Confederates had retired from Maryland,
and Averill overtook and defeated them at Moore-
field, Virginia, capturing 600 prisoners and four

guns.
Admiral Farragut's fleet passed Fort Morgan,
Mobile, and had disabled the Confederate rams.
He was approaching the city on the sth inst.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Aug. 10, Morning.
Money easy. Gold, 2541. Exchange on Lon-
don : Bankers' bills, 274; on Paris, 2.10 to 2.71 ;
Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 1314. Illinois
Shares, 1291. Erie, 113. 6 per Cent. United States
5.20, Bonds, 1392. Cotton quiet. Middling Up.
land, 175 to 178. Flour, wheat, and corn declin-
ing. Provisions dull. Coffee good inquiry. Sugar
dull. Molasses steady. Petroleum crude, 52c.; re-
fined, 831 c. to 85c.

NEW YORK, AUG, 9, Morning.

Admiral Farragut, with 14 ships and three iron-
clads, passed Fort Morgan, Mobile, on the sth inst.
The Confederate rams Tennessee and Selina were
captured, and the ram Gaines beached. Admiral
Buchanan was wounded and captured. The Federal
monitor Tecumseh was sunk. The fleet is ap.
preaching the city.
The Federals have occupied Dauphin's Island, at
the extremity of which stands Fort Gaines, com-
manding one of the flanks of the entrance to Mobile
Bay.
NEW YORK, AUG, 9 (EVENING.)

The Confederate General Maury report from
Mobile on the sth inst., as follows :—" Seventeen
of the enemy's vessels have passed Fort Morgan.
The monitor Tecumseh has been sunk by Fort.
Morgan. The ram Tennessee, after a desperate
engagement, surrendered to Farragut. Admiral
Buchanan is wounded, and a prisoner. The ram Selina
is captured, and the ram Gaines is beached. The
enemy's fleet has approached the City."
Grant, after visiting Washington, Maryland, and
the Upper Potomac, has returned to Petersburg.
Severe fighting took place at St, Petersburg on
Friday. A Confederate charge was repulsed with
slaughter.
_ _

The Federals have reoccupied Ilagerstoavn
Maryland.

Sheridan has superseded Hunter.
The capture of General Stoneman is confirmed,

.
Hooler will not receive a command at present.
Rumours are current of a raid of Confederates
from Canada into Buffalo to destroy the Erie
Canal.

The New I ork World and Tunes assert that Mr
Stanton has resigned, and that President Lincoln
has accepted his resignation.
A mass meeting to nominate M'Clellan for the
Presidency will be held in the city to-night.

The New York police, in conjunction with the
English detectives, have made every arrangement to
arrest Muller on his arrival.
The
City
of Cork, London, Hibernian, and
Saxonia havg arrived out.

(FROM THE TIMES CORRESPONDENT.)
NEW YORK, AUG. 10, 10 30 A.M.

Confederate official despatches from Mobile of the
sth report that Admiral Farragut, after a desperate
engagement with Forts Morgan and Gaines and the
Confederate fleet, i❑ which the Federal monitor
Tecumseh was sunk, and the Con'ederate ironciada
Tennessee and Selina captured, entered the harbour,
with 14 ships and three monitore, end was ap-
proaching the city. The Confederate Admiral
Buchanan lost a leg and was taken prisoner.
The Confederates are positively asserted to have
evacuated Maryland, retiring across the Potomac
on Hancock and Shepherdstown. Their recent
movements are now supposed to have been made to
cover Early'e operations in the Shenandoah Valley,
or the reinforcement from Richmond of Atlanta or
Mobile.
General Sheridan has been placed in command
of the Middle Military Division, embracing the
department of Washington, the Susquehana,
Maryland, and Western Virginia. He reports,
upon the authority of scouts, that General Averill
defeated the Confederates at Moorfield, south of the
Potomac, on Sunday, capturing 240 prisoners and

four cannon.
There is yet no further movement before Peters-
burg. General Grant on Saturday visited General
Sheridan at Monoeacy, Maryland. He returned to
his headquarters on Monday.
Letters from General Sherman's army state that
the battle on the 281 h ult,, previously
mentioned,
was brought on by an attempt by General Hood
to outflank General Sherman while extending his
right. The contest was most severe, and for a time
the result was doubtful, though ultimately the
Federals repulsed their assailants.
Confederate official despatches state that no
decisive advantage was gained upon either side.
The Federal General Stoneman was captured at the
time of the disaster to Sherman'd cavalry in the rear
of Atlanta on the 27th.
The 50 Confederate and 50 Federal officers,
prisoners of war, who were to have been placed
under fire at Charleston and Morris Island by their
respective custodians have been exchanged. The
Federal officers arrived in this city yesterday.
The New York Time; asserts from Washington
that Secretary Stanton has resigned, and that his
resignation has been accepted by Mr. Lincoln: It
adds that an important Cabinet meeting was held
yesterday.

QUEENSTOWN, AUG. 20.

The screw steamer New York, from New York
York on the 6th instant, arrived here at six a.m.
to-day. She landed 18 passengers, and proceeded
for Liverpool. All well.

m ii-ic o.

PARIS, AUG. 20.

announces that several unimportant engagements
Official despatches received here from Mexico
had taken place between 60030 of the bands and the
troops. The sanitary condition of the army is
satisfactory.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

MARSEILLES, AUGUST 19.

The Alessageries Iraperiales mail steamer Peluse
left this day with 52 passengers, 609 packages of
Merchandise, and £206,500 specie for India and
China, and 123 passengers, 1,402 packages, and
£12,000 specie for Alexandria.

SPAIN.
COURT-MARTIAL AT MADRID.

MADRID, AUGUST 20.

A court-martial has been hold here on an OffiC6t
and some sergeants of the regiment, Saboga, ae.
cased of conspiracy. The prisoners were acquitted.
No disturbances have taken place in the city.