The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-06 00:00:00

ruE4 SON, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, At-GUST 6, 1864.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

DIMMER'S TELEGRAMS.]

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALASIAN.

The royal mail steamship Australasian, from
New York, on the 27th ult., Errived at Queenstown
at 9 a.m. to-day. She brings 54 passengers, and
111,608 dole. in specie. She landed 119 sacks of
mails and 11 passengers, aad proceeded at 9.15
a.m. All well.

NEW YORK, AUG. 24 (Morning).

A desperate engagement as fought at Atlanta
on the 22d inst. The result was indecisive. The
Confederates lost 7,000, and the Federals 2,000

men.
The railroad communication between Atlanta and
Montgomery has been destroyed.
Gen. Sherman maintained a position to the left
of the city within a portion of the fortification.
General Hunter's forces have been defeated, and
compelled to retreat to Harper's Ferry.
A fresh invasion of Maryland is expected.
Gold, 2561; exchange on London, 28 ; money

easy.
Nothing doing in United States Sixes.
Cotton dull, and unchanged,
Breadstuffs generally steady.
NEW YORK, JULY 26 (Evening).
In the engagement on the 22d inst. General
Sherman repulsed all the Confederate attacks;
General Macpherson was killed. On the following
day both belligerents buried 'their dead under a
flag of truce.
General Rousseau is said to have occupied Monte
gommery. Alabama, and cut all the railroads lead-
ing to Atlanta from the west and south west. The
roads east of Atlanta are destroyed.
Early defeated a portion of Hunter's troops, com-
manded by Crook and Avenel, on the 23d and 24th,
near Winchester.
The Federals retreated to Harper's Ferry.
The Confederates have occupied Martinsburg and
commenced destroying the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad.
Preparations are being made to resist any further
Confederate invasion in Maryland.
Avail!, Kelley, and Mulligan are rumoured to
have been killed.
Smith's expedition has returned to Memphis for
supplies, after defeating Forrest in five engage-
ments.
The situation before Petersburg is unchanged.
Grant has appointed Ord to the command of the
18th Army Corps, and Birney to the 10th Army
Corps.
Secretary Fessenden has appealed to the people
for subscriptions to a loan of 200,000,000 dols.,
seven three-tenths Treasury notes, redeemable in
three years, and with interest payable in currency.
The notes are to be convertible at maturity into
bonds, bearing interest payable in gold.
The Belgian, Marathon, Scotia, and Borussia
have arrived out.

DARTMOUTH, AUG. 6.

The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert arrived off
here this morning. His Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales and party came into the harbour and
rowed round the training ship Britannia.
The yacht then left for the eastward.

FRANCE.

PARIS, AUG. 6.

Advicee received here from Lisbon state that
yesterday being the anniversary of the establish-
ment of the constitution, the King received the
municipal authorities. His Majesty said that he
would always maintain those institutions which
contribute to the prosperity of his people.
The Constitutionne/ of to-day, in an article cor-
recting the journals which accuse the French Go-
vernment of having allowed an opportunity for
territorial aggrandisement to pass by, says;—
" The only thing true is, that England, with the
object of preserving the possessions of Kittg Chris-
tian would willingly have passed from diplomatic
action to military action. But in a war with Ger-
many France would have had to bear the full brunt
and expense, England would have swept the sea,
capturing the vessels belonging to the belligerents,
and taking a glorious part, almost costless and con-
venient,"

The Constitutionnel, in conclusion, declares that
France never had the promise nor the prospect of
territorial aggrandisement. " England offered no-
thing—France asked for nothing. Neither Earl
Clarendon during his journey to Paris, nor the Bri-
tish Cabinet in its diplomatic despatches ever hinted
at France taking the Rhine frontier."
BOURSE, August s.—The market has been firm,
but the announcement of a further decline in Con-
sols has had a depressing effect. Threes, for the
Account, opened at 66f 40c, and are now 66f 35c.
Mobilier have been done at 995 f and 997 f 50c.
Railway shares rather heavy, but the fluctuations
in prices are trifling, The market closed as
fellows :

4i per Cents .. 94 60 Italian L0an...... 68 20
Do. end month.... Do. end month.... 68
3 per Cents
55 75
Do. end month 66 30 New Mexican ....
Credit Mobilier 998 75 Russian ....
Do. end month.... 998 75 Austrian ........
Bank Shares -
48
3400
Credit Fowler 1230 Rome Debt ......
Spanish Threes....

Roman ------
-- - 76 I Deferred ........

RAIL WAYS.
Cash. Account.
881 25 .. 881 25
980 •• 985
900 .. 907 50

Orleans 3 ... a: . •••
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto
-- • .
642 50
•••
Southern ........ 640 --
Western
.•• • •
--.
615 -- ••
490
Eastern ..........487 60 .. —
Sardinian 347 50 • • 346 25
418 75
Austrian
Low lard - .. 533 75
North of Spain - .. 442 50
Saragossa• ....... 610 50 .. 512 50
Ditto to ilareelona .... 245 -- • • '245

INDIA,
Grey shirt ings and muleetAwLisettjimT
(By Telegraph from Suez.)
JULY 16.
CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA,
pfrAo'ving ; cotton
quiet. Exchange on London, 2s, Id. ; Government
securities, 4 per cent. 951, 5 per cent. 1041, 51 per
cent. 113,1 ; freights improving.
BOUBAY, JULY 15.
Cotton, Oomrawuttec, 665 rupees. Exchange on
London, 2s. ld. ; Government securities, 4 per cent.
95, 5 per cent. 105, 6!- per cent. 115; freight dull
and declining.
CANTON, JUNE 30.
The markets here as Well as at Shanghai are
unchanged.
MELBOURNE, JUNE 26,
The gold whipped since the departure of the last
mail amounts to 637,750 ouncl.:s. Trade is un-
altered.

SOU rHAMPTON, AUG. 6.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Delhi, with the above mails, has arrived.

She brings 107 passengers, including Sir Robert
Schomburgh, Her Majesty's Consul at Siam ; also
£1,106 in specie, 643 packages of silk, and 194
packages of general merchandize•
The British schooner Edwards, from Maz3gan,
had arrived at Gibraltar with 187 passengers.
Several Hebrew families emigrating from Bar-
bary to Palestine were taken on to Alexandria by
the steamer Arasces.

At Gibraltar, exchange on London, 90 days', was
quoted 507, ; on Paris, sf. 30c,; 01404, 51. 31c.
Freights increased.