The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-13 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The Arabia arrived at Queenstown at nine p.m.
to-day, with 80 passengers, and 18,300 dollars in
specie. She landed 106 sacks of mails and 11 pas-
sengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 9.15 p.m.
All well.

The Arabia bad experienced very severe easterly

gales.

(Per the Arabia.)

NEW YORK, March 29, Evening.
Forrest's cavalry, estimated at 5,000 strong, has
captured, burned, and sacked Paducah and Union
City, Kentucky. Forrest afterwards attacked Fort
Blow, Paducah, occupied by 800 Federals, but was
repulsed.
The Federal gunboats subsequently shelled Padu-
cah, causing Forrest to retreat towards Columbus.
The Confederates are in strong force at Dalton,
Tennessee, in the Federal front. They have 3,000
cavalry beyond Dalton.

It is reported that Bishop Polk is reinforcing
Johnston.

Longstreet's cavalry has arrived at Marietta,
Georgia.

General Grant has visited Washington, but has
returned to the army of the Potomac. It is re-
ported that Grant will appoint &CieHan and
Fremont to active service.

The Federal army on the frontier of Artansas
has left Fort Smith for northern Texas.

President Lincoln has issued a proclamation
announcing an amnesty.
The proclamation does not apply to persons in
military, naval, or civil custody, or on parole.
Commissioned civil, naval, and military officers can
administer oaths.

The steamers Alice and Hansa left Wilmington
on the 12th. The America and the City of Man-
chester have arrived out.

(By Telegraph to Halifax,)
NEW YORK, March 31, Morning.
General Banks's advance has reached Alexandra,
Money easy. Gold 631 per cent. premium.
NEW YORK, March 31, Evening.
Forrest's cavalry, after burning Paducah, Ken-
tucky, has advanced within eight miles of Co.
umbus.

Another large Confederate force is concentrated
at Pound Gap, supposed to be intended for the
invasion of Kentucky.

Serious riots have taken place at Charleston,
Illinois, caused by disputes between the Copper-
head and Republican politicians. The Copperhead
rioters, 1,500 strong, are entrenched near Charles-
ton. A large number of troops has been sent to
quell the riot.
The Africa and North American have arrived
out.

The Assistant-Secretary of the Treasury at New
York has been issuing gold certificates for duties,
firing them every morning at per cent, below the
opening market price of gold.
Gold has fluctuated since Monday between 68 and
63 per cent. premium.

NEW YoRK, April 1, Morning.
Generals Grant and Meade have left Washington
for Fortress Monroe.

Money easy. Gold, 671 per cent. premium. 'I he
Govern meut rate for gold was fixed this morning at
65. The market has since advanced to the above
quotations.

(Per the Arabia via Crookhaven.)
(By Telegraph to Halifax,)
NEW YORK, April 1, Evening.
The Confederates have made a reconnaissance
from Alexandria up the Red River to Natchitooches,
capturing 200 prisoners and four cannon.
CO NI MER ' AL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, March 29, Evening.
Money easy. Gold 6.5.1 percent. premium. The
gold market has been unfavourably affected by the
announcement that Mr. Chase will shortly arrive in
New York to take measures to depress the price.
The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury has an-
nounced that he will issue gold certificates for duties
at I per cent. below the market value of gold. Ex-
change on London, 179; on Paris, 3 12k. Stocks
steady—New York Centrals, 1441 ; Illinois, 1492;
Erie, 125 ; United States Six per Cent. Boude,
1121. Cotton, good inquiry—Middling Upland,
75e, to 76c. Petroleum, crude, 32 to 33; ditto,
refined, 48 to 60k.

NEW YORK, April 1, Afternoon.
Money easy. Gold, 661, per cent. premium. Ex-
change on London, 1801. Stocks very firm: New
York Centrals, 144; Illinois, 149; Erie, 124 a ;
United States Six per Cent. Bonds, 114.

Evening.
Money easy. Exchange on London, 1801 to 181.
Exchange on Paris, 3 10. Stocks firm and advanc-
ing. New York Centrals, 143 - ; Illinois, 148 i;
Erie, 1241; Six per Cent. United States Bonds,
114. Cotton quiet. Flour, slightiy firmer, ad-
vanced sc. Wheat slightly firmer. Corn, provi-
sions, and coffee, quiet. Sugar in extensive de-
mands. Molasses very firm. Crude petroleum,
321 to 324; refined ditto, 49 to 50. Gold, 661 per
cent. prem.

HALIFAX (via Crookhaven), April 2, 10 p.m.

The Arabia, since 'Leaving Boston, has had con-
tinuous easterly wiles. A heavy and long spell of
easterly winds has driven the ice from North Bay
and scattered it profusely along the south coast.

The harbour of Halifax has been blocked up for
two days by a heavy field of ice, extending east and
west as far as the eye could reach.

The Arabia arrived at 1.30 p.m. to-day. Her
paddle•boaes have bine° been damaged by ice.
She repairs and leaves at five a.m. to-morrow
(Sunday).
There is no news of importance here.

THE THRONE OF MEXICO,

TRIESTE, April 10.

The following is an exact translation of the fall
speech of the Archduke Maximilian of Austria in
reply to the deputation tendering him the Mexican
crown. His imperial highness spoke in Spanish:—
" Mature examination of the acts of adhesion you
have come to lay before me affords me the sentence
that the resolution of the Mexican Notables which
brought you the first time to Miramar is confirmed
by the immense majority of yoar compatriots, and
that I may with good right consider myself the
legitimate elect of the Mexican people. The first
condition expressed in my reply of October 3 is,
therefore, fulfilled. The guarantees which the
future empire requires to be able to consecrate itself
in peace to the first of its mission—the establish-
ment upon firm bases of the independence and wel-
fare of the country—are now secured, thanks to the
magnanimity of the Emperor of the French, who,
throughout the progress of the negotiations, has
shown himself constantly animated by a spirit of
loyalty and goodwill, of which I shall ever preserve
the remembrance.

The august head of my family, upon his part,
has given his consent to my taking possession of the
throne offered to me.

" I am thus enabled to fulfil the eventual promise
I gave you six months ago, and I now solemnly
declare that, with the aid of the Almighty, I accept
the crown at the hands of the Texan natian which
tenders it to me.

"Following the traditions of that new continent,
so full of stranglh and future, Mexico has used her
right of selecting a government in harmony with
her wishes and her requirements. She has placed
her confidence in a descendant of that house of
Hapsburg which three centuries ago planted a
Christian monarchy upon her soil.

" This confidence touches me, and I will not be-
tray it. I accept the power of organisation Which
the nation of which you are the organs confers upon
me, and I shall in any case retain it only so long as
may be necessary to introduce settled order into
Mexico, and to establish wise and liberal institu-
tions, A. I stated to ycu, gontlemen, is my address