The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-27 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE ton, 13 days from Newport ; schooner John Bell,
17 days from Liverpool ; schooner King, 14 days
LIIETJTER'S TELEGRAMS.] from Swansea ; steamer Crimean, 6 days from
Liverpool ; schooner Magdalene, 17 days from Car.
difi ; barque Erromanga, 23 days from Newcastle;
and schooner Florence, 14 days from Cardiff.
Exchange on London, 90 days date, 50,1- ; Paris,
sf. 28c. to 293. ; Marseilles, sf. 30c. ; Genoa, sf.
31c. ; Madrid, 8 days sight, par ; Cadiz, 1 11 dis. ;
Barcelona, prem.; Seville,.Malaga, Almeria, Va-
encia, and Alicant, par. Freights unaltered.

ADIERICA.

The Inman steamer City of Baltimore, from New
York on the 16th inst., arrived at Queenstown at
9.20 a.m. this day. She brings the mails, 127 pas-
sengers, and 226,524 dole. in specie. She landed
17 passengers, and proceeded at 9.30 a.m.

NEW YORK, JULY 16 (Morning).

The illusion is at an end, the Confederates having
retired from Maryland and from before Washington.
On Tuesday night they recrossed the Potomac with
immense plunder.

Telegraphic communication with Washing-ton has
been re3tored.

Unofficial despatches report Sherman to have
crossed the Chattahoochie, and to have arrived
within six miles of Atalanta.

Death of Mr Sergeant Merewethe;

After the battle on the Macacy the Confederates
marched straight to Washington and burnt Mr.
Francis Blair's residence near the City.

On Monday and Tnefday they made a demonstra.

This gentleman, 'who v;as for many years town-
clerk of the corpora Lion of the city of London, died
a few days ago at his residence at Castle• field, near
Caine, in 'Wiltshire, at the advanced age of 84. He
was (diected to the office of town clerk on the 23d of
Sue, 1842, on the death of Mr Henry Woodthorpe,
the father of the present town clerk, who had held
it for 17 years. On.that occasion he stood a contest
with Mr William Pritchard, the then High Bailiff
of Southwark, and was returned by the Common
Council, in whom the right of appointment vests, by
a majority of 26. The salary was £2,000 a year,
with an official residence, and many incidental emo-
luments besides. At the age of 62 he entered on the
duties of the office, relinquishing with that view the
whole of his professional practice, which had become
very lucrative from the extent to which he was re•
tained as counsel before Parliamentary committees.
He was called to the bar on the sth May, 1809, and
was for many years previous to his death a sergeant-
at-law, with a patent of precedence. He was also
Attorney-General to the late Queen Dowager, Doc-
tor of Civil Law, Recorder of Reading, and went the
Western Circuit. He is said to have owed his appoint-
ment as town clerk to a pamphlet which he wrote in
defence of the alleged right of the corporation of Lon•
don to the foreshore of the. Thames, that
of protracted litigation with 'die Crown, and his last
appearance as an adve,-,jate was in the Court of
Chancery, where h'e spoke for a whole day with his
accustomed al-,:aity on the side of the corporation.
He was af'Lerwards examined as a witness before the
Roy-el Commission, of which Lord Taunton (then
Labouchere) was chairman, and threw much
light on the constitution. customs, and affairs of the
corporation, giving his evidence in the spirit of a
Conservative, which he always was in politics. On
the 10i,h of February, 1859, when verging on 80
years of age, Mr Merewether resigned the office of
town clerk on a pension of £l,OOO a year, which
now reverts by his death to the civic purse. He
was a man of fine presence, with much suavity of
manner and a dignified bearing, and it is generally
acknowledged by the civic authorities at Guildhall
that the office was never more worthily sustained
than by him within living memory. Mr Merewe-
ther had a large family, five of whom survive, Lis
eldest son being Mr Henry Merewether, Q.C., and
Recorder of Devizes. It is a remarkable circum-
stance that his death was preceded by a few hours
by that of his brother, the Rev. Francis Merewe•
ther, rector of Cole•orton, Leicestershire, at the age
of 80.

tion against Fort Stevens.
On Tuesday afternom two divisions of the Sixth
Corps, which had arrind from Grant's army, drove
the Confederates one toile beyond Fort Stevens. On
Tuesday night all the Confederates retired from
before Washington, and recrossed the Potomac at
Poolcsville and Edwaid Ferry with enormous stores
and a large number o! horses. It is reported that
the Federals have crossed the Potomac in pursuit.
The accounts concerning the strength of the
invading force vary from 12,000 to 30,000 men.
General Franklin has made his escape.
Ths Confederates have made a demonstration
against Grant's left to ;et into his rear.
General Price is reported moving into Missouri.

The American Consul at St. John's has tele-
graphed to the Governor of Maine that a small
party of Confederates had left to depredate on the
Maine frontier.
Mr Fessenden is unable to arrange with the
Banks for the loan cf 50,000,000 dols.
The Confederates are using the Orange and Alex-
andria Railway, as well as waggons, to transport
their spoils to Richmond.
Six steamboats were burnt at St. Lewis yester-
day by incendiaries; the loss is estimated at half a
million of dollars.

The Militia recently called out for the defence of
Washington were yesterday mustered out of ser.
vice, by order of tle President, their aid being 110
longer needed.
P. ll General Hunter's supplies collected at Mar.
ticsburg, valued at 3,000,000 dole., were captured
by the Codederatts when Sigel evacuated that
place.