The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-07 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The Inman steamship City of Baltimore, from
New York on the 2 7th ult., arrived at Queenstown
onp.m., with 1,500 dols. and
£12,631 specie.
6,
at 10.30
f4he also brings 134 passengers, 17
of whom were lauded at Queenstown, and pro-
ceeded for Liverpool at 10.45 p.m. All well.
(-via Roche's Point.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (Evening).
Gan. Grant holds seven miles of the Weldon Rail-
road, and the Confederates have withdrawn from
his front.

Grant's cavalry are operating on the Danville
Railroad. His losses, on Friday and Sunday, were
5,000 men.
The report that Lee in person was advancing up
i a strong
with Early in his front.
the Shenandoah Valley has been repeated.
defensive position on the
Upper Sheridan
Potomac, is i
On Thursday a small Confederate force attempted
to cross the Potomac, but were repulsed with heavy
lose.
General Forrest has made a raid into Memphis,
but had retired with some plunder, pursued by the
Federals.
The Confederates have sunk the steamer Nash•
vile across the channel of Mobile
harbour, ren.
dering access to the city
impossible until she h
removed.
The rumour published in the 2V-ow
York. Herald
;
that overtures, either for peace
or an. armistice,
had been made to the South by the Administration,
has been semi-officially denied.
Gen. Butler has arrived at Washington, and
Banks is also expected.
It is believed that a change in the Cabinet will
shortly take place.
Several prominent Abolitionists have urged upon
President Lincoln and Gen, Fremont to withdraw
their names as Presidential candidates, and to call
a convention to nominate a fresh Republican can-
didate. Gen. Fremont consented to withdraw if
President Lincoln would do so also.
Chicago despatches report that the nomination
of Gen. micien„ by the convention is considered
certain, and that of Pendleton, of Ohio, for Vice,
President,

rssii
The legal proceedings for
are progressing.
NEW
The Confederates are
Maryland above Harper's Ferry.
The Tallahassee burnt 22 f
ishing vessel® off, the
Es
North Cape of Prince Edward Island on the 25th
inst. I:oeßpolrttAedintitgol.leb:27se,
Morning,on
crossing
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extradition

New York
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COM MERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,
91h_ bills, 272. NEW Yoltic,
EAzuegh.a2n7g,ell,olonrzionngiion
shBatorceks,sl2%l; Erie, 109:i ;
Money easy—Gold, 250 Z.
United States Five-rwenty Bonds, 1111. Cotton
—C
e Bankers'ntral s, 1
dull—Middling Upland, 186 to 187. Flour tending
downward. Wheat and corn slightly firmer. Pro.
visions very firm, Coffee quiet. Sugar dull.
Molasses steady. Petroleum—Crude, 531 e to 54e ;
refined, 86c to 87,11.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 1864.
Those are subjects which doubtless will nut br:
considered so interesting—iu the sensation sense of
the adjective at least—to the British public as de.
scriptions of flank,o3ovemez,th'' at Puter4burs

" raids" in Maryland, " strategical operations" near
Atlanta, and so forth, but inasmuch as perhaps they
are really important to my countrymen I shall ven.
tare to mention one or two of them.

The representatives—clerical and lay—of the
ruling politicians of the Northern States, who go
over to England as " quasi-envoys," persist, it
seems; in telling their hearers and readers things to
this effect :—" The very best feeling exists in our
great Repu:olic—rebels excepted--to your nation
(British) and people. It is true that nearly all
you read in and hear of newspapers, speeches,
&c., published in the North might lead you to think
the contrary, but that would be quite a mistake ;
we, and the rest of the " thinking men" of the
United States know better, we repudiate the anti-
British doctrines and language of the .New York
Herald," and the like, and assert our nation as a
nation is most friendly to your nation."

Seeking brevity, I of course cannot give in
extenso the many words by which American elo-
quence enunciates the above declaration of national
friendship and amity. For the same reason, any
remarks of mine upori the incidental topics, so to
say, introduced by the "quasi-envoys" must be of
the condensed order. One of their opinions or
assertions is t',lat the Southern States are inimical
to England, All I shall now say to this is, that the
very f ae, of the" quasi-envoys" and their congenial
friends in England constantly harping on the theme,
wo'Ald, in itself, raise grave doubts in my mind as
to, the truth of the assertions. This may be con.
sidered neither a polite nor a logical reason to
assign ; however, I am not at present entering into
any dissertation whatever on strictly Southern
matters, and have not the slightest intention or
wish to—what is called in homely phraseology—
" mince matters" in reference to these quasi-envoys
and their crinstituonts—so let the one opinion stand
pro tem against the other.

An,-Aber " incidental topic" constantly urged,—
especially by such of the "quasi envoys" as have
" Right Rev." or "Rev." prefixed to their names,
is, that they " repudiate the anti-British doctrines
and similar language of the llew York, Herald."

It may be assumed that this virtuous indignation
—which, by the way, is only displayed by these
persons when they cross the Atlantic—against the
course pursued by a particular Northern journal, if
it means anything, seeks to convey the impression
in England that there is something peculiar in that
course—that it would be rare to find (in New York,
for instance) a " public print" howling forth, day
after day, abuse, misrepresentations, and slanders
on all sundry, Great Britain and the British. In
short, these quasi•envoys allege, by implication, at
least, that the journal in question has a sort of mos
nopoly of the business.

Now all this repudiation may be considered very
smart,
and is a system practised not uncommonly
by other citizens besides quasi wrongs, but in this
instance it is in effect a mere falsification. I am
not going into any discussion as to the relative
proportions of the anti-British howlings of the New
York _Herald with those of the New York Tribune,
Evening Post, or scores of other newspapers of
which probably the British public knows little or
nothing, and if it did know more would
care less. But as a fact, the North-
ern press, with few exceptions, and the New
York press with hardly Eny , are just as malignant
and unscrupulous in their attacks on our country
and people as the New York, Herald. Indeed,
in some respects,—for instance in the case of their
" London Correspondents," or those who pass as
such,—those "City journals" I have mentioned, and
some others, though duller than the repudiated one,
—are, if possible, more doggedly given to misre.
presenting and exaggerating every event and cir-
cumstance that, they appear to think, will increase
the senseless antipathies existing among;theßritish.
Those feelings are fostered in this country by the
Press in general, and the politicians in
particular of the Northern Stetes. This brings
one back to the main assertion of the quasi
envoys referred to—namely, that the United
States, they profess to quasi represent, arc friendly,
virtually as well as nominally, to England. It is
not my purpose to inflict on your readers or myself
any abstract disquisitions. I accept the statement
in. the bona fide sense of the terms, and meet it with
a fist negative. My conviction is, that the
ruling classes of this country are not
only unfriendly themselves to our nation, as
a nation, and to our people as a people, but that
they are using every means iu their power—short
of open warfare—to try and damage the commer-
cial, political, and colonial interests of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland. I assert, moreover, that, to the
best of my belief, the system of quasi-envoys forms
now part and parcel of the political organisations
of this country.

Also that the clergy—with the exception of those
of the Episcopalian, Roman Catholic, and Jewish
denominations—have been and are the most rabid
and persevering inculcators of anti■ British senti-
ments in this country.
I am prepared with evidence, so far as evidence
in such things can be given, of the correctness of
my assertions, and in my next shall lay this before
your readers in as succinct a shape as possible.