The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-28 00:00:00

had taken 2,500 prisoners and 400 negroes,
in-
eluding one Brigadier-General, 30 pieces of artil-
lery, 100,000 lb. of been and beef, 1,000 barrels of
flour, and a full garrison outfit. The Confederate
ironclad Albemarle, which was built on tho Roan-
oake River, and received the last plates of her
armour only a few hours before the expedition
started, co-operated in the attack, and per
formed an important part in the reduction of the
place, having sunk two Federal gunboats, disabled
a third, and captured a small steamer. The entire
garrison, numbering about 3,000, was taken, killed,
or wounded, with an estimated loss on the part of the
Confederates of 300. The force with which General
Hoke performed this handsome feat did not exceed
the outer works he sent
d er, but the Federal officer
5,i
n 0 a 00 d
e men.m a
demand
for After
a s carryingurren
declined to comply. The demand was renewed after
the destruction of the gunboats,and again an answer
in the negative was returned. An assault was then
ordered, when the men rushed forward with a shout,
cleared the ramparts at a bound, and enforced a
compliance with the demand at the point of their
glittering bayonets. The negroes were the first, as
usual, to throw down their arms and run forward
with uplifted hands to surrender. It is now impro-
bable that Bake will push on to Washington and
Newbern, on the head waters of Pamlico Sound, the
two moat important towns after Wilmington, in
that part of North Carolina.
Thus you perceive with what zeal and energy
these resolute people enter upon the campaign of
1564. In no instance since January 1 have they
struck a blow in which they were not successful,
and in no case have the Federals advanced from
their water bases that they have not been checked
or defeated. This unbroken series of successes has
had a happy effect upon the morale of the army,
which, from all accounts, was never so good as it is
at this time. It may be added here that Gen. Beau-
regard has been ordered to North Carolina, and that
he will take command of the forces in that State
and Virginia, south of James River. So Gen. Burn-
side, if he should land on the south side of the
James, will find a lion in his path.
Turning from military affairs to other topics, the
English reader will pardon me for saying that the
publication in Great Britain of the forged report
of Mr. Secretary Mallory, of the Confederate navy
department, and, especially, the readiness, if not
eagerness, with which it was accepted as genuine
by Earl Russell when Mr. Adams sent him a copy
of it, has produced a painful impression in this
country. The document contained internal
evidence of its spurious character; but, if it had
not, the Confederates think Mr. Adams
said enough in the opening paragraph of his de-
spatch to the chief of the Foreign-office to put the
latter upon his guard as to the origin and character
of the paper. The latter does not seem, however,

to have had his suspicious awakened ; on the con
trary, he peruses the counterfeit report, accepts i
as genuine, and promises to remonstrate with the
Confederates for their naughty conduct. If Earl
Russell was misled, were Mr. Adams and his
Government misled also ? If not, the Confederates
are curious to know how Englishmen will regard
such a wicked attempt to deceive their Government,
and prejudice themselves against a people who are
engaged in a death-struggle for their lives and
liberties. And what estimate, they ask, is to be
placed upon the character of a Government and a
Minister who resort to such reprehensible means for
the accomplishment of their purposes ?
A person on this side of the Atlantic, who is
familiar with the tricks and subterfuges of the
Northern Government and its agents, is amazed at
the credulity with which their representations of
the conduct and designs of the Confederate autho-
rities are received by intelligent Europeans; but if
any one had said that the Secretary for Foreign
Affairs of the first Power in the world could have
been imposed upon by such a shallow device as that
of the clumsy forgery in question, not even the Con-
federates, who have not much faith in the professed
neutrality of the noble earl, would have believed it
for one moment. S 3 far from Mr. Mallory having
been the author of such a report as that falsely
ascribed to him, I have the highest authority for
saying that he has never written, much less sent
te, any report whatever to Congress. This re-
ticence on his part was the dictate of pruden-
tial considerations alone ; for he could hardly
hope to commit to print the plans by which he
sought to provide his Government with a navy, or
the number and description of the vessels he was
building, or the waters in which they were to cruise,
without the information at some time reaching the
eaemy against whom they were to be used. The
propriety of his conduct in this respect finds a happy
illustration in the history of the ironclad Albemarle,
which rendered such important services a few days
ago at Plymouth, and of the previous existence of
which the enemy had but little, if any, knowledge.
The dismissal by the House of Lords of the appeal
in the case of the Alexandra, a bare report of which
has just been received, has given much satisfaction
in Richmond. The people hers say that your Go
vernment ought to allow them to have the remain•
ing rams to meet the Irish recruits, whom they
allow Mr. Lincoln to have, and that if Government
will do this, they do not care whether they recog-
nise the Confederacy or not. They may be V7ol3t-
ing in the faculty of perception, but they say they
cannot see the justice of permitting Mr. Lincoln,
without let or hindrance, to replenish his wasted
and 'eaten armies on British soil, while the poor
.tes are forced to run the gauntlet of all
Confedei
the Courts in the kingdom before they are allowed
to bring out an nu,
ermed ram. If the law has been
not been
evaded in the matter o.
the rams, has it
evaded in the matter of the recruits also ? Is not
the evasion in the one case as be'
d as th© evasion in
the other ? And, as an effort has been made to
stop the sailing of the rams, ought not ling of
persistent effort to be made to stop the
veiling
the recruits ? These queries are propounded every
• ;unable
day by the people one to another, and, bein _lnes
to answer them myself, I send them to th© Times
that Government and its friends may have an op-
portunity to make a fitting reply to them
the .
tobacco
been
belonging to the French Government have
concluded, aid some of the vessels which arc to
take
City point, a few
The negotiations for the removal of
it hence have already arrived at CI
miles below Richmond, on Ion" River. The
Confederate authorities have never
objection to the removal of the tobacco, the difficulty
being on the part of the United States, which have
at last given their consent. Some of the tobacco,
of which there are nearly interposed any
6,000 hogsheads, was
bought before the war commenced' and some of it
since. The vessels taking
ey pay any duties
any Federal port, nor will th
it out et ill not stop at
on the tobacco.
Official information has) ust been received of the
t her complete destruc-
tion after the removal of her guns and stores.
capture of a Federal gunboa
by Wirt Adams's cavalry, and on th© Yazoo River

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suce in the the dule room of Mr Outram's mill, Greetland, near
Halifax, and by 8 o'clock it was burnt to the ground. The
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fire originated in the bottom room of the mill, which was
five storeys, and was occupied by three or four tenants. The
damage is stated to be £7,000. The building and some of
the stock are insured.
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