The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-15 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

AMERICA.

GREAT BATTLE BEFORE PETERSBURG
AND DEFEAT OF THE FEDERALS.

Reported Retreat of Grant to Washington,

The Royal Mail steamship Europa, from Boston
on the 3d, and Halifax on the sth inst., arrived at
Queenstown at 8 a.m. to•day. She brings 59 pas
sengers and 15,508 dole. in specie. She landed 79
sacks of mails and four passengers, and proceeded
at 8.15 a.m., all well.

(Arrival of the Europa, via Crookhaven.)
NEW YORK, AUG. 2, Evening.
On Saturday Grant exploded a mine in Burn.
side's front, blowing up a battery of six guns. The
troops, advancing through the opening, carried the
first line of entrenchments, but advancing further
were repulsed with a loss of 4,000 to 5,000 men.
After the first onslaught the negro troops were
demoralized.
On Tuesday a truce was agreed upon to bury
the dead.

General Burnside was slightly wounded.
grant's movements to the north bank of the
.Tames River was a feint, as the troops returned on
Friday to the front of Petersburg.
On Sunday President Lincoln proceeded to Fort
Mourve and had an interview with Gen. Grant.
The Governor of Pennsylvania bas called upon
the Legislature to devise means to make the mili-
tary powers of the State available for its defence.
Hood assaulted Sherman's position on "Wednes-
day, and was repulsed with considerable loss.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Money easy. Gold 2511. Stocks steady. New
York Centrals, 130 c ; Illinois shares, 129 i ; Erie,
112 ; Six per Cent. U.S. Five Twenty Bonds, 107 k.

NEW YORK, AUG. 4 (Afternoon).

The forces of Generals Thomas, Early, and Breck-
enridge, estimated at 35,000 men, are concentrating
around Martinsburg.
Small raiding parties have re-entered Maryland.
Hooker has left Sherman's army, and it is
rumoured that he will supersede Meade,
The Bremen has arrived out, and the African is
at Halifax.

Advices from Mc xico via Havana, to the 23d ult.,
state that the Emperor Maximitian had accepted
the surrender of U:agua.

Gen. Grant has again assaulted the Petersburg
defences, and has been repulsed with heavy loss.

A email Confederate force has burned Chambere-
burg, Pennsylvania, and afterwards retreated out of
the State.

Another Confederate invasion northward is ex.
petted.

It is rumourEd that Grant is retiring on Wash-
ington.

Money easy. Gold 258. Exchange on London,
bankers' bills, 280. Stocks steady. New York
Centrals, 131; Illinois sham, 1291 ; 6 per Cent.
United States Five Twenty bonds, 107 i.
Cotton advancing. Middling Upland, 166 c. to
168 c. Four dull. Wheat dull. Corn declining.
Provisions dull. Coffee very dull. Sugar steady.
Molasses quiet. Petroleum, crude, 51/c.; re•
fined, 83ic!.

NEW YORK, AUG. 5 (Morning).

Advices from before Petersburg are to the 3d.
The picket firing in front of the 9th corps was kept
up, with occasional shelling.

The Confederatcs are working principally at
night, and are regaining their works.
A court of icquiry is to be convened to investi,
gate the late repulse.

The Federal lose is that affair is officially an.
nounced to have been 5,640 men,

force,
There io nothing from Sherman lately. Gold 257.
NEW YORK, Auo. 6, 6 a.m.
and have occupied Hagerstowni
Tho Confederates have re-entered Maryland in
It i$ still reported that Grant is tooTiog on
Waiihiogton.
Admiral Farragut's lint is rumoured to have
successfully attacked Mobile,