The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-11 00:00:00

IPEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

AMERICA.
(Per the Persil,)

[FROM TIMES" CORRESPONDENT.]

Secretary Stanton announces that Butler is now
acting only on the defensive, and that Gen. Baidy
Smith, with the 18th Army Corps, has been trans-
ferred, via Fortress Monroe, to the Potomac Army.
Whitehouse, on the York River, is now Grant's
base of supplies.

Sherman reports an engagement between Mac-
pherson and the Confederates, near Dallas, on the
28th inst., in which the Confederates lost 250 men
in killed and wounded, and 300 prisoners. The
Federal loss is stated at 500.

It is believed that General Johnaton will continue
to retire, and defer a general engagement until he
reaches Atlanta, where he expects to be reinforced
by General Polk's army.
Confederates Forrest and Buford have returned
to Western Kentucky.
Fears are entertained of another attack upon
Paducah.

Tine Federal ganboats Granite City and Nyanga
Were captured in the Caledsian River by the Con-
federates on the 6th.

Secretary Stanton states that Generals Banks,
Steele, and Rosencranz will remain in command of
their respective departments, subject to the orders
of General Canley, who has been placed in com-
mand of all the territory west of the Mississippi.
JUNE 1, 11 A.M.

Despatches from Grant, to 6 a.m. yesterday,
report that Leo made a reconnaissance of the
Federal left on the previous afternoon, resulting
in a sharp conflict, in which General Crawford, Who
had advanced nearly to Shadygrove Church, at
:Mechanicaville, was driven back. The Confederates
then retired. At the same time Grant ordered an
attack by his centro and left, which was nut
executed, owing to the order failing to reach
General Wrigtt. Hancock, on the right, alone ad-
vanced, and took possession of the Confederate
skirmishing

Warren, On the Federal left, is reported to hold
a position within seven miles of Richmond.
Lee's right rests on the Chickahominy, below
Mechanicsville.

it is unofficially reported from Kingston, Georgia,
that the Confederates attacked Sherman yesterday
morning, and were repulsed at the end of two and
a half hours' fighting.
Reinforcements cor Sherman were arriving, and
he is stated to have subsequently reached the raii-
way near Marrietta.

At the Cleveland Convention, yesterday, General
Fremont was unanimously nominated for President,
and General Cochrane for Vico President.
The platform declared for the suppression of the

It is reported that Secretary Chase will shortly
offer seventy-five trillions of bonds of the loan of
81 to the highest bidder.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Money easy. Gold advanced yesterday to 95,
but has since receded to 881. Exchange on Lon-
don 206; on Paris, 2.70. Stocks dull. New York
Centrals, 132; Iliiacis, 126; ; Erie, 112; U. S.
Bonds, 5.20 1051. Cotton advancing—Middling
Uplpad, 107. Flour and corn very firm. Wheat
quiet. Provisions advancing. Coffee inactive.
Sugar quiet. Molassses steady. Crude petroleum,
40; refined 64.

NEW YORK, JUNE 1 (Morning).
Finding Le's positio❑ on the South Anna very
strong, General Grant made another flanking
movement on Toutsday night. He withdrew across
North Anna, marched to Hanover Town, and
crossed the Panannkey, at that point occupying on
Sunday a front three miles South of the Panaunkey.
Lee withdrew from the South Anna on the night
of Grant's movement, and took up a position north
of the Claickahominy, on the Mechanicsville road,
south of Totopatamoy Creek, his right resting on
Shady Grove.

The latest acivicca state that on Monday evening
Lee attacked Warren, rear Shady Grove, on Grant's
left, but was repulsed with severe slaughter. To
relieve Warren, Meade then ordered ft general
attack. Hancock alone received the order in time
to attack before dark; he drove the Confederates
from their entrenched line, and still holds it.

Burnside's whole corps has ctossed the Totopats
moy Creek, and made a junction with Warren.

The Confederates were repulsed on Monday and
Tuesday in an attack upon Butler's lines and on his
works at Spring Hill, east of the Appatomax.
The latc6t from Sherman states th,lt the Confede-
rates attacked him on Tuesday, but were repulsed.
Sherman's left reaching the railroad near Murata,
the object, of his movement.

Money easy. Gold, 832-8 premium. Exchange
on London 20 dols. Gc. ; on Paris, 2 dols. 70e.
Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 132 i ;
1281 ; Erie, 112.

NEW YORK, MAY 31.
On Thursday morning Grant, discovering Lee's
position between the North and South Anna rivers
to be too formidable for assault, recrossed the
North Anna, and, during the night, moved by the
Taft to the Pamunky, which he crossed on Friday
and Saturday at Hanover Town, 12 miles from
RieLmond. His c facial despatches from that place,
to 2 p.m. on the 19th inst., report his army to be
three miles south of the river.
Lee is reported, upon the discovery of Grant'b
movement, to have swung round his left into a
position confronting the Federate, and completely
still holds Hanover Court House, and is under the
command of General Breckenridge.

LATEST INTELLIGENCk

The royal mail steamship Persia arrived at
Queenstown at 6.30 a.m., on the 11th June, with
212 passengers, and 49,850 dols, in specie. She
landed 105 sacks of mails and 26 passengers, and
proceeded immediately. All well.
NEW YORK, MAY 31 (Evening).
Grant's depot is at White lieuse. Teegraphie
communication with his army is not yet established.
General Grant has ordered Wilson's division to
destroy the bridges on the Fredericksburg, Vie-
ginia, and Central Railroad.
Smith's corps, from Butler's command, has
reached Newcastle, on thith Pemunkey River, to
reinforce Grant.
Breckenridge has reinforced Lee.

A despatch from General Sherman states that the
Confederates, discovering his intention to burn
Altona, met him. near D..llas, where an engagement
occurred on Saturday, in which Macpherson drove
the Confederates back with the loss of 2,500 killed
and wounded and 300 prisoners. The Federal loss
was 300,

A committee of the House of Representatives have
considered Mr. Seward's Mexican correspondence.
The committee incline to the opinion that Congress
has a right to indicate the policy the Government
should pursue regirding the French in Mexico.
The Cleveland Convention has nominated Fre.
moat for President, and Cochrane for Vice• Pres-
ident, on the platform of universal freedom, the
maintenance of a free press, free speech, the habeas
corpus and the Monros doctrine.