The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-05 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
(Per the Canada.)
QUEENSTOWN, JAN. 4.
The Royal Mail steamship Canada arrived here
at 1.20 p.m. to-day.
She brings 63 passengers and 135,644 dole. The
Canada landed 87 sacks of mails and seven passen-
gers, and proceeded at 1.40 pm. for Liverpool, all
well. During her passage home the Canada expe-
rienced severe easterly weather.

NEW YORK, DEC. 21, Afternoon.

The Richmond papers of the 19th report from
Charleston that the Ironsides and three monitors
became entangled whilst endeavouring to pass the
obstructions in the harbour. The Ironsides would
probably have to be abandoned, and two monitors
were badly injured.
Three pirates captured on board the Chesapeake
were taken from the authorities by the mob whilst
being landed at Halifax, and set free.
The schooner Genety, from Matamoras for New
York with cotton, has been captured at sea by six
men who shipped as passengers.
The situation is generally unchanged.

NEW YORK, DEC. 22, Evening.
(Per the Canada.)
All is quiet in Virginia. Averill's Federal cavalry
have destroyed six miles of the railroad between
Staunton and Gordonsville.
The report of an engagement with Longstreet at
Bear Statioa is confirmed. The Federals withdrew
to Blair's Cross roads with a loss of 200 killed and
wounded.
800 Guerillas are reported to be preparing to
move through Pound Gap for a raid through the
eastern portion of Kentucky. Another force is
concentrating for a raid on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad. Forrest, Richardson, and other
guerillas are actively campaigning in the interior of

Tennessee.
The Confederates have been repulsed in an attack
upon Fort Gibson, Arkansas. Kirby Smith's forces
are concentrating to attack Little Rock and Fort
Smith.
The Confederates have been repulsed in an attack
upon the outposts of Natchez, Mississippi.
Reports, said to be exaggerated, are current at
New Orleans of a mutiny among the coloured
troops in Fort Jackson. The Federals have aban-
doned the Teche country, leaving a small:garrison
at Brashear.
General Butler has ordered an enrolment of
white and black citizens in his department between
the ages of 18 and 45, to be completed by Jan. 1.
General Rosencranz is to supersede General
Schofield in Missouri.
General Burnside is in New York receiving much
public attention.
The Federal Commandant of Wilmington denies
the statement that blockade running into Wilming-
ton is frequent. The destruction of the steamer
Daylight is denied.
The House of Representatives has voted an ap-
propriation of 20,000,000 dols. for bounties and ad-
vance pay to volunteers.
The action of the people of Halifax in rescuing
the pirates of the Chesapeake has caused considera-
ble ill-feeling here.
The New York Herald has commenced a syste-
matic attack upon President Lincoln, saying that
his fatuity and imbecility, where his personal par-
tialities are concerned, pass all belief, and that he is
an amiable sort of man, but his works'are too costly.
It is reported from Mexico that Fidaurri, Gover-
nor of Nueva Leon, has declared in favour of the
French.
The Bavaria has arrived out.

(By Telegraph to Halifax).
NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (Afternoon).
The report that the Ironsides and two Monitors
were caught in the obstructions in Charleston Har-
bour has proved untrue.
The Federal transport Star of the South, from
Hilton Head on the 21st inst., reports that the
Monitor Lehigh got aground while on picket duty
near Fort Johnson, and was got off with the assist-
ance of two ironclads, but not before she was so
badly damaged that she had to be towed to Hilton
Head for repairs. One account states that she was
damaged by the Confederate batteries, another that
she sprung a leak. The shelling of Charleston
continues. .

Southern accounts of Longstreet's engagement at
Belt. Station state the Federals, after a stubborn
resistance, retreated towards Knoxville, The Con-
federates lost 800 men, bat captured a large number
of waggons and prisoners.
The Richmond papers of the 20th announce that
a battle with Longstreet was expected near Jones•
boro, Tennessee,
General Joe Johnstone is moving from Meridian
to reinforce Hardee. Southern despatches assert
that Johnson will command Hardte's army.
Averill has cut the Virginia and Tennessee Rail-
road at Salem, damaging Longstreet's communica-
tion with Richmond. A large Confederate force
endeavoured to cut off Averill's retreat but failed.
General Corcoran has been killed by a fall from

his horse.
The substitute system has been abrogated in the
Confederate Congress.
The Federal Congress has -voted against submit-
ting the constitutionality of the Conscription Act
to the Supreme Court.
The passport sy stem for passengers leaving by
American vessels has been revived.
Federal war vessels have been stationed off the
Narrows to overhaul vessels leaving New York.
The steamer Vanderbilt has captured the barque
Saxon, off Cape Town, and the Angela Pequina on
the West Coast of Africa.
The contest between Heenan and King has
created great excitement throughout the country,
and the result caused much disappointment.
The Edinburgh and Asia have arrived out.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (Evening).

The steamer Saint Louis sailed yesterday from
San Francisco, for Panama, with 1,250,000 in specie
for England..
The National Conservative Union Convention
assembled at Philadelphia, are reported to have re-
affirmed the nomination of M'Clellan for the presi-
dency, and nominated Judge Campbell for the vice
presidency.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money easy. Gold 52,1 prem. Exchange on
London, 166; on Paris, 335.
Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 1324 ; Illi-
nois, 116 ; Erie, 106 ; Six per Cent. U. S. Bonds,
105.
Crude petroleum, 31 to 32 ; do. refined, 45 to 46.

The Russian Government has issued an order pro-
hibiting the exportation of cattle after the 15th inst. from
Southern Russia. It is believed that this step has been
taken in consequence of the great drain of cattle now taking
place, caused by the large purchases on account of the Vice-
roy of Egypt.
THE VALUE OF LAND IN ENGLAND.—There is
nothing in the " Arabian Nights" more surprising
than the value of land in the great centres of commerce,
The little tablecloth area at the south-east corner of St.
Paul's, which gives the foreigner the best eoup d'ceil of our
architectural masterpiece, is worth £60,000. The value of
land around the Bank and the Royal Exchange is still
greater. When New Oxford-street was made, the land cost
£s7,ooo'an acre. In the improvement of Charlotte-street
the land was purchased at £67,000 an acre. When the new
thoroughfare was driven through Coventry -street and
Long-acre, the land cost £llO,OOO an acre. Mr. Cowper,
the First Commissioner of Works, has carried an act for
the construction of a new street from Blackfriars-bridge to
the Mansion-house. Having brought in a bill which gave
the street a width of 70 feet, he proposed to increase it to
80 feet. The street is a very short one, but it was
found that the addition of 10 feet would add £lOO,OOO
to the expense, so the right bon. gentleman gave up
the proposed extension. In some of the great provin-
cial towns prices are still higher. In Manchester,
land had been sold by the square yard, and as much as
£200,000 an acre has been given for sites in the best part
of the town. At Liverpool, land has been sold at £3O per
square yard, or nearly at the rate of £150,000 per acre. In
some situations more than this has been given; in other
parts of the town the price is £lOO,OOO per acre. In Bir-
mingham, the land held by the London and North-Western
Railway was sold at about £60,000 an acre.