The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-21 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.

LivEßrooL, Sunday.

The Royal Mail steamship Asia, Capt. Shannon,
which sailed from Now York on the Bth inst., and
called at Queenstown yesterday evening to land
mails and passengers, arrived here about 4.30 this
afternoon, bringing 175 passengers and 153,588d015.
in specie on freight.

NEW YORK, April 8.
The following is the " situation," from the New
York Herald of April 8:

There is nothing new from thearmy of the Potomac
The enow has disappeared, but the roads are in a
frightful condition.
By an arrival from Hilton Head we learn that the
town of Jacksonville, Florida, was burned by the
Union forces under Colonel Rust, in return for the
attempt of the rebels to shell it and murder all the
Union inhabitants.

The bread riot which took place in Richmond on
Thursday is very significant of the condition to
which rebellion is reduced. If the people of that
city are compelled to break open the public stores
to obtain bread, what must be the state of the
inhabitants of those districts which produce but
little food, and raise mainly cotton or tobacco?
Virginia is the most fruitful raising State in the
South, and is to the eastern portion of it what
Tennessee and Kentucky are to the West, and if
the want of food manifests itself in such a demon-
strative fashion as to bring out a hungry mob of
3,000 women into the streets of the capital, we can
readily imagine how dire must be the distress
existing in the other States.

We learn by despatches from Nashville, dated
yesterday, that Gen. Mitchell, with 350 cavalry,
went out on the Lebanon pike to Green Hill, and
dashing into a rebel camp where there was a large
number of conscripts, on the sabre charge he took 15
prisoners, killed flue, and captured all their arms,
horses, and Equipments.
Gen. Rosencrans' despatches to the War Depart-
ment, under date Monday, state that Gen. Stanley
completely whipped the rebel guerillas of Morgan
at Snow Hill, capturing about 50 prisoners and 300
horses.

The following are all the despatches received

concerning the attack on Charleston :
NEWS VIA FORTRESS MONROE.

Fortress Monroe, Saturday, April 4.
Yesterday's Richmond Dispatch contains the fol-
lowing startling news from the South Carolina
coast :

"The enemy have landed in force on Seabrook's
or John's Island. Three gunboats and transports
are lying eff the island. Skirmishing has already
taken place between our and the enemy's pickets.
Our pickets are driven in and the enemy advancing.
" General Haygood has ordered all the women,
children, and non-combatants removed from Adam's
Run, which is 20 miles from Seabrook's Island."
The Dispeach also says—" Pensacola was fired by
the Union soldiers about the 23d ult., and the most
of the town destroyed. The soldiers are going to
reinforce General Banks."

Despatches received from Fortress Monroe state
that Charleston papers have been received there.
I They acknowledge that the attack by the Federal
army and navy on that city hal been eommeneed,
but contain nothing indicating whether the move-
ments of our forces have met with success or other-
wise. It is fair to infer that if the latter had been
the case they would have announced it.
It is generally believed in official quarters that
no reverse has been sustained by our trcops or our
fleet, and there is the best reason to believe that the
loyal North -will soon be electrified by the gratify-
ing announcement of the capture and occupation of
Charleston.

The following despatch is from the 14iehmond
Examiner of Saturday :

" Charleston, Thursday, April 2.

"There are no signs thus far of the expected
attack. There has been no landing in force on any
of the islands below, as reported.

" The skirmish on Seabrook's Island was between
a few independent scouts and a scouting party from
a Yankee gunboat."

The following additional despatches are pub-
lished in the New York journals:—
Washington, April 7, 1863.

It is officially known here that the United States
fleet of gunboats and iron-clads left Port Royal on
Wednesday last, and would probably reach the
scene of operations Thursday evening. Up to three
o'clock this afternoon nothing further was known
of their movements.

Washington, April 7 (Evening).

The military and naval authorities have been
hourly expecting to-day official information in re-
gard to effiirs at Charleston. It is officially known
that our fleet of gunboats and ironclads left Port
Royal on Wednesday, April 1. It was expected
that they would be in position to make the attack
the following day.
The rebel rumours that have reached us allege that
the attack was made on Thursday. If it had been un-
successful we should assuredly have had a full account
of it from that source. The ample preparations
made induce the heads of the War and Navy De-
partments to believe that success has attended the
combined efforts of our army and navy at that
point. So much confidence is felt here in this re-
spect that a prominent naval officer last night pat
up 5,000 dole. as a wager that Charleston had been
taken by our forces, and could find no takers.
A special despatch from Helena, dated the 3d
inst., says that ad vices from General Quimby's ex-
pedition to the 30th ult. state that no progress had
been made in the reduction of Fort Greenwood.

Our forces were still in front of the enemy, and
there had been considerable skirmishing between
the pickets on shore.

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The steamer G Cairo, April 7, 1863.
rived. Grey Eagle
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ditions, theobjects learn of two important expe-
public. of which are not to be made
Reports in regard
to the Yazoo Pass expedition
are still conflicting. The preponderance of evi-
dence is that it is not abandoned.
Last week while the steamer A. D. Hine was
passing down Coldwater she was fired into by gue-
rillas. Several deck hands and one engineer were
killed. The captain was mortally wounded.

Baltimore, April 7, 1863.

Colonel Stewart, of_the 2d Indiana Regiment, one
of the 14 United States officers just released by the
rebels, who has just arrived here, makes the follow-
ing statement :
" On Thursday last he saw from his prison win-
dow in Richmond a great bread riot, composed of
about 3,000 women, who were armed with clubs,
and guns, and stones.
gt They broke open the Governmentrderanipasrivr elses
oncete
stores, and took bread, clothing, e
they wanted.
" The militia were ordered out to check
the riot,
but failed to do so.
" Jeff. Davis and other high officials made
speeches to the infuriated women, and told them
th,y should have whatever they needed.
'6 They then tecame calm, and order
more restored."
All the other released Union offi
Oaten:lent. eel's (=firm this