The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-25 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(RE UTER' S TELEGRAMS.)
QUEENSTOIN N, MONDAY.

The extra Inman steamer, City of Cork, from
New York on the 13th instant, arrived here at aix
p.m. She brings 69 passengers, but no specie.

The City of Cork proceeded for Liverpool at

6.45 p.m.

(Per the extra steamer City of Cork )
NEW YORK, AUG. 12, EVENING.
General Meade has published a report from
General Kilpatrick, refuting General Lee's official
denial of the accuracy of Meade•s report of the en-
gagement on July 14th at Falling Waters.
A new Confederate camp bas been discovered at
Poney Mountain, near Culpepper.
Considerable excitement has been caused through
out California by a contemplated rising of seces-
sionists.

An affray has occurred at Vasalia, in the northern
part of the State, between the soldiers and seces-
sionists. The citizens were arming, and cavalry
was sent to Vasalia. Secession outbreaks are also
rumoured to have occurred in Santa Clara and
Salano counties, north and south of San Francisco
Bay. The fortifications of San Francisco are to be
commenced immediately. _ _

A vessel which passed Charleston on the night
of the 7th states that Fort Sumter and the batteries
on Morris Island kept up a terrific bombardment cm,
the Federal position.
The New York. Tribune denies the Herald's state-
ment that the Republicans will hold a convention
in Washington.

The judgo advocate general has furnished the
governor of New York with a report upon the
conscription and enrolment, showing that twelve
districts which have voted the Democratic ticket
are required to furnish more conscripts than
sixteen Republican districts polling dolible the
:lumber of votes. The report says—n‘ It is
a partisan enrolment designed to take out of
the city the greater part of the Democratic ma-
jority, and as far as the draft has proceeded the
names drawn were mainly Democratic. This fraud
was certainly perpetrated without the knowledge
of the President and the Provost Marshal. A
general and irresponsib'e cabal outside must be
looked to for the source of this iniquity. If justice
is not done it will remain in history as a gigantic
political fraud."
_ _

The New York Herald says:—"lf a riot and
anarchy should arise out of the quarrel between
President Lincoln and the governor of New York,
the country will hold to a rigid reckoning the two
actors playing political parts so fall of peril to
domestic peace and to the very existence of the
nation.

NEW YORK, AUG. 14, AFTERNOON.
(Ptr Telegraph to Cape Race.)
A combined land and naval assault on Charleston
is appointed for the 13th, which the Federals are
sanguine will result in the capture of Forts Sumter
and Wagner, and of Cumming's Point. Deserters
assert that the Confederates have removed guns
from Sumter, and have mounted them on James
Island. The Confederates are actively at work on
James Island with preparations to defeat the Fede-
ral plans. Federal reinforcements of coloured
troops continue to be sent to Charleston.

General Lee has a considerable force between the
Rapidan and the Rappahannock and holds all the
mountain passes. It is anticipated he may send a
portion of his forces through one of the gaps to
Gainsville or Manassas, in order to attack simul-
taneously the front and rear of General Meade's

position.
A considerable Confederate cavalry force is in the
Shenandoah Valley.
Orders have been sent from Washington permit-
ting commissioners to visit the army and take the
vote of the lowa troops for the State elections.
It is reported that the Secession outbreaks stated
to have occurred in the counties north and south of
San Francisco Bay are untrue.
The World thinks the reported determination of
the administration not to listen to terms of settle-
ment without the total extincti9n of slavery, nor
to hold any intercourse with the Confederate
Government to arrange a preliminary peace, proves
that the administration is determined to delay
settlement until after the Presidential election, as
if the South returned to the Union before that
time the fate of the Republican party would be
sealed.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, AuG. 12, EVENING.

Money easy. Gold 261 per cent. prem. Ex-
change on London, bankers' bills, 1392. Stocks
depressed. New York Centrals, 1241. Illinois
Shares, 11873; Erie, 103 ; Six per Cent. United
States Bonds, 105/. Cotton inactive. Middling
Upland, 68e. Flour declining, prices sc. lower.
Wheat declining. Corn improving. Provisions
and coffee quid. Sugar and molasses dull. Crude
petroleum, 35c.

NEW YORK, Auci. 14, AFTERNOON.

Money abundant. Gold 251 per cent. prem.
Exchange on London, bankers' bills, 138 k. Stocks
improving. New York Centrals, 1251 ; Illinois,
1191 ; Erie, 104 six per Cent. United States
1;
Bonds, 104/.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On last Wednesdayafternoon
as two of the sans of Mr. Freethy, of Hadley, near
Barnet, were going to fish, and were walking along a pub-
lic path which passes over the Great Northern Hallway,
they proceeded, immediately after a train had gone by, to
cross the line, when the elder brother saw an express train
coming its a contrary direction. He escaped so narrowly
that the engine touched his heel. The younger brother,
Charles Freethy, aged about 10, was killed, his head being
severed from his body. There is a bridge, rarely used,
over the railway, at some distance from the Path, but
the inquest, held at East Barnet, Herts, the jury re-
quested the coroner, Mr. R. Grove Lowe, to recommend
the construction of an archway where the accident hap-

pened.
AN ANNA3IITE SAVANT.—Among the persons
attached to the embassy from Annam to France,
the principal interpreter, Trouong-Vinh-Ky, is deserving
of a special notice. The Europeans call him Petrus, for he
is a Uhristian, and was baptised by that name. Tie was
born of poor parents, in the province of Vinh-Luong. his
father was a soldier, and fell in the expedition against
Cambodia. His mother was left with two children to sup-
port, but she nevertheless sent him to the Annamite school,
where he learned to read. A French priest subsequently
took an interest in the lad, and sent him to Combodia to
learn the Latin language. The missionaries there, per-
ceiving the great talents, procured his admission into the
College of Poulo•Finang, where he studied with great Elle •
tees. Ho obtained the chief prizes fur mathematics and
philosophy, and also composed a thesis in Latin on the
Divinity of Jesus Christ. The governor of Poulo-Pinang
was so charmed with the production, that he sent a copy of
it to the University of Oxford, and made its young author
a present of 150 rupees. On leaving college, Petrus re-
turned to the Bishop of Isautopolis, and continued his
studies for two years longer. Atter mature reflection, he
concluded that he had no especial vocation for the priest-
hood, and requested to leave the mission. Ho was at first
engaged as Government interpreter under the order of Vice
Admiral Rigault de Genouilly ; he next became Secretary
to the Prefecture of Segon, then interpreter attached to the
staff of Vice Admiral Bonard, end was ultimately appointed
director to the College of Interpreters. M. Petrus has not
yet completed his 25th year. Besides the Annamite, his
native tongue, he writes and speaks correctly Latin, French,
Spanish, English, Chinese, Malayan, Cambodian, and
Siamese. He is not only an accomplished scholar, but also
a man of the world, and well acquainted with European
usages. The Government was happily inspired in making
him the chief interpreter of the embassy, and the fame
_ prove the excellence of the choice.