The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-17 00:00:00

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK LANE.
A limited supply of English wheat was received fresh up
to this morning's market. There were a few French buyers
in attendance, but their purchases were unimportant;
nevetheless the trade, though by no means active, ruled
firm, and Monday's quotations were fully supported.
The supply of foreign wheat was large. Holders of
American produce were very firm, and higher prices were
in sonic instances demanded. Other descriptions realised
extreme rates.

Floating cargoes of grain were in moderate request, a,
late rates.

The supply of barley was very moderate, and the trade
ruled steady, at previous quotations. Malt changed hands
slowly on former terms.

The supply of oats was tolerably extenEive. For al
qualities the demand ruled inactive, and prices had a down
ward tendency.

Beans and peas realised extreme rates, with a steady
demand.

In most kinds of flour, sales progressed somewhat slowly,
at previ .us quotations.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat Liarley. Malt. Oats. Flom.
English 720 _ 1 1,020 — 1 280
Irish. -
FOnign
3'291 i 32,130
I 2 1 '','55500 sbkr sl
8

AMERICA.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

(Per the Etna.)
NEW YORK, June 5 (Evening).
Northern advices from Vicksburg to the 30th ult.
report the siege of that place to be progressing, and

Gen. Grant to be erecting earthworks for the pro-
tection of the troops, and to be mining in order to

blow up some Confederate forts.
The bombardment of Vicksburg by the fleet ap-
pears to have little effict, and Admiral Porter reports

that the works are stronger than they dreamt of.
Scouts report that Gen. Johuston, with 15,000 to
30,000 men, is advancing between the Yazoo and
Big Black Rivers with the intention of retaking
Haine's Bluff, and breaking up the Federal com-
munication by the Yazoo River. One Federal
corps marched to meet Johnston.
A Confederate officer on the Rappahannock stated
to the bearer of a flag of truce that General Grant,
after being repulsed at every point, had fallen back
upon the line of the Big Black River, and was for-
tifying his position to prevent Johnston from cross-
ing. _ .

The Northern journals discredit this statement.
The New York World thinks the siege of Vicks-
burg may last during the greater part of the sum-
mer. Other journals urge the Administration to
reinforce Gen. Grant.

General Banks's force investing Port Hudson is
reported to number from 20,000 to 25,000 men.

The Federals are stated to have destroyed two
Confederate iron clads at Shreebesport, on the Red
River.

In Tennessee the Confederates have thrown nearly
all their forces forward from Tullahoma to Shelby-
ville, and are reconnoitring in front of Gen. Roee-
cranz at Murfreesboro', where heavy skirmishing
has occurred.

The Confederate cavalry has also attacked
Franklin.

Admiral Dupont is relieved by Admiral Foote.
It is again asserted that General Hunter is re-
moved from his command.
President Lincoln has revoked General Burnside's
order, suppressing the Chicago limes, which has
resumed its publication in consequence.
General Burnside has withdrawn his order sup-
pressing the New York World in his department.
A large meeting has been held at Chicago, de-
nouncing General Burnside's action ; and the
Illinois Legislature has requested the Government
to withdraw his order, and has called the attention
of the Governor of Illinois to General Burnside's
invasion of the State sovereignty.

A Democratic State Peace Convention was held
inside and outside of the Cooper Institute at New
York, on Wednesday (3d inst.) The meeting was a
great success, both in numbers and enthusiasm.
Resolutions were passed declaring that the Govern-
ment has no constitutional power to coerce States

by military force. if the power of coercicn exists,
it is of a legal and not of a military character. tThe
Democracy cannot sustain a war against sovereign
States, and demands that it should cease.
Mr. Vallandigham's arrest and the exercise of
military law were strongly denounced, and hopes
were expressed that Vallandigham will be elected
governor of Ohio.
The resolutions recommend the suspension of hos-
tilities, and that a convention of the Confederate
States and a separate convention of the Federal
States shall be held to determine how the contend-
ing sections shall be reconciled.
A committee was appointed for practically carry-

ing out peace principles.
The address to the ccnvention favours State
sovereignty, and declares that the war cannot suc-
ceed. The North has been beaten, and cannot
conquer the South. The people are tired of the
war and want peace.
The principal speaker, Fernando Wood, declared
that no man equal to the crisis had shown himself
in field or Cabinet, and that no man had been
found to raise the banner of peace; therefore, soli-
tary and alone, he put the ball in motion.
President Lincoln's Administration and General
Burnside were hissed, and the names of General
M'Clellan and Vallandigham cheered.
The New York Herald says that the meeting was
the greatest ever held in New York, and that such
unmistakeable bitterness of hostility to the Admi-
nistration was never before recorded in American
history. All agreed that it was time to stop the
war. The Herald thinks Wood's speech statesman-
like and bold.
The Tribune stigmatises the meeting as disloyal,
encouraging insurrection, and abetting treason.
The Tammany Hall Democracy declare the peace
movement at this time inexpedient and unwise.
The New York World recommends the peace and
war Democrats to unite and tolerate each other's
peculiarities.
Governor Seymour has ordered the trial of the
New York police commissioners for arbitrary arrests
and other causes to take place on the 13th inst.
It is supposed that the decision of the New York
Supreme Court declaring Treasury notes not a legal
tender for debts contracted prior to the passing of
the Legal Tender Act will be reversed by appeals
to other courts.
The steamer Dolphin has been condemned at Key
West, rifles and sabres having been found among
her cargo.
News received from Havana states that the
Spanish steamer Union and the British steamers
Hero and Eagle have been captured.
The Diario Marina says the Hero was captured
within sight of the Cuban coast.
The Southern steamer Cuba has been chased, and
burnt to avoid capture.

NEW YORK, June 6.
General Grant kept up a heavy bombardment of
Vicksburg on the 31st ult.
A report has reached Cincinnati that General
Johnston, instead of reinforcing Vicksburg, was
advancing in force upon Memphis, but this is not
generally credited.
General Banks assaulted Port Hudson defences
on the 27th; General Weitzel commanded the right,
Sherman the left, and Generals Augur and Grover
the centre.

Sherman's and Weitzei's corps commenced the
attack, and fighting soon became general along the
whole line, the Federals everywhere meeting with
a desperate resistance. General Weitzel on the right
captured a six-gun battery upon the river side,
which he turned against the Confederates. General
Sherman, on the left, was not so successful, and was
driven back. The 2d Louisiana (negro) Regiment
was in the advance in Sherman's attack, and lost
600 out of 900 men.

Generals Augur and Grover, in the centre, are
said to have driven the Confederates out of their
rifle-pits and entrenchments into the main works.
The battle lasted all the 27th, and is reported to
have been renewed on the 28th; but the steamer
left New Orleans on the night of the 28th, up to
which time the authorities had published no infor-
mation of the second day's fight.
The .New Nwk, Tribune says that at five o'clock
in the evening of the 27th Gen. Banks despatched
an order along his lines to retreat to the original
position occupied at the commencement of the
assault, but reinforcements were sent up from New
Orleans.

The battle was very bloody, the Federal loss being
estimated at from 2,000 to 4,000 men. General
Sherman has arrived at New Orleans badly
wounded.
Admiral Farragut co-operated in the attack with
General Banks, and the bombardment is said to
have dismounted five guns in Port Hudson.
General Lee's army is reported to be moving
towards Gordonsville. An impression still prevails
that Lee will cross the Rappahannock, and General
Hooker has made every preparation to meet him.
The Federal Colonel Kirkpatrick has made a
successful cavalry raid from Gloucester Point to
Falmouth.

The Confederates have made simultaneous attacks
upon Franklin and Treime (?), Tennessee, and were
repulsed at each place.
It is stated that General Hunter's letter to Pre-
sident Jefferson Davis was never sent.
Mr. Fernando Wood has had an interview with

President Lincoln at 'Washington.
The New York, Herald thinke that there are in-
dications of a reaction in the public mind on the

subject of the war, and on the question out of which
it arose, and says—‘, All is new confusion, but
order will soon be evolved out of the political chaos,
and the counter-revolution will stand triumphant
and acknowledged by all. The people have lost all
faith in the efficacy of the war to restore the union,
and are preparing to try what virtue there is in
peace." _

The editors of the New York newspapers have
called a meeting of all the editors to express their
opinion upon the rightful limitation of the liberty
of the press to discuss the conduct of the Govern-

ment in war times.
Colonel d'Ubassy has been cashiered from the
Federal army, and sentenced to one year's impri-
sonment in the criminal prison at Sing Sit g.
The Chicago convention for the construction of a
canal between the Mississippi and the Atlantic was
very largely attended, and a committee has been
appointed to make arrangements for carrying out
the undertaking.
The Etna takes out 131,937 dole. in specie.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,
NEW YORK, June 5 (Evening).
Money easy. Gold 464 per cent. prem. Ex-
change on London, bankers' bills, 159. Stock
market dull : New York Centrals, 1228 ; Illinois,
1101 ; Erie, 971 ; 6 per Cent. U.S Bonds, 104. Cot•
ton good inquiry. Middling upland, 56c. Flour,
wheat, and corn dull. Provisions heavy. Coffee
quiet. Sugar and molasses in good inquiry. Crude
petroleum improving.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
A large and enthusiastic peace meeting was held
at the Cooper Institute, in New York, June 3. Five
stands for speakers were erected outside the Insti-

- • .
,ate, and large crowds surrounded each stand—the

hall inside also being closely packed. The meeting
was one of the largest political gatherings ever
held in New York. The following resolutions

were passed :
Resolved,—That the electors and people of the
State of New York, who have hitherto professed
the name and held to the principles known as
Democratic, desire to declare their unaltered attach-
ment as well as those truths, as to the Constitution
and the amendments thereto, forming the supreme
law of the land; that they regard obedience to the
Constitution as alike the duty of the citizen and
the magistrate, and regard such obedience as the
only means of perpetuating the Union, and, by it,
the only hope of restoring the same.
Resolved,—That the sovereignty of the States
and the sovereignty of the people, as laid down in
the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, of which
Jefferson and Madison were the authors, are the
fundamental principles of the Democratic party ;

that they are the vital essence of the Constitution,
pervading every line and provision of that iostru-
ment, and to deny them would reduce our political
Federative system to anarchy or despotism.

Resolved,—That under the Constitution there is
no power in the Federal Government to coerce the
States, or any number of them, by military force.
If power of coercion exists at all, it is a legal power,
and not military. That the Democratic party, it
true to its own time. honoured principles, cannot sus-
tain a war against sovereign States; that we believe
it to be the duty of the party to proclaim these
sentiments boldly, that the people may feel that
there is at least one political organization which
will deal hOnestiy, independently, and truthfully
with them.

Resolved,--That the war in itp inception and

further continuance, being contrary to the Consti-
tution, must necessarily first combine all the
elements of Union, and hence that our duty as
citizens, our obligations as men, and our relations
to our common Father, alike demand that an end
should be put to what is repugnant to the law,
abhorrent to the humanity rind civilisation of this
enlightened era, and inconsistent with the benignant
spirit of morality and religion.
Resolved,—That attempts to do away with the
provisions of the Constitution which point out the
mode in which all crimes are to be punished are
high-handed violatLus of the sworn duties of our
rulers, and that the participants in such a policy
are guilty of aiming a parricidal blow at the very
life of the supreme law.
Resolved,—That the claims of dictatorial and
unlimited power, under the pretext of military
necessity, and the trial of citizens (not in the land
or naval forces, or in the militia on active service)
by courts-martial, are monstrous in theory and
execrable in practice. That it is equivalent to an
entire abrogation of the Constitution, and the
erection in its place of a military despotism.
Resolved,—That the dogma of unlimited sub-
mission to the will of the executive branch of the
Government is unworthy an American citizen, and
inconsistent with the principles of Constitutional
liberty; that such a concession is rather suited to

the dark and sullen era of feudal despotism than to
a time when the rights of man are regarded even
by monarchs, and we attribute this exhibition of
abject servility as dictated by a spirit of fanaticism,
bent on effecting its object even at the sacrifice of
personal liberty.

Resolved,—That we should be unworthy of the
name of American citizens of this free and inde-
pendent State, claiming the first rank among the
sovereign components of the American Confederacy,
if we did not protest against the cowardly, the des-
potic, inhuman, and accursed act which has con-
signed to banishment the noble tribune of the people
—Hon. Clement L. Vullandigham ; we protest

against it in the name of liberty, in the name of
'humanity, and in the name of Washington. We
hope the people of Ohio will have the opportunity
of passing condemnation of this act, by the election
of Mr. Vallandigham as next Governor of the
State.

Resolved,—That, thus believing there can be no
reliable security to persons or property pending this
war, and, that by its continupnce, the Government
itself will be utterly and irrevocably subverted—
and that the South, as well as the North, must alike
crumble into general ruin and devastation, we
recommend, in the name of the people, that there
be a suspension of hostilities between the contend-
ing armies of the divided sections of our country,
and that the convention of the States composing the
Confederate States, and a separate convention of the
States still adhering to the Union, be held to finally
settle and determine in what manner, and by what
mode the contending sections shall be reconciled,
and appealing to the Ruler of all for the rectitude
of our intentions. We implore those in authority
to listen to the voice of reason, of patriotism, and of
justice. _

Resolved,—That to the end that our principles,
thus publicly avowed, may be practically carried
out ; and that a State authority, emanating directly
from the people, may exist, to call any further con-
ventions of the Peace Democracy, if it shall become
expedient or necessary, and disclaiming any inten-
tion to distract the Democractic organisation in this
States, so long as it shall reflect the sentiments of
the masses, the following named gentlemen, repre-
senting each Congressional District, are appointed
as a State Committee for that purpose, with full
powers to take such actions in behalf of the success
of our principles as may seem to them just and
I proper.

APPREHENSION OF THE OLDHAM MURDERER.—
Acting on the information of Inspector Wilson, of
Crewe, Detective Buckley, of Manchester, apprehended at
Menai the man Wright, a manufacturer's son, for the mur-
der of Emmanuel Bates, at Oldham, on the 2d inst. The

prisoner, in charge of Buckley and the Oldham superinten-
dent, passed through Crewe to Manchester by the early
mail yesterday morning.
THE ANDAMANS!—Their complexions are as
black as soot could make those of our Ethiopian
minstrels at home. Their small dwarfish figures are hard
and angular, and their general contour the very reverse of
graceful. Their heads are perhaps the best part about
them. They are certainly small, bullet-like appendages,
but are not otherwise ill-formed. The fact that they were
entirely destitute of that natural ornament which has a
graceful appearance even when the phrenological develop.
ment is far from being what the professor of Spurzheim's
" mental science" call beautiful, namely, an abundant
head of hair, or even any hair at all, did not at all tend to
make their other defects less perceptible. The red ochre
with which their bald occiputs are daubed is no doubt
meant as an ornament, but we cannot recommend it as an
article of the toilette, for it only renders their appearance
more repulsive.—.Dr.lllouat in his new work on these
(literally) ,Stark-naked Savages,