The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-03 00:00:00

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AMERICA.

The Liverpool, New
York,
(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
and Philadelphia
Com '
pany s screw steamer City of New York, Cap-
tain Kenned3', which sailed from New York
on the
23d ult., arrived in the Mersey shortly after mid-
night, bringing 158,500 dole, in specie.
A full telegraphic summary of the advices by this
arrival appeared in our second edition of yesterday.
The 2v,,,, York limes of the 23d 1 u t., says—
" The news fro
from m General Grant this morning, both
tion, is oar own and from rebel sources of informa-
ture of the highest importance. After the cap-
of Jackson, his army being provided with
Gulf eight a
-11Y8' rations be ceased co
Grand
—nil , mmunication with
re uire , on account of the large escorts
was qd for that service. From Jackson, it
understood to be his intention to force
his way through to Haine's -Bluff on the
Yazoo, and ,
ports, to secure the enemy's trans-
BlackTr'-te held the bridge across the Big
River with 5,000 men, and had de-
stroyed several miles of the Vicksburg and Jack-
son Railroad near the latter place. Here informa-
tion from our side leaves. Rebel despatches state
that our font% occupied Jackson at two o'clock on
the 17th, and proceeded towards Vicksburg. On
the 18th there was a heavy battle near Edward's
station on the Vicksburg Railroad between Gen.
Grant sod the rebels from Vicksburg under Gen.
Pemberton, in which the latter were driven back
to their entrenchments, one account states, with
the loss of 16 Pieces of artillery. Barker's Creek
is stated as the exact locality of the battle. Gen,
Joe Johnston, in an official despatch to the rebel
War Department, does not attempt to disguise the
fact that Gen. Pemberton was defeated. His de-
spatch is dated at a point between Livingston and
Brownsville, eW— hicm Would make his location west-
ward of Jackson, the direction in which he re-
treated when driven out of that place by Gen.
Grant. Johnston
says the battle lasted nine hours,
when Pemberton 17— ai,
compelled to fall back behind
the Big Black River. The rebel General Pilchman
was killed, and the losses are reported to be heavy
on both sides."
By the arrival at this port of the steamship
Matanzas we receive advices from New Orleans to
the 13th inst. She brings no later news from Gen.
Banks, but we have by her an account of another
bombardment of the Port Hudson batteries by
Admiral Farragut, in which considerable damage
was inflicted upon that rebel stronghold, with no
loss on our side. The bombardment commenced at
midnight of the Bth, and continued, with intermis-
sions, for two days. The object of the demonstra-
tion was prabably to prevent rebel reinforcements
from marching from Port Hudson to Vicksburg.
Reports teach us vii? Cairo from the Red River.
Our gunboats have proceeded above Alexandria,
and succeeded in breaking the the rebel raft. At Har-
risonburg a battery was shelled two hours, but it
had not been captured at last accounts.
A despatch from Cincinnati confirms our Wash-
ington correspondent's statement that Vallandig-
ham's sentence has been changed by the President
into transportation beyond our lines. Gen. Rose-
crans is intrusted with tho duty of sending him
within Bragg's lines.

The New York, Tribune says
Rebel despatches
moan over the destruction of property in Jackson,
missibsippi, by the Union forces. They say that

before leaving they burned the Confederate house,
the depots, the penitentiary, Green and Phillips's
factory, Stevens's foundry, and a block of buildings
in State-street, including the Medical Purveyor's
and other Government Offices; also both bridges
over the Pearl River, and destroyed several miles
of the railroad track." Another aceount says " the
Catholic church was destroyed, and the Mississip-
pian office gutted, the presses broken, and the type
thrown into the street. The furniture in the
Capitol was badly abused, and the Governor's man-
sion demolished. All the stores were sacked, and
their contents destroyed, and iron safes broken
open. Ladies were robbed of jewellery and money.
The railroad was badly torn up for several
miles, and the telegraphic wires torn down.
About 300 negroes from Hinds county joined the
Yankees. The country was plundered generally.
Farmers estimate the damage at from five to ten
millions. Much destruction and suffering prevail."

The official statement of losses in the late battle
at Chancellorsville is as follows :—Killed, 1,989 ;
wounded, 7,867. The number reported killed will
be slightly varied when the list is collated with the
list of exchanged prisoners received from Rich-
mond. Between 1,700 and 1,800 of the wounded
were but slightly wounded, and were not disabled
nor off duty for a single day.

The United States barque Roebuck captured on
the 2d inst., while attempting to run the blockade,
at St. Andrew's Bay, Florida, the British schooner
Emma Amelia, of 85 tons, loaded with wine,
flour, &c.
A letter from Nassau, dated May 2, states that
since the 11th of March the following steamers have
made, or attempted to make, voyages to the
blockaded ports :—Wave Queen, Granite City,
Stonewall Jackson, Victory, Flora, Havelock,
Emma, Ruby, Hero, St. John's, Margaret, Jesse,
Mina, Eagle, Calypso, Nicholas 1., Duoro, Auto-
niac, Giraffe, Thistle, Gertrude, Georgians, Bri-
tannia, Pet, Ella, Annie, Charleston, Dolphin, and
others, 26 in all.

Of these the following have been captured :
Granite City, St. John's, Nicholas 1., Gertrude,
Thistle, Daoro, and Dolphin.
The Wave Queen, Stonewall Jackson, and
Georgiana were driven ashore, and the Mina has
been long absent, and is supposed to have been lost
at sea—thus disposing of the eleven.

The names of these vessels are often changed,
which conveys the impression that the number
engaged in the trade is larger than it really is.
Thus, the Stonewall Jackson was the Leopard, the
Victory was the Wayne, and, before that, the Annie
Childs; the Thistle was called the Cherokee, &c. ;
while the Havelock is now called the Beauregard.
The slime letter states that blockade-running is
not so active as formerly, the prices of freights
having become greatly exchanged within the last
two months.

The following are the latest despatches from
Vicksburg in full:—

CINCINNATI, May 22.

Information received here from General Grant's
head-quarters at Raymond, Miss., shows that it was
his intention to destroy all the bridges in his vi-
cinity. After the capture of Jackson he ceased
communication with Grand Gulf, in consequence of
heavy escorts of troops being necessary for such
service. The army was provided with rations for
eight days.
From Jackson General Grant was to proceed to
Haines' Bluff and secure a number of transports
belonging to the rebels, and prevent their escape
up the Yazoo river.
General Pemberton is thought to be in front of
General Grant, and General Joe Johnston is sup•
posed to have brought out five thousand troops with
him.

It is generally supposed that a great battle would
be fought before Vicksburg surrendered ; but of its
final capture no one expressed a doubt.
The bridge over the Big Black river has not
been destroyed, but is guarded by 5,000 men, with
instructions to destroy it if they should be com-
pelled to leave.

Three miles of the railroad near Jackson were
torn up when our forces entered that city.
The Gazette's Murfreesboro despatch has contra-
dictory reports from the Mississippi.
One report is that General Grant has been driven
back from Jackson and Port Gibson, and that
General Joe Johnston's forces have possession of the
Jackson and Vicksburg Railroad.
Another report is that General Grant has beaten
General Johnston and taken possession of the rail-
road bridge over the Rig Black river, which is a
most important movement in that section of coun-
try, as it entirely cuts off rebel communication with
Vicksburg.
Advices via Cairo say that our loss at Raymond
Was 71 killed and 300 wounded, and that
65 cars, laded with bacon and corn meal, were cap-
tured between Raymond and Jackson.
It appears to be General Grant's intention to
march in the rear of Vicksburg to Haines' Bluff.
Rebel papers state that forces from all parts of
the South are to march to reinforce General John-
ston.

CAIRO, May 22, 1863.
The City of Alton from below has arrived.
Accounts of the operations of Grant's army to the
17th do not differ materially from the rebel reports
already published. The impression is gaining
ground that General Grant is a perfect master of
the situation.

Warrenton is in our possession. Teams are con-
tinually employed in hauling stores from that point.
Greenville, Mississippi, a town of some 400 in-
habitants, has been entirely destroyed.
Our gunboats ascended the Red River from Alex-
andria. The Price succeeded in breaking the rebel
raft loose, which floated out of the way while our
boats proceeded up the river to Harrisonburg, where
they shelled a rebel battery two hours without
taking it.

It was reported at Helena that Price and Marma-
duke have a force 10,000 strong at Wittsburg.

MURFREESBORO, TENN., May 22.
Surgeon Appleby, of the First Alabama, who was
taken prisoner, but released, says that Vicksburg
had been evacuated, and that Gen. Pemberton had
marched out to attack Gen. Grant in the rear, while
Gen. Johnston pushed him from the direction of
Jackson. He says only two brigades have been sent
from Gen. Bragg's army to Mississippi.
Bragg has los battle field marked out about three
miles from Shelbyville, bis line in intrenchments
and his troops in fighting condition.

WASHINGTON, May 22.
Up to a late hour this evening no additional in-
formation has been received from General Grant.
All the news of his operations since the occupation
of Jackson, Miss., has come through rebel aourccs,
and is regarded by the President and War Depart-
ment, as well as the public generally, as very
favourable, and indicative of speedy and complete
triumph.

The rebel papers received here arc filled with
desponding and gloomy articles upon the position
of affairs at and near -Vcksburg. They evidently
anticipate the worst in that quarter. The Rich-
mond Whig is very severe upon the rebel
Government for placing General Pemberton in
command at that important point. It says
" The public were never able to account for the
sudden promotion by which Colonel Pemberton,
Confederate States army, ex-lieutenant United
States army, became, without trial or experience,
and without the possession of unusual abilities that
were ever heard of, a lieutenant-general command-
ing the Department of the Mississippi. His man-
agement of affairs in that quarter, and especially
the failure to keep the enemy out of the capital of
Mississippi, has not elucidated the mystery. Wb"
the pinch came another general of tried and known
ability was bent there; but it was tot) late. If Pem-
berton was not competent for the duties assiwaed
him, why was he sent there? And if it witli

tended to relieve him when the crisis came, why
was the relief withheld until it could not avail ?
The telegraph tells us that the plundering and de-
struction at Jackson amounted to frog five to ten
millions of dollars. Was it worth so much to any-
body that General Pemberton should have been
promoted over so many officers of experience and
ability ? The Government may feel very easy on
the subject, but the ignorant public must be per-
mitted to have its doubts."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAY 23, Evening.
Money easy. Gold, 49 per cent. prem.
Exchange on London, bankers' bills, 165.
Stocks steady ; New York Centrals, 1-251; Illi-
nois, 114 ; Erie, 991.
The Bohemian takes out 27,000 do's, in specie.

(Per the Bohemian.)

NEW YORK, MAY 23, Evening.

Official reports received in Washington from
General Grant's army, up to the 20th inst., say—
" General Grant has captured Haines Bluff and
the entire works of Vicksburg, also a large number
of prisoners and 57 guns. The battle was still
raging, with the prospect of capturing the entire
Confederate force in Vicksburg.
" General Grant holds Jackson, the Black River
bridge, and Haines Bluff."

The news is generally considered highly favour-
able to the Federals.

MEXICO.
(Per the Bohemian_)

NEW YORK, MAY 23, Evening.

Mexican accounts from Puebla to the 30th of
April, received here via San Francisco, and pub-
lished by the New York journals, say—

" The French had two further conflicts with the
Mexicans, in the first of which the Mexicans held
their ground, and in the second remained masters
of the field, capturing 150 Zouaves.

" Juarez hes left for Comonfort's army, to urge
offensive operations."

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

SOU (HAMPTON, JUNE R
-.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ceylon, Capt. Evans, with the heavy Calcutta
and China mails, has arrived. She brings 165
passengers, 5 packages of specie, 1 package of
jewellery, 14 packages of valuables, and 1,046 pack-
ages of general cargo, including 676 bales of raw
silk, value £60,000 sterling.
Her Majesty's ship Procris was at Gibraltar; the
Meanee, Icarus, Trafalgar, Revenge, and Magi-
cienne at Malta ; and at Alexandria the Perdrisc,
Sardinian frigate Victor Emmanuel, and French
frigate Jerome Napoleon.
The Spanish steam transport San Quintin, with
707 officers and men, arrived at Cadiz, from Ceuta,
on the 22d.

GIBRALTAR, MAY 28.
The following British ships have arrived here
since the 20th inst. :—Steamer, British Queen, 5
days 17
hours from Liverpool; steamer Danube,
54 days from Liverpool ; steamer Admiral Canarier,
92 days from Liverpool; steamer Pera, 4 days 5
hours from
Southampton ; steamer Lis, 61 days
from Liverpool ; steamer Atlas,;sl days from Liver-
pool; and schooner Laura, 16 days from Cardiff.
The American steam- sloop Kearsage arrived here
on the 26th from Madeira.

Exchanges are quoted on London 93 days' date,
50/ to fi ; Paris, sf. 30c.; Marseilles, 5f 31e. ;
Genoa, sf. 32c.; Madrid, 8 days' sight, Ili pm. ;
Cadiz, dis. ; Seville, -7- dis. ; Malnga, a dis. ;
Barcelona, prem. ; Almeira, dis. ; Valencia, /
prem. ; Alicant, dis. Premium on Five Franc
Pieces, 1 p.c.—dull. Freights unaltered.

Stoppage of the Steamers between England
and Matamoras.

It appears that the owners of the steam lino be-
tween this country and the Mexican port of Mata-
moras have discontinued the service pending the
decision of the British Government respecting the
late seizures by the United States cruisers. In this
way a large trade is left open to be monopolised by
adventurers at New York and Boston, who are
known to be active in its prosecution, and the com-
mercial interests of the country are damaged at a
time when it is more than ever important that every
legal outlet should be made available in order to
compensate for the circumstances by which the in-
dustry of Lancashire is affectel. If the doctrine is
to be admitted that British vessels trading between
neutral ports are liable not merely to a fair exami-
nation, but to seizure, of course no one in England
will wish to eee the rule infringed; but this ques-
tion seems up to the present moment to have been
evaded, and the belief is that whenever it shall be
brought forward in a direct manner it 'will be re-
jected not only by Great Britain, but by the United
States. The argument that it will be to the future
advantage of England as a maritime Power to get
such a doctrine established is untenable, because it
never can be to the bent fit of any country or indivi•
dual to rest their proceedings on principles that are
inherently wrong or irrational ; while it is also cer-
tain that, however we might acquiesce in them now,
other Powers, when it was their turn to suffer,
would turn round and disavow them, either by
some quibble or by the more correct plea that civi-
lisation and knowledge had advanced, and that no
force of custom could render it incumbent on a
nation to continue to recognise a system of folly and
injustice. The matter is one that demands immediate
action, and there is less excuse for delay since Mr.
Evarts, who is regarded in New York as the most
sound and accomplished authority on international
law, is now in this country, commissioned by Pre-
sident Lincoln to facilitate, in conjunction with Mr.
Adarc..4, the attainment of a clear and permanent
understanding on all such points.—gimes.

NEWSPAPER STEREOTYPING. Few persons
would suppose (says the Critic), remembering the
rapidity with which a daily paper is composed and printed,
that the "formes" could be stereotyped. Yet, so it is, and
for the sake of that very rapidity. The .Engineer gives
some particulars of the mode pursued in respect of the
Times. The pages are set up with types in the ordinary
manner, and from these a paper matrix is obtained by pres-
sure. The paper intended to receive the indentation or in-
taglio of these formes is prepared as follows :—Beginning
with a sheet of very thin and fine but strong paper, known
variously as bank-post or silver tissue, a sheet of brown
paper and two or more sheets of blotting paper are succes-
sively pasted one over the other upon one side of the tissue
The opposite or face side of the tissue is dusted
with powdered French chalk. The form of type
is first warmed in a steam oven ; and then, when
taken out and laid flat, the plastic paper web, prepared for
impression, and still damp with paste, is placed upon it, and
the whole passed beneath a weighted roller. The impression
is as perfect as if it had been made in the finest wax. The
paper comes from the types without the least wrinkle, and
without cutting or tearing the edges of any one of the thou.
sands of impressions with which it is covered. The eheet,
too, .
is nearly dried and is ready for the moulding frame.
As it not so stiff but that it may be readily bent, the
paper is now made to assume the curve corresponding to
the cylinders, 64 inches in diameter, of the Applegarth
presses and those made upon Hoe's plan by
Mr. Whit-
worth. '
he paper mould is held between an iron back
and a block of fire-clay, curved upon its face, and
in this position the type metal may be poured, and a stereo-
type plate produced in a few seconds, and perfect, with
back,
thek,
exception of trimming the edges and placing
which operations are accomplished in a few minutes more.
n the
The paper mould is not burned by the contact of the melted
type metal, which fusee at a comparatively low temperature.
A slight discolouratlon and the least smell of burning are the
extent of the injury to the mould, which, indeed, is good for
a dozen or more casts, and may then be filled, if required,
and preserved for years, to be again cast from at any time.
The sixteen pages of the Times, including it, double supplo-
ment, are thus stereotyped between 4 o'clock and 4.40 every
morning, the average time of making and finishing each
pla' a being two minutes and a halt'. Instead of priotin,b
off a whole edition from a single form of typ:, as many liko
impressions may be obtained at one and the Slime timh as
there are presses for the work,

HER MAJESTY.

The Queen's Return from Scotland.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Prince
Alfred and the younger members of the Royal
Family, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen
of the court, will leave Balmoral en route for the
south on Friday next at half-past one o'clock.
Mr. Cawkwell, general manager of the London
and North-Western Railway, leaves London this
evening in charge of the royal train, which will be
made up precisely as it was for the journey to Scot-
land.

Her Majesty will leave the Aboyne station of the
Deeside Railway at half-past two o'clock, and arrive
at Aberdeen, a distance of 33 miles, at half-past
three. From Aberdeen the Scottish North-Eastern
Railway will be traversed to Perth, a distance of
90 miles, with only one intermediate stoppage to
take water at the Bridge of Dan. Her Majesty
will dine at the Perth station hotel, and, leaving
that city at seven o'clock, will travel over the
Scottish Central Railway to Greenhill, a distance
of 45 miles. From Greenhill, where the engine will
take water, the royal party will proceed over the
Caledonian Railway to the border city of Carlisle, a
distance of 106 miles, stopping only once to take
water at Summer station. At Carlisle, where the
train is timed to arrive at half-past 11 o'clock, the
Queen will partake of refreshments, proceeding
thence, after ten minutes delay, over the London
and North-Western Railway, by Kendal, Preston,
and Whitmore, at each of which stations the engine
will take water, to the Bushbury Junction of the
Great Western, which will be reached at five o'clock
on Saturday morning. From Bushbury the train
will run over the Great Western, by Leamington
and Oxford, to Windsor, where her Majesty will
arrive at 8.45 a.m.

Mr. Cawkwell will have charge of the royal train
from Aboyne to Windsor, and the journey through-
out will be made with the utmost privacy.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, accompanied by Prince Leiningen, and
attended by the Countess de Grey and Lieutenant-
Colonel Keppel, left Marlborough House at 25
minutes past 11 o'clock yesterday morning, for the
private station at Vauxhall, and travelled by the
London and South-Western Railway to Ascot.
Their Royal Highnesses afterwards proceeded to
Frogmore.

We are requested to state that the Prince of
Wales has signified his gracious intention to receive
the address of the Convocation of the prelates and
clergy of the province of Canterbury, at Marlborough
House, on Tuesday, the 9th day of June, at half-
past two o'clock. The bishops will assemble at
Queen Anne's Bounty Board-room, and the prolo-
cutor and clergy at the Jerusalem Chamber, at a
quarter before two o'clock.

The Prince of Wales has felt himself compelled
to decline laying the foundation-stone of the Surrey
County Hospital, on the Hog's Back, near Guild-
ford, which institution is designed as a memorial of
the many virtues of the Prince Consort. Major-
General Knollys, in announcing this decision to the
Rev. T. G. Hatchard, states that his Royal High-
ness has been compelled, from the many applications
made to him from all parts of the country, to decline
all those which are not locally connected with his
property. _

The Duchess Dowager of Sutherland left Chis-
wick on Monday for Cliefden, where Lord and Lady Blan-
tyre, the Hon. Charles Howard, and a large party have met
for the Ascot race meeting.

The Duke of Cleveland has quite recovered from
his recent illness, and is now able to take daily equestrian

exercise.

The Duchess of Argyll and family have left
Campden Hill, Kensington, to remain a week with the
Duchess Dowager of Sutherland at Cliefden. The duke will
return home with the Queen at the end of the week.
The Earl of Derby has left town on a visit to the
Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at Sunning Hill, for the
Ascot race meeting.
The Earl and Countess Cathcart have left Mau-
zigy's Hotel for Thornton-le•street, Thirsk,
The Countess of Dunraven's next dance will take
place on the 18th inst., and not on the 15th, as first inti-
mated.

Lord Stanley, M.P., returned to town on Mon-
day from visiting Sir Edward and Lady Caroline Kerrison,
at their seat in Norfolk, and the Marquis and Marchioness
of Salisbury at Hatfield House, Herts.