The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-17 00:00:00

AXERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA.

QUEENSTOWN, OCt. 17.
The Royal Mail steamship China arrived here
last night at 11.45, with 87 passengers, 258,512
dole. She landed all the mails, excepting the.
Scotch, and 20 passengers, and proceeded for Liver-
pool at midnight. All well.
NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (Evening).
President Lincoln has appointed the 26th Novem-
ber as a day of thanksgiving for Americans, at
home, at sea, and abroad.

A malignant fever has appeared in the fleet be•
fore New Orleans. Its progress is being checked.
Four steamers have been burnt on the Mississippi.
Numerous fires were lost. Confederate emissaries
are supposed to have set the vessels on fire.
It is reported that a French frigate is on the
way to Charleston.

A portion of the committee appointed to arrange
the ball to be given to the Russian naval officers
are opposed to inviting the French and English
officers now in port. The question is not yet de-
cided.

Money tighter. Gold 47 per cent. prem. Ex-
change on London 162. Stocks very firm. New
York Centrals 131. Illinois 128 x. Erie 1091.
Cotton very firm, middling upland 86c. to 88c.
Flour firm and advancing. Wheat and corn ad-
vancing. Provisions steady. Coffee and sugar
very firm. Molasses steady. Coffee and sugar very
firm. Molasses steady. Crude petroleum 31 to 35 ;
refined ditto 55.

NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (Morning).
The Confederates are operating in Gen. Rosen-
cranz's rear, leading to the supposition that Bragg
has attacked Etosencranz in front.
AU is quiet at Charleston, Knoxville, and on the
Rapidan.
Money easy. Gold 4G per cent. premium. Ex-
change on London 162, Stocks higher.
The Confederates were repulsed, on the 28th
ult., in an attack upon General Rosencranz's right.
General Forrest, with 4,000 cavalry, has made a
raid on the railroad between Nashville and Chat-
tanooga, and destroyed a large railroad bridge south
of Murfreesboro.
The Confederates also attacked Macminville, 70
miles south-west of Nashville, with a view of cutting
Rosencranz's lines, and isolating Burnside. In this
attack the Confederates lost 120 men. Its result is
uot, however, reported.
Telegraphic communication has been interrupted
between Murfreesboro and, Chattanooga, but nu-
merous movements in Rosencranz's rear lead to the
supposition that Bragg may have simultaneously
attacked Rosencranz in front. Federal despatches,
however, confidently assert Rosencranz's position to
be impregnable, and the Federal forces fully able to
keep his communications open.
Burnside holds the country South from Knox-
ville to Calhoun on the Hiawassee river, and the
Western and Atlantic railroads, and East from
Knoxville as far as Greenville, on the East Tennes-
see and Virginia Railroad. He also possesses all
the passes into North Carolina. His right wing is
in communication with Rosencranz.
Despatches have been received from Charleston
to the 3d inst.
General Gillmore has removed his headquarters
front Morris Island to Folly Island. The Federal
land batteries are bombarding Fort Sumter.
NEW YORK Oct, 9, Afternoon.
The situation at Chattanooga
,
engagement. The Confederates have rendered the
roads in Rosencranz's rear difficult to travel except
for strong military commands.
A portion of the Confederate cavalry has moved
towards Kentucky, portends an early
y, to harass Burnside's lines. A
part has moved southward against Rosencranz.
It is rumoured that the Confederates have cap-
tured Shelbyville. The Confederates opened fire
on Chattanooga on the
.sth from Lookout Moun-
tain. Shells were exploding in Chattanooga.
The New York herald asserts that Bragg's army
has been swelled by reinforcements to 270,000
men.

Advices from Charleston of the 6th inst. state
that the Confederates had attacked the frigate Iron-
sides, doing her some damage.
Money easy. Gold 41Z- per cent. preen. Exchange
on London 162. Stooks steady. New York Cen-
trals 135. Illinois 127'1. Erie 1092. Cotton
steady. Middling. upland to 89 90c.
NEW YottN, Oat. 10 (Morning).
In Tenn3ssee the Confederates have attacked
Shelbyville, capturing 15,000 prisoners.
They have also captured M‘Minisville, with 500
prisoners, and seven waggons, together with 500
prisoners at Waldron Ridge.
The Confederate cavalry have bFen defeated near
Franklin, Kentucky, with a loss of 300 prisoners
and four cannon.
Money easy. Exchange on London 164.

ARRIVAL OF THE BAVARIA.
SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 16.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Bavaria has arrived here. She brings 67
passengers, 800 tons of cargo, and 54,940 dols, for

England, 95,100 dole. for France, and 1,000 dols.
for Hamburg.

On the 7th the Bavaria spoke the British ship
City of Ottowa, from Plymouth for Quebec. She
left New York on the 3d, called at Cape Race, and
received New York telegrams to the evening of the
6th, which confirm the news of considerable skir-
mishing having taken place in the rear of Rosen-
eranz' force; of the Confederate attempts to inter-
rupt the communications between Nashville and
Chattanooga ; of Bragg's fortifying Missionary
Ridge; of Barnside's retiring to Cumberland Gap;
and of the reported occupation of Knoxville by the
Confederates.