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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1863,

AMERICA.

to us to promise a large majority for Ministers. Whether
it will be sufficient to overcome the weakness which they
will probably experience in Lower Canda has of course yet
to be developed by the results of the daily occurring elec-
tions."

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 24.

The Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's Screw
steamer Jura arrived here this morning. from
Quebec, having sailed thence on Saturday, the 13th
inst. Besides the Canadian mails and a number of
passengers, the Jura brought 39,000 dole. in specie
on freight.
By this arrival we learn that the mail steamer
Norwegian, Captain M'Master, ran ashore on St.
Paul's Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, during
a dense fog on the afternoon of Sunday, the 14th
inst. This was reported by the captain of the news
boat when the Jura called off Cape Race. The mails,
crew, and passengers were saved, and hopes were
entertained that the ship would be got off. The
Norwegian was on her outward voyage from Liver-
pool, whence she sailed on the 4th inst., with a fair
amount of cargo and about 500 passengers, and
appears to have made a quick passage to the St.
Lawrence, where she met with the mishap. The
Norwegian is an iron screw steamer of 1,888 tons
register, was built in 1860, and was bark-rigged.
She belongs to Messrs. Allan Brothers and Co.'s
line of steamers.

A despatch to the Tribune, dated Washington,
the 11th, says :
" The opinion is entertained in quarters likely to be ac-
quainted with the facts, that not a man has been detached
from Bragg's army since General Grant opened the siege of
Vicksburg. General Rosecrans has been so watchful, has
found means to keep himself so thoroughly informed as to
Bragg's designs, and has so constantly threatened him with
an attack in force, that he has deemed it imprudent to
weaken his strength in the least, even for the purpose of
attempting to relieve Vicksburg. By pursuing this course
for the present Bosecrans is believed to be contributing more
toward permanent triumph than he could by such a victory
as that of Stone River. Bragg was ordered to go South to
reinforce Johnstone, when the men and some of the officers
mutinied. Bragg ordered out a brigade to surround the
mutinous regiments, and swore he would hang 100 men a
day until discipline was restored."

From Cincinnati it is stated that a spirited en-
gagement took place at Monticello on the 10th inst.
The Federal troops, under command of Col. Kantz,
had driven the Confederates from Monticello, and
they were falling back towards the Cumberland
river, when they rallied in force and attacked the
rear guard. The Federals retreated slowly. Re-
inforcements subsequently went to their relief,
when a desperate hand-to-hand conflict ensued,
lasting two hours, and resulting in the defeat of
the Confederates. The Federal loss, says the de-
spatch, was 80 killed and wounded; the Confede-
rate loss is not stated.

An unofficial telegram, received in Washing-
ton on the 12th from the vicinity of Vicksburg,
says the Confederates, in small force, attacked
Milliken's Bend and Young's Point on the 6th
inst., but were decisively repulsed at both points.
The coloured troops at the former place at first
gave way, but, upon hearing that those of their
number who were captured were killed, they ral-
lied with great fury and routed the enemy.
The Tribune of the 11th says:—

"We have a letter from our correspondent Zenopho' to
the 6th inst. He gives a hopeful view of the progress of the
siege; reports the repulse of a sortie against one of our
mining parties on the night of the 3d; demonstrates that
General Joe Johnstone cannot possibly get near enough to
strike Grant without being extinguished, and says the gar-
rison will soon be compelled by famine to capitulate."

A special despatch of the New York Herald,
dated headquarters of the army of the Potomac,
says :--
"Our forces remain in possession of the flats south of
Fredericksburg. The enemy manifests no inclination to
attack us. Our defences are impregnable, and it is not be-
lieved that the rebels will risk an assault. Work has been
suspended in their own fortifications. Their troops, how-
ever, display themselves extensively and are evidently in
large force, No firing has been heard since Tuesday even.
ing, and this morning the utmost quiet prevails. A num-
ber of prisoners arrived last night from the upper works.
Most of them are members of the 4th Virginia Cavalry.
Stuart's attempt to make a raid into Pennsylvania is
frustrated. Lee is in the vicinity of Culpepper with a large
body of infantry, and a heavy force remains near Frede-
ricksburg. Troops from the Blackwater, North and South
Carolina, and elsewhere, have been hurried up to the army
of Northern Virginia, and there can be no doubt that Lee
contemplates a grand and desperate effort for the annihila-
tion of Hooker's army."

The Tribune's special correspondent, writing on
;he 10th, says :

" The Rappahannock was again crossed by detachments
from the Ist, 3d, and sth corps this morning near Kelly's
Ford without the loss of a single man on our side. The
rebels seemed to be entirely taken by surprise; so silently
were our men embarked that their pickets of six cavalry
men did not discover our designs until the canvas boats had
reached the middle of the stream. We were then ordered
by the rebels to halt, which injunction our men seemed to•
consider a very good joke. Two shots were then fired at
the boats, neither of which took effect. Several of our men
answered the salute, killing one man, who was immediately
carried off by his comrades, who beat a hasty retreat as our
boats neared the shore. Two boat-loads were landed, and
immediately commenced reconnoitring on the other side,
but found no rebels. The remainder of our forces, in all
perhaps a division, afterwards forded the river."

The Ohio Democrat states that a Convention met
at Columbus on the 11th, and was very largely
attended. Ex-Governor Medill presided. General
Clement Vallandigham was nominated for Governor
on the first ballot, receiving 448 out of 461 votes.
His nomination was then made unanimous. The
Hon. George E. Pugh was nominated for Lieute-
nant-Governor by acclamation. Resolutions were
unanimously adopted protesting against President
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, condemning
martial law in loyal States where war does not
exist ; denouncing the suppression of the writ of
habeas corpus; protesting in strong terms against
the banishment of the Hon. C. L. Vallandigham,
and calling on the President to recall him and
restore to him all his rights as a citizen of the
United States; and declaring that they would hail
with delight a desire of the seceded States to return
to their allegiance, and that they would co-operate
with the citizens of those States to restore peace,
and that they insisted upon freedom of speech,
freedom of the press, and the right of trial by jury.
Under the date of the 11th inst. Captain Butler,
of the bark Whistling Wind, states that his vessel
was boarded on the 6th inst., in lat 33.30, long. 71
29, by the rebel pirate Coquette. The Whistling
wind was set on fire and burnt. The Coquette was
formerly the brig Clarence, of Baltimore, and was
captured by the pirate Florida, to which vessel she
is a tender.

A letter to the New York. Herald of the 12th
reports the capture and burning under the guns of
Fort Morgan, below Mobile, of the sehooner Ripple
(Hunter) with cotton. She had been taken by the
Kanawha, on the 7th, about 30 miles south of
Mobile.

The United States' ship Desota chased the Con-
federate steamer Cuba from Havannah, laden with
arms and ammunition, and compelled the crew to
set fire to her and to escape in boats. The Cuba
formerly ran between Mobile and New Orleans, and
was capable of carrying 10,000 bales of cotton.
The Canadian elections are proceeding with con-
siderable activity ; the Montreal Herald says

The electoral returns from the country at large still show
a considerable Ministerial majority ; but it is of course un-
derstood that in all these cases the safest constituencies are
those which are the first called upon. We have to-day to
add to our Ministerial list one more Upper Canadian name,
that of Dickson, for Huron and Pruge,.and two lower Ca-
nadians, Messrs. Dufresne for fberville, and Labreche
Viger for Terrebonne. The return of the latter, though by
a small majority, shows that though at no great distance
from the city the result was not influenced, to an over-
whelming extent, by the rebound of our own elections. We
have classed Mr. Sicotte among the Ministerial candidates,
because.. we have too much respect for one of the most high-
spurted men in public life to place him among the doubtful;
and because we believe, that, having no personal interests
which he will for a moment but in competition with the
public advantage, he will be found, as usual with the party
with which he has always acted, if he shall, as we have no
doubt he will, find their programme to be such as he can
approve. We, of course, do not disguise from ourselves that
there are some differences in policy between himself and
his late colleague—but we do not imagine that these are
in any, respect, irremediable, Upper Canada still appears