The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-26 00:00:00

AMERICA

(Per the Hecla.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 25.
The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Garnaania, from New York on the 14th inst., ar-
rived off the Needles, at one o'clock to-day.

NEW YORK, Nov. 14.
No engagement has occurred in Virginia or
Tennessee.

General Banks' expedition from New Orleans
has not been heard from, leading to the impres-
sion that Banks may have gone to the mouth of the
Rio Grande, instead of Sabine 'Pass.
The Texas expedition, which was advancing via
Opetousas, is returning to Brashear City. The
advance of the expedition had an engagement with
the Confederates, in which they lost GO men and
captured 200 prisoners.

General Foster has superseded Burnside.
The Confederates have Captured and burned a
steamer on the Mississippi, below Helena.

Marshal Forey has maintained a strict incognito
here. He has visited General Scott.

The Richmond Inquirer thinks the South
should be informed why foreign recognition is
withheld, and whether slavery is the cause or
not.

The condition of the liberated slaves along the
Mississippi is stated to be deplorable.
Subscriptions are being raised for their relief.
In consequence of a reported Confederate con-
spiracy in Canada, General Dix has gone to
Buffalo to inspect the frontier defences.
Mr. Seward has refused permission to the Mexi-
can delegation to recruit troops in the Federal
States.

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (Evening).
General Lee is strongly entrenched south of the
Rapidan. General Meade maintains his position
between the Rapidan and the Rappahannock near
Cedar Mountain.

General Stuart's cavalry is still operating north
of the Rapidan.

It is asserted that Lee's army was well fed, but
ill clad.

An early engagement is expected.
Charleston advices to the 10th state that the
Federals keep up a bombardment of Fort Sumter.
The Secretary of War had telegraphed to the
Mayor of Buffalo that Lord Lyons acquainted
him he had received information of the probable
existence of a Confederate plot in Canada, to seize
the steamers on Lake Erie, liberate the pri-
soners in Fort Johnson, and burn the Lake
cities.

The labourers' strike is assuming formidable
proportions in the principal northern cities. The
New York press urge employers to accede to the
labourers' demand for higher wages on account of
the increased prices of articles of consumption.
Accounts from Chattanooga to the 12th report
that Longstreet has left with 16,000 men for East
Tennessee. General Bragg's army is ascertained
to be 60,000 strong. _Hardee has superseded
General Polk, and relieved Longstreet on Look-out
Mountain. The Confederates have sent a consi-
derable cavalry force to Inka,
Burnside's forces are reported to be massed at
Knoxville. There are indications of a large force
marching against him. His outposts, reported
captured, were at Rodgersville, 60 miles from
Knoxville.

His troops were overpowered by numbers. The
Confederates captured 600 men, 4 cannon, and 36

waggons.

General Meade's report of the battle of Gettys-
burg has been published. He capturned 3 guns,
13,000 prisoners. The Federal loss amounted to
23,000 killed, wounded, and missing.
The majority of the judges of the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania has declared the Conscription Act
unconstitutional.

NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (Morning).
Advices from Gen. Meade, dated yes.arday, state
that the Confederates were shelling Kilpatrick's
camp, near Stevensburg, showing that Lee has
forces north of the Rapidan.
Official advices from Chattanooga and Knoxville
to the 13th inbt. report all quiet.

The information received concerning General
Burnside's position is said to be favourable.
Bragg has granted 30 days' furlough to the far-
mers of the State of Georgia who are in the army,
to allow them to sow their wheat.

Confederate despatches from Europe, lately cap-
tured, are said to represent the Confederate pro-
spects in Europe as unfavourable.
A Federal agent has left for Canada to investi-
gate the Confederate conspiracy just discovered
there.

A large military force and a gunboat has been
sent to defend Fort Johnson in case of attack.

The steamers Robert Lee, Cornubia, Ella, and
Annie have been captured.

Marshal Forey has sailed for France in the
steamer Panama.

NEW YORK, Nov. 14, Evening.
Money light, Gold 461 per cent. prem. Stocks
lower.

(Per the Nova Scotia.)

NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (Evening).
The Richmond Enquirer comments unfavourably
upon the late captures by Meade on the Rappahan-
nock and the Confederate defeat in Western Vir-
ginia, and says :
" The Federals are threatening the railroad at
Weldon. They are also reported in force at New-
port News. Thus the Federals are threatening
active operations all round Richmond before winter
has blockaded the road."

The .Richmond Examiner says the Federals are
moving upon York Peninsula, and are reported to
be in considerable force on the Williamsburg road,
40 miles east of Richmond.

The New York press strongly urge the abolition
of the duty on foreign coal.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (Evening).
Gold, 471. per cent. prem. ; exchange on London,
161; on Paris, 351. Money steady at 7 per cent.,
but much easier than early In the week. Stocks
improving, being favourably affected from this
cause. New York Centrals were quoted 136,V;
Illinois, 1191 ; Erie, 104 i ; 6 per Cent. United
States Bonds, 104. Cotton good inquiry—Middling
Upland, 86c. to 87c. Flour dull. Wheat quiet.
Corn heavy. Provisions good inquiry, Coffee,
sugar, and molasses very firm.

THE HOLSTEIN SUCCESSION.

FRANKFORT, Nov. 25.—Emphatic denial from a
reliable source is given to the statement of the
Vienna papers, that Prussia and Austria had sent
identical instructions to their representatives at the
Federal Diet, that, as the offspring of a morganatic
marriage, Duke Frederick of Augustenburg had no
hereditary claim to the Duchies.