The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1863.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE, I The injury is supposed to be extensive, and the

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

AMERICA.
(Per the Bohemia.)
NEW YORK, OCT. 10.
Gen. Johnston is reported to be at Santon, Mis-
souri, with 15,000 men, to intercept Rosencranz's
reinforcements.
Advices from Charleston to the 6th state that
Gen. Gilmore's preparations are nearly completed.
The Confederates are operating against Forts Smith
and Scott, in Kansas. Gen. Blunt's staff have been
captured in Kansas.
Uncertain reports have been received of a defeat
of the Federals above Port Hudson, with a loss of
1,500 prisoners.
Gen. Franklin has advanced 50 miles beyond
Brashear City without meeting resistance.
Gen. Banks has ordered the conscription in
Louisiana. Negroes on the plantations will be de-
tailed for service.

OCT. 10 (Evening).

The Confederates are advancing on Fort Scott
and Kansas city. It is reported the Kansas militia
will be called out.

Gen. Blunt will go to Texas, unless his forces
are weakened by the Confederate movements in
other quarters.
Governor Brown of Georgia, who is a secession
upholdor, is reported to be re-elected.
The _Richmond Enquirer expresses the gratifi-
cation of the Confederates at having the French
for their neighbours in Mexico, and says:—" The
South would willingly make an alliance with
France to protect French and Southern interests
in America."

The Richmond _Examiner denounces all peace

propositions.
The Evening Pose urges the Government to de-
mand from England an explanation of the conduct
of the Cape Town authorities respecting the Ala-
bama. If an explanation is not rendered, Govern-
ment would at once proceed to press its wrongs.
The Russian Admiral has accepted an invitation
to visit Boston with the squadron. Foreign Con-
suls and French and British officers are to be in-
vited to the municipal banquet to the Russians.
The steamer Jose has been seized at New York
upon suspicion of being a blockade runner.

NEW YORK, OCT. 10 (Evening),

The Federal Government has received advices
from Chattanooga, with all encouragement for the
Union cause. The Confederate cavalry hld been
overtaken below Shelbyville and completely routed
with a loss of 100 killed. The Federals were in
pursuit.
Admiral Milne has visited the Secretary of the
Navy at Washington.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, OCT. 10 (Evening).

Money easy. The large export of gold has caused
an advance of 2 per cent. in its price, being now
quoted 48; per cent. premium. Exchange on Lon-
don—bankers bills, 164. Stocks dull. New York
Centrals, 134; ; Illinois, 1261 ; Erie, 108; ; 6 per
Cent. United States Bonds, 1071, Cotton steady.
Middling upland, 90c. Flour and corn advancing.
Wheat. large speculative sales. Provisions, very
firm. Coffee quiet. Sugar and molasses advanc-
ing. Petroleum very dull. Crude, 334 c. Refined,
53c.

NEW YORK, OCT. 12 (Evening).
The Confederates are moving in Virginia, and a
strong Confederate force is concentrating in the
vicinity of Madison Court-house.
A Federal cavalry brigade encountered Stuart's
cavalry, while reconnoitring the Confederate posi-
tion, near Robertson's River. Au engagement
ensued. The Federals, being repulsed, retired to
Culpepper.

General Hill's corps has passed from the left to
the right of Meade's front, at Blue Ridge Moun-
tain, apparently to get on Meade's right and cut
the railway communication, or also as a ruse to
cover an attack upon his front.

The communication between Nashville and
Chattanooga is uninterrupted.
A combined land and naval attack upon Charles-
ton was to take place on the 11th.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money easy. The anxiety concerning the mili-
tary situation in Virginia, Tennessee, has caused
an advance in gold, which is now quoted 511 per
cent. per annum. Exchange on London, bankers'
bills, 164 k to 165 ; stocks dull. New York Cen-
trals, 135 ; Illinois, 1261 ; Erie, 1694 ; 6 per cent.
United States' Bonds, 1071. Cotton steady ; Mid-
dling Uphold, 90c.

(Flom the Correspondent of the Times.)

NEW YORK, OCT. 9, 6 p.m.

A telegram to the Richmond Enquirer from
General Bragg's army, announces that the Confede-
rates, on Missionary Ridge, shelled the position of
General Rosencranz for several hours on the 6th
inst.

Federal accounts, via Nashville, on the 7th and
Bth, state that skirmishing was of constant occur-
rence, and that another general engagement was
considered imminent.

Communication between General Rosencranz and
his base at Nashville is still interrupted, and reports
had been received at Nashville that Shelbyville,
with all the Federal troops there, had been captured
by the Confederates.

General Bragg is said to have been heavily rein-
forced from Richmond and elsewhere, and that his
forces now number at least 175,000 men. It is also
represented that 53,000 troops, under the command
of Gen. Joe Johnson, aro held as reserves.
Confederate accounts from Charleston of the
6th report that on that day an attack was made
upon the Federal fleet, in which the frigate Iron-
sides was considerably damaged, and the other
vessels of the fleet greatly alarmed for their safety.
It is not stated what constituted the attacking
force ; but, from the fact that three of the crew of
the Confederate gunboat Chicora are reported
missing, it is presumed that it consisted of Confede-
rate iron-class.
Despatches from headquarters of the Army of the
Potomac of the Bth inst. state that during the pre-
vious 24 hours there had been many indications of
steadily approaching collision with the enemy.
An expedition of land and naval forces sent out
by General Foster from Fortress Monroe, on the
4th inst., to some point in North Carolina, had not
been heard from up to the 6th inst.
Serious apprehensions exist in Leavenworth of
a Confederate invasion of Kansas. On the Bth the
Confederates were reported to ho advancing on Fort
Scott and Kansas city. All the Government troops
in Leavenworth had been ordered forward, and the
state militia called out, to repel the invader.

THE AMERICAN MAILS.
ACCIDENT TO THE AFRICA.
(By Telegraph to Cape Race.)
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, 0cr.13.
The outward-going Royal Bail steamship Africa
struck, in a dens© fog, near Cape Race, on Monday
night (the 12th). She was ashore above half an
hour, but got off, making much water, and bore up
for St. John's, where she arrived to-day.
The ship has been beached, and must discharge,

cargo is damaged.

MEXICO.

PARIS, OCT. 21.

The Paris papers of to-day publish a telegram
from Saint Nazaire with intelligence from
Vera Cruz to the 18th September, stating that
according to news received from the interior of
Mexico a numerous party exists favourable to the
annexation, pure and simple, of Mexico to France.

ST. NAZAIRE, OCT. 21.

Advises received here from Vera Cruz to the
18th Sept. state that the Archbishop of Mexico had
arrived, and had met with a magnificent reception.
The national fête of the 16th was of a brilliant

character.
The blockade of all hostile Mexican ports has
been effective since the Bth of the month.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, OCT. 21.
The result of the preliminary elections is as fol

lows :

In Berlin the old Liberal majority has been in

creased.

In the provinces, as far as is known, the elections
are said to be also in favour of the former Liberal

majority.
The result of the election in the lowland districts

is not yet known.

NADAR'S BALLOON.

BREMEN, OCT. 21.

Nadar'a balloon descended near Cystrup, in
Hanover. There were nine persons in it, of whom
three were seriously and two slightly injured.

FRANCE.
PARIS, OCT. 21.
M. Baroche has been nominated a senator.
A friend of M. Nadar has received the following

THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND.

BALMORAL, Oct. 18.

Mr. Theed's statue of the Prince Consort, which
has bean placed in the principal corridor at Balmoral,
was uncovered yesterday morning.
The Queen, the Crown Prince and Princess o f
Prussia, Prince and Princess Louis of Hess,Princess
Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, Prince
Arthur, and Prince Leopold assembled in the cor-
ridor at half-past 1 o'clock.
The ladies and gentlemen of the household in
waiting were, by her Majesty's permission, present,
as well as the servants and gillies who had been
particularly attached to the Prince Consort's
service.

At her Majesty's command the covering was re-
moved from the statue by Mr. Tneed, and the
Queen was pleased to express her entire approval
and admiration of it. The statue, which is of
marble, represents the Prince Consort in the High-
land dress, with a rifle in the left hand—the right
resting on the head of a favourite dog.

Upon the pedestal is the following inscription,
selected by her Majesty:—" Albert, Prince Con-
sort, 1861; his life sprang from a deep inner eym.
pathy with God's will; and, therefore, with all
that is true, and beautiful, and right."
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena and
Princess Louise, and attended by Lady Churchill,
drove yesterday to Alt-na-Guithasach, and returned
in the evening.

BALMORAL, Oct. 19.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena,
and attended by Lady A. Bruce and Lord C. Fitz-
roy, attended Divine service in the parish church of
Crathie yesterday afternoon. The Rev. A. Ander-
son officiated.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

SANDRINGHAM, Oct. 20.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Royal
Highness Prince Christian of Denmark, with Cap-
tain Grey, Captain Castencbjold, Dr. Holtzman,
and Colonel Cifton, have been out shooting this
morning.

The Princess of Wales, the Princess Christian,
and the Princess Dagmar walked in the grounds
this morning.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
attended by Colonel Clifton, is expected to leave Sandring-
ham, Norfolk, after visiting their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales, on Thuzaday next.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary, attended by Colonel Home
Purves and Lady Geraldine Somerset, have arrived from
Paris, in which capital they made a few days' stay on their
way home from Rumpenheim, near Frankfort.
Prince Gortachakoff has arrived et the Alexandra
Hotel (late Wallace's), from St. Petersburg.
His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and
the Countess Bernstorff and family arrived at Prussia
House, Carlton House-terrace, on Monday, from Brighton.
The Duke of Leinster arrived at his residence on
Carlton House-terrace on Monday, from visiting Sir Edward
Baker at his seat near Blandford.

His Excellency the Bavarian Minister and
Baroness de Cetto arrived at the Bavarian Legation at
Hill-street, Berkeley-square, yesterday, from Brighton.
The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland and the
Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, arrived in town last
evening from Cliefden Park, near Maidenhead.

The Duchess de Sotomayer and family have left
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Madrid.
The Earl of Chesterfield arrived in town on Mon-
day from Newmarket. The countess has gone to Bretby
Park, near Burton-on-Trent.
Count d'Haussonvilla has arrived at the Claren-
don Hotel from Paris.

Lord and Lady Bagot are expected to arrive in
town from the Continent in the course of the week, on their
way to Blithfield Park, Staffordshire, for the winter.
Baron and Baroness Von der Heydt have left
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square.

Colonel the Hon. Henry Byng, second son of the
Earl of Strafford, was married a few days since, at St.
Katherine's Church, Savernake Forest, Marlborough, to tho
Countess Henrietta Danneskiold-Samsoe, eldest daughter
of his Excellency Count Christian Danneskiold-Ssmsee.
The ceremony was performed by the Hon. and Rev. F.
Byng, the brother of the bridegroom, assisted by the Rev.
Plater Browne.

DEATH OF MR. J, H. LANGSTON, M.P.—Mr.
James Hangliton Langston, one of the members for
the city of Oxford, died at Sarsden on Monday. Mr.
Langston, in his early career, became an unflinching Li-
beral, and was a strenuous supporter of the ballot. The
vacancy thus caused in the representation of Oxford will,
it is anticipated, bring several gentlemen into the field,
Mr. Fletcher, of the Reform Club, and Mr. Cartwright, of
Aynhoe, being amongst those who have been announced as
candidates. Mr. A. Peel, the rejected of Coventry, has
also been named.

MR MACLISE'S GREAT PICTURES, " The Interview
between Wellington and Blucher after Waterloo,"
and " The Death of Nelson."—lt has been the custom
(on the occasions of the opening of Parliament by
the Sovereign), to have a double range of seats fitted
up for the accommodation of persons witnessing the cere-
mony. These seats are kept in store ready to be framed for
use. They are so inconsiderately constructed that the backs
of the sitters hide, if they do not even touch, the surface of
the pictures upon the walls. It is obvious that there is
great risk of damage being done to the works upon which
Mr. Maclise has spent some of the best years of his life, to
a result wholly admirable. These pictures, moreover, were
intended to form, so to say, integral parts of the ceremonials,
as the scene of which the Royal Gallery itself was especially
designed. It is surely desirable that the works should be
delivered from even the chance of damage, and that they
should be seen as they were intended to be seen. We are
quite sure that the responsible authorities need only to be
informed on the subject to induce them to take steps to the
desired end. If the authority of the late Prince Con sort is
needed in the matter, let us say that it may be found in tho
shape of a sketch, made with pencil by his own hand upon
the framework of mouldings surrounding the picture first
named above. This sketch shows an arrangement sug-
gested for the purpose of his Itoyal Highness. In order to
preserve the sketch it has been covered with water-glass,
so that it will remain safe from injury, unless Sir C. Barry's
extraordinary expedient of painting the solid stonework be
repeated.—Agtenaum.

A CONGRESS OF VITICULTURISTS is proposed to
be held very shortly at Paris, to find a solution to
the vexed question that has for so many centuries given
rise to endless discussions among our neighbours on the
other side of the Chaunel—" Which is the best wine pro-
duced in France ?" It is added that three illustrious
orators will speak on the occasion. The announcement is
now going the rounds of the French journals, but we con-
fess oar inability to discover whether it is seriously meant,
or intended only as a gentle persiflage of the existing rage
for holding congresses that pervades the Continent at the
present day, and of which we have lately witnessed so
many examples, from the culminating congress of sove-
reigns at Frankfort down to the congress of working men
held at Leipsic the other day. As many people prefer
claret, Burgundy has its supporters, and there is no lack
of people who lean towards champagne. It appears to us
simply a matter of taste, and, as such, precluded from
serious competition with each other in the sense proposed
for solution by the congress,—Wine Trade and Resist;.

LORD DUDLEY remarked once to that genialest
of wits, Sydney Smith—" You have been laughing at me
constantly, Sydney, for the last seven years; and yet in
all that time you never said a singlo thing to me that I
wished unsaid."

VOLUNTARY EIIIANCIPATION.—The work of im-
mediate emancipation, by owners voluntarily setting
their slaves free, is going forward quite extensively in.
Platte county. Yesterday N. J. Alexander, Esq., residing
near Weston, liberated eight of his negroes. His wife had
all their clothing washed out and put in order ; Mr. A. fur-
nished them with transportation and funds to meet incidental
expenses, and provisions to last them until next spring. We
fear that these negroes will never find a home such as they
had in the family of their late master and mistress. Mr.
Joseph Pence informs us that he shall do the same with his
slaves as Mr. Alexander has ; and that they are only waiting
to hear from Kansas, before taking up their line of march.
Large numbers of slaves, we learn, have bees liberated in
this manner in different parts of the county. A gentleman
informed us that some 50 had been set free and started fur
Kansas in one day.—Pla Us County 'Sentinel, Sept. 24.
GALLANT RESCUE OF A LITTLE CHILD FROM
DROWNING.--On Monday afternoon, at 20 minutes
past 2 o'clock, a child about four or five years of age, having,
through some accident, fallen into the ornamental water iu
St. James's-park, must infallibly have been drowned but for
the instant promptitude of a gentleman who happened to be
passing by. The child had sunk when this gentleman,
though upwards of sixty years of age, plunged into the
water without a moment's hesitation, and without waiting
even to take off his over-coat. Having rescued the child,
the amateur claimant upon the attention of the Royal flu-
mane Society coolly swam off again for the recovery of bid
hat i—GiQbe.