The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-23 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
GREENCASTLE, July 22.

The North American, from Quebec on the 11th
inst., arrived here at 4.10 p.m. She brings 5,500
dole. in specie.

(Per North American.)
NEW YORK, July 10.

The repulse of General Kilpatrick's cavalry is
confirmed, but with the additional statement that
at night.they were reinforced, and afterwards drove
the Confederates three miles. General Kilpatrick
was not killed, as reported.
General Lee is at Hagerstown receiving ammu-
nition and preparing for another conflict in Mary-
land. His front extends from Bakersville to Funk-
town, and thence three to five miles round Hagers-
town. His position is said to be stronger for de-
fence than that held by the Federals at Gettysburg.
He has sent his wounded and supplies across the
Potomac, but none of his troops. There is no
Federal force in Virginia on Lee's line of retreat.
General Meade and Couch's armies are rapidly con-
centrating in General Lee's front, and an early
engagement is expected.
The Baltimore correspondent of the New York
Herald reaffirms the statement that General Beau-
regard, with 40,000 men, has reinforced General
Lee.

The same correspondent says that on the day
following the battle at Gettysburg Lee's army
passed through Emmettsburg, and by the country
roads north of that -place, from near Gettysburg,
across South Mountain, towards Hagerstown. The
movement was made in perfect order, without haste
or confusion. General Stuart had 15,000 cavalry
at Emmettsburg.
The Baltimore American of the 7th estimates
that 9,000 or 10,000' Confederate prisoners have
been captured from Lee's army, in addition to
numerous prisoners gathered up by the Federal
cavalry, The American thinks the Confederate
loss in killed and slightly wounded cannot fall
below 12,000 or 13,000 men. It is doubtful if any
Confederate artillery was captured. The same
journal estimates the Federal losses in killed and
wounded at 12,000. General Lee paroled 3,000 pri-
soners, but this parole, under the terms of the cartel,
is said to be of no effect, as General Steele refused
to agree it, and General Lee sent the prisoners to
General Couch, who accepted the parole.
The New York Herald says that in view of the
fact that the work of putting down the rebellion
may be said to be substantially accomplished, the
question arises what policy should be pursued to
accomplish the speedy and harmonious restoration
of the Union.

The Herald recommends president Lincoln to pro-
pose an amnesty to all the Southern people except
the leaders of the rebellion, on condition of their re-
turning within a specified time to their allegiance
to the Federal Government ; and, having thus re-
stored internal peace, America would have an
opportunity upon sufficient provocations for a final
and decisive settlement with France and England
upon American affairs. The Monroe doctrine will
be certainly brought to bear in the next Presidential
election against Napoleon's Mexican intervention
and England's perfidious neutrality during the re-
bellion.

The same paper thinks now is the time for a peai.te
meeting, when the North is victorious, and urges the
New York merchants to hold a meeting aud request
President Lincoln to offer an amnesty to the Southern
people if they return to the Union. It is silly to talk
of a war of extermination. There has been enough
fighting to convice the rebels that the Union must
and shall be preserved.

The same journal also thinks that the speeches
made by the President and Cabinet members at the
late popular demonstration at Washington were not
equal to the occasion. The speeches of Mr. Stanton,
who is the smallest politician in office, and of
Halleck, his rival in imbecility and incompetency,
were characteristic of them both, Neither President
Lincoln nor Seward profited by the occasion to add
to their congratulations a few words of conciliation
or invitation to the South to return to the Union, or
to accept an amnesty. Such a course might have
failed, but it was worth trying, and if accepted it
would have been glorious to the President and to
the country. No European statesman would have
overlooked such a chance of adding a triumph of di-
plomacy to the triumph of arms, and of ending the
war without further fighting.
Mr. Lincoln endeavoured to talk without saying
anything, and Mr. Seward avowed his willingness
to shoulder a musket if necessary,although he knew
there was not the slightest possibility of his ever
being called upon to tread the war path. Such offers
in men of his age and standing, after the fighting is
over, are not sufficiently patriotic to avoid being

ludicrous.
The Herald concludes The New York mer-