The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-18 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

specie.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
(Per the City of New York.)

NEW YORK, AUG. 7 (Morning).
It is reported from New Orleans that a French
steamer had arrived on the Bth, at Vera Crnz, with
en English schooner in tow. The schooner was
captured at Rio Graudo with a cargo of arms. She
had cleared from Liverpool for Matamoras.

NEW YORK, AUG. 8 (Morning).
Gilmore's heavy batteries are expected to open
fire from Morris Island on Fort Sumter in a few
days. The steamer Ironsides is within 500 yards
of Fort Sumter.
General Meade's pickets extend two miles and a
half beyond the south bank of the Rappahannock.
The railroad bridge across the river at Rappahan-
nock station has been rebuilt.
In consequence of guerillas, the 'snifflers' wag-
gons from Washington to General Meade's army
are accompanied by armed escorts.
News has been received from New Orleans to the
31st ult. The Union Association had passed a
resolution opposing the organisation of a State Go-
vernment under the constitution in force prior to
secession, and opposing any new constitution recog-
nising slavery. The New York, Herald says that
the Association is formed principally of office-
seekers.

Yazoo city has been stripped in consequence of
the hostile attitude of the people. Quantities of
merchandise and furniture and numbers of negroes
have been carried away.
No cotton has arrived at New Orleans since the
fall of Port Hodson.
It is simi-officially announced that the article
published lately in the Washington Republican, re-
presenting war with England as imminent, was not
authorised by the Government, nor made up with
any knowledge of its views.
President Davis has issued an address to the

Confederate army, in which he says—" After two
years of warfare the enemy continues a struggle, in
which our final triumph must be inevitable.
Unduly elated with recent success, he imagines that
temporary reverses can quell your spirit or shake
your determination,
and now gathers heavy masses

together for a general invasion, vainly hoping that
by desperate efforts success may be reached. You
know 'what tha enemy means by success.
His malignant rage aims at nothing less
than the extermination of yourselves, your
wives, and children, to destroy %what he cannot
plunder, to partition our homes as the spoils of
victory,
on
means,scieu s of
to incite servile insurrection, and to de-
bauch an inferior race hitherto contented, by pro-
mising the indulgence of the vilest passions as the
price of treachery,
to
prevail by legitimate
make peace lest they should be burled from power,
the men now ruling in Washington refuse even to
confer on the subject of ending outrages disgracing
and the
notir inabilitybearing
the age, or listen to any suggestion for conducting
the war according to civilised usages. No alterna-
tive is left you but victory or subjugation
and the utter ruin of yourselves, your families,
and your country; victory is within your
grasp, you need but stretch forth your
hands to grasp it. All that is necessary is that all
should promptly repair to military duty, and I now
grant a general pardon and amnesty to all officers
and men within the Confederacy who may be absent
without leave and who shall, without delay, return
,
to their duty; but no excuse will be received for
any delay beyond twenty days after this pro-
clamation." President Davis finally conjures
the Confederacy to use their in.
all the women of
fluence in aiding this call, and to take care that
y
none who owe
dut in the field shall be sheltered

at home.
The Confederate Secretary of the Treasury has
written a letter stating that, as the fall
purchased is Mississippi and
Vicksburg
the
of Port
exposes to the enemy
planters will probably leave their
Hudson and
The military authorities
plantations.
when there is imminent danger of
will, there.
Louisiana,G ov ern men
many
any cotton
destroy all cotton they cannot pre.
fore, he says,
The cotton
serve from the enemywill be de.
stroyed only
the evening
capturing it.

NEW YORK, AUG.
The siege of Charleston was progressing on the

4th inst.
Theßaltimore
correspondent of the New York
Heraldd saysthat
the middle of August General
be reinforced to number 150,000
men with 300
Lee's army will
pieces of artillery ; and if by that
time Meade
has not advanced, Lee will assume the
offensive, and
lexandr a by
move from Fredericksburg direct on
eb y
way of Banks' Ford, Dumfries, and
Ai
° or else by Way of Alanassas Junction,
Centreville,c
and Fairfax to Harlington Heights.
papers state that General Meade
The Richmond
by 15,000 men from Grant's
has been reinforced
cclua n

appealed (as will be seen
army.
above)Pre President
oeanbt
absent officers has
sa
and soldiers to return im-
mediately to camp. .

army is at Enterprize and Brandon,
M
General Johnston has visited and in-
spected ijssihsns isPtt Johnston's
: Mobile
There is said to be much suffering among the
people
Middle Tennessee.
'lb ;isine Democratic State Convention has
passed oestrong resolutions denouncing the course of
the Lincoln Administration.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, AUG. 7, EVENING.
Money easy. Gold, 27 per cent. pm. Exchange
on London, bankers' bills, 1391.
Stocks depressed. New York Centrals, 129;
Illinois, 1191; Erie, 1051 ; Five per Cent. United
States Bonds, 104,
Cotton, good inquiry. Middling upland, 67c.
Flour dull. Wheat depressed. Corn tending
downwards. Provisions dull. Coffee quiet. Sugar
advancing. Molasses steady. Crude petroleum in
good demand at 34 to 35.

CONGRESS AT FRANKFORT.
FRANKFORT-ON-MAINE, AUG. 18.
At the banquet to the German Princes yesterday
evening the Burgomaster of Frankfort proposed as
a toast the Princes and Free Towns of Germany,
The Emperor of Austria replied in the following
terms

" I take this opportunity of thanking the Senate
and citizens, in the name of the Princes assembled,
for the hospitable reception extended to us. I think
we cannot display our gratitude to patriotically dis-
posed citizens in a more worthy manner than by
testifying, as Princes, that we are all united iu
hearty love to our common Fatherland. We are
all further united iu best wishes for this memorable
gut joyfqily drink ,

QUEENSTOWN, AUG. 18.
The Inman steamer, City of New York, which
arrived here this morning, brings 454,172 dols. in

with me to Frankfort's welfare and prosperity.
May Frankfort prosper !"

FRANKFORT, AUG.

The sitting of the Congress of German Princes
commenced at 11 o'clock this morning under the
presidency of the Emperor. His Majesty is said
to have spoken at great length. The King of
Bavaria will reply. There will be no sitting to-
morrow, on account of the Emperor's birthday.
Time will, therefore, be afforded to the Sovereigns
to examine the Austrian project with their Mini-
sters before deciding upon its merits.
According to the Europa, Princ© Richard
'Metternich, Count Appony, and other Austrian
diplomatists, have come to Frankfort to discuss
European questions, notably the affairs of Poland
and the German difference with Denmark.

Lord Clarendon, Earl Granville, and the Duke
of Cambridge have had interviews with the Em-
peror, and paid frequent visits to the different
Princes and German Ministers.

It is believed the Emperor will remain another
week in Frankfort.

COLLECTIVE INVITATION TO THE
RING OF PRUSSIA.
FRANKFORT-ON-MAINE, AUG. 18.
The statement that a collective invitation to attend
the Congress will be addressed by the German
Princes to the King of Prussia is confirmed.
The King of Saxony will personally convey the
invitation to his Majesty.

RUSSIA.
DISPOSITION OF TROOPS IN THE EVENT OF
WAR.

BERLIN, AUG. 18.
Letters received from St. Petersburg state that
the Invalids Busse says, in case of war being de-
clared, the Ist Division of Grenadiers with the Ist
Brigade of Artillery would be placed under the
orders of the commander of the troops stationed in
Finland.
The 10th Infantry Division and the 10th Brigade
of Artillery would be at the disposal of the com.
mandant of the 2d Reserve Corps.
The 6th Cavalry Division and the 6th Brigade of
Mounted Artillery would b 3 placed at the orders of
the!commandant of the Ist Reserve.