The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-22 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING.
The Wellesley, Capt. Smith, 86 days from Mel-
bourne, with 32,7900 z. of gold, 72,000 sovereigns,
&e., was off Portland on Tuesday, under all sail,
with a moderate wind from W.S.W. Among her
96 passengers are Major Brintley, and Captains
Gilson, Newman, and Rasmussen.

FRANCE.
PARIS, OCT. 22.

BOURSE, Oct. 21,—The market continues heavy,
and prices are again lower—Threes having de-
clined to 67f. Railway Shares are also lower.
The market closed as follows :
It per Cent 5....... 95 90
Do. end month....
3 per Cents ...... 66
Do. end month.... G 7 05
Credit Mobilier....lll2 50
Do. end m0nth....1113 75
Bank Shares ...... 3370
Credit loncier ....1245
Italian L0an....., 73 30
RAIL'

I Do. end month 73 3b
I New ditto . 73
Do. end month. • —
Russian —
Austrian B5
Spanish Threes 53
Rome Debt
Deferred
Roman -
PAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 975 .. 975
Northern 9BO .. 981 25
Lyons and Mediterranean 1013 75 .. 960
New ditto ........
Geneva
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 415 .. 417 50
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa . .
Ditto to Barcelona

AMERICA.

REUTER'S EXPRESS.
(Per the Glasgow.)

NEW YORK, OCT. 8.
The latest from Chattanooga is up b the 29th
ult., and represents the condition of affairs there as
unchanged, Rosencranz's position being deemed
Impregnable, and his communications open. Heavy
reinforcements are said to have reached Rosencranz,
but nothing definite is known about it outside 01
the War Department.
Accounts from General Meade's army state that
there are no indications of immediate active opera-
tions. Drafted men were arriving daily in large
numbers. Nine hundred came in on the 6th from
New York and Vermont. The Federal cavalry are
said to have scoured the Shenandoah Valley as far
down as Strasburg and Front Royal, finding no
rebel forces whatever,
A dispatch from Baltimore denies the report that
General Imboden had made a raid ou the Bellmore
and Ohio Railroad. The road is in complete
running order all the way through.
Information was received in Chicago yesterday
that General Franklin's corps was repulsed in
an attack upon the rebels at Brasher City, and
that Ord's 13th Army Corps shortly after came up
and completely defeated the rebels, No particulars
are given, but the news is said to have been offi
cially
communicated to General Sherman at
Memphis,
Charleston advises date to the 3d inst. Every-
thing Was progressing favourably. A despatch from
Admiral Dahlgren, dated 3d, has been received at
the Navy Department. The iron-clads are said to
have been engaged with the rebel batteries at latest
accounts.

It is reported by way of St. Louis that 7,000
rebels from Marmaduke's command, under Colonel
Shelby, have entered South Western Missouri from
Arkansas for raiding purposes. It is believed that
this force is intended to be the nucleus of the Mis•
souri State Guard, the organisation of which, since
the capture of Jeff. Thompson, has been placed in
the hands of Waldo P. Johnson, late U.S. senator
from Missouri.

Washington correspondence of the New York
Herald states that tremendous exertions are being
made there to secure the election of Curtin, the Re-
publican candidate, for Governor in Pennsylvania.
It is estimated that 10,000 voters will go from
Washington alone, arrangements having been made
to defray
the expenses with money collected from
Government employees. It has been decided not to
send the soldiers home to vote, as that movement
would create too ranch dissatisfaction.

The Herald states, editorially, that their Wash-
ington correspondent has given them information
of an important character, concerning propositions
Mr. Lincoln. It is not
known
of peace said to have been submitted to the conside-
rationwhat these propositions are, nor from
A,bitthtet
erlafeteel feeling whence they come.
issgaidin a speech in Marylandto exist in the Cabinet
between Secretary Chase and Postmaster-General
Blair,
r havin
been very severe upon Mr. Chase. General Blair,
brother of the Postmaster-General, delivered a
speech at St. Louis, in which he assailed the Radi-
cals in general, and Mr. Chase in particular, in
highly denunciatory terms. It is not thought,
however, that any Cabinet resignations would re-
sult from the quarrel.
The Russian officers continue to receive grew
attention. A grand ball to them i$ on the tapis.

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NEW YORK, OCT. 10.

Advices have been received at Washington from
Chattanooga up to the 6th inst. On the sth the
rebel batteries opened on Rosencranz' position at
long range, the longest being three miles and the
shortest two and seven-tenth miles. No damage
was done. There is no official confirmation of the
report that two of Rosencranz' pontoon bridges had
been carried away. Telegraphic communication be-
tween Nashville and Stevenson has been restored-
The Washington Republican contains the following
despatch from General Bogencranz' hecd-quarters,

dated the 6th inst., says :—" Not a man was injured
by the rebel batteries yesterday." The .Republican's
extra says :—" Other despatches go to show the
impregnable situation of Rosencranz. It is ascer-
tained that none of General Rosencranz' latest de-
spatches mention anything relative to the situation
in the locality of Chattanooga, all of them referring
entirely to military details. Other despatches, how-
ever, recently received ,by the Government, speak
of events in that quarter, and are from General
Meigs." _ _ _

A special despatch to the St. Louis Democrat,
dated Vicksburg, Sept. 30, says Joe Johnston was
at Canton, Mississippi, with 15,000 troops, his
supposed design being to prevent reinforcements
going to Rosencranz. Gen. Stephen D. Lee had
4,000 rebel cavalry near Vicksburg. Johnston says
their victories are useless unless they crush Rosen-
cranz before reinforcements reach him.

The Memphis-Atalanta Appeal says :—" We shall
now be recognised. Our securities will rise—Val-
landigham will be elected."

It was rumoured in Nashville on the Bth inst.
that a force of rebel cavalry had captured and
destroyed Shelbyville, Tenn. No particulars have
been received. The report was discredited. It is
thought that the rebel cavalry have divided, part
making towards Kentucky to harass Barnside's line
of supplies, and part going south against Rosen-
cran z.

A correspondent of the New York World at Nash-
ville, under date of sth inst., says that the reported
capture of M'Minnville by the rebels has caused
great apprehension of an attack upon Murfriesboro',
and that several hundred persons have fled from
that place to Nashville. The total number of
wounded sent to Nashvill from Chickamauga
battle-field is 5,125. Reinforceinents were being
rapidly sent forward. The prospect of a great
battle was hourly growing stronger.
The Richmond Enquirer of the Bth inst. contains
the following :
MISSIONARY RIDGE, OCT. 5.

We opened upon Chattanooga at 1 a.m. from
Lookout Mountain, and points along our lines. One
shell exploded in the enemy's camps, as well as in
the city, setting fire to one house. The enemy re-
plied briskly from Mocassin Point, and feeby from
Star Fort. The firing still continues.

OCT. 8.

The Tennessee River is rapidly rising. It has
already swept away the lower pontoon bridge of
the enemy, and submerged the trestle bridge.
Major Mitchell, Chief Quartermaster of General
Longstreet's corps, died last night. No firing on
either side at 11 o'clock to•day.

A special despatch from Leavenworth, Kansas,
received at St. Louis, Oct. 9, says that intelligence
having reached Fort Scott of a threasened attack
on Fort Smith, General Blunt left the former for
the latter post. On Sunday last the rebel General
Cobell, with about 10,000 of Cooper's forces, crossed
the Arkansas River east of Fort Smith, and on the
10th joined Caffee at Crooker Prairie, Mo., deter-
mined to make a raid into Arkansas or Missouri.
On receipt of this information, all the cavalry in the
Kansas district and a battery were sent to Fort
Scott.

A letter from Fort Scott of the 7th says Lieut.
Tapper, of Gen. Blunt's staff, had arrived. He re-
ports that all the staff and body guard of General
Blunt had been captured; also the command under
Lieut. Pond, at Baxter Spring. Gen. Blunt had
got 10 miles away, but it was uncertain whether
he has escaped.

The rebel army under Quantrel, Hunter, and
Gordon was moving towards Fort Scott. That port
is in no danger of being taken, the force there being
strong enough to resist the attack.

The New York World states that an engagement
took place on September 29, at Morgan's bend, 25
miles above Port Hudson, between Gen. Herron's
division and a large Confederate force, in which the
Federals were defeated, losing several hundred
killed and wounded and 1,500 prisoners. The Texas
expedition still " hung fire," and the guerilla bands
on the banks of the Mississippi have been replaced
by large bodies of rebel troops, rendering uninter-
rupted navigation of the river very doubtful.
A report has reached Louisville that Gen. Crook's
brigade overtook several regiments of Wharton's
rebel cavalry near Franklin, and routed them, kill-
ing 125, and capturing 300 prisoners and four pieces
of cannon. Union forces were still pursuing.
News from Charleston is unimportant. There
was some firing on the sth inst. between Federal
batteries and rebel works on James Island_

The following telegrams are in the Richmond
papers of the Bch

" CHARLESTON, Oct. 6.—An attack was made by
us to-day on the frigate Ironsides, damaging the
Ironsides and alarming the fleet. Two of our men,
including Lieut. Gasset, of the Chiavra, are missing.

" CHARLESTON, Oct. 6, p.m.—For the last
24 hours there has been but little firing. The
enemy's works on Morris Island seem nearly com-
pleted.

" MOBILE, Oct. 6.—Enemy's cavalry, 1,.500, with
four guns, attacked Col. Richardson, near New
Albany, yesterday. Engagement, artillery. Enemy
repulsed.
" SAVANNAH, GA,, Oct. 7.—Election returns
show Governor Brown largely ahead."
The Government at Washington has received no
intelligence of the reported battle at Brasher City.
The War Department has stated, in reply to
several inquiries, that no further draft is to be
made at present.

The report of the Peace Proposition is said to
be a canard.

The Richmond Examiner has the following on

peace propositions :

" We notice that recent propositions have been
made in several of our State Legislatures for nego-
tiations with the enemy and suits for armistice.
These deserve unqualified condemnation. They are
generally made in artful language; they are very
innocent on their face; they are always accompa-
nied by certain protestations that the interest of the
South is not to be sacrificed that the negotiation
is to be an essay on Christian charity, and the ob-
ject an honourable' peace. There is no possible
truth in such protestations. They are convenient
covers of traitorous designs, or of cowardly ac-
quiesence in the failure of our struggle. It is not
wonderful that if these suggestions in our State
Legislatures of pacific negotiations should he in-
variably interpreted by the North to cover proposi-
tions of reconstruction. To every candid mind in
the Confederacy they can moan nothing else. Those
who desire a suggestion of peace to be made now to
the South know very well what its price would be.
We congratulate the Legislature of this State on
the signal rebuke it has given to two attempts at
peace propositions in that' body. It has shown a
spirit worthy of the ancient and honourable com-
monwealth of Virginia, and one that should bo in-
culcated in the war. It is that of resolution to pro-
secute the war without being turned aside by use-
less and impatient speculations of peace—expecting
that blessing only in the sustained and increased
success of our arms, and awaiting it with calm and
intelligent confidence in the progress of events."
The New York journals of this morning take a
gloomy view of the situation. The 'World says:—
" The news of the few last days from Tennessee and
Northern Georgia is calculated to excite no little

apprehension for the safety of General Rosencranz
throughout the North. We are favoured, as usual,
with the most assuring despatches from Washing-
ton, but the. Administration withholds all the facts,
and merely prophecies smooth things.' No reliance
is to be placed upon what comes from the War
Department. General Rosencranz has only his own
army with which to confront Bragg. He will doubt-
less be able to hold out until Hooker and Sherman
arrive, but there will be no little anxiety respecting
his situation until more definite information is re-
ceived from him."

The New York Times, on the same subject, says :
—" The telegraphic despatches concerning affairs
at Chattanooga indicate that the military situation
in that quarter is imminently critical. We do not
say it is perilous to Gen. Rosencranz, for we imagine
that officer new holds his position so stoutly, and
has such a largely augmented army, that, in the
event of another battle, the chances are greatly in
favour of his achieving a decisive victory over the
army of Bragg and Longstreet ; but appearances
certainly indicate that the peace which has pre-
vailed on the Tennessee since the 20th of Sep-
tember is likely soon to be broken, and that the
thunder of war which crashed and rolled along the
mountain ranges of Upper Georgia three weeks
ago will burst forth again before many days."
The same journal adds :—" We could wish it was
Rosencranz, instead of Bragg, who was giving signs
of offering battle."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, OCt. 9.

BREADSTUFFS—FIour—SaIes, 20,000 bls, at sdol 10c to
sdol 40c for superfine, sdol 60c to sdol 75c for shipping extra
state, sdol 80c to sdol 90c for choice do., sdol 65c to 6dol for
low grades Western extra, and 6dol 10c to Bdol 50c for
medium to choice grades Western extras. Southern flour,
6dol 15c to 6dol 90c for superfine, 7dol to 7dol 75c for fancy
and extra, Bdol 10c to 9dol 26c for choice shipping and
family brands. Canada flour, sdol 75c to idol 50c. Wheat
in demand, and 2c or 3c higher.
COTTON firm and active. 2,000 bales sold at 89c to 90c
for middlings.
COFFEE is unchanged.
GUNNY CLOTH—Sales, 400 bales, at 131 c.

TOBACCO—Kentucky, in hhds, 14dol; seed leaf, 191101
43c.

Sucun--Cuba, Hie; Manilla, 121 e. Refined quiet at
16c.

TIN-Pig firm, at 44}c; Banca, 54c; small lots Eastern,
at 43c.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.

The North German Lloyds' steamer America,
Capt. Wessels, from New York, Oct. 10, has arrived
off Cowes. She brings 133 passengers, 841,558 dols.
for England, 79,600 dols. for France, and 600 for
Bremen.

She spoke, Oct. 11, the Bremen barque Marco
Polo, in lat. 40 deg. 42 min., and 69 deg. 3 min. W.
long., westward bound. October 12, the Bremen
steamer Bremen, at 6.30 a.m., in 41 deg. 5 min.
lat., and 65 deg. 55 min. W. long., westward bound.
Oct. 20, the American ship Compromise, in 49 deg.
43 min. lat., cnd 11 deg. 43 min. W. long., east-
ward bound ; and the English ship Catherine,
southward bound.

QUEENSTOWN, OCT. 22.

The Inman steamer City of Manchester, from
New York on the 10th inst., arrived here at 5 a.m.
to-day. She brings 117 passengers, and 1,402,856
dole. in specie.