The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1863.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

censor.

NEW YORK, AUG. 12 (Morning).
The news generally is unimportant.
Military affairs are quiet.
The steamer Georgia has been wrecked.
General Lee's head-quarters are at Gordons-
ville, and his main body is on the line of the
Rapidan.
The Yew York, Herald asserts that a convention
of prominent Republicans will be held at Wash-
ington next week. The object of the meeting is
not known, but the Herald asserts that informa-
tion has reached Washington that the Confede-
rates were willing to return to the Union if
terms were offered them, and that the Republican
party is desirous to stop the war, and to avoid
the unpopularity of the conscription; hence a
meeting has been called.
President Lincoln has written a second letter to
Governor Seymour confirming his determination to
enforce the draft.
It is reported that Confederate General Richard-
Kin is conscripting all light-coloured negroes in
West Tennessee to serve as soldiers for three years,
at the expiration of which they will receive their
freedom, but no pay.
Mr. C. B. Sedgewich, late chairman of the Con-
gressional Naval Committee, has written a letter,

stating that Mr. Howard, of New York, came to him
in July, 1860, saying that he came at the instance
of Messrs. Laird to make proposals to the Navy
Department. Mr. Sedgewick referred him to the
Secretary of the Navy, who declined entering into
negotiations. Mr. Howard was either Mr. Laird's
agent, or a volunteer expecting a commission, but
was not an agent of the Navy Department.
Tim New York Herald states that several Cabinet
meetings have been held at Washington at Which
the Mexican question was discussed.
It was decided to demand from France the entire
abandonment of the monarchical scheme.

The China, S3zonia, and the Glasgow have

arrived out.

The Confederate pickets extend along the South
bank of the Rappahannock, though the Federal

cavalry occasionally scour the country as far as the
lower fords of the Rapidan. Stafford Court House
and Acquia Creek are within the Federal lines.
It is reported that 8,000 Federal reinforcements
arrived at Charleston on the Ist inst., and would
land on the south end of Folly Island.

General Bragg is at Chattanooga. Part of his
army is at Rome, Georgia.

It is rumoured that Bishop Polk has superseded

General Bragg.

Daring General Foster's reconnaissance up the
James River his vessels were fired at by artillery
and sharpshooters stationed along the banks. A
torpedo exploded under one of the vessels, doing
considerable damage,

Admiral Farragut has arrived at New York in
the steamer Hartford.

A battle is imminent at Fort Blant, Indian ter

ritory.
Governor Seymour has addressed another letter
to President Lincoln, reasserting that there was in-
justice and fraud in the enrolment, and furnishing
statistics proving that more persons were enrolled
in the Democratic than in the Rupublican districts.
Governor Seymour says he is sure that the Presi-
dent cannot fail to right these gross wrongs.
The Kentucky Democratic press asserts that the
election in lisntucky was carried by military au-
thority.
President Davis has rescinded the furlough
granted to the prisoners captured and paroled at
Vicksburg.
The Governor of Alabama has called a special
session of the Legislature.
The Eichmond Enqutrer announces the military
appointments marle by President Davis, end says:
"'The spirit of resistance to the North is as strong
as ever, but the Southern people Are weary Of the

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AMERICA.
QUEENS'TOWN, AUG. 21.
The royal mail steamer Scotia, from New York
on the 12th inst., arrived here at 7 a.m, She
brings 116 passengers, and 696,000 dollars in specie.
She landed all mails and 17 passengers, and pro-
ceeded immediately, all well. She made the pas-
sage in 8 days 16 hours.
NEW YORK, AUG. 10, Evening.
(Per the Scotia.)

It is reported that General Meade has twice
tendered his resignation, and now insists upon its
acceptance. General Grant is spoken of as his suc-

The Army of the Potomac is to be reorganized.
drafted men and substitutes are now reinforcing it.
The Federals have arrested all the inhabi-
tants North of the Rippahannock as far cs
Belle Plaine. They have occupied Beverley Ford.
Mosby's guerillas are still committing depreda-
tions between Alexandria and Fairfax.
It was reported that the land and naval forces
would attack Fort Sumter on the Bth inst.
A Federal force has marched down the centre of
Arkansas. Other forces are preparing to clear the
territory west of the Mississippi of the organized
Confederate forces.
General Foster has made a reconnaisance with
three gunboats up James River.
The Secretary-of-War has ordered three Confede-
rate prisoners to be confined and held as hostages
for three negroes captured on board the steamer
Isaac Smith whom the Confederates refuse to ex-

change.
The Governor of New York has written to Presi-
dent Lincoln, complaining of the injustice done to
the State by the mode of enrolment, and asking for
a suspension of the draft until the errors are cor-
rected. He urges 'volunteering to be substituted
for the draft, and claims that by the Constitution
the Conscription Act should be tested in the
State Courts. President Lincoln replied that
the draft must be enforced, but that the
districts where there is an irregularity could be re-
enrolled. The President does not object to submit
the constitutionality of the Conscription Act to the
decision of the Courts, but cannot consent to lose

time while obtaining judgment :—" As the enemy
is driving every man into his ranks, very much as a
butcher drives bullocks into his slaughter-pen, thus
producing an army which will soon turn upon the
victorious Federals, if not sustained by recruits, the
volunteer system is so far exhausted as to be
inadcquate.''

The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald asserts that reports had reached Washing-
ton that Mr. Cassius M. Clay had entered into an
offensive and defensive treaty with Russia, assuring
to that Power that, in the event of the Western
Powers declaring war against her, the United States
would declare war against France and England.
Blockade running at Wilmington is said to be
carried on to an enormous extent at present.
The steamer Georgia, from New York to Liver-
pool, ran ashore on the 4th inst. in a fog, on the
north-east bar, Sable Island. It is supposed that
she will be a total wreck. The passengers and
luggage were saved.

The mail steamer China was interrupted off Cape
Race on the Bth inst.