The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-04 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The Royal Mail Steamship Asia, Captain Shan-
non, from Boston on the 22d, and Halifax o❑ the
24th ultimo, arrived in the Mersey shortly before
10 o'clock yesterday morning. She brings 130
passengers, and 212,351 dollars in specie.
The New York papers received by her are no
later than those by the Great Eastern, but we have
Boston papers of the 22d ultimo.

A Washington telegram gives the particulars of
the surrender of Port Hudson thus. It appears that
General Gardner, on the 7th ult., asked General
Banks by letter whether Vicksburg had surren-
der2d. G,neral Banks replied, enclosing a despatch
from General Grant,

Port Hwfeou, July B.—General,—l have the
honour to acknowledge the receipt of your commu-
nication from Major General Grant, United States,
America, announcing the surrender of the garrison
of Vicksburg. Having defended this position as
long as I deem my duty requires I am willing to
su►render to you, .7.nd will appoint a commission of
three officers to meet a similar commission appointed
by yourself, at nine o'c:ock this morning, for the
purpose of agreeing upon and drawing up the terms
of surrender, and for that purpose I ask for the ces-
sation of hostilities. Will you please designate a
point outside of my breastworks where the meeting
shall be held for this purpose ? I am, very respect-
fully, your obedient servant,
FRANK GARDNER, Commanding
Confederate Forces.
To Major-General Banks, Commanding United
States Forces.

Headquarters, U.S. Forces, before Port
Hudson, July 8, 1863.

General,—l have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your communication of this date, stating
that you are willing to surrender to the forces under
my command the garrison under your command,
and that you will appoint a commission of three
officers to meet a similar commission appointed by
me at 9 o'clock a.m., for the purpose of agreeing
upon and drawing up the terms of surrender. In
reply, I have the honour to state that I have desig-
nated Brigadier-Gen. C. P. Stone, Col. H. W. Berge,
and Lieut.-Col. R. B. Irwin, as the officers to meet
the commission appointed by you. They will meet
your officers at the hour designated, and at a point
where the flag of truce was received this morcing.
I will direct that active hostilities shall entirely
cease on my part until further notice for the purpose
stated.—Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
N. P. BANKS, Major-General Commanding.
To Major-General Frank Gardner, Commanding
Confederate Forees, Port Hudson.

The following are the articles of capitulation of
the garrison of Port Hudson, as published by the
New York journals :
Article 1. Major-General Frank Gardner sur-
renders to the United States forces under Major.
General Banks, the place of Port Hudson, with its
dependencies, with its garrison,armament, material
of war, in the condition, as nearly as may be, in
which they were at the hour of cessation of hostili-
ties—viz., 6 a.m., July 8, 1863.

Article 2. The surrender stipulated in Article 1
is qualified by no conditions, save that the officers
and enlisted men comprising the garrison shall re-
ceive the treatment due to prisoners of war, accord-
ing to the usages of civilised warfare.

Article 3. All private property of officers and
enlisted men shall be inspected and left to their re-
spective owners.
Article 4. The position of Port Hudson shall be
occupied to-morrow at 7 a.m. by the forces of the
United States, and its garrison received as prisoners
of war by such general officers of the United States
as may be designated by Major-General Banks,
with the ordinary formalities of rendition. The
Confederate troops will be drawn up in line, officers
in their positions, the right of the line resting on
the edge of the prairie south of the railroad depot,
the left extending in the direction of the village of
Port Hudson. The arms and colours will be piled
conveniently, and will be received by the officers of
the United States.

Article 5. The sick and wounded of the garrison
to be cared for by the authorities of the United
States, assisted if desired by either party of the me-
dical officers of the garrison.
The following despatch has been received from
Admiral Porter announcing the capture of Yazoo
city ;

U.S. Mississippi Squadron, flag ship Black
Hawk, off Vicksburg, Jaly 14.

To Hon. G. Welles—Sir,—Hearing that Johnston
was fortifying Yazoo City with heavy guns, and
gathering troops there for the purpose of obtaining
supplies for his army ; also that the remainder of
the enemy's best transports were there, showing a
possibility of his attempting to escape, Major-Gen.
Grant and myself determined to send a naval and
military expedition up there to capture them.
The Baron de Kalb, New National, Henwood,
and Signal were despatched, under command of
Lieut. Walker, with a force of troops numbering
5,000, under Gen. Herron.
Pushing up to the city, the de Kalb engaged the
batteries, which were all prepared to receive her,
and after finding out their strength dropped back
to notify Gen. Herron, who immediately landed his
men, and the army and navy made a combined at-
tack on the enemy's works.
The rebels soon fled, leaving everything in our
possession, and set fire to four of their best steamers
that ran on the Mississippi rive:•. The army pur-
sued the enemy and captured their rear guard 260
men, and at last accounts were taking more pri-
soners. Six heavy guns and a vessel, formerly a
gunboat, fell into our hands, and all the munitions
of war.

Unfortunately while the Baron do Kalb was
moving slowly along she ran foul of a torpedo, which
exploded and sank her. There was no sign of any
thing of the kind to be seen.
While she was sinking another exploded under
her stern. The water in the Yazoo is rising rapidly,
and we can do nothing more than get the guns out
of her, and then get her into deep water, where she
will be undisturbed until we are able to raise her.
The ()facers and men lost every thing.—l have the
honour to be, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, D. D. PORTER,

Acting Rear-Admiral commanding
Mississippi Squadron.
The fnt eiving, remarks upon the fall of Port
Hudson are flora a Southern paper, the Montgomery
Mail :

The surrender of the garrison at Port Hudson was not
unexpected, and
will Cans e nothing like the same depression
in the Confederacy ,
net: fall of Vicksburg, though in point
of resistance to the enemy it has borne a part no less credit-
theab for gallantry and eng
fall of the two places Zaaste* Under the circumstances,
inseparably connected, and it
would have been little short c
a miracle if Port Hudson
had been abl
Vick withstand the
portonutlm 3d, and a despatch
Vicksburg. sburg stiptuaterge long after the fall of
of yesterday informs us that
ild.Boll surrendered on
it seemed to be the Bth. Up to the fall of Vicksbujigen
ad-
mitted, even by the Yankees, that
BuwOrleaos, which
gallant little garrison had badly worateedratl Gardner and his
force he could rake and scrape about New Gar
wig all the
no doubt exceeded ours two to one.
point to Port
Vicksburg, which gave the enemy the advantage the o thefafll of
Mississippi to transport his troops from thatanct.age
Hudson, the reduction of the latter place in a very
followed as a matter of course, and no intellit3:enfetw days
acquainted with the situation could have expected any Person
result. Port Hudson is situated on the east bank of the
sissippi, in Louisiana, 15J miles from New Orleans, and 2do
from Vicksburg by the course of the river, and is distant 138
miles south-west of Jackson by land. It is, therefore, easy
to see that no succour from our forces was possible, with-
out almost the certainty of capture by the enemy, who could
throw his immense army in a very short time at any point
on the river, and thus there was no alternative left, after
the facts became known at Port Hudson, but to surrender
with as little loss of life as possible.
Another Southern paper, the Atlanta Appeal,
thus refers to the fall of Vicksburg :
The most disastrous intelligence of the I%a:etc was the
announcement that Vicksburg- had fallen. To those who
were posted as to the true situation of affairs in that vicinity
this was not unexpected. We have raason to believe such
a result was anticipated by the authorities at Richmond
days before it was announced. The repeated calls of Gene-
ral Johnston for help, in the way of men, munitions, and
supplies, were, for some cause, disregarded ; and those who
were acquainted with his true condition, as the authorities
should have been, and others who enjoyed no official chan-
nels of obtaining information could have anticipated no
other conclusion. From prudental motives of doubtful pro-
priety the discouraging facts were suppressed, while such
as could be tortured into encouragement were mcgnificd.

The public disappointment, therefore, is greater than the
true situation warrants. In the future, however, we shall
deprecate and endeavour to disappoint, as far as rossible,
all attempts to mislead our own people. We ,elieve them
equal to any emergency, and if their zeal canl ,t be relied
upon, even under adversity, to save the ca • , 611 is lost.
In regard to the state of affairs in Ycw York, a
letter in the Boston Journal says ;
New York is quiet, but it is the quiet of an armed force.
The regiments are all under arms in their armouries, The
7th have not been allowed yet to go home. They are kept
in the:r armoury in war trim, and sleep on the floor. The
park in front of the City Hall looks warlike indeed. The
whole front is filled with Duncan's battery. Heavy rifled
cannon, with four horses to each cannon, all harnessed and
ready for action at a moment's notice, attended by men
with draw❑ sabres, ready to mount, show the preparation
for a renewed outbreak.

Nearly all the pulpits had the rioting for their theme.
Bishop Hughes's call on "the men called rioters" has
raised the American element as it has not been raised for
years. The city has placards in all parts, as has also
Brooklyn. " Sam aware," " Sam organise," and kindred
notices, which the initiated say means au American party.
A committee of the Common Council of Brooklyn agreed
to recommend an appropriation of half a million dollars to
secure exemption to drafted men having
families dependent
on them. This will cover nearly halt the quota of the city.
The supervisors will, it is understood, appropriate 200,000
dots. more.

The Common Council of Rochester, New York, passed
an ordinance voting 207,300 dols. to pay 300 dols. for each
man drawn in the city under the present draft. The money
to be paid to the conscript if he goes, and to the Govern-
ment if he does not,
Upwards of 7,000 dols. had been raised in New York for
the coloured sufferers by the late riot. Several distin-
guished legal gentlemen hail volunteered their services to
such as were despoiled of their property in prosecuting
claims for reimbursement against the city.