The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-21 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE The injury is supposed to be extensive, and the
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[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

MEXICO.

AMERICA.
(Per the Bohemia.)
NEW YORK, OCT. 10.
Gen. Johnston is reported to be at Santon, Mis-
souri, with 15,000 men, to intercept Rosencranz's
reinforcements.
Advices from Charleston to the 6th state that
Gen. Gilmore's preparations are nearly completed.
The Confederates are operating against Forts Smith
and Scott, in Kansas. Gen. Blunt's staff have been
captured in Kansas.
Uncertain reports have been received of a defeat
of the Federals above Port Hudson, with a loss of
1,500 prisoners.
Gen. Franklin has advanced 50 miles beyond
Brashear City without meeting resistance.
Gen. Banks has ordered the conscription in
Louisiana. Negroes on the plantations will be de-
tailed for service.

PARIS, OCT. 21.

The Paris papers of to-day publish a telegram
from Saint Nazaire with intelligence from
Vera Cruz to the 18th September, stating that
according to news received from the interior of
Mexico a numerous party exists favourable to the
annexation, pure and simple, of Mexico to France.

ST. NAZAIRE, OCT. 21.
Advices received here from Vera Cruz to the
18th Sept. state that the Archbishop of Mexico had
arrived, and had met with a magnificent reception.
The national fête of the 16th was of a brilliant

character.
The blockade of all hostile Mexican ports has
been effective since the Bth of the month.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, OCT. 21.
The result of the preliminary elections is as fol-

OCT. 10 (Evening).

lowa :

Ia Berlin the old Liberal majority has been in-

The Confederates are advancing on Fort Scott
and Kansas city. It is reported the Kansas militia
will be called out.

creased.

In the provinces, as far as is known, the elections
are said to be also in favour of the former Liberal

Gen. Blunt will go to Texas, unless his forces
are weakened by the Confederate movements in
other quarters. _

majority.
The result of the election in the lowland districts

Governor Brown of Georgia, who is a secession
apholdor, is reported to be re-elected.
The Richmond Enquirer expresses the gratifi-
cation of the Confederates at having the French
for their neighbours in Mexico, and says :—" The
South would willingly make an alliance with
France to protect French and Southern interests
in America."

is not yet known.

NADAR'S BALLOON.

BREMEN, OCT. 21.

Nadar's balloon descended near Cystrup, in
Hanover. Mere were nine persons in it, of whom
three were seriously and two slightly injured.

The Richmond Examiner denounces all peace

FRANCE.
PARIS, OCT. 21.

propositions.

The Evening Post urges the Government to de-
mand from England an explanation of the conduct
of the Cape Town authorities respecting the Ala-
bama. If an explanation is not rendered, Govern-
ment would at once proceed to press its wrongs.
The Russian Admiral has accepted an invitation
to visit Boston with the squadron. Foreign Con-
suls and French and British officers are to be in-
vited to the municipal banquet to the Russians.
The steamer Jose has been seized at New York
upon suspicion of being a blockade runner.
NEW YORK, OCT. 10 (Evening),

M. Baroche has been nominated a senator.
A friend of M. Nadar has received the following

despatch ;

" We descended near Nienburg, in Hanover, at
noon on Monday. Our balloon was dragged for
several hours, the anchors having been broken—
St. Fella, my wife, and Jare, rather seriously hurt;
the others are better. We owe our lives to the
courage of Jules Godard. More detailed news to-

morrow,"

BOURSE, Oct. 20.—The market has completely
changed its tone, and Stock having been freely
offered, prices have receded. Threes, for the Ac-
count, are now at 67f. 25c. Mobilier has declined
to 1,4401. Railway Shares are also heavy, and in
some cases lower. The market continued heavy to
the close, and left off as follows :

The Federal Government has received advices
from Chattanooga, with all encouragement for the
Union cause. The Confederate cavalry had been
overtaken below Shelbyville and completely routed
with a loss of 100 killed. The Federals were in

It per Cents. 96
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 20
Credit Mobilier 1135
Do. end month 1136 25
Bank Shares 3350
Credit Fonder
Italian Loan 73 50
RAIL'

Do. end month 73 45
New ditto
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Rome Debt .. 521
Deferred
Roman
PAYS.

pursuit.
Admiral Milne has visited the Secretary of the
Navy at Washington.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, OCT. 10 (Evening).

Money easy. The large export of gold has caused
an advance of 2 per cent. in its price, being now
quoted 484 per cent. premium. Exchange on Lon-
don—bankers bills, 164. Stocks dull. New York
Centrals, 1341 ; Illinois, 126; ; Erie, 108-1 ; 6 per
Cent. United States Bonds, 107 i, Cotton steady.
Middling upland, 90c. Flour and corn advancing.
Wheat. large speculative sales. Provisions, very
firm. Coffee quiet. Sugar and molasses advanc-
ing. Petroleum very dull. Crude, 33ic. Refined,
53c.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 978 75 .. 977 50
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean 1018 75 ..
New ditto 9lB 75 .. 965
Geneva ..
Southern 695 .. 691 25
Western
Eastern .... 507 50 ..
Sardinian ..
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain . ... 542 50 .. 542 50
Saragossa 635 .. 638 75
Ditto to Barcelona

NEW YORK, OCT. 12 (Evening).

The Confederates are moving in Virginia, and a
strong Confederate force is concentrating in the
vicinity of Madison Court-house.
A Federal cavalry brigade encountered Stuart's
cavalry, while reconnoitring the Confederate posi-
tion, near Robertson's River. Au engagement
ensued. The Federals, being repulsed, retired to
Culpepper.

A Graceful Tribute to Sir Wm. Atherton,
the late Attorney-General.

The country has, for a time, lost the services of
one of its most able public servants, in the resigna-
tion of Sir William Atherton, the late Attorney-
General. We regret deeply that Sir William has
been obliged, owing to continued and serious ill
health, to take the step of giving up the labours of
his important office, and the regret is increased by
the fact that his illness has been accelerated, if not
actually induced, by his unremitting and conscien-
tious discharge of his official duties. We make this
statement on the very best information, and for the
purpose of correcting a suggestion that has been
going the round of various papers (which know
nothing of the facts, by the way), to the effect that
his withdrawal from office is due either to a mis-
understanding between himself and the Cabinet, or
to an absence of confidence on the part of his col-
leagues. We know that so far from such being the
case, nothing can exceed the regret with which all
the members of the Government, from the Premier
downwards, have received the resignation. Like
Lord Herbert of Lea, Sir William Atherton has only
laboured too incessantly and too long, and the
statements that have been made suggesting other
causes are all as untrue as they are unworthy. The
taste for writing sensational and foolish paragraphs
on subjects comparatively trifling, is bad enough ;
but, when it extends to the art of perverting the
judgment of the world in its estimfite of public men
whose sterling merits are beyond all dispute, and
whose efforts are beyond all praise, it becomes simply
an atrocity, which the better and wiser portions of
the press should promptly and resolutely condemn,
whenever and wherever they may meet with it.—
Social Science Review.

General Hill's corps has passed from the left to
die right of Meade's front, at Blue Ridge Moun-
tain, apparently to get on Meade's right and cut
the railway communication, or else as a ruse to
cover an attack upon his front.

The communication between Nashville and
Chattanooga is uninterrupted.
A combined land and naval attack upon Charles-
ton was to take place on the 11th.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money easy. The anxiety concerning the mili-
tary situation in Virginia, Tennessee, has caused
an advance in gold, which is now quoted 514 per
cent. per annum. Exchange on London, bankers'
bills, 1641 to 165 ; stocks dull. New York Cen-
trals, 135 ; Illinois, 1268 ; Erie, 1091; 6 per cent.
United States' Bonds, 1074. Cotton steady ; Mid-
dling Uphold, 90c.

(From the Correspondent of the Times.)

NEW YORK, OCT, 9, 5 p.m.

A telegram to the Richmond Enquirer from
General Bragg's army, announces that the Confede-
rates, on Missionary Ridge, shelled the position of
General Rosencrauz for several hours on the 6th
inst.

Federal accounts, via Nashville, on the 7th and
Bth, state that skirmishing was of constant occur-
rence, and that another general engagement was
considered imminent.

The Duke of Somerset and the Totnes

Electors,

A writer in the Western Morning News, signing
himself " One who delights in freedom," says :

Communication between General Rosencranz and
his base at Nashville is still interrupted, and reports
had been received at Nashville that Shelbyville,
with all the Federal troops there, had been captured
by the Confederates. _ .

I send yon herewith copies of two letters and a
copy of a notice to quit, being one of the cases of
coercion by the Duke of Somerset which you so
ably and rightly exposed a few days since :

THE DUKE OF SOMERSET'S AGENT TO MR. TURPIN
" Berry, Sept. 28, 1863.

General Bragg is said to have been heavily rein-
forced from Richmond and elsewhere, and that his
forces now number at least 175,000 men. It is also
represented that 55,000 troops, under the command
of Gen. Joe Johnson, are held as reserves.
_ .

" Mr. Edward Turpin,—l am told to-day that
you do not intend to give up possession of the house
you occupy according to the notice served on you.
Now to prevent any false impression on your mind
that you can hold on, I think it friendly to tell you
that this will not be permitted, and that unless you
do give up possession I shall proceed to compel you
to do so; and as it is not my wish to put you to
expense, which I must do if you hold on in de-
fiance of the notice, I now again tell yon that I
expect you to clear out to-morrow.—Yours truly,
" THOS. MICHELMORE."

. .
Confederate accounts from Charleston of the
6th report that on that day an attack was made
upon the Federal fleet, in which the frigate Iron-
sides was considerably damaged, and the other
vessels of the fleet greatly alarmed for their safety.
It is not stated what constituted the attacking
force ; but, from the fact that three of the crew of
the Confederate gunboat Chicora are reported
missing, it is presumed that it consisted of Confede-
rate iron-class.

MR. TURPIN TO THE DUKE OF SOMERSET'S AGENT.
" Bridgetown, Sept. 29, 1863.
" Thomqs Michelmore, Esq.—Sir, In reply to
your letter of yesterday I beg to state that I am
very sorry that I cannot give you possession of the
house I now occupy. I was not aware you would
be so particular with me. You may depend, as soon
as I can suit myself I will leave. When I was at
your sister's funeral I asked you if it was your in-
tenton to carry your notice into execution, when
you replied I should see you again on the subject,
but this you have not permitted ; and as you have
acted so unmercifully I would remind you of my
supporting the duke's interest ever since the
passing of the Reform Bill in 1832. I never hesi-
tated a moment in giving my voice for both mem-
bers to serve the interest of his grace, neither should
I at the last election had not your clerk (John Col-
lard) stated publicly at the Exeter Inn, that every
one could vote as they thought best for the country.
Believing Mr. Dent to be far the best of the two
candidates, I promised him ; and my promise, you
know, I always fulfil. It is not my practice to de-
ceive. I told your senior clerk (Mr. Cross) so when
first he called on me.—Your obedient servant,
"EDWARD 11. 'CURTIN,"

Despatches from headquarters of the Army of the
Potomac of the Bth inst. state that during the pre-
vious 24 hours there had been many indications of
a steadily approaching collision with the enemy.
An expedition of land and naval forces sent out
by General Foster from Fortress Monroe, on the
4th inst., to some point in North Carolina, had not
been heard from up to the 6th inst.

Serious apprehensions exist in Leavenworth of
a Confederate invasion of Kansas. On the Bth the
Confederates were reported to be advancing on Fort
Scott and Kansas city. All the Government troops
in Leavenworth had been ordered for ward, and the
state militia called out, to repel the invader.

THE AMERICAN MAILS.
ACCIDENT TO THE AFRICA.
(By Telegraph to Cape Race.)
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND,OcT.I3.
The outward-going Royal Mail steamship Africa
struck, in a dense fog, near Cape Race, on Monday
night (the 12th). She was ashore above half an
hour, but got off, making much water, and bore up
for St. John's, where she arrived to-day.
The ship has been beached, and must discharge,

THE AGE OF TILE PREMIER.—Lord Palmerston,
K. G., the venerable Premier of her Majesty's Government,
yesterday entered upon his 80th year. His lordship was
born on the 20th October, 1784, and consequently is 12
years younger than his late political opponent, Lord
Lyndhurst.