The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-16 00:00:00

which would have formed a brilliant sequel to a
substantial and gratifying success.
A large ovation was given last night by the Loyal
League and the citizens to General Butler at the
Academy of Music.
General Butler made a characteristic speech, and
declared that the British Government and aristo-
cracy hated America with hate passing all under-
standing. He urged a proclamation of non-
intercourse with England, and the stopping of ex-
portation of gold, so that the Western produce
would be shipped to France in exchange for silks.
A mass 'meting of the Loyal League was pro-
posed to take place in Washington in June.
NEW YORK, April 3, Evening.

General Sherman's Sunflower expedition has re-
turned, and is disembarking at Young's Point. The
expedition is said at one time to have been hemmed
in by the river obstructions placed in the front and
rear of the transports, and to have been extricated
with difficulty.

The canal opposite Vicksburg is abandoned, the
Confederate Cannon commanding two thirds of its
length.

It is reported_thatthe Confederates have taken
the steamer Indian°l. st* Alexandria,' on the Red
River, and *fepaireirteilvafficiently to make her
serviceable.

Fears are entertained for the safety of Admiral
Farragut's steamers Hartford and Albatross, as the
Confederates now have three rams between Vicks-
burg and Port Hudson.
The Confederates, under Van Dorn, are crossing
the river if Palmira, and are endeavouring to flank
General Rosencranz on the left. Van Dorn has a
heavy supply of Artillery, and his movement is sup-
posed to be aimed against Kentucky.

The Confederate armies of Tennessee and the Mis-
sissippi are reported to be forming a junction, .

The Confederates are in force in the neighbour-
hood of Fort Donelson.
General Hooker has ordered a general muster of
the troops of the Potomac army for the use of the
provost-marshal in making a draft to fill up the
complement of each regiment.
Mosby's Confederate cavalry visited Centreville,
Virginia, on Tuesday, and left for Dranesville,
where they encountered a squadron of Vermont
cavalry, whom they defeated and put to flight.
M'Clellan's official report of the seven days' fight-
ing on the Peninsula, and falling back to Berkely,
is published. He says in the report that no such
difficult movement was ever more successfully exe-
cuted.

The New York Times says General Butler's de-
nunciations of England, and his predictions of re-
tribution for the wrengs she has committed, were
received and echoed with the utmost enthusiasm at
the Academy of Music.
The cargo of the ship Star of Peace was valued
at half a million of dollars.

General Price is re-organising the Confederate
forces in Arkansas, preparatory to the invasion of
Missouri.

The Federals burnt Pensacola previous to eva-
cuating it.
NEW YORK, April 4, Morning.
The committee on the conduct of the war has
issued a report.'
The Democratic journals continue to assert that
a number of furloughs have been granted to Con-
necticut soldiers, with the special condition that
they would vote a Republican ticket.
The World publishes a special order from the
War Department, dismissing from the service a
New Hampshire officer, for circulating copperhead
tickets, and doing all he could to promote the suc-
cess of the rebel cause in his State.

It is reported that the Government will not at
present take any action under the Lqters of
Marque Act.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, April 3, Evening.

Money easy, gold, 54 ; exchange on Laudon,
bankers' bills, 167 to 169. Stocks quiet: New York
Centrals, 1121; Illinois, 89 ; Erie, 77Z. Cotton
dull: middling Upland, 75c. Flour quiet, 10c
lower. Wheat quiet. Corn quiet, lc. lower. Pro-
visions quiet. Coffee, sugar, and !molasses quiet,
and unchanged.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, April 3.

Private advices received from Mexico state that
the Mexicans at Puebla numbered 18,000, under
Ortega; 4,000 more, under Comonfort and Car-
vajal, are between Puebla and the capital. At the
capital Juarez had no force of importance, and on
the fall of Puebla would take refuge in the State of
Morella.

General Forey, with 12,000 men, was advancing
by way of Orizaba, and General Bazaine, with
11,000 men, by way of Jalapa; they would meet
at Amozoc. Great complaints were made of Gen.
F3rey's indifference to the political aspects of the
campaign, and Gen. Bazaine is expected to succeed
him, particularly as it is understood that M. de
Saligny has been restored to his full diplomatic
functions.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The screw steam frigate Orlando, 46, Capt.
George G. Randolph, from Bermuda, March 31,
under canvas only, arrived in Plymouth Sound
yesterday evening, all well. She left at the island
the Galatea, the Petrel, and the Terror.
The hired transport Newcastle, 1,137 tons, Capt.
Benest, belonging to Messrs. Green, of Blackwall,
from Calcutta, January 17, has arrived off Ply-
mouth, with 149 men, 6 women, and 14 children,
invalids from various regiments, under command of
Major Brownlow, and in medical charge of Dr.
Woodsworth. Sergeant Murphy, of the 80th Regi-
ment, died on the 14th of March.

The iron screw steam transport Meg will, 6, Com-
mander Henderson, left Plymouth yesterday with
the left wing of the 32d Regiment, for Dublin, en
route to the Curragh.
The Leander, 2,760 tons, 400-horse power, lately
attached to the Ist division of the Chatham steam
reserve, was commissioned at the Nore yesterday
by Capt. Thomas Harvey (January 31, 1848), late
of the Colossus, 80, 400-horse power, for service on
the Pacific station. The Leander was formerly one
of the fastest 50-gun sailing frigates in the service,
and about three years since was cut asunder,
lengthened 30 feet amidships, and converted into a
screw steamer. She is now one of the smartest
frigates of her class in the British navy. The
armament of the Leander has been reduced to 35
guns, like that of the Euryalus, flagship of Rear-
Admiral A. L. Kuper, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief
in the East Indies. The Leander has been fitted
with additional cabins to eccommodate a Commo-
dore and his Staff. She will probably relieve the
Topaze, 39, 600-horse power, bearing the flag of
Commodore the Hon. J. W. S. Spencer, senior offi-
cer on the southern division of the Pacific station.
Yesterday Major-Gen. H. Eyre, coran:ia
forces in the Chatham district, reviewed the
Chatham
of the troops composing the whole
garrison
the D
Lines. The forces on the groundr
oval
Engineers,
battery Royal Artillery, the Royal
British regiments,
the depots of' the East India and
of infantry, and
composing the three battalions
Each
the brigade of Royal Marines.Ligitit Infant ry .
provided with 10 rounds of blank
of the troops was
cartridge. On the arrival of Gen. Eyre on the
ground ho was received by the troops drawn up in
contiguous columns of companies, and after inspecting e:,ch battalion the General took up his position
,
in front of the flagstaff, when the entire force
marched past, by columns of companies, in slow and
quick time. The remainder of the afternoon was
devoted to the execution of a variety of manoeuvres
incidental to a brigade field day, in all of which the
troops engaged acquitted themselves in a very satis-
factory manner. The troops quitted the Lines