The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-06 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
(Per the City of Baltimore.)
NEW YORK, April 24, Morning.
Seven Federal gunboats, one ram, and three
transports have attempted to pass the Vicksburg
batteries. One transport was obliged to return,
another was burnt, and it is supposed that all on
board were lost. The remainder of the vessels
passed safely.

Eleven Federal gunboats, including three under
Admiral Farragut, are now below Vicksburg. They
have destroyed the Confederate batteries at War-
renton, and are anchored off New Carthage, where
General Grant's headquarters are established, and
to which place a portion of General Grant's army
had proceeded overland.
The Southern journals think that the Federal
gunboats will attack Vicksburg from below and
from the opposite shore. But it is generally sup
posed that the gunboats will operate up the Red
River, and, in conjunction with General Banks, will
endeavour to force the evacuation of Vicksburg and
Port Hudson, by cutting off the supplies for those
strongholds.

The Southern journals have news of operations

in General Banks's department, stating that the
Confederate steamer Queen of the West has
grounded in the Grand Lake, and was blown up by
the Ferleral gunboats, her crew being captured.

Tile Confederate steamer Diana has also been
burnt in the Archafalaya River.

A portion of the forces under General Banks was
beyond Franklin, Louisiana, on the river Teche.
The object of General Banks's expedition was to
capture Franklin, where all the Confederates below
the Red River are supposed to be posted, and a
victory at this place would open the way for an
advance of the Federals to the Red River.

There was another movement making up the
Yazoo River. Five Federal transports are reported
to have reached a point above Haine's Bluff.
The Confederates have burnt immense quantities
of cotton along the Sunflower River.
Federal gunboats have been operating success-
fully against the Confederate cavalry along the
banks of the Tennessee River.
General Rosencranz is reported to have been re-
inforced by a portion of General Grant's army, and
a battle in Tennessee is impending.
A Federal expedition has destroyed Celina, Ken-
tucky, with immense quantities of Confederate
stores.

The Confederates are moving in Missouri, and
lreatening Pilot Knob.
The Federals are advancing from two directions
:o meet them.

The Confederates have abandoned the siege of
Washington, North Carolina.
General Halleck has visited Suffolk, Virginia,
where the military situation remains unchanged.
The Confederates are reported to be removing the
obstructions in the James River at Fort Darling.
The Charleston Mercury asserts that the guns
from the steamer Keokuk have been recovered.

The mail bag of the Peterhof' has been delivered
unopened to the British consul, by order of the
district court. The trial of the case has been post-

poned. The action of the British Government in
the case of the steamer Alexandra has created a
generally favourable impression here, and has
allayed much irritation.
The British prize steamer Gertrude, captured off
Harbour Island by the Vanderbilt, has arrived at
New York. She was returning to Nassau, after an
ineffectual attempt to enter Charleston harbour.
The Alabama is reported to have chased two
vessels ashore in Turk's Island Passage on the 26th
March.

NEW YORK, APRIL 24.
The New York Times correspondent says that a
Federal division has made an expedition from Green-
ville, Mississippi, up Deer Creek, and during six
days destroyed property on various plantations
estimated at three million dollars, consisting of
cotton-mills, cotton-gins, and 700,000 bushels corn.
They likewise brought away immense quantities of
stores.

The Florida captured the barque Lapwing, from
Boston for Batavia, on the 37th March, in lat. 31,
long. 32. The Florida put two guns and 18 men
o❑ board the Lapwing. The Florida has also cap-
tured the barque Concord of New York.
NEW YORK, APRIL 25, MORNING.
General Foster has returned to Newbern.
The pursuit of the Confederates who retired from
Washington, North Carolina, is abandoned.
The Fenerals operating in Tennessee against
Morgan's guerillas have occupied Mac-Minnville,
where they destroyed a cotton mill and large quan-
tities of Confederate stores.
In Missouri four militia regiments have been
called into service for 30 days.
The reported occupation of Cape Girurdeau by
the Confederates was untrue.
Southern reports from Mississippi assert that the
Federals numbering 4,000 have been repulsed upon
Coldwater river, and that the Confederates were
pursuing them. .