The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-21 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.

LIVERPOOL, Sunday.

The Royal Mail steamship Asia, Capt. Shannon,
which sailed from New York on the Bth inst., and
called at Queenstown yesterday evening to land
mails and passengers, arrived here about 4.30 this
afternoon, bringing 175 passengers and 153,588de15.
in specie on freight.

NEW YORK, April 8.
The following is the " situation," froru the New
York Herald of AFril 8:

There is nothing new from the army of the Potomac
I'ne snow has disappeared, but the roads ale in a
frigl:tful condition.

By an arrival from Hilton Head we learn that the
town
forcesof tner Colonel Jacksonville,
lu
Florida,
tst; "ais burn: <l by the
n forr
Union
attempt of the rebels to shell it and murder ail the
Union inhabitants.
The bread riot which took place in Richmond on
lltursday is very significant of the condition to
which rebellion is reduced. If the people of that
city are compelled to break open the public atoms
to obtain bread, what must be the state of the
inhabitants of those districts which produce bat
little food, and raise mainly cotton or tobacco ?
Virginia is the most fruitful raising State in the
South, and is to the eastern portion of it what
Tennessee and Kentucky are to the West, and if
the want of fcod manifests itself in such a demon-
strative fashion as to bring out a hungry mob of
3,000 women into the streets of the capital, we can
readily imagine how dire must be the distress
existing in the other States.
We learn by despatches from Nashville, dated
yesterday, that Gen. Mitchell, with 350 cavalry,
went out on the Lebanon pike to Green Hill, and
dashing into a rebel camp where there was a large
number of conscripts, on the sabre charge he took 15
prisoners, killed five, and captured all their arms,
horses, and equipments.
Gen. Rosencrans' despatches to the War Depart-
ment, under date Monday, state that Gen. Stanley
completely whipped the rebel guerillas of Morgan
at Snow Hill, capturing about 50 prisoners and 300
horses.

Tae following are all the despatches received
concerning the attack on Charleston :
NEWS VIA FORTRESS MONROE.
Fortress Monroe, Saturday, April 4.
Yesterday's _Richmond Dispatch contains the fol-
lowing startling news from the South Carolina
coast :

"The enemy have landed in force on Seabrook's
or John's Island. Three gunboats and transports
are lying eff the island. Skirmishing has already
taken place between our and the enemy's pickets.
Our pickets are driven in and the enemy advancing.
" General Haygood has ordered all the women,
children, and non-combatants removed from Adam's
Run, which is 20 miles from Seabrook's Island."
The Dispatch also says—" Pensacola was fired by
the Uniou soldiers about the 23d ult., and the most
of the town destroyed. The soldiers are going to
reinforce General Banks."
Dospatches received from Fortress Monroe state
that Charleston papers have been received there.
They acknowledge that the attack by the Federal
army and navy on that city had been commenced,
but contain nothing indicating whether the move-
ments of our forces have met with success or other-
wise- It is fair to infer that if the latter had been
the case they would have announced it.
It is generally believed in official quarters that
no reverse has been sustained by our troops or our
fleet, and there is the best reason t..) believe that t he
loyal North will soon be electrified by the gratify-
ing announcement of the capture and occupation of
Charleston.

The following despatch is from the I?ichmond
Examiner of Sturdy :
" Charleston, Thursday, April 2.
" There are no signs thus far of the expected
attack. There has been no landing in force on any
of the islands below, as reported.
" The skirmish on Seabrook's Island was between
a few independent scouts and a scouting party from
a Yankee gunboat."
The following additional despatches are pub-
lished in the New York j'lurnals :
Washington, April 7, 1863.

It is officially known here that the United States
fleet of guuboats and iron-clads left Port Royal on
Wednesday last, and would probably reach the
scene of operations Tnursday evening. Up to three
o'clock this afternoon nothing further was known
of their movements.
Washington, April 7 (Evening).
The military and naval authorities have been
hourly expecting to•day official information in re-
gard to sfflirs at Charleston. It is officially known
that our fleet of gunboats and ironclads left Port
Royal on Wednesday, April 1. It was expected
that they would be in position to make the attack
the following day.
The rebel rumours that have reached us allege that
the attack was made on Thursday. If it had been un-
successful we should assuredly have had a full account
of it from that source. The ample preparations
made induce the heads of the War and Navy De-
partments to believe that success has attended the
combined efforts of our army and navy at-that
point. So much confidence is felt here in this re-
spect that a prominent naval officer last night put
up 5,000 dols. as a wager that Charleston had becu
taken by our forces, and could find no takers.
A special despatch from Helena,
dated the 3d
inut., says that advices from General Quimby's ex-
pedition to the 30th ult. state that no progress had
been made in the reduction of Fort Greenwood.
Our forces were still in front of the enemy, and
there had been considerable skirmirhieg between
the pickets on shore.
The rebels wero improving the time by greatly
increasing the strength of their works. They have
received and mounted more heavy guns, and are
well supplied with ammunition.
It is the opinion of well-informed (Aare that our
gunboats will not succeed in taking the
torpedoes
by The o
regimentscountry along
rebel the
cavalry,'l'
guerillas.
Porter.
rattsmen at the mouth of the Coldwater river, anti
batteries ailliac bia dies ITlpsalar:lcenes.uwP
They proceedeet
indications
ooufr m
attemptsosuitotob evaltasce captured
channel have been discovered.
The first reconnaissance of Haines' Bluff b
Cairo,
were not returned.
boats was mude by Admiral
aver at within
ntn range
ahnoe gfmereconnaissance
s
Gray Eagle, from Aesleamn The by gun_
Memphis,
hfii
sr fired
assh
April 7, 1863,
ar-
From passengers we learn of two important expe-
ditious, The steamer Gr
the objects of which are not to be made
public.

Reports in regard to the Yazoo Pass expedition
are still conflicting. The preponderance of evi-
dence is that it is not abandoned.
Last week while the steamer A. D. Hine was
passing down Coldwater she was fired into by gue-
rillas. Several deck hands and one engineer were
killed. The captain was mortally wounded.

Baltimore, April 7, 1863.

Colonel Stewart, of.the 2d Indiana Regiment, one
of the 14 United States officers just released by the
rebels, who has just arrived here, makes the follow-
ing statement :
" On Thursday last he saw from his prison win-
dow in Richmond a great bread riot, composed of
about 3,000 women, who were armed with clubs,
and guns, and stones.
told flat tn.
stores,' l'haenydbtroookke
bread,
,t
clothing,
tahoi :ger, namn
de nwt
they wanted.
In': haantdevPerri7lstee
" Jeff. Davis and other
fTaihieedmtiolidtioasyvo.ere ordered out to
ocffiheccikaltshemraiodte
" They then tecame calm, and order was once
tshpeeyecehheosoltdo
more restored."
htahveeinwth'uar infuriated
Women,
e e datedd.
All the other released Union oflicev confirm this
statement.