The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-16 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY.

The Royal mail steamship Canada, from Boston
on the 4th, and Halifax on the 6th inst., arrived
here at three p.m. to-day. She brings 45 pas-
sengers and 229,000 dols. in specie. The Canada
landed the mails and two passengers, and proceeded
at 3,15 p.m. for Liverpool. All well.

(Per Canada.)

NEW YORK, MARCH 3, Evening.
General Grant continues his operations against
Vicksburg.

The Confederates have captured the Federal
steamer Indianola 25 miles below Vicksburg. They
employed the ram Queen of the West in her cap-
ture.

The Federal Commander Porter attributes the
loss of the Indianola to a non-compliance with his
instructions.

Reports are still current that the Confederate
General Lon' street is at Cumberland Gap with a
large force preparing to invade Kentucky.
It is rumoured that a large Confederate force has
appeared at Leesburg.
The Confederate cavalry raid across the Rappa-
hannock is said to have been a failure.
It is reported that the Confederates have laid a
network of torpedoes across the entrance to Charles-
ton harbour.

Two hundred Union cavalry have been captured
rear Strasburg, Virginia, during a pursuit of 20
miles. The disaster occurred through disobedience
to orders.

President Lincoln has called an extra session of
the Senate for March 4, to receive, and act upon,
such communications as may be made by the Exe-

cutive.

Senator Sumner has reported to the Senate from
the committee upon foreign relations concurrent re-
solutions regarding mediation. After referring to
the French offer of mediation the resolutions de-
clare that any idea of mediation or intervention ie
impracticable, unreasonable, and inadmissible. Also
that any offer of interference so far encourages re-
bellion, and tends to prolong the contest, and that
Congress will therefore be obliged to regard any
further attempt in the same direction as an un-
friendly act.
The resolutions express regret that the foreign
powers have not frankly informed the Southern
chiels that the work in which they are engaged is
hopeless, and that a new government with slavery
as its gorner-stone, and with no other declared ob-
ject of separate existence, is so far shocking to civi-
lisation and to the moral sense of mankind that it
must not expect welcome or recognition in the com-
monwealth of nations. The resolutions express an
unalterable purpose to prosecute the war until the
rebellion is suppressed. The resolutions will be
communicated to foreign governments.

The Senate has passed an amendment that negroes
shall not be commissioned in the service, except as
company officers of exclusively negroe companies.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill
of the Senate authorising the President to issue
letters of marque ; also a bill taxing the sales of
corn ( ? gold).
Both houses of Congress have passed a bill in-
demnifying the President for the suspension of the
writ of Habeas Corpus ; also a bill imposing a tax
of 2 per cent. upon bank circulation. The duty on
paper has been reduced to 20 per cent.
The Legislature of California is putting the state
upon a war footing.
Fifty thousand persons were present at a Union
meeting held at Indianopolis, Indiana, at which
strong Union resolutions have been passed.
Gen. Nl‘Clellan has declined a public reception at
Baltimore.

The privateer Florida has captured and burned

the ship Jacob Bell, from China for New York,
Jan. 12, in lat. 24, long. 65. Her cargo is valued at
1,000,000 dollars. The steamer Columbian, with a
cargo of cotton, has arrived at St. George's from
Wilmington. The Federal government has pur-
chased the steamer Princess Royal.
Dispatches received from San Francisco discredit
the capture of Guaymas by the French.
The French steamer Pallas arrived at Mazatlan
on Feb. 4, but did not communicate with the shore.