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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1863

AMERICA.

to us to promise a large majority for Ministers. Whether
it will be sufficient to overcome the weakness which they
will probably experience in Lower Canda has of course yet
to be developed by the results of the daily occurring elec-
tions."

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 24.
The Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's screw
steamer Jura arrived here this morning from
Quebec, having sailed thence on Saturday, the 13th
inst. Besides the Canadian mails and a number of
passengers, the Jura brought 39,000 dots. in specie
on freight.

By this arrival we learn that the mail steamer
Norwegian, Captain 1M 'Master, ran ashore on St.
Paul's Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, during
a dense fog on the afternoon of Sunday, the 14th
inst. This was reported by the captain of the news
boat when the Jura called off Cape Race. The mails,
crew, and passengers were saved, and hopes were
entertained that the ship would be got off. The
Norwegian was on her outward voyage from Liver-

_pooll whence she sailed on the 4th inst., with a fair
amount of cargo and about 500 passengers, and
appears to have made a quick passage to the St.
Lawrence, where she met with the mishap. The
Norwegian is an iron screw steamer of 1,888 tons
register, was built in 1860, and was bark-rigged.
She belongs to Messrs. Allan Brothers and Co.'s
line of steamers.

A despatch to the Tribune, dated Washington,
the 11th, says :
" The opinion is entertained in quarters likely to be ac-
quainted with the facts, that not a man has been detached
from Bragg's army since General Grant opened the siege of
Vicksburg. General Rosecrans has been so watchful, has
found means to keep himself so thoroughly informed as to
Bragg's designs, and has so constantly threatened him with
an attack in force, that he has deemed it imprudent to
weaken his strength in the least, even for the purpose of
attempting to relieve Vicksburg. By pursuing this course
for the present Bosecrans is believed to be contributing more
toward permanent triumph than he could by such a victory
as that of Stone River. Bragg was ordered to go South to
reinforce Johnstone, when the men and some of the officers
mutinied. Bragg ordered out a brigade to surround the
mutinous regiments, and swore he would hang 100 men a
day until discipline was restored."

From Cincinnati it is stated that a spirited en-
gagement took place at Monticello on the 10th inst.
The Federal troops, under command of Col. Kantz,
had driven the Confederates from Monticello, and
they were falling back towards the Cumberland
river, when they rallied in force and attacked the
rear guard. The Feder&la retreated slowly. Re-
inforcements subsequently went to their relief,
when a desperate hand-to-hand conflict ensued,
lasting two hours, and resulting in the defeat of
the Confederates. The Federal loss, says the de-
spatch, was 80 killed and wounded; the Confede-
rate loss is not stated.

An unofficial telegram, received in Washing-
ton on the 12th from the vicinity of Vicksburg,
says the Confederates, in small force, attacked
Milliken's Bend and Young's Point on the 6th
inst., but were decisively repulsed at both points.
The coloured troops at the former place at first
gave way, but, upon hearing that those of their
number who were captured were killed, they ral-
lied with great fury and rooted the enemy.
The Tribune of the 11th says :

" We have a letter from our correspondent ' Zenophe' to
the 6th inst. He gives a hopeful view of the progress of the
siege; reports the repulse of a sortie against one of our
mining parties on the night of the 3d; demonstrates that
General Joe Johnstone cannot possibly get near enough to
strike Grant without being extinguished, and says the gar-
rison will soon be compelled by famine to capitulate."

A special despatch of the New York Herald,
dated headquarters of the army of the Potomac,
says :

" Our forces remain in possession of the flats south of
Fredericksburg. The enemy manifests no inclination to
attack us. Our defences are impregnable, and it is not be-
lieved that the rebels will risk an assault. Work has been
suspended in their own fortifications. Their troops, how-
ever, display themselves extensively and are evidently in
large force, No firing has been heard since Tuesday even-
ing, and this morning the utmost quiet prevails. A num-
ber of prisoners arrived last night from the upper works.
Most of them are members of the 4th Virginia Cavalry.
Stuart's attempt to make a raid into Pennsylvania is
frustrated. Lee is in the vicinity of Culpepper with a large
body of infantry, and a heavy force remains near Frede-
ricksburg. Troops from the Blackwater, North and South
Carolina, and elsewhere, have been hurried up to the army
of Northern Virginia, and there can be no doubt that Lee
contemplates a grand and desperate effort for the annihila-
tion of Hooker's army."

The Tribune's special correspondent, writing on
the 10th, says :
"The Rappahannock was again crossed by detachments
from the Ist, 3d, and sth corps this morning near Kelly's
Ford without the loss of a single man on our side. The
rebels seemed to be entirely taken by surprise ; so silently
were our men embarked that their pickets of six cavalry
men did not discover our designs until the canvas boats had
reached the middle of the stream. We were then ordered
by the rebels to halt, which injunction our men seemed to
consider a very good joke. Two shots were then fired at
the boats, neither of which took effect. Several of our men
answered the salute, killing one man, who was immediately
carried off by his comrades, who beat a hasty retreat as our
boats neared the shore. Two boat-loads were landed, and
immediately commenced reconnoitring on the other side,
but found no rebels. The remainder of our forces, in all
perhaps a division, afterwards forded the river."

- The Ohio Democrat states that a Convention met
at Columbus on the 11th, and was very largely
attended. Ex-Governor Medill presided. General
Clement Vallandigham was nominated for Governor
on the first ballot, receiving 448 out of 461 votes.
His nomination was then made unanimous. The
Hon. George E. Pugh was nominated for Lieute-
nant-Governor by acclamation. Resolutions were
unanimously adopted protesting against President
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, condemning
martial law in loyal States whore war does not
exist ; denouncing the suppression of the writ of
habeas corpus; protesting in strong terms against
the banishment of the Hon. C. L. Vallandigham,
and calling on the President to recall him and
restore to him all his rights as a citizen of the
United States; and declaring that they would hail
with delight a desire of the seceded States to return
to their allegiance, and that they would co-operate
with the citizens of those States to restore peace,
and that they insisted upon freedom of speech,
freedom of the press, and the right of trial by jury.
Under the date of the 11th inst. Captain Butler,
of the bark Whistling Wind, states that his vessel
was boarded on the 6th inst., in lat 33.30, long. 71
29, by the rebel pirate Coquette. The Whistling
wind was set on fire and burnt. The Coquette was
formerly the brig Clarence, of Baltimore, and was
captured by the pirate Florida, to which vessel she
is a tender.

A letter to the New York Herald of the 12th
reports the capture and burning under the guns of
Fort Morgan, below Mobile, of the schooner Ripple
(Hunter) with cotton. She had been taken by the
Kanawha, on the 7th, about 30 miles south of
Mobile.

The United States' ship Desota chased the Con.
_._ _

federate steamer Cuba from Havannah, laden with
arms and ammunition, and compelled the crew to
set fire to her and to escape in boats. The Cuba
formerly ran between Mobile and New Orleans, and
was capable of carrying 10,000 bales of cotton.
The Canadian elections are proceeding with con-
siderable activity ; the Montreal Herald says :

The electoral returns from the country at large ;till show

a considerable Ministerial majority ; but it is of course un-
derstood that in all these cases the safest constituencies are
those which are the first called upon. We have to-day to
add to our Ministerial list one more Upper Canadian name,
that of Dickson, for Huron and Bruce, and two lower Ca-
nadians, Messrs. Dufresne for Iberville, and Labreche
Viger for Terrebonne. The return of the latter, though by
a small majority, shows that though at no great distance
from the city the result was not influenced, to an over-
whelming extent, by the rebound of our own elections. We
have classed Mr. Sicotte among the Ministerial candidates,
because we have too much respect for one of the most high-
spirited men in public life to place him among the doubtful;
and because we believe, that, having no personal interests
which he will for a moment but in competition with the
public advantage, he will be found, as usual with the party
with which he has always acted, if he shall, as we have no
doubt he will, find their programme to be such as he can
approve. We, of course, do not disguise from ourselves that
there are some differences in policy between himself and
his late colleague—but we do not imagine that these are
in any, respect, irremediable. Upper Canada still appears

PRICE.-- -..4d.
STAMPED ....sd.

THE NEW GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA,

Last evening a grand banquet was given at Wil-
lis's Rooms, in honour of his Excellency Sir Charles
Darling, K.C.8., who is about to proceed to Victoria
as the Governor-in-Chief of that colony. Mr. H.

Childers, M.P., long connected with the colony, had
intended to act as chairman, but was prevented being
present by a domestic effliction, and strange to say
Sir C. Darling himself was absent from the dinner
in consequence of illness, though at some risk he
came and I aid his respects to the company after
they bad assembled. The Duke of Newcastle
who had accepted an invitation, was likewise com-
pelled by indisposition to be absent, but his Grace
end the Colonial-office were represented by Mr.
Chichester Fortescue. In the absence of Mr.
Childers, the chair was occupied by Mr. J. V. L.
Foster, late Cliief Secretary to the colony of Vic-
toria, and the following gentlemen, including
several leading colonists now in England, were also
present :—The Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of Mel-
bourne, Mr. Vansittart, M.P., Sir Chas. Nicholson,
Sir Charles Clifford, Sir Edward Macarthur, Judge
Therry, Mr. Charles Kean, Mr. E. Wilson, Mr. L.
Mackinnon, Major Pasley, Colonel Tidy, Captain
Clarke, Mr. Engleheart, Captain Begot, Mr. E.
Hamilton, Mr. C. H. Ebden, Mr. H. Creswick, Mr.'
Landsborough, Mr. Hodgson, and Mr. George
Macleay, the company mustering in number to up.
wards of 100. After the usual loyal toasts, the
chairman, in proposing the toast of the evening,
" His Excellency Sir Charles Darling," said that,
although it was a subject for regret that his Excel-
lency was not then present, he bad testified his
sense of the honour they had intended to confer upon
him by leaving a sick bed and coming among them
in the early part of the evening. His Excellency,
suffering from fever, had not only left his bed, but
within the next forty-eight hours was about to em-
bark on a voyage to Melbourne, which, under the
circumstances, was a great trial to him. He would
go out not altogether a stranger to Australia, for in
early life he was there during the Governorship of
his uncle, Sir Ralph Darling. Daring that time
an expedition went down to Port Philip, and on
its return the Colonial-office reported that the
country was worth nothing, and was only fit for
kangaroos. Yet that country was colonised in
spite of the Colonial-office, who absolutely forbade
people to go there. Now, again, there was no
encouragement from that quarter to settle in
North Australia ; but he would say, in
the presence of the Under-Secretary for the Colo-
nies, that whether the Colonial Minister liked it or
no he must establish a colony in North Australia.
Sir Charles Darling went out no untried man. He
had already filled the office of Governor of St. Lucia,
the Cape of Good Hope, Newfoundland, and Jamaica,
and had been a successful governor wherever be had
represented his Sovereign. It might almost be said
of him, nihil tetigit quod non ornavit. He believed

that the same amount of success would await him
in Victoria, the more so as the new system of re-
sponsible Government had established order in the
colony, and had made the duties of a colonial Go-
vernor comparatively easy. Mr. Chichester For-
tescue, in speaking to the toast of " Her Majesty's
Ministers," dwelt upon the spirit of justice and fair
dealing with which his noble friend and chief had
conducted himself during his long career as Colonial
Minister, and the liberality and loyalty with which
he had carried into effect the great principle of co-
lonial self-government in domestic affairs. He re-
marked that in these days, with respect to the colo-
nies, the Minister, from whichever side of the
house he might be taken, was not the Einister of a
party but of the nation and the Crown. This country
had never been, and never could be, governed by a
man more thoroughly devoted to its interests than
his noble friend Lord Palmerston, and every colonist
present might rest assured that in no hands could

the honour and interest of British subjects, whether
here or at the antipodes, be safer than in those of the
noble lord. With him he must couple the name of
the Foreign Minister, Earl Russell, who for many
years served the country at the Colonial-office. Some
years ago, he said, the then French Minister at this
Court, M. Guizot, informed Lord Russell, then at
the head of the Colonial-office, that the French
were desirous of establishing a penal settlement
in New Zealand, and asked what part of the ter-
ritory so called the English considered their own.
Lord Russell coolly replied that New Zealand was
all their own. The French Minister then inquired
how much of New Holland they regarded as be-

longing to them. The Colonial Minister again an-
swered that they claimed the whole of it. He (Mr.
Fortescue) mentioned the circumstance merely to
show the spirit in which British Colonial Mini-
sters regarded the colonies, and how ready they
were to extend over them the cagis of England. It
was in that spirit, he was convinced, that the wish
he was about to express would, under the provi-
dence of Heaven, be fully carried out—that fer
many ages to come the prosperity of the Australian
colonies would continue, as now, to excite the pride
of Great Britain and the envy and admiration of the
world. The company separated about 11 o'clock.
Mr. Harker, jun., acted as toastmaster.