The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-29 00:00:00

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.
QUEENSTOWN, Thursday.
The Inman steamship City of Washington, from
Naw York on the 17th, has arrived here. She
brings 88 passengers and 936,720 dole. in specie.

(Per City of Washington.)

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.
Jefferson Davis's Message has been sent in to the
Confederate Congress.

He declares the anxiety of the South for peace,
but says that its determination against submission
is unalterable. He denounces the conduct of the
Union armies as atrocious and cruel. Referring to
Mr. Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, he says
he may well leave it to the instincts of the com-
mon humanity of men of all countries to pass judg-
ment upon a measure by which millions of human
beings of inferior race, peaceful and contented
labourers in their sphere, are doomed to extermi-
nation, while they are encouraged to commit assas-
sination by an insidious recommendation to abstain
from violence unless in self-defence. Commissioned
Federal officers attempting to execute the procla-
mation will, if captured, be delivered to the state
authorities to be dealt with according to the state
laws for the punishment of criminals inciting in-
surrection.

The Alabama has captured two more vessels off
Port Maria.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16, Evening.
It is supposed that a large portion of the Con-
federate army has been withdrawn from Fredericks-
burg.

The Plitladelphia Inquirer says that numbers of
negroes are deserting from the Federals at Port
Royal.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money easy ; gold, 46/ prem. Exchange, 161.
Stocks steady ; New York Centrals, 116 i ; Illinois
Shares, 90 ; Erie, 73k. Cotton very firm ; Middling
upland,72c. Flour heavy and sc. lower. Wheat,
good inquiry. Corn inactive, at a decline of lc.
Provisions quiet. Coffee, sugar, and molasses very
firm.

(Per City of Washington.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 17, Morning.
The telegraphic summary of Jefferson Davis's
message which appeared in the New York papers
was imperfect. Mr. Davis complains that the
European Powers declared neutrality without
acknowledging the sovereignty of the seceded
states, thus injuring the South and prolonging the
war by admitting the doctrine that the Federal
Government had a right to coerce the seceded
states. If these states were independent the
refusal to entertain the same international
intercourse with them as with the North
was unjust, no matter what may have been the
motive prompting it; He does not complain
of any treaty being concluded between the United
States and Europe for the abolishment of privateer-
ing, although the prohibition to either belligerent
to dispose of its prizes in European ports operated
with intense severity against the South, by depriv-
ing her of the only means of maintaining, with some
approach to equality, a struggle on the ocean.
Rumours are current of an early movement of the
army of the Potomac.

General M'Clernand's expedition has captured an
Arkansas post 50 miles up the Arkansas River.

Seven thousand Confederates, with stores and am-
munition, are reported to have surrendered.
Six Federal vessels have left New Orleans to re-
capture the Harriet Lane and to destroy the Con-
federate gunboats at Bayou, Buffalo.
Nearly all the troops under the command of
General Banks are at Baton Rouge.
The Confederate General Bragg is superseded by
General Longstreet, whose corps d'armee is trans-
ferred to Tennessee.

The Confederates are encroaching upon the
Union lines at Donaldsville.
The motion which was made in the House of
Representatives to lay a bill on the table autho-
rising an enlargement, for the passage of gunboats,
of the Mississippi and Michigan canals, and of
other canals connecting the lakes of Erie and On-
tario Ns ith the Hudson River, was rejected.
It is rumoured that Secretary Chase will resign
if the Finance Bill of the Committee of Ways and
Means passes Congress.
No Speaker has yet been elected in the New
York Assembly.

George Francis Train has narrowly escaped
lynching at Janesville, Wisconsin.

THE THRONE OF GREECE.

A telegram in another column mentions the
Prince of Leiningen as having been proposed as a
candidate for the Throne of,Greece.

We are able to confirm this statement; indeed it
was to this prince that we alluded a few days
ago. His Serene Highness is a grandson of the
late Duchess of Kent, who was first married to
Charles Louis, Prinbe of Leiningen. He is conse-
quently related by half blood to her Majesty the
Queen, but in no way forms part of the Royal
Family of England, and does not, therefore, fall
under the exclusion of the protocol of 1830. His
Highness, who is a Protestant, is in his thirty-
third year, and was married in 1858 to the Prin-
cess Marie of Baden. He is a post.captain in
the British service, and commands the Magicienne
on the Mediterranean station.

It is difficult to see what objection can be raised
to a prince so fitted by age, character, and training
for the high position to which he will probably
be called. His Highness, excei,t in not belonging
to the Royal Family, possesses every qualification
that could have been looked for in Prince Allred,
besides being of more suirable age, and a married
man.

The throne has now remained vacant so long
that it becomes of the highest importance that
term should be put to this period of suspense.
We therefore trust that the Greek people, as well
as the Powers interested, will find in this nomi-
nation a satisfactory solution of the difficulties
that have hitherto surroiinded the question.--
Morning Post.

TURKISH POSTAGE STAMPS.—Turkey has just
issued postage stamps, having long been the only
Power in Europe that had not adopted that mode of paying
for letters. The Turkish stamps are of four different
colours, and all bear the signature of the Sultan Abdul-
Aziz, the Mahometan religion interdicting the representa-
tion of the face or person.—Galignani.

AN AMERICAN STAGE SCENE.—A writer who
has travelled extensively says that he witnessed
rather a strange scone in Shakspeare's beautiful tragedy of
"Romeo and Juliet;" it was at ono of the Western
Theatres. The piece had passed off well without inter-
ruption until the last scene. The character of Romeo was
excellently enacted and loudly applauded. The very
model of the lover was before the tomb of the Capulets,
gazing upon the motionless form of her who had so
attracted his soul, and meditating upon committing an act
which would send his spirit to that undiscovered country
where he supposed Juliet's had gone. Just as he exclaimed
Here's to love !' and at the same time raising the vial which
contained the poison to his lips, a stalwart young country-
man jumped upon the stage,seized him,dlshed the vial from
his hand, crushing it into atoms, and Yer darned
fool,she ain't dead! Only been taken' a little sleeping medic' Ile.
Didn't yer get the parson's letter?' Sirrah I' growled
out the enraged tragedian, while the house fairly shook
with laughter. Why, yer gal ain't dead, I tell yer.
The way it was, they wanted to make Julie marry that
chap thar,' pointing to Paris, ' whose business you have
just settled ; but I tell you Julie war pluck—she got her
back right up and vowed she wouldn't do it, even if
while she war lying in the vault the ghost of the other
feller whom you kilt should dash her brains out with the
bones of some of her dead cousins. Wal, her pluck war
up, and she took the stuff the parson fixed ; so she could
play possum till you got hum. That's the way it war,'
replied the countryman, giving the desperate lover a
tremendous poke in the ribs with his elbow, at the
same time loosing his hold. Curses on the felhAv
muttered the raving tragedian as he stalked behind the
scenes. Wal, now,' said the countryman, fronting the
audience, if that ai'nt a leetle the dod darned meanest
cuss I ever did see, I hope to be swowed. That's all
the thanks I git for stopping him from pizenin himself.
Hope to be tarnly mashed if ever I go to interfere again
when a feller wants to murder himself,' he continued, as
he clambered back to his seat, just in time to prevent hi
upper story from coming is contact with the curtain afri it
dc§cencletl,