The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-17 00:00:00

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Pera has arrived here with the heavy portion
of the above mail. Among her passengers, 107 in
number, are Captains Speke and Grant, the disco-
verers of the source of the Nile.
The Pera brings £12,087 in specie, 12 packages
of valuables, and 2,039 packages of cargo. She left
Gibraltar on the 12th inst., and experienced
strong head winds and thick weather across the
Bay of Biscay. On the 13th instant, off the
Rock of Lisbon, she spoke the steamer Magdalena,
and exchanged signals with the steamer Livorno.
On the 14th she exchanged signals with the British
brig Vesta. The Ripon left Gibraltar, for the East,
on the 9th. The Oldenburg brig Ceres arrived at
Gibraltar. On the 11th she reports having fallen
in with the Confederate steamer Florida on the 25th
April. She was ordered to heave to and compelled
to take five men on board. The Florida then had
upwards of 200 prisoners on board.

Exchange on London at Gibraltar was quoted
501 ; on Paris, 529. Freights unaltered.

SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 17.

The North German Lloyds' steamer Hansa, from
New York, on the 6th June, has arrived off Cowes,
with 207 passengers for Bremen, Havre, and this
port ; 44 bags mails, 302,500 dols. in specie, for
England, 59,900 dols. for Franee, and 400 dole. for
Bremen.

Her news has been anticipated by the Etna.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, June 16.—The quarterly coupon has
been taken off from the Three per Cents. to-day.
That Stock is now offered slightly lower than yes-
terday, being at 68f. 85c. The Railway Share
Market quiet, but prices pretty well maintained.
The market closed as follows:

41 per Cents .. 96 95
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 75
Credit Mobilier 1230
Do. end month —
Bank Shares 3450
Credit Foncier 1395 -
HAIL'

Italian Loan 72
Do. end month 72
New ditto
Do. end month 74
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Rome Debt

Account.

'AYS.
Cash.
Orleans lOOO ..
Northern
New ditto — •
Lyons and Mediterranean 1042 50 .. 1043 75
Geneva 452 5() .. 450
Southern
Western
]astern .. .. 5OO ~. 505
Sardinian - .. 425
Austrian
LOIP bard
North of Spain
Saragossa .. 725 .. 722 50
Ditto to Barcelona .... 377 50 .. 380

90
90
10
10

Northern advices from Vicksburg to the 30th ult.
report the siege of that place to be progressing, and
Gen. Grant to be erecting earthworks for the pro-
tection of the troops, and to be mining in order to
blow up some Confederate forts.
The bombardment of Vicksburg by the fleet ap-
pears to have little Eff€ ct, and Admiral Porter reports
that the works are stronger than they dreamt of.
Scouts report that Gen. Johnston, with 15,000 to
30,000 men, is advancing between the Yazoo and
Big Black Rivers with the intention of retaking
Haine's Bluff, and breaking up the Federal com-
munication by the Yazoo River. One Federal
corps marched to meet Johnston.
A Confederate officer on the Rappahannock stated
to the bearer of a flag of truce that General Grant,
after being repulsed at every point, had fallen back
upon the line of the Big Black River, and was for-
tifying his position to prevent Johnston from cross-
ing.
The Northern journals discredit this statement.
The New York World thinks the siege of Vicks-
burg may last during the greater part of the sum-
mer. Other journals urge the Administration to
reinforce Gen. Grant.

General Banks's force investing -Port Hudson is
reported to number from 20,000 to 25,000 men.

The Federals are stated to have destroyed two
Confederate iron clads at Shreebesport, on the Red
River.

In Tennessee the Confederates have thrown nearly
all their forces forward from Tullahoma to Shelby-
ville, and are reconnoitring in front of Gen. Rose-
cranz at Murfreesboro', where heavy skirmishing
has occurred.

The Confederate cavalry has also attacked
Franklin.

Admiral Dupont is relieved by Admiral Foote.
It is again asserted that General Hunter is re
moved from his command.

President Lincoln has revoked General Burnside's
order, suppressing the Chicago limes, which has
resumed its publication in consequence.
General Burnside has withdrawn his order sup-
pressing the New York World in his department.
A large meeting has been held at Chicago, de-

nounc:ng General Burnside's action ; and the
Illinois Legislature has requested the Government
to withdraw his order, and has called the attention

of the Governor of Illinois to General Burnside's
invasion of the State sovereignty.
A Democratic State Peace Convention was held
inside and outside of the Cooper Institute at New
York, on Wednesday (3d inst.) The meeting was a
great success, both in numbers and enthusiasm.
Resolutions were passed declaring that the Govern-
ment has no constitutional power to coerce States
by military force. if the power of coercion exists,
it is of a legal and not of a military character. The
Democracy cannot sustain a war against sovereign
States, and demands that it should cease.
Mr. Vallandigham's arrest and the exercise of
military law were strongly denounced, and hopes
were expressed that Vallandigham will be eleeted
governor of Ohio.
The resolutions recommend the suspension of hos-
tilities, and that a convention of the Confederate
States and a separate convention of the Federal
States shall be held to determine how the contend•
ing sections shall be reconciled.
A committee was appointed for practically carry-

ing out peace principles.
The address to the convention favours State
sovereignty, and declares that the war cannot suc-
ceed. The North has been beaten, and cannot
conquer the South. The people are tired of the
war and want peace.
The principal speaker, Fernando Wood, declared
that no man equal to the crisis had shown himself
in field or Cabinet, and that no man had been
found to raise the banner of peace; therefore, soli-
tary and alone, he put the ball in motion.
President Lincoln's Administration and General
Burnside were hissed, and the names of General
M'Clellan and Vallandigham cheered.
The New York Herald says that the meeting was
the greatest ever held in New York, and that such
unmistakeable bitterness of hostility to the Admi-
nistration was never before recorded in American
history. All agreed that it was time to atop the
war. The Herald thinks Wood's speech statesman-
like and bold.
The Tribune stigmatises the meeting as disloyal,
encouraging insurrection, and abetting treason.
The Tammany Hall Democracy declare the peace
movement at this time inexpedient and unwise.
The New York World recommends the peace and
war Democrats to unite and tolerate each other's

p€ culiarities.
Governor Seymour has ordered the trial of the
New York police commissioners for arbitrary arrests
and other causes to take place on the 13th inst.
It is supposed that the decision of the New York
Supreme Court declaring Treasury notes not a legal
tender for debts contracted prior to the passing of
the Legal Tender Act will be reversed by appeals
to other courts.
The steamer Dolphin has been condemned at Key
West, rifles and sabres having been found among
her cargo.
News received from Havana states that the
Spanish steamer Union and the British steamers
Hero and Eagle have been captured.
The Diario Marina says the Hero was captured
within sight of the Cuban coast.
The Southern steamer Cuba has been chased, and
burnt to avoid capture.

NEW YORK, June 6.
General Grant kept up a heavy bombardment of
Vicksburg on the 31st ult.
A report has reached Cincinnati that General
Johnston, instead of reinforcing Vicksburg, was
advancing in force upon Memphis, but this is not
generally credited.
General Banks assaulted Port Hudson defences
on the 27th; General Weitzel commanded the right,
Sherman the left, and Generals Augur and Grover
the centre.

Sherman's and 'Weitzel's corps commenced the
attack, and fighting soon became general along the
whole line, the Federals everywhere meeting with
a desperate resistance. General Weitzel on the right
captured a six•gnn battery upon the river side,
which he turned against the Confederates. General
Sherman, on the left, was not so successful, and was
driven back. The 2d Louisiana (negro) Regiment
was in the advance in Sherman's attack, and lost
600 out of 900 men.

Generals Augur and Grover, in the centre, are
said to have driven the Confederates out of their
rifle-pits and entrenchments into the main works.
The battle lasted all the 27th, and is reported to
have been renewed on the 28th; but the steamer
left New Orleans on the night of the 28th, up to
which time the authorities had published no infor-
mation of the second day's fight.
The New York, Tribune says that at five o'clock
in the evening of the 27th Gen. Banks despatched
an order along his lines to retreat to the original
position occupied at the commencement of the
assault, but reinforcements were sent up from New
Orleans.
The battle was very bloody, the Federal loss being
estimated at from 2,000 to 4,000 men. General
Sherman has arrived at New Orleans badly
wounded.
Admiral Farregut co-operated in the attack with
General Banks, and the bombardment is said to
' have dismounted five guns in Port Hudson.
General Lee's army is reported to be moving
towards Gordonsville. An impression still prevails
that Lee will cross the Rappahannock, and General
Hooker has wade every preparation to meet him.
The Federal Colonel Kirkpatrick has made a
successful cavalry raid from Gloucester Point to
Falmouth.

the Confederates have made simultaneous attacks
upon Franklin and Treime (?), Tennessee, and were
repulsed at each place.
It is stated that General Hunter's letter to Pre-
sident Jtfferson Davis was never sent.
Mr. Fernando Wood has had an interview with

President Lincoln at Washington.

The New York Herald thinks that there are in-
dications of a reaction in the public mind on the