The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1863

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.
ROCHE'S POINT, April 25 (Midnight).
The Canada has brought advices from New York
to the 14th inst.
• The Federal attack on Charleston has proved a
more decided failure than was anticipated. Admiral
Dupont's official report, which is in the hands of
the Government, has been withheld for reasons not
stated. The accounts of the correspondents of the
New York papers not only confirm those previously
received from Confederate sources but admit the re-
, pulse of the ironclads to have been complete, and
, that no renewal of the attempt need be looked for.
Of the nine Monitors that participated in the en-
gagement, one, the Keokuk, was sunk, and has proved
a total loss; another, the Passaic, received a shot
• that bent in her turret and disabled her 11-inch
guns; three others, the Patapsco, Nantucket, and
Nahant, were all more or less injured and rendered
unfit for service. This condition of his fleet deter-
mined Admiral Dupont to abandon the idea of re-
newing the conflict, At the date of the last advices
two of the Monitors had sailed for Port Royal,
whither the remainder were shortly to follow. The
Federal loss was 20 officers and men wounded, one
of whom has since died. The Federals report that
several breaches were made in the walls of Fort
Sumter. The engagement, when fairly commenced,
only lasted 30 minutes according to one account,
and two hours according to another. The result
has caused great discouragement in New York, and
revived the popular clamour for a change in the
Administration.
The violent outcry against Great Britain is con-
tinued in the Republican journals; it is declared
that a war against England would effectually unite
all parties in the North. The Solicitor-General and
Lord Palmerston are vehemently denounced for
their recent speeches on the depredations of the
Alabama and Florida. The indications are that the
anti-English spirit is stimulated by the Government
to distract public attention from the disheartening
repulse before Charleston.
Advices from Moorhead city, North Carolina, to
the 11th inst., state that up to that date all attempts
to relieve General Foster at Washington had been
unsuccessful. A detachment of 7,000 men, which
had been despatched to his assistance, was driven
back by the Confederates, with a loss to the Fede-
rals of 50 men. No communication had been re-
ceived from General Foster subsequent to the Bth
inst., and it is alleged that he had only provisions
for one day. He has refused to receive any more
flags of truce, or to send away the women and chil-
dren and other non-combatants.
All the expeditions for the purpose of reaching
the rear of Vicksburg via the several passes leading
from the Mississippi have been abandoned.
During the reti eat of the Federals from Fort
Pemberton and Yazoo Pass they were frequently
fired upon by guerillas, and had 30 men killed and
many wounded.
Tho correspondent of the New York Times, writ-
ing from New Orleans under date of April 5, states
that the attitude of the Confederates at Port Hud-
son, Jackson, Mobile, and on the Atchafalaya jus-
tify the apprehension of an attack upon New Or- ,
leans, which the troops under General Banks are
in no condition successfully to resist. The Con-
federate forces at the points named number nearly
65,000 men, and would be concentrated at New
Orleans in 12 hours, while General Banks has less
than 20,000 men.

A grand mass meeting was called by the insti-
gators of the Loyal National League to meet at
Union-square on Saturday afternoon, the anniver-
sary of the fall of Fort Sumter. About 5,000 per-
sons assembled, Who were addressed by Generals
Fremont and Sigel and the Postmaster-General,
Mr. Montgomery Blair. The latter denounced the
English aristocracy for fitting out the pirates Ala
bama and Florida, and advocated the vigorous pro-
seJution of the war.
The disturbances between the white and coloured
labourers in this city continue to be of frequent
occurrence. Yesterday, in two instances, the
negroes were driven from their work on the wharves
by Irish and other labourers. One of the negroes
fired a pistol into the crowd, wounding one of his
assailants, and it was with great difficulty that the
police prevented his being lynched on the spot.
There is no further news from Charleston, except
that the Confederate steamer Stonewall Jackson,
formerly the Leopard, being closely pursued while
attempting to run the blockade on the night of the
11th, was beached and burnt by the captain of the
vessel. The mail was safely landed in small boats,
together with crew and passengers. It is believed
that the remnant of the ironclads, so signally de-
feated on the 7th, will, as soon as repaired, be sent
to New Orleans to make an attempt upon Port

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Hudson.
The Tribune reports from Washington that Lord
Lyons has requested thet the mail found on board
the English steamer Peterhoff be returned to him
unopened, and that the Department of State is in-
clined to comply with his demand. The Navy De-
partment, on the contrary, objects to do so on the
ground that the letters and papers it contains may
furnish sufficient proofs to condemn the vessel and

cargo.
On the 14th there was some slight skirmishing
near Suffolk, Virginia, brought on by an advance of
a Confederate force for the purpose of occupying the
attention of Gen. Peck, and of preventing reinforce.
ments being sent to Gen. Foster.
The casualties on either side were trifling. A
deserter who same into the Federal lines at Suffolk
on the 13th inst. reported that Gen. Foster, with
his whole garrison, had surrendered to the Con-
federates. The latest Federal accounts direct from
Gen. Foster are to the 11th, at which date he
believed he could hold out for three weeks.
In compliance with the request of the Confede-
rate Congress, President Davis, on the 10th inst.,
issued an address to tha people of the Confederate
States upon the present condition and future
prospects of their country. He says, in this ad-
dress, that, alone and unaided, the Confederacy
had defeated the most formidable military and naval
combinations of its enemies, and, at the end of two
years of war, could look back with pride upon all
it had accomplished. Referring to the discomfiture
of the Federals at Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and
Charleston, he said that the forces of the Confede-
racy were never so numerous or efficient as at the
present moment. He concluded by exhorting the
people to be prepared for the continuance of war,
and to cultivate the crops for the sustenance of their
armies rather than cotton and tobacco.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, APRIL 14.
The confirmation of the adverse news from
Charleston sent up the price of gold yestei day to
1581 ; to-day it has fluctuated between 148 and
1551, and closes at 155 i. Exchange nominally
170. United States' Sixes, 1881, 1042; Treasury
730 Notes, 104 a. New York Central Railway,
1134; Erie,l7B2-; Illinois Central, 89.
Cotton, 70c. Flour, sc. to 10c. per bushel lower.
Gold 54. Exchane 166. APRIL 16.
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cc eenntt.r
al sinceßai yesterday'slway
1; ;qEu orti ae:
with downward tendency. United States'
tnioetnees. declined
N e w
72 ; Illinois Central 88,
Cotton, 68. Breadstuffs unchanged in prices.
Provisions quiet ; sugars, 9tc to 10c.

EXICO.
No attack upon PueMbla had taken place u to the
p
encoun-
-23d ult., the date of last advices.
Several
ters between the French and Mexican troops are
reported from Mexican sources, in which the ad-
vantage is claimed for the latter.
The Canada takes 20,901 dole. in specie,
Richmond papers of the 13th publish a despatch

from Mobile, dated April 11, which states that an
officer from a British man-of-war, then lying off the
harbour, had reported the capture of Mexico by
the French.

NEW YORK, APRIL 14, AFTERNOON.
The efforts made to reinforce General Foster at
Washington, North Carolina, have been unsuccess-
ful. It is supposed that he will be compelled to
surrender for want of provisions.
The Confederates are reported to be 27,000 strong
between Newbern and Washington, and an attack
upon the former place is expected.
The Confederates are also said to be between
Williamstown and Yorktown, and to be threaten-
ing Suffolk; in order to prevent reinforcements
reaching General Foster.
The entire Yazoo Pass expedition has returned to
Helena, having abandoned the attack upon Fort
Pemberton.

Five Federal ironclads were preparing to run the
Vicksburg blockade.
Southern reports state that Admiral Farragut
was near the Red River, between two batteries,
unable to pass either of them.
Rumours are current at Now Orleans that the
Federals intended to make a forward movement by
way of the Red River, and that operations in the
Atchafalaya River would shortly commence.
A corps of 15,000 Confederates, under Van Dorn,
has attacked Franklin, Tennessee, and is reported
to have been repulsed with a loss of 300 men.
The New York Herald says, "It is rumoured
General M.Clellan has resigned his commission."
A riot has occurred at New York between white
and coloured labourers, but order has been restored
by the police.
The public meeting held at New York on Satur-
day last (11th) was not so numerously attended as
the previous meeting. Resolutions were passed
declaring a determination to preserve the Union
against Southern traitors, their northern aiders, and
their piratical allies ; also, that, in view of England
having permitted piratical vessels to be built and

manned in British ports, it was proper to recall to
the British Government the contrast between such
violation of international neutrality and the honour-
able fidelity and promptness uniformly observed
towards England by the American Government.
The New York Herald says the allusion to Eng-
land were received with yells and groans.
The Postmaster-General, Blair, made a speech
devoted mainly to denouncing the British aris-
tocracy, who, be declared, aid the rebels in every
way short of declared war.

Public apprehensions of War with England are
increasing.

The New York Times says the Government speeches
in the British Parliament concerning the Alabama
forbid all further doubt that there is deliberate
purpose and settled plan on the part of the British
Cabinet to violate its neutral obligations to America.
Americans should apprehend this distinctly, and the
Feder Al Government should take effective measures
against it, taking the ground that the fitting out of
vessels against a neutral Power is essentially illegal
under the law of nations.

The New York Irzbune says that the wrongs
heaped upon the Americans by the British ruling
classes are treasured up against the day of rockon-
ing, which must surely come.
The New York World thinks that the Adminis-

tration and its organs seem determined to inflame
to the utmost the natural popular resentment
towards England, their object being to gain credit
with the Irish population here. The World is con-
fident that the Administration does not mean war
with England, and that, therefore, to put on bully-
ing airs was disgraceful. It urges President Lin-
coln earnestly to consider whether the Americans
will stand the humiliation of another Trent affair,
and says, " If President Lincoln fans the popular
passions to a dangerous pitch they may pass beyond
his control."

Gen. Burnside has proclaimed the penalty o
death upon all persons aiding the Confederates.

The steamer Marion, from New York for New
Orleans, was wrecked upon Doubleheaci-shot Key.
The City of New York has arrived out.
April 14, Evening.
Northern accounts direct from Charleston state
that nine ironolads crossed Charleston bar in single
file on the 7th and moved up the harbour towards
Forts Sumter and Moultrie to attack those forts,
which vigorously returned the fire of the fleet.
In their passage up the harbour the fleet disco-
cvhearendnael fromnetw sorkuomftertoMoultrie, from Sumter to
obstructions stretching across the
Cumming's Point, and from Fort Ripley to Fort
Johnson. It was impossible to pass these obstruc-
tions, and after an engagement, lasting from 3 till
5 o'clock in the afternoon, the fleet returned from
the harbour with five out of the nine ironclads
damaged, and one of them, the Keokuk, sank the
following morning from the injuries she received.
During the last 30
minutes of the engagement the
Federal fleet received a concentric fire from the
Confederate batteries, which is described to have
been so terrific as to render it impossible for any
vessel to remain long under it.
No explicit accounts are given of what damage
was inflicted upon the Confederate forts.

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A correspondent of the New York Tribune says
with 11 holes, visible at a distance of three miles.
that the north-east face of Fort Sumter was
Some gaps were three feet wide, and two embra-
sures seemed knocked into one.

The New York Times' correspondent writes.--
" The fleet has only felt the outposts of the enemy,
as it was never able to place itself where it was
designed to begin operations—viz., upon the north-
west face of Fort Sumter. It was due solely to the
skill of the commanders that the entire fleet was not
destroyed. During part of the engagement the
steamer Ironsides refused to obey her rudder, and
became unmanageable.

The Federal commanders unanimously decided
that it was useless to renew the attack.

No land force co-operated in the attack. General
Hunter stated that he could only spare 7,000 men
to co-operate with the fleet, and this force only
proceeded to Stone Inlet, 12 miles from Charleston.
Admiral Dupont's whole available force to hold
theo forts,s
which had two turrets, received 90
h
I
difwb ptured them, was 1,100 men.
The t
neschaorribly riddled. One Whitworth
shots,
,a n Keokuk,
steel-pointed shot remained still sticking in the
wall of the turret.

The 'Weehawken was struck 0 times, and her
turret worked with difficulty.
The Passaic was struck 58 times, and her turret
so bent as to deprive her of all offensive power.
The turrets and pilot-houses of other vessels were
damaged. . _

The Confederates are said to have had some very
effective Whitworth guns.

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sissippi.
General Foster is reported to have supplies suffi-
cient at Washington to hold out against the Confe-
derate attack for three weeke.
The New Orleans correspondent of the New York
Times asserts that that place is threatened by the
Confederates.

Preparations are making at Mobile to capture
Ship Island.
Southern advices report Admiral Farragut to be
still blockading the Red River.
The .ivetv York Tribune states.—

" It is reported that Mr. Seward has forwarded
a despatch to Mr. Adams, dated the 13th inst., going
so far as to intimate that if the British Government
permit the Confederates to build and despatch
piratical cruisers from England, it ought justly to
be held responsible."
The Prize Commissioners take all testimony in
the ease of the Peterhoff, and the oftee will be tried

iu the District Attorney's-office at New York ae

soon as possible.

The Prize Commissioners hold the mail bag of the
Peterhoff, and have invited the British Consul at
New York to be present when it is opened. They
also offered him the privilege of opening it, but he
declined. The Government afterwards telegraphed
that the mail bag was not to be opened until fur-
ther instructions. Lord Lyons demands the return
of the mail bag unopened.
The riots between the white and black labourers
in this city have been resumed without result.

The steamer Leopard has been burnt by the
blockading squadron off Charleston. The crew
escaped. The steamers Emma and Anna have
arrived at Charleston.

It is currently reported in Havannah that Admira
Wilkes was held as a paroled prisoner there unti
he could explain why the Vanderbilt had fired a shot
at a Spanish coasting steamer.
The Bremen has arrived out.