The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-16 00:00:00

LATEST FROM NASSAU.

The fine steamer Hero arrived 'in the Mersey
yesterday afternoon with dates from Nassau to the
27th ultimo, having made the run from Nassau to
Queenstown in 17 days. She brings 41 passengers
and a cargo of mahogany and logwood. This
steamer lately ran the blockade of Charleston, with
1,745 bales of cotton and 528 barrels of rosin, under
the command of Capt. Peat. She reports seeing a
Federal cruiser 30 miles to the westward of Cape
Clear. The following steamers were at Nassau
when she sailed :—The Flora St. John's, the Annie
Childs, the Pet, the Minna, the Miriam, the Ruby,
and the Leopard. The latter, in attempting to enter
Charleston,was chased and shelled for several hours.
She, however, escaped, after throwing half of her
cargo overboard. The steamer Douro has been
captured by the United States gunboat Quaker City.
The Flora, on leaving Charleston, was shelled by
the blockading squadron without effect. One shot
passed near enough to an officer on deck, however,
to cause him to feel sensibly the agitation of the
atmosphere around. The steamer Havelock had
arrived at Wilmington. The steamer Ruby, under
the command of Captain Peat, was to sail in a few
days for Havannah. The following is an abstract
from the logbook of the Hero :—Left Nassau, March
27, at 4 p.m. March 30, at 350 p.m., lat. 28 3N.,
long. 68 28 W., passed a vessel, bottom up, appa-
rently of about 406 tons burden, keel broken amid-
ships. April 5, lat. 57 50 N., long. 4S 5 W., passed
the American ship Nestor, steering south-east.
April 11, lat. 48 13 N., long. 24 4 W., exchanged
signals with the ship Euxine, steering W.N.W.
Arrived at Queenstown at 9 a.m. on the 14th of
April. Moderate S.W. and N. W. winds through-
out the passage. The Hero was brought to this port
by Capt. Gregory, late of the steamer Ruby, and is
consigned to Messrs. Cunard, Wilson, and Co. The
Federal gunboat Tioga, blockading i❑ Bahama
waters, steams 14 knots, and from the activity of
her commander and her great speed she is dreaded
by the blockade runners.

ASSASSINATION OF A BRITISH SUBJECT IN
AMERICA.—A respectable correspondent iu the
county of Lanark transmits the following :—" The ac •
quaintances of Mr Basil Steuart (son of Alex. Steuart, Esq.,
Brownlie, Cariuke), who left this country- for America
about three years ago, and finally settled in Texas, will
learn with deep regret that he was waylaid and shot in July,
1862. So far as can be ascertained, the circumstances of his
death were as follows :—He had been previously inducec to
join a society said to be for the protection of properly; but
finding afterwards that the association so called had a
different object in view, being a strong Unionist party, and
not wishing to involve himself in the political disturbances
of the country, he withdrew, when the society, at its next
meeting, appointed one of its members to execute the
bloody design of secretly putting him to death. While out
on a hunting excursion, and in going through a narrow
pass, he was shot at from behind, the ball passing through
the heart. A gentleman of his acquaintance—a Mr. At-
terell—offered £lOO reward, and the chief magistrate of the
place another hundred, for the discovery of the guilty party
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a stranger in a strange land, he was respectably interred,
and a tombstone was raised to his memory by Mr. Atterell,
the gentleman referred to, and who belongs to England.
His death, under such circumstances, is said to have been
much lamented in the district in which he resided."— (Has-
low Eerakl,