The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-11 00:00:00

RA ILWAYS.

The official Gazette of to-day publishes a Royal
decree, according to which the Customs tariff on
iron, fixed in December, 1862, is maintained.
Tnh,
e rumours of a Ministerial crisis are unfounded.

TIE WEST COAST OF ,AFRICA MATTS.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 11.

The royal mail steamer Athenian, from the West
Coast of Africa, arrived here this morning, with
4010 z. of gold dust, and £2,320 in specie. Her
dates are Benin, May 24; Fernando Po, June 1;
catneroone, May 29 ; Old Calabar, June 2; Brass
River, 4; Bonny, 7: Lagos, 10; Accra, 12; Cape
Coast Castle, 13; Cape Palmas, 17; Sierra Leone,
21 ; Bathurst, 25 ; Teneriffe, July 1 ; and Ma-
deira 3.
Although the steamer brings no despatches, pri-
vate information states that trade was in a very
depressed state, in consequence of prevalent sick-
ness, and the unsettled relations with the King of
Ash antes.,

OUTRAGE UPON THE ENGLISH CONSUL
RESIDENT AT SCUTARI.
PARIS, JULY 11.
The Pgris papers of this morning publish the
following telegram from Rlguss, dated the 10th
inst. :

Mussulman rioters at Dulcigno have forcibly
entered the house of the English Consul resident
at Fcutari, who had arrived at Dulcigno. The
Consul's coachman was killed, and the Consul com-
pelled to barricade himself in his apartment, The

Cash. Account.
Orleans lOl6 25 .. 1012 50

Northern
New. ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1022 50 .. 1023 75
Geneva 477 50 .. 477 50
Southern
Western
Eastern

Sardinian 4lO .. 410
Austrian

LOT bard
North of Spain

.. 570 -
.. 545 -

Saragossa 697 50 .. 696 25
Ditto to Barcelona

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

(Per the Scotia.)

NEW YORK, JUNE 29 (Evening).

General Hooker has been relieved from
the command of the Army of the Potomac
at his own request. General Meade, a West
Point graduate, and late commander of the Fifth
Corps of the Potomac army, has been appointed his
ouccessor. General Meade is not connected with
any political faction.

General Hooker has issued an order, saying that
be parted from the army impressed with the belief
that his usefulness as a commander was impaired.
General Meade has issued an order stating that
he accepted the command, which was totally
unexpected and unsolicited, with great diffidence.
He relieved an eminent and accomplished soldier,
and relied upon the troops to assist him in dis-
charging his trust.

The sudden change of command at the present
crisis has caused general astonishment.
The whole of General Meade's army is upon the
north side of the Potomac.

General Lee, with the last of Longetreet's and
H ill's corps,passed throughHagersto wn on Saturday,
and Lee's whole army is now in Pennsylvania,
which it is believed he intends to make the future
battle-ground.

General Stuart's cavalry has followed Lee across
the Potomac.

Ewell's, Hill's, and Longstreet's corps are esti-
mated:at 75,000 men.

The Confederate advance in Pennsylvania has
not yet met with any organised resistance, though
the inhabitants appear to be a little more roused.

Business in Philadelphia is entirely suspended,
and the Pennsylvanian collieries are closed.

General Dana has issued a proclamation stating
that the Confederate strategy was sufficiently under-
stood to make it certain that Philadelphia was their
object, and urging the people to arm for defence.
The mayor cf Philadelphia has called upon the
people no longer to close their eyes to the startling
danger and disgrace hanging over the State and
city.

The Confederates occupied Carlisle on the 27th
inst., and o❑ the following day advanced to within
three miles of the Federal fortifications opposite
Harrisburg, where there is a large Federal force,
and there resistance is expected to be offered to a
further Confederate advance.

The Confederates at Macconellsburg have also
marched towards Harrisburg. General Early's divi-
sion has moved from Harriaburg to a point between
York and Hanover Court-house, cut the telegraph
wires, and destroyed numerous bridges, cutting the
railroad communications between Harrisburg and
Baltimore. There now only remains one railroad
line connecting the Northern States with Wash-
ington.

The Confederates have also occupied York, Me-
chanicsville, and Wrightsville, where the Federals
destroyed the bridge stretching across the Susque-
hannah to Columbia, in order to prevent the Con-
federates advancing further. The bridge was one
mile and a quarter long, and cost a million dollars.
General Eweli has issued an order enforcing rigid
discipline, and warning his troops that wandering,
marauding, and plundering are forbidden. What
is required for the army will be taken under regu-
lation established by the commanding general,
according to the usages of civilised warfare.
A large force of General Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry
has passed within 14 miles of Washington, on the
north side, and it is supposed that they are striking
for the piece of trestlework on the railroad between
Washington and Annapolis Junction.
Another Confederate cavalry force made a dash
into Annandale on Sunday, destroying stores and
capturing waggons. Nine hundred Federal cavalry
fell into an ambuscade near Fairfax, on Saturday.
the 27th inst., and were badly cut up by Gen. Lee's
cavalry.
Gen. Rosecranz's army, with the exception of
one division, commenced moving on the 24th inst.
Gen. Banks issued an order on the 15th instant,
saying that with one more advance the works of
Port Hudson would be captured. He calls upon
the troops to organise a volunteer storming column
of 1,000 men. This last assault was to be made on
the 20th inst., and if not successful it was supposed
Gen. Banks would fall back to Baton Rouge.
The Port Hudson works are considered impreg.
MADRID, JULY 10. I liable:

Heavy cannonading continued at Vicksburg on
the 25th.

The crew of the privateer Tacony, under Lieut.
Reed, transferred themselves to the schooner
Archer, which they had captured. They then took
the Archer into Portland Harbour on the 26th at
night,•and boarded and seized the revenue cutter
Caleb Cushing, putting her crew in irons, and sail-
ing out of Portland with the Caleb Cushing and the
Archer. Upon the 27th (morning) two steamers,
with 30 regular troops and 100 armed citizens of
Portland, started promptly in pursuit, and soon
overhauled the Caleb Cushing and the Archer, and,
after a few shots were fired by both parties, the
privateer's crew abandoned the revenue cutter in
small boats, and blew her up. The latter, however,
together with the Archer and her crew, were
afterwards captured by the steamers, and taken into
Portland, where they are held prisoners.

NEW YORK, JUDO 30 (Evening).
General Dix, with a strong force, has occupied
White House, and sent out a cavalry expedition
which destroyed the Virginia Central Railroad
bridge across the South Anna River, brought in
prisoners and stores, and captured Confederal*
General Fitzhugh Lee, who was lying ill at a pri-
vate house. The same cavalry force penetrated
within nine miles of Richmond.
The Confederates in Tennessee retreated fighting
before General Rosecranz's advance, and Rosecranz
occupied Manchester and Shelbyville, the Confede-
rates falling back to Tullahoma, which it was sup-
posed Bragg would abandon and retreat to Chatty.-
nooogs.
News from New Orleans to the 22d states that
the Confederates bad reoccupied Thibrudeau and
the Attakapas country, and advanced to Lafourche
Crossing, but were driven back. They also seized

the Opelousas Railroad, and cut off the Federals at
Brashear city.
The abandonment of the siege of Port Hudson by
General Banks is considered probable.
Advices from Vicksburg are to the 26th inst. The
Federals had blown up one of the forts on the left,
and had mounted two guns in the abandoned fort.

Southern journals assert that General Pemberton
receives reinforcements from across the river. It
is rumoured that General Johnston has moved
southward to attack General Banks.

Much alarm prevails in Kentucky and Ohio.
Generals Pegram and Marshal], with 15,000 men,
are reported to be advancing through Cumberland
Gap.
Preparations for defence are being made at Cin-
cinnati.

The reported depredations by privateers at the
mouth of the thy of Fundy are not credited.
The steamers Hecla, City of Baltimore, and China
have arrived out.

The steamers Planter and Neptune have been
captured off Mobile.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money easy. Gold, 47 premium. Exchange,
Bankers' bills, 161. Stocks dull—New York Cen-
tral, 119 a ; Illinois, 1001; Erie, 94i; Six per Cent.
United States Bonds, 1011. Cotton buoyant—
Middling Upland, 74c. to 75c. Flour, good in-
quiry ; wheat heavy ; corn dull. Provisions steady.
Coffee quiet; sugar, good inquiry; molasses quiet
crude petroleum buoyant, 321 c.
NEW YORK, July 1, Morning.
The Confederates have retired from the line of
the Susquehannab, and General Lee is reported to
be concentrating his army on the line of the Cum-
berland Valley railroad, between Shippensburg and
Chambersburg, as if expecting an attack from
Meade's army. Various Confederate cavalry forces
who have been marauding in close vicinity of
Washington, are said to have returned and joined
Lee.

The present position of General Lee's (Meac3e's ?)
army is not known, but it is reported to be in rapid
motion, and its progress thus far has relieved the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad of Confederate
cavalry, and restored telegraphic cemmunicaticn
with Frederick.
News of a collision between the main armies of
Generals Lee and Meade is hourly expected.
Up to Saturday 37,000 Confederate troops, with
104 pieces of artillery, passed through Chambers-
burg, and on that day General Lee and staff, in
company with Generals Longstreet and Hill, left
Chambersburg on the Baltimore pike in the direc-
tion of Gettysburg and the Northern Central rail-
road.

General Early has levied a contribution at York
of 150,000 dollars and large quantities of supplies
from the inhabitants. He received 30,000 dollars,
and gave the inhabitants twenty days to pay the
balance.

Entrenchments are being dug round Philadel-
phia, and the merchants of that city have forwarded
large quantities of goods to New York for safety.

The Governor of New Jersey has again called
oat the militia to go to the aid of Pennsylvania.
The public clamour for M'Clellan's re-appoint-
ment continues.

The Confederates continue to respect private
property, but the Richmond Enquirer says that Lee
may purposely adopt this policy to avoid alarming
the population, until General Meade's army is well
cleared out his path and General Lee is enabled to
throw the whole Confederate army into Pennsyl-
vania in one combined movement, enveloping Wash-
ington on one side, Harrisburg on the other side,
" and so forward until the Confederate flag reflects
itself in the Delaware. Then (continues the Rich-
mond Enquirer) the just retaliation which the Con.
federates demand and the enemy expects must be
deliberately organised."
President Davis has called upon the Confederates
for troops for home defence, to replace Lee's invad-
ing army.

NEW YORK, July 1 (Afternoon).
Martial law has been proclaimed in Baltimore
and Western Maryland.

It is reported that the Federal cavalry, under
Gregg, has driven Stuart's whole cavalry force from
Westminster, Maryland, 18 miles to Hanover,
Pennsylvania. General Kilpetrick then drove
Stuart out of Hanover, and was pursuing him.
Part of Stuart's force is going towards Gettysburg,
and part towards York.
Yesterday the Confederates burned Cashtows,
Pennsylvania.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, July 1 (Afternoon).

Money easy. Gold, 45 per cent. prem. Stocks
very firm : New York Central, 12017 Illinois, 103 ;
Erie, 95.

MEXICO.

OCCUPATION OF THE CITY OF MEXICO
BY THE FRENCH.

NEW YORK, July 1.

Advices received here, via San Francisco, from
Mexico, to the 6th, state that the Mexican purison,
numbering 20,000 men, evacuated Mexico city on
i.he 30th May, and retired to Cuernavaca Plaza.

The principal leaders of the church party then
sent a commission to General Forey, offering their
allegiance to Napoleon.

General Bazaine's division occupied Mexico city
on the sth, affording protection to the church party
against the excited populace. The whole French
army was expected to occupy Mexico on the Bth.
Three newspapers had been established in Mexico,
favouring French policy.