The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-09 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARcH 9.

The Hamburg and American Company's ship
Bavaria, from New York on the 23d ult., has arrived
off Cowes en route for Hamburg.
She has 48 passengers, and specie on freight of
the value of 144,040 dole., of which amount 86,400
are for England, 55,200 for France, and 2,640 for
Hamburg.

On the 2d instant she spoke the Bremen bark
Columbia, bound east, and on the 7th the British
hark Joan Taylor, bound west.
The New I (wk. Herald of the 22d ult. says :
" From the South we have an interesting commen-
tary upon the diplomatic correspondence of M.
Drouyn de Lhuys and Mr. Seward in the Richmond
papers. The plans of the French Minister for me-
diation and peace are pretty roughly handled ; in
fact they are rather uncivilly declined. The Em-
peror himself is somewhat :snubbed, and Mr.
Seward's letter to the French Minister is described
as the sublimity of insolence. The Southern Con-
federacy, we are told, needs no commissioners to
settle the difficulty either of French or any other
suggestion. The Commisioners already exist in the
persons of Generals Lee, Beauregard, Longstead,
Jackson, and Joe Johnston.
The Richmond Inquirer says that the Union
forces of General Jefferson Davis were encountered
and dispersed by the rebel General Forrest at
Franklin, on the 17th inst.

Captain Hutchinson, of the schooner Olive Hay-
ward, arrived yesterday from Curacoa, reports that
on the 10th inst., in lat, 26, long. 64.41, he saw the
rebel privateer Richmond, which chased his vessel
for three hours, but being to windward of the Re-
tribution, he escaped by outsailing her.
A special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
was held yesterday. There was a large attend-
ance. The depredations of the Alabama were the
principal subject of discussion. Memorials were
adopted calling on Congress to pass the bill em-
powering the President to issue letters of marque
and reprisal, on the issuance of which authority
the Chamber has before it the propriety of fitting
out volunteer vessels to capture the Alabama ano
other rebel cruisers. Resolutions were also adopted
calling on the Government to occupy, by an armed
force, the Texan borders contiguous to Mexico,
through which latter country an important contra-
band trade is carried on for the relief of the rebels.
Also resolutions in favour of the constructions by
the Government of an oceanic and coast line of
telegraph from Galveston to Fortress Monroe and
Washington.
62 more of the rebel prisoners taken at Murfrees-
boro, Tennessee, took the oath of allegiance to the
United States, and renounced the Southern Con-
federacy at St. Louis on the 13th inst., and were
thereupon released from the Gratiot-street prison.
General Blunt, who is in command of the Depart-
ment of Kansas, in a speech at a Republican meet-
ing in Leavenworth, on the 13th inst., said it was
supposed by many that the opposition in the war
comes from the Democratic party. This he said
is not true. Many who have been associated with
them are the leaders, but he believed the great mass
of that party to be true and loyal.
In the Senate on the 21st Feb., a memorial from
the citizens of Now York, asking for the establish-
ment of a submarine telegraph from Fortress
Monroe to Galveston was presented. Bills amen-
datory of the Act to equalise the grade of line
officers of the navy, dividing Michigan into two
judicial districts, and granting lands to Kansas for
railroads and telegraphs, were passed. Bills to
incorporate the National Academy of Sciences, and
granting a right of way through the military re-
serves of Kansas, were introduced. Mr. Powell
offered a resolution that a committee of three be
appointed to investigate the facts in reference to
the arrest, imprisonment, and release of D. A.
Mahony, J. A. Mullen, and Andrew J. Duff.
Laid over. Mr. Powell also gave:notice that he
should at an early day offer a resolution for a
committee to investigate the conduct of General
Gilbert in recently dispersing a convention in Ken-
tucky. A resolution to print 10,000 copies of the
Currency Bill was referred. The bill for the dis-
charge of state prisoners, and authorising the sus-
pension of the habeas corpus was taken up, and an
angry discussion ensued between Messrs. Wilson,
of Massachusetts, and Powell, of Kentucky. An
executive session was held, and the Senate ad-
journed.
In the House of Representatives a committee of
conference was asked of the Senate on the disagree-
ing amendments to the Finance Bill. The Post-
offiee Reform Bill was next considered. An
amendment that all soldiers in camp or
hospital should receive and transmit letters
free cf postage was adopted, and the
bill passed by a vote of 72 against 56. The
Ways and IMeans Committee reported amend-
ments in the Internal Tax Bill, and Tuesday next
was assigned for the consideration of the subject.
The Senate amendments to the Posts Route Bill
were agreed to. The Senate Bill to Prevent Cor-
respondence with Rebels was passed, also the
Senate Bill to Punish Bribery. The Senate Bill
authorising the issue of letters of marque was then
taken up and discussed till the adjournment.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
BERLIN, MARCH 7.

The National Zeitung of to-day pub'ishes a letter
from Warsaw, stating that an engagement had
taken place near lialusyn, the result of which was
not yet known.
The official Dztennick of Warsaw has discontinued
publishing bulletins relative to the engagements
between the insurgents and the Russians.
The two fractions of the national party called
the White and the Red parties, have come to an
understanding.
The Neue Preussische (Kreuz) Zeitung of to-day
says :—" Reports are current at Warsaw that the
Grand Duke Constantine is about to take his de-
parture. His Imperial Highness would temporarily
be replaced by Count de Berg. His definitive succes-
sor would
• however, be Prince Alexander von
Hessen."

Proclamations issued by the revolutionary com-
mittee have been printed in Prussian Poland and
Galicia, entreating the people not to allow them-
selves to be induced to rise in insurrection, as the
only mortal enemy of Poland was Russia.
WARSAW, MARCH 7.

The insurgent bands at Piaskowa, Skala, Wid-
nara, Mrzyglod, and Karezew have been dispersed.
The forests of Kampinos have been cleared of in-
surgents. Boglanowicz and Jasinsky, two of their
chieftains, have met their deaths by being shot in
engagements.

LEMBERG, MARCH 7.

The Russians have withdrawn to Miechow.

The headquarters of Langiewicz were the day
before yesterday at Goszt z, where he was joined by
fresh reir.forcements.

The eastern frontier of Galicia is strongly guarded
on the Russian side.
Considerable numbers of Russian troops are being
despatched from Bessarabia into Poland.