The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-03 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The St. Petersburg papers of the 27th April pub
lish the following :

"The Volga is completely free from ice at Yaro-
slval ; communication is established between the
two banks, and navigation is open."
" NIJNI NOVGOROD, APRIL 13.
" Since the 10th of April the Oka is free from
ice; the navigation was opened on the 12th."

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, MAT 3.

The Hamburg-American Company's screw steamer
Bavaria, Captain Meier, with mails from New York
of the 19th ult., arrived at Cowes at 5 a.m., and
went on to Hs*nburg.

She has no specie for England, but 193,800 dols.
for France and 1,000 dols. for Hamburg, 42 pas-
sengers for Southampton and Havre, and 155 for
Hamburg.
On the 24th ult. the Bavaria spoke the British
ship Pride of Canada, in lat. 43.40 N., long. 50.40
W., bound west; and on the 27th, in lat. 47.40 N.,
long. 33.50 W., the brig Globe, of Whitehaven.
The Bavaria's advices have been anticipated.

(Per Hibernian, by telegraph to Portland and via

Londonderry.)

NEW YORK, APRIL 19, Evening.
General Banks's division continues rapidly ad-
vancing in the direction of Richmond.
General Michell continues his advance in the
West.

It has been ascertained that General Beauregard
has 100,000 men at Corinth, and is fortifying most
extensively.

LATEST.

NEW YORK, APRIL 21, Morning,

The Federal General M'Dowell has occupied
Fredericksburg, where there are no fortifications.
The Confederate General Jackson is reported to
have retreated froln Shenandoah Valley to Gor-
donsville before General Banks's advance columns.

The Federals have occupied Apalachicola with•
out resistance.

An intercepted telegram from General Beaure-
gard, dated the 9th, after the battle of Pittsburg,
states that he had only 35,000 effective troops. He
expects that Van Dorn may possibly join him with
15,000, and requests reinforcements. He thinks
that the Confederates might afford to lose. Savan-
nah and Charleston for the purpose of defeating
Buell, as, if the Confederates are defeated at Corinth,
they lose the Mississippi Valley, and probably their
cause.

The steamer Adriatic, which was frozen in at
Sydney, has arrived at Halifax.

The Bohemian has arrive(3. out.
The cotton market is firmer and advancing.
Prices are unchanged from Saturday.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, APRIL 19, Morning,
. _ _

Money unchanged. Gold and exchange unal-
tered. Stocks very dull ; New York Central, 82i ;
Illinois, 601 ; Erie, 368. Cotton very firm ; Mid-
dling Upland, 29c. to 30c, Breadstuffs dull and
drooping.

NEW YORK, APRIL 19, Evening,
Stocks have declined I to t.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Tuesday morn-
ing, says the Aberdeen Journal, while the screw steamer
Queen was on her passage Iron Granton-pier to Aberdeen
and the North, and soon after having passed the Carr-rock,
Mr, Wm. Scott, parish schoolmaster of Brydekirk, Dum-
friesshire, who is said to hare been in delicate health and
low spirits, and who was on his way to visit some friends in
Dufftown, parish of Mortlaeh, accidentally fell overboard
Captain Masson, on hearing of the accident, immediately
ordered the steamer, which was on full speed, to be stopped.
She then put about, and a boat lowered, but on the spot
being reached no appearance of the unfortunate man was
to be seen, and all efforts were thus in vain. The captain
acted with coolness and promptitude, and neither he nor his
crew could have done more than they did. After the
steamer had resumed her passage, an inquiry was made by
Capt. Masson and passengers, when it was ascertained that
Mr. Scott left Brydekirk on Saturday morning, and arrived
at the house of a brother-in-law in Edinburgh the same after-
noon. His relative, finding Mr. it'cott in such delicate health
and low spirits, agreed to accompany him to Aberdeen, and
see him on his way north by the train. Mr. Scott was said to
be carefully watched by bis brother-in law, who frequently
recommended him to go down to the cabin, which he de-
clined doing, as he preferred the desk to enjoy the fresh
sea-breeze. He was once or twice observed to sit on the
rail of the steamer, and requested not to do so. In a
moment bib seat was vacant, and a splash was heard.
Several of the passengers saw what they suppoied to be his
body from the stern of the vessel for about two minutes,
but from his appearance in the water they never entertained
a hope of his being saves, as no exertion was made by him
in any way, but that he lay motionless, and must have very
speedily gone down. Mr. Scott has left a widow and three
*Wren to ineurn his melancholy and unexpected deaths 1

OU2HERN POLITICS.

The following is from a letter dated New Orleans,
March 27 :

" We have not written to you for some time,
having no business communications to make; and
._ _

111. the great uncertainty of the mails, and the pos-
sibility of our letters getting into hands they were
not intended for, we disliked writing in regard to
politics. We now avail ourselves of an opportunity
by which we trust our letter will go safe, to own
receipt of your favours of May 24, July 22, and
August 24, the last two of which were only received
by us on the 16th of February ult., having been
kept in New York.
"We note with pleasure that Mr. —'s views
on the great question of this country agree with
thewriter's, and we still believe, though disappointed
in the date, that the intervention of European
Powers, in some shape or other, affords the most
probable solution of the difficulty. The only ether
alternative is a long and desolating struggle be-
tween the republics of the North and the South, to
be concluded after they are mutually tired of destruc-
tion by treaties between the two, based on the ' Mon-
roe doctrine,' and in other ways also probably very
adverse to European commercial interests. The peo-
ple of the South begin to feel aggrieved by the course
of the leading Powers in refusing to acknowledge
their independence, and say that England has been
prevented by the threatsof the North from followin!,
the course which she has loudly proclaimed that she
would follow in similar cases—viz., recognise all de
facto Governments,' and disregard any blockade
which is not effective.' The Southern Govern-
ment has now been in power for Considerably over
12 months, and no other authority has been recog-
nised within her territory during that period ; and
though recently some pretty severe disasters have
been encountered by the Southern arms, they
amount to nothing that cannot be retrieved, and
will not affect the ultimate success of the cause.
Regarding the blockade we say nothing, after all
the proofs you have of its inefficiency. The policy
of ,England in regard to non-intervention may be
carried too far, if she expects, as we think she does,

to receive a considerable portion of her supply of
cotton from the South. The worst thing that can
happen to her would be to allow the North to get
hold of cotton ports, in which case it becomes as
near a certainty as possible that she will get no cot-
ton until she retakes them. The Southern Congress
has passed a bill, almost unanimously, to destroy
all cotton that may be in danger of falling into the
enemy's hands ; the bill also contains a clause pro-
mising indemnity to the owners. This policy will
be sternly carried out, and we doubt whether even
we doubt whether even cotton bought by foreign
houses will be spared, and that must involve enor-
mous losses, as the business has been done to a large
extent. The course England has followed so far,
however just and impartial it may have been, does
not appear to have had the effect of conciliating the
North, but rather the contrary, while, if followed
much longer, it will certainly give rise to a very
unfriendly feeling towards her on the part of the
South. At present the game is in her own hands,
as by a prompt recognition of the South she can get
free trade and any other terms she pleases. But delays
are dangerous, and while gaining nothing by vainly
trying to avoid giving offence to the North, whose
trade under a Morrill or other protectionist tariff
can never be of any vital value to her, she may lose
the chance of opening up a most lucrative direct
trade with the South, which in a short time would
greatly exceed in value all she has ever done with
the whole of the old United States. So far as the