The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-02 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

AMERICA.

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(Per City of Baltimore, eta Queenstown.)
NEW YORK, AUG. 23 (Morning.)
The Confederate Congress assembled at Richmond
on the 18th inst.
The message of President Jefferson Davis is mainly
devoted to suggestions for improvements in the naval
and military departments of the Southern Confede-
racy, and to a denunciation of the war policy pur-
sued by the North.
The President then says :—" The military events
have assured the friends of constitutional liberty of
our final triumph in the pending struggle against
despotic usurpation."
He then refers to the Confiscation Act, which he
says, if executed, would ruin the entire population
of the Southern States,
The President denounces the Federal generals for
arming slaves, and Gen. Butler's proclamation, and
states that the Federal Government evaded an-
swering the inquiry whether they sanctioned these
acts by replying that the inquiry was insulting.
" Retaliatory measures must be adopted against
those who disgrace the profession of war by making
it an occasion for the commission of monstrous crimes.
The exasperation caused by failure has aroused the
worst passions of the enemy." Relative to finance,
President Davis says that the accumulated debt is
small.

An increased issue of Treasury notes for the
service of the country is recommended. " The
very large increased force of the Federal Go-
vernment may hereafter render it necessary,"
he continues, "to extend the provisions of
the Conscript Act to citizens of from thirty-
five to forty-five years of age. The vigour and
efficiency of the present Confederate force, and the
skill and ability of its leaders inspire the belief that
no further enrolment will be necessary, but fore-
sight has caused Congress to grant power to call
more troops into the field if necessary."
A bill has been introduced into the Confederate
Congress for adopting retaliatory measures against
the Federals, as well as a bill levying an export
duty of 20 per cent. on cotton and tobacco, to aid in
indemnifying the losses of citizens by the enemy.
A bill has likewise been introduced providing that
a Federal army composed incongruously of white
and black men shall not be entitled to the privileges
of war. All negrees belonging to such an army
who may be captured will be sold, and their com-
manders hung or shot.

QUEENSTOWN, SEPT. 2 (12 30 P.m.)
The Inman steamer City of Baltimore has arrived
off Roche's Point.

LONDON GAZETTE.—This Evening.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of August, 1862,
present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Uouncil that the
Parliament which stands prorogued to Friday, the 24th
day of October next, be further prorogued to Thursday, the
13th day of November next.

ARTHUR HELPS.
NOTIFICATION OF THE RAISING or THE BLOCKADE OF

SICILY AND THE ADJACENT ISLANDS.
It is hereby notified that, on the lst day of this month,
Earl Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, received from the Italian Charge d'Af-
fairs, resident at this court, the announcement that the
blockade of the Island of Sicily and of the neighbouring
islands, notified to Earl Russell on the 23d of August last,
and published in the Gazette of Tuesday last, has been
raised by the Italian Government, and is no longer in force.
Foreign-office, Sept. 2, 1862.
FOREIGN OFFICE, AUG. 30.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Joseph
A. Croaks to be Consul at Gibraltar for the Free Hanseatic
City of Lubeck.

DOWNING STREET, SEPT. 1.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Frederick Wm.
Mitchel, Esq., to be Postmaster-General, and John Simp-
son, Esq., to be Assistant Postmaster-General, for the
Colony of Hong Kong.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, SEPT. 2. '
14th Regiment of Foot—General William Wood, C. 8.,
from the 3d West India Regiment, to be Colcnel, vice
General Sir James Watson, K.C.8., deceased.
86th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Sir John Michel,
K.C.8., to be Colonel, vice General Lord James Hay,
deceased.
3d West India Regiment—Major-General John Napper
Jackson to be Colonel, vice General Wood, transferred
to the 14th Foot.

WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 2.
4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Robert
Rintoul to be Captain, by purchase, vice Robert Gunter,
who retires.
2d Dragoons—Lieutenant John Lora Stewart to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Duncan M'Neill, who retires ;
Corner Charles Hill to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Stewart; Gentleman Cadet Henry Carstairs Pelly, from
the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Hill. •
3d Hussars—Lieutenant John Ormsby Phibbs to be Cap-
lain, by purchase, vice James Vance Cleland, who re-
tires; Cornet Thomas Donaldson to be Lieutenant by
purchase, vice Phibbs.
sth Lancers—Captain Hyde Sergison-Smith, from the 30th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Richard Jacob Wyrley Birch,
who exchanges, receiving the former difference between
a Lieutenancy of Cavalry and Infantry.
14th hussars—Sergeant-Major Thomas Howell Clark to
be Quartermaster, vice Thomas Bennett, who retires
upon half pay.
16th Lancers—Cornet Charles Carrington Churchward to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Francis Joseph Barron,
who retires.
Royal Artillery—Lieutenant James Alexander to be Second
Captain, vice Bernie, transferred to the Invalid Estab-
lishment.
Grenadier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain the Hon. C.
Ernest Edgcumbe to be Instructor of Musketry, vice
Bridges, who has resigned that appointment.
sth Regiment of Foot—Lieut. Edwin Biron to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Edward Reginald Simmons, who retires;
Ensign William Church Ormond to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Biron; William Adam Hay, Gent,, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Ormond.
Bth Foot—Major James Johnston to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Frederick Paul
Haines, who has retired upon ha f-pay ; Capt, and Brevet
Major Edwin Gream Daniell to be Major, without pur-
chase, vice Johnston; Lieut. lEneas Gordon Blair to
Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet Major Dania''
Ensign Thomas Picton Fleetwood to be Lieuteyalt'
without purchase, vice Blair. to be
12th Foot—Lieutenant Morley Caulfield Saunderkilkie,
Captain, without purchase, vice John Lunar)
Lieute-
deceased ; Ensign Charles Edward Hurst P
tol ..,amp-
college, to
nant, without purchase, vice Saunders • E
ase, vice
bell Thomas Morris to be Lieutenant,
by - Cadetdet Colin
Frederick Alban, who retires • Gentleman
McKenzie Taylor, from the ioyal Militar4 Gentleman
be Ensign, without purchase, vice Royal Mili-
Cadet John Taylor Winnington, frot,,e, vice Morris •
tart' College, to be Ensign, by,...ipl:baeymLaisetuetrenvainete, Rb
Joseph Par Kingsmill, Gent., to Iviove been dispensed
W. Burdett Desanges, whose services
with from 24th March.
14th Foot—Ensign Robert Lahr;Oo, who retires ; Haw-
purchase, vice John Taylortc.: ;
Ensign' by purchase,
trey Collins Splatt, Gent., .
vice Langtry. Charles Goff, from half-pay
15th Foot—Captain Rolotr:fo, vice 'Wm. Robertson Tyler,
late 50th Foot, to be CaPy.; Ensin Charles Her Far •
un obese,
Cadet viceG eGeorge
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ullrlraecu-
who retires from
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bY purchase,
Military College, to be Ensign,
Skinner, from the es?
ter Lawrence Martin, who retires;
raneis James Berkeley to be Captain,
half-may
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by purchase,
evi,ieritfith, Gent., to be Ensign,
17viDthaeFevioFdoat—Grcilluniarve! Arthur Charles Elliot, Who retires ;
by purcirri, gush to be Lieutenantliby
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purchase, vice
Ensign "o Gentletnan Cadet Arthur
mansg.purchase, vice Mu, te
Berkelei;, Yge.WtoenbtewEornth.
Lieutenantl Henry Grey
signgor to be Adjutant
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. Tydd Harding to be Snr-
orbo.t7—iceStlavffm-S.uKrgeeioranan-weil
Chalmers M.D., placed upon
‘,3,lls;)ota—y.Gentleman Cadet Compton Norman, from the
Royal Military College,
to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Coveny, removed to the 42d Foot.
29th Foot—Surgeon Edward Moorhead, M.D., having
completed 20 years' full pay service, to be Surgeon-Major,
under the Royal Warrant- of Ist October, 1858.
30th Foot--Captain Richard Jacob Wyrley Birch, from
the sth Lancers, to be Captain, vice Hyde Sergison-
Smith, who exchanges.
34th Foot—Lieutenant William Matthew Dunbar to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Thomas Harry Saunders,
who retires ; Ensign John Olphert Gage to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Dunbar; Francis Fladgate,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gage.
42d Foot—Lieutenant Francis Edward Henry Farquhar-
son to be Captain, without purchase, vice George Fraser,
deceased ; Ensign Edmund Whitehead to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Farquharson ; Ensign Robert
Charles Coveny, from the 23d Foot, to be Ensign, vice
Whitehead.
78th Foot—The Commissions of the undermentioned
Officers to bear date lst:July, 1862, instead of 29th July,
1862 :—Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Lockhart,
C. 8., as Maier; Captain F. H. Walsh as Captain;
Lieutenant J. T. S. Richardson as Lieutenant.
80th Foot—Ensign Samuel Pollook Muirhead to be Lieu-
tenant,without purchase, vice Craufurd, who becomes
Supernumerary by appointment to a Lieutenancy of a
Company of Gentlemen Cadets at the Royal Military
College.
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