The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-24 00:00:00

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY.
The Cunard steamer Africa, from New York on
the 12th, arrived off the harbour this morning.
The Federals had achieved another success in the
capture of Roanoke Island, after three days' fight-
ing. The fellowing are the latest particulars:—
BALTIMORE, FEB. 11.
The Baltimore Clipper publishes an extra, stating that
Roanoke Island was captured after three days' fighting.
Two rebel gunboats were captured, and the rest were sunk
or scattered. The people of Norfolk and-Portsmouth are
panic stricken. The news is confirmed by passengers >•,y
the Fortress Monroe boat.
PHILADELPHIA, FILE. 11.
A despatch to the Inquirer of this morning, dated at For-
tress:Monroe on the evening of the 9th inPA., gives what
purports to be additional particulars of the capture of
Roanoke Island by Burnside's forces..

By a flag of truce to-day I learr. that the bombardment
of the works on Roanoke Island continued during yesterday.
About noon Commodore Lynch got his mosquito flotilla
under way, and came down Currituck Sound to assist his
rebel friend, General Wise, on the island.
The Union gunboats then directed their fire upon the
gunboats commanded by Lynch, and at 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon three rebel gunboats had been sunk, two were
captured, one of which had a commodore's pennant flying
during the action, and the rest dispersed in every direction.
The firing ceased at dark last night, but was recom-
menced with increased vigour and effect this morning, and
kept up until about eight o'clock, when it is supposed the
rebel forces on the island surrendered.
A fireman on board the Selden said that the Union troops
had been landed in large numbers on Roanoke Island, and
that the Stars and Stripes could be seen at Elizabeth City

flying over the rebel batteries. It was rumoured in Nor-
folk this morning that three regiments had recently been
sent to Roanoke Island, and that, as there was no chance
of escape, the probability was that they were all captured.
The rebels acknowledge that the only obstacles of im-
portance to retard General Burnside's march inland and
upon Norfolk will be the natural one of swamps, marshes,
sickness, &c.

The rebels feel their recent defeats very sensibly, and are
growing desperate in their fear.
The New York Times says :
We have no precise information as to the rebel force on
Roanoke Island. Some three regiments are mentioned as
having been recently sent thither from Norfolk, and the
despatches intimate that the whole force was captured. As
this neat stroke was quite within the scope of our resources
we can readily believe it true. For it was only necesssary for
some of our gunboats, while the fleet was engaging the bat-
teries on the south side of Roanoke, to make a dash through
Croatan. into Albemarle Sound, in order completely to cut
off the retreat of the rebels, insulating them both from the
main shore and the banks, and cooping them up within the
narrow circumferenee of the Island, to be bagged at lei-
sure. We wish we could encourage the hope that Wise
has been bagged along with them ; but that he should thus
voluntarily go into the trap is too great a blunder to ex-
pect even from him. It is understood that
Wise had made his stand, with a force of 5,000 men, at
Nag's Head—which, it will be observed, is on the sand
banks opposite Roanoke Island—with a view to bring suc-
cour to the force on the island when attacked, though it is
not easy to see how it could be made available, considering
that Roanoke Sound, which separates them, has a depth of
from five to seven feet, and is from one to two miles wide,
and would require extraordinary facilities for crossing and
re-creasing. The likelihood is, therefore, that Wise con-
fined himself to his coigne of vantage at Nag's Head, the
advantage of which point, in having a good roadway on the
beach direct to Norfolk, would not be lightly estimated by
the valiant Governor. The probability is, therefore, that
on the capture of the island, Wise made a masterly retro-
grade movement towards that city."
Washington advices inform us of the arrest of
General Stone :

WASHINGTON, MONDAY, FED. 10,
General Stone was arrested on Sunday morning, at two
o'clock, by order of the War Department, by a guard under
the immediate command of Brigadier-General Sykes, of
the Provost Marshal's force, and sent to Fort Lafayette by
the afternoon train. The charge against him is understood
to be treasonable complicity with the rebels in the affair at
Ball's Bluff and subsequently. He was lately before the
Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, to answer
charges made against him in reference to this, and also to
some other later and equally suspicious actions; and it is
owing to the revelations made by himself and others before
the fcommittee that he has been deprived of his command
aad committed to prison.
The following is the substance of the charges under
which he was arrested:-
1. For misbehaviour at the battle of Bull's Bluff.
2. For holding correspondence with the enemy before
and since the battle of Ball's Bluff, and receiving visits
from rebel officers in his camp.
3. For treacherously suffering the enemy to build a fort
or strong work, since the battle of Ball's Bluff, under his
guns, without molestation.
4. For a treacherous design to expose his force to capture
and destruction by the enemy, under pretence of orders for
a movement from the Commanding-General, which had
not been given.
A court-martial will be speedly ordered.
The arrest excites great commotion in public circles here,
and certain military functionaries are also greatly perturbed
about it. It is rumoured that still other arrests will be
made immediately.
It is notable that Stone's strongest friends here are
Secessionists and Semi-Secessionists of both sexes.

The day for sending in tenders to the Bank of
England for the next instalment of 40,00,000 rupees in bills
on India has been changed from the Ist of March to the
28th of February- This alteration is understood to be in
consequence of Sunday intervening immediately between
the day originally fixed for receiving tenders and the
Bombay mail day. As the bills are only deliverable on the
day after they are paid for, the opportunity of the mail
of the 3d would, under the first arrangement, have been
lost.

Lord Edward St. Maur comes to town to-day
from Maiden Bradley House, Wilts.