The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-21 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE BELGIAN.
(Via Greencastle.)
NEW YORK, June 9 (Evening.)
The Federals have occupied Brownsville. The
Confederates had previously sold their artillery to
Mexican Imperialists.

The fort at Salisbury Pass had surrendered. It
was expected that Galveston would also be sur-
rendered to the Federals on the 28th ult.

General Kirby Smith has gone to Mexico with a
large amount of money.

A large proportion of the citizens of Kentucky
have refused to employ free negroes, the object being
to drive them from the State.

It is not yet decided whether Mr. Jefferson Davis
is to be tried by a civil or military tribunal, nor is
it certain that he will be tried in the district of
Columbia.

Mr. Garritt Smith, in his speech delivered at the
Cooper Institute, declared that the North having
fully admitted the laws of war it would beperfidy and
a mean crime to punish the fallen foe for treason.
The spirit of slavery dwelt in Northern as well as
in Southern bosoms. Mr. Horace Greely declared
it would be a black violation of faith to try Lee or
his pardoned men. _ _

A. letter in the Nassau Guardian states that the
pirate Parr, who captured the Chesapeake and the
Roanoke, appeared off Maine, and there he boarded
and fired the bark Lizzie, from Cuba, and then
withdrew, leaving the crew to save themselves, and
telling the captain that he intended to drown thou-
sands before the war was over.

Panama journals reiterate the statement that
Juarez had issued letters of marque.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money abundant. Gold, 1371. Exchange on
London, 150 ; do. Paris, 3 721. Stocks slightly
firmer. New York Centrals, 90i. Illinois Shares,
121* ; Erie, 75i ; 5 20 Bonds, 103 i.

NEW YORK, Juno 10, Morning.

A great fire has taken place at Nashville, which, it
is estimated has caused the destruction of $10,000,000
worth of Government stores. Contradictory ac-
counts have been received as to the cause of the
conflagration.
It is stated, from a reliable source, that the whole
of Georgia is in a starving condition.

The Toronto Leader declares that Merritt's testi-
mony given during the secret sitting of the Con-
spiracy trials contains the glaring misstatement that
Clay was present in Montreal in February last.
W. H. Carroll writes that the testimony of
Sandford and Connover concerning him is a wilful
perjury in every particular.

The Georgia journals state that the negroes re-
fuse to work, and are committing robberies and
outrages.

The Nassau Admiralty Court has discharged the
steamer Alexandria with a caution. She was seized
upon suspicion of being a Confederate cruiser.
Semi-official depatches from Washington doubt
the statement that Juarez had left Chihuahua.

The Teutonia, City of Baltimore, and Helvetia,
sailing hence to-day, takes out $BOO,OOO in specie.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 171
Ditto 3 Months. 11 19f
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 421
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 17f
Ditto 3 Months. 25 37f
Marseilles
Frankfort on the )1 ai no 120}
Vienna — 11 15
Trieste — 11 15
Petersburgh - -30 i
Berlin,
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa — 25 50

11 18}
12 0
12 0
25 45
25 45
13 10
25 22}
25 45
25 45
1.201
11 20
11 20

47
48
25 IZ
25 55
25 55
25 55
25 571
25 57
51f
511

Naples
Palermo
Messina

25 50
25 521
25...52f

Lisbon
Oporto

THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—Within an interval of
a few months six or seven of the attendants in the British
Museum have been carried off by death. This high rate of
mortality is attributed to the overheating of the apartments,
and the long hours of close confinement without any oppor-
tunity of breathing a purer atmosphere, the liberty of leav-
ing the building during refreshment hours having been re-
cently withdrawn. A rumour has reached us that this dis-
astrous mortality amongst the humbler officials is.likely to
attract the humane consideration of the trustees, and to
cause the obnoxious prohibition to bo rescinded.
GAS IN THE CITY.—The several petitions against
the present quality and price of gas having been
referred to a special committee, the committee, in reply,
recommends that an effort should be made to obtain some
alteration of the Gas Act of 1860. But as this solution of
the matter seems unsatisfactory, a motion has been put
before the Court of Common Council to return the report
of the committee, with instructions to obtain power for the
Corporation either to contract for the supply of gas or to
manufacture the gas, as is done by the corporations Of
Manchester and other towns.