The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-02 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(Per Kangaroo, by Telegraph from Roches Point.)
NEW YORK, JULY 19.

President Lincoln's appeal to the Border State
members in favour of an emancipation policy is
very urgent in tone. He says that the adoption of
an emancipation scheme would relieve him from
the pressure of the abolition party, which pressure
increases daily.
The majority of the Border State members have
replied that Congress had not voted any sum for
remuneration, and that they could not consider the
proposition in its impalpable form. When a formal
proposal was made they might submit it to their
States, but the debt it would involve appalled
them by its magnitude. Their right to hold
slaves was unquestioned, their loyalty undoubted.
They had contributed their full share to the sup-
port of the war, and they did not see why they
should be called upon to make sacrifices greater
than the people of other States who were not more
loyal.
They would under no circumstances consent to
the dissolution of the Union, neither would they
ever consent to join the Southern Confederacy, as
they could not place their security in the custody
of an assocation which had incorporated in its
organic laW the seeds of its own destruction. They
deny that their refusal to adopt emancipation
prolonged the war, and state that the rebellion
derives its strength from the belief of the Southern
people that the Federal Government is inimical to
their rights and domestic institutions. " Satisfy
the Southern people that no war is made on their
property and rights, and they would return to their
allegiance."

They would not, continue the majority of the
Border State members in their reply, under any
circumstances, become parties to General Hunter's
policy of letting the slaves loose on the Southern
people.

The reply is signed by twenty members from
Kentucky, Virginia, Missouri, and Maryland.
It is reported in Washington that the French
have occupied Guaymas, in Sonora.

The American journals think that, in case of a
rupture between the United States and Europe
France would make Guaymas the key of her ope-
rations.

(Latest by telegraph from Cape Race.)
NEW YORK, JULY 22, EVENING.
Great excitement prevails at Nashville. The
Confederates are reported to be within five miles
of the city.
Money easy. Stocks inactive.
Exchange—Bankers' bills, 131 ; Gold, 191 per
cent. premium.

The Kangaroo takes out 1,062,407 dols, in specie.

STEAM HAMMERS IN 7HE EXHIBITION.

Amongst the curiosities of the Exhibition there
is ono in the machinery in motion, on which few
can look without interest, we refer to the mighty
steam hammer, there are two of these near each
other. saving seen one with a blow of
several tons crack the shell of a nut
beautifully without touching the kernel, then
flatten, without crushing, a curved piece of its
shell, then give the anvil a thump which seemed to
shake the building, and would have flattened any
mass of iron—we went to the other and asked the
attendant if he could do the like. Oh yes, was the
reply, and would take a wafer off a watch-glass
without breaking it. Forthwith he pulled out of
his pocket a child's watch, wetted a wafer on the
upper side, laid it on the glass, and brought down
the mighty hammer upon it with such nicety that
it withdrew from the stroke with the wafer adher-
ing to its surface. The attendants seemed indefa-
tigable in their efforts to gratify the crowding
spectators, aho certainly never saw before a more
perfect combination of crushing power and delicacy
of touch in the same implement. Even the marvel
of the elephant's trunk could in this respect not
surpass it.

A model of the monument to be placed over the
Well at Cawnpore, after the design of Col. Yule, has been
recently placed in the English Architectural Gallery at the
International Exhibition• Baron Marochotti is engaged
upon a piece of sculpture for the completion of this work.
The last is a gilt from the late Lord Canning, i