The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-01 00:00:00

next meeting of the aldermen, the committee on
National Affairs will be authorised to tender him
the hospitalities of the city, including a public
dinner.

It is rumoured that President Davis has offered
a million bales of cotton for sale at 7 nts a pound
payable in gold. He agrees to give permission for
its shipment, the buyers to arrange with the United
States Government as to exemption from seizure on
the high seas.

The draft ordered for to-day (Nov. 19) in Con-
necticut has been postponed indefinitely, and the
governor has called the General Assembly to con-
vene on Dec. 9 to organise the militia.
The National intelligencer says:—
" We learn that at the Navy-yard on Friday last
an experiment was made with a 10-inch Dahlgren
(smooth bore) gun. A solid shot, weighing 1301b5.,
was thrown at an iron clad target at a distance of
500 yards, perforating the iron plating four inches
thick, as also 10-inch oak planking, passing out
the other side. The plating was torn into fragments,
one piece flying backwards into the joiners' shop
200 yards in the rear of the gun and 700 from the
target."

The New fork Times says:—
"" The statements that Gen. Fremont is to be as-
signed
to the defence of Washington are emphati-
cally denied by his friends."
The United States steamer Dacotah arrived at
New York on the 17th inst,, from a cruise in
search of the steamer Alabama. She sailed on the
sth inst., and has been cruising between the east
end of Long Island and Cape Hatteras, in the track
of our treasure ships, but so far without finding the
rebel pirate.
The New lork, Herald says:—
" It has been rumoured that another rebel steamer
sailed on a trial trip from Liverpool recently, which
is ascertained to be the Columbia, late of the Gal-
way line, which has been rebuilt by Mr. Laird,
M.P., the constructor of the Alabama. Several
vessels of known speed and drawing little water
are being purchased in England by rebel agents.
The St. Louis .News of Nov. 14 says :
" The movements on the river and on land in the
West indicate that a movement of considerable im-
portance in the South-west is about to be made. It
is not yet given out what the exact character of the
movement is to be, but its object is pretty well un-
derstood and heartily approved throughout the
West. The rebels themselves have had wind of it
for at least 10 ten dais past. They construe it as
an intended expeditir•n against Vicksburg, designed
to reduce that place and re-open the Mississippi to
New Orleans. They are, therefore, exerting them-
selves to the utmost to meet us there, and make a
desperate resistance. It is reported that nearly all

the rebel forces in Arkansas have been withdrawn
east of the Mississippi, and stationed near Vicks-
burg, and the disappearance of the enemy recently
in front of General Schofield, in North-western
Arkansas, gives colour to this conjecture. It is
probable also that they will abandon all northern
Mississippi, and withdraw the larger portion of their
army now in front of General Grant to reinforce
their forces at Vicksburg.
Should Vicksburg prove to be the point of con-
test, it will prove no child's play. The rebels have
not leas than 50,000 men massed to defend it, and
it is certain they will defend it with desperation.
What the strength of our forces will be we are not
prepared to say ; but one thing is certain—if the
object of the movement be to capture Vicksburg, it
will be accomplished.
The barque Clara Rosa Sutil, Captain Scandella,
arrived at New York on the 18th inst., bringing ad-
vices from Maracaibo to Oct. 23. The revolution
in Maracaibo continued. The town and bar were
being strongly fortified. A fleet of five schooners
and a number of smaller craft were about the
harbour. The Government of Caraccas had five war
schooners outside the bar blockading. Capt. Scan-
della managed to get out his vessel through the
French Consul, who had gone down to the bar to
get in a French barque that was anchored outside.
The barque Yeate was outside the bar.
The New York Tribune says:—
" All statements that there is any variance be-
tween General lialleck and General Burnside are
pronounced erroneous. They are in perfect accord
with respect to the conduct of the -war."
The report of General Itosencranz on the battle
of Corinth has been published. He summarises the
, results of the battle as follows :
; "We fought the combined rebel force of Missis-
-1 sippi, commanded by Van Dorn, Price, Lovel, Villi-
pigne, and Rust in person, numbering, according to
their own authority, 38,000 men. We signally de-
feated them with little more than half their num-
bers, and they fled, leaving their dead and wounded
on the field. The enemy's loss in killed was 1,423
officers and men ; their loss in wounded, taking the
general average, amounts to 5,692. We took 2,248
prisoners, among whom are 137 Feld officers, cap-
tains and subalterns, representing 43 regiments of
infantry, 16 regiments of cavalry, 53 batteries of
artillery, and 7 battalions, making 69 regiments, 7
battalions, and 13 batteries, besides separate com-
panies. We took also 14 stands of colours, 2 pieces
of artillery, 3,300 stands of arms, 4,500 rounds
of arms, and a large lot of accoutrements. The
enemy blew up several waggons between Corinth
and Chewalla, and beyond many ammunition
waggons and carriages were destroyed, and the
ground was strewn with tents, officers' mess
chests, and small arms. We pursued them 40
miles in force and 60 miles with cavalry. Our loss
was only 315 killed, 1,812 wounded, and 232 pri-
soners and missing. It is said the enemy were so de-
moralised and alarmed at our advance that they set
fire to the stores at Tupello, but fiading we were not
close upon them, extinguished the fire and removed
the puolic stores, except two car loads of bacon,
which they destroyed.
It is stated that the formidable iron-clad steamer
Roanoke, now finishing at the Washington navy-
yard, and which is to be ready within a short time,
has been definitively assigned by the Government to
the defence of the harbour of New York.
The Federal Navy Department has received vo-
luminous despatches from the Gulf, stating that the
United States gunboat Sagamore, on Oct. 28, cap-
tured the English schooner Frier, of and Irom Nas-
sau, with a cargo of 100 bags of salt and miscella-
neous articles. On the 23d the same gunboat cap-
tured the English schooner Francis, of and from
Nassau, with salt, powder, gin, &c.
The schooner Rachel Seaman, on Oct. 6, cap-
tured off Sabine Pass the English schooner Dart.
The steamer Konsiington recently captured the
English schooner Adventurer attempting to run the
blockade off the coast of Texas.
On the a:ternoon of Oct. 30, the United States
steamer Connecticut, Commander M. Huston, cap-
tured the English " whitewashed'' brig Hermosa.
She is deeply laden with a full cargo, consisting of
drugs, dry goods, army blankets, hardware, powder
shoes, wines, quinine, and a well assorted cargo ge-
nerally. When captured, she was close under the
shore, say about two miles, and about 15 miles east-
ward of Sabine. Com. Hatton put a prize crew on
board the brig, and salt her to Key West for legal
adj udication.
The trial trip of the Federal iron-clad steamer
Passaic took place on the 15th. The New York
Herald publishes the following account of the trip :
" The Passaic left the wharf at the foot of 13th-
street, between 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning, and
steamed up the North River against a strong ebb
title and a heavy northerly wind. Her speed from
the start averaged about seven knots through the
water, and her screw only making 58 turns, which
is 22 less than she has the power to give. But the
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rocky
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