The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-23 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA

We, Times, have received the following telegram
from our own correspondent at Cork, dated August

22, 6 15 p.m. :-

PER AUSTRALIAN.)

NEW YORK, AUG. 13.

General Stonewall Jackson, in command of the
Confederate forces in the Valley of the Shenandoah,
attacked on Saturday evening last the advanced
guard of General Pope's army, under the command
of Gen. Banks, at Culpepper Court-house. General
Banks held his ground until reinforced by the main
army under General Pope. The loss was severe on
both sides, amounting to about 3,000 killed and
wounded and 1,000 prisoners. Both parties claim
a victory, but it was at the best a drawn battle,
leaving the Confederates in the best position to re-
new the conflict when it suited them.
The .New York Journal exclaims against General
Pope for suffering himself to be taken unawares.
Pope himself and his staff narrowly escaped cap-
ture.

General Pope reports that Stonewall Jackson
retreated yesterday across the Rapidan.

The Confederate ram Arkansas, in attempting to
run down the Mississippi from Vicksburg, past
Baton Rouge, was attacked by the Federal flotilla.
She suffered considerable damage in her machinery
and was obliged to run ashore. To save her from
capture she was blown up and abandoned by her
officers.

Baton Rouge was captured.by the Confederates
under General Breckinridge.
The guerilla warfare continues in the Border
States.
The Canadian Parliament is summoned to meet
on the 28th inst.

Gold continues at 14 per cent. premium.
The Treasury postage currency for sc. (2id.) is
to be ready at the end of the week.

QUEENSTOWN, AUG, 22.

The Royal Mail steamer Australasian, from New
York on the 13th inst., arrived here at 3 40 p.m.,
with 34 passengers and 389,616 in specie.
She landed 83 sacks of mails and five passengers,
and proceeded for Liverpool at 3 55 p.m. ; all well.

(Per Australasian, via Roche's Point.)
NEW YORK, AUG. 13, MORNING.
The Confederates show no signs of attacking
Gen. 111‘Clellan ; they are moving large forces to
the south side of the James River.
Nothing later from the Virginia Valley since the
report of General Jackson retreating across the
Rapidan.
Rumours are current at Fort Monroe concerning
the safety of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Portsmouth.
The Confederates have captured independence,
Missouri, with a large quantity of mility stores.
Morgan's guerillas have captured Gallatin, Ten-
nessee.
The Southern papers report that the Confederates
under Breckinridge had taken Baton Rouge on the
6th, after defeating the Federal forces and cap-
turing their camp equipage and stores.
The Federal General Williams was killed.
General Breckinridge afterwards retired to Col-
lett's River, 10 miles from Baton Rouge, there being
n o water between that point and the Mississippi.
Southern journals also claim a victory at Taze-
well, near Cumberland Gap, where the Federals
were repulsed with heavy slaughter.
The Federal General Phelps has resigned at New
Orleans, because General Butler refused to supply
arms for equipping negroes.
The Confederates have again emphatically re-
fused the inhabitants of Louisiana permission to
trade with New Orleans.
The British prize steamer Ladona has arrived at
Philadelphia.
The Scotia, City of Baltimore, and Bavaria have
arrived out.

PARIS, AUG. 22.

The Paris journals of this evening say, orders
have been sent to the squadron of evolution in the
Mediterranean to return to Toulon, where it will
remain at the disposition of the Government.
The reason for this order is the state of affairs in
Italy.
The Constitutionnel of this evening, in an article
signed by its chief editor, M. Limayrac, maintains
that the pressing interest of Italy is to subdue
extreme revolution. " The possession of Rome, or
even of Venice," continues the article, " would not
restore tranquillity, and it is the duty of Italian
statesmen to persist in the energetic policy they
have adopted.

TURIN, AUG. 22.

The Official Gazette of today publishes the fol-
lowing report, addressed by the Ministry to the
King :
,‘ General Garibaldi has raised the standard of
rebellion. Your Majesty's name and that of Italy
serve only to veil the intentions of European
demagogy. The cries of Rome or Death !' are
senseless insults to our glorious ally, and retard the
only possible accomplishment of our unanimous
wishes. As General Garibaldi remains deaf to your
voice, and unmoved by the thought of lighting up
civil war, energetic action has become necessary.
The rebellion of Garibaldi imposes upon us the ne-
cessity of treating the country occupied by volun-
teers as a country occupied or threatened by an
enemy. We, therefore, advise your Majesty to
proclaim a state of siege. The Ministry accept the
responsibility of this measure."
The Discussione of to-day says :

" Some Italian cruisers have captured in Cata-
nian waters a foreign vessel laden with arms. The
Royal troops have assembled in considerable force
near Catania."

TURIN, AUG. 22.

The Turin papers of to-day state that a military
force consisting of 60 battalions of infantry, 11 bat-
teries of artillery, and three regiments of cavalry,
will shortly be assembled in Sicily, under the com-
mand of General Cialdini.