The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-27 00:00:00

MARK LANE.

The supply of English wheat on sale here this morning,
though small, was somewhat larger than on the last few
market days• Owing to the favourable change in the
weather, there was decidedly less firmness in. the trade, and
Monday's quotations were barely supported.
The show of foreign wheat was tolerably extensive, and
the demand was in a sluggish-state on rather easier terms
for inferior qualities.

Floating cargoes of grain were in moderate request a'
,ate currencies.

Tho trade for barley ruled steady, and prices wero fairly
maintained,
Malt changed hands to a fair average extent at full quo-

rations,

Good and fine oats moved off steadily at quite previous
rates ; otherwise the oat trade wag dull on former terns.
Beans and peas were disposed of at the extreme prices of
Monday, The supply on offer was small.
The flour trade was steady. In the quotations no change
took place.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
1,020 70 ' 1,35) I 94)1 1,710 sack..
Irish.. ..... 7,0
F0rcigu........ 16,250 1,730 132,310 100 sacks
2,50 Ws.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA

NEW YORK, JUNE 18.
(Per Persia, via Roclie't, Point.)

The Confederates made a bald dash upon the 14th,
with a large force of cavalry and artillery before
Richmond. They passed round the right [? left] flank
of Gen. M'Clellan's army, cut the telegraph wires,
and injured the railroad from the West Point. They
also destroyed forage and tents, took. many pri-
soners, and retreated safely.

Intercepted official Confederate despatches show
that General Jackson acted in accordance with
direct instructions to prevent Genera M‘Dowell
or Fremont from reinforcing General M'Clellan.
The Confederates, 65,000 strong, are reported to
be concentrated at Grenada, Mississippi.

Part of Beauregard's army is still in the neigh-
bourhood of Columbus and Okolona.

Severe fighting has occurred in the neighbour-
hood of Baton Rouge, but the result is unknown.
Fighting has also taken place at James Island,
near Charleston, without decisive result.

The New Fork Times says that the British prize
ship Circassian has been condemned at Key West.
General Fremont's army is reported short of
supplies, and in a precarious position; in the Valley
of the Shenandoah.

General Jackson has been heavily reinforced, and
Fremont is falling back to Mount Jackson.
Confederate guerillas continue hovering around
the rear of General M•Clellan's army.
It is supposed that Congress will certainly pass
the bill for the issue of an additional 150,000,000
dols. of demand notes.

The House of Representatives has passed the
Senate Bill prohibiting slavery in all the territories
of the United States. Affairs in New Orleans are

unchanged.

Municipal and police duties are performed by
persons appointed by the military.
The Nova Scotian has arrived out.

ELECTION OF SHERIFFS.

STATE OF THE POLL--TWO O'CLOCK-

THIS DAY.

Jones ..... ...

Lawrence
Nissen .... 4 . • • •• • .

Mr. Nissen in the -course of the morning ap-
peared upon the platform, and said it was not
his desire to prolong the matter. Ho accordingly
withdrew from the contest.

THE FRENCH EXHIBITORS AND
PRINCE NAPOLEON.

The principal exhibitors of the articles of French
industry, impressed with the idea that the visit of
Prince Napoleon to this country ought not under
existing circumstances to be allowed to pass by
without a public recognition on their part, last night
entertained his Imperial Highness at a magnificent
banquet in the refreshment rooms of the Great
International Exhibition, when upwards of 300
gentlemen sat down to a feast of the most
recherche character, the wines for which were sup-
plied from the cellars of the principal exhibitors of
French produce.
In an English entertainment of a like character,
the principal guest of the evening would take his
seat at the right of the president; but our Gallic
neighbours, in a refinement of etiquette which we
can scarcely understand, place the invited in the
position of the principal inviter, and therefore the
banquet last night was presided over by Prince
Napoleon,
_who was supported by a prefect, a
body of men honoured with the Cross of the
Legion of Honour, and by Earl Granville, the
President of the Commissioners of the International
Exhibition.

Prince NAPOLEON, in proposing the first toast,
sad he had to call upon his fellow-countrymen at
present resident in England to show that they
duly appreciated the excellence of the rules under
which they were living. It was, however, im-
passible to glance at the present position of Queen
Victoria without a deep feeling of regret at the loss
which not only the English nation but the people
at large had sustained in the death of his Royal
Highness the late Prince Consort.
The toast was most enthusiastically received_
Earl GRANVILLE returned thanks, and on behalf
of the Commissioners of the Exhibition gave expres-
sion to the feelings of gratitude which animated them
towards the Emperor of the French for the material
aid which he had afforded them in rendering as per-
fect as possible the Groat International Exhibition.
He hoped his Imperial Majesty would not rest con-
tented with a second-hand account of all that was
to be E. een, but would, accompanied by the Empress,
soon come to this country to witnes the Exhibition,
and feel a legitimate pride at the high position oc-
cupied in it by the French exhibitors. (Hear hear.)
In conclusion he would give them the toast " Viva
l'Empereur !" (Cheers.)
The toast having been duly responded to,
ternitCi
oanßaLl ,
Exhibitors, President
a. of o tnh e
his Committee
aolff t
alined I
on n-
the behalf of those who acted with him, presented.
an address of welcome to his Imperial Highness,
and assured him of the gratification which they all
his attendance on the pie-.,
felt at bang honoured by
sent occasion.
Prince NAPOLEON returned thanks. He thought
he said that so much progress had been made in re-
gard to the holding of international exhibitions that
it was now impossible to go back. He hoped next
year to see a building like the present erected in
Paris for a similar purpose, and that Englishmen
would be found to sot as the French had now acted,
and agree to do all in their power to make the com-
ing exhibition a success.
Earl GRAN' ILLE then proposed " Success to the
forthcoming Exhibition at Paris," and stated his
belief that there were no means so efficient for bind-
ing nation to nation as organisations of this kind.
M. ROUHER, Minister of Public Works and
Agriculture, proposed
" The Union of France and
England," a toast which was most enthusiastically
received.
The proceedings then terminated in the usual'
manner.
The saloon was elegantly decorated for the occasion,
flags being tastefully suspended from one side d the
apartment. A band of music played at intervals
" Partant pour Ia Syrie," and other popular French
airs. The whole affair passed off most satisfactorily.

THE GREAT EASTERN.—Passengers are booking
freely by this vessel, and among them a number of parties
who go out and return in her under the recent liberal ar
half-
rangement for the issue of a return ticket for fare
and .
KEEPING HIS HAND IN.— At . Svraffhani' on
Monday, Tom Sayers, the pugilist,
was charged with as-
saulting Mr. Green, in the circus of the former, during
a
dispute about the admission fee. Sayers was fined .£5.
M. Firmin Rogier, Belgian Minister at the Court
of the Tuileries, has returned to Paris, to resume the duties
of his post, from which 116 has been absent since the death
of his wife.
A supplementary estimate of £6,511 has just
been laid before Parliament, being h© amount required to
be voted to make up the pay and allowances received by the
officers of the yeomanry cavalry assembled for exercise or
for permanent duty during the fiancial year IS6I-2, to that
which they would have been entitled under the old regu-
lations; and to meet payments for a similar service on ac-
count of the financial year 1862- 3.
YORRSIIIRE WIT.—A Yorkshire boy vent into
a public-house, where aeggs. The
gentleman was eating
little salt,
boy looked extremely hard at him for some time, and then
said, " Will you be good enough to give me a
"
Sir P" " AY, certainly, boy ; but why do you want salt
?"
Perhaps, Sir," says he,
"you
'll ask me to eat an egg
presently, and I should like to be ready." "What count*"
are you from, my lad ?" "Yorkshire, Sir," "I thought
eo—there, take an egg." ".I thank you, Sir," said the
boy. '' Well," added the gentleman, "they aro all great
ors-,-stealers in your bountry, are they not P" Yes "
b
rejoins the boy, "my father (thou an honest man)
h
would mind no more stealing of a horse than I would
drinking your glass of al Your health, Sir," aided hey
and drank it up. "That will do," Sys the gentleman ;
" I see you 're Yorkshire,"

AMERICA

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY.

The Hamburg-American Company's screw steam-
ship Saxonia, Captain H. Ehlers, which left New
York on the 14th inst., arrived at Cowes at 2 p.m.,
and went on to Hamburg after transshipping mails,
&c,, for this port. She brings 643,341 dole. for
•Eugland, and 101,000 dols. for France.
The Saxonia has had light winds thror-ghout the
passage, and on the 18th, in lat. 42 30 N., long. 52,
she passed some icebergs. The following vessels
were spoken on the voyage :—June 19, in let. 43 45
N., long. 46 45 W., the British ship Gorilla, steer-
ing westward, and the schooner Moore, steering
eastward ; 19th, at 5 p.m., in lat. 44 10 N , long,
45 20 W., the screw steamer Bremen, bound hence
for New York ; 23d, in lat. 49 52 N., long. 21 W.,
a Prussian barque, with flag No. 45, and the, word
Barth" beneath.

In the Senate at Washington, on the 13th, the
nut appropriating 150,000 dols. for new postal
routes was passed. A Bill to carry into effect the
treaty recently negotiated with Great Britain re.
lacing to the Slave Trace, was reported from the
Committee on Foreign Relations. The House Bill
prescribing an oath of office, 'B,:c , was debated, but
not acted upon. The Naval Appropriation Bill was
considered, and a number of amendments were
adopted. A long debate occurred regarding the
location of the Naval Academy, which resulted in
an understanding that the permanent place for it
will be at Annapolis. The Bill was not disposed of
when the Senate adjourned for want of a quorum.
In the House, the Senate Bill, appropriating
100,000 dols. to enable the Secretary of the Navy
to raise sunken vessels, was passed. Th© joint re-
solution of thanks to Lieurenant Morris and the
other officers and men of the Cumberland was
passed. The Committee on Foreign Affairs reported
that no exigency seemed to exist requiring the in-
terposition of the American Government on behalf
of the suffering people of Ireland. The Bill to
secure the more prompt payment of officers and
volunteers was passed. The Senate Bill to increase
the medical department of the volunteer service
was passed, with an amendment abolishing brigade
surgeons, and placing them on an equal footing
with army surgeons. . . _

General Prita was entertained at a grand banquet
at Delmonico's, at New York, on the evening of the
13th inst., by the Spanish residents of the city.
About 60 were present, including the following offi-
cial personages :—Tassara, the Spanish Minister ;
Barreda, the Prussian Minister ; Romero, the Mexi •
can Minister; Montufar, the Minister of San Salva-
dor; Yrisarri, the Minister of Guatemala, Geiaeral
Milan de Boscb, and a number of General Prim's
Aides, the officers of the Spanish vessel Ulloa,
Comacho, the Consul of Venezuela; the Consuls of
Spain, San Salvador, Peru, Mexico, and the son of
Gen. Paez. The toasts were, " The Queen,"" Gene-
ral Prim," " Perpetual peace between Spain and the
Spanish-American Republics and the Spanish Army
and Navy." The spirit of the assemblage was that
of thorough fraternisation between Spaniards in the
Old and the/ New Worlds. General Prim, in the
course of a spirited and eloquent speech, gave the
heartiest endorsement to this spirit of fraternisation.
Many people, he said, believed that they went to
Mexico with motives of oppression and conquest.
But never was there, in his Queen or his country,
from the time the expedition was first thought of,
the least idea of destroying the independence of
Mexico. Never—because she would be the first to
respect, and cause to be respected, the liberties of
Mexico. The Queen, as the first citizen of Spain,
was first in fulfilling this programme. After grace-
ful reference to the compliments paid him by
Messrs. Tassara, Comacho, and Barril, he said that
Spain would see all the treaties respected in Mexico,
and when one of the three allied nations varied the
satisfaction she demanded, Spain withdrew, because
the basis of the convention was broken—the designs
of the Queen and the policy of the Government were
no longer being carried out. The Queen had ap-
proved his conduct, because it was according to the
letter and spirit of the Convention, and he was glad
to bo thus greeted by his fellow-countrymen on his
withdrawal. In conclusion, with hearty wishes for
the speedy restoration of peace to the United States,
he proposed " The prosperity of the United States
and the success of her army." The assemblage
broke up with vivas for General Prim. It was un-
derstood that the General was to leave New York
on the 14th inst., in the Ulloa steamer for Lisbon.

It is stated from Washington that Lord Lyons
had an audience of President Lincoln on the 13th
inst. to take leave, and was to sail for England in
the Persia steamer on the 18th, to be absent two
months.

A despatch of the 13th from Washington says :
. . _ _

" Advices of the-latest dates, received at the War
Department, indicate quiet in the Valley of the
Shenandoah. Nothing of public interest had tran-
spired at General M'Clellan's headquarters today.
No later news had been received from the West.
"By an order from the Secretary of War, the
Department of the Mississippi is extended so as to
include the whole of the States of Tennessee and
Kentucky. All the officers on duty in these States
will report to Major-General Halleck. TheMonn-
fain Department is extended eastward to the road
running from Williamsport to Martinsburgh,
Winchester, Strasburgh, Harriaonburgh, and
Staunton, including that place; thence in the same
direction southward until it strikes the Blue Ridge
to the southern boundary of the State of Virginia.
The department of the Shenandoah is extended
eastward, to include the Piedmont district, and the
Bull Mountain range.
"Governor Bradford and ex-Governor Hicks, of
Maryland, are both said to favour a special session
of the Legislature to take into consideration the
President's Emancipation Message, and there are
many evic!ences of an indlination on the part of the
slaveholders of the State to heed 'the signs of the
times.",

The following is the latest from General Hal-
leek's army .

Washington, Friday, June 13.
i‘ Despatches from General ilalleck, dated June
12, 7 p.m ,
have been received at the War Depart-
ment. Beanregard is retorted to have been at
Tupello (P)
with the remains of his army on Satur-
day last. Spies and deserters represent the rebel
army to be greatly disorganised. Mutinous and
deserting regiments which refused to serve longer,
their time of enlistment, having expired, have been
disarmed and large numbers shot. The immense
destruction of valuable stores proves that the rebel
retreat was a hurried one. Half burned locomotives
and cars are found in places where they would not
have been left if the enemy had been making a
contemplated and prepared retreat. The rebel army
has stripped of food the whole country south of
Corinth, aq- d
many of the inhabitants are in a starr-
ing condition."

General Fremont telegraphs as follows :
" HON. B. M. STANTON.

s 4 Head-qusrterF, Mountain Department,
Har-
risonburgh, Virginia, June 10.
i‘ In my despatch of yesterday, 1 omitted to state
that Col. Clu3cret's Brigade, consisting of the 16th
Ohio and Bth Virginia, afterward supported by the
Garibaldi Guard, formed our addance, and com-
menced the battle of Cross Keys by sharp skirmish-
ing at 9 o'clock in the morning. During the day
they obtained possession of the enemy's ground,
which was disputed foot by foot, and only withdrew
at evening, when ordered to retire to a suitable
position for the night. The skill and gallantry
displayed by Cluseret on this and frequent 'former
occasion?, during the pursuit in which we have been
engagvd, deserve high praise.—Respectfully,
" J. C. FREMONT, Major-General."
dcapatch from Memphis says :
" Memphis, June 12, via Cairo, June 13.
" The reports that the rebels hare burned Vicks-
burgh were not credited. Several gunboats and
rams are st=ating' on a reconnoisailbce up %% bite
itiv4:. Marty .11161 • nie starting North who have
been waiting int-;;Abs for the Union force's."
The cormipandcrtt of the !tribune
with General
hiT awell'a corps sends the following despatch
" Manassas, June 13.
" A report has just reached here that a guerrilla
party, numbering 150, dashed into Warrenton last
Monday evening, and captured 22 sick soldiers left
in the hospital, and from 25 to 30 stragglers from

,Gen. Gibbon's Brigade of Gen. King's Division.
Small guerrilla squads have been seen to-day in the
neighbourhood of Huntsville, and Major Duffle, of
Gen. M.Dowell's body, guard, has been sent out to
capture them."

The first United States' mail from New Orleans
since the capture of that city had reached New
York,.bring Southern papers to the Ist inst. The
~unday Delta of that date has the following
article :
" On the Ist day of May the troops of the United
States marched into this city and took up quarters
in the Customhouse. They passed through streets
deserted, the shops and places of business closed,
the few persons seen scowling under their hats at
the procession—not a cheer for the return of the old
flag, not a welcome, not a smile to evidence joy
at the relief from anarchy and despotism. A
stranger might have supposed that a happy and free
people were to succumb to the brute force of a bar-
barous and uncivilised race. So might the citizens
of Rcme have met the entrance of the Huns into
the then mistress of the world. No man could have
dreamed that order and security were marching in
to dethrone confusion and danger, to trample out
Thuggery in high places and in low places, to walk
by the citizen by day and by night, to secure the
life and limb which had been constantly imperilled
before, to guard property, at the mercy of the mob
up to that time—and yet this was the case
confessedly. One short month has elarsed. The
streets are filled with smiling faces, business attracts
with open doors, Thugs have left for summer wa-
tering-places, property is secure, and Abraham
Lincoln, by the grace of Gad and the electoral vote
of the people, President of the United States of
America, might walk unarmed and unaccompanied
at any time through these streets, in lull security,
and to the joy and delight of numbers who have
heretofore been accustomed to link his name with
curses and execrations. Slowly and gradually at
first this change appeared, the terror of a twelve-
month was not to be cast off in a day, but, as one
by one the citizens gathered courage to come for-
ward and speak out the sentiments which had been
crushed out, but not eradicated, the stream gathered
strength and fulness till within the past week the
wish to bring themselves within the aegis of the
flag has been quite equal to the power of the autho-
rities to receive their declarations of allegiance.
The teachings of a lifetime, the protection of a life-
time, the pride and glory of a lifetime of, under; and
in the Union had not been effaced by a brief course
of rebellion, and many who believed they had suc-
ceeded in bringing themselves to hate found them-
selves mistaken at last. It was a brother's hate, fierce
and bitter, the fiercest and bitterest, but the recol-
lection of the mother, the father, the family, brings
back, at last, the reconciliation, and the knowledge
that during the whole period of estrangement the
heart bad been true to its duties. The opportunity
for this change had been given to this people by the
judicious course adopted by the Major-General com-
manding. It would have leen easy, nothing easier'
to have adopted a course just but harsh, righteous
but strict, which would have added fuel to the
flame already burning only too furiously. But by
a calm and quiet coarse, waiting to learn before
acting, and then acting justly, and in such manner
as to elicit the praise of all as he relieved the fears
of all, he has convinced the people that the Gover-
nment is today, as of old, protective and kindly, and
has drawn out the old memories to do their perfect
work. All honour to him for this course; and in
this course he has found no difficulty in leading his
assistants, who, believing in him, and acting from
no ulterior purpose beyond the restoration of those
magnificent monuments of human wisdom and
human compromise, the Constitution and the Union,
have leaped to anticipate his commands. Citizens
of New Orleans, you have had one month of order,
peace, and security. The cause is patent. Will any
of you seek to return to your condition in the
months preceding, or will you grasp at and cling to
that Power which has snatched you from the burn-
ing ? You must have it whether you will or not.
Is it not better to take to it readily, cheerfully, and
heartily, than to stand sullenly waiting for what
will never come ? Choose ye."
A Court of Inquiry assembled, on the 13th, at the
office of Captain Radford, at the Brooklyn Navy -
yard, New York, to investigate the circumstances
under which the Emily St. Pierre was taken from
Prize Master (Acting Master, United States Navy)
Stone, who was held to await the action of the
Court. The officers of the Court were Commander
Radford and Lieutenant Flag, of the receiving ship
North Carolina. There were also four of the Emily's
crew attending the Court. They said that the dis-
aster to the prize was caused by the crew put on
board not having been prodded with arms. It was
not thought that a court-martial would be deemed
necessary. The chief facts elicited from the wit-
nesses examined did not differ materially from the
statements already published. The result of the
Court of Inquiry would be made known to the
Navy Department immediately on its adjournment.