The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-01 00:00:00

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, OCT. 31.
The Royal mail steamship Persia, from New
York on the 22d inst., arrived here at 3.30 p.m.
She brings 104 passengers and 1,009,240 dole, in
specie. She landed 62 sacks of mails and three
passengers, and proceeded at 3,50 for Liverpool.
All well.

The Persia made the passage from New York
under nine days.

NEW YORK, OCT. 21, EVENING.

PER PERSIA.

The Federal General Negley (P) reports that the
Confederates, who had assembled at Lavergne, 15
miles east of Nashville, with the intention of assault-
ing the city, were attacked by the Federals on the
6th and routed, leaving 170 prisoners.
The Confederate General Price is gathering
troops at Holly Springs, Mississippi. on the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad.

The Confederate Congress has passed a resolu-
tion that President Davis would be sustained in
resorting to such measures of retaliation as in his
judgment may be demanded by Mr. Lincoln's
proclamation, and the other barbarities of the
enemy.

A Confederate ram has been launched at Charles
ton.

The Confederate Congress has adjourned to the
13th November.

The Federal Union party has nominated Xolah A
Dix for Governor of New York.

NEW YORK, OCT. 22, MORNING.
The result of the election in Pennsylvania is un
certain.

The Stockbrokers' Committee has reported that
Government desired that gold speculation should
not be fostered on the Stock Exchange. It is sup-
posed that gold will be struck off the Stock list.
Federal officers have been appointed to report to
the State Department any cases of aliens actually
drafted into military service and who claim exemp-
tion,

Gen. APClellan's pickets have been extended two
miles. An advance was considered probable.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, OCT. 22 (Morning),

Money easy. Gold 341 prem. Exchange quiet
Bankers' Bills 146 to 148. Illinois Shares 63
Breadstuffs rising.

BANK NOTES.

With regard to a complaint inserted to-day of the
Bank of England, West-end branch, having refused
to give change for a note, and of a condition having
been exacted at the Bank of England itself that a
person desiring change should write his name and
address on the note, satisfactory explanations can
be given. If the West-end branch were to hold
itself liable to give gold for all the notes issued from
the parent establishment, a stock of that metal of
equal amount would have to be kept at both places.
Moreover, the public would lose the advantage now
derived from the facilities afforded for stopping
stolen or lost notes, which involve a system of regis-
tration and examination such as could not, without
great cost,inconvenience,and delay,be put in practice
at more than the head institution. As to the demand
that a person presenting a note should write his
name and address upon it, the Bank of England have
never asserted any legal right on the point. Looking
at the great protection which it affords against fraud
(and there are few persons in extensive business
who have not in the course of their experience had
illustrations of the advantage of it), they make the
request in the interests of the public at the cost of
some trouble to themselv( s. Of course, if any one
should stubbornly refuse:to comply, the Bank have
no choice but to pay their note, but they would
naturally regard any such person with suspicion,
and there can be little doubt that if they were to
interpose some slight delay or to cause some
watchfulness to be exercised, in such a case neither
magistrates nor juries would be disposed to look
with a favourable eye on any complaint by those
who should needlessly subject themselves to such
annoyance. With respect to the inconvenience
which has been inflicted by railway companies and
other establishments on the general public since the
notification of the theft of Bank-note paper two or
three months back there can be little doubt it has
been carried to a vexatious extent, and has been
used as a pretext by idle clerks and others to avoid
trouble. In establishments where large sums are
daily received in profitable transactions with the
public it is a duty to employ persons of sufficient
intelligence to know when to exercise especial vigi-
lance. Throughout the whole affair, although it
was desirable fur the sake of justice that all persons
taking Bank notes should use every convenient pre-
caution, the fright and inconvenience which the
public have sustained have been almost ludicrous
compared with the actual danger, since the whole
amount of these notes brought in up to the present
time is believed to have scarcely exceeded .£3oo(half
of which were circulated in America before the
notices of the robbery had been promulgated), while
the amount of gold withdrawn from the Bank in
consequence of the prevalent distrust is estimated at
not much short of half a million.—Tunes.

ACCIDENT TO AN EXCURSION TRAIN.—The last
of tho series of day excursions to London, for the Interna-
tional Exhibition, by the West Midland 11ailway, on Wed-
nesday last, met with a mishap which caused considerable
delay and some anxiety among the passengers. The train
left Worcester at 6 o'clock in the morning, and had reached
Charlbury, in Oxfordshire, when the engine became dis-
abled, and it was discovered that one of the wheels was
loose, and likely to part company with the body of the en-
gine. Accordingly the train was brought to a stand, and,
after some delay, occasioned in the fetching of a fresh en-
gine, the passengers proceeded on their journey, but did
not reach Paddington until 1 o'clock instead of the adver-
tised hour, 10 a.m. Delay was also occasioned in the re•
turn trip, which occupied six hours instead of four.
CONFEDERATE VESSELS.—It Was rumoured in
Liverpool on Wednesday that a mysterious steamer had
just sailed from the Mersey "on a trial trip." It was re •
ported, and believed by many, that the vessel is a sister
ship to the notorious " 290," alias the Alabarn
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vessel
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