The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-14 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.
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AMERICA.
NEW YORK, MAY 3.

Full confirmation has been received of the cap-
ture of New Orleans. There was no blockade;
there was no blocdshed.

General Mansfield Lovell, with his whole army,
retired by railway to Port Monroe, 78 miles on the
road to Memphis, to effect a junction with General
Bsaurcgard, who is said to have evacuated Co-
rinth.

A great battle is imminent at Grand Junction,
near Memphis, between Generals Halleck and
Beauregard. Both have been largely reinforced.
Fort Macon surrendered, on the 25th ult., to
General Burnside.

The garrison retired with the honours of war.
The Federal loss was seven killed and 18 wounded ;
the Confederate loss is not stated.

Congress has passed a vote of censure on ex-
Secretary Cameron, of the War Department, for
adopting, with regard to army contracts, a policy
highly injurious to the public.
A similar vote with regard to the conduct of
Secretary Welles, of the Navy, has been negatived.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAY 2.
Money easy. Gold 2a premium. Exchange, 111
bankers' bills,

Stocks active. New York Centrals, 86 to 4 ;
Illinois, 601- to 61 ; Mies, 371 to 37i.
Flour, wheat, and other corn firm.
Provisions dull. Coffee quiet. Sugar firm ;mo
lasses in good demand.

LISBON, MAY 12.
The tumults in the province of Minho are corn.
pletely ended.
Troops have been sent to Oporto.
The question of the Sisters of Charity is stir
being agitated.
The Government has a majority in the Cortes.

FRANCE.

The visit of the Prince Napoleon to Naples
suggests the following observations to the Presses
"Prince Napoleon embarks, preceded by his
speech of the Ist March ; by that speech, in which,
history in hand, he has demonstrated—first, that
the Government of the Ruman States has at all
times been considered as execrable; secondly, that
Napoleon I. considered as a misfortune the union of
the temporal and spiritual powers on the same
head; and, thirdly, that the idea of Italian unity,
far from being one of our own time—one of conquest
and ambition—was germinating in all minds and
in all hearts at the period of the Restoration. We
have had, especially on the Italian question, too
many miscalculations of all kinds to abandon our-
selves blindly to our hopes, and to take our desires
for realities. We do not look upon the recall of
General de Goyon as a solution, and we do not
forget the note of the Moniteur upon the presence
of the French fleet in the Gulf of Naples. But facts
are facts, and their importance remains, in spite of
all official reserves, and all diplomatic exigencies.
In whatever manner they may be explained, the
salvos of the French and English fleets have re-
sounded in the ears of Europe like the artillery of
a naval battle, and the language of M. Benedetti
and Sir James Hudson to the King of Italy has
been the funeral oration of Francis II and of the
dynasty of the Bourbons. As for Prince Napoleon,
if he has not received any political mission, his
journey has not the less, for Italy and for Europe,
an important signification."
BOURSE, May 13.—The amount of business done
has been limited, but prices have been firmly main-
tained at about the closing rates of yesterday.
Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f 85c. The
Railway Share Market has also up to the present
time been firm, but the amount of business mode-
rate. The market continued firm, and closed as
follows: •

4/ per per Cents 97 75
Do, end
3 per Cents
Do. end month.. , 7O 80
New 3 per Cents
Do, end month 69 85
Credit. Mobilie- 843 75
!)o. end month -

Bank Shares ... 3145
Credit 14 oncier 1557 50
Belgian 41 —
Piedniontes( Fives 72 30
Italian Loan 72
Austrian
Spaniel' Threes s2a
Home Debt
rAys.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1325 .. 1330
Northern .... •
New ditto - • • .
Lyons and Mediterranean 1110 1115
Geneva 375 .. 372 30

RAIL'

Southern
850 .. 853 75
Western
Eastern ... ,
.. 568 75 .. 565 25
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 605 .. 608 75

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.

The Royal Mail steamer seine, Captain Revett,
arrived at 3.30 a.m., bringing usual mails, 304 pas-
sengers, 691,786 dols. in specie; jewellery and pearls,
value 2,850 dole.

News from the Pacific is unimportant, At Peru
exchange on England was at 36* per dollar; at
Valparaiso, 451 to 46. Freight to England, at Val-
paraiso, from £4 to £4 2s. 6d. per ton,
Central American advises, dated Costa Rica,
March 31, report that the coffee crop was all in,
and amountel to about 85,000 quintals. Prices
had fallen 50c. to 75c. Quality of crop in general
satisfactory, though not as good as anticipated.
Rain vcas wanted at Demerara. Flour sold a
shade higher, but sales were slow at advanced rates.
No sales of produce. Freights advanced. Ex-
change on London ;-90 days' bills, 483; 60 days',
486 ; 30 days', 489 ; three days', 492.

At Grenada I,ugar-making was progressing as at
previous accounts.