The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-13 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIA.
(Via Crookhaven.)

The Royal Mail steamship Persia, from New
York on the 3d inst., arrived at Queenstown at
5.10 a.m. to-day (May 13), with 222 passengers
and $103,031 in specie. She landed 130 sacks of
mails, and 40 passengers, and proceeded for, Liver-
pool at 5.30 a.m. All well.
NEW YORK, MAY 3 (Evening).

The surrender of Johnston was negotiated with
Sherman alone, Grant having simply notified to the
latter that the Government disapproved the previ-
ous arrangement.

The force actually surrendered numbered 27,000
men, and included Generals Beauregard, Hardee,
and Breckenridge, together with the North and
South Carolina and the Gulf States militia.

Wade Hampton refused to be surrendered, and
is reported to have been shot by Johnston during a
personal altercation. Other accounts, however,
state that he had fled with Davis.
Schofield would receive the formal surrender at
Gainsboro' on the 29th ult.

Howard and Slocum's corps will immediately
march northward, via Weldon, Petersburg, and
Richmond.

Howard has issued an order announcing that
hostilities having ceased promiscuous foraging on
the march will be forbidden.

Schofield's corps will remain in North Carolina.
Confirmatory intelligence has been received that
Dick Taylor had offered to surrender to Canby.
Later accounts say that he has concludel an armis-
tice with Gen. Dana on the same terms as John-
ston.

Negotiations are progressing at the mouth of the
Red river for the surrender of Kirby Smith on the
same terms as Lee. 900 Confederates at Cumber-
land Gap have surrendered. Mosby, Rosser, and
Imboden are still at large. Their commands have
surrendered. An order has been issued at Memphis,
stating that after the 25th inst. the rebel soldiers
not surrendered will be considered rebels and not
prisoners of war.

Jefferson Davis is reported to have been seen in
a train between Greensboro' and Salisbury en route
to Charlotte, but finding the railroad cut returned
to Greensboro.

Stoneman's cavalry are in the valley of the Saluda
river scouting towards Augusta, with orders, if they
hear of Jefferson Davis and the specie, to follow
him as long as they can.
Mr. Mallony, the Confederate Secretary of the
Navy,has surrendered at Pensacola to Captain Gib-

A gunboat and two tugs have been destroyed at
Mobile by torpedoes, and numerous lives were lost.
Since the capture of Mobile over 10,000 stragglers
have surrendered. The guerillas depredating
around Mobile entered the city, intending to shoot
General Granger, but could not find him. Thirty
thousand bales of cotton were found at Mobile :
they are claimed by an Englishman. It is estimated
that 100,000 bales are concealed near the city.

The Confederate ram Webb ran out of the Red
River on the evening of the 23d with lightning
speed, and passed the fleet uninjured. She pro-
ceeded do wn the Mississippi, and passed New
Orleans on the 24th, displaying the stars and stripes.
She afterwards hoisted the Confederate flag.
A Federal steamer started in pursuit. A few
miles above Fort St. Phillip the Webb encountered
the steamer Richmond coining up. The Webb was
immediately run ashore and burnt, and the crew,
with the exception of a than and boy, escaped. The
Webb was loaded with cotton, and was bound for
Havannah.

Mr. Davis is said to have passed through Char-
lotte, North Carolina, on the 30th ult., escorted by
cavalry.
The Tribune says it has been ascertained that he
had only $300,000 in specie. He is reported to
have taken a residence at Porto Rico.

Rumours are current that Secretaries Seward,
Stanton, and Welles have expressed a desire to retire
from the Cabinet on the Ist July, and that Messrs.
Francis Adams, Preston, and T. W. Fomey would
replace them.

Grant returned to Washington on Saturday, and
commenced the reduction of the military establish-
ments. It is estimated that 400,000 men will be
immediately mustered out of the service.
President Johnson has issued an order removing
all restrictions hertofore existing, except such as are
imposed by acts of Congress and the regulations of
the Treasury Department, upon internal, domestic,
and coasting commercial intercourse in portions of
Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
The prohibition against commerce in articles that
are contraband of war continues, but the restrictions
imposed by military and naval officers are revoked.
Chief Justice Chase and Treasury Agent Mel-
lin have started for the coast and river cities in the
South, to re-establish Federal courts and organise
trade regulations.

It is asserted that President Johnson will shortly
issue a proclamation, announcing the conditions
upon which the Southern people may return to
loyalty.

General Halleck has ordered persons trading or
holding office to take the oath of allegiance. No
marriage licenses are to be granted until the par-
ties concerned take the oath.

Governor Aiken, of South Carolina, has been
arrested, and ordered to Washington.
The New York Herald, in a letter from New Or-
leans, alleges that there are indications of a junc-
tion of pro-slavery men with the secession Union
sympathisers against the unconditional anti-slavery
party. This is represented as the probable status
of political parties throughout the South.
The press have withdrawn the imputations against
Sherman's loyalty.
The press and people regard the war as now ter-
minated, and no renewal of attempts to secede are
anticipated.

Butler has made a speech urging a military
government for the Southern States, and their re-
admittance to the union after renouncing slavery and
secession. He recommended the repudiation of the
rebel and the breaking down of the slave-holding
aristocracy, and the disfranchisement of the rebel
civil, military, and diplomatic officers.
The trial of the persons implicated in the Booth
conspiracy will commence in Washington next
week. Newspaper reporters will be admitted. The
number of persons arrested is very large. It is
still asserted that the whole affair was planned in
Canada and sanctioned in Richmond.

Washington despatches announce that the Go-
vernment has notified to its Consul-General in
Canada that criminals implicated in Mr. Lincoln's
murder must be surrendered to the United States.
The New York Tribune states that Payne has
confessed to the attempted assassination of Mr.
Seward. An unsuccessful attempt has been made to
burn Ford's Theatre. A plot is alleged to have
been discovered to burn Philadelphia.

The Texas. papers publish a semi-official report of
General Wallace's proposal to the Trans-Mississippi