The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-01 00:00:00

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, MARCH 20.
(P'er Canada, by telegraph to Halifax, and via
i Queenstown.)

Advices from Port Royal to the 16th inst. report
that preparations for the reduction of Savannah are
steadily progressing.

Gen. Burnside, in his official report of the cap-
ture of Newgurn, says
By this victory we have captured eight bat-
teries containing 46 heavy guns, three batteries of
light artillery, making in all 64 guns ; two steam-
boats, a large quantity of ammunition, rosin, fur-
F,entine, and cotton, and over 200 prisoners. The
Federal loss will amount to 91 killed and 466
wounded, many of them mortally. The rebel loss
was severe, bat not so great as the Federal loss,
they being effectually covered by their works."
The report concludes as follows

"I beg to say to the General Commanding
M'Ciellan that I have endeavoured to carry out the
very minute instructions given me by him before
leaving Anna polis; and thus far events have been
singularly coincident with his anticipations. I
only h 012.4 that we may in future be able to carry
out in detail the remaining plans of the campaign.
The only thing I have to regret is the delay caused
by the elements."
The Confederates are reported to have evacuated
the last of the batteries they held on the Lower
Potomac, viz., those at Acquia Creek.
Reconnaissances have been :made from General
Sickle's brigade to Fredericksburg. The Confede-
rates were discovered in considerable numbers in
that vicinity.

Strasburg, lately occupied by the Confederates,
is now occupied by the advance of General Banks'
corps d' armee .

It has been discovered that the telegraph cable
between Washington and Fort Monroe was cut.
The supposed culprit has been arrested.
Guieral Wool has forbidden the crews of steamers
g9ing to Norfolk under a flag of truce to receive
Southern newspapers. The Northern press is thus,
for the present, cut off from, the usual supply of
Southern journals.

It is reported from Philadelphia, and also from
Fort Monroe, that Yancey, the late Confederate
eommis3ioner to England, had been captured in a
schooner running the blockade.
The New York Tribune says that the Federal
'Government has information that the four steam
rams now building by the Confederates—two at
Mobile and two at New Orleans—are not so for-
midable as the Merrimac.

There is a formidable gathering of Federal gun-
boats at Savannah.

The Confederates are concentrating in force at
Corinth and Decatur, in Alabama, to the number,
it is supposed, of 40,000.

The New York press is discussing the strategic
importance of the capture of Newburn, and con-
sider that Beaufort and Fort Macon will be com-
p elled to surrender to Burnside's expedition. There
is a railroad about 40 miles long from Xewburn to
Beaufort.

The steamer Nashville is at present in Beaufort
harboar.

The trade of Newburn was principally in naval
stores, and as the town was only partially damaged,
it is supposed Government will permit the ship-
ment of naval stores from Newburn. The naval
store market of New York is in consequence un-
settled, and prices are nominal.

The Washington correspondent of the New Fork
Herald says that information received in Washing-
ton leads to the belief that the Confederates are
farming a line of defence from Fredericksburg to
Gordonsville.