The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-10 00:00:00

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

(Per Etna.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 29 (Morning)
No movement has taken place at Fredericksbn.
The Confederates have driven in the Fethral
pickets at Newbern, North Carolina. They eneea.
voured to capture three companies of Federals, but
were repulsed. The Confederate force is sail to
number 4,000.

The Confederates have abandoned Holly Springs.
Hudsonville, Mississippi, has been occupied by ;he
Federals. The Gonfederates are massed at Tula-
homa, Tennessee, in order to resist the advance of
Rosencranz from Nashville.
The New 3 ork Tribune asserts that it is reported
on high authority from Washington that the Iri-
tish Admiral Milne is in pursuit of the Confedcrate
steamer Alabama. A large Democratic meeting
has been held at New York. Speeches were made
urging the unfaltering prosecution of the war to
re-establish the constitution throughout the Union.
Hopes were expressed that the North and South
would again be invited in order to attack Englund.
M'Clellan's removal was denounced.

Denunciations against England continue tc be
poured forth from the press and the pulpit, ant by
public speakers on all occasions, which seem to elicit
popular approbation.
Numerous attempts to burn Memphis have been
made by incendiaries.
Another foraging expedition by aFederal coloired
regiment has been made from Beaufort, South
Carolina. _ _

The .Kaasau Guardian asserts that Admiral
Wilkes had threatened to enter Nassau without the
permission of the governor, but that he afterwards
bore away, and lay at the distance of a marine
league from the shore. The Guardian expresses
fears that Admiral Wilkes's hasty conduct may em-
broil America and England in war.

The same journal likewise states that the captain
of the Federal steamer Octovora had infringed the
Queen's proclamation, in capturing a schooner
within the Abaco reef, near Allen's Cry.
The steamers Herald and Leopard have arrived
at Nassau from Charleston.
General Burnside's army continues on the Rappa-
hannock, opposite Fredericksburg.
General Lee is in command of the Confederates,
with a force estimated at 80,000 men.
General Burnside will in all probabilty attempt
a flank movement, and order General Sumner to
pass the river at another point.
The President visited General Burnside's head-
quarters at Acquia Creek on Wednesday to investi-
gate matters personally, and returned to Washing-
ton the same day.
Thanksgiving-day was celebrated throughout the
North on the 27th. The Government took the
opportunity to release all the political prisoners in
Forts Warren and Lafayette ; among the number
set at liberty are Mr. W. H. Winder, of Philadel-
phia, and Mr. Pierre Soule, of New Orleans. No
oath of allegiance was demanded of them, nor were
they required to make any promises whatever.
The Democrats claim the result as a direct con-
sequence of their recent triumph at the poll.
Gen. Banks is fitting out his expedition to the
South. Great secrecy is maintained as to its desti-
nation. It was at first believed to be Texas: It is
now believed to be for the James River, to co-ope-
rate with General Burnside in an attack upon
Richmond.

MADRID, DEC. 9,

In to-day's sitting of the Senate General Prim I
spoke on the general policy of the Government, to
Which ho said ho had no intention of "Frpring any
opposition. At the proper time he would reply to
the attacks which had been made against him by
the Spanish and foreign press. He complained
that M. Billault in his speech in the Corps Legis-
latif had attacked him in a manner which is consi-
dered unallowable, and said that he would answer
legal weapons. General Prim added that he was
not, and had never been, an enemy to France.
His mission in Mexico had been to put
forward certain claims in the interests of Spain.
In concert with the representatives of
France and England, he had roused the political
spirit of Mexico. The first conferences passed off
satisfactorily enough, but when he saw that France
intended to inaugurate an exclusively French policy
in Mexico, he resolved upon withdrawing, as he
would never consent to become the tool of any
foreign nation.

ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 9.

The Euxine and Pera, with the above mails, left
at noon this day for Marseilles and Southampton

respectively.
The Pera may be expected at Southampton about
the 22d inst.

The Jeddo brought the mail to Suez, arriving

there yesterday.

The Bengal and Sultan left Suez on the 6th for
Calcutta and Mauritius respectively.

BERLIN, DEC. 9.

The official Staatsanzeigtr of to-day says :
" Count Itzenplitz has been relieved of his pre-
sent functions as Minister of Agriculture, and has
been appointed Minister of Commerce.
" The Chief President Selchow replaces Count
Itzenplitz in the Ministry of Agriculture.
" Herr von Jagow has, at his own request, been
relieved of the portfolio of Ministet of the Interior,
and the Chief Presidency of the Province of Bran-
denburg has been transferred to him.
" Count Eulenberg, Councillor of Legation, has
been appointed Minister of the Interior in his
stead."