The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-11 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIA.

The Royal mail steamship Persia, from New York on
the 29th ult., arrived at Queenstown at 1 a.m. to-day
(Dec. 10), with 123 passengers, but no specie. She landed
72 sacks of mails and four passengers, and proceeded for
Liverpool at 1.20 a.m. All well.
NEW YORK, Nov. 29 (Moß.Nria).

General Grant has sot out upon a Southern tour of in-
spection. It is reported that be will visit the Rio Grande.
Strong apprehensions are prevalent in Texas, Missis-
sippi, and other parts of the South of a negro insurrection
about Christmas. The military authorities in Mississippi
have taken the necessary precautions in view of such a
probability, and the planters in Texas have sent their
families, cotton, and valuables into the sea-coast towns.
Twelve hundred nogroes have left Charleston to re-
turn to the employment of their former masters on Sea

A conflict of authority has arisen between the civil and
military authorities at Mobile.
The United States Circuit Court has assembled at Nor-
folk, Virginia. It is rumoured that this court will try
Mr. Davis.

The general tone of the members of Congress arrived
in Washington indicates an almost vnanimous feeling
against the immediate admission of Southern members to
Congress.
The French Minister at Washington has presented to
the consideration of the Government the question of the
seizure by the Government of French tobacco at Rich-
mond, which is now being investigated.
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All Federal volunteers in Texas will be withdrawn and
replaced by regulars.
The Fenian flag has been hoisted over the Fenian head-
quarters in Union-square.
Toronto despatches published here state that the 60th
Regimerit had passed up en route for London. Official re-
turns estimated the number of Fenians in Canada at 70,000.
All the Catholics had been drawn out of the volunteer
forces, and both Orangemen and Catholics were arming.
The New York, Times states that the report of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury will be merely an amplification of his
Fort Wayne speech.
The Tribmie says President Johnson's Message will take
the ground that while the United States cannot be indiffe-
rent to the events transpiring in Mexico, yet interference
on their part is unnecessary, and would prove injurious
both to the United States and the Liberal cause.

The President's late despatch to the Governor of Missis-
sippi, concerning the withdrawal of the troops from that
State, is extremely consolatory in tone.
The Louisiana, Caledonia, Allemania, Nova Scotian,
City of Baltimoro, and Scotia have arrived out.

The Governor of Alabama, in his message to the
Legislature, urges the adoption of the constitutional
amendment abolishing slavery, and the passage of a clauso
for the protection of negroes.

The Governor of Mississippi in his message to
the Legislature recommends that negro testimony be re-
ceived in the courts of justice, and that measures be passed
for tke protection of negroes, and for the taxation of ne-
groes to support vagrant blacks. He approved the adop-
tion of a special code for their government.

The Governor of Louisiana has called a special
session of the Legislature to elect members to Congress.

The Galveston News of the Ist says :—" Im-
mense quantities of cotton are accumulating at Millican,
the terminus of the Central Railroad. The country back
of Millican, especially the Port Sullivan neighbourhood,
has raised a fine crop of cotton, and we learn that the
freedmen there are doing better than in some localities.
We hear of two on a plantation near Port Sullivan who
gathered 7751 b. of cotton in half a day.
The attorneys of the South, from all accounts, are
reaping abundant pecuniary harvests by their charges in
drawing up petitions in behalf of Southern applicants for
pardon. One attorney of South Carolina has forwarded
upwards of one thousand petitions to the Attorney-Gene-
ral's office, for each of which he received the foe of $25.

It is officially ascertained, from the rolls in pos-
session of the Government that Gen. Lee's army, when
it surrendered, contained 28,000 men, and Gen. Johnston's
37,000.
General Fitzhugh Lee is practising law in
Nevada. _ _ _

Gen. Duff Green, of Alabama, died at Mobile
on the 11th of November.

Semmes, of Alabama piracy notoriety, is doing
business at Natchez, Miss.

The seat in Congress of James Brooks, of New
York, is to be contested.
General William H. Morris, United States'
Volunteers, is in London.

Generals Carl. Schurz and Torbet, and the
Marquis do Chambrua, of Paris, are in Washington.
Governor Morton, of Indiana, is about to visit
this country.

Washington L. Lane, managing editor of the
Philadelphia Ledger, died on the 14th.

Col. Wm. Christy, of New Orleans, died on
the 7th instant.

gr. Buchanan Read, the American poet and
painter, is engaged in painting a portrait of Major-General
Phil. Sheridan.

A. H. Stephens has refused in the most decided
terms to allow the use of his name in connection with the
Governorship of Georgia.

Major-General Rosecranz arrived in New York
on the 19th ult., from a three months' tour through the gold
and silver regions of the Pacific. _ _

General Butler, it is said, intends to make
Washington his permanent residence, and is negotiating
for the purchase of a house.
General Charles Yates, late commander of the
New York National Guard, and his family are en route to
Italy.
General M'Clellan is at present residing in
apartments at Dresden, in which city many American
families are staying for the winter.
Dr. George J. Bucknell, late surgeon in the
regular army of the United States, is spending the winter
with his family at Frankfort.
Gov. Wright, the talented and popular American
ambassador at Berlin, has taken an elegant residence, and
gives weekly receptions to the Americans, of whom there
are about one hundred at present staying in that city.
The celebrated Maine sculptor, Simmons, has
received an order for a colossal statue of President Lincoln,
for Independence-square, Philadelphia. It will be in
bronze and cost $30,000.
Dr. Bergh and Dr. Mumm, judges of the City
Court of Frankfort, have been elected Senators of the
Republic of Frankfort to fill two vacancies. The Frank-
fort Senators hold their office for life, and elect th eir own
successors.

Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who was at one time
the leading General in the rebel army, is now stopping at
the New York Hotel. Ho is about engaging in the express
business in the South, and visits New York to perfect
certain business arrangements. At times, says the New
York Times, the soi-disant General is surrounded by those
who hold peculiar views on current topics, although he
evidently aims at maintaining a strict reserve, accepting
the present course of events as the natural result of peace
and reconciliation.

Mr. J. P. Benjamin, says the Picayune, writes to
his friends in New Orleans that he has been received and
treated with great kindness and generosity by many of the
prominent statesmen in England ; that he is awaiting the
legal term of residence to qualify him for admission to the
English bar, in order to resume the practice of his profes-
sion in London or Liverpool, and that he manages to sup-
port himself very comfortably by giving counsel and legal

It is stated on the authority of Paymaster Gen.
Prince that since the commencement of the war the Pay
Department has paid out the enormous sum of 1,020 mil-
lions of dollars. With all expenses of paying the disburs-
ing officers, with all defalcations and losses of every kind,
it has only cost out of this amount three-quarters of ono
per cent.—56,650,000.07.

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A circular has been issued by the Commissioner
of. Agriculture to cotton manufacturers, in which he states
that realizing the great importance .o the wants of a good
cotton crop for the ensuing year, he proposes to use all
available means for the purpose of stimulating it. He
further states that he wishes to obtain correct statistics of
such cotton as was manufactured since 1860, each year re-
spectively. His. purpose in this is merely to show the
exact consumption of each year, compared with the next
larger, from consumption, and finally enlarged duties upon
the effects of the manufacturers.