The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-27 00:00:00

Ways and Means in the Confederate Congress, has
left for Europe.

The subscription to the Seven-Thirty Loan last
week amounted to 9 millions 9 hundred thousand.
Minnesota and Kansas have ratified the constitu-
tional amendment, making now 15 States who have
adopted it.
The people of West Tennessee have petitioned
Lincoln against the interference of the military
authorities with the courts, taxation, and the draft,
except according to the United States laws. The
petition also requests the President, as soon as
Tennessee has ratified the constitutional amend-
ment made by the Tennessee Convention, to declare.
Tennessee to be no longer in a state of insurrection.
The Missouri Convention has endorsed Lincoln's
action at the Peace Conference and resolved to sup-
port the Government until peace is established on
the basis of Lincoln's note to Mr. Seward.
Fernando Wood has made a speech at New York
in which he said that the South would never submit
to coercion. Peaceful negotiations, conducted in a
proper spirit might restore the Union. He would
never submit, under any circumstances, to disunion.
He favoured the Monroe doctrine, and assistance to
Ireland.

Archbishop Mac Closkey has delivered a lecture
at New York in defence of the Pope and the En-
cyclical letter. He said that the outcry of its
opponents prove they hold the errors it condemns.

The Jews in New York have presented a petition
to Congress against the proposed amendment to
the constitution, recognising the Divinity of Christ.
A coloured minister preached in the House of Re-
presentatives on Sunday, at the invitation of the
chaplain.
A court-martial has convicted Captain Beale of
piracy on Lake Erie. He has been orderedby Gene-
ral Dix to be hung on Saturday.
The Senate has passed a bill authorising a con-
tract with any company who will agree for the
lowest price to establish a line of steamers to make
twelve round trips a year between San Francisco
and China.

The Congressional Committee have proposed
Corondolet Mound City for a naval depot in the
Western waters.
The bounties for volunteers have been raised in
New York.

The Danish Minister at Washington has denied
the report sent by the American Consul in London
that the Danish Government had sold the Bordeaux
ram to the Confederates.

The Paris correspondent of the Herald writes that
two Bordeaux rams sold by the Danish Govern-
ment to Confederates were about leaving the French
coast to attack New York city. The Herald urges
Government to prepare for their reception and seize
the Danish West Indian possessions as an indemni-
fication for their being fitted out under the Danish
flag. . .

Advices from Vancouver's Island and British
Columbia state they are still discussing the project
of union, but the last will not consent unless the
former abandon the free-trade policy to which
Victoria desires to adhere.

The Golden Age sailed from San Francisco on
the 12th for Panama with over a million of specie,
of which over $400,000 were for New York.

A Mexican correspondent writing on the 15th ult.
states that the Mexican Government refused Givin's
colonisation scheme, fearing that the establishment
of a colony of Confederates might lead to trouble.
South American advices announce the settlement
of the Hispano-Peruvian difficulty on the terms de-
manded by the Minister Pacheco. In addition Peru
pays three millions indemnity, and obtains at once
possession of the Chincha islands, and admits a
Spanish envoy. _ _

NEW YORK, FEB. 15.

A despatch from General Grant says :—The
Ricemond papers of Monday state that Sherman
has crossed the Edisto, which was the line held by
Hardee for the defence of Branchville. A portion
of Sherman's troops were two-thirds of the way
from Edisto to Columbia, an important point,
forming the junction of the Charlotte and South
Carolina and Greenville and Columbia Railroads,
thus severing railroad communication withßichmond
except via Wilmington.
It is reported that General Grant contemplates a
movement on Goldsborough, North Carolina.

The Tribune says that deserters assert that dissa-
tisfaction prevails among Lee's army at the result
of the peace conference, and that numerous deser-
tions would be the consequence. The troops were
on what the Federal army would consider half
rations, and were suffering from want of clothing.
Lieut. Cushing has sent in a report of an expedi-
tion made with four boats and 50 men eight miles
up Little River, South Carolina, to All Saints'
parish. He destroyed a considerable amount of
cotton, and also the stores collected at Charlotte
Inlet for the garrison of Fort Anderson. The
South Carolina planters expressed their willingness
to return to the old Government. They only awaited
emancipation from military rule.
A large Federal force has landed at Smithfield,
North Carolina, with locomotive engines, it is sup-
posed, for use after the capture of Wilmington.
It is rumoured, that the Confederates, are mining
the Federal works at Petersburg.

The correspondent of the World reasserts that
Lee will concentrate the Southern armies inland in
two divisions—one in Eastern Virginia under Lee,
and the other in South Carolina under Beauregard.
The latter has been instructed not to attack Sher-
man until he is far advanced into South Carolina.
Lee's movements will depend upon the result of the
battle in South Carolina. The World anticipates a
long war in any case.
The Federals have defeated Shelby at Dardanelles,
Arkansas.
Shelby has retired to Layettevillle.

Lincoln's son, Robert Lincoln, has been nomi-
nated to the Senate as Assistant-Adjutant-General
of Volunteers, withthe rank of Captain on Grant's
staff.

The question of a general export duty is being
agitated in Congress.

Indiana has ratified the constitutional amendment.

In the case of the St. Alban's raiders, George
Sanders gave evidence that C. C. Clay, claiming
military and civil ambassadorial power, informed
him that that he directed and promised, to assume
the responsibility of the raid. A messenger from
Richmond has arrived with a document proving
the belligerent character of the raiders.

Advices received here from Peru state that Admi-
ral Pareja was about to proceed to Chili to demand
of the Government the money he paid for coal over
what it would have cost if supplied at Cota, and
also to demand an apology for the annoyance caused
thereby. Should his demand not be complied with,
the Admiral will seize the ports of Cota and Caldra
until it is granted.
The General Government of Bogota has issued an
order to the President of Panama stating that in
consequence of a note from the French Minister
calling attention to an order forbidding the passage
of the French troops across the Isthmus for the
frigate Pallas, while offering no obstacle to the
passage of United States troops for California, pro-
hibition of the passage of foreign troops across the
Isthmus shall be absolute without distinction. The
Government thinks the situation of the United
States' Pacific territory is a reason why Congress
should consider innocent the passage of United
States troops across the Isthmus until the matter is
settled by a convention, already proposed. Mean-
time the rule ought to be general. All will be con-
sidered troops if organised according to military law
even if not armed.

Colonel Bulkeley has arrived at San Francisco,
en route for the exploration of a telegraph route
between the United States and Russia. He will
leave immediately for British Columbia, whence he
will start on exploring expeditions.

NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (Evening).

General Gilmore has superseded Foster.
Charleston despatches state that 2,000 to 3,000
Federals landed at Grimballs, on James Island, two
miles south-west of Charleston—the Ashley River,
1,000 yards wide, intervening—and drove in the
Confederate pickets. Skirmishing ensued, but no
general engagement took place.
A Federal attack on Salkeliatehie was easily
repulsed.

Another body of Federal troops advanced on the