The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-11 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENOB.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, May 10 (6 p.m.).
The Government has ordered the writ of Habeas
Corpus in reference to Mr. Davis to be obeyed.
The Hamburg and American Co.'s steamer
Teutonia arrived out yesterday evening, and the
Guions screw-steamer and Chicago on Wednesday
last.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Closing Prices :—Gold, 1371 ; Sterling Ex-
change on Loudon, 1094. 5-20 United States
Bonds, 108; ; Illinois, 114 ; Erie, 631. Cotton—
Middling Upland, 27. Petroleum Refined, 24f.

ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTIA.

NEW YORK, May 1, 2 a.m.

The Virginian Legislature has made an appro-
priation for the education of children irrespective
of colour. •

In consequence of the publication in the Rich-
mond Times of articles violently denouncing Con-
gress, General Schofield has admonished the editor
to moderate the tone of his paper.

Frequent disturbances occur in Richmond, in
consequence of ' ncgroes insisting to ride in the
street cars contrary to the regulations of the

proprietors.

General Sickles stopped the fireman's parade at
Charleston on Monday because no national flag
was carried, and reqred them to carry one at the
head of the procession with a guard of honour. The
firemen acquiesced, and the parade continued.
A man was subsequently arrested for mutilating
the flag and sent to gaol.

There is great destitution in the interior of
Georgia, and thousands are in danger of starvation.
A mass meeting of whites and blacks took place
on Monday in Columbia. A negro orator declared
that the 'Southern people and the negroes are the
best of friends.

Lawlessness con tinues to prevail in East Ten-
nessee. It is reported that Union men have been
ordered to leave several towns.

A mob of loyal leaguers in Blount County re-
cently dispersed the congregation of a Methodist
' Church supposed to sympathise with the rebels.
Petitions have been circulated in Texas praying
the Government to divide the State into two parts
in consequence of the predominance of loyalty in
the 'Western and disloyalty in the Eastern portion.
The Meads of Mr. Davis are renewing their
efforts to procure his speedy release on bail. Mr.
Davis is in good health.
Senator Wilson has addressed the people of New-
burn, Goldsboro', Raleigh, and North Carolina,
exhorting the freedmen particularly to sustain the
Republican party.
Mr. Thaddeus Stevens has written a letter advo-
cating the confiscation of rebel property, and deny-
ing the right of Senator Wilson to promise the
South representation upon their conforming to the
Reconstruction Act.

Information has been received at the Treasury
Department that the r.lpadian Customs' officers
are aiding and abetting smuggling from Canada,
into the United States.

News puLlished in the New York papers, 'from
Republican sources, from Tampico, to the 17th nit.,
state the Emperor Maximilian was still besieged in
Queretaro, that Miracuml was mortally wounded,
and that the garrison of Vera Cruz was on short
rations.

The Loyal mail steamship Scotia, from New York
on the Ist May, arrived at Queenstown at mid-
night (May 10) with .r 3-1 first-class cabin passen-
gers and $lOO,OOO in specie. She landed all the
mails except those for Liverpool and a portion of
the Scotch, and 68 passsengers. She proceeded for
Liverpool immediately. All well.