The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-27 00:00:00

AMERICA.

GREAT SUCCESS OF THE FEDERAL
TROOPS.
NEW YORK, :ULY 16, EVENING.
(Per Persia eia Queenstown).

General M'Clelland reports officially to the War
Department that Colonel Pegram has surrendered
with 600 Confederates, at BeNerley, and that Gene-
ral Morris has pursued and rmted a large body of
Confederates at St. George. General Barnett, com-
manding the Confederates, was killed. The Fede-
ral loss is reported as 13 klled. The loss of the
Confederates was 200 killed. Seven guns and 1,000
prisoners were captured. General M'Clelland's
despatch concludes thus Our success is com-
plete, and I firmly believe Secession is killed in
Western Virginia."
The New York Herald's Washington correspon-
dent states that the British consul at Charleston
has forwarded to Lord Lyons documents concern-
ing the breaking of the Chesapeake blockade by
private persons with the permission of the Federal
Government. Among the documents are passes
signed by General Butler, permitting vessels to pass
the blockade.

The House of Representat.ves has passed a reso-
lution to the effect that if the Senate concurred
Congress should adjourn on the 19th July. A re-
solution has been offered providing for a National
Convention for the restoration of peace, but was
lost by a vote of 92 to 61.
Advices have been received from Havannah to
the 10th inst. The privateer steamer Sumter had
captured eight American sl4s laden with eugar on
the south side of Cuba. (Jne was burnt, and the
other seven were taken by prize crews into Cien-
fuegos. One report states that the Captain-Gene-
ral of Cuba has released them. Another report
states that he has detained them, in order to refer
the matter to Madrid.

The Havannah sugar market was active ; No. 12,
7 to 71, reals.

(LATEST.)
NEW YORK, JULY 17, 1 P.M.

The Federal array, under General Macdowall, is
reported to number 55,000 men. He made an
advance yesterday from Arlington Heights in the
direction of Fairfax, Court House. In Congress
bills have been reported voting 3,000,000 dollars
for a temporary increase of the navy for the more
efficient supprcssidn of privateering. Mr. Sumner
has presented a petition for the abolition of slavery,
which proposes that slaveowners should be remune-
rated from the United States Treasury.

During the discussion on the bill Mr. Sumner
approved the President's act.
Mr. Breclrenridge made a strong speech declaring
the acts of President Lincoln, especially the sus-
pension of the Habeas Corpus, t:; be an unconstitu-
tional usurpation of power. lie said the country
was rushing with rapid strides from constitutional
government to military despotism, yet so great on
one side was the passion of the hour, and so as-
tonishing the stupid amazement of the other, that
these things were taken as natural and right. He
referred to the refusal to adopt the Crittenden com-.
promise, and wished the country to know that Con-
gress had deliberately refused a last effort to avert
the horrors of internal strife and warfare.

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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Money ecsy ; IduLsYtoelk6; 6sPtelfd.y.
Bankers' bills, 1062 to 107 ; New York Central,
771; Erie, 202 ; Illinois, 671. Cotton firmly held.
Middling Upland, 15,3. e. Flour firmer, and in
moderate demand, prices 10c. higner. Wheat firm,
and advancing. Corn heavy. Provisions dull.
Coffee firm, and advancing. Sugar and molasses
quiet and unchanged.
NEW YORK, JULY 17, AFTERNOON.
Money easy. Exchange unaltered. Stocks very