The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-10 00:00:00

TELLERS.

Brand, IL B.
Knatchbull-Hugess

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY EVENING.

The United States mail steamship Fulton, Capt.
J. A. Wotton, with mails from New York of the
27th ult., has arrived from Cowes and gone on to
Havre. Her advices are two days later than those
brought by the Persia. She brings 21 passengers
for Southampton and 255 for Havre. Among them
are the following official personages :—Mr. J. Brit-
ton, United States Consul to Southampton ; Mr. C.
L. Wilson, Secretary to Legation ; Mr. W. L.
Dayton and family, Minister to France ; Mr. Pen-
nington, Secretary to Legation ; Mr. J. S, Pike and
family, Minister to the Hague; Mr. Marsh and
family, Minister to Sardinia ; Mr. A. Burlingame,
Minister to Austria ; Mr. W. H. Vesey, Consul to
Aix-la-Chapelle; Mr. J. 0. Putnam and family,
Consul to Havre; Mr. W. S. Campbell, Consul to
Rotterdam.

The Fulton spoke the Ocean Monarch going into
'ew York.

The Herald of the 27th gives the following as the
situation of affairs ;

" The conflicting reports of the last few days
relative to the situation of affairs in and around
Washington have received a somewhat satisfactory
solution in the intelligence which we are enabled
to give in our columns to-day, at least as far as the
movements of the regiments despatched from the
North are concerned. It is certain now that the
7th Regiment of New York and the Massachusetts
Regiment have arrived safely in Washington. The
7th and a part of the Massachusetts Regiment took
the line of march from Annapolis early on Wednes-
day and reached the junction at 10 o'clock on
Thursday morning. From this point they took the
train for Washington, where they arrived in the
afternoon and marched through Pennsylvania-
avenue to the President's house, and thence to the
War Department. The train which took them on
returned to the junction at 4 o'clock in the after-
noon, and carried the remainder of the Massachu-
setts Regiment to the junction, where they were
ordered to remain and guard the road. The 7th, it
is said, rebuilt the bridges and repaired the road on
their route.

" The steam transport Baltic, which arrived hers
yesterday from Annapolis, which port she left on
Thursday morning, reports that the 12th Regiment
had started for Washington, and were then 12 miles
on their march to the junction, and as the road was
open, the gallant 7th had already passed safely over.
There is no doubt that the 12th reached Washing-
ton in a few hours. In all probability, the 71st and
6th Regiments, which left New York on the same
day (Sunday last), also arrived at the capitol in the
wake of the 12th.
" The steamer Wyoming, which arrived at Perry-
ville, Maryland, yesterday, reports that when she
left Annapolis, at 10 o'clock yesterday morning,
two steamers of the New York fleet had just arrived
there, the Marion and the Montgomery, with the
brig of war Perry as convoy, and that the 69th
Regiment was then disembarking. As the 69th
went on the James Adger, however, it may be that
the officers of the Wyoming were mistaken either
as to the names of the New York steamers or the
regiment then disembarking at Annapolis; but as
the whole fleet, which left here on Tuesday, com-
prising the Alabama, with the Bth on board ; the
James Adger, with the 69th; the Marion with the
troop of the Bth, together with the
brig Perry (Brooklyn
as convoy, were seen at anchcr in the
Chesapeake, by the Keystone State, which arrived
here from Washington yesterday, near the mouth
of the Fetomaci And were Posed by the Baltic
13th e cavalry
with Regiment); and the Montgomery,

further up the bay, there can be very little doubt
that the whole arrived at Annapolis, and that the
• three regiments are in Washington by this time.
" We learn on the authority of Capt. Sherman, of
the Vermont Arsenal, who came from Washington
in the Keystone Mate, that the Potomac was open,
no obstructing batteries being planted on its
shores by the Secessionists, and the heights of
Georgetown and Arlington being both held by
the Government. And it is to be regretted
that the Government did not send the Pawnee to
the mouth of the river with this intelligence, so that
the vessels from New York might have gone direct
to Washington, and thus saved the troops a tedious
march of 16 miles from Annapolis to the junction,
besides enabling them to reach Washington one day
earlier.
" As to the movements of the rebel troops we have
also some reliable information. One of our special
correspondents at Pensacola, Florida, was compelled
to leave there very hurriedly by the Secessionists
on the 21st inst. He reached Montgomery on the
26th, and with considerable difficulty got safely as
far north as Cincinnati, from which point he tele-
graphed us yesterday. He reports the condition of
things at Fort Pickens to be in statu quo. The
rebels have given up the idea of attacking it for the
present until they get reinforcements and are sup-
plied with columbiads, the small 42-pounders they
have not being suffi :ient to do any damage to the
fort. 6,000 rebel volunteers are said to be ready
for service at Richmond, which number, it is calcu-
lated, will be increased to 25,000 at the close of the
week. There seems to be very little doubt that both
Mr. Davis and Mr. Stephens are there now ; Gen.
Beauregard is, in all probability, still in Charles-
ton. A State battery has been erected at Yorktown,
and another at a point three miles above Rich-
mond. At Harper's Ferry 4,000 men were sta-
tioned, but it is supposed that they are under orders
to move at once to a location nearer -the federal
capital. 25,000 Secession troops are at Norfolk.
" Such are the movements, up to the last ac-
counts, of troops of bOth hostile parties. Other
events, however, appear to be transpiring in Mary-
land which bear somewhat on the course of events.
It is reported from Harrisburg that a considerable
flight of negroes into Pennsylvania is taking place,
and that an attack has been made by a body of
Marylanders on the village of Hanover, York
county, Pennsylvania, in consequence. It is said
that whole families are leaving Maryland and fly-
ing into the counties of Adams, York, and Frank-
lin, Pennsylvania, and that the fear has become
general in the border counties of Maryland that the
population is immi-
from Baltimore that a re
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sentiment in favour of the
Union has taken place there, which is indicated in
a measure by the tone of some portions of the press
and other circumstances ; but the reports need
confirmation. Our latest intelligence from that
quarter represents that city as still under the con-
trol of the Secessionist mob, though quiet.
" Washington may be considered safe for the
present. It is stated that there is no want of pro-
visions there, and that the Government has made
ample arrangements for all necessary supplies."
The Times of the 27th says :—.

" The advantages in the struggle for position may
now be considered as decidedly in favour of the
Government. The troops now in Washington, in-
cluding the 7th of this city, which has positively
arrived there in safety, are amyly.sufficient to hold
the city against any Secessionist forces likely to be
n to be concentrated
brought against it for some time to come. But
cac-
tivityapita
and
dt
troopsto ce a s
we withiun
co thetiue
Present safety of the
there until they reach a number which shall render
any ultimate attempt against it improbable. The
Secessionist forces now collected in Virginia are
said to number 14,000, but it is not likely, from all
we can learn, that they are more than half-armed.
Mean whi!e, from every point in the North and
West the note of
.preparation continues to be
sounded, and troops are being placed at the dis-
posal of the Government with marvellous rapidity.
" The latest advices which reach us from Balti-
more indicate that the rule of the Secession mob is
becoming distasteful to a large portion of the com-

munity,-and especially among those engaged in
trade, whose business has come to a full stand in
consequence of the interruption of the usual chat-
nolo of communication, and the condition of terror
into which the inhabitants have been thrown by
the scenes transpiring around them. The Union
men are once more gaining courage to give utter-
ance to their sentiments, and the Stars and Stripes'
again float over the head-quarters of the Minute
men and on Butcher's-hill. Persons are even
found bold enough to proclaim Union sentiments
in the public parlours of the hotels. Other indi-
cations of a reaction in the public mind are not
wanting, but perhaps the most significant one of
all is to be found in a leading article published in
the Baltimore Sun ofyesterday, which emphatically
denies that the Sun is a Secession paper, and warns
the Legislature, an extra session of which has been
called by Governor Hicks, that it has no right to
pass an Ordnance of Secession."
The Anew York Herald contains the following
news from Washington, Maryland, and Virginia :
" HARRISBURG, APRIL 26.
" Official advices, received to-night from Wash-
ington, show that 4,000 Northern troops entered
the city before 4 o'clock yesterday. There was an
abundance of provisions following.
" Perfect security is felt relative to defence.
" The Keystone State, escorted by the Pawnee,
passed up the Potomac without molestation, reached
Washington on Wednesday night, landed 250 ma-
rines and sailors, and left same night—destination
unknown. No attempt was made to interrupt her
progress.

"-One of the arrivals here to-night is that of a
native of Virginia, formerly an officer of the Fede-
ral House of Representatives. He is.a democrat of
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" He reports that every man is compelled to serve
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fears of the people of an attack are abating. quiet
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that t
numbers, however, are leaving the city and coming
towards Baltimore.
" The road is lined with vehicles of all descrip-
tiong, filled with people, trunks, and furniture.
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in-
crease in the number of troops landed on Wednes-
day and yesterday. The inclosure of the Naval
Academy is literally filled with them. The privates
were not generally allowed to enter the city, but
the offictrs were moving about in every direction,
and making purchases to such an extent as to cause
quite a brisk business among the shopkeepers.
They are also purchasing horses and vehicles, and
paying large prices for them. Horses not worth
100 dols. had been sold to them as high as 250 dols.
and 300 dols. Our informant said that there was
scarcely a horse left within six miles of the city.
" By information gleaned from those who accom-
panied the train it would appear that reinforcements
arewhich
rapidlyhpeainssd the gethrowninto Washington. One
train junction was said to have
contained 981 men. Up to the latest arrivals 3,000
troops had passed the junction, going towards the
capital, and 6,000 more were on the march between
Annapolis and the junction, leaving 1,000 at
Annapolis.
" It is said that the Government has in use on
the road other cars than those seized at Washington
and at Annapolis, and it is supposed the cars have
been transported from the Philadelphia road by the
eregularly between
thet a ine
inhabitants along the line of road Susquehannato-
but l Maryland,aitn t
ldneo evidence
c,
ipdleynicng
Annapolis.
f o ill-feeling on the
part
"There i
wards the troops, many incidents are related as
showing their avoidance of everything calculated to
sofrthes
offend or in any way trespassing on private rights.
" The soldiers were buying freely of the inhabi-
tants, and striking bargains for poultry and spring
chickens, and paying whatever price was asked. In
one instance a squad of New Yorkers being bounti-
fully entertained with substantial Maryland fare at
the nominal price of a quarter a head, they paid
their host 1 dol. each as a mark of their apprecia-
tion of the quantity and quality of the food.
. ,g We learn from Alexandria that it is unusually
quiet, and the town is bristling with bayonets and
cannons, and the churches are all occupied by
troops from the surrounding Country.
"Preparations were making for the erection of a
battery at the White-house Fishery, near Mount
Vernon. It was rumoured, however, that Governor
Letcher has refused to allow any interruption of the
navigation of the Potomac by the Government.
" The United States' steamer Pawnee was cruis-
ing up and down the river, to watch the moyemento .