The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-06 00:00:00

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Cash. Account.
Orleans 1405 77 .. 1407 b 0

Northern. -
New ditto 9OO 900 --
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Lyons and Mediterranean 1003 75 .. 1007 50
Geneva 342 50 .. 345
Southern 605 607 50
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 362 50 ..
Austrian
Loirbard 522 50 .. 523 75

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

The Royal Mail steamship Canada which touehe I
at Queenstown on Saturday evening, arrived here
yesterday.

The papers are full of accounts of the disasters
to the Federal arms at Bull's Run on the 21st, and
which at first was heralded as a great victory by
the Northern journals; but we publish a much
more trustworthy account from our special corres-
pondent elsewhere.
Washington letters of the 23d state that the
hotels were crowded, and that numbers of soldiers
from the defeated army were lying about in the
streets unable to obtain shelter. The Secretary of
War had addressed the New York Union Defence
Committee in the following encouraging terms :

" Cheer our friends to active exertions that we
may speed!ly retrieve yesterday. We are making
vigorous efforts to concentrate an irresistible army
at this point. Regiments are now arriving, and
many have left for the capital. Our works on the
south side of the Potomac are being well manned.
The capital is safe."
The disaster at Bull's Run had reanimated the
volunteer spirit, and thousands of fresh troops had
offered their services to the Government.

The Senate,. on the 22d, passed a bill to provide
for iron-clad ships and floating batteries, and the
joint resolution providing for a Board to examine the
Stevens' floating battery at Hoboken also passed.
The Bill providing for the confiscation of the pro-
perty of persons found in rebellion against the Go-
vernment was passed, after being amended so as to
include slaves. Mr. Vandever, of lowa, offered a
resolution which was at first objected to, but sub-
sequently passed, declaring that the maintenance of
the Constitution and the preservation of the Union
are paramount duties, and that "no disasters shall
discourage us from their performance." Mr. Crit-
tenden, of Kentucky, then again pressed his reso-
lutions, offered a few days previously, declaring
that " the present civil war has been forced upon
us; that the war is not waged for conquest or sub-
jugation, and that as soon as the law is vindicated
the war ought to cease. They were passed with only
two dissenting votes." Congress had not modified
the Morrill tariff. The chief alterations are a large
increase of the duty on sugar, molasses, and spices,
and the establishment of a very high rate upon tea
and coffee, and a few other articles hitherto free,
but exempting goods on shipboard bound to the
United States and goods in public stores from the
new provisions. _ _

General Banks, in command at Baltimore, had
found it necessary to arrest several persons of Seces-
sionist tendencies, so great was the rejoicing at the
Federal defeat in that city.
Several vessels which had put into Northern ports
reported having been chased or overhauled by pri-
vateers. On the 7th of July the schooner S. J.
Waring was seized by the Jefferson Davis, which
put a prize crew of five men on board, after taking
the captain, mate, and two seamen of the schooner
on board the privateer. On July 16th, when off
Charleston, the steward, a coloured man, named
Tilman, taking advantage of the prize crew being
asleep, killed three of ttem with a hatchet and
threw them overboard, and having intimidated the
other two, managed to navigate the schooner to New
York. The brig Cuba, bound from Trinidad for
London, captured by the Sumter, had been recap-
tured by the captain (Strout) and taken into New
York.

At Pensacola the Confederates were actively en-
gaged throwing up more batteries.
The Missouri Convention on the 23d, by 45 to
21, declared the Presidency, held by General Price
last Session, vacant, and General Robert Wilson,
the former Vice-President, was elected President
unanimously. A large body of Confederates, from
South-East Missouri, were marching on Pilot Knob,
the southern terminus of the Iron Mountain Rail-
road, and Col. Bland, stationed at that point, had
sent for reinforcements.