The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-02 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
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Orleans 1352 50 1353 75
Northern
New ditto 897 50 .. 897 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 960 .. 961 25
Geneva 417 50 ..
Southern 557 50 .. 556 25
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
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CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA

LONDONDERRY, WEDNESDAY.

The screw steamer Canadian, which sailed from
Portlan:don the 20th ult., arrived at Moville at 10 30
a.m. and her despatches at Londonderry at 2 30
p.m. English time. She landed all her mails, ex-
cept those for Liverpool and London.
The screw steamer Kedar arrived at Halifax on
the 18th, and the royal mail steamer Niagara on the
19th.

A Massachusetts regiment going to Washington
was attacked in Baltimore by a mob, and 11 were
killed on both sides, and many wounded. Martial
law had been proclaimed there. Governor Hicks
has declared to allow any more federal troops to
pass through Baltimore, thereby causing great
indignation in the North. The regiment reached
Washington on the 19th. _

Virginia has seceded, and a proclamation has
been issued by the Governor, recognising the
Southern Confederacy. The news was received
with rejoicing in the south.
North Carolina has seized the Government forts,
and all the Slave States seem to be arming for the
defence of the South.

The Federal Government will condemn as pirates
all privateers seized.

No more provisions or arms are allowed to go

South.

President Lincoln, in a proclamation, declares a]
the ports of the seceded states blockaded.
Troops are arriving at Washington from al

points.

Virginians closed Norfolk harbour by sinking
vessels, to prevent egress from the navy yard. A
United States ship of war threatened to level the
town, when the obstructions were removed.
The Federal commissioners at Harper's Ferry,
being pressed by 1,000 Virginians, destroyed the
Armoury, Arsenal, Manufactory, bags, and 13,000
stand of arms on the 18th April, and then retired
into Pennsylvania with their men, of whom they
lost three.
All the bridges have been destroyed between
Baltimore and Washington.
Troops will be forwarded from Philadelphia via
Harbour de Grace and Annapolis.
Five thousand men are under arms at Washing-
ton to-day (April 19).
The southern loan has all been taken up.

Accounts from Havana of the 15th state that an
additional number of Spanish troops had gone to
San Domingo. It was rumoured that Prince
Alfred would return to England without visiting
Havana, on account of the death of the Duchess of
Rent. _ _ _ . _

Major Anderson and his command had arrived at
New York, where they received a great ovation.
A despatch in the New fork: Tribune states that
Fort Pickens now contains 800 men, and seven
vessels were lying outside.

Private despatches from Baltimore state that the
position of the loyal citizens there wag very critical.
One despatch says :—" We hope the North will
stand by us, and in their forced passage through
our city to the capital remember that there are
many true men here. Our police, and many of our
military companies, openly defy the Government."

The New Fork Evening Post of the 19th ultimo,
learns from a reliable source that President Davis,
at the head of the confederate army, was within
twenty-four hours' march of Washington. Great
excitement prevailed at the latter place. The
President's mounted guard had been mustered into
service as cavalry.

The telegram from Lisbon of the earthquake at
the city of Mendoza, in the Argentine Republic, by which
7,000 lives and 2,000 houses are reported to have been de-
stroyed, the loss of property being estimated at a sum equal
to £14,000,000 sterling, has created great anxiety for fur.
ther news among all the merchants interested in the com-
merce of the River Plate. The city of Mendoza is situated
almost at the extreme west of the republic, on a rich and
well irrigated plain near the Andes, within about 100 miles
of the Chilian frontier, and it has long had a large popula-
tion and active transit trade, with every prospect of increas •
ing prosperity.
The petition about to be presented to the House
of Lords in favour of the Government Bankruptcy Bill,
and earnestly praying that it may not be referred to a select
committee, has been signed by an almost unprecedented
number of the leading mercantile and banking firms of Lon-
don. Should this document be disregarded, the inference
will be unavoidable that the wishes and views of the com-
mercial world aro to be sacrificed for the
sake of party
hostility.
A meeting of the Submarine Telegraph Company
has been called for the 13th inst., to elect three new direc-
tors, and to consider the charges lately brought against the
management. It is to be presumed, however, that the
shareholders will deem it expedient to reverse the proposed
order of procedure, and deal with the charges first, and the
§electiext.ef 4ircet9rs afterwards.