The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-29 00:00:00

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY.

The City of Baltimore, which arrived here this
evening, left New York on the 18th inst. with the
United States mails. She landed the mails and
despatches at 5.45 p.m., and proceeded immediately
for Liverpool. All well.

NEW YORK, MAY 18.

The Massachusetts legislature has appropriated
3,000,000 dols. for the war, and has authorised the
governor to lend 7,000,000 dole.
The Boston banks have offered to take 5,000,000
dole. of the Federal loan.

Baltimore is at present occupied by Pennsyl-
vanian troops.

The governor of Maryland has called for four
regiments to—support the Federal Government
within the limits of Maryland, or to protect the

capital.

The Union Convention at Wheeling has refused to
pass an ordinance for the division of the state of
Virginia, but has called a general convention for
the 11th June.

The secessionists have threatened Fort Munroe,
but were compelled to retire. An attack on a
large scale is, however, anticipated.
Ammunition and heavy ordnance continue to
arrive at Harper's Ferry from the South.
Advices from Montgomery state that President
Davis will command the Southern forces in person.

It is rumoured that General Scott has ordered
the occupation of Arlington Heights by Federal
artillery.

The Kentucky legislature haa'passed a resolution
maintaining the neutrality of the state and approv-
ing the governor's refusal to supply troops to the
Federal Government:

Charleston is blockaded by the United States
frigate Niagara. British ships have been refused
entrance into the harbour.

The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald asserts that a secret agent of tho French
Government is travelling through the Southern
States.

The Yew Orleans Telegraph states that the re-
mainder of the Federal troops in Texas have sur-
rendered to the Secessionists.

Disturbances caused by the Indians have taken
place at Honduras. The British residents in Belize
have been threatened. The British officers who
demanded redress have been brutally treated.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, May 17.

Stocks are falling. Erie closed to-day at 211, ;
Illinois, 651 ; New York Central, 721. Exchange
steady. Bankers' bills, 1061 to 1061. Flour droop-
ing. Cotton dull.

NEW ORLEANS, May 17,

Cotton.—Middling is quoted 11/ to 11-1--. The
sales of the week amount to 11,000 bales, and the
receipts to 2,500 bales. Freights for cotton to
Liverpool, ld.

HAVANNAH, May 11.
The sugar market is heavy. No. 12 is quoted 5
to 6 reals. No sales. Stock 225,000 boxes.

THE GOVERNOR OF lIIAS'SACITUSETTS

ON SLATE INSURRECTION.

Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts, has ad-
dressed the following letter to General Butler, the
commander of the Massachusetts troops, Maryland :
Council Chamber, Boston, April 25.

General,—l have received through Major Ames
a despatch transmitted from Perryville, detailing
the proceedings at Annapolis from the time of your
arrival off that port until the hour when Major
Ames left you to return to Philadelphia. I wish
to repeat the assurance of my entire satisfaction
with the action you have taken, with a single ex-
ception. If I rightly understood the telegraphic
despatch, I think that your action in tendering to
Governor Hicks the assistance of our Massachusetts
troops to suppress a threatened servile insurrection
among the hostile people of Maryland was unneces-
sary. I hope that the fuller despatches which are
on their way from you may show reasons why I
should modify my opinion concerning that particu-
lar instance; but in general I think that the matter
of servile insurrection among a community in arms
against the Federal Union is no longer to be re-
garded by our troops in a political. but solely a
military point of view, and is to be contemplated as
one of the inherent weaknesses of the enemy, from
the disastrous operations of which we are under no
obligation of a military character to guard them, in
order that they may be enabled to improve the secu-
rity which our arms would afford, so as to prosecute
with more energy their traitorous attacks upon
the Federal Government. The mode in which such
outbreaks are to be considered should depend en-
tirely upon the loyalty or disloyalty of the commu•
nity in which they occur ; and in the vicinity of
Annapolis I can on this occasion perceive no reason
of military policy why a force summoned to the de-
fence of the Federal Government, at this moment
of all others, should be offered to be diverted from
its immediate- duty, to help rebels, who stand with
arms in their hands, obstructing its progress towards
the city of Washington. I entertain no doubt that
whenever we shall have an opportunity to inter-
change our views personally on this subject, we
shall arrive at an entire concordance of opinion.—
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) JOHN A. ANDREW.
To Brigadier-General Butler.