The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-21 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AMERICA.

(ulna's =mum.)
ARRIVAL OF THE MORAVIAN.

The Montreal Ocean Company's steamship Mora-
vian, from Portland, on the 10th inst., arrived at
Greencastle at 5.45 a.m. to-day.
(Via Greencastle.)
MOT YORK, Die. 10, MORNING.

The Richmond papers report that Sherman's
principal force remained several days near Millen,
gathering supplies. Sherman resumed his march
on the 2nd from the north of Millen, and on the
3rd was some distance south of that place.
Richmond papers of the 7th state that Sherman
is at last approaching the coast, and that there are
troops in his front who will resolutely dispute his
advance towards Savannah or Darien after he
passes a certain point. Sherman's advance is
rumoured to be skirmishing with the outposts round
Savannah.

The Southern papers claim another victor• by
Wheeler over Kilpatrick between Milledgeville and
Millen. Kilpatrick is reported wounded.
Federal accounts represent Foster to have en-
countered considerable resistance in his advance
from Hilton Head.

The Charlatan Mercury states that after the en-
gagement at Grahamsville, Foster retired three
miles towards the cover of his gunboats, and was
fortifying his position. He left 1,300 killed and
wour.ded on the field.

Hood continues to besiege Nashville. He has
established a battery on a bluff 14 miles down
the river. Seven gunboats failed to dislodge him.
One of them has returned to Nashville damaged.
One brigade of Hood's army has moved in the
direction of Murfreesboro. It is rumoured that
Forrest has crossed the Cumberland River and is
moving towards Kentucky.
Grant is reported to have been reinforced by
two corps of Sheridan's army. Two corps of
Grant's army were massed near the Jerusalem
Plank Road on Tuesday, and marched ou Wed-
nesday towards Stoney Creek Station.
A whole negro corps crossed the James River,
and occupied a line extending from Fort Har-
rison to the river. The Richmond papers anticipate
a renewal of the attack by Grant.
Mr. Lincoln has made& speech at Washington, in
which he said, " All knew where Sherman went iu
at, but he could not tell where he would come
out at."

Mr. Seward, in a letter to Mr. Adams, indig-
nantly refused the request of Lord Wharnelitle to
distribute aid to Confederate prisoners in Northern
states.

The Provost Marshal has urged upon all officers
to exercise extraordinary vigilance against the
anticipated invasioL by the Confederates from
Canada.
A bill has been introduced into the Confederate
Congress sequestrating the property of perNons
liable to military service who depart from the Con-
federacy without permission.

The blockade runners Vixen, Mail, and General
Armstrong have been captured.

The Hansa has arrived out.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, DEC. 10, Moas-rsc.

Money easy.' Gold, 139 per cent. premium.
Exchange ou London, 260 ; on I'aris, 2.81 to 2.131.
Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 121 P,. Illinois,
13011. Erie, 94i. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1081.
Cotton in good inquiry. Middling Upland, 13lc.
Flour and wheat slightly firmer. Coru quiet. Pro-
visions dull. Coffee good inquiry. Sugar advancing.
Molasses slightly firmer. Petroleum : crude, Mc.;
refined, 72c.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10, 1 F.M.

slonev easy. Gold, 1381 per cent. prem. Stocks
dull. New York Centrals, 121 ; Illinois, 1291 ;
Erie, 94 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 108li.
The Edinburgh, Virginia, and Bremen take out
600,000 dollars.

(From the Tinza Telegram.)
NEW 1-01:1i, Die. 10,1 r.m.

Grant hss been further reinforced. Ou Tuesday
nizht he advanced the second and fifth corps
towards Stoney Creek, preparatory, it is believed,
to a general movement upon Richmond and Peters-
burg. Richmond papers of the 7th inst. state that
the movement was expected and fully provided
against.
At the latest accounts Sherman was between the
Ageechee and Savannah Rivers, moving towards
Savannah. A great battle was hourly expected.

A bill has been introduced into the Confederate
Congress authorising tho enrolment of 40,000 ne-
groes fur work on the fortifications and camp duties.

PRUSSIA AND THE DUCHIES.

The auuexionist ideas which, at the moment of
the return of the troops to Berlin, seemed to have
gained ground among the population in Prussia,
have given way during the last few days. Several
German journals, in opposing a policy of annexa-
tion, predicted a long time ago that the greatest ob-
stacle to its success would be the population of the
Duchies, who desire to form Schleswig-Holstein into
an independent State. The government of Berlin
appears to have discovered the existence of this
opposition. The National G.l:elk, for instance,
expresses itself in these terms :
It is certain that if public opinion in the Duchies of the
Elbe were consulted under any form whatever, either by
convoking the former State' of thecountry or the represent-
ative institutions established by the constitution of DIP, or
by an appeal to the corporations and the communes, or to
universal suffrage, the great majority of the people would
declare for the independence of the duchies under the
Prince of Augustenburg. An annexation of those provinces,
effected in opposition to their positive wishes, without the
recognition of the great powers, and in presence of the pro-
wet of the Gamlen governments, would be, even in a
Prussian point of view, an acquisition dangerous and timer-
tamp, and one equivalent to a definitive postponement of the
organization of the oountry. We therefore persist in be.
lieviog that the best means of arriving promptly at a regu-
lar aitustion would be to recognise the Prince of .Augusten-
burg as the aorereigo of the dachies.

As to the pending negotiations between Vienna,
Berlin, and Kiel, the Bank Gazdte of Berlin states
that Prince Frederick of Augusteuburg has declared
himself disposed to accept all the conditions which
may be imposed on hini " in the general interest
of Germany," even at the sacrifice of his sove-
reignty, but that he declines any exclusive arrange-
ment with Prussia.