The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-29 00:00:00

COILBEERCIAL INTELLIGENCE..

NEW YORK, JAM. 16, Evuri6c.

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Money easy ; gold, 461 premium. Exchange,
161. Stooks steady : New York Centrals, 1161 ;
Illinois shares, 90 ; Erie, 73}. Cotton very firm :
Middling Upland, 72u lour heavy, and 60. lower.
Wheat good inquiry. Corn inactive, at a de-
cline. Provisions quiet. Coffee, sugar, and mo-
lasses very firm.

NEW YORK, JAN. 17, Yoga.

The telegraphic summary of Jefferson Davia's
Message which appeared in the New York papers
was imperfect. Mr. Davis complains that the
European powers declared neutrality without ac-

knowledging the sovereignty of the seceded States,
thus injuring the South and prolonging the
war by admitting the doctrine that the
Federal government had a right to coerce the
seceded States. If these States were inde-
pendent the refusal to entertain the same inter-
national intercourse with them as with the North
was unjust, no matter what may have been the
motive prompting it. He does not complain of any
treaty being concluded between the United States
and Europe for the abolishment of privateering,
although the prohibition to either belligerent to
dispose of its prizes in European ports operated
with intense severity against the South, by de-
priving her of the only means of maintaining, with
some approach to equality, a struggle on the
ocean.

Rumours are current of an early movement of
the army of the Potomac.
General M'Clernsn's expedition has captured an
Arkansas poet 50 miles up the Arkansas river.
Seven thousand Confederates, with stores and
ammunition, are reported to have surrendered.

Six Federal vessels have left New Orleans to re-
capture the Harriet lane, and to destroy the Con-
federate gunboats at Bayou Buffalo.
Nearly all the troops under the command of
General Banks are at Baton Rouge.
The Confederate General Bragg is superseded by
General Longetreet, whose corps d'armde is trans-
ferred to Tennessee.

The Confederates are encroaching upon the Union
lines at Donaldsonville.

The motion which was made in the House of
Representatives to lay a bill on the table autho-
rising an enlargement, for the passage of gunboats;
of the Mississippi and Michigan Canals, and of
other canals connecting tho Lakes of Erie and
Ontario with the Hudson River, was rejected.
It is rumoured that Secretary Chase will resign
if the Finance Bill of the Committee of Ways and
Means passes Congress.
No Speaker has yet been elected in the New
York Assembly.
George Francis Train has narrowly escaped
lynching at Jamesville, Wisconsin.

The following is from the Times' telegram, dated
New York, Jan. 17 :

"It is smarted that General Burnside has made
a new movement scram the Rappahannock, but no
details are known. The other war news is not
important. General Sweeny, with 1,000 men and
a section of artillery, is reported to have defeated
1,400 Confederates, with four cannon, under Ge-
neral Roddy, at Cane Creek, Alabama, capturing
82 prisoners and 50,000 dollars' worth of cotton,
grain, horses, &c.
"General Grant has fallen back to Oxford, Mis-
sissippi, and for the present has abandoned his
movement upon Grenada.
"On their retreat after the battle of Vicksburg
the Federal gunboats proceeded up the Arkansas
River. On the 11th they assailed Arkansas post,
100 miles from the river's mouth. The post was
defended by 7,000 men, who, being attacked in
ifront and rear, surrendered unconditionally, after a
short and sharp struggle, and a loss of 550 killed
and wounded.

" The Federal loss is reported at 200 killed and
wounded.

" Colonel J. W.Wall,who was arbitrarily sent to
Fort Lafayette by Mr. Simon Cameron a few
months ago, has been elected senator for New
Jersey. Mr. Cameron, who was himself a candi-
date for the same position in Pennsylvania, has
been rejected.
" A joint resolution, authorising Mr. Chase to
issue 100,000,000 dole. worth of greenbacks for the
payment of the army and navy, has passed both
houses, thus giving him double the amount he
asked for that purpose. In like manner, the Mis-
souri Emancipation Aid Bill, which proposed an
appropriation of 10,000,000 dohs., has been reported
back by the Judiciary Committee, with a recom-
mendation that it be increased to 20,000,000 dole.

. .
" Reporta have been received of further depre-
dations by the Alabama in the West Indies. She
captured two vessels in Mona Passage, the
date not stated. One of them, the Parker, of
Boston, was destroyed ; the other, the Union, from
Baltimore, was released on giving a bond of 1,500
dollars for the vessel. The cargo was not touched,
being owned by British subjects.
" The premium on gold advanced on the 15th to
50. The closing offer of yesterday was 471."

(azvra•e TELsolums.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, JAN. 29.

' TheMoniteur of to-day says :—" Lord Cowley has
been instructed by Earl Russell to express to M.
Drouyn de Lhuys the satisfaction felt by the
British government on account of the late speech
of the Emperor to the French exhibitors, and its
strong desire to see the sentiments of mutual esteem
daily strengthen the ties of friendship which upite
the two nations as well as their governments."
The Moniteur also says :—" Letters from St.
Petersburg, dated 27th inst., state that the nobi-
lity and peasantry have kept aloof from the move-
ment in Poland."

The Moniteur also publishes a letter from Rome,
announcing that several leaders of brigand bands
had been arrested by the Pontifical gendarme,.
"Those facts," says the Moniteur, "testify to
the activity of the government of the Holy See to
prevent the Roman territory from becomiog the
refuge of the instigators of brigandage in the Nea-
politan states."