The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-11 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, JULY 29, EVENING.

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Money easy at 6 per cent., gold dull, 1271. Ex-
change firm, 140. Stocks active. New York
Centrals, 1271. Erie, 102;. Illinois, 114 i.
Cotton in good demand. Middling upland, 62.
Flour declined 10c. Wheat also lower. Provisions
unchanged. Freights dull, with moderate engage-
ments. _ .

(Per the City of London.)

NEW YORK, Jin,y3l, Evrrarra.

Advices have been received from Charleston to
the 26th inst. The bombardment of Fort Wagner
continues. General Gilmore has erected a battery
of heavy guns within 1,000 yards of Fort Wagner.
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Fort Sumter and Fort Johnston, upon James's
Island, are keeping up a continued fire upon the
Federals on Morris Island.
The Federal casualties average about six daily.
The Confederates refuse to exchange the captured
negro troops.

Federal General Strong is dead.
General Meade's army is on the line of the Rap-
pahannock.
It is rumoured General Meade will endeavour to
prevent General Lee from re-occupying the Frede-
ricksburg Heights.
The eleventh corps of General Meade's army has
been broken up.
Two thousand five hundred Confederates, under
Generals Pegram and Scott, have crossed the
Kentucky river, and attacked the Federals at
Paris, but were repulsed after two hours' fighting.
The Confederates have retreated to Winchester,
followed by the Federal cavalry.
Morgan and his officers have been confined in
cells in the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus.
The Evening Post says the government has deter
mined to force the draft in New York. The amount
of force employed will depend solely upon the
exigencies of the case.
The Southern journals recommend that if the
decision in the case of the Alexandra be affirmed
iu England, the Confederates should promptly avail
themselves of it to give a death blow to Northern
commerce and strike some Northern cities.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, JULY 31, Evmme.

Money easy. Gold, 28/ per cent. prem. Ex-
change on London—Bankers' bills, 141. Stocks
advancing. New York Centrals, 128/ ; Illinois,
1121 ; Erie, ling ; Six per Cent. United States
Bonds, 104. Cotton, good inquiry. Middling
Upland, G 24 to 63. Flour heavy. Wheat in good
demand for expert. Corn tending downwards.
Provisions dull. Coffee quiet. Sugar very firm.
Molasses quiet. Crude Petroleum, 34.
The steamers James Battle and William Bagley
have been captured.

NEW YORK, Aucml, Mo=sc.

General Burnside has issued a proclamation
which says :—" Kentucky has been invaded by the
rebels with the intention of overawing the judges,
intimidating the voters, and forcing the election
of disloyal candidates at the election of Sept. 3.
Martial law is therefore proclaimed in Kentucky.
Military commanders will aid the state authorities
to support the laws and the purity of suffrage.
The judges present at the polls will be held strictly
responsible that no disloyal person be allowed to
vote, and to this end military power will give them
its utmost support."
Au engagement is expected upon the Rappa-
hannock.

The siege of Charleston continues.
The Confederates have been defeated in Ken-
tucky and Tennessee. _ _

Bras'iear City has been captured by the Federala.
The FederaLs are moving agaiust Mobile.
NEW YORK, Aucusr 1, 1•iooN.

General Lee massed his forces at Culpepper on
Wednesday, and prepared to give the Federals
battle on the Rappahannock. One Confederate
regiment guards the Rappahannock from Frede-
ricksburg to Eley's Ford, on the Rapidau, which is
fortified south of Culpepper.
The NN York 11-ortit says the Federals got
possession of the heigilts in the rear of Fredericks-
burg. . . .

Mosby's guerillas have made a raid into Fairfax
Court-house.

The Federal General Herren's division has left
Vicksburg for Mobile. Grant's army has fallen
back to Big Black River. Johnston is said to be
reinforced by Bragg, and will make the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad from Okolona on the north,to Mobile
ou the south, his line of defence.
General Gilmore reports his total loss in three
days' fighting at 985.
The Confederates in Kentucky have been driven
from Winchester towards Irvine. They also occupied
Stanford, but were driven out with lees, and re-
treated towards the Cumberland River. The Con-
federates who were forcing the conscription in
West Tennessee have been routed by the Federals
at Lexington, with the loss of several officers and
two cannon.

Mounted patrols have been organised along the
river from Vicksburg to New Orleans. Several
more vessels have arrived at New Orleans from St.
Louis.

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The Ftvleral government is being strongly urged
to repeal the tax upon invoices of goods sent from
St Louis to New Orleans.

Br►sbear city has surrendered to the Federal
gunboats. 4is supposed to have been evacuated.
The military authorities of Kentucky have
announced that if it shall be found necessary to
impress property, it will be taken first from those
persons opposed to furnishing more men or money
to put down the rebellion.
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General Pemberton and his officers have not been
exchanged ; the exchange of prisoners has been
partially suspended.
The New York Times says that the draft in
Now York will recommence on Monday, the 3rd
inst., and that the government is prepared for any
emergency.

A bitter controversy continues between the
republican and the democratic press concerning
the constitutionality and policy of enforcing the
draft ; also between the State and Federal
officials who were engaged in quelling the late riots.

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The steamer Arabian has arrived at Nassau from
Wilmington. Several vessels have returned to
Nassau, being unable to enter Confederate porta.
The Governor of the Bahamas has received in-
formation from Lord Lyons that the efforts to
induce the Washington Cabinet to withdraw its
prohibition to export live stock to Nassau were
fruitless.

The Florida was still at Bermuda on the 22nd
ult., taking fuel from the Confederate steamer
Harriet Pinckney, the naval authorities having
refused to furuish her with fuel.

Postscript.—News from Charleston, to the 29th
ult., states that General Gilmore has erected a line
of batteries within 250 yards of Fort Wagner.
Three heavy siege guns have been mounted within
a mile and a quarter of Fort Sumter, and would
open on that fort on the 29th ult.

QUEENSTOWN, AtlGTlffr 11.
The Inman steamer City of London, from New
York on the Ist instant, arrived here at 9.30 a.m.
to-day, and proceeded at 10 a.m. for LiverpooL
She brings mails, 60 cabin and 80 steerage
passengers, and 1G2,000 dole. in specie.
The extra steamer City of Limerick, from New
York on the 30th ult., arrived here at five a.m.
to-day, and proceeded at 5.15 a.m. for Liverpool.
Sue brings 50 passengers, a full cargo, but no
specie. _ _

TURKEY.

OONSTANTINOPLE. Auausr 11.

Russian troops are being concentrated at Gumri.
The Porte demands explanations from the Russian
government on this account.

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The old seraglio has been totally destroyed by
fire.

The Inland Custom-houses have been abolished,
and an octroi substituted.

ARRIVAL OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE.
PENZANCE, AUGUST li.

The Golden Fleece, from Calcutta May 7, and
Madras May 28, has arrived. She brings Cape
news to July 2 and a large mail, including the
frontier mail that arrived at Cape Town too late to
be forwarded by the last mail steamer.
An indignation meeting had been held at Port
Elizabeth on account of the delay of these mails,
but no blame attached to the Post-office authorities.

The long disputed boundary line between the
Queenstown district and British Kaffraria had at
last been settled.
More Kaffir robberies have occurred on the fron-
tier. At Whittlesea they had perpetrated a daring
robbery, leaving two Europeans for dead.
The synod of the English church at Graham's
Town had been opened by the Bishop of the diocese.
Further particulars Lad arrived of the revolution
in Madagascar, confirming the opinion that the
assassination of the King arose from a reactionary
spirit among the people, and their suspicion of his
too liberal tendencies and concessions to Europeans.
Queen Robodo and her supporters bad, however,
not shown any symptom of reversing the King's
tolerant policy.
H.M.S. Gorgon left for Madagascar June 30.
Pretorius resumed the Presidency at the Yolks-
raad on June 17.

Business was still dull and prices unaltered, with
the exception of wool, which was declining.
The Homer had arrived on the 27th .June, from
Sydney, and the Chinese war steamer Tien-tein, on
June 25 from England.