The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-25 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, MAT 14, Nom :4c

Money abundant. Gold, 72/. per cent. prem.
Stocks slightly firmer. New York Centrals, 190} ;
Illinois Shares, 1241 ; Erie, 110 ; Six per Cent.
United State, Bonds, 1061.

TELEGRAM OF THE TIMES CORRESPONDENT.

(From Mr wood oclitioo of the Timm.)
NEW YORK, MAT 13, 6 Tar.

General Grant reports that during Wednesday
night Hancock changed his position from the right
to the left centre of the Federal line, and at Wi-
ped 4 o'clock yesterday morning assaulted Lee's
right, which he turned, capturing 25 cannon and
3,000 prisoners, among whom were Generals Ed-
ward Johnson, Robert Johnson, and George
Stewart.

An engagement extending along nearly the whole
line followed, which continued with greater or lees
severity throughout the day.
General Sheridan, chief of Grant's cavalry, re-
ports, on the 10th inst., having destroyed eight
miles of railway in Lee's rear, and the recapture of
500 Federal prisoners.
Butler, under date near Chester station, on the
afternoon of May 12th, states that Gilmore held
the entrenchments at Bermuda Hundred, while
Baldy Smith was demonstrating against the enemy
at Fort Darling.
Reported, sit Cincinnati, that the Confederates
had evacuated Dalton last night, and that Sherman
occupied the city to-day.

INTELLIGENCE.

Gold opened this morning at 173, and declined to
1701, and closes 1721. Exchange, 1881. Govern-
ment Sixes, 1881, registered, 113/ ; 5-20(Coupons),
106 ; 7-30, 1101. New York Central Railway,
130 ; Erie, 1091; Illinois Central, 1231. Cotton,
851. Breadatuffa lower ; provisions dull ; sugars
unchanged in price ; coffee inactive.

MAT 14.11 A.M.

Official and other despatches from Tefiedd, inVir-
ginia, to 8 o'clock yesterday morning, show Han-
cock's achievement on Thursday to have been lees
decisive than at first represented ; but two generals,
Edward Johnson and George Stewart, were taken
prisoners. Of the cannon reported captured, many
remained on disputed ground on Thursday night,
while it is not perfectly clear that a number of them
were not recaptured by the Confederates:

No mamma whatever attended the Federate at
other points of the line, their assaults against Lee's
centre and left being invariably repulsed with great
slaughter, and at nightfall the Confederates main-
tained their position in front of Spottsylvania
Court-house.

Yesterday, at daybreak, it was disoovered that
during the night Lee bad withdrawn across the
River Po, it is believed to occupy a stronger posi-
tion on the North and South Anna rivers.

Gr►nt is represented to be in pursuit, but u the
roads are in a bad condition after the he►vy fall of
rain amid which the battle was fought, he will
have considerable difficulty in following.
The carnage on Thursday is described as awful,
and the men on both sides to have fallen like grain.
No estimate of the loss is given.
There is a report that Sigel has cut the Virginia
Central Railway between Charlottesville and Lynch-
burg, and another report that he has been attacked
and defeated by the Confederates under Brecken-
ridge.

Information was received at New Orleans on the
7th inst. that Forrest's cavalry had gained posses-
sion of all Sherman's railwsy communications, and
bad also destroyed several Federal transports on
the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.
Letters from New Orleans of the 7th announce
that Banks is endeavouring to reach Brashear city
with his army, his retreat from Alexandria, rid the
Red River, being cut off by the erection of Con-
federate batteries on the banks of that stream.

The steamers Ohio, Beilli, Laurel Hill, Bella
Donna, and Mittie Stephens, with supplies and
reinforoemente for Banks, have been sunk or cap-
tured below Alexandria.

All Admiral Porter's gunboats are above the
falls of the Red River ; and, as the Confederates
have turned the waters of the river into other
channels, their capture is considered inevitable.

Major-General M'Dowell has been appointed to
the command of the military department of the