The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-09 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW TORS, Nov. 2T, Enunto.

Money tight. Gold 494 premium. Exchange
on London Ib7. Stocks Leavy ; New York Central,
132} ; Illinois, 116 ; Erie, 1044 ; Six per Cent.
United States Bonds, 1084. Cotton very dull ;
middling upland. 78e. Flour and wheat very dull,
and respectively 10c. and 4c. lower. Corn in good
demand at a decline of 2c. Provisions dull.
Coffee in limited demand. Sugar quiet. Molasses
dull. Petroleum, no sales. Refined, 414 c. Crude
not quoted.

NEW YORK, Nov. 28, Kowtow.

General Meade crowed the Rapidan during the
26th and 27th at Jacob's,Germania, and Culpepper
Fords, and advanced by three different routes con-
verging on the Orange Court-house road.

The Confederates offered no resistance to Meade's
passage of the river.
Heavy cannonading was beard yesterday near
Orange Court-house, lasting from morning till
night, but no particulars of the engagement have
been received.

The Confederates have evacuated Fredericksburg
heights. Lee's army is estimated to be 50,000
strong.

General Ewell is ill, and has been superseded by
General Early.
Advises from Chattanooga to last night report
that Hooker, Palmer, and Sherman are nearly ten
miles from Chickamauga, pursuing Bragg, who is
retreating on Dalton. It is reported that Sherman
yesterday cut off 2,000 Confederates. Bragg's army
is represented to be destroyed.
Federal cavalry have destroyed the East Ten-
nessee railroad fifteen miles above and below
Cleveland. This is said to isolate Lougstreet from
Bran-
Cincinnati despatches of yesterday represent
Confederate cavalry as bring between Cumberland
Gap and Knoxville.
General Longstreet has not yet assaulted Knox-
ville, but has placed his batteries in a position com-
manding the city.
A Federal column is moving to relieve General
Burnside.

General Grant's victory has created compara-
tively little popular enthusiasm, or public demon-
stration, throughout the North.

Nassau advitoes to the 21st inst. report blockade
running u very active.

It was rumoured at Havannah that the privateer
Georgia had been sunk by the Federal steamier
Saint Louis.
The New York Tribune re-affirms that President
Lincoln will announce in his Luis/sage a plan for
restoring the States to union, which will be in
accordance with the furtherance of the emancipa-
tion proclamation.
Surgeons returned from Richmond report the
Federal prisoners as dying at the rate of 50 per
day.

NEW YORK, Nov. 28, AFIWOOL

There is no further news from Virginia. Gold
opened this morning at 41, and Las since risen to
471 under unfavourable military rumours. Stocks
steady. New York Central, ; Illinois, 1181.
Erie, 105 i.

The Atlantic Royal Mail steamer Hibernia
sailed from Galway yesterday, at 2.45 p.m., for Boston., 81wa
Ulm 27 & s and 430 stems' psamemparr, 25 mail bap, sad
Um latest telegrams.

The fuel question has been solved in Minnesota
by the discovery of immense beds of prat sear fit. P.W.
It is said to bare ea well in a grate as coal, and eau be fur-
nished for from two to duos dollars a sad.—Asterican
Parer.
"Non-Pnenueure" SLAV!. The immense
aosabor of me-produeing slaves is the South are last be-
coming ea Jacobus which the emancipation proclamation
yea sot soodoel to bentalt. Overa million of slaves removed
fens the border States, now lost to the Confederacy, are
huddled isto Georgi► slope to coesunie the subsistence
which otherwise might sustain Brunet army during the
triater.—New York World, Nor. 17.