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bee committed tire government to the Maimla ' 1"1 11 o'clucx.
*icy of the Emperor Napoleon. • I 111. ream is savived DWl"weed gees as adobes'
.es galialaut.) A resolution beg 'been introduced int.
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of Mabee* lies /stead its "" tie °*4l.
Washington tam of Representatives dee Gramm became ilhe forme refused to meson the
AMERICA. that the Spanish seizure of the Chinas Islands its charge of " treason" against Mown and
—w-- was part of a Franco-Austrian scheme to subverts eurerbin.
ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA. the Spanish American republics. Gem Sherman writes that every point in South Cue-
The House has pissed a bill reducing the duty Ms Ise at his mercy.
The Royal Mail steamship China, from New York One thousand Wes of metes from Mobile, in exchange
ow printing paper to 3 per cent. ad valorem.
on the 25th ult., arrived at Queenstown at 8.30 for clothing, meshed New York, yesterday. The Savannah
The Canada has arrived out.
a.m. to-day (Feb . 4). She brings 78 passengers, sums le expected daily.
00KMER0IAL INTELLIGENCE. Ousesedere Edema, seamanffing the 'quadrat al
and 708,340 dole, in specie. She landed 89 sacks NEW YORK, JAI. 25, Nowt. Mgt* has retuned to New Odium
of mails, and proceeded for Liverpool at 7a. m. All Money easy. Gold has fluctuated since Monday Geeeral Granger made a reconnaissance up East Now
well. betwee4 197 and 908, and is now quoted 205 t. Ex- goals River, but, Gunn too sissy toepsdoes, returned.
(VA Crookhaves.) change on London, 228* ;on Paris, 2.10 to 2.13 i. A Wavily armed fluting battery sad trawled lies off
NEW YORK, Jut. 25. Noon. Stocks declining. New York Centrals, 105 ; mi. "110.
General Grant reports that despatches from
nom 113 Erie, 631 ; 340 united sums Bondi.
General Terry announce that the Confederates have '
107 e. Cotton declining. Middling Upland, 82c.
blown up and abandoned Forts Caswell and Camp to 850. Flour very dull. Wheat declining.
bell, and the works on Smith's Island, Smithville, Corn heavy.
Provisions declining. Coffee, sugar,
and Reeve's Point. The marines have occupied
and molasses
quiet. petroleum heavy muds,
thou places. The total number of guns captured
46c.. refined, 630.
is 182.
A despatch from Admiral Porter, dated 17th
inst., states that the gunboats had some difficulty
in crossing the bar into the Cape Fear River.
The Confederate. blew up two steamers, believed
to be the Chickamauga and the Tallahassee.
Admiral Porter thinks the Confederates are
burning everything in Wilmington, and getting
away as fast as possible.
A large force of gunboats occupies the river
between Fort Caswell and Wilmington. The
greater portion of the larger vessels have returned
to Hampton Roads. Admiral Porter states that
be will move carefully along, and believes he will
Ibe in Wilmington before long. He announces that
the remainder of the rifled guns in the fleet have
burst, and that the reputation of these guns is
ruined.
It is rumoured that Mr. Seward will be appointed
minister to London.
Five blockade runners were captured on the 18th
Is Old Inlet, Wilmington. Their names are un-
known.
A proclamation has been issued by the com-
mender of Wilmington, requesting absent citizens
not to return. He says that if governed by his own
inclination and judgment he will sooner burn Wil-
=instep than let Butler's countrymen occupy it.
The Richmond Inquirer of the 20th announces
that notwithstanding the rumours of the capture of
Wilmington, communication between that city and
Richmond is intact.
The latest advices from Sherman state that the
I Confederates, after retreating from Pocataligo,
crossed and took up a position on the Combabee
river.
General Sherman is concentrating his forces at
Meephersouville, a few miles from the Combabee
river.
The Richmond Despatch of the 20th asserts that
Sherman has been checked, and will probably be
delayed a long time at that river.
According to Southern &mantas two monitors
have sunk off Charleston.
At a meeting of citizens held at Columbia reso-
lutions were passed urging the citizens to rally in
their defence, and declaring that the evacuation of
Charleston would be disastrous to the Confederacy.
The government is also urged to send an adequate
foree to prevent so great a calamity.
Thomas is erecting winter quarters on the Ten-
nessee River. The indications are that he will not
move from his present position.
The Richawnd &Wine/ asserts that Hood's army
is is good spirits, and that recruits are compensating
for the losses in the late campaign.
A formidable expedition has left Fort Gaines.
Morgan has proceeded up the East Pascagoula
River to within 15 miles in the rear of Mobile.
General Forrest is concentrating at Houston for
an attack on Memphis.
Grant has visited Washington to testify to
Butler's failure at Wilmington.
The question of an exchange of prisoners has
been placed in General Grant's hands. It is be-
lieved that a general exchange will shortly be
effected.
The Confederate Senate has passed resolutions,
creating the rank of Commander-in-Chief of the
Confederate Armies, and recommending that
General Johnston be reinstated. The House of
Representatives confirmed the resolutions in secret
session, and General Johnston has since been re-
appointed to the command of the Army of the West.
The Richmond Examiner states that these resolu-
tions make Lee Commander-in-Chief.
No further reliable information has transpired
as' to the result of Mr. Blair's mission.
The New York Times places no confidence in the
moms of Mr. Blair's efforts.
The Richmond press deprecate idle peace discus-
sions, and recommend undivided attention to the
war.
The Richmond Sentinel has assumed a warlike

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CANADA.

OONVERCIAL NEWS
Oottoa deallaol 15 oasts. ; madam, 85. Coda us-
&Lased ; 810, 43. Indigo sigletUad. Iron tuaietilid.
Node pig, 56 dodos. Wised all. 180. Patrallaum flat
auk, 45 ; voilsad, 82. Baps thalised halkaut. alt
dull Saltpetre quiet. Tea dapresead. Totem advasasd.
All Ell Rostlaa heap bas boas bought up by the gown,
mast Freights firm.

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QUEBEC, JAL 24.
The conduct of the Southern refugees in Canada
has been denounced in the Canadian parliament,
and a determination has been expressed to stop the
alms of asylum. A commission has been ap-
pointed to inquire into the release of the St.
Alban's raiders and the conduct of Judge Coursol,
who has been suspended by the government. The
Fiume, Minister has preaented estimates, including
It sum of 50,000 dollars to make good the money
returned to the St. Alban's raiders, which has been
claimed by the United States.
The Toronto Leader mania that the British go-
vernment has ordered thirty gunboats to be sent
from England to the Lakes as soon as navigation is
open.
[ The Toronto Globe, however, denies the truth of
this statement
i Burleigh's counsel has moved for a writ of
- habeas corpus at Toronto.

Weshington, .Ti*. 23.
Certain information has been remind of the aura et
the north-western prosiness of Mexico to Frame. The
armagemant gm escrefly eossladed with Cie Empire
Napoleon several months ago. It is regarded as a Nape.
limb move in Wow of the South.
The Smithsonian Institute ism burnt yesterday.
General Terry demanded the surrender of Wilmington as
Use 19th.
Ramon= prevail of the probable revocation el the pumped
lidera.
LATEST FINANCIAL.
Orm o'CLocc.

MEXICO.
NEW YORK. JAN. SS.

Unreliable reports reoeived here, vitt, San Fran-
cisco, state that the Mexican government has ceded
Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Dorango, and Lower
California to the Emperor Napoleon.
Ex-Senator Givin of California has been ap-
pointed Viceroy, with the title of duke.
The steamer Golden City sailed from San Fran-
cisco on the 23rd with 600,000 dollars in specie for
England and 260,063 dollars for New York.

Gold 204. Nosey nnelisaged, but eorodisq;bie distrust
prevails. Sterlieg 52n), 94. Stooks Am 81xes of 'Bl, 110.
PlurTisenty, 1074. Illinois, 115. New York, 106.
Erie, 69.
The Chios has 700.000 dole. specie on board.
The foreign malls per Clans& will arrive to.night.

(vii TBa TTLEGILLISICI EZWIS AISOCIATION.)
(Per China, vla Orookhaves.)
NEW YORK, Jut. 25.
Grant televaphe the destruction and evacuation
of Forte Caswell sad Campbell, and the walks os Smith's
laud, Smithvills, ad Reeve's Point, also the rupture of
lilt goes. It is rimmered that the Confederates have do
steer& all the blockade MOWN Weide the bar, also the
Tallahassee and Chiskaumup, and set fire to 30,000,000 of
cotton. The two latter rumen are sot credited.
A large force of gunboats is stationed between Fort Cas-
well sad Wilmington. Five large-sized blockade runners
were farmed is Caps Fear River last week. They were
not aware et the Federal oimuritios. oaten are on the
way to fall into the same trap.
Most of Porter's heavy meals have retina to Fortress
Bourse.
Communication between Richmond and Wilmington wee
still open on Thursday, but the Faints were reported ad-
vancing os the clay.
The Zonatiner mays the Coafederates are there is force.
Ostend Hoke drove is the Federal pickets os Bonday, bat
the feeling in Richmond in that Wilmington will fall.
Richmond advice. report Sherman sheeked at the Com .
bales Riser, hie forces were sasoestratiog sear WPM,-
asiv"le.
The Confederates were out of the Cetsbahee. Heidi
reinformiusele hare arrived is Chariest.., sad son-combat-
seta were leaving. All busisesioss suspended, and govern-
ment property, user arms, was removed. The rear of the
city is reported planted with tetras's. A public meeting
at Columbia opposed the evaimatioe of the shy.
An Alabama paper reports Hood's army in ezeelleut
spirit., sod larger than when it sotered Middle Tennessee.
Cerra Joe Jot:o'ton has been reinstated I. commend. The
WAip says Hood was relieved at his own mead. Boom
prd is at Tupel.
The sultans of prisoners has been iotrusted to Gnat.
Butler has mat a sort of challenging note to the rspreseo.
lathes Smoke, asking him what he meant by call* t'in a
" gold robber., Brooks broesht the matter up in Coegress
and reiterated the epithet. The republican members de-
fesded Bailie.
The louse decided to rodeos the paper duty to 3 per
mat. ad «dorm. It also cocooned I. the Senate mole-
tint opposing the Emperor Maximilian 's resapitica.
The ram nenicon have suddenly dropped.
The radical senators istrodoood resolution. diseanchig
all attempts at negotiation until the rebels sue for mercy.
The Daily New says Lineolo close not expect pew% got
is preparing for a vigorous campaig.i.
The Riolunsed papers us very warlike. The Whig mays
there is so thought of yielding or falba& but it demands
that Congress pus the neossemy only bills without delay.
The Inquirer says let pesos slide, but should the South be
Orally (immured, Europe will be respoceible. It then
threatens to march with the North at Canada, capture
from ltexko.

Cubs, aid drive the Emperor Maximilian .
The article is highly sensational.
The Examiner severely condemns all peace projecia, and
says war, not peace, is the bounce of the Confederacy,
and all talk shoat plea is irrelevant and neralem. The
South is able at this hoar to put half a million fighting
men in the field and still leave enough for anticline-or
and manufactures. If Congress maned do its duty and
drop its pesos imposture it should be aperesiled by • con-
auras of states. The same paper marts positively that
Secretary Seddon has resigned.
The ham authorised, by a vote of 43 to 31, the introduc-
tion of a bill impressing all cotton and tobacco in the
Confederacy on government aeooant. It has also, in secret
make, endorsed by a vote of 62 to 14, the Senate resolu-
tions making Lee Commander.io•Chief. Mr. Foote re-
appeared in the hoses, defined his position, and withdrew.
He said be endeavoured to go to Washington to make
poem The latest soirees from Richmond report an ad-
dress from Congress assuring the people of its unalterable
determination to rations with all its energy the struggle
for independence and of the final triumph which mat
crown its efforts.
Captain Semmes has reached Richmond after a tour
through the South. At a speech in Charlotte he said that
despite the reverses Confederate proapecta were still
bright.
General Thomas, with moat of his army, will remain in
the wed to watch Confederate movement'.
The Golden City, from Sea Francine of the 23rd, took
865,000 dollars In gold to Panama for England.
The sager crop of Honduras is Gamow,
The Ridiniond Enquirer argues that blockade running
has wasted the resources of the South to benefit speculators
in Ragleo4 and the United States. The port el Galina"
it says, should be closed to blockade rennin at woe, and
not soother bale of cotton permitted to leave the South.
The Macon reivrapli avant.. Mae abandonment of all
the seaports el the Confedereny, aid seereentrstion of all
forces in the interior.
It is doubted whether Lee will accept the proposed
The Richmond Examiner says that if the South appointment of oommaader.iu.shisf
is conquered she would find consolation in assisting Seventy-two lives were lost by the hlowing.up of the Iron-
to vindicate the Monroe doctrine, and build up a dad Faunal' off Charleston.
colossal power on the American continent. This The Injury to the Downie Railroad by the freshet is
object might now be obtained if the North recog- el %SOO bales el government cotton were recently burred at
nised Southern independence, with an offensive and Aagseta „g Hamburg.
defensive treaty, customs unions of free trade, nn- A. contersdeng mods 40,000 "contraband...fa ma.
interrupted travel between the States, and the free Ingle., many without food or fuel, and is a pesishlng essi.
navigation of the Mississippi. This would give the I ditios. •
people the advantages of the old Union without its 'Atom from the Sh""dc" repressor law* is
evils. The policy of both nations would be the onsequesur of Sheridan 's devastation. Grain wee not only
soiree, but there were no mills to grind it.
Monroe doctrine. The British man-of-war °elates arrived at Fortress Min-
, The New York Tribune asserts that the impres- tee on Thursday.
aion prevails in diplomatic circles that Mr. Seward General YoClellan is a passenger in the China.

tone.
Resolutions have been introduced in the Wash-
ington Senate to the effect that no negotiation, con-
cession, or compromise can be entered into with
rebels until they manifest unconditional submission
to Federal authority. War must continue notil
their submiseion is secured, and the constitution
established over the whole of the United States
territory.
The Confederate House of Representatives has
unanimously confirmed the resolution to issue an
address to the Southern people announcing the
determination of Congress to continue the war.
Senator Foote has resumed his seat in the Con-
federate Congress, and annonnced that when ar-
rested he was proceeding to Washington to see if
pacification could not be effected consistently with
the Southern claim to independence. A motion to
expel him was referred to the committee on elec-
tions.
General butler has written a letter to Mr. James
Brookes, a member of Congress, demanding an ex-
planation of a speech made by the latter asserting
that a gold robber, in the person of a major-general,
had been sent to New York to control the elections.
Mr. Brookes read General Butler's letter to the
House of Representatives, reafiirming that Butler
was a gold robber, and asserting that his letter was
an infraction of the privileges of a member of Con-
gress. The Speaker decided that the letter was not
an infringement of privilege.
General Butler has addressed a letter to the
Speaker asking a committee to investigate his
official acts.