The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-09 00:00:00

AMERICA.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]
Per the Australasian via Crookhaven (2.45 p.m.)
NEW YORK, DEC. 30, Evening..
The Confederate army in East Tennessee ha
gone into winter quarters.
General Longstreet is still around Rutledge and
Morristown, in East Tennessee. He was unable to
pursue his advantage on account of the large num-
ber of barefooted iu his command.

The Italian frigate Re d'ltalia, built in New
York, went ashore yesterday, near Long Branch,
during her trial trip, and has not yet got off;
though great efforts are being made to save her.
The City of Manchester has arrived out.
The Adriatic has arrived at St. John's.
No news of any importance has transpired.
Money easy. Gold, Mk per cent. premium.

NEW YORK, DEC. 29.

All is quiet in Virginia.

Advices from Charleston to the 27th state that
the Federals shelled the city from the night of the
24th till the afternoon of Christmas day. Twelve
buildings were fired; ono white man was killed,
and one white woman wounded. The Federal
gunboats had a brisk engagement with the Confe-
derate batteries on Johnson Island.

Mobile despatches of the 24th state that the
two white regiments sent down to Fort Jackson
had not recovered the fort, and fighting continued
on the 25th.

Wheeler's cavalry are operating through Northern
Georgia and Eastern Tennessee.
Guerillas have appeared on the Arkansas shore
of the Mississippi opposite Memphis.

Several Confederate officers and soldiers are
reported to have arrived at Newbern, and accepted
President Lincoln's amnesty.
The Confederates have returned 500 prisoners in
exchange for a similar number sent to City Point by
General Butler, but refuse further exchanges until
their laws regarding coloured troops are acknow-
ledged. They refuse further negotiations with
General Butler on the ground that he is an
outlaw.

Admiral Lissoffski has visited General Butler at
Fort Monroe.

Advices from New Orleans report that mutual
courtesies continue between the Federal com
manders in Brownsville, and the Mexican General
commending in Matamoras.

The Free State men have held a convention in
New Orleans, in which negroes were admitted to
seats, and the convention was opened by a prayer
from a coloured preacher,
Two of the Chesapeake pirates have been arrested
at St. John's, New Brunswick, and brought for
examination before a public magistrate.
Count Mercier, the French Ambassador, will
shortly leave Washington for Paris.
The iron-clad Dictator has been successfully
launched at New York.

The Olympus and Hammonia have arrived out.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, DEC. 29, Evening.

Money easy, but.firm at 7 per cent. Gold opened
yesterday at 51k, and has advanced since on account
of a more active demand to 521 per cent. premium,
at which price it closed to-day.
Exchange on London—Bankers bills, 167 ; on
Paris, 3.35. Stocks steady. New York Centrals,
133; Erie, 1071 ; Illinois, 116:; 6 per Cent. United
States Bonds, 1041.
Cotton tending downwards. Middling upland,
802 to 82c. Flour good demand for export. Wheat
and corn advancing. Provisions good enquiry.
Coffee and sugar quiet. Molasses steady. Petroleum
quiet ; crude, 32 to 321; refined, 46 to 47.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

BY THE QUEEN.-A PROCLAMATION.

VICTORIA, R.—Whereas our Parliament stands pro-
rogued to Wednesday, the 13th day of January instant,
We, with the advice of Our Privy Council, do hereby pub-
lish end declare, that the said Parliament shall be Maher
prorogued, on the said 13th January instant, to Thursday,
the 4th day of February neat; end We have given order
to Our Chancellor of that part of Our United Kingdom
called Great Britain to prepare a Commission for prcroguing
the same accordingly : end We do hereby further, wit the
advice aforesaid, declare Our royel will and pleasure, that
the said Parliament shall, on the said Thursday, the 4th
day of February next, assemble and be holden for the de-
spatch of divers urgent and important affairs : and the
Lords Sphitual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens,
and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and
Burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required
and commanded to give their attendance accordingly, at
Westminster, on the said Thursday, the 4th day of Feb-
ruary next.
Given at Our Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight,
this 7th day of January, in the year of our Lord,
1864, and in the 27th of Our reign.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.