The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-02 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LUEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

AMERICA.
(Per the Nova Scotian, via Greencastle.)
NEW YORK, MARCH 19 (Afternoon).
(By Telegraph to Portland.)

It is reported that General Lee has broken up his
encampment on the Rapidan, and is moving in the
direction of the Shenandoah Valley.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
lloney easy. Gold 62 per cent. premium. Ex-
change on London bankers' bills, 177. Stocks
large ; speculative sales. New York Centrals, 1391-4. ;
Illinois Shares, 1381 ; Erie, 126 ; 6 per Cents.
United States Bonds, 112. Cotton quiet. Middling
Upland, 73c. Flour quiet and unchanged. IVheat
corn and provisions dull. Coffee quiet. Sugar
very firm. Molasses steady. Petroleum quiet and
11 unchanged.

(Per the Atihralian via Roche's Point.)

NEW YORK, MARCH 22 (Evening).

The royal mail steamship Australasian, from New
York on the 23d March, arrived at Queenstown on
the 2d April, with 55 passengers and 140,350 dole.
in specie. She landed 104 sacks of mails and 7 pas-
sengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 4 15 a.m.
All well.

The Confederates have returned Dahlgren's body

:o his father.

General Grant has arrived in Washington, and
reported that he will command the army of the
Potomac in person. An early attack by Lee is
apprehended in the Army of the Potomac.

Stuart is reported as concentrating his cavalry at
Fredericksburg and Charlottesville, preparatory to

making a raid.

A heavy snow storm delays military operations

in Virginia.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money easy. Gold opened on Monday at 611,
advancing since under an active demand to 641, and
closing to-day at 638 to 61-} ; Exchange on London,
176 1781; Exchange on Paris, 3 13a- to 3 15. The
speculative inquiry in stocks continues, and large
sales have been made. New York Centrals 139;
Illinois, 1371 ; Erie, 125; ; 6 per cent. United
States Bcnds, 112.

Cotton quiet, Middling Upland, 72 to 73 ;
Flour and wheat slightly firmer; corn dull; pro•
visions quiet ; coffee inactive ; sugar and molasses
good inquiry ; petroleum quiet ; crude, 30 to 31 ;
refined, 49 to 51.

NEW YORK, MARCH 23, Noon.

Longstreet's forces are reported to be concen-
trated at Bull's Gap for a raid into Kentucky.
Other accounts represent him moving to join Lee.

The New York Tribune asserts that an attack on
Norfolk by land and with ironclads from Richmond

is expected.

Porter's fleet and Sherman's forces have left
Vicksburg for Red River.
The negro colonists who left the United States for
have returned unhble to form a colony.
The gunboat Styx spoke the brig Howard on the
18th, which reported seeing on the 10th a vessel
resembling the Re Galantuomo, running south with
her topmast gone, but showing no signals of dis-
tress. It is considered prcbable that the Re Galan-
tuomo is safe.

The steamer Norman has been destroyed in

Suwannee River.
The decree of the United States District Court in
the case of the Saxon not only orders the ship and
cargo to be restored to the owners, bat recommends
that Lieutenant Thnovan, who shot Mr. Grey,
should be tried by court-martial for the murder.
The questions of compensation to the widow and to
the owners of the vessel have been reserved.

According to a statement just issued by the
Provost Martial• General at Washington the total
deficiency of troops in all the States under the
several calls of the President is 311,724. Illinois
is the only State which has completed its quota
New York is deficient by 59,230, and Pennsylvania
by 74,127.