The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-29 00:00:00

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF TIIE CITY OF WASHINGTON.
QUEENSTOWN, Thursday.
The Inman steamship City of Washington, from
New York on the 17th, has arrived here. She
brings 88 passengers and 936,720 dols. in specie.

(Per City of Washington.)

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.
Jefferson Davis's Message has been sent in to the
Confederate Congress.

He declares the anxiety of the South for peace,
but says that its determination against submission
is unalterable. He denounces the conduct of the
Union armies as atrocious and cruel. Referring to
111 r. Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, he says
he may well leave it to the instincts of the com-
mon humanity of men of all countries to pass judg-
ment upon a measure by which millions of human
beings of inferior race, peaceful and contented
labourers in their sphere, are doomed to extermi-

nation, while they are encouraged to commit assas-
sination by an insidious recommendation to abstain
from violence unless in self-defence. Commissioned
Federal officers attempting to execute the procla-
mation will, if captured, be delivered to the state
authorities to be dealt with according to the state
laws for the punishment of criminals inciting in-
surrection.

The Alabama has captured two more vessels off
Port Maria.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16, Evening.
It is supposed that a large portion of the Con-
federate army has been withdrawn from Fredericks-
burg.

The Philadelphia Inquirer says that numbers of
negroes are deserting from the Federals at Port
Royal.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money easy; gold, 461 prem. Exchange, 161.
Stocks steady ; New York Centrals, 1161 ; Illinois
Shares, 90 ; Erie, 731. Cotton very firm ; Middling
upland, 72c. Flour heavy and sc. lower. Wheat,
good inquiry. Corn inactive, at a decline of lc.
Provisions quiet. Coffee, sugar, and molasses very
firm.

(Per City of Washington.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 17, Morning.

The telegraphic summary of Jefferson Davis's
message which appeared in the New York papers
was imperfect. Mr. Davis complains that the
European Powers declared neutrality without
acknowledging the sovereignty of the seceded
states, thus injuring the South and prolonging the
war by admitting the doctrine that the Federal
Government had a right to coerce the seceded
states. If these states were independent the
refusal to entertain the same international
intercourse with them as with the North
was unjust, no matter what may have been the
motive prompting it; He does not complain
of any treaty being concluded between the United
States and Europe for the abolishment of privateer-
ing, although the prohibition to either belligerent
to dispose of its prizes in European ports operated
with intense severity against the South, by depriv-
ing her of the only means of maintaining, with some
approach to equality, a struggle on the ocean.
Rumours are current of an early movement of the
army of the Potomac.
General M'Clernand's expedition has captured an
Arkansas post 50 miles up the Arkansas River.

Seven thousand Confederates, with stores and am-
munition, are reported to have surrendered.

Six Federal vessels have left New Orleans to re-
capture the Harriet Lane and to destroy the Con-
federate gunboats at Bayou, Buffalo.
Nearly all the troops under the command of
General Banks are at Baton Rouge.
The Confederate General Bragg is superseded by
General Longstreet, whose corps d'armee is trans-
ferred to Tennessee.

The Confederates are encroaching upon the
Union lines at Donaldsville.

The motion which was made in the House of
Representatives to lay a bill on the table autho-
rising an enlargement, for the passage of gunboats,
of the Mississippi and Michigan canals, and of
other canals connecting the lakes of Erie and On-
tario R ith the Hudson River, was rejected.
It is rumoured that Secretary Chase will resign
if the Finance Bill of the Committee of Ways and
Means passes Congress.
No Speaker has yet been elected in the New
York Assembly.
George Francis Train has narrowly escaped
lynching at Jamesville, Wisconsin.