The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-14 00:00:00

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, JAN. 3 (Afternoon).
(Per Bohemian.)
It is reported that fighting has been renewed at
Murfreesboro'. Both belligerents have been
heavily reinforced.
Th,l Richmond Whig contains a violent article
upon England for refusing to co-operate with
France for mediation in America, and says--" Eng-
land could have made fast friends with the South,
but that time has now gone by for ever."
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Money abundant; gold 33-,1 prem. Exchange on
London : bankers' bills, 1471 148. Stocks fiat ;
New York Centrals, 1073, ; Illinois shares, 83 ; Erie,
662.

(Per Etna, Roohe's Point, Jan. 13, 5.25 p.m.)

NEW YORK, JAN. 8.

The President's Proclamation was not published
until the 2d. It declares for ever free the slaves in
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
and Virginia, except in certain counties and districts
occupied by the Federal forces, and that their free
dom will be recognised and maintained by the Go-
vernment and military and naval authorities of the
United States. All the Border Slave States are ex-
empted. The proclamation enjoins upon the people
so declared free to abstain from all violence, unless
in necessary self-defence, and recommends to them
that in all cases when allowed they labour faithfully
for reasonable wages. The proclamation states that
the slaves will be received into the Federal army
and navy, and concludes by affirming the act to he
one of justice, warranted by the constitution upon
military necessity, and invokes the considerate
judgment of mankind, and the gracious favour cif
Almighty God.
Gold advanced yesterday to 1341.

The President signed the bill for the admission o:
Western Virginia as a separate State on the 31st ult

General Saxton, the military Governor at Port
Royal, South Carolina, has issued a proclamation
to the negroes in his department, stating that it is
their duty to carry the news of their freedom to
their brethren still in slavery.

Part of the Confederate force at Fredericksburg
is believed to have gone up the RappaLannock.
General Stuart, in his raid upon Dumfries, &e.,
had with him a telegraphic operator, through whom
he gained much useful information from the War
Department at Washington.
It is again reported in Washington that General
Burnside has resigned, and that General Hooker
takes his place.
A series of battles had been fought in Tennessee
between the Confederates under Generals Joseph
Johns on and Bragg, and the Federals under Gene-

ral Rosecrans.
General Rosecransis reported to have recaptured
Murfreesborough on the 31st ult., after a desperate
engagement, in which both sides suffered severely.
The Confederates lost Generals Rains and Cheat.
ham, a large number of killed, and 500 prisoners.
The Federal loss is estimated at 2,500.
The contest was renewed on the Ist inst., but the
result is not yet known in New York.
The Confederate General Morgan captured the
whole of General Rosecrans' transport train, but is
said to have lost heavily in men and material in
skirmishes with the Federals.
The report of Corinth, Mississippi, being in Con-
federate hands is contradicted.
Confederate accounts state that the Federals were
repulsed in four attacks upon Vicksburg on the
27th, 28th, and 29th ult, The Confederates cap-
tured 400 prisoners.
The Federals destroyed 33 miles of the Vicks-
burg, Shreveport, and Texas Railway, and burnt
the town of Delhi.
President Davis and Staff arrived at Mobile on
the 30th ult.

Mr. Seymour was inaugurated as Governor of
New York on the Ist. In his inaugural address he
said that he should support the constitution of the
United Stat€s, the constitution of New York, en-
force the laws, and maintain and defend the sove-
reignty and jurisdiction of the State. His Message
to the Legislature at Albany will be delivered on
the 6th.

The Federal loan of 1842, amounting to
2,800,000 dols., will be paid in corn.
The Chamber of Commerce has passed resolutions
that the war made upon American commerce by the
Alabama is not rebuked by the British Press, nor

the fitting out of vessels stopped by the British
Government, and that American merchants are sub•
ject, to a certain extent, to the evils which would
attend a state of war with England.
A committee was appointed to report what action
the Chamber of Commerce shall take in the matter.
Gen. Stuart had retreated safely and recrossed
the Rappahannock near Warrentown.
The British steamer Caledonia has been wrecked
on Peaked Hill Bar, Cape Cod. No lives lost.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money abundant. Gold, 34-f-', prem.
Exchange on London—bankers' bills, 1471 to
148.

Stocks buoyant. New York Central, 1084 ; Illi-
nois shares, 83; Erie, 671.
Cotton very firm—middling uplands, 671 c. to

68c,

Flour, good inquiry, and prices sc. higher.
Wheat likewise in good demand, at a rise of lc.
Corn lc. higher, but quiet. Provisions quiet. Coffee
steady. Sug,r, good inquiry. Molasses quiet.
General Butler has arrived at New York, and
proceeded to Washington. It is supposed be will
have an important dace.
Governor Seymour, of New York, has ordered
a trial of the New York Police Commissioners
and Superintendent Kennedy for permitting the
use of the New York police stations for the illegal

detention of citizens.
The Republican journals approve President Lin-
coln's Emancipation Proclamation. The New York
Herald thinks it unwise and ill-timed, and the
New York World looks upon it as being unconsti-
tutional, and not a war measure.

TURKEY.
CONS PANTINOPLE, JAN. 13.
Sir Henry Buiwer has returned to Constanti-