The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-02 00:00:00

MO N DAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1863

LATEST INTELIIGENCE.

AMERICL

(Per the Africa, via Roche's Point, 9.40 a.m.)
NEW PORK, JAN. 22.
The absence of all reliable inbrmation from the
Army of the Potomac causes great anxiety.
Among numberless rumours that prevail, is one
that a terrible conflict has commenced, and that
General Hooker is mortally wounded.
The last intelligence receiTed from the armies
from the West, states that General Grant is making
extensive preparations at Memphis for some impor-
tant movement in a direction aot yet made public.
General M'Clernand is athancing up Arkansas
River, with the intention of attacking Little Rock,

the capital of the State.
General Rosecranz is bein; heavily reinforced, to
enable him to push to Shelbyville, or to give battle
to the Confederates at Murfreesboro', should
they attack him there.

The total loss of the Federals at Murfreesboro' is
admitted by them to be 10,2 n killed, wounded, and

missing.
The Legislature at Albanyhas not yet agreed upon
the choice of a speaker. Great agitation prevails.
The town is filled with rovdies from New York.
Judge Bend, the Democratic candidate, has with.
drawn.
Gold advanced from I, to I per cent. yesterday ;
to-day it stands at 48 premium.
Middling upland cotton, 754 e. to 76c. per pound.
Resolutions have been introduced in the Senate,
declaring that the attempt by France to subjugate
Mexico is hostile to the United States and to free
institutions anywhere, and that it is a violation of
international law and a violation of the faith of
France, pledged by the London treaty of October,
1861, between France, Spain. and England, and
repeatedly assured to the Federal Government
through the American Minister in Paris. The re-
solutions further declare that it is the duty of the
Federal Government to require the withdrawal of
the French forces, and now and always to lend such
aid to Mexico as is required to prevent forcible
European intervention in her political affairs. Pre
sident Lincoln is requested to communicate to the
Mexican Government the views expressed by Con-
gress, and to negotiate a treaty with Mexico to make
these effective. The resolutions will be discussed'
on the 22d inst.
The rumour of General Burnside crossing the
Rappahannock has not been confirmed. Despatches
from Fortress Monroe state that the Confederate
authorities have ordered that Federal officers cap-
tured after January 12 should be delivered to the
governors of the states where captured.
General Halleck has ordered that no more Con-
fedet ate officers shall be released on parole.
President Lincoln has signed the bill for a fur-
ther issue of 100,000,000 dole. treasury notes for
the payment of the army, and has sent a message
to Congress urging it to restrict the issues of irre-
deemable paper currency, and to tax the circula-
tion of the banks.
A bill has been reported to the Senate to autho-
rise letters of marque.
The privateer Retribution is cruising off St.
Thomes.
The Washington Star states that General Burn •
side has issued an address to h:s army, and that
General Hooker's division crossed the Rappahan-
nock on the 20th. The remainder of General Burn-
side's army is now said to have also crossed the
river, and his forces to be above and below Frede-
ricksburg.
The New York limes contains a rumour that
General Sumner's division had succeeded in flank-
ing the Confederate pisition and advancing two
miles, and that General Hooker was mortally
wounded. Longstreet's division was not with-
drawn into Tennessee, and General Lee's army re-
mained intact to encounter Burnside.
It is impossible to say if the above accounts are
..;curate, and great pubi;, purinsity oxistcr for more
authentic details. The Government has furnished
nothing officially.
,The Southern journals conjecture that a storm
upon the coast disarranged the Federal plans, and
prevented their advance from Newbern.
The Federals drove in the Confederate pickets 18
miles below Kingston, North Carolina, on the 16th,
and were advancing 60,000 strong, with 20 days'
rations.
The Federals have attacked Fort Caswell, guard-
ing the approaches to Wilmington, without result.
The Federal steamer Columbia ran ashore at
Masonboro' Inlet, North Cbro:ina, and her com-
mander and crew had surrendered to the Confede-

rates.

The correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer
asserts that a mutiny has occurred among the troops
in Fort Sumter, which has been subdued. Much
general dissatisfaction was said to exist among the
Confederates in South Carolina•
The Governor of Jersey, in his message to the
legislature, denounces the Emancipation proclsma-
tion, and the illegal arrests, and recommends peace
upon the basis of the union of the states with their
equality and rights unimpaired.
Another Republican cancas has been held at

Washington.
General Fitz-John Porter has been found guilty
of the charges brought against him, and dismissed
from the service.
A bill has been introduced in the House of Re-
presentatives appropriating 10,000,000 dols. for the
emancipation of the slaves in Maryland.
The steamer Sacramento, Capt. Boggs, will sail
immediately in search of the Alabama.
The _Richmond Inquirer says a new financial
scheme has been introduced into the Confederate
Congress proposing an amendment to the Constitu-
tion, and legalising the issue of notes, to be legal
tender during the war, and five years after its ter-
mination. The scheme also includes a proposal fo
purchasing the whole of the Southern cotton crop,
the present crop to be purchased at 10 to 15 cents.
per pound.
A steamer, supposed to be the Huntress, laden
with 400 bales of cotton, was burned while enaea-
vouring to escape out of Charleston.
The excitement at Albany continues concerning
the election of a speaker for the Assembly. The
balloting has led to no result as yet. The civil
authorities have taken steps to prevent any breach
of the peace.
The American press generally approve the senti-
ments of the resolutions introduced in Congress
concerning the French expedition to Mexico, but
consider the moment inopportune for their intro-
duction and the carrying out of them imprac-
ticable,

FRANCE.
PARIS, FEB. 2.

The Monttettr of this morning announces the
nomination of M. Rover as First President of the
Cour des Comptes.

The Moniteur also says :—" The Emperor re-
ceived a deputation with the Address of the Senate
yesterday, and observed, in reply ;-
6' I receive with thanks the Address by which
the Senate gives its approbation to my policy. The
expressions of devotion which it contains touch me
sincerely. The unanimity displayed in voting the
Address has also given me deep satisfaction, be-
cause it testifies a harmony which cannot fail to
bring about happy results.'"
The same journal further states that, according
to a despatch received from Alexandria, the party
opposed to peace is in the ascendant at Hue. The
Annanite Minister of Commerce has given Admiral
Bonnard to understand that serious difficulties will
be encountered in the execution of certain articles
of the treaty. The Admiral is taking measures to

meet all emergencies.
The Menfeeur also contains ne from Mexico to

Dec. 27. At that date General Forty was still at

Orizaba with the main body of the expeditionary
force, collecting provisions and ammunition, and
preparing to march towards Puebla as soon as the
necessary resources should have been brought
together.

Le Pays believes that the debate on the address
in the Corps Legislatif will be as pacific es that in
the Senate. The tone and form of the address read
on Saturday in the Chamber is very similar to that
adopted by the Senate; and after considering some
paragraphs, Le Pays arrives at the conclusion, that
no member sitting on the benches of the national
assembly will hesitate to give it his hearty support.
Le Constitutionnel of to-day, after stating the
refusal of the King of Prussia to receive the depu-
tation with the Addresss, remarks that it is the first
time that such a thing has happened in Prussia
since the establishment of the constitution. The
same journal cites a paragraph from Le Colonne,
stating that, within the last few days, many hun-
dred bales of cotton have been disembarked at Bou-
logne by the steamers arriving from England, to
the astonishment of the English visitors prome-
nading the quays, who were justly surprised that
their merchants should send to France a raw
material so greatly needed in their own country.

BOURSE, Jan. 31.—Little change has taken place
in the tone of the market, and prices continue to be
well maintained, Threes, for the Account, being now
at 69t. 50. The repense de primes (option) has been
made at 69f. 771 c. Very little business doing in
Railway Shares, quotations up to the present show-
ing but trifling variation. The market closed as
follows :

If per Cents .. 98 75 Bank Shares 3395
Do. end month.... Credit loncier 1485
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 85 Italian Loan 7O 25
New 3 Cents Russian

per
Do. end month....
Credit 14,4,11;,,r
Do. end m0nth.....1

Austrian ..
Spanish Threes 57
lieut., Debt

RAIL'

'AYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans IC9O .. 1091 25
'.Torthern
New ditto . ..
L.yons and Mediterranean 1157 50 .. 1156 25
Geneva 4OO ..
Southern .. Bll 25 .. 810
Western . .
Eastern ....
Sardinian ..
Austrian
Lot-pilaw]
North of Spain
Saragossa 660 .. 661 25
Ditto to Barcelona