The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-11 00:00:00

COMM ERCI AI INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, JULY 31, Evening.
Money easy. Gold 23 per cent. premium. Ex-
change on London Ban kers' Bills, 141.
S:ocks advancing. New York Centrals, 1281 ;
Illinois, 1121; Erie, 1032. Six per Cent. United
States Bonds. 104. _ _

Cotton, good enquiry. Middling Upland 62,1 to
63.

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Flour heavy ; wheat in good command for ez
port; corn tending downwards.

Provisions dull.

Coffee quiet. Sugar very firm. Molasses quie

Crude Petroleum 311.

NEW YORK, AUG. 1 (Noon).

General Lee massed his forces at Culpepper on
'Wednesday, and prepared to give the Federals
battle on the Rappahannock. One Confederate
regiment guards the Rappahannock from Frede•
ricksburg to Eley's Ford, on the Rapidan, which
is fortified south of Culpepper.

The New York World says the Federals goi
possession of the heights in the rear of Fredericks.
burg.

Mosby's guerillas havo made a raid into Fair
fax Court House.

The Federal General Herron's division has left
Vicksburg for Mobile. Grant's army has fallen
back to Big Black River. Johnston is said to be
reinforced by Bragg, and will make the Mobile and
Ohio railroad from Okolonaon the North to Mobile
on the South, his line of defence.

General Gilmore reports his total loss in three
days' fighting at 985.

The Confederates in Kentucky have:been driven
from 'Winchester towards Irvine. They also occu-
pied Stanford but were driven out with loss, and
retreated towards the Cumberland River. The
Confederates who were forcing the conscription in
West Tennessee has been routed by the Federals
4t Lexington, with the lose of several officers and

Nv,.. cannon.

411,3tzated patrols have been organised along the
river from Vicksburg to New Orleans, Several
more vessels have arrived at Now Orleans from St
Louis. .

The Federal Government is being strongly urged
to repeal the tax upon invoices of goods sent from
St. Louis to Ne Orleans.
Brashear City has surrendered to the Federal
gunboats. It is etioposed to have been evacuated.
The military authorities of licntunky have
at:men:wed that, if it shall be found necessary to
impt;ss prqslty, it will 1* taken iirst from those

persons opposed to furnishing more men or money
to pct down the rebellion.

General Pemberton and his officers have not
been exchanged. The exchange of prisoners has
been partly suspended.

The New York Times says that the draught in
New York will commence on Monday, the 3d
inst., and that the Government is prepared for any

emergency.

A bitter controversy continues between the Re.
publican and the Democratic press concerning the
constitutionality and policy of enforcing the draught;
also between the State and Federal officials who
were engaged in quelling the late riots.
The steamer Arabian has arrived at Nassau from
Wilmington. Several vessels have returned to
Nassau, being um.ble to enter Confederate ports.
The Governor of the Bahamas has received in-
formation from Lord Lyons that the efforts to in-
duce the Washington Cabinet to withdraw prohibi-
tion to export live stock to Nassau were fruitless.
The Florida was still at Bermuda on the 22d
ult. taking fuel from the Confederate steamer
Harriet Pinckney, the naval authorities having re-
fused to furnish her with fuel.

News from Charleston to the 29th ult. states that
General Gilmore has erected a line of batteries
within 250 yards of Fort Wagner. Three heavy
siege guns have been mounted within a mile and a
quarter of Fort Sumter, and would open on that
fort on the 29th ult.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 11.
Russian troops are being concentrated at Gumri.
The Porte demands explanations from the Russian
Government on this account.
The old seraglio has been totally destroyed by
fire.

The Inland Custom Houses have been abolish
and an Octroi substituted.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Aug. 10.—The market still continues
heavy, and eSto.:k having been offered prices have
receded—Threes, for the Account, being now at
67f. 15c. Railway Share Market dull, with a fall
in some of the lines. The market closed as fol-