The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-28 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

AMERICA.
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ARRIVAL OF THE ETNA.
(Via Crookhaven.)
The Inman steamship Etna, from New York
on the 14th, arrived at Queenstown at 10.15 a.m.
to-day. She brings $135,400 in specie, and 165
passengers. She landed 28 passengers, and pro-
ceeded for Liverpool at 11 a.m.
NEW YORK, JAN. 14.

Advices from Savannah to the Bth inst. state that
affairs in that city were quiet and unchanged. Ru-
mours were current that a majority of the inhabi-
tants in the interior of Georgia had declared in
favour of the United States Government. The Go-
vernor was said to have disbanded the State Militia
and to be heading the movement. Serious conflicts
between the loyal and Secession inhabitants were
imminent.

These rumours require confirmation.
General Butler's official report on the Wilming-
ton expedition attributes its failure to a want of
promptness on the part of the fleet, and expresses
his conviction, which is shared by General Weitzel,
that nothing but butchery could follow an assault.
Butler says he was relieved because he could not
countenance such an awful sacrifice of life, knowing
the fort to be impregnable.
The James River has suddenly overflown, rushing
through the bulkheads of the Dutch Gap Canal.
Mr. Foote, of Mississippi, has been captured
while endeavouring to get within the Federal lines,
and was conveyed back to Richmond.
Deserters from General Lee's army assert that
some of his troops have lately been sent from Rich-
mond to confront Sherman.
General Rosser has captured Beverley, Western
Virginia, with the garrison:
Nothing definite has transpired relative to the
reported unofficial peace mission of Mr. Blair to
Richmond.
The Tallahassee is stated to be under arrest at
Bermuda.

NEW YORK, JAN. 14.
Gold, 219. Exchange. 241. New York Central,
1171 ; Erie, 84 ; Illinois Central, 1214; 6 per Cent.
United States Bonds, 1881, Registered, 1121 ; 5.20
Bonds, 1094 ; Cotton, 110. Breadstuffs and pro-
visions irregular. Coffee quiet. Sugar steady.
Petroleum, refined, 93 (? 73). Freight nominal.
NEW YORK, JAN. 14 (Morning).
The rumours of peace negociations continue.
Slavery has been abolished in Missouri.
The Federal Senate has passed a resolution to
give twelve months' notice for the termination of
the Reciprocity Treaty with Canada.

A despatch from General Hood confirms the
news of the movement of General Thomas towards
Eastport, and the concentration of supplies there.
Hood is said to be fortifying and going into
winter quarters: at Corinth. Hood's report of the
battle of Nashville states that he lost 50 guns. His
loss in killed and wounded was small.

Forrest is concentrating a large force at Paris,
Tennessee.
Paducah, Kentucky, is said to be threatened.
Rosser's cavalry have captured Beverley, Western
Virginia, with the garrison, and afterwards re-
treated.
Grierson, during his raid from Memphis, defeated
the Confederates at Egypt, on the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, capturing 500 prisoners. He also de-
stroyed 30 miles of the Mississippi Central Railroad
below Granada.

The rumour of Price's death is contradicted.

Fighting was rumoured to be progressing, near
Mobile, on the 31st.

General Butler, in his farewell order to the army,
says :—" I refused to uselessly sacrifice the soldiers'
lives, and am relieved from the command. The
wasted blood of my men does not stain my gar-
ments. lam responsible to God and the country

for my actions."
Butler's report of the attack on Fort Fisher was
published at the request of General Grant, who
endorses it, and says it was never contemplated that
Butler should accompany the expedition, Weitzel
having been specially named to command the expe-
dition. He denies that he instructed Butler to re-
turn after effecting a landing. His instructions
contemplated no withdrawal, or failure after a land-
ing was made. He ascribes the failure partly to
the delay caused by the experiment of exploding
gunpowder in the open air.
The Richmond Examiner calls for a Convention
in Virginia to revise the military affairs of the Con-
federacy and transfer the supreme command to Lee.
The Enquirer opposes such a Convention, and re-
commends the Government to enlarge Lee's autho-
rity.

The Missouri Constitutional Convention has
adopted an ordinance for the immediate and uncon-
ditional abolition of slavery.
Mr. Fessenden has been elected as Senator from
Maine.

The jury has failed to agree upon a verdict in
the Opdyke-weed trial.
The Moravian, China, and Edinburgh have ar-

rived out.

NEW YORK, JAN. 14

LATEST COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14

It is reported that the Committee of Ways and
Means disapprove Mr. Fessenden's proposal to issue
$200,000,000 7.30 bonds.
Mr. Francis Blair arrived at Richmond on the
9th inst., it is reported on a peace mission.
Washington despatches assert that the Confede-
rate Congress, in secret session, appointed fifteen
commissioners, including Vice-President Stephens
and several prominent men favourable to peace, to
proceed to the North to confer with the Federals
on the subject of peace. It is further rumoured that
the Commissioners have asked permission of the
Federal authorities to proceed North.
Sherman has sent the 17th corps to Beaufort,
Carolina, to co-operate with Foster between Poca-
taligo and Coosawatche. 2,000 of Sherman's troops
are reported to be on the Oconnee river marching
towards South-Western Georgia. One column is
marching on Grahamsville.

Richmond papers announce that Sherman's Go•
vernment of Savannah is conciliatory. .

Savannah papers publish unreliable reports that
the inhabitants of several counties of Georgia are
arming in favour of the Union.

Money easy. Gold, 2181. Exchange on Lon-
don, 2,11} ; do. on Paris, 2.10 2.15. Stocks, prices
lower : New York Centrals, 115 15-16 ; Illinois,
125 ; Erie, 83i ; Five-Twenty Bonds, 1094. Cot-
ton dull: middling Upland, 108. Flour steady;
wheat flat ; corn quiet. Provisions and coffee
slightly firmer. Sugar, good inquiry ; molasses
quiet. Petroleum, crude, Sic. ; refined, 73c.

(PER THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ASSOCIATION.)
in the Federal Senate Mr. Hale opposed the re
peal of the Reciprocity Treaty with Canada. Hi

denied that the United States had been a loser by
the treaty, and said that England would regard the
repeal as an act of retaliation. Senator Sumner
admitted that the commerce between the States and
Canada had yearly increased, but he_ doubted whe-