The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-30 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money easy. Gold, 215. Exchange on London,
2391 ; on Paris, 284 2131. Stocks tending down-
wards. New York Centrals, 116 ; Illinois, 124 ;
Erie, 79k 520 bonds, 1091.
The Governor of Missouri has proclaimed Mis-
souri a free state.

The Canadian Government has refused to issue
British passports to naturalized Canadians.

NEW YORK, JAN. 19, 6 p.m.

Rumours are current that Mr. Blair will return
to Richmond with a Government representative.

--
Gold, after declining to 208, closed to-day at
2091.
NEW YORK, 'TAN. 19 (Evening).

The Federals captured Fort Fisher on the 15th
inst. The gunboats afterwards proceeded up the
Cape Fear River. On the 16th the Confederates
blew up Fort Smith on the south side of New
Inlet.

Sherman has moved towards Branchville.
Mr. Blair has returned to Washington from
Richmond.

The Richmond papers assert that President Davis
has 'consented to receive or send peace commis-

sioners.

Mr. Stanton announces that General Sherman has
transferred two corps under Howard to Beaufort.
They moved upon the line of the Charleston and
Savannah Railroad to Pocataligo, and occupied a
position across the railroad covering the approaches
eastward of the latter place.
The Confederates have abandoned the works in
the vicinity of Pocataglio•
The Federal loss in assaulting Fort Fisher is now
estimated at 900 men, including many officers.
Hoke's division, 5,000 strong, is at Wilmington.
Lees army is said to be short of supplies.

It is rumoured that the railroad between Danville
and Greensboro has been destroyed by heavy rains.

President Lincoln has approved of the resolution
of Congress to terminate the reciprocity treaty.
Retaliation resolutions has been introduced into
the Senate for the treatment of prisoners in the
South.

The Senate have ratified the notice to be given to
England for the termination of the treaty limiting
the naval force on the lakes.

Sherman has informed a private citizen that
Georgia must be governed by military laws. To
talk of reconstruction is useless. Georgia is still in
the Union. When the people shall quit the rebel-
lion and send members to Congress Georgia will
resume her Union functions and advantages.

It is stated that Sherman will move on Branch-
ville next week.

Extreme activity prevails on General Grant's left,
and early movements are expected.
Mobile papers announce that 4,000 Federals oc-
cupy an unassailable position at Franklin Mills on
the Dog River.
General Butler has arrived at Washington to
testify before the Congressional Committee concern-
ing the failure of the first Wilmington expedition.
The Richmond Enquirer asserts that Lee urges a
conscription of the negroes, afterwards emancipat-
ing them and their families.

The Richmond Sentinel says that he has objected
to an enlargement of his command, on the ground
that he finds it impossible to command all the
Confederate armies as well as the army before
Richmond.

Davis, however, seeks Lee's advice on all impor.
taut movements.

Resolutions have been introduced into the Vir-
ginia Legislature to make peace through State
action, but they were defeated by an almost unani-