The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-04 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGJL

AME RICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA.
(Via Crookhaven.)

The Royal Mail steamship China, from New York
on the 25th ult., arrived at Queenstown at 6 30 a.m.
to-day (Feb. 4). She brings 78 passengers and
$708,340 in specie. She landed 69 sacks of mails,
and proceeded for Liverpool at 7 a.m. All well.
The following are the heads of the news brought
by the China :

NEW YORK, JAN. 25 (Noon).
The Confederates have blown up Forts Caswell
and Campbell.
Admiral Porter's fleet is in Cape Fear River.
He thinks he will shortly be in Wilmington.
Sherman is still said to be moving on Charleston
or Branchville.

The Federal expedition has moved within fifteen
miles in the rear of Mobile.

It is rumoured that Mr. Seward will be appointed
Minister to London.

The peace negotiations still remain without
result.

Gold, 2051.

General Grant reports that despatches from
General Terry announce that the Confederates
have blown up and abandoned Forts Caswell and
Campbell and the works on Smith's Island, Smith-
vine, and Reeves' Point. The marines have occu-
pied those places. The total number of guns cap-
tured is 162.

A despatch from Admiral Porter, dated the I7th
inst., states that the gunboats had some difficulty in
crossing the bar into the Cape Fear River.
The Confederates blew up two steamers believed
to be the Chickamauga and the Tallahassee.

Admiral Porter thinks the Confederates are burn-
ing everything in Wilmington, and getting away as
fast as possible. A large force of gunboats occupied
the river between Fort Caswell and Wilmington.
The greater portion of the large vessels have re-
turned to Hampton Roads. Admiral Porter states
that he will move carefully along, and believes he
will be in Wilmington before long. He announces
that the remainder of the rifled guns in the fleet
have burst, and that the reputation of these guns is
ruined.

Two blockade runners were captured on the 18th
in Old Inlet, Wilmington. Their names are un-
known.

A proclamation has been issued by the Comman-
der of Wilmington requesting absent citizens not to
return. He says, if governed by his own inclination
and judgment, he will sooner burn Wilmington
than let Butler's countrymen occupy it.
The Richmond Inquirer, of the 20th, announces
that, notwithstanding the rumours of the capture of
Wilmington, communication between that city and
Richmond is intact.
The latest advices from Sherman state that the
Confederates, after retreating from Pocataglio,
crossed and took up a position on the Combakee
River.

General Sherman is concentrating his forces at
Macphersonville, a few miles from the Combakee
River.

The Richmond Despatch of the 20th asserts that
Sherman has been checked, and will probably be
delayed a long time at that river.

According to southern accounts, two monitors
had been sunk off Charleston.

At a meeting of citizens held at Columbia, reso-
lutions were passed urging the citizens to rally in
their defence, and declaring that the evacuation of
Charleston would be disastrous to the Confederacy.
The Government is also urged to send an adequate
force to prevent so great a calamity.
Thomas is erecting winter quarters on the Ten-
nessee River. The indications are that he will not
move from his present position.
The Richmond Sentinel asserts that Hood's army
is in good spirits, and that recruits are compensat-
ing for the losses in the late campaign.
A formidable expedition has left Fort Gaines.
Morgan has proceeded up the East Pascagonla
River, to within 15 miles in the rear of Mobile.
General Forest is concentrating at Houston for
an attack on Memphis.

Grant has visited Washington to testify to But-
ler's failure at Wilmington.

The question of an exchange of prisoners has
been placed in General Grant's hands. It is believed
that a general exchange will shortly be effected.
The Confederate Senate has passed resolutions
creating the rank of Commander-in-Chief of the
Confederate Armies, and recommending that Gen.
Johnston be reinstated. The House of Representa-
tives confirmed the resolutions in secret session,
and Gen. Johnston has leen reappointed to the
command of the Army of the West.
The Richmond Examiner states that these resolu-
tions make Lee Commander-in-Chief.

No further reliable information has transpired as
to the result of Mr. Blair's mission to Richmond.
The New York Times places no confidence in the
success of Mr. Blair's efforts.

The Richmond press deprecate idle peace discus-
sions, and recommend undivided attention to the

war.
The Richmond Sentinel has. assumed a warlike

Resolutions have been introduced in the Wash-
ington Senate to the effect that no negotiation,
concession, or compromise can be entered into with
rebels until they manifest unconditional submission
to Federal authority. War must continue until
submission is secured and the constitution estab-
lished over the whole of the United States territory.

The eonfederate -House of Representatives has
unanimously confirmed the resolution to issue an
address to the Southern people announcing the
determination of Congress to continue the war.
Senator Foote has resumed his seat in the Confe-
derate Congress, and announced that when arrested
he was proceeding to Washington to see if pacifica-
tion could not be effected consistently with the
Southern claim to independence. A motion to
expel himwas referred to the committee on elections.
General Butler has written a letter to Mr. James
Brookes, a member of Congress, demanding an ex-
planation of a speech made by the latter, asserting
that a gold robber, in the person of a Major-General,
had been sent to New York to control the elections.
Mr. Brookes read General Butler's letter to the
House of Representatives, re-affirming that Butler
was a gold robber, and asserting that his letter was
an infringement of the privileges of a member of
Congress.

The Speaker decided that it was not an infringe-
ment of privilege.

General Butler has addressed a letter to the
Speaker, asking
4 committee to investigate his
official acts.

The Richmond Examiner says that if the South is
conquered she would find consolation in assisting to
vindicate. the Monroe doctrine and build up a
colossal power on the American continent. This
object might be obtained if the North recognised
Sonthern independence, with an offensive and de -
fensive treaty, customs, union of free trade, unin-
terrupted travel between the States, and the free
navigation o the Mississippi. This would give the