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London, England, 1865-02-27 00:00:00

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THE FOLLOWING BEAUTIFUL MEMORIAL AN-
NOUNCEMENT of the Decease of his Eminence the
late Cardinal Wiseman was sent to the clergy of his
diocese :

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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, FEB. 14 (Evening).

The following are the latest particulars that have
been received relative to Sherman's movements :

After crossing the Whippy Swamp, the left wing,
under Slocum, supported on the extreme left by
Kilpatrick's cavalry, advanced towards South Caro-
lina Railroad, of which Branchville is the junction.
On the following day the Federal infantry seized
Macbride's Bridge across the Big Saltkehatchie, and,
after a successful engagement with Hardee's troops,
captured Braxton Bridge, crossing the north fork
of the same river. Simultaneously, the Federal
cavalry advanced along the Augusta road, then
making a diversion to the right, occupied Blackville
and the midway stations between Branchville and
Augusta.

A movement beyond Blackville by Kilpatrick was
repulsed by Debrell's Tennessee Brigade. From
Braxton Bridge Slocum advanced towards Walker
and Edisto Bridges across the Edisto river, which
the Confederates abandoned and burnt. Slocum is
four and a half miles from Branchville, which is in-
vested on the west and south.

The Federal centre, composed of the army of the
Tennessee under Howard, after crossing the Com-
bahee, detached itself from the right wing, and
marched in a direct line for Branchville by Bell's
cross roads.

The Richmond Dispatch of Saturday says, that if
Sherman succeeds in forcing the passage of the
Edisto above and below Branchville, he will keep
the railroad running thence to Columbia and
Charleston, compelling the Confederates to evacuate
Branchville, which they will probably do if unable
to prevent Sherman's passage of the Edisto.
The progress of Sherman's right under Foster,
which is operating against Charleston, is said to be
slow, as in view of the capture of Branchville, pro-
bably involving its evacuation, an immediate attack
on the fortification of Charleston is not intended.
In the meanwhile, active preparations for defence
continue to be made at Charleston.

Richmond papers state that Grant still holds his
position at Hatcher's Run ; his lines therefore are
extended, but not advanced. They represent Mon-
day's engagement as very severe. The ground was
fought over four times, in consequence of each side
receiving successive reinforcements. The Confede-
rate loss on Monday was 500, that of the Federals
from 1,500 to 2,000. General Forrest's wound is
not mortal. Grant is fortifying a new position.
The World says that Grant has added three miles
to his line of works, but is as far from the South
road as ever. It regards Hatcher's Run as another
fruitless slaughter.

The Tribune says that Grant's activity, his close
approach to the south side railroad, and the exten-
sion of his lines westward, will prevent Lee rein-
forcing Beauregard.
Deserters report that Lee was removing his artil-
lery to the north side of the James, in front of the
Federal works. The Herald concludes therefrom
that Lee is preparing to evacuate Richmond.
Grant left Washington on Saturdays for City
Point. His visit is believed to be connected with
important military movements. He held consulta-
tions with the President and Secretary at War.
Schofield has assumed the command of the forces
before Wilmington, in virtue of his appointment of
commander of the new department of North Caro-
lina. It was expected that Terry would command a
corps under him.
The TVorld says that a movement near Wilming-
ton, in co-operation with Sherman's campaign, will
shortly be beard of, which may have an important
bearing on the war.
Thomas's troops were embarking on board tran-
sports at Eastport on the 3d, and everything indi-
cated a movement of his whole army down the
Mississippi.
The Federals have evacuated Pascagonla, Florida.
The gunboats remain off the coast.
Officers arrived at Washington from before Mo-
bile confirm the reported evacuation of the city,
which would probably be surrendered when de-
manded. The cotton is all removed to the interior.
The Federal fleet was expected to reach the city
on March Ist.

The Confederates have captured and burned
two Federal supply steamers on the Arkansas

river.

The Confederate General Winder is dead.
Peace resolutions have been introduced in the
House
requesting the President
to use meansof
about peace by the restora-
to bring Representatives,
restora-
tion of the uniop upon the basis of the constitution
and laws, with a guarantee to the South of the pro-
tection of their rights. These resolutions were de-
feated by 73 against 43 votes.

Mr. Hunter has made a speech at a war meeting
in Richmond. He said a strong Government
had always made it a part of their duty and wisdom
to extend liberal terms to those who had been in
armed opposition, in order to reconcile them to
their sway, and make them contented. Mr. Lin-
coln did nothing to soothe the reluctance or miti-
gate the severities of submission. It was impossible
that he could suppose peace to be attainable on his
terms with the force the Confederates have in the
field. Secretary Benjamin said all cotton, tobacco,
and provisions must be given to support the
Southern cause. Every negro willing should be
allowed to go and fight and receive freedom. There
were not enough able-bodied white men in the
country.
The Herald asserts that the Confederate Com-
missionersproposed to Mr. Lincoln at the late con-
ference the union of the Northern and Southern
armies for the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine.

Mr. Stephens has left Richmond for Georgia.
A resolution has been introduced in the Confe-
derate House of Representatives, directing the Pre-
sident to ask and accept from the owners of slaves
the services of such negroes as he may deem expe-
dient during the war to perform military service.
Nothing in this act shall authorise any change in
the relation of slaves to their owners as property
except by the consent of the States where they re-
side, or by the law of those States. The House re-
fused to reject or postpone the consideration of the
bill, and indefinitely referred it to a select committee
of one member from each State.

The Richmond Whig asserts that General Forrest
is in favour of arming 200,000 negroes.
A correspondent of the Southern papers asserts
that Lee has informed a member of Congress that
the only thing to fear was causeless despondency
among the people. The South could gain inde-
pence if the people did not give way to foolish
despair.
Davis has written a letter accepting Mr. Sedden's
resignation, tendered in consequence of the action
of the Virginia members of the Legislature. Davis
denies the right of the Legislature to control the
continuance in office of the officers of the executive
department, whose choice the Constitution has
vested in the President. The Richmond Examiner
severely criticises Davis's letter, and says that the
recommendation of the Legislature deserved a better
answer.

Lincoln has sent Senator Morgan's name to the
Senate for Secretary of the Treasury, but the nomi-
nation was afterwards withdrawn, Senator Morgan
refusing the position.

Mr. Macculloch, Comptroller of the Currency, is
spoken of as Mr. Fessenden's successor.
Mr. Fessenden has submitted to the Committee
of Ways and Means a financial plan for the next
fiscal year. It provides for the issue of a loan of
$600,000,000 in such form of bonds and such rates
of interest not exceeding 6 per cent., as may seem
most advisable to the Secretary. The total public
debt, on the Ist February, is officially announced at
two billions and 153 millions. The total interest is
93 millions 130 thousand.

The'Senate has passed the amendment making
the paper duty 15 per cent.
Duncan Kannar, chairman of the committee of

Ways and Means in the Confederate Congress, has
left for Europe.

The subscription to the Seven-Thirty Loan last
week amounted to 9 millions 9 hundred thousand.
Minnesota and Kansas have ratified the constitu-
tional amendment, making now 15 States who have
adopted it.
The people of West Tennessee have petitioned
Lincoln against the interference of the military
authorities with the courts, taxation, and the draft,
except according to the United States laws. The
petition also requests the President, as soon as
Tennessee has ratified the constitutional amend-
ment made by the Tennessee Convention, to declare
Tennessee to be no longer in a state of insurrection.

The Missouri Convention has endorsed Lincoln's
action at the Peace Conference and resolved to sup-
port the Government until peace is established on
the basis of Lincoln's note to Mr. Seward.

Fernando Wood has made a speech at New York
in which he said that the South would never submit
to coercion. Peaceful negotiations, conducted in a
proper spirit might restore the Union. He wou'.d
never submit, under any circumstances, to disunion.
He favoured the Monroe doctrine, and assistance to
Ireland.

Archbishop Mac Closkey has delivered a lecture
at New York in defence of the Pope and the En-
cyclical letter. He said that the outcry of its
opponents prove they hold the errors it condemns.
The Jews in New York have presented a petition
to Congress against the proposed amendment to
the constitution, recognising the Divinity of Christ.
A coloured minister preached in the House of Re-
presentatives on Sunday, at the invitation of the
chaplain.
A court-martial has convicted Captain Beale of
piracy on Lake Erie. He has been orderedby Gene-
ral Dix to be hung on Saturday.
The Senate has passed a bill authorising a con-
tract with any company who will agree for the
lowest price to establish a line of steamers to make
twelve round trips a year between San Francisco
and China.

The Congressional Committee have proposed
Corondolet Mound City for a naval depot in the
Western waters.
The bounties for volunteers have been raised in
New York.

The Danish Minister at Washington has denied
the report sent by the American Consul in London
that the Danish Government had sold the Bordeaux
ram to the Confederates.

The Paris correspondent of the Herald writes that
two Bordeaux rams sold by the Danish Govern-
ment to Confederates were about leaving the French
coast to attack New York city. The Herald urges
Government to prepare for their reception and seize
the Danish West Indian possessions as an indemni-
fication for their being fitted out under the Danish
flag.

Advices from Vancouver's Island and British
Columbia state they are still discussing the project
of union, but the last will not consent unless the
former abandon the free-trade policy to which
Victoria desires to adhere.

The Golden Age sailed from San Francisco on
the 12th for Panama with over a million of specie,
of which over $400,000 were for New York.
A Mexican correspondent writing on the 15th ult.
states that the Mexican Government refused Givin's
colonisation scheme, fearing that the establishment
of a colony of Confederates might lead to trouble.
South American advices announce the settlement
of the Hispano-Peruvian difficulty on the terms de-
manded by the Minister Pacheco. In addition Peru
pays three millions indemnity, and obtains at once
possession of the Chincha islands, and admits a
Spanish envoy.

NEW YORK, FEB. 15.
A despatch from General Grant says :---The
Ricemond papers of Monday state that Sherman
has crossed the Edisto, which was the line held by
Hardee for the defence of Branchville. A portion
of Sherman's troops were two-thirds of the way
from Edisto to Columbia, an important point,
forming the junction of the Charlotte and South
Carolina and Greenville and Columbia Railroads,
thus severing railroad communication with Richmond
except via Wilmington.
It is reported that General Grant contemplates a
movement on Goldsborough, North Carolina.
The Tribune says that deserters assert that dissa-
tisfaction prevails among Lee's army at the result
of the peace conference, and that numerous deser-
tions would be the consequence. The troops were
on what the Federal army would consider half
rations, and were suffering from want of clothing.
Lieut. Cushing has sent in a report of an expedi-
tion made with four boats and 50 men eight miles
up Little River, South Carolina, to All Saints'
parish. He destroyed a considerable amount of
cotton, and also the stores collected at Charlotte
Inlet for the garrison of Fort Anderson. The
South Carolina planters expressed their willingness
to return to the old Government. -They only awaited
emancipation from military rule.
A large Federal force has landed at Smithfield,
North Carolina, with locomotive engines, it is sup-
posed, for use after the capture of Wilmington.

It is rumoured that the Confederates are mining
the Federal works at Petersburg.
The correspondent of the World reasserts that
Lee will concentrate the Southern armies inland in
two divisions—one in Eastern Virginia under Lee,
and the other in South Carolina under Beauregard.
The latter has been instructed not to attack Sher-
man until he is far advanced into South Carolina.
Lee's movements will depend upon the result of the
battle in South Carolina. The World anticipates a
long war in any case.

The Federals have defeated Shelby at Dardanelles,
Arkansas.

Shelby has retired to Layettevillle.
Lincoln's son, Robert Lincoln, has been nomi-
nated to the Senate as Assistant-Adjutant-General
of Volunteers, with the rank of Captain on Grant's
staff.

The question of a general export duty is being
agitated in Congress.
Indiana has ratified the constitutional amendment.

In the case of the St. Alban's raiders, George
Sanders gave evidence that C. C. Clay, claiming
military and civil ambassadorial power, informed
him that that he directed and promised, to assume
the responsibility .of the raid. A messenger from
Richmond has arrived with a document proving
the belligerent character of the raiders.

AdTices received here from Peru state that Admi-
ral Pareja was about to proceed to Chili to demand
of the Government the money he paid for coal over
what it would have cost if supplied at Cota, and
also to demand an apology for the annoyance caused
thereby. Should his demand not be complied with,
the Admiral will seize the ports of Cota and Caldra
until it is granted.

The General Government of Bogota has issued an
order to the President of Panama stating that in
consequence of a note from the French Minister
calling attention to an order forbidding the passage
of the French troops across the Isthmus for the
frigate Pallas, while offering no obstacle' to the
passage of United States troops for California, pro-
hibition of the passage of foreign troops across the
Isthmus shall be absolute without distinction. The
Government thinks the situation of the United
States' Pacific territory is a reason why Congress
should consider innocent the passage of United
States troops across the Isthmus until the matter is
settled by a convention, already proposed. Mean-
time the rule ought to be general. All will be con-
sidered troops if organised according to military law
even if not armed.

Colonel Bulkeley has arrived at San Francisco,
en route for the exploration of a telegraph route
between the United States and Russia. He will
leave immediately for British-Columbia, whence he
will start on exploring expeditions.

NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (Evening).
General Gilmore has superseded Foster.
Charleston despatches state that 2,000 to 3,000
Federals landed at Grimballs, on James Island, two
miles south-west of Charleston--the Ashley River,
1,000 yards wide, intervening—and drove in the
Confederate pickets. Skirmishing ensued, but no
general engagement took place.

A Federal attack on Salkehatchie was easily
repulsed.

Another body of Federal troops advanced on the

Charleston road, near Blue House, and opened with
their artillery, but made no impression on the Con-
federate lines.

The Federals have crossed the river at Bennakers,
and were moving on Edisto. The Times says this
doubtless means that the Federals are moving in
force on the Edisto Island. Blue House is on the
Charleston and Savannah road, in the direct line
of march pursued by the right wing towards Charles-
ton. It would appear that movements in flank and
rear are being made on Charleston, in co-operation
with the advance from James Island.

Charleston despatches also state that the Federals
landed at Little Britain and Secret Post, and after
advancing to King's Creek, retired. The object of
this movement was probably to form a base near
Charleston for the use of the right wing of the
Federals advancing along the Charleston and
Savannah Railroad.

Sharp firing was heard off Charleston on Satur-
day.
The Richmond Whig of the 13th inst. states that
Sherman had crossed the South Edisto, flanking,
Branchville on the west, and advanced to Orange-
burg on the Columbia and Branchville-road, 16
miles west of the latter.

Richmond papers of yesterday announce that
the communications with Charleston had been cut,
and think that Sherman's cavalry are operating on
the railroad via Raleigh, Wilmington, severing the
last line of communication between Virginia and
the South.

The Richmond Examiner states that Beauregard
was on the Edisto and the line of the South Caro-
lin railroad with the army of the Tennessee, ready
to offer Sherman battle. It is reported that Wade
and Hampden's cavalry have reinforced Beaure-
gard, and the Governor of South Carolina has called
the whole population, including foreigners, to arms,
and those refusing to serve must leave the State.

The army and navy made an initiatory movement
preparatory to a general attack against Wilming-
ton on Saturday. The main body of the army on
the peninsula, and troops west of the river, made a
general advance against Fort Anderson, while
simultaneously on the west Admiral Porter bom-
barded the fort, occasionally shelling the Confede-
rate entrenched line.

Ames commauded the right extending to the
beach, and Pain occupied the left. The advance of
the skirmishing line drove the Confederates into the
main works. The Federals pressed forward and
captured the rifle pits, thereby keeping the Confe-
rates within their breastworks. Terry ordered the
reserve to advance along the strip of land between
Myrtle Sound and the sea. By the last account
they were moving forward. The Federals had lost
70 men, and captured 100 prisoners.
The correspondent of the New York Herald re-
asserts the evacuation of Mobile, and says prepara-
tions had been made to burn the city of Atlanta.

Lee issued orders on Saturday morning offering
an amnesty to all deserters returning to their duty.
The general says that the resources of the Confede-
racy, wisely and vigorously employed, are ample,
and that with a brave army, sustained by a united
people, success cannot be doubtful. The advantages
possessed by the enemy are of little value if not
permitted to impair the Confederate resolution.
Lee appealed to Georgia for supplies. Freshets had
interrupted the supplies, except from that State.

The New York Herald asserts that the people
throughout Georgia are agitating in favour of a
convention for reconstruction.

It is expected that the draft will be immediately
enforced in New York.

The North American had arrived out, and the
Asia at Halifax.

The House of Representatives has altered the
prospective duty on cotton from 6 cents. per lb. in
corn to 6 cents. in greenbacks.
A despatch from San Francisco to the 14th inst.
states that by order of Gen. M'Dowell, passengers
to Mexico must obtain permits from the Provost-
Marshal. No citizen of the United States will re-
ceive a permit without evidence being given of his
peaceful intentions. Doubtful persons must take
the oath of allegiance, and aliens must produce
satisfactory proof of their nationality. The object
of this order is to prevent the increase of bands of
persons inimical to the United States now as-
sembling at Sonora with hostile intentions to the
frontier population and the military post of the
United States.

Richmond papers of yesterday announce that
Sherman's advance cavalry are as far north as
Florence.

Three vessels laden with cotton have arrived at
New York from Savannah.

The subscriptions to the 7.30 loan since Monday
amount to over 17 millions.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

At the evening board to-day gold was quoted
204+. Stocks dull. New York Centrals, 115 ;
Illinois, 1131 ; Erie, 76f ; 5-20 Bonds, 114+ ; New
issue, 1101.
The advices from Europe by the North American
have caused an advance in Government securities.
NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 11.30 A.M.
Gold, 2034.