The Express. — London, England, 1863-08-05 00:00:00

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General FORE; who has just been relieved of the command of the troops, after buying up the resistance of Puebla and making what in the language of the turf is called a " walk over" the defences of the capital, comes home to reap the honours of the highest military rank and the especial favour of his Sovereign ; but not before he has displayed, in the character of a magnanimous invader, those peculiar qualities which marked him, some twelve years since, for one of the leading agents in the suppression of law and liberty in his own country. It seems more consistent with the fitness of things that the men who sold their swords to the interests of a violent usurpation at home should be reserved for Mexican plunder and glory, rather than for honourable deaths in European battle-fields ; and in this respect there is perhaps more congruity in the rising fortunes of FOREY than in the atoning fate of • ST. ARNAUD and an &NEARS& From the cradle of the Second Empire has sprung a race of officers steeped in the Napoleonic jargon to the very lips, and trained to treat one man's will as supreme ; accustomed to force as the only Law, and to fraud as the only principle of national organization. With such men the Mexican invasion is a work after their own hearts, a combination of cunning and rapacity, disguised in the ready rhetoric of pom pous proclamations and decrees. General Foam.- is certainly a master in this line. His magnificent euphuism, his powerful imaginative faculty applied to the simplest facts, do credit even to the columns of the Moniteur. But the system is the same in Paris and in Mexico, and so are the for mulas. The enemy's troops are buried in flowers as they march through the streets of the captured cities, and the enthusiasm of the conquered Mexi cans for the French Zonaves is as rapturous as that of the Parisian population for the returning army of Italy. Only a small and incorrigible faction it is that presumes to resist the foreign troops, who come, like the Coalition in 1792 and the Alliance in 1815, to restore liberty, order, and religion to a misguided nation. It is as the liberator of all oppressed peoples that the Emperor of the FRENCH, through General FOREY, is resolved to save the Mexicans from their own mistaken independence, and to transform their national life, by seizing their treasury, impounding their revenues, fasten ing upon their mines, and confiscating, after the' manner of the Russian authorities in Poland, the estates of every Mexican who prefers uncultivated freedom to such civilization as French bayonets import. Nor is General FORZY leas proficient in the discovery and organization of the " national " will " of the Mexican people, whose rights and interests he comes to protect. So anxious is he to lose no time in divesting himself of the charac ter of a mere military conqueror, and to hand over the government of the country to its legiti mate possessors, that he proceeds at once to nomi nate a select junta, and to appoint a select assembly of notables, and out of these two select creations to construct a provisional triumvirate, of whom one is an Archbishop who, being on his travels, suddenly finds himself famous as he is breakfasting one morning at St. Cloud ; and another is that General Amours, the exiled rebel and conspirator, who, after endeavour ing to dispose of his country to the highest royal or imperial bidder, has carried back his treason to his native shores in the rear of a hostile army, and now accepts office as the bailiff of the French occu pation. - We do not envy our contemporaries over the water, who in one column are denouncing the atrocities of a Motraavurr, and in another register ing the decree* of a Four ; who are recording the violation of a republican nationality by the descendants of the volunteers who vindicated the in dependence of the French Republic, and the spolia tion of a rich but weak country by the lons of the men who saved the soil of France. It is one thing to share in spirit the perils and victories of our soldiers in whatever enterprise engaged, and another to sacrifice immortal principles to the Wis. faction of a cruel national vanity. Such, how ever, is the morality which the Second Empire profanes and propagates. To the credit of the better part of France let it be recorded that liberal journals—even those which represent the military propsgande of the Revolution--repudiate a policy which, in the name of liberty and nationality, suppresses a nation ; in the name of order °cons ents* the property of patriots ; and in the name of " intervention"executes a conquest ; which appoints a junta of traitors and an assembly of bribed and intimidated agents, and calls their treachery or weakness the will of a nation ; which has so singular a sense of French honour as to quarter 15,000 troops upon a defenceless people, and then pretend that they are mercenaries in the pay of the con quered; which, in its extreme moderation, while it confiscates private estates and seizes the Custom, expresses a desire that the principle of liberty of worship may be established by the government of its own selection, which is presided over by a fana tical ultramontane Archbishop hot from Rome. All these miserable developments of the first false pretences from which the French Mexican ex pedition, like the French Roman expedition, set out, might well be only food for mirth, if not for selfish satisfaction, to us as Englishmen, if se Englishmen we could look to our own convenience and reputation exclusively without regard to the moral consequences of a policy of shameless wrong on the part of such a mighty instrument of good and evil in the world as the Government of France. Undoubtedly so far as any political or commercial interests of England are concerned we are very far from havine any cause to be jealous of any conceivable desigis of the French Marmon upon Mexico. Questiois of principle apart, we might well contemplate with amused complacency the difficulties which our powerful neighbour has deliberately cut out for himself, what with his con fused ideas of the Latin race, his calculations of the unexhausted value of silver mines, and the specu lations of his nearest friends in bonds of very doubtful origin and security. At the same time we may be excused for an imperfect sympathy with those shortsighted and selfish abettors of the French expedition who begin to find that their interests are not the first to be consulted by the chiefs of a foreign army. But it is neither the character of the Second Empire nor the selfish blindness of speculators that we care for ; it is the honour of the great and noble people of France, which cannot be violated in Mexico without in jury to every liberal cause in Europe ; it is the honour of the great French people we are jealous for on behalf of Liberal Europe. And we would ask any liberal Frenchman what there is in the latest aspects of this " intervention " in Mexico, as Marshal FOREY characteristically defines it, but the desperate design of a few unscrupulous and in fluential men in Paris, regardless of the mute of French blood, French treasure, and French honour, and of the incalculable dangers and com plexities which European intervention in the New World inevitably involves, to exploiter Mexico now that Europe is impossible, or used up The general correspondence from Rio, published yesterday in most of the morning newspapers, con tained a statement implying that Earl Russell bad given a promise to the Brazilian government that Mr. Christie should not return to Rio as minister of this country. This is, of course, an error. The British government, it is well known, has approved the conduct of Mr. Christie, and has made no con cession inconsistent with that judgment. ght court. OSBORNE, Avo 4. The Queen drove out yesterday, awompanied by Princess Helena and Princess Beatrice. The Hon. sr& Bruce and Lieutenant-Celooel Du Platt were in etas. dance. Princess Louise rode on horseback. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lientenant-General Koollys ■d Major Terrisle, arrived at Marlborough home at tea minutes to ten o'clock List evening from Halifax. Viscount sod Viscountess Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from Brookett Hall, THE EXPRESS. WEDNESDAY LATEST INTELLIGENCE THE REPLY OF THE THREE POWERS. "The notes of the three powers," eels th e LW. peadance, "whatever may be their form, have not been sent yet, and their despatch is threatened with further delay. Although agreed as to the terms and purport of the communication to be addressed to St. Petersburg, the cabinets of Paris, London, and Vienna, have not yet come to an understanding as to the course to be followed in the event of Russia refusing to comply with the new appeal made to her. The English government, before giving its final adhe sion to the collective note, would seem anxious for the introduction of some modification, which, by not requiring an immediate reply, would leave Russia time to reflect on the course she would adopt. This proposition, the existence of which is revealed by La France, a journal which receives lits information through the ministry of foreign affairs, is calculated to slacken the common action of the three powers, and new communications will be required to restore it to its former vigour." THE DEPARTURE OF HER MAJLSTY FOR GERMANY. Information was yesterday received by the authorities at Woolwich to the effect that her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Prince Alfred and the junior mew ben of the royal family, will embark at the Royal Arsenal Pier, for Antwerp, on Tuesday afternoon next, at five I o'clock. In accordance with her Melody's express dash, the embarkation will be conducted is a strictly private manuer—unaccompanied by a royal salute, or other demon. stratioa—and the arrangements will be carried out under the superintendence of Commodore Sir F. W. E. Nicolaon, as Bag officer of the port.. The Fairy steam vessel, on board which her Majesty and suite will embark, is ordered to arrive off the dockyard on Saturday, to coal; &c., and after the embarkation she will proceed direct to Cireeabithe, where the royal yacht Victoria and Albert will be moored for the reception of her Majesty and the royal family, who will remain on board that vowel during the night. A number of workmen are now employed in fitting up the Royal Arsenal Pier, the entire length of which will be covered on the sides with oaavas and bunting, and the floor laid with scarlet cloth. TER VIET OF SHE PLINCI AND PRINCESS or WALL= TO floorcatia. Owing (says the Edinburgh Carrara) to the iodisposition of the Princess of Wales, which prevented her royal highness from being present with her husband at Mild= yesterday, several important chugs have bees roads in the published programme of the approaching visit of the Prince and Princes to Scotland. On Wednesday the Prince and Princess are to leave London for Ripon at half-put ten o'clock in the forenoon, arriving at their destination near fair. After spending the night is Ripon, their royal highness will start for Scotland by way of Darlington, at half.past two on Thursday afternoon. At Newcastle, where the royal train will arrive shortly after four o'clock, a stoppage of tea minutes iv to hake place, and their royal highnesses will then proceed northwards, reaching Barwick-upon-Tweed at twenty minutes pant 6 o'clock, sad Edinburgh ten minutes before 8, Instead of remaining here till Saturday morning, as was formerly arranged, we understand that their royal highness* have sow resolved, on account of the Princess's health, to leave early on Friday afternoon, and will pas the night in Perth, thus coadderably curtailing their day in Edinburgh. The journey earthward will he resumed next morning at 12.40, the royal trais arriving at Aberdeen at ten minutes past 4, sad Aboyne at a quarter before 6. Here the railway journey soda, but a drive of about two hours will enable their royal higher= to reach Balmoral shortly before 8 o'clock. The Duke of Sutherland has left Stafford Douse, St. James's, to meet the duchess and family at Trentham, an their way to Scotland. The Dnite of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Pow latt leave town to-day for Raby Castle, Durham. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath have gone on a visit to the Marshiooess (Dowager) of Bath, in Hampshire. The Earl and Countess of Bandon have enter t•heed a salmi circle it their seat in Ireland, on the woe, stoo of the mintage of Indy Mary Barnard and Colooal Aldwortn, including the End of Bantry, the Countess of Linens', Visconnt and Viscountess Dasersale and Hoa. Miss St. Low, Lord and Lady Carberry and 11 , 30. MIS R. Frets, Lc. The Earl of Kenmare left town yesterday for Harrogate, for the bettellt of the waters. The Earl and Countess of Winchilsea and the 000M01111 of Uxbridge have left the fit. Georges HoteL The Countess of Haddington and the Hon. Henry Hamilton have left Wallace's Hotel, Bt. George's-plaee, Hyde-put-wrier, for Hasbary Hall, Droitwieti. Viscount and Viscountess Lismore have arrived at Antrim Castle, their seat is Ireland, for the Wean. The coming of age of Viscount Newry was to be selebrated with much rejoicing en the family estates in Ireland daring the present week. Lord Leoonfield has given the munificent sum of soot, towards the erection of a aw church at Tarn Class, Ooskamseath. The Hoe. Percy. Wyndham, /LP., laid the first Mass of thi sew church es Youday last. The Oount de Colbert, in the service of the Imperor of the French, sod the Counter de Colbert, left the Brunswick, Jermyn-street, last night, on their return to Paris. Lord and Lady Blantyre and the Hon. Misses Steen Lift town on Moaday for Erskine Home, Lanark shire. Lord and Lady Dam have left the Hoo, Herta, within the last few days for the noble lard's shooting quarters in Scotland. Lord Headley paid his first visit alone he came into pegmatite at hie large property'', Ireland, to Me estates in Camtleialaad a Mr days ago, when his lordship mot with a mart hearty reception from the tmatry. Lard Headley. who was ameespearied by hie em the Hoe. Mr. Wyse, ma promoted with an address from the gamete oe die extol'. aye property. It meat ham been gratifyiog to his lord ship to have met with eta a hearty Iriah welcome. The Empress of Austria reached Ratisbon on the 25th ult. ; she wits Joined by the Emperor in the *ming of the 3011 s alt., asd the folioed.' day King Maxintilisa of Bavaria strived. Ms Mrdeety, wear's' the uniform of as Amtrina general, immediately paid • visit to the Empress. I POLAND. The following details have been received from Cracow, of the 4th, of the combat at Beoemin on the 28th ult.:—" Cbmielinski supported for four hours the attack of the Russians, who were far superior in numbers, and provided with several pieces of cannon. Captain Zuchowski, at the head of thirty volunteers, was killed after having three times attacked the enemy's artillery. The Russians retired leaving seventy dead on the field. Chmie linski has returned into the forests. The Russians have organised moveable columns in the govern. ment of Radom, which have pillaged and burnt the town of Opoczno." The Breslau Gazette, of the 4th, states that Taczanowaki has received at Czamarewo, near the Prussian frontier, the assistance in arms and ammunition which he had for some time expected to be sent to him from the Grand Duchy of Posen. A body of 1,000 Russians has been defeated by the insurgents at Zielun, in the district of Mlawa. The Vienna Wanderer, of the 4th, declares as apocryphal the proclamation of the Polish Na tional Government, as announced by a despatch from Warsaw, and which was said to reject any arrangement short of the re-establishment of Poland with the limits of 1772. The Press ex claims against the despatch of Prince Gortchakoff to M. de Knorring, who replaces M. de Balabine at Vienna, and declares that the appeal made to the old traditions of Austria is a fresh piece of malice on the part of the Chancellery of St. Petersburg. MADAGASCAR. The packet from Alexandria brings accounts from Port-Louis (Mauritius) to the 6th July. The Hermione frigate, having on board Commandant Dupri, K Lambert, and the scientific commission, had arrived on 30th June, and was, after touching at R4union, to leave again for Tamatava. The Eng lish steamer Rapid had also left Port-Loris for Ma dagascar. The Port-Louis journals give news from Tamatava to the 15th June, and from Tananarive to the 26th. A national assembly of 30,000 per sons had been held at the latter place, at which the new Malgache constitution was read. The tribe of the SaksJedes on the Western side have refused to recognise the new government, and have com menced hostilities against the Roves. A revolu tionary attempt had been put dowa at Tananarive on the 6th June without any bloodshed. ITALY. Letters from Naples of the let state that the Italian troops are in pursuit of some bands of brigands, commanded, it is said, by Spanish chiefs. Advice' from Rome state that the clandestine journal Rome or Death announces in its thin) number that it will oases to appear, and accuses the National Committee with being hostile to the Garibaldian party. The trial of the incendiaries of the Theatre Albert still continues. The con sistory has been adjourned to September. Three dignitaries of the Pontifical court will be then pro moted to the rank of cardinal. (surna's TZLIIGIUMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, AUGUST 5. Official reports have been received here from New York, which state that the government appears to definitively renounce the conscription, which bad been declared unconstitutional by the sentence of • New York municipal judge. " This fact is to be attributed to the progress of pacific ideas in the North." Official correspondence has been received here from Madagascar, announcing that the prime minister was desirous not to augment Interior difficulties by complications with foreign powers. He bad not yet ordered the re-establish ment of the customs duties decided upon in princi ple at the accession of the Queen. It is asserted that the Hova government impa tiently expect Hommander Dupre, in order to come to an understanding with him on the application of all the measures concerning foreigners. SPAIN. MINISTERIAL CHANGES. MADRID, Ammer 4. The resignation of the Minister of Finance has been accepted. He will be replaced by the Minister of Public Works, whose post will be filled by Senor Alooso Martinez. The fifth edition of K Itenan's "pie de Jane," of which 36,000 copies have hem sold in six weeks, has been published in Paris. ifoesigneur Gousset, Cardinal Archbishop of Rheims, thus qualifies the work in &charge to the clergy and faithful of his diocese, issued on the 29th nit :—"The sacred name of Jesus invoked, we have dime proved of and disapprove, condersoed and condemn the ' Life of Jeans' by Ernest Remo, as containing a great many amertioas which are respectively rash, impious, scan dalous, secrilagiins, blasphemous, erroneous, heretical, and smitten with anathema." The Voaccitung says that a Prussian trader rased Geep•rd Lange, travelling in the Germano Duchies of Deorsark. was arrested is the city of &Admen because the words " &blown-Holstein" on his passport were united by •hyphen instead of being separated by • comma. His passport was declared to be informal, he was confined in prison, and fined for not having proper documents proving his identity. The Journal dee Pyr4nies states that a serious aosident occurred last week at Orthez, during a bullfight held there is a temporary wooden circus erected in the market-place. Some of the upper seats gave way ender the weight of the speet•tors, and a man and two girls were severely injured, the man being so crashed that his rem very is doubtful, end the girls baring each of them one leg broken. Notwithstanding the alarm caused by this unfortunate sweat, the sport. were motioned after the re moval of the sufferers. ERUPTION or MOUNT ETNA. —A letter from Ca tania of the 16th ult., mastics' that Mount Etas broke oat in emptiest on the 7th ult., but subsided again the nuns day. Thom was a hoary fall of sand in CRIGRIas with loud oohs' ad a good dad of nooks. Agatha . eruption was aspipetad by persona szperieseid is oak mitten before long. EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1863. EXPRESS FROM PANS• (not on OW 14 ooftsaroinim.) PARIS. TUESDAY STAMM. There is, I believe, no doubt that the important news given by the France last night was true. The famous "cordial understanding" of the three powers is at an end. It was too fragile to bear much pressure. Whatever may be the form of the diplomatic breakdown which will hereafter be disclosed, I am sure that the substance is this— that France wants war and England does not ; and that being driven into a corner, the English minis ters, moat rightly and conscientiously, and with a just sense of their responsibility to a loyal and confiding people, refused to put their hand to • paper which would oommit England to a great war, the conduct of which would not be in her own hands, and the issue of which no man can foresee. I understand that Lord Napier and the Duke of Montebello have both communicated to their respec tive governments the certain information, derived from conversation with Prince Gortcbaxoft, that the Czar will not give way an inch. Thereupon, as I said yesterday, the Emperor Napoleon wanted to get England and Austria to agree upon a common course of action when the inevitable negative answer shall come in. Hence the split. England will not agree to the " identical" note proposed by France, and I have reason to think that Austria agrees with the court of London rather than with that of the Tuileries. The France to-night contains an article replete with taunting remarks upon the conduct of Eng land at this momentous crisis, the object of which, however, it finally explains, is not to complain of England, but to excuse France for not going to war alone. One of the arguments which M. de la Gubronniere's journal seriously brings forward for the purpose of showing that England urged France on and has now left her in the lurch, is, that "the Times and Morning Post offered France the Rhine frontier u a legitimate compensation for her efforts on behalf of the Polish cause " ! Au assertion better worth attention is that Lord Rus sell's despatches have been more threatening and more haughty than those of M. Drouyn de Lhnys and M. de Recbberg. However, all this recrimi nation is rendered mere matter for retrospective study by the crowning argument of the France, which is that England's interest is to go to war with Russia on account of China, India, Ame rica, and the East, whereas France is moved by no other consideration than a philanthropic * idea. The conclusion is that though England does not know her own interest, France does, and will, therefore, remain at peace. Let us hope that M. de la Gueronnibre may be authorised in saying this. The Bourse was decidedly influenced by the pacific rumours of the day. Rent. rose 25c. for cash and 20c. for account, closing at 67fr. 10c. and 67fr. 20c. Mobilier rose 20fr. The Orleans and Lyons railways rose 10fr. each. At the assize court of La Vendde, on July 30, a wretch named Collinean, formerly a domestic ser vant, but now, thanks to the frightful extension of the monachal system in France, a brother of the congregation of St. Gabriel, and whose religious name is Brother Darius, was found guilty of a long series of infamous assaults upon little boys confided to his care as a schoolmaster. For the sake of public decency the court tried the case with closed doors. Sixteen thin, pale-faced boys, who had been contaminated by the prisoner, were examined as witnesses. Their appearance and the facts to which they deposed excited the utmost indignation. Brother Darius was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment with hard labour. Rumours of war come from Strasburg, in the shape of a letter to the Temps, whose editor, M. Nearer, is an Alsacian. Vague uneasiness on the banks of the Rhine would not Ix, worth reporting, but here is a specific fact. It has transpired that a few weeks ago com manding officers of the Strasburg garrison received a copy of a circular addressed by the Minister of War to the military intendants, and which was couched in these terms : The military intendants will immediately make a return, for each centre of instruction of their division, of the effective number of troops of all arms (infantry, cavalry, and artillery), for the purpose of calculating the stores to be purchased for the recruiting warehouses. In making this return the highest avenge number of every recruiting depot is to be taken, and then augmented is the proportion of one-fifth for the infantry and artillery, and one-third for the cavalry. The correspondent admits that beyond the above circular, no preparatory movements had been ob served in the military establishments, which, how ever, are extremely well supplied. But this circular causes especial 11116116116614 because it is remem bered that when Napoleon L decided in the secret remises of his own mind that the army of Boulogne was to march upon the Rhine, he sent a similar order to the intendants of Strasburg. Six months before the war on the Rhine broke out he ordered those functionaries to provide 40,000 pairs of shoes and a proportionable quantity of clothing, making, at the same time, the observation that the first oars of every good military administration should be to provide a sufficient quantity of shoes and clothing long before arms, munitions, &c. Another fact which excites alarm at Strasburg is that their German neighbours on the other side of the Rhine already regard the French as enemies. Marshal MacMahon, on the occasion of a review which he lately passed at Strasburg, sent the usual invitation to the Prussian and Baden officers in the garrisons of Kehl and Rastadt. Those German officers, who have hitherto been on the most friendly terms with the Strasburg garrison, did not think fit to accept the invitation. A few Baden officers ap peared at the review, but in plain clothes, and the Prussians did not come at all. Another incident still more striking occurred. On the day of the review, Marshal MacMahon made his men throw a bridge over the Rhine—a military exercise which has frequently been performed on the same spot. The marshal and his staff crossed over the bridge, and when they got to the Baden bank naturally expected to see the garrison in battle array, and presenting arms. It has always been usual to pay this compliment even to a simple general. But on the present occasion, Marshal MacMabon was greatly surprised to find only a squad of four sol diers in undress, commanded by a sub-lieutenant. To make matters worse, this sub-lieutenant, " energetically," as the correspondent says, refused Marshal MacMahon's invitation to dinner. Under these circumstances the 'marshal did not quit the last plank of his bridge, and returned to Strasburg without treading on German soil. I ought sooner to have put upon record that there is no truth in the report, which I noticed a few days since, when it was circulated by the Paris government journals, of Juarez having fled from San Luis Potosi, and being about to take refuge in the United States. A letter in the Monde, eman ating from a clerical source and bitterly hostile to Juarez, says : It la known that far from yielding to the storm ha is actively pursuing the guerilla system of warfare is concert with Eason, Ortegs, sad their accomplice", It scald be quite a mistake to refuse Juarez ell kind of military skill because he has bees bred a lawyer, for he presided over the council of war which plumed the system of defense carried into executioa at Puebla, and his preponderating influence caused it adoption. The Minister of Justice and Public Worship has addressed the following circular to the archbishops and bishops : _ Paris, A most 1. Monseigneur,—The church will soon invite the faithful to celebrate one of its great religious solemnities, which has become the national fête of France. lam happy, ninapoi g . near, at being the interpreter of the sentiments with which the return of that anniversary inspires Ida Majesty's mind, and I invite the clergy to invoke on that day the bleesinp of heaven on the empire and on the sovereign who so gloriously presides over its destinies. The popu lations will joy fully join in that pious idea; they are anxious to thank Divine Providence for the recent victories of our soldiers, who nobly sup port beyond sea the cause of civilisation, the interests of , the catholic religion, and the honour of the French flag; they wish at the same time to return thanks to God for the blessings He lavishes on the country, and to supplicate Him to continue His protection to the Emperor and the imperial family. You will, therefore, monseignear, only anticipate their wishes by ordering that a Te Dam followed by the Domine Sainte shall be sung on the 15th after Divine service in each pariah of your diocese. The prefect will concert with you as to the measures which the core moay may maim—Accept, J. /Unocal.. A similar circular has been addressed to the Pre sidents of the Directory of the Church of the Augs burg Confession, of the Central Jewish Consietory, and of the consiatoriee of the reformed churches. For the last ten days it has been an insoluble question in Paris whether Prince Napoleon had or had not gone to Vichy to see the Emperor. The fact of the visit was stated positively by the Con stitutionne/ and other reputed great authorities, and letters have been written to London deducing material arguments from the event, as bearing upon the mighty issues of peace or war. The mystery is now cleared up. The real Prince Na poleon (the great Plon•Plon) has not been to Vichy at all. His relative, the son of Prince Lucien, was there, and that was the origin of the mistake. The Daily News is seized. AMERICA. (azunes nziotams.) LONDONDERRY, Auo. 5, Nomura. The Montreal ocean steamship Jura, from Quebec on the 26th ult., arrived here at 1 a.m. to-day. She brings 6,000 do's. in specie. (Par the Jura.) NEW YORK, JULY 24. Washington despatches Wert that General Meade's movements will prevent Lee getting back to Richmond, or even as far as the upper end of the Shenandoah Valley. It is reported that General Lee has been rein forced by General D. H. Hill with 10,000 men, from lower Virginia. The North Carolina Federal Cavalry expedition from Newbern has burned the railroad bridge over the Tar river, and 5,000 bales of cotton. The Richmond Enquirer says there are more than 100,000 men in the Confederacy who have hired substitutes for military service, and if they are not going to do more than this, a levy en mane must be made, and they must all be taken. The Enquirer observes that immense crowds of foreigners throng the Provost-Marshal's office for passes to proceed North. Their number would form a corps d'armee. The Enquirer urges the strengthening of the military organisation and the application of martial law to the whole country, as in a state of siege ; the abolition of substitution, exemption, and foreign protection ; and a material enlargement of Presi dent Davis's powers to revise the election of officers and get rid of the incompetent The Enquirer says that the required stock for the Virginia Navy Company has been subscribed. It approves of the scheme, as all captured goods can be brought into the Confederacy, as well as purchased goods, and there are other ways of dis posing of them. The company will send ships to sea, which will wound the enemy in his vitals with out loss of men to the South. Though the great Southern armies be disintegrated, and the South compelled to carry on a guerilla warfare—which she is determined upon—if the worst comes to the worst, so long as a spot can be held for the govern ment to rest on, or even if it live as an itinerant, a guerilla warfare on the ocean can be waged, thus ensuring final triumph. The sea is the best element for the South, as she has no commerce to harm, with the prospect of years of war. Ships must be put to sea to the utmost of Southern ability. A meeting has been held at Montgomery, Ala bama, to organise the whole population for home defence. General Maury, at Mobile, has called all the able-bodied men of the city and county to report for duty iu the defence against an attack from Grant's army. The Mayor of Charleston has impressed all the free and slave coloured population between 18 and 80 to work on the defences at Morris Island. The people of Georgia are arming to resist Rosen craoz, and Rome is being fortified. The citizens of Lynchburg, Virginia, are organis ing for defence. The Montgomery Advertiser says that Bragg's retreat from Tullahoma to Tennessee River is to be regretted. It will cause much desertion, and opens the northern counties of ' Alabama and Georgia to the incursions of the enemy. This may not occur immediately, as Rosencranz may intend to fight Bragg, but Bragg's position south of Tennes see River will check Rosencrans's operations, and may hold him at bay for another six mouths. Should Rosencranz's object be to avoid a decisive engage ment, he will certainly send his cavalry to destroy the crops and create desolation. Vicksburg having fallen, and Grant having an army of 80,000 men, it will be impossible for Johnston to oppose this army with any hope of mimosa ; and, as Johnston retires towards the Big Bee—as it is supposed be will—Grant will close on Johnston, and unite his forces with Rosencranz. There will then be a Federal army of 100,000 men on the soil of Alabama. In face of these Acta every man should gird up his loins for fight, as it will be a struggle for existence. All will be well if vigilance and promptness are maintained. Alabama demands the people's services, and they must rally and drive back the invaders. The Mobile Advertiser says that the fall of Vicks burg has saved Johnston's army from being cut to pieces, as during the night of the 4th Johnston bivouacked on Big Black River, with orders to move on Grant's entrenchments the following morning. Before the morning news of Pemberton's sur render was received. From what has since been learned of Grant's position, it is now known that if Johnston's force had not been doubled and trebled, it could never have marched through Grant's works. The country for miles was covered with felled timber. 'Crag gorge and ravine was • fortified work bristling with cannon, and would have been converted into a slaughter pen. It took the paroled officers at Vicksburg 15 hours to ride 15 mile' through the felled timber and around the excavation 1 embankments made by the enemy, j o h nstot was fortunate in not attacking, thus saving hi, The Advertiser says that the Southern cause d oe not look dark enough yet to justify those who a m ready to submit, and anxious for peace. Th, South has made too many sacrifices for freedo m k falter at the last hour. It is Mated that coloured corps d'Afrique raLe in New Orleans will garrison Port Hudson. --- Admiral Farragut's squadron in the Idississip p , is preparing for au important expedition. Previous to surrendering Port Hudson, Geo tal Gardner issued an order dated July 81 tOO ono i troops, telling them they had nobly peri their duty of defence from May 21 to . 4 , time of surrender. Their cheerfulness, braver l and zeal during the hardships and suffering, the long siege never were surpassed, and se tt , man could feel proud satisfaction that be had d oi ; . . . . his part in the heroic defence of Port liud soo place is surrendered at the last moment that proper to hold it, and after a most gallant defe to several severe attacks, in all of which the ese have been signally reputed. It is officially announced that the Federal d amounted, on the Ist July, to 197,000,000 d o l t It is rumoured that the major•generalship va c in the United States army by the retirement General Wool will be tendered to General Gras An extensive Federal cavalry expediuon Newbern on the 18th, to penetrate into N, Carolina, destroying bridges and railroad c munications. Three hundred Confederates, who had plannel attack upon a Federal fort six miles south ti Corinth, have been surprised and captured. The United States' District Court has confirmed ; decree of the Lower Court, condemning th, steamer Ella Warley and cargo, and the brig Deha and cargo ; the court has also confirmed the d, cision condemning the bark General Greene, all restoring the cargo. The decision of the Low ! Court condemning the bark Empress and cargo been reversed. NEW YORE, Jou 24, Ern - m t . A spirited resistance to the draft is manifested • Maryland. The barns of two enrolling officers hat been burned, and their residence attacked. The New York Herald still urges President Lin. coin to enlist the sympathy of all men, North and South, by declaring an intention todrive the &glib 1 from Canada and the French from Mexico. The ship George Griswold has been raptured and bonded by the Georgia for 100,0001. army. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. I Money easy. Gold 281 per cent. prem. Ex change on London : Bankers' Bills, 139. Stokes buoyant. New York Centrals, 12435; Illinois, 11* Erie, 100: Si: per Cent. United States Bondi, 1054. NEW YORK. in, 23, Nourin The New York World says :—" General Maslen army has crossed the Potomac near Harper's Ferry, and has moved down the east side of Blue Ridge upon the theory that General Lee was rapidly re treating out the Bbenandoah Valley, on the we% aide of the mountains, but General Meade fount Lee hugging the line of the Upper Potomac, ale' was threatening Maryland and Washington General Lee's defiant attitude stopped Genera Meade's advance, and it is now a question of ti possibility of a battle." Despatches received in Newbern on the 20n inst, from Beaufort state that the Federal" hat obtained entire possession of Morris Island. Th report is not generally credited. A steamer has arrived at New Orleans frog Natchez. Her arrival is considered as a prod ci the reopening of the Mississippi to navigation, sal has caused much enthusiasm. The steamer has let on a return trip to St. Louis. The Federal movement for the occupation of tie Teche country continues. General Morgan's forces are now reported o number 10,000, and to be still marauding in Oki. Their progress has been several times checked, bt they made good their escape. The reports of General Roseman' movements c Chattanooga and Rome are unfounded. He is sti on the Northern slope of the Cumberland mow tains preparing to move into East Tennessee. The Richmond Whig says : "The evacuation ofJad. son left in the enemy's hands the rolling stock oi the Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern, Mu sissippi Central, and Mississippi and Tennessee EM road. Over 40 engines were lore The loss," tinned; the Richmond Whig, is " incalculable, is portant, and wholly irreparable." The Newbern cavalry expedition has destroyed to miles of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, azi burnt a bridge 1,000 feet long over the New Rive Another Federal cavalry expedition, after We fighting, captured and destroyed Wythville, Soak Eastern Virginia, taking 100 prisoners, said too pieces of artillery. They cut the Virginia awl Tennessee Railroad at Wythville. The Republicans attribute to Governor Seymour treasonable views, and an intention to get the State military power into his own band. _ . The Democratic press assert Governor Seymour's right to control the State militia, and attribute to the Republican party a plot to consolidate the military power in the hands of the Federal govern. ment. The arrests of rioters continue. The authorities are still taking precautions against the renewal d the outbreak. A privateer steamer is again reported off the coast of Maine firing at another vessel. NEW YORK, JULY 25, EvEctsc. The Confederates were yesterday in farce near Front Royal. Their cavalry was driven fros Manassas Gap by the Federals. l It in believed that General Lee intends to cro the Blue Ridge at Chester or Thornton Gap. Bei: reported to have been delayed on the Upper Pow mac in order to carry away the plunder gathered it Pennsylvania and Maryland, and the new crop of the Shenandoah Valley. The opinion still prevails in some quarters that Ise purposes another invasion of the North. The steamer Lizzie has been captured ott Abaco. and the steamer Kate Dale off Fortugal, with 81/0 bales of cotton. The City of New York bast arrived out. The Scotia has been intereepted off Cape Race. CONYRRCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JCLT Z. }Mac" Money easy. Gold 27 per cent. premium. Fs' change on Loodor—Bankers' bills, 140. Stocks advancing. New York Centrals, 12 4 1; Illinois, 1121; Erie, 101}. Cotton quiet : Middling Upland, W. Flour tending downwards. Wheat and corn good in* quirt'. Provisions dulL Coffee quiet. Sugar and molasses steady. The Edinburgh and Borussia take out 1,000,60 0 dollars. The large export of specie has mused the rise in gold. . • (Per the Ediabwgh.) • NSW YORK, JOLT RS, lioßma. The United States District Court has affinuel the decisions of the Lower Court, condemning the