The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-17 00:00:00

LATEST INTELL RiENOIL

DIMMEeII Tins)
AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT EASTERN.
LOSS OF THE MONITOR.
LIVERPOOL, &MIMI MORNING.

The Great Eastern has arrived here. She left
New York at 9 a.m on the sth inst., but brings no
news later than the 4th inst. She has on board 92
passengers, but no specie.
NEW YORK, JAN. 4, Emma.
(Per Great Pastore.)
The latest news from Mukreesborough is to the
afternoon of the 2nd inst. The Federals were then
apparently in possession of the city. General
Roeencranz re-organised his forces the previous
night and drove the Confederates nearly two miles.
Reinforcements were arriving.
Federal accounts of the battle of Vicksburg
state that it lasted five hours, when the Confede-
rates were driven back and out of their fortifications
in the rear of the city. At night the two armies
lay on their arms with two bayous between them.
On the following day Federal General Sherman
renewed the battle, and carried • strong Confede-
rate position by storm.

The iron-clad Monitor foundered at sea on the
night of the Slat nit. south of Cape Hatteras,
with the loss of two officers and 38 men.

Great dissatisfaction prevails among the Ken_
tucky volunteers on account of the Emancipation
proclamation, sufficiently wide-spread to produce
serious demoralisation among the troops of that
state. Many prominent officers have resigned.

An invasion of Texas is threatened from
Mexico, a force of 600 to 1,000 men having been
organised under Cortssia for that purpose.
The Confederates say that they took 1,626 pri-
soners at Fredericksburg.
The commercial news has been anticipated by the
Bohemian.

RUSSIA.
BT. PETERSBURG, JAN. 16.

Colonel Tidebobl, the Russian commissioner on
the question of the Turkish fortreases in Semis,
has left for Belgrade.

THE INDIAN, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAR. 17.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Delta, with the heavy portion of the above
mails, arrived off the Needles at ILISO a.m.

THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE
FRENCH PRESS.

The Brussels Indipendence observes :

The Temps was warmed yesterday, the Revue Nationale,
a periodical publication, is so to-day. The Independence was
detained yesterday at the Post-office. In view of this
painful recurrence of rigour, and above all in the absence of
precise definitions of the offences which may be committed,
the 11011-offiCiOUS press has formed a resolution to
abstain henceforth from any reflection upon the
action of the government. The Opinion Nationale, which
has given numerous pledgee of its devotion to the empire,
but which is not always in a humour to approve everything,
entered some time ago upon this path, the only honourable
one when securities for independence are wanting. As the
Frew remarked yesterday, the journalist is only respon.
aible for the liberty which is allowed him, and under pre-
sent circumstances silence is not dishonourable. Outside
the question of actual politics there are sufficient questions
open to his study ; and when he shall limit himself to
registering the act. of authority and the facts most indis-
pensable to history, the absence of all criticism will only
serve the better to elucidate the value of certain systematic
enigmas.