The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-01 00:00:00

LATAIIIT IN TELLIUENCS.

AMERICA.

By the arrival of the City of Baltimore we have
New York papers to Nov. 19, two days later than
those from which we gave some extracts yesterday.
Nothing positive had been heard concerning
General Sherman's movement from Atlanta towards
the seaboard. The latest news from the South in-
dicates that the Confederates are waiting for a deve-
lopment of his purposes with an interest equal to
that felt in the North. The Richmond Whit/
says that Sherman has sent a large part of his
army towards Selma, Alabama, and thinks that
this shows a design to capture Mobile. It de-
mands the calling out of a special force of 79,000
to annihilate his and Sheridan's armies, and assails
the congress for not taking measures for this pur-
pose. The New York Herald says that Shermau's
march
Cannot be much impeded by resistance from the rebels,
as they have no force anywhere in Georgia sufficient to
stand long before him, and whatever point he is moving on
he will probably reach in a very short time. General Corse,
he Union commander at Rome, Ga., on the 10th last.,
destroyed such buildings there as could be of use to the
&slimy, and abandoned the place, for the purpose of with-
drawing to some more important point. The latest rebel
accounts from Gem Hood say that he is in a position to
march into either Middle or West Tennessee, as be may
decide. They admit that the rumour of the capture from
the Union forces of Decatur, Alabama, was a hoax, stating
that the attack on that place was merely a ruse to enable
Hood to get his army trains well put IL

The people of Memphis, Tennessee, are said to
be again in a state of great excitement, from appre-
hensions of an attack upon that place by a large
force under Beauregard, which is reported to be
marching from Corinth, Mississippi
Despatches from the Shenandoah valley state that
Early's army had been euti re:y withdrawn from Sher-
idan's front, and bad fallen back towards Staunton,
where deserters state the rebels will go into winter
quarters. The main portion of them were in the
vicinity of Woodstock, on their way up the valley
when last heard from, the men being in a wretched
condition from want of clothing and proper food.

From the armies of the Potomac and the James
there is little to report. The Confederates have
commenced the erection of a new earthwork a little
south of the crater produced by the explosion of
Burnside's mine. The pickets along the lines
and some of the batteries still continue to ex-
change shots, resulting in frequent casualties ; but
nothing approaching the dignity of a disturbance
of army " quiet," according to the soldier's defini-
tion, has occurred now for many days. It is re-
ported that General Hancock has requested to be
relieved from the command of the 2nd Corps, and
will be assigned to reorganising the interior mili-
tary departments. General Burnside has rejoined
the army of the Potomac.
Despatches from correspondents at Port Royal and
Hilton Head, S.C., dated to the 15th ult., give a
detailed account of the important exchange of pri-
soners in Savannah river. All the Confederate prison-
era taken down from Fortress Monroe in the fleet of
Col. Mulford, I.7nion Exchange Commissioner, were
first to be transferred to the authorities at
Savannah, and then Colonel Mulford was
to begin receiving the released Union
soldiers, in all about ten thousand. It is
understood that the colonel has negotiations in pro.
gresa fur the exchange of a large number of pri-
soners at some point on the Mississippi. Two
hundred Irishmen, Federal soldiers, who were pri-
soners in the South, and have been in Confederate
custody over a year, becoming weary of their con-
finement, have joined the Confederate army and
been sent to Hood.

It is said that the blockading fleets on the South-
ern coast will soon be largely increased, and ren-
dered so strong that it will be almost
impossible for vessels to run in or out
through them. The Richmond Examiner an-
nounces the safe arrival of the Tallahassee at Wil-
mington, N. C., after her escape from the block-
ading steamers which were i❑ pursuit of her off the
North Carolina coast.

The New York Times thinks it quite possible that
the Florida will have to be returned to the Brazilian
government, and says :
Under rill circumstance', the uttermost justice must be
dose by this government. The very fact that Brazil is a weak
power should lead us to tenfold more exactness iu performing
all our obligations to her. Our own interests, moreover, are
on the side of the strictest justice. There will be many a
war without doubt in the future, in which our vessels will
be glad to take the utmost advantage of neutral protection.
We must not by any rude violence now, close the harbours
of the civilised world to us hereafter. If the neutrality of
weak powers be violated by us at will, the rebels can
pursue the same course with even greater impunity, and
there are scores of ports now in the West Indies and
on the South American coast i■ which shipping of
immense value belonging to our citizens is protected
solely by this dogma of neutral rights. At this very
moment, there is hardly a cannon or musket to binder
the Confederate privateers from burning the splendid
ocean steamers in the harbours of the Isthmus, and
probably nothing protect. them but the sacred-
ness of neutral waters. We hope, then, as we have said
frequently before, under all considerations both of justice
and interest, that this case of the Florida will be fairly and
squarely settled with the Brazilian government.

The Springfield (Mass.) Reim/diem& calls attention
to the fact that Capt. Collins, of the Wachusett,
who seized the Flot Ida, incurred the censure of the
government in 1862, for seizing the British schooner
Mout Blanc, and taking her into Key West. At
the time of seizure the schooner was at anchor at
Sand Bay, Bahama Banks, only one mile from
shore.