The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-11 00:00:00

[Stamped, ld. Addittemd.]

AMERICA.

(surnals Tawsme.)
QUEENSTOWN, JULY 10.
The Royal Mail steamship Soot* which arrived
here this afternoon, brought 200 passengers and
160,000 dollars in specie. After landing the mails
and 27 passengers she proceeded for LiverpooL All
well. The Scotia was detained 10 hours off the
harbour by fog.

(Par the Root .)
NEW YORK, Jun 29, Emrago.
General Hooker has been relieved from the com-
mand of the army of the Potomac at his own re-

quest. Geueral 'Meade, a West Point graduate,
and late commander of the Fifth Corps of the
Potomac army, has been appointed his successor.
General Meade is not connected with any political
faction.

General Hooker has issued an order saying that
he parted from the army impresaed with the belief
that hie usefulness as a commander was impaired.
General Meade has issued an order, stating that
he accepted the command, which was totally unex-
pected and unsolicited, with just diffidence. He
relieved an eminent and accomplished soldier, and
relied upon the troops to waist him in discharging
his trust.

The sudden change of command at the present
crisis has caused general astonishmE
The whole of General Meade 's army is upon the
north side of the Potomac.

General Lee, with the last of Longstreet's and
Hill's corps, passed through Hagerstown on Satur-
day, and Lee's whole army is now in Pennsylvania,
which it is believed he intends to make the future
battle ground.
General Stuart's cavalry has followed Lee across
the Potomac.

Ewell's, Hill's, and Longetreet's corps are esti-
mated at 75,000 men.
The Confederate advance in Pennsylvania has
not yet met with any organised resistance, though
the inhabitants appear to be a little more roused.
Business in Philadelphia is entirely suspended,
and the Pennsylvanian collieries are closed.
General Dana has issued a proclamation stating
that the Confederate strategy was sufficiently un-
derstood to make it certain that Philadelphia was
their object, and urging the people to arm for
defence.

The mayor of Philadelphia has called upon the
people no longer to close their eyes to the startling
danger and disgrace hanging over the State and city.
The Confederates occupied Carlisle on the 27th
inst., and on the following day advanced to within
three miles of the Federal fortifications opposite
Harrisburg, where there is a large Federal force,
and there resistance is expected to be offered to a
further Confederate advance.

The Confederates at Macconellsburg have also
marched towards Harrisburg. General Early's
division has moved from Harrisburg to a point
between York and Hanover Court-house, cut the
telegraph wires, and destroyed numerous bridges,
cutting the railroad communications between
Harrisburg and Baltimore. There now only re-
mains one railroad line connecting the Northern
States with Washington.
The Confederates have also occupied York, Me-
chaniceville, and Wrightsville, where the Federal's
destroyed the bridge stretching across the Susque-
hannah to Columbia, in order to prevent the Con-
federates advancing further. The bridge was one
mile and a quarter long, and cost a million dollars.
General Ewell has issued an order enforcing rigid
discipline, and warning his troops that wandering,
marauding, and plundering are forbidden. What
is required for the army will be taken under regale_
tious established by the commanding general, ac-
cording to the usages of civilised warfare.
A large force of General Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry
has passed within 14 miles of Washington, on the
north side, and it is supposed that they are striking
for the piece of trestlework upon the railroad be-
tween Washington and Annapolis Junction.
Another Confederate cavalry force made a dash
into Annandale on Sunday, destroying stores and

capturing waggons. Nine hundred Federal cavalry
fell into an ambuscade near Fairfax, on Saturday,
the 27th instant, and were badly cut up by General
Lee's cavalry.
General Rosecranx's army, with the exception of
one division, commenced moving upon the 24th inst.
General Banks issued an order, upon the 15th
instant, saying that with one more advance the
works of Port Hudson would be captured. He
calls upon the troops to organise a volunteer
storming column of 1,000 men. This last assault
was to be made on the 20th instant, and if not
successful, it was supposed General Banks would
fall back to Baton Rouge.
The Port Hudson works are considered impreg-
nable.

Heavy cannonading continued at Vicksburg on
the 26th.
The crew of the privateer Tacony, under Lieut.
Reed, transferred themselves to the schooner
Archer, which they had captured. They then took
the Archer into Portland Harbour on the 26th at
night, and boarded and seized the revenue
cutter Caleb Cushing, putting her crew in irons, and
sailing out of Portland with the Caleb Cushing and
the Archer. Upon the 27th (morning) two steamers,
with 30 regular troops and 100 armed citizens of
Portland, started promptly in pursuit, and soon
overhauled the Caleb Cushing and the Archer,
and, after a few shots were fired by both parties,
the privateer's crew abandoned the revenue cutter
in small boats, and blew her up. The latter,
however, together with the Archer and her crew,
were afterwards captured by the steamers, and
taken into Portland, where they are held prisoners.
NEW YORK, Jun 30, EVINIIIO.
General Diz, with a strong force, has occupied
White House, and sent out a cavalry expedition
which destroyed the Virginia Central Railroad
bridge across the South Anna River, brought in
prisoners and stores, and captured Confederate
General Fitzhugh Lee, who was lying ill at a pri-
vate house. The same cavalry force penetrated
within nine miles of Richmond.
The Confederates in Tennessee retreated fighting
before General Rosecranz'a advance, and Rose-
crane occupied Manchester and Shelbyville, the
Confederates falling back to Tullahoma, which it
was supposed Bragg would abandon and retreat to
Chattanooga.
News from New Orleans to the 22nd states that
the Confederates had reoccupied Thibaudesu and
the Attakapsa country, and advanced to Lafourche
Crossing, but were driven back. They also seized
the Opelousu RaiL-ortd, and cut off the Federal' at
Brashear city.
The abandonment of the siege of Port Hudson by
General Banks ia considered probable.

[TWOPENCE

Advices from Vicksburg are to the 26th inst.
The Federal had blown up one of the forts on the
left, and had mounted two guns in the abandoned
fort.

Southern journals assert that General Pemberton
receives reinforcements from across the river. It
is rumoured that General Johnston has moved
southward to attack General Ranks.

Much alarm prevaik in Kentucky and Ohio.
Generals Pegram and Marshall, with 15,000 men,
are reported to be advancing through Cumberland
Gap.

Preparations for defence are being made at Cin-
cinnati.

The reported depredations by privateers at the
mouth of the Bay of Fundy are not credited.
The steamers Heels, City of Baltimore, and
China have arrived out.

The steamers Planter and Neptune have been
captured off Mobile.

COMMERCIAL INTELIJOENCE.
Money easy. Gold, 47 premium. Exchange,
Bankers' bills, 16L Stocks dull : New York Cen-
tral, 119} ; Illinois, 100} ; Erie, ; Si: per Cent.
United States Bonds, 1011. Cotton buoyant ;
Middliag Itplist; Tda.ttflikielrioar, good inquiry;
wheat heavy ; corn dull. Provisions steady. Coffee
quiet ; sugar, good inquiry ; =lames quiet ; crude
petroleum buoyant, 321 e.

NEW YORK, JULY 1, MOWING.

The Confederates have retired from the line of
the Suequebannah, and General Lee is reported to
be concentrating his army on the line of the Cum-
berland Valley railroad, between Shippensburg and
Cliambersbnrg, as if expecting an attack from
Meade's army. Various Confederate cavalry forms
who have been marauding in close vicinity of
Washington, are said to have returned and joined
Lem.

The present position of General Lee's ()trade's 1)
army is not known, but it is reported to be in rapid
motion, and its progress thus far has relieved the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad of Confederate ca-
valry, and restored telegraphic communication with
Frederick.

News of a collision between the main armies of
Generals Lee and Meade is hourly expected.
Up to Saturday 37,000 Confederate troops, with
104 pieces of artillery, passed through Chambers-
burg, and on that day General Lee and staff, in
company with Generals Longstreet and Hill, left
Chambersburg on the Baltimore pike in the direc-
tion of Gettysburg and the Northern Central rail-
road.

General Early has levied a contribution at York
of 150,000 dole. and large quantities of supplies
from the inhabitants. He received 30,000 doh.,
and gave the inhabitants twenty days to pay the
balance.

Entrenchments are being dug round Philadel-
phia, and the merchants of that city have forwarded
large quantities of goods to New York for safety.
The Governor of New Jersey has again called
out the militia to go to the aid of Pennsylvania.
The public clamour for ki‘Clellan's re-appoint-
ment continues.
The Confederates continue to respect private
property, but the Richmond Enquirer says that Lee
may purposely adopt this policy to avoid alarming
the population, until General Meade's army is well
cleared out of his path and General Lee is enabled
to throw the whole Confederate army into Pennsyl-
vania in one combined movement, enveloping
Washington on one side, Harrisburg on the other
aide, "and so forward until the Confederate flag
reflects itself in the Delaware. Then (continues
the Richmond Enquirer) the just retaliation which
the Confederates demand and the enemy expects
must be deliberately organised."
President Davis has called upon the Confederates
for troops for home defence, to replace Lee's invading
army.

NEW YORK, JOLT 1, Arreatroow.
Martial law has been proclaimed in Baltimore
and Western Maryland.
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It is reported ;bat the Federal cavalry, under
Gregg, has driven Stuart's whole cavalry force front
Westminster, Maryland, eighteen miles to Han-
over, Pennsylvania. General Kilpatrick then
drove Stuart out of Hanover, and was pursuing
him. Part of Stuart's force is going towards
Gettysburg, and part towards York.
Yesterday the Confederates burned Ciuddown,
1 Pennsylvania.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JULY 1, Arrialloos..

Money easy. Gold, 45 per cent pram. Stocks
very firm: New York Central, 12o1; Illinois, 103;
Erie, 95k.

MEXICO.

OCCUPATION OF THE CITY OF MEXICO

BY THE FRENCH.
NEW YORK, JULY L

Advioes received here, viit San Francisco, from
Mexico, to the Bth, state that the Mexican garrisos,
numbering 20,000 men, evacuated Mexico city ou the
30th May, and retired to Cuernavaca Plaza.
The principal leaders of the church party then
sent a commission to General Foray, offering their
allegiance to Napoleon.
General Bazaine's division occupied Mexico city
on the Bth, affording protection to the church
party against the excited populace. The whole
French army was expected to occupy Mexico on
the Bth. Three newspapers had been established
in Mexico, favouring French policy.

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