The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-08 00:00:00

LATEST.

(Per Bohemian, by telegraph to Cape Ram and from
Londonderry.)

NEW YORK., Sm. 29, EVENING.

The Confederates have made Wincheeter,
the basis of their operations, but keep a force on
the bank of the Potomac to prevent the Federals
from crossing.

It is rumoured that the Federal army is going
into winter quarters. The Northern press strongly
condemn this policy.
General Davis shot General Nelson, commanding
at Louisville, this morning, killing him instantly.
The affair occurred through a personal dispute at
Galtheuse.

The City of Baltimore arrived yesterday.
The Europa has passed Cape Race.
'COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, NIP?. 29, EVINING.

Money abundant. Gold, 231 premium. Ex-
change advancing. Bankers' bills, 132 g. Great
excitement prevails in the railway, stock,
gold, and exchange markets. The former
have risen 3 to 4 per cent., and are still
rising. New York Central are quoted 102 ;
Illinois, 76 ; Erie, 50. Cotton dull : Middling
'Upland, 57c. Flour, sc. higher, with an ukard
tendency. Wheat and corn in good demand for
export. Coffee steady. Sugar advancing. Mo-
lasses very firm.

MEXICO.

The New York papers publish the following in-
telligence from Vera Crua, under date of Septem-
ber 11 :—" Vomit* is making great havoc in the

French fleet. Anxiety is felt for the safety of a
French convoy, which left Vera Cruz with
1,000,000 dollen for Orizaba. The convoy was
10 days overdue. It is reported that the French
were about to attack Jalapa."

PORTUGAL.
LISBON, Oct. 6.
The royal marriage fetes have commenced amid
great popular enthusiasm.
An amnesty has been granted to political pri-
soners.

MONTENEGRO.
RAGUSA, Ocr. 7.

Some Turks have been killed by the Montene-
grins at Banjani. Luke Pukalovich succeeded,
however, in preventing any serious outbreak.
A review of the Turkish army has taken place
at Podgorizza.
An aide-de-camp of the Sultan has arrived here
conveying the thanks of his Imperial Majesty to
the Turkish army for its recent successes.

He also brings decorations for several officers.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA

The following telegram has been received at
Mr. Renter's office, from the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company :

ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 7.

The Veldts and Ceylon, with the above mails,
sailed this morning for Marseilles and Southamp-
ton respectively.
The Ceylon may be expected at Southampton
about the 20th inst.
The Columbian brought the present China mail
to Galle ; she left the latter port for Bombay on
the 18th September.
The Madras, with the English mails of the 20th
to 26th August, left Gale for Australia on the
18th ult. (three days early).

The Nemesis and Ottawa left Suez on the
evening of the 6th inst. for Calcutta and the
Mauritius respectively.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.-IMPORTANT
NEGOTIATIONS.

By information received from Peath and Vienna,
it appears that serious efforts are now making for a
reconciliation between Austria and Hungary. Se-
veral plans have been drawn up and submitted to
Count Forgacb, who recently went to Hungary for
the purpose of making himself acquainted with the
real state of things. What the Hungarian party
chiefly insisted on was the re-establishment
of the oomitats or municipal councils of Hungary,
as the natural precursors of a Diet which they said
might be constituted without the slightest danger
to the monarchy. Count Forgach admitted the
desirability of re-establishing the comitate, but
doubted whether the time was yet come
for such an experiment. He recommended
his Hungarian fellow-countrymen to persevere
in their conciliatory views, and that he should
be happy to make himself their mediator
with the Emperor. The obstacles in the way of a
reconciliation between the two countries are, on
the one hand, the revolutionary party, who are
powerful, energetic, and active. This party insist
upon the complete carrying out of the laws passed
by the Hungarian Diet in 1848 as the indispensable
preliminary to any reconciliation. The exclu-
sively Austrian party at Vienna, of whom
the late Prince Felix Schwarzenberg was
the leader, is the other great difficulty.
This party, who have great influence with the
Emperor, are anxious to concentrate whatever na-
tional autonomy is now left in the separate king-
doms of the empire in Vienna, and to enter the
German Confederation with all the weight of the
Austrian Empire thus concentrated and consoli-
dated. It is said that the bases of • compromise
are admitted, and that the leaders of the liberal
conservative party in Hungary, who are anxious
at the same time for the independence of their
country, and for its "indissoluble and indivisible"
union with the other hereditary provinces of
Austria, are engaged in a negotiation with in-
fluential men in Vienna whose intentions and
efforts are known to and approved of by the
Emperor.

Chateau do Dampierre which he was wont to ex-
amine in the intelligent company of the psi tner of
his life. The only condition of the gift is that the
collection is to be kept separate and to be called the
Collection de Luynee.
A published correspondence gives an account of
an unsuccessful attempt of M. About to settle the
conditions of a duel between himself and M. Champ-
fleury, a critic whom he called out for an offensive
expression. M. About's original seconds proposed
a meeting with swords ; this mode of satisfaction
was refused by M. Champtieury's friends, who in-
sisted upon pistols, and thereupon M. About's
representatives, not choosing to waive, on the part
of their principal, what they describe as the un-
doubted right of the "offended party," viz., the
choice of weapons, renounced their mission, and
published a report. Thereupon M. About chose
two new seconds, who caused M. Champfleury to
be informed that M. About, though the offended
party, would accept the arms of his adversary ; but
that inasmuch as M. About's dignity would
not permit him to quit the field without
a result, it must be stipulated that if the first inter-
change of fire should prove ineffective swords
should be resorted to until blood was drawn. This
very accommodating proposition having been
positively refused on tLe part of M. Champfieury,
it does not at present appear that the parties will be
able to join issue. lam not sufficiently versed in
the French code of duelling to know whether M.
About's seconds are right in their law, but it seems
. to my humble apprehension that common sense is
the other way. The "offended party" is only
another term for the challenger, and it is surely a
fearful doctrine that a duellist should have a social
right to summon a man with whom he is angry to
come and be killed by a particular weapon in the
use of which the assailant may have attained a
special proficiency.

POLAND.

The Opinion Nationale has the following :

An incident which has just occurred demonstrates in a
convincing manner wby the Poles cannot content them.,
selves with the reforms as yet accorded. The [seta are
these :—Charlee Nowakowald, who was arrested on the Bth
April, 1861, passed during the last year before all the tri-
bowls, and in every case was acquitted. The Senate,
whose judgment is final, has declared him innocent, and I
ordered him to be set at liberty. The military
authorities replied to that sovereign decree by mad.
ing Charles Nowakowski to Siberia. This is an
enormity which must be denounced to Europe. Wen-
ceslaus Nowakowaki, his brother, addressed in July
last a petition to the Grand Duke Constantin, observing in
it that his brother had been acquitted by the Tribunal of
First Instance on the 21st Deember, 1861 ; again, on appeal,
on the 21st February following ; and, lastly, by the Senate
on the 2nd and 3rd May."l hoped," he said, " that my
brother, who was detained in the citadel of Medlin, menaced
with a serious chest disease, would have been at length set
at liberty, conformably to the decision come to in the name
Eof the mperor by the highest court in the country.
What was my astonishment on learning that my
brother had been transported to the farthest part
of Siberia, to the town of Krasnojorsk, 3,500 miles
distance from Warsaw. A proclamation of the Lieute-
nant-Governor,
on the 21st February, stated that acts com-
mitted before the proclamation of the state of siege should
not come under the jurisdiction of the military tribunals ;
I therefore my brother, who was arrested before the state of
siege, has been constantly in prison, and cannot have trans-
gressed the laws in any way. Thus, after an imprisonment
of fourteen months, he is sentenced to a fearful transporta-
tion, contrary to all the decisions of the tribunals.. I there-
fore humbly supplicate your imperial highness to deign to
order that my brother shall be restored to liberty, and his
return to his native land be permitted." The Gravid Duke
replied to Wenceslaus Nowakowski, by the commissary of his
quarter, that the petition did not merit being taken into
consideration.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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