The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-17 00:00:00

LONDON. THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1863.

AM RICA.

By the City of London, which arrived at Liver-
pool yesterday morning, we have New York papers
to the sth inst. The following is given as the
situation on that date :
Oar latest dates from Charleston are to Tuesday evening,
the let last., at 5 o'clock p.m., a hen the steam-ship Fulton
left the bar on her way from Port Royal to this port. At
that time the nege was going oe spinet Fort Weiser, to-
' wards which Gemmel Gillman had someeled in remains
paralleL The irenelsda, whichomoording to the sews brought
by the supply boat Union yesterday, were firing on For-
Moultrie and Sullivan's Island on Monday afternoon, had
been withdraws on Tuesday evening when the Fulton
left. Charleston had not been bombarded for ten
days previous. The firing of the inside& mo-
tioned from 3 eolook till sundown on Monday, the
31st, with great vigour on Moultrie sad the Sullivan's
Island batteries, these forte, as well - Forts Wagon and
Gregg, replying. Fort Sumter meanwhile, over whose shat-
tered and unarmed walls the rebel lag was still fiyinr, re-
mained silent—a mere MINI of ruins. It is reported that
Font Wagner bad been maenad daring the action ; but Ude
is not confirmed. A severe norm interrupted the proceed.
lags of the lane-shade, and compelled them to lie off at
amine inside the bar, where they were up to Tuesday
evening. General (Mimeos keeps up his fire os Fort
'Wagner. Miiipproselese are sow me lase le it that Orr
tiombOaals are throwing &ell sad bead-grendee at tae
another. On Wednesday of last week be drove the enemy
from hie rifle pita, on the left advance hoe, one hundred
yards, and captured seventy-eight prisoners, including two
officers.

Recent despatches from Bridgeport, Twosome*, dated
yesterday, assure no that the whole eastern portion of the
State, except the region about Chattanooga, is evacuated by
the rebels. General Burnside telegraphs that be captured
Xinpkm with little opposition on Wednesday. Part of Ge-
mmel Mintry's brigade of Roessorens' army bad joined him,
and entered the plan with him.
.The headquarters of the army of the Cumberland were
gall at Stevenson, Ala., yesterday morning. Orly • portico
of the army had erased the Towage. The forces oa the
south side are now engaged in movements aiming at
the destruction of the Georgia Railroad, forming
Bragg's line of oommunkatioo. Nothing positive is
known ea to the intention of the enemy in re-
gard to Chattanooga ; bat the fact that all move-
able and public and private property is being amid
south from the town is as iedisatios that the rebels Leg
doubtful about their ability to hold it.
A portiere of the mew of the AMMO! Shooks:Awe, is New
Topsail Inlet, North Carolina, destroyed the blockade ren-
ew Alex. Cooper, horn New York to Port Royal, with sus
assorted cargo. The crew dispersed • party three time
their number and captured wend primers and kerma

The following details respecting the operations at
Charleston are published in the New York papers
of the sth :

The United States supply steamer Union, Captain Conroy,
arrived at this port yesterday morning with palliators and
the mail from the Fast Gulf blockading squadron. Captain
Conroy, of the Union, reports that he lay at SWIM of
Charleston biz on Monday, August 31, from 12 o'clock twos
till sundown. From noon till 3 p.m. there was no firing on
either side, but about Wiliest two the iron-clads skinks..
namely mo►ed up towards Sullivan's Island, taking up a
podtios abreast of Fort Moultrie, the new °bleat of attack.
At 3 p.m. an animated firing command from the iroo.okds
upon Fort Moultrie, which wee replied to from Moultrie
and another ba►tery en Sellivan's Island, as well as by Forts
Wagner and Oren. on Morris Inked. General Gillmore'slat-
kris, also opened on Wagner. In the midst of all this firing
Sumter stood paefeotly silent. It is understood that she is
completely sad effectually silenced, and her dilapidated
condition confirms the supposition ; for bee appearance is
rather that of a maned and &wed pile el bricks than of a
substantial fortress. The angle facing Gillmore's bakeries
is battered and heasyeombed trout top to bottom ; and the
parapet is an irregular sigiag line. It is reported that four
guns had been got into position on the fort the day before.
but had been at onoe dismounted by our firing. The rebel
flag still fie w, however, over the dead remains of the tortillas-
, tioia. The result of the attack of the Non-Glade on Fort
Moultrie was not ascertained when the Union sailed.
We learn from a person on board the Union that Fort
Wagner had been sauteed ; that our vessels panted by it,
Sumter paying no attention to them in their attack upon
Moulteie. An ensign of the fleet, while on night duty in
• boat, bad peened up close to Ilk city, and did not discover
any apnea:awe of obstrnotioas. The impression was that
our fleet amid not par up to the city by • run wash as Ad.
mina Farmed made, with far km oat to the Nation than
by the plan of reducing the forte is rotation.
The steamship Fulton. Cookie Wottoo, arrived as this
port last evening, from Port Royal Sept. 1 and Charleston
Bar at five p.m. of the same day. She bring, the following
intelligence from Morris Island :—The siege still continued.
General &Elmore bas sucoesded in running a parallel against
Fort Wagner. The irou.olads have been withdrawn from
their attack on Fort Moultrie and the batte-
ries on Sullivan, Island. Charleston has not
been bombarded for the last tan days, The
casualties smog the Union troops average about sic
pee day from the various rebel batteries. Everything is
programing favourably for the Union ones, and all are coo-
, Meet of a final nooses of our troops.

The following telegram is dated Fortress Monroe,
September 3 :
The stormy weather of the last two days has checked
naval operations. Everything is in readiness to go on with
the attack, and all that we are waiting for fsvetirabie
weather. On Wednesday night Admiral Dairen went up to
Fitt Sumter with the mositors, the Irourides and the Mahwah&
and Ottawa; bat the storm increasing, he wee impelled
to return. At three o'clock Fort Moultrie discovered the
' movement, and fired on the Patapsco. On Monday, when
the Spauldiog sailed, the Weehawken was up shelling
Buttery Gregg. The rebels raised another gun on the ruins
of Fort Sumter on Saturday. Oa Sunday our Morris lased
batteries renewed the bombardment of Fort Sumter, dir
mounting the fresh guns the rebel. lad erected, and damag-
ing the front of the parapet. The Monitor Lehigh arrived
on Sunday afternoon in floe condition. She parsed through
a terrible storm, ' bat behaved well. The steamer
Horne alio arrived on Sunday. The operations
of General Oilbnore are progressing with great vigour.
His &pomace are now so close to Fort Wegner that the
combatiate are throwing shells and hand grenades at one
another, On Wednesday we drove the enemy from hiarifie
pita, on the lett advance line, one hundred yards, and sap.
tared 78 prisoners, including two °Moms. The Monitors
are weather* the storm well. They are inside the bar,
holding os to their anohors. The Admirals in good spirits,
and confident of sums&

The only important new. from the Potomac army
is that on the 2nd General Kilpatrick, with a field
battery supported by cavalry, sunk the steamers
Satellite and Reliance, which had recently been
captured by the rebels at the mouth of the Rappa-
hannock, at a point on the river twelve miles below
Fredericksburg.

THE FRENCH CLAIMS UPON THE
FLORIDA.

The conned retained by the 'sprain of the Con-
federate privateer Florida has published in the
°Chalk, of Brest, • new version of the affair of the
Bremontier. He states that the Florida captured
' two vessels, named the Henrietta and the Oneida,
and burnt them after taking on board their
crews. The Bremontier then appeared, and
the captains of the vessels which had
been destroyed asked permission to confer with
her captain whom they knew as a freemason. The
permission was granted; negotiations ensued, and
the captains of the Oneida and Henrietta, together
with two ladies and thirteen sailors, or passengers,
went on board the Bremontier, where they were
voluntarily received. Such is Captain Make 4 ver-
sion of the occurrence. l e Side of yesterday
points ont, bower, that it as in direct contradie-
non with the %gement made by the captain of
the Bremontisr, and it reproduces from the afoni-
fear of the 24th May, 1863, the following nixed
from that statement :

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