The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-11 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AMERICA.
(itruns'a mzokAms.)
QUEENSTOWN, Kasai
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The City of Washington, from New York on
the 28th ult, has arrived here. She brings 73 pas-
sengers, 1,686,869 dole. in specie, and 3,745/. gold.
NEW YORK, Yes. 27, MORNING.
(Per City of Washington.)

The reported collision of authority between
Generals Hunter and Foster, at Port Royal, is
confirmed. After General Footer's return to
Washington, General Hunter peremptorily ordered
General Footer's staff to leave his department, and
proceeded north, giving as his reason that the
members of the staff had used language tending to
create disaffection.

General Foster has returned to Port Royal, with
instructions which will settle the question of com-
mand. General Hunter has ordered General Ste-
venson under arrest, for stating publicly that he
would rather be beaten than co-operate with negro
troops. _ . .

The Port Royal correspondent of the New York
Tribune asserts that 5,000 negroes, led by white
officers and supported by regular troops, will shortly
make an expedition into the moat densely-popu-
lated districts of the departments of the South, to
call the slaves to arms. Communication had been
opened with the negroes on plantations, who were
prepared.
Mr. Wilson has introduced in the Senate a sub-
stitute for the Houle of Representatives bill to
raise additional soldiers. The substitute authorises
the commanding officers of military departments
to enrol as many liberated negroes as the Presi-
dent may deem necessary to arm for service during
the war.

Mr. Cassius Clay has writen a letter saying that
he had informed the President that he would fight
only under an abolition policy. He declares that
General Hillock is intensely pro-slavery, and says
he is using his influence to get the President
to appoint General Butler in General Halleck's
The Delaware legislature has sent a message to
the governor of Missouri asking him to send dele-
gates to a convention to effect an armistice. The
governor and legislature of Missouri has refused to
comply with the request, and denounced the posi-
tion taken up by the Delaware legislature.
It is rumoured that Congress will pass a joint
resolution, before the adjournment, indicating the
policy to be pursued in case of foreign mediation.
The Conference Committee has reported, and the
House of Representatives passed, the till authoris-
ing the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow
300,000,000 do's. for the current year, and
600,000,000 dols. for next year, on bonds payable
in not less than ten, and not more than forty years,
in coin, and bearing six per cent. interest annually,
payable in coin ; also to issue 400,000,000 dole. in
three year six per cent. treasury notes, the interest
being payable in lawful money ; also to issue
150,000,060 dohs. of legal tender notes, to be used
solely for the reconversion of the treasury notes
when required. The bill also authorises a further
issue of 50,000,000 legal tender notes, in addition
to the issue of 100,000,000 dols., authorised last
January. This bill, it is supposed, will receive
the sanction of the Senate.
The rate of taxation of the bank circulation is
not settled.

A report has reached Washington that 8,000
French troops have captured Ouayma, and were
marching on Hermosa's, the capital of Sonora.

The reason of the invasion is said to be that the
governor of Sonora had confiscated goods belonging
to Frenchmen, and banished the owners from
Sonora.

NEW YORK, Fn. 27, Eviarnro.

The House of Representatives has passed the
Conscription Bill with some immaterial amend-
ments, by a vote of 115 to 49. A call for troops
under this act is expected shortly.
No attack on Charleston or Vicksburg had taken
place up to the 20th. The Federal mortar-boats
keep up a desultory fire with the Vicksburg bat-
teries. It is stated that the intention to assault
Vicksburg is abandoned, and it is proposed to
invest the city, and await the result of a regular
siege.

It is reported that the steamer Indianola has
destroyed a Confederate steamer near Port Hudson.
It is believed that there is much suffering in Vicks-
burg on account of the interruption of the
river communication. Deserters report that the
Confederates would be compelled to evacuate the
city if relief did not arrive.
A large fleet of gunboats has gone down the Mis-
sissippi from Memphis.
The accounts from Kentucky are conflicting.
Some say that General Breckenridge is advancing
on Lexington, with 20,000 men. Others state that
the Confederates are retreating out of the state.
General Morgan's guerillas have captured a
Union transport on Barren River. Guerillas are
interrupting the railroad communication between
Louisville and Nashville.
Generals Stonewall Jackson and Stuart are mak-
ing a movement on the Rappahannock. The latter's
cavalry had attacked the Federal cavalry near
Stafford Court-house.

General Stuart is reported to have been repulsed.
A considerable Confederate force is reported at
Warrington, and General Jackson is said to have
gone up the Shenandoah Valley to Strasburg.
Twenty Confederate cavalry have captured a
Federal forage train guarded by 80 men, near
Romney, Western Virginia.
General Banks has been fired at by some un-
known person in New Orleans, while passing out
of his hotel to his carriage. The ball did not take
effect. The affair occurred during the evening, and
no trace of the person firing could be found.
General lii`Dowell has been acquitted of all the
charges brought against him.
A reaction has set in against the so-called Cop-
perheads. A portion of their organs now admit
that the South cannot be brought back by any
political measure or compromise, and they urge
the vigorous prosecution of the war.
The Borussia, City of Washington, and Jura,
have arrived out

NEW YORK, Fzs. 28, Nozinao.

It is rumoured that General Hunter will be re-
lieved from command at Port Royal. Several colli-
sions have occurred there between the white and
negro soldiers. General Burnside is spoken of as
General Hunter's successor. An expedition is pre-
paring for Texas.
The Confederates who were retreating out of
Kentucky are reported to have been overtaken by
the Federal. at Mount Stirling, and defeated with
the loss of 200 prisoners.

The canal at Lake Providence, Mississippi, af-
fording a pump into the Red River, is completed.

General Vandorn has crossed the Tennessee river
at Florence with 8,000 cavalry to reinforce Gene-
ral Bragg.
It is denied that General Jackson is ooming up
the Shenandoah Valley.
The Savannah Republican says that the steamers
Ruby, Leopard, and Wagner arrived at Charleston
on the 9th from Nashville. The steamer Douglas
ran out the same night. The Savannah Republican
adds that the blockade is virtually raised, as not a
shot was fired M any of those vessels.
The Washington Congress has passed a bill
making it obligatory for the President to select for
promotion officers who have distinguished them-
selves in the field.

In the Senate, Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, has as
General Butler and his brother of having
acquired large plunder at New Orleans, and stated
that he should call for a committee of investiga-
tion. Senator Wilson, of Massachussets, defended
General Butler. Senator M'Dougall denounced
the Secretary of War as "a base man, who had
wronged the country."
It is reported that the New York Legislature
will take some steps concerning the Conscription
Bill.

A movement has been inaugurated among the
mechanics of New York to prevent the importa-
tion of foreign labour.
A British line of steamers between New York
and San Franciso rid Panama is spoken of.

NEW YOWL, Yu 2ft, Arne:wolf.

General Townsend has arrived at Port Royal
with authority to settle the differences between
Generals Hunter and Foster's forces. General
Stevenson is honourably released. General Foster
has returned. At Newbern arrangements are
being made for another expedition.

6011KERCULL

NSW YORE, Fn. 27, Eviarso._

Money easy ; gold, 701 ; exchange, 188. Stocks
lower. New York Central, 110} ; Illinois, 9211 ;
Erie, 78. Cotton dull ; middling Upland, 891.
Flour heavy, and 10c. lower. Wheat dull ; corn
lower. Provisions steady. Coffee, sugar, and
molasses very firm. Petroleum, 22 to 23.

NEW YORK, Frs. 28, Arrnsom.

Money easy. Gold, 71g. Exchange, 188 e to
189. Stocks quiet. New York Central, 118 f.
Illinois, 92i. Erie, 771.

DENMARK.
COPENAGEN, MARCH 10.

At the state banquet given yesterday in honour
of the marriage of the Princess Alexandra, the
Landgraf Guillaume, grandfather of her Royal
Highness, and all the ministers, diplomatists, and
high functionaries were present.
The King proposed the health of the newly-
married couple in an eloquent speech, and ex-
pressed warm wishes for their future happi-
ness. During the banquet a telegram arrived
from Prince Christian announcing the conclusion
of the marriage ceremony at Windsor. The King,
in reply, sent a message expressing his congratula-
tion on the auspicious event.
A ball took place in the evening, when another
telegram was received from Prince Christian and
one from the Princess of Wales, conveying their
compliments to their Copenhagen friends.

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY AND
THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

The well-known French writer, Edgar Wait,
hu addressed the following letter to the Rowan
catholic priesthood

I witneesed the resurrection of Greece, of Italy, of
Romania ; I pray heaven that it will yet permit me to see
that of Poland. This resurrection depends especially on the
catholic clergy. Too long has it justified me in accusing it of
repressing modern right and ranging itself on the side of
the strongest. I now entreat it to confound me, and I may
to it, with claspadJunds, "Yon have • solemn, unique
opportunity, not only of closing our mouths, but of com-
pelling us to return you thanks. Profit by it. It was you
who in the last century struck down the heart of Poland,
and thereby caused its rain. Undo that. You can do
this better than anyone else. Bring back to life this corpes,
call forth this Untrue, and we shall be compelled to bless
you. It is true that Ido not ask of you simply words, col-
lo:time, remote sermons, in the walla of the church. I sok
you for that in which you are so rich when you
choose— for arts. You have a hundred times had acts
for despotism : have one for liberty. You knew
how to make • Vendee against revolution ; make a Polish
Vendee. Remember what you have been able to do for the
cause of the put. Arm yourselves with the same weapoes
for the cause of the future. Crash us with your victory.
I call for it, I salute it, I will recognise it. Tale the arose ;
march at the head. Let your tocsin gonad from the
top of St. Peter's at Roma, Let It be heard from the
Vistula to the Niemen, in every city, in every village of
Poland. Let a whole people at this signal leave its fields
and be free—be free through you. To you shall remain
the honour—to you the power. You will have obtained
two things—you will have the glory of having saved •
nation and of having dispelled the illusions of your
adversaries. It will be shown that the force which you
have exerted to compress, you possess elm for setting
free." E. Qtmirr.
Veyteux (Switzerland), March 7,1863.

THE NEAPOLITAN BRIGANDS.
NAPLES, MARCH 4.

Pilone's band of brigands and Pilone himself
were within an ace of being made prisoners the
other day. For Borne time past commissaries of
police have been stationed in all the slopes of
Vesuvius. One of them was lately informed that
the brigands had ordered a grand Sunday supper
at a farm called Carols, near the Torreannunciata
cemetery. The Portici corps of bersaglieri and the
local national guard were thereupon ordered out.
The united force marched towards the spot at an
early hour in the evening, but they made so much
noise that the brigands took the alarm and escaped
—leaving, however, their supper behind them.
The troops found plates laid for forty persons,
macearoni smoking hot, turkeys all ready for the
spit, omelettes, and wine. A single brigand who
lagged behind was wounded, taken prisoner, and
shot in cold blood the next day, after
having been pressed in vain to give in-
formation about his comrades. So preci-
pitate was the flight of the band that they
abandoned, besides their food, forty waterproof
cloaks and several muskets and powder•flasks.
The inhabitants of the farmhouse fled with them.
The authorities before leaving burned the house
down by way of example. It is supposed that
Pilone must have crossed the Nola Valley and
taken refuge in the thick woods of Avellino.
The failure of this expedition against the brigands
is the subject of much ill-natured laughter in
Naples. A facetious journal publishes a caricature
representing a great general playing at blindman's
buff (a Is Galas circa) with a brigand. The general
has his eyes bandaged and gropes his way, while
the brigand tickles him with a feather. There is
a rush to buy this journal.

The Cologne Gazette mentions the fact that the
maim of the train which oouveyed the Princess Alexandra
of Denmark to the Belgian frostier was called the Blucher,
while the engine-driver bore the name of Wellington.

The Oprnsone of Turin states that the Duke of
Nears, far from having any intention of dismisaiog his
army, has recently made numerous promotions among its
ofikenf, bought a quantity of new uniform., and reviewed
the troops. From t►ese ominous signs the Opt palm( argues
that " the duke will attack Italy this .i.rmg."