The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-03 00:00:00

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Tana Evistneu. NCRSEY itiKED.—And TIM CINGS
BUTTZUFLY. Mesita Fecliter, Ryder. Widdicomb, Charles,
Mclntyre. Raymond, Clifford, Collett Muses C. Leclerc.
M. Hematite, E. Lavena, and E. Lynn.

BRITANNIA.

TAU EVIMDM, THE MuTHER'S DYING CHILD. Mrs. S.
Lit:ie.—Sint/Mg hy M-. Albert Steele and Mane. Doutt.—And
ROSE ROL .—Commence at el.

➢IGII WATER AT LONDON7BRIDGE.

Tnis DAY M 42111. g. ►ltemooe, 4li. 14m.
llorumz, 411. 31m....Aftenmon, 411.

LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3.

Tue report of an important battle in the She-
nandoah Valley, although at first so summarily
rejected in the interest of prescription and routine,
is confirmed. The new Confederate Commander
in the Valley has hastened to measure himself with
the young Federal General who has made that
field his own. It will be remembered that at the
beginning of October General SHERIDiN, having
broken up EARLY'S army, and not contemplating
an advance upon Lynchburg, destroyed the mili-
tary resources which he could not employ, and with-
drew to a point nearer to his source of supplies.
This point was Strasburg, opposite Front Royal,
and in communication with Alexandria by the re-
opening of the Orange and Alexandria railroad.

General LW ..STREET, who had brought up his
corps from Lynchburg, and gathered to it the re-
mains of Eant.i.s force, followed his enemy at a
respectful distance until the Bth of October. At
that date General SHERIDAN, disapproving of the
increasing proximity of the Confederate cavalry,
ordered an attack, which was successful, eleven
guns being taken, with forty-seven waggons and be-
tween three and four hundred prisoners. As the
broken and retreating squadrons were pursued as
far as Mount Jackson, the main body, under Lovo-
grater, must then have been at leant three-and-
twenty miles distant from SHERIDAN'S army. About
that time, however, the Richmond papers an-
nounced that LDS GSTREET'S operations were
on the point of completion, and that
he was about to move at the head of a force which
would enable him to assume the offensive with
every prospect of success. SHERIDAN appears to
have given too little heed to these indications of
his adversary's intentions, as we infer from his
absence at Winchester, twenty miles from his
army, a week afterwards. On the 19th, the
Federal army, under the temporary command
of General WRD:HT, was at Cedar Creek, north
of Strasburg. tin the morning of that day LoNu-
STREET attacked it before daylight—one ac-
count says during a dense fog—and must have got
into a position which made that of his enemy moat
dangerous before his intentions were suspected.
The surprised Federals found their left com-
pletely turned, and leaving their breastworks
fled in wild disorder, abandoning lour-and-twenty
guns. For about six hours, if we may be-
lieve the telegram, the Confederates must have
had everything their own way, and we have yet to
learn from their reports to what account they
turned their advantage. SHERIDAN, apprised of
the disaster, hastened to the scene and found his
army driven back between Middletown and
Newtown, four miles from Cedar Creek. The
changed aspect of the battle-field soon attested the
presence of a master mind. About the middle of
the day LIN..sTRELT appears to have completed
his at rangements for an attack which should do for
SHERIDAN'S army what SHERIDAN had previously
done for EARL% 'S. At one o'clock be made a
grand charge upon the hastily-formed Federal
li.e, and was repulsed. By three o'clock Sumo-
DAN was ready to attack in turn. He charged
LoNcsrßcra, broke his line, drove Lim across
Cedar lluu, captured 1,600 prisoners, and
took back the guns lost earlier in the
day, and as many more besides, routed his
enemy, and pursued him with cavalry beyond
Fisher's Hi:l.

This haul,: will rank among the most importantof
those that have recently been fought in Virginia.
L. ,No:sTRE ET is no more fortunate in the Shenandoah
Valley than he was before Knoxville, and his name
must be placed with those of JonN,eroNe, htt4,l,, and
EARLY, on the list of Confederate Generals who
have lost, in presence of the rising military talent of
the North, the reputation they acquired when di-
rected by the transcendent genius of General
Roecitr This hatt•e not only proves the
high ability of General SHERIDAN, but it shows
plainly that the Federal troops are masters
of the position they have taken up in
the Shenandoah Valley. It cannot be
doubted that in an engagement for
which so :ouch preparation had been made, and
from whieli so much had been expected, the Con-
federate cuoulander put forth his whole strength.
The advanta4es won by General LIPNGSTREET early
on the I were the fair reward of tactical skill,
but from 1 o'clock onwards the contest was a trial
of strength, and we may be sure that 1.0 guns
were not tiskett from the Confederates without very
Lard lightio4. Indeed the number of generals who
fell on b Ali sides would alone show that the con-
test was severe. The Federal victory, won over
tbe combined f .rces of EtHLY and LoNurreeer,
was thus si4nsl and complete.

The C,.lifederate journals continue to predict
the evacalati al of Atlanta, and General 'loon con-
tinues to retreat from an adversary whom he is
not strong emmgh to meet. It is said that he is
about to be Joined by General 13EAUREGARD, who
holds the departmental command ; bnt unless that
officer can bring him 30,000 good fighting men he
may as %LA stay where he is.

ebt Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE. Nov. 2.

Her Majeety received by telegraph, yesterds.yr
the gratifying intelligence of the confinement cf the Prise
cess Louie of Hems, and the birth of a primes.
Both her Royal Highness and the infant Princess are
doing well.

The Queen, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley, walked
and drove in the grounds this morning.
Princess Louise went out driving, attended by lady
Caroline Burins ton.

Prince Arthur left the Castle for Greenwich-perk, at-
tended by Major Elphinstone.
Princess Helena rode in the riding-school.
Lord Charles Fitzroy and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge
have succeeded Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel the Hon.
D. de Roe as Equerries is Waiting.
The Hon. Flora Macdonald and the Hen. Caroline Caven-
dish are the Maids of Honour in Waiting to her Majesty.

At the Council held by the Queen at Windsor Castle, on
Tuesday last, Parliament was farther prorogued from
Friday, the 11th inst., to Friday, the 13th of January next.

The Duke and Duchem of Sutherland have
arrived at Tarbet House, the duchess's seat in Rose-shire,
from Dunrobin Castle. Next week the noble duke and
duchess remove south.

The Duchess of Somerset, accompanied by Lord
Edward St. Maur and Lady Ger►ldine St. Maur, wiU arrive
at the First Lord's residence at the Admit.'lty to-day from
Paris.

The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland has
arrived in Edinburgh from Doerobin Castle, Sutherland-
shire, after a abort I:sit to the Duke and Duchess of Suther-
land. The duchess dowager will leave early in the ensuing
week for Castle Howard, to pay a visit to her brother, the
Earl of Carlisle.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury are
about to entertain a imcoession of visitors at Hatfield Park,
Herts. Some of the visitors will arrive on Sate-day next.
. . . _

The funeral of the late Marquis of Bristol is to
take place on Saturday nest, when his mortal remains will
be deposited in the small family church in the park, about
a quarter of a mile from the hall. The sacred edifice was
built and consecrated for the burial-place of the Hervey
family some thirty years ago.

The Earl and Couut;3s of Derby will entertain a
large party at Knowsley neat week. The company will
meet on Monday neat.

The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon arrived in
town yesterday from flighelere Castle, near Newbury, with
the intention of passing a few days in London before their
departure for Italy for the winter.
. _

Lord and Lady Chelmsford and the Hon. Miss
Thesiger have left their residence in Eaton•square for Paris,
on their way to Italy to pass the winter.

The Earl and Countess of Mouut-Edgcumbe have
left the Hotel Bristol for Canoes. The Duke of Somerset
has arrived at the same hotel from Malta sad the Mediter-
ranean.

Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, G.C.8., Naval
Commander-in-Chief at Portamouth, yesterday went out of
Portsmouth Ifarbonr to Spithead in the Sprightly, steam-
tender, Commander G. Allen, and made an official inspec-
tion of her Majesty's iron-frigate Warrior, Captain the Hon.
A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., with the results of which the gallant
admiral was highly pleased. The Warrior is expected to
go into Portamouth Harbour to-day from Spithead to dis-
mantle and pay oat of commission, at the conclusion of her
first and most successful cruise of any ship belonging to our
iron fleet.

Notice has been given at Oxford for Monday
next, 7th inst., of a motion for the appointment of • com-
mittee to consider of the best means of obtaining • perma-
nent endowment for the Greek chair.

It was generally supposed at Dublin that the case
of "Bartlett v. Lewis" would be postponed again till after
the term which commenced yesterday, but the Chief Baron
has resolved to proceed with it till it is concluded. As the
case is full of the romance of speculation, the speeches ere
likely to be very exciting. The only witness examined on
Tuesday wee Mr. George Hudson, late "the Railway
I King," who gave an account of his monetary transactions
with Mr. Lewis, some of his own speculations, the purchase
of his estates and their incumbrances. He was examined by
Mr. Butt sod cross-examined by Mr. Brewster, with whom
the veteran speculator had some animated encounters.
. .

Mr. Boucicault, assisted by Mr. John Brougham
and Mr. Emery, is to produce a new piece at the Dublin
Theatre, ou Monday evening next, entitled " Arrah us
Pogue ; or, the Wicklow Wedding," which he alleges has
been specially written for the Dublin public.

It appears that Mr. Thomas C. Satdars, one of
the directors of the Imperial Mexican Itailway Company,
proceeded to Vera Cruz in the mail•ateamer Seine from
Southampton yesterday as the accredited agent for the com-
pany in the eetablishment of its relations with the Mexican
government.

The death took place a few days ago of the C,oun-
tele of Nassau Countess of Oultremoct) at bar chateau
ol Rohe, near Aix-la-Chapelle. William L, King of the
Notherlaods, aporeciatiog the good qualities of the coun-
tess, chose her as the companion of his later years, when,
wearied with the affairs of State and of politics, he volun-
tarily abdicated the sovereignty to which he bad been
called. During the whole of the subsequent life of his
Majesty, the countess showed that she was well deserving
of the distinction which her august spouse had conferred
upon her, and after she became his widow she ceased
in her endeavours to make the best use that she could of the
wealth which his Majesty had left at her disposal.

A report believvd (says the Tiow.)rto be com-
pletely without foundation, has been current in the Stock
Exchange that Messrs Rothschild have entered into a con-
tract to supply the Bank of France with 2.000.0034 in gold.
The advices from Amsterdam leave uo doubt as
to the disappear►nce of M. Mendel, the manager of the
Dutch ert'dit Mobilier. Heavy losses from personal specula-
tions are understood to have been the cause, although it
will probably also be found that the company will suffer
severely from doubtful or dangerous lovestments.

There hag for some time been a strong desire that
there should be a geteral exhibition of the manufactures
and works of art of all the Scandinavian States, and that
it should be held in Copenhagen, in the tame way that ex-
hibitions of the same kind, which were first held is Lon-
don, have since taken place in Paris sod elsewhere. A
committee for carrying the wishes that had been expressed
on this subject was therefore some time ago appointed, of
which his It ayal Ilighnesa Prince Oscar was selected to be
the president, and the report has just been published, in
which it proposed " That an exhibition of the products
of the three Scandinavian States—Sweden, Norway, and
Denmark—should take place in the summer of lalaiG, sod
that for that purpose a crystal palace should be constructed
at the expense of the state and of the c.pital."
On Tuesday- afternoon a model of the Echo
Challenge Shield was placed in the vestibule of the Puha-
! ment House, Elioburgh. It will be remembered that the
shield is the gift of Lard Elcho, tobecompeted for &noisily at
the meetings of the National Rifle Association by eight Scotch
against an equal number of English riflemen. At last
meeting the hormar was won by the Scotch eight; bat in con-
sequence of the extensive and elaborate nature of the
work, the shield his not vet been completed, and in i
order that the winners might hate something to show,
an exact copy of it has been executed in plaster.
DEATH or Mt If DEACON StRNEY.—We have to
announce the death of the Venerable Ch tries Parr Homey, !
M.A., Archdeacon id Colchester and Rector of Bishop's !
Wickham, sear NVitharn. &ore. The reverend gentleman
was educated at Merton College, Oxford, whore he graduated .
in Igor, taming a first clam in classics. Amongst his college
I contemporaries were the late Sir Robert Peel, Bart. ; Mr.
A. T. Gilbert. now Bishop of Chichester Mr. It. Whatelt,
late Archbishop of Dublin ; Mr. Charles Lloyd, late Bishop
oftxford ; Mr. R. 1). Hampden, now Bishop of Hereford
and the late Mr. Thomas Baden Powell. In 1834 he was
institu,ed by Dr. Blonsfield, on the nomination of trustee.,
to the Rectory of Sible Hediogbam, near Halstead, and
two years afterwards (in 1840) his lordship Dominated him
! to the Archdeacenty of St. Albans, both Sible Hedingloun
and St. Albans being at that time in the diocese of London. '1
In 1,15 on the death of Bir H. Oakeley, Bart., Bishop
nt Blotield gave him the Archdesooory of Colchester, and in ,
1848 collated him to the Rectory of Bishop's Wickham, end
these two appointmente be hold up to the time of his &ell.
Is consequence of DOW arrsogemeots mad, with regard to I
the diocese. during the last few years, the archdeaciocry
and the rectory now fall to the gift of the Bishop of
Rochester.

DEATH or AN EX-POLICE MAO! RATE,--MT
Paregrioe Bingham, who for moor years prodded u one of
the rnegi.tratee at the Marlborough-atreet polioe.ootirt, sod
who resigned shoot four years ago owing to ill health, ex-
Orr,' Ic•sterd4y. The deceased. who woo ;-0 years of age.
woo called to the bar of the Middle Temple in November,
1818.