The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-17 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(leorree TILSIBPAL)
(Pr the Err.)
NEW YORK, Jars 5, Erman.

Northern advises from Vicksburg to the 30th
telt. report the siege of that piaoe to be progressing,
and General Grant to be erecting earthworks for
the protection of the troops, and to be mining, in
order to blow up some Confederate forte.
The New York World thinks the siege of Vicks-
burg may last during the greater part of the sum-
mer. Other journals urge the administration to
reinforce General Grant.

General Banks's force investing Port Hudson is
reported to number from 20,000 to 25,000 men.
The Federal' are stated to have destroyed two
Confederate ironclad, at Shreebesport, upon the
Red River.

In Tennessee the Confederates lave thrown
nearly all their forces forward from Tullahoma to
Shelbyville, and are reconnoitring is front of
General Itesencranz, at Murfreesbore,where heavy
skirmishing has occurred.
The Confederate cavalry has also attacked
!Franklin.

Admiral Dupont is relieved by Admiral Foote.
It is again asserted that General Hunter is re-
moved from his command.
President Lincoln has revoked General Burn-
side's order, suppressing the Chicago Times, which
has resumed its publication in consequence.
General Burnside has withdrawn his order sup-
preening the New York World in his department.
A large meeting has been held at Chicago de-
nouncing General Burnside's action, and the Eh-
nen legislature has requested the governmene to
withdraw his order, and has called the attention
of the Governor of Illinois to General Burnside's
invasion of the state sovereignty.

NEW YORK, JI7NZ &
General Grant kept up a heavy bombardment of
Vicksburg on the 31st ult.
A report has reached Cincinnati that General
Johnston, instead of reinforcing Vicksburg, was
advancing in force upon Memphis, but this is not
generally credited.

- General Banks assaulted Port Hudson defences
on the 27th. General Weitzel commanded the
right, Sherman the left, and Generals Augur and
Grover the centre.

Sherman's and Weitzel's corps commenced the
attack, and fighting soon became general along the
whole line, the Federals everywhere meeting with a
desperate resistance. General Weitzel on the right
captured a 6-gun battery upon the river side, which
he turned against the Confederates. General
Sherman, on the left, was not so successful, and
was driven back. The 2nd Louisiana (negro) Regi-
ment) was in the advance on Sherman's attack,
and lost 600 out of 900 men.

Generals Augur and Grover, in the centre, are
said to have driven the Confederates out of their
rifle pita and entrenchments into their main works.
The battle lasted all the 27th, and is reported to
have been renewed upon the 28th, but the steamer left
New Orleans on the night of the 28th, up to which
time the authorities had published no information
of the second day's fight.
The New York Tribune says that at five o'clock in
the evening of the 27th General Banks despatched
an order along his lines to retreat to the original
position occupied at the commencement of the
assault, but reinforcements were sent up from New
Orleans.

The battle was very bloody, the Federal lam
being estimated at from 2,000 to 4,000 men.
General Sherman has arrived at New Orleans badly
wounded.

Admiral Farragut co-operated in the attack
with General Banks, and the bombardment is said
to have dismounted five guns in Port Hudson.
General Lee's army is reported to be moving
towards Gordonsville. An impression still prevails
that he will cross the Rappahannock, and General
Hooker has made every preparation to meet him.
The Federal Colonel Kirkpatrick has made a suc-
cessful cavalry raid from Gloucester Point to
Falmouth.
The Confederates have made simultaneous at-
tacks upon Franklin and Trrime (1) Tennessee, and
were repulsed at each place.
It is stated that General Hunter's letter to
President Jefferson Davis was never sent.
Mr. Fernando Wood has had an interview with
President Lincoln at Washington.
Colonel D'Utasay has been cashiered from the
Federal army, and sentenced to one year's imprison-
ment in the criminal prison at Sing Sing.
The Chicago convention for the construction of a
canal between the Mississippi and the Atlantic was
very largely attended, and a committee has been
appointed to make arrangements for carrying out
the undertaking.
The Etna takes out 131,937 dollars in specie.
It is supposed that the decision of the New
York Supreme Court, declaring treasury notes not
a legal tender for debts contracted prior to the
passing of the Legal Tender Act, will be reversal
by appeals to other courts.
The steamer Dolphin has been condemned at
Key West, rifles and sabres baying been found
among her cargo.

News received from Havannah states that the
Spanish steamer Union and the British steamers
Hero and Eagle have been captured.
The Diario Mariaa says the Hero was captured
within sight of the Cuban coast.
The Southern steamer Cuba has been chased, and
burnt to avoid capture.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, Juxs 5, Evnrom.

Money easy. Gold, 461 per cent. prem. Ex-
change on London, bankers' bills, 159. Stock
market dull. New York Centrals, 124 ; Illinois,
114 ; Erie, 97} ; Six per Cent. United States
Bonds, 104. Cotton, good inquiry. Middling
Upland, 56c. Flour, wheat, and corn dull. Pro-
visions heavy. Coffee quiet. Sugar and molasses
in good inquiry. Crude petroleum improving.

SOUTHAMPTON, JUNI 17.

The North German Llo)d's steamer Hansa,
from New York on the 6th of June, has arrived
off Cowee with 207 passengers for Bremen, Havre,
and this port, 44 bags of mails, 302,500 dollars in
specie for England, 50,9J0 dollars for Frauce, and
400 dollars for Bremen.