The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-16 00:00:00

was passed by a vote of 33 to 13, with the follow-
ing amendments :—Reserving 75,000,000 dole. for
payment of deposits ; authorising notes to be paid
in coin at the option of the Secretary of the Trea-
sury ; and limiting the number of small notes to
25,000,000 dole. In the House of Representatives,
on the same day, the Speaker presented a message
from the President, recommending a vote of thanks
to Captain Foote and others for gallant services.
The thanks of Congress were voted to Commodores
Farragnt and Goldsborough, and Lieut. Words; of
the Monitor, for their gallant conduct, dtc.
The proceedings in both houses on the 3rd were
of no importance.
Confederate guerillas were said to be actively at
work in Kentucky and Tennessee.
A Baltimore telegram of the 3rd says :—" The
steamer Daniel Webster has arrived with wounded,
but we are not allowed to telegraph names."
A despatch from Corinth says :

Eight or ten regiments of 'meshy, under General Maw
ben, attacked General Sheridan's advanced guard about
two miles mouth of Boonville, at 3 o'clock yesterday morn-
ing. Our companies made a most brilliant charge on the
enemy. rear. About half-pant 3 o'clock the rebels com-
menced retreating, but Sheridan, owing to his small force,
was unable to pursue.

A Louisville despatch reports that a captured
Federal soldier had been hung by General Mitchell's
troops in Georgia.
President Lincoln had issued a proclamation,
ordering taxes to be collected in the insurrectionary
states.

The Canadian news possesses but little interest.
The Governor-General had been on a visit to Mon-

trod, where he waseaketained at a grand banquet,
&e., and a review took place in his honour. Loyal
addresses were also presented. After visiting
Ladinee Rapids and Three Rivers he would return
to Quebec.
(Commercial news anticipated by the Londonderry
telegram.)

OPINIONS OF THE "NEW YORK TIMES."

The New York Times of the 3rd has the
following :
We have at last full reports of the recent movements in I
front of Richmond. We are sorry to say they do not sus.
taro fully the encouraging interpretation which the public
sought to put upon the brief announcement that our right
wing bad been attacked, and had withdrawn to the other
side of the Chiekabominy. We have now no room to doubt
that our army has met with a very serious reveres, and
that it is in a condition of peril which, if not imminent, at
least calls for the instant and energetic efforts of the
government and the country. Two of the regular corps of
the Times reporters left General M'Clellan's head-quarters,
which are now on the James River, on Monday afternoon,
and reached this city last night. They were spectators to
the events which they describe, and although their reports
are of necessity written in haste, 'and may therefore err in
matters of detail, there is no reason whatever to doubt
the entire accuracy of the narrative they give of
the principal movements of the cpposing forces.
It seems from their statement that the right wing of our
army, numbering about 20,0C3 men, was attacked on
Friday by an overwhelming rebel force of 504'00, and that
after a hot and protracted fight, sustained with pllantry
by our troops, they effected their retreat across the
Chickahominy. This leading fact was known before, but
it now appears that they did not wait to destroy the
bridges arras the swamp so effectually as to prevent the
rebels' passage—that our forces on the left, for some
ration or other, did not dispute the passage, although
they had planted batteries for the purpose of doing so,
but decided to abandon their position, and that accordingly
on Saturday and Sunday the whole left wing, comprising
the main body of the army under Heintoelman, Keyes, and
Sumner, fell back along the whole line of the railroad
and the Williamsburg-road, turned the foot of the White
Oak swamp, which approaches the Chickahominy,
sod marched to James River, a distance of
ten or fifteen miles. The rebels, after croming the
Chickshominy in the immediate neighbourhood of what had
been General M'Clellan's head-quarters, paused on resale&
the railroad, and made no further pursuit. They remained,
however, in possession of the ground held by our own troops
on both sides of the Chickahominy, including the bridges
and earthworks we had erected against their approach in
front. Our whole army, therefore, now lies upon the James
River, at a point called Turkey Bend, within reach and
under cover of our gunboats. Supplies will quickly reach
it from Fortress Monroe, and it seems to have withdrawn
its stores in good order and without much loss. Beyond
all question, this news will fall heavy upon the public heart.
It is quite unexpected, and shatters the high hope
which the whole country has of late iodr'ged,
that with the fall of Richmond the end of the
war was close at hand. A day's reflection will
roue the whole country to the necessity of another effect
to crush the rebellion. However we may regret the moss
city for further sacrifices, there is no alternative. We have
no election, even if we were base enough to desire one. We
cannot yield to the rebels in erms without disgrace—without
complete ruin to all our hopes of national renown, without
the lois of everything that makes our country great, pros-
perous, sod free. The government will meet this crisis with
an intrepid spirit and a determined purpose, and it must hornet
by the same temper and with equal courage. The President,
as if in anticipatioo of such a contingency, has already
called for 300,000 additional volunteers. Every man of
them ought to be enrolled within a fortnight. We shall
have, we hope, no wrangling* in the press or elsewhere over
the put, so criminatiou or hostile criticisms, no attempts
to exaggerate defeat. The country needs the best service
of all her sons. Let the only contest be for precedence in
the race for her rescue !

EXTRAORDINARY COMIIIIMHON OF LUNACY.—
IizADENG, Jou 15.—This morning an inquiry under a coin-
minion of lunacy was opened in the Crown Court,
Reading. on the mental condition of Mr. Jason Smith,
a gentleman of great wealth, fifty-eight years of age,
residing in this town, whose conduct for some time
past has been the subject of considerable excitement
in the neighbourhood. The unfortunate gentleman
is the son of Mr. William Smith, of Kensington-gore,
who, it is believed, was a large job-master in Curzon-street,
sod practised for some time en an attorney until the
death of his father, when he carne into possession of about
100,000/. The petitioners are his wife and four of his elder
children. Shortly before Mr. Chambers concluded his open-
ing for the petitioners, Mr. Jason Smith himself wandered
into the court, to the astonishment of every one, and the
dismay and anger of his counsel, who seemed to think that
the petitioners had brought him in to exhibit his condition.
The unfortunate gentleman soon settled the question before
the court to the satisfaction of most people. The inquiry
was adjourned till to-morrow.
THE WIRD= AT FOZDINGBUIDOZ.—A
willow tree, which overhung the body of Mies Her
murdered young lady of Fordingbridge, has been entirely
stripped of its bark be visitors to the scene of the murder.
The poor children of t ordingbridgeearn considerable sums of
money in guiding visitors to the some. The two cows which
from some muse or other became wild with excitement,
while the struggle between the murderer and his victim
must have been going on, have become objects of curiosity.
Surprise has been expressed that in these days of high farm-
ing such • place as the dark gully should exist. It is an old
waggon road overhung with trees and hushes and filled
with mud and water, a fit lair only for disgusting vermin
and reptiles. Yet it is ekes to • beautifully rural walk. If
the gully had not existed the murder probably would not
have been contemplated. Miss Hall was e a
to be married to her cousin. Her father-
somewhat recovered from his serious illness. Gil-
bert, the supposed murderer, when he returned home
from penal servitude on • ticket of-leave, might have done
well es • labouring man, but when kindly spoken to on the
subject of his future conduct he would Dever utter a word
to signify that he wished or intended to amend his life.
THZ SHADWELL MURDER.—Yesterday afternoon,
at four o'clock, the funeral of the murdered woman, Honors
Scannell, who was stabled by the Spaniard at • disreputable
house in Albert-square, Shadwell, on Saturday efternool3.
He sth inst., took place, and the whole line of route from
Glasshouse-yard, Rosemary-lane, Whitechapel, was in •
complete state of blockade for several hour., owing to the
assemblage of dense crowds of memos, of both sexes, who
were anxious to witness the singular prommion. The body
was placed in • Oa* and conveyed by the CommerMal-
road East to the Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Bow-mad, Macl-
eod. There were six couples of females as pall-bearers,
dressed in white, walking by the side of the hen-se, and a
number of the clams of women termed " unfortunate" fol-
lowed in the rear of the funeral cortege. The body having
been lowered into the grave, the usual servios was rad,
when the procession returned to the place of starting, am
communed by many thousands of persons. A body of the
H and K divisions of polies were in attendance, their pre-
sence serving to preserve order.