The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-06 00:00:00

THE PRINCE OF WALE&

DARTMOUTH, Auoctrr 6.

The royal yacht Victoria and Albert arrived off
here this morning. His Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales and party came into the harbour
and rowed round the training ship Britannia. The
yacht then left for the eastward.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF PRINCE
Auar.D.—Today being the anniversary of the birth of his
Royal Highness Prince Alfred, who was born on the 6th of
August, 1644, the morales was ushered in by the usual de-
tnoestrations of loyalty to bar Majesty and respect to his
royal highnees.

DOVZit, Aroner s.—Colonel Francis Seymour,
C. 8., weed through Dover this montiug, en route for
Switzerland. to join his Royal Highness Priam Arthur. Tb.
78th Highlanders embarked thin day from the Admiralty
Pier on board the troop steamer Himalaya.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland in-
tend to remain at Sion Boum, Islemooth, till the 29th
lost, and then p to Alnerick Castle, Northumberland, for
the 'rioter.

The Duke of Leinster left town yesterday for
Dover, on a skill to Lord and Lady Gerald Fitzgerald,
before his `rase goes to his seat le IreLod, which will be
after the 12th inst.

The Duchess of Somerset and Lady Gwendoline
SI. Maur have left the Admiralty for Balsam& Park,
Bucks.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian have
arrived at Newtattle Abbey. hoar Monteviot, near Jd-
bußb•

The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde
left town lest evening to pee s few weeks at Homburg.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Aileaury
eatertassed a select party at dinner yesterday awaking as
their maesioa in Pall-mall.

The Earl and Countess of Lincoln are expected
to return to town early in the ensuing week from Brighton.
The Earl of St. Germans and Lord Eliot have
left the noble earl's seat, Port Eliot, in Cornwall.

The Earl Spencer, aa colonel of the Northampton-
shire Riffs Volnotaere, is now entertaining that corps at
Althorn. The men are socarcped in the park, in testa,
each affording accoromodatioe for Ste men. They are to be
" ander cute." for a weak.

Couot de Blome has arrived at the Clarendon
Hotel from Perk.

Lord Schomberg Kerr left town yesterday for
flootlead, to visit the Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian,
previous to neosillog hie official duties at Freakfort.
Baron and Baroneas Lionel Rothschild and Miss
Rothschild are exploited to leave town the week after seat
for a tour I. Germany.

Colonel F. Seymour, C. 8.. passed through Dover
yesterday. for Switzerland, to join hie Royal Highness
Prises Arthur.

Mr. M. G. Hutchinson and the Rev. E. M.
Wean lave 141 tin Cismelos Rotel km Uweblabs.

The Sahoday Renew mentions • rumour to the
effect that a peerage is shortly to be costerrial upon Sir
Chula Wood, the Seeretarp el Stale ler ladia.

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AMERICA. .

(urnia's Tassum.)
ARRIVAL OF THE AINFRALARIAN.

The Royal Nail steamship Australasian, from
New York on the 27th ult., arrived at Queens-
town at 9 am. to-day. She brings 64 passengers
and 111,806 dela. in specie. She landed 119 sacks
of mails and 11 passengers, and proceeded at
9.15 a.m., all well.

NEW YORK, JULY 26, Evyanra.

In the engagement on the 22nd inst. General
Sherman repulsed all the Confederate attacks.
General Macpherson was killed. On the following
day both belligerents buried their dead under flag
of truce.

General Rousseau is said to h►ve occupied Mont-
gomery, Alabama, and cut all the railroads leading
to Atlanta from the west and south west. The
roads east of Atlanta are destroyed.
Ranly defeated a portion of Hunter's troops,coni-
mended by Crook and Averill, on the 23rd and 24th,
near Winchester.

The Federal. retreated to Harper's Ferry.
The Confederates have ocenpied Martinsburg,
and commenced destroying the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad.

Preparations are being made to resist any
further Confederate invasion in Maryland.
Averill, Kelley, and Mulligan are rumoured to
have been killed.

Smith's expedition has returned to Memphis for
supplies, after defeating Format in five engage-
ments.

The situation before Petersburg is unchanged.
Grant has appointed Ord to the command of the
18th Army Corps, and Birney to the 10th Army
Corps.

Secretary Fessenden has ►ppealed to the people
for subecriptions to a loan of 200,000,000 dole.
7 3-10ths Treasury notes, redeemable in three years,
and with interest payable in currency. The notes
are to be convertible at maturity into bonds bear-
ing interest payable in gold.
The Belgian, Marathan, Scotia, and Borussia
have arrived out.

PAM YORK, JOLT 27, MORNING.
A desperate engagement was fought at Atlanta
on the 22nd inst. The result was indecisive.

The Confederates lost 7,000 and the Federals
2,000 men.

The railroad communication between Atlanta
and Montgomery has been destroyed.
General Sherman maintained a position to the
left of the city, within a portion of the fortifica-
tions.

General Hunter's forces have been defeated, and
compelled to retreat to Harper's Ferry.
A fresh invasion of Maryland is expected.
Gold, 2561. Exchange on London, 280. Money
sillier. Nothing doing is 'United States Sixes.
Cotton dull and unchtkpged. Breadstufts generally
steady.

The Times correspondent A New York, writing
July 27, IlLans, says :

" The Federal force left to hold the Shenandoah
Valley, after the pursuit of the Maryland invaders
was abandoned, was attacked near Winchester on
Suiday last, by General ',sly, and, after a severe
engagement, defeated and driven through Martins-
burg to the Potomac, or Williamsborough and
Harper's Ferry, with heavy loss in men and artil-
lery
" The Confederates have reoccupied Martins•
burg, and it is conjectured are being heavily re-
inforced, with the intention of again advancing
into Maryland or Pennsylvania.

" Grant remains inactive iu his entrenchments
before Peterborough.
" The reported evacuation of Atlanta is contra-
dicted. The battle before that city, brought on by
the Confederates on the 21st Mat., continued
throughout the 22nd with great severity. The
Federal admit the loss of 2,500 men, among whom
is General Macpherson, killed. They estimated
the Confederate love at upwards of 7,000. On
Saturday evening the fighting was suspended, the
womded on both sides were removed, and the dead
buried, under truoe.
"There is still no publication of official details
from either Sherman or Staunton.

" Non-official Washington despatches of yester-
day state that on Monday morning the fighting
had not been renewed.
" It is believed that the reinforcements from Vir-
ginia, reported to have gone to support Hood, are
Longetreet's corps, 20,000 strong.
_ _

" There is no further news of the North• We-
stern Confederacy. The story is believed to have
been greatly exaggerated."

(Lima's nzaawiet.)
FRANCE AND GERMANY.

The Constitutiontiel of to-day, in an article cor-
recting the journals which accuse the French go-
vernment of having allowed an opportunity for
territorial aggrandisement to pans by, says:—" The
only thing true is that England, with the object of
preserving the possessions of King Christian,
would willingly have passed from diplomatic action
to military action. But in a war with Germany
France would have bad to bear the full brunt and
expense. England would have swept the sea,
capturing the vessels belonging to the belligerents,
and taking a glorious part almost coetless and con-
venient." The Constitutionnel, in conclusion, de-
clares that France never had the promise nor the
prospect of territorial aggrandisement. " England
offered nothing ; France asked for nothing. Neither
Earl Clarendon during his journeys to Paris, nor
the British cabinet in its diplomatic despatches,
ever hinted at France taking the Rhine frontier."