The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-30 00:00:00

(Per Nom &dims).

NEW YORK, MAT 211.
Federal Colonel Campbell has, with the autho-
rity of General M'Clellan, officially reported that
the Federal ironclad gunboats, consisting of the
Monitor, Galena, Nangatuck, Port Royal, and
Ariatook, bad been repulsed by the Confederate
batteries at Fort Darling, seven miles below Rich.
mond.

Washington despatches state that the James
River is clear of obstruction to within eight miles
of Richmond. At that point there is a heavy bat-
tery on a high cliff, the river being temporarily
closed to navigation by sunken vessels, piles, and
chains. The Monitor could not elevate her gun
sufficiently to reach the high battery, and was
therefore useless. _ _ .

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The 100-pounder gun of the Naugatuck exploded

the first fire.

The banks of the river were filled with rifle pita,
from which a constant fire was poured on the
Federal [fleet, part of which was engaged at 800
yards distance from the main battery.
After an action of four hours the Federal fleet
withdrew.
The Federals are stated to have lost from 1,000
to 1,100 men.
Colonel Campbell's report states that the Federal
dead were interred on the banks of the river, and
adds that part of the gunboat fleet had returned to
Jamestown Island.
General Welellan's advance has arrived at
Belon's Bridge, 15 miles from Richmond. The
bridge was destroyed when the Federals arrived
half a mile from the other side of the Chickahominy
River.

The Federal guuboats have made a reconnaissance
25 miles above White Rouse, on the Uppamukery
River. The Confederates destroyed two of their
own steamers and 20 schooners. They are also re-
ported to have destroyed all bridges, and to have
placed every imaginable obstruction in the way of
the Federal advance.

The Newbern Progress states that the Governor
of North Carolina refused to afford further aid to
the Confederate government, and ordered home all
the North Carolina State troops.
The Mobile Advertiser announces that the Con-

federates have evacuated Pensacola, after destroy-
ing the navy-yard and forts. All public property
was removed.
The Federals had sent a force from their pickets
to occupy the place.

NEW YORK, MAY 20, Evismo.
President Lincoln has issued a proclamation
declaring General Hunter's recent proclamation null
and void.
The President further declares that he reserves to
himself to decide whether he is competent, as com-
mander-in-chief of the army and navy, to declare
slaves of any state free, and also to decide whether
at any time or in any cue it shall become a ne-
cessity indispensable to the maintenance of govern..
ment to exercise such supposed power. He refers
also to the resolution adopted by Congress to co-
operate with any Slave State for gradual eman-
cipation, and says :—" I now earnestly appeal
to the people of those States. Ido not argue—l
beseech all to make arguments for yourselves.
You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of
the times. Will you not embrace the proposition
May the past and future not have to lament that
you have neglected an opportunity to do so much
Vol"
Eighteen shots from Fort Darling penetrated the
Federal steamer Galena. The Monitor is reported
to be uninjured.
No official details of the affair have yet been
issued.

Commodore Goldaborough is reported to be pre.
paring mortars to attack Fort Darling.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAT 20, Emma.
Money abundant. Exchange very firm, at 113 k
to 114. Stocks very linn. Cotton steady.
SOITTRAMETON, MAT 29.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Hammonia, Captain Schwensen, from New
York on the 17th inst., has arrived off Cowes.
She brings 10 passengers for Southampton, 26
for Havre, and 159 for Hamburg ; and in specie
361,252 dollars. News anticipated.

According to a Berlin paper, the King sent for
the preacher Heoptenberg, whose sermon delivered on the
day of the opening of the Chamber excited so much indig-
nation, and reproved him for the attacks he had then made
on the people and the constitution.
Archduke Maximilian has gone on a visit to
Beichenau, and is shortly to proceed to London to see the
Exhibition. An excursion train is to leave Vienna on the
sth, for London. The Viennese feel very happy that their
department in the London temple of art hes met with a due
appreiation.
His Royal Highness the Prince de Carignan is
to leave Paris for England immediately. He has paid all
his courtly visits in Paris, and proceeds to London.
" The Elector of Hesse," says a Berlin journal,
" appears to have the intention of soaking a long stay at
Toiplite, in Bohemia. He has just engaged the house of the
Prince de Ligne, at the price of 5,000 florins a month, sad
his household will be established there on a large scale."
The Arabian horses sent by Abd-el-Kader to the
Emperor Napoleon have arrived in Paris ; they are three in
number, and belong to the purest race of the Yemen breed.
One of them particularly is a model of perfection ; he
counts, according to a letter received from Alsci-el-Bader,
20 generations exempt from any foreign mixture. They
have been provisionally placed in the stables of the Louvre,
where each horse is attended by two Arab grooms.
.The Temps says :—" The picture of M. Ingres,
'Christ in the midst of the Doctors.' has been purchased by
the Emperor at the price of 150,000 tr. This picture le
signed : Ingres ferit, 411,10 (earls sue, lxxxii."
Of the 426,0001. sterling, which was the amount
of the Moorish Loan contracted in January, and which was
to be paid over to the Spanish government, about 250,00 W.
le believed to be intended to be retained in this wsnatry for
payments on Spanish account. Of the balance a portion
has already been sent in gold, and the remainder will pro.
bably follow in moderate parcels.