The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-08 00:00:00

AMERICA:

Tizagiaxo •
THE OPZRATIONB AT VICHSBURO.
(Per aid Anweica.)
QUEENSTOWN, Sow;

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The Royal Mail steamship America, from Boston
oa the 27th, and Halifax on the 39tli ult., arrived
her/ at 12.20 a.m. to-clay. She brings 98 passen-
gers, and' 291,790 dollars in ape& landed mails,
eight passengers, andsproceedscl at 12.40 a.m. for
Livsrpool. All, well.

KEW YORK, MAT 26 (wozaora),

After a series of bloody engagements in the
rear of Vicicsburg, General Grant closely Invested
that stronghold on the 18th.
The reports up to the night of the 22nd state that
General Grant completely commended the city in
the rear, and that Admiral Porter's mortar-boats
were bombarding it from the front.
&Me Oonfederate forces under Johnston and
Loring ate supposed to be in General Grant's rear ;
b$ Washington despatches assert that these
foam are not snfilsiently numerous to haperii
Gifint's position.

NEW YORK, LT' Ehsurl,

conflict has taken place in WohingtOn br
toimin the civil and military authorities in a fugitive
slive case, the military refusing to deliver the slave
up on a warrant issued by the Fugitive Slave Act
Commissioners.

General M'Clellsn has received an enthusiastic;
popular welcome in Albany.
The New York Herald puts Mr. Lincoln fcirward
as candidate for re-election to the next Presidency.
The New York Chamber of Commerce has held a
meeting to discuss the project of a canal around
Niagara Falls, which has been urged as a military
and commercial necessity.

(later by Telegraph to Hal Ear.)
NEW YORK, MAT 28, Arriazioolt.

Vicksburg advioes reach to Sunday last, at which
time the place still held out. The lighting appears
to be very sanguinary•. The Federals have been
repulsed, with heavy loss, in several desperate
assaults ; but General Grant is reported to be con-
fident of suocess ; and vague rumours are current
that he has been reinforced by General Banks's
army from Red River.
The .Richmond Whig says that the Federal dead
strew the ground in front of tbe works, and esti-
mates the loss before Vicksburg at 10,000.

The Feditrals have destroyed Jackson, and sent
their forces from that point to re-inforce General
Grant.

A coloured regiment has left Washington for the
seat of war amid much euthusiahm.

The Alabama, in company with the Florida,
has destroyed the following vessels :—The ships
Commonwealth, from New York for San Francisco ;
the Oneida, from Shangliae for New York ; Louisa
Hatch, from Cardiff for Singapore ; Nova, from
Liverpool for Calcutta ; Charles Hill, from Liver.
pool for Monte Video ; the barque Henrietta, from
Baltimore for Rio de Janeiro ; and the whalers
Lafayette, Kate Corry, and Kingfisher.
The Great Eastern, Asia, City of Baltimore,
Hansa, and Hibernian have arrived out.
(By Telegraph to Cape Race.)
NEW YORK, MAY 29, AlTll3loolf.
Nothing later than Sunday has been received
from Vicksburg.
Additional accounts state that the Federals were
completely repulsed all along their line in their
assault on Friday last. Their loss on that day is
estimated at from 1,000 to 5,000 killed and
wounded. Fighting continues furiously. General
Johnston is said to be gathering forces in Grant's
rear, and General Banks is said to be coming up
the Mississippi to reinforce Grant.
The Confederates are crossing on the Rappahan-
nock. General Lee has issued orders informing the
troops they were about to have long and rapid
marches in a country without railroads, and warn-
ing them to prepare for severe hardships. L►rge
columns are moving in the direction of Culpepper,
but whether to make a raid into Maryland, or to
get between Hooker's army and Washington, is not
known.

The Federals have impressed all the Degrees at
Alexandria, near Washington, to throw up entrench-
ments, as a raid of Stuart's cavalry was appre-
hended at that place.
The Richmond Examiner asserts that the Federal
government has been notified that two Federal offi-
cers are to be executed by the Confederates in re-
taliation for two Confederate officers officially mur-
dered by the rederals in Ohio, and that in future
the law of retaliation will be regularly enforced.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAT 29, EVENING.
Money easy. Gold, 441 per cent. premium.
Excharge on Loudon, 1561 (?). Stocks improving.
New York Centrals, 121 ; Illinois Centrals, ;
Erie, 94k.