The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-12 00:00:00

"'NEW ORLEANS TAKEN.

"Great destruction of property, cotton, and
steamboats ; steamboats enough saved to take
away their ammunition. Great consternation of
the inhabitants.

6 6 6 IRWIN M‘Dowitir., Major-General.'
" General Wool forwarded the following addi.
tional later despatch :

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" ' Fortress Monroe, April 28.
" To HON. N. Y. STANTON.

" News of the occupation of New Orleans jby
our forces is confirmed to-day.

" 'No further news.

(Signed) " Joaw E. WooL.' "
In addition to this, the following despatches were
reoeired in New York :

" Fortress Monroe, April 27.
" A despatch in yesterday's Richmond papers,
received by a flag of truce, d►ted Mob;le, Friday,
says that the Union gunboats passed Forte Jack-
son and St. Phillip at four a.m. on Thursday ;'and
at one o'clock the same afternoon were before New
Orleans. A rumour was current in Norfolk last
night that New Orleans had surrendered."
"Fortress Monroe, April 2&
" A flag of truce to-day took despatches and let-
ters to prisoners. No papers were received.
"The telegraph operators having left New Or-

leans, there is no news from there. The operators
attempted to return, but found the city occupied by
the Federal forces."

NEW YORK, MAY 1, Mointga.

A Richmond despatch of the 28th ult. says :
" Official despatches received yesterday confirm
the fall of New Orleans. The Federal fleet
approached the city and demanded its sur-
render. The Confederate General Lovell re-
fused to surrender, but evacuated the city
with his troopa,falling back to Camp Moore, on the
Jackson Railroad, after having destroyed the cot-
ton stores, which he was unable to remove.
" The iron-clad steamer Mississippi was burnt to
prevent her falling into the possession of the Fe-
deral& Camp Moore is situated 75 miles from
Orleans."

The New York World publishes the following
from its Washington correspondent :

" I have reason to believe that there has been
discussion at the Treasury department respecting
the policy of raising the blockade of Southern
ports as they came into possession of the Union
forces, and I am assured by a gentle-
man who is in constant communication
with the government, that there is little
doubt that the blockade of New Orleans will be
raised immediately on the Union authority being
established there. It will be remembered that the
blockade was not established along the whole line
of the coast at one time, but part by part, and of
course it can be raised by the same method."
The New York Times sums up the news on the
subject thus :
The news of the capture of New Orleans, which we
received from the South at a late hour lark night, clears
up gloriously the mystery which (for some time) has hung
around the movements of our navy and army upon the
Lower liisaissippi. We had already had intelligence that
oar bombketches had opened fire upon Fort Jackson, sixty
miles below the city, and yesterday morning we published
news, derived from the rebels, that one of our gunboats bad
run peat that work. But the defenders of the fort, it was
said, had sent word to their friends that they were confident
of their strength, and were able to endure the shelling as long
as our fleet was able to keep it up. That news was up
to Tuesday last. It appears certain that, notwithstanding
the rebel bombast, Fort Jackson, and probably also Fort St.
Phillip, on the opposite side of the river were reduced that
very day ; for by the gray dawn of Wednesday morning our
armada had 'teemed past the fortifiestioos, and by noon it
appeared, with power sad terror, before the Crescent City.
At this point the telegram stops short, and leaves us corn.
pletely in the dark as to what km bees done during the past
four days. Whether General Butler, as is probable. sent in
a demand for the capitulation of the city, and what may
have followed—a compliance with or refusal of the terms
of the demand—we do not yet know. But it is alto-
gather malikely that any serious attempt was made to de-
fend the city itself. Indeed, New Orleans was utterly tn.
capable of detente, when once our Beet got in front of it.
With 100 gun and mortar boats riding high above the city,
ready to pour down upon it a torrent of Ire and iron, it
would be madness for the rebuts to dream of any other
terms than oneooditional mu-reader. It has been thought
that the land force socompanying the expedition was too
small to »poems a city which most still count somewhat
like 160,000 lahabitaats ; and so it would be if the mili-
tary coothigent bad to act glom ; but the fact is that the
naval arm, when ones raised over the city, was of itself suf-
ficient to hold it in complete subjectioa ; and the only work
for the troops would be to seize and garrison some
few important positions is the city, raise the
stars sad stripes over the United Stated property and
other palate pieese. and act as a reirseeive polies ham
The rebels will be dieerstal ; the Union element, whisk is
known to be drag in New Odom, wW bosqpeisi ; Tad
Osemal Batter, hen his Itsedquarten in the St. Charles