The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-20 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1808.

AMERICA.

The Nord Mail etenniebitip vig4Aeis, Captta 19.
which sailed from New Turk on the Bth -i-naT.,7 I
called at Queenstown yesterday evening to land ,
iranfiiela and passenger. arrived here,hhout 4.90 this
rnoon, bringing ib ?mongers and IA ISIS doh. i
rill specie on freight.
The following Imuitiary of news by the Ada Is
New York, the evening of the 7th April : I
' ~i naiderable excitement has prevailed here since
8 day, caused by 'reports conteined in Southern •
that the Fedenda had Landed # force at
brooks, John's Island, near Charleston, and
en in the Confederate pickets, and that the
k by the Federal naval $M military forces
New
ivon Charleston had commeneeet. The Richmond ,
Eataminer' of the Jed iesient, however, states that I
the Federals bad not landed in force, as reported,
and that netlinig bat skirmishing between wonting
parties had occurred on Seabrook, Island. The
Northern ooratepondents report that a Federal
regiment occupied Cole's Island, nine miles from
Charleston, without opposition. A general attack,
was not expected before this week.
The reported evacuation of Richmond ia now
denied.

ago have engaged the Federal' under oral
Fester.
It is INCRIOUrea, that General Lee is in the She-
nandoah vans ,
All the Federal expeditions intended to reach
the rear of Vicksburg by way of Sunflower river,
and Yam* Pau, have been abandoned.
The military situation in Tennessee is unchanged.
The report of the committee on the conduct of
the war is oonsidared by the democratic journals as
a partiasa report to injure hf 'Clellan. The repub-
lican journals consider that the report shows ocui-
cluively Welellan's incapacity. The New York
Times thinks that IVOlellan not favour a war
policy, but empathised with the peace party, and
this was the key to his extraordinary procrastina-
tion and inefficiency.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued strin-
gent orders regarding commercial intercourse with
the insurrectionary States.
The purchase of cotton with gold is forbidden,
and military officers are forbidden to trade.
The Southern journals say that the peace party
were about to introduoe a peace resolution which
would probably pass one house of Congress before
the adjournment.
In Connecticut a republican governor and
republican state officers have been elected. Three
out of the four republican nominees for Congress
have been elected, and the legislature is also
strongly blican. The democrats lose one
member o Congress.
The governor's majority is 3,000, being a repub-
lican loss of 8,000 since last year.
The British prize steamer Aries has arrived at
New York. She was captured 30 miles north of
Charleston. The schooner Bas has been captured
oft Wilmington.
The British frigate Rinaldo sailed from Hampton
Road on the sth inst.
The following additional intelligence is to the
morning of the Bth :
It is officially announced from Washington that
the Federal fleet of gunboats and iron-clads left
Pod Royal on Wednesday last, and would reach
the scene of operations at Charleston on Thursday
night.
A Federal officer returned from Richmond states
that be witnessed in that pity a bread riot, in which
three thousand women were engaged. They broke
open the government stores and took what the
wanted. The military were unable to check
the riot.

President Davis and others made conciliatory
speeches, and order was restored.
According to some reports the Federate are still
confronting the Confederates at Fort Pemberton,
but no attack has been made.

A report, considered unworthy of credence, has
reached New York from New Orleans, that the
Confederates had commenced to evacuate Port
Hudson.

General Rosencranz officially reports that Mor-
gan's guerillas had been encountered at Snow Hill,
and defeated by General Stanley. Morgan's
forces escaped with their artillery.
The negro expedition has evacuated Jacksonville,
Florida, and, aNr burning the town, returned to
Port Royal.
The Federal gunboats on the Tennessee river
have been driven back by the Confederates. Un-
suocessful efforts were made by the Federals to
land at Tuaeumbra.

A large meeting ban been held in New York in
aid of the distress in Ireland. General M'Clellsn
and Archbishop Hughes addressed the meeting.
A large democratic meeting has also been held,
at which resolutions were passed denouncing the
administration, declaring the war &snow conducted
• failure, and demanding peace. The adminis-
tration could not conquer the South if they would,
and would not if they could. Therefore the de-
mocracy favoured peace and conciliation as the only
means to restore the Union. They demand a
change of measures not for separation but for
restoration.

Fainted° Wood declared that until the confer•
enoes were opened it was impossible for anyone to
say whether, under such circumstances, the South
would or would not listen to negotiations looking
to reunion.

Speeches were made declaring it to be insanity
to suppose that the South ever could be conquered.
President Lincoln is now visiting the army of the
Potomac.

The Wahldugton correspondent of the New York
Tribune says :

Our government has information that powerful steam
rams are bow being built on the Thames sod the Mersey.
The probabilities now are that no action will be taken at
present under the law authorising the Presideet to grant
letters of marque and reprisal, and that none will be granted
except in certain contingencies not now regarded as likely
to arise. The question of what diplomates it other pro-
ceedings may be necessary to prevent the eanairnetion and
sailing of vends of war and blockade rennin for the rebels
is still nadetermined.

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bet mast IN by their exhibition of works, showing the
cheering slim of renewed vigour in the older members, and
armee in those of the saresistim The watevialoor painters
hem Mae such s rapid 'adman during the last tweedy years,
thin, to landecape especially, we doubt whether they have
nokriseited the very highest point ; certainly in this beau-
tiful and most dilliewit eureka of art there is no rainier in
oil who empanel these eneept in sine. The exhibition will,
we think, b. generally pronounced equal to my former
ones.