The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-22 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

STEVENS and SONS, 78, Bishopagatv-street
Within.—LlOßT BCIOIII %ISM Bottles Included.
Claret. les., 20a., tga. Burguady, Us., ma., Ma., 30e. per dol.
Chablis ... 20s, 30s. Banana 7los, Les. ~
Hock and Meseta Sea, 15.., Me. ..
Cbampagne sea. 36a.. 421. ~
AO ether Wlass and BpbHa equally reasonable.

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Is pesperod solely by Lg.& rd imam
ifs public en nepecitully rarer roar words= lair
tine sad Wald are that Lae sad Naar rams ars es wrapper,
bad, brie red stopper.
An for LLA sad prawn, UI7CL
Sold wirier sad for export by tar Proprietor, Woreriter
Illsan. CROSSE sad SILACILIML Marro BAICLAY sad
SONS. Loads fro, ter : sad by grocers sad roma orevermally.

REGENT PIANOFORTE ROOMS.
ADDISON arl LIMAS.
M.dosl lastnusest Makera to lase Majesty,
210, agazirtarzurr. w.

OLIAN HARPS, 12 strings, 21e., to
256. . 14 Primp, CI lls. Id. to to Ita ; 6S scrimp, 42 5a
11S6 6d. each, Cuss iscluiled.
ADDISON sad LUCAS, 140, ILWILWT-82111T, W.

CONCICRTINAB.-4/1 Keys, Double Action,
At 10A to 20 Galeria
ADDISON sod LUCAS, 210, AZOLNT-STRIZT, W.

DAL-MS.-814 25i. to £4 10a. each ; Baas,
SS la to II plasma
AZOISON asd LUc►s, no, 5.W1N74111.111', W.

FLUES.—Boebm's woncil and Prize Medal,
cylinder. In handsome mahogany or rosewood cane, LS as.,
112 nu. end Alt IM. . ditto. stern./ silver. II autumn Them
Oates are proacisacod ay & W.1.1s the milass4
to be the bat cruderdate with old system of aaOrlai Cosi-
est. 1.2 as to 1.4 to
ADDISON and LUCAS, LIO. IICCOINT4III2ZZI. W.
GIIITARS.—The bed Models, from £2 2s. to
12 gainer each.
ADDISON sad MAL 210. IiORNT.WITJZT, W.
HARMONIUMS, from
par pr 6 6s.est. to 60 guineas.
Price IDta trot
ADDISON sad LUCAS, 210, szassrwrizzr, w.
VOCAL HORN, bighly finished, £8 Be., in ease.
This is emeetally recommended to amateurs and pro.
fawn as a beautiful drawing.roorn Instrument. Being in C.
seep with pianoforte seceaspanunent can be played so pub-
lished for tho vole* without transposing or the sue of crooks.
The tone is•cosabhiatlon of the French and tenor horns, sad
is praised without effort. Mr. C. Harper attends by appoint-
ees& to rive Instructions upon this bare rem t.
ADDISON sad LUCAS, 210, BIGINT-driENT. W.
MUSICAL BOXES, by Nicole.—For Table—
fear tunes, 4 obese; . si, aloes, I godsons . eight base.
8 gobost twelve twee, 12 gulnesa Overtue Boma, tram 12
to SO panes& Pocket Bons -to r tome, 1 (Mass three tones,
Lt 11s. SA. tour Mom 12 2s. Mindanao Bozos—three tunes.
Lt Lk &I ; tour tunes. St 4a ; elm tams, 1113 s. each Boxes
maned.
ADDISON sad LUCAS, 210. ILZOINT4I2II/11% W.

THE FCRICIMIING OF BED-NOOKS

aadt3ON have observed for some time
that it naiad be advantageous to their Contesters to bee
a moth larger selection of Bed-roam limits,. than is usually
displayed, and that to judge properly of the style and effect of
the different descriptions of Furniture. It Is aeeesstry that each
description should be placed In separate moms. They hare.
therefore, ERECTED [Arse and Additional SHOW-ROOMB, by
whicit they are enabled not only to extend their show of Iron.
Brass, and Wood Bedsteads. sad Bed-room Furniture. beyond
what they believe has ever been attempted, but also to provide
severs! small rooms for the purpose of keeping complete suites
of Bed-room Furniture In the different styles.

—Japauned Deal Goods may be erect in complete suites of five or
es different &donee, some of them tight and ornamental, and
others M•ptsiaer description. Suites of Stained Deal Gelid.,
Furniture, Polished Deal. Oak sad Walaat, are also set apart in
separate rooms, no that customers are alto to see the effect so It
would appear In their own comas.
The Meek et Mahogany Goods for the better Bedrooms. and
loosened G 0341 Inc Plain and Servants' use, is very Kral) in-
creased. the whole fermis,/ so complete an enactment of Bed-
room lruniare an they think can possibly be desired.
HEAL and BON'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE of Bedsteads,
Bedding. and Bedroom Furniture sent tree by =a.
1110, 19T, 11111,Tottesdia-oonerroad.

GOLD CRLINS. —JOHN BROGDEN begs
to call the attention of the public to the Mill of IN-
VOICII which he delivers with Gokl Guard Chains purchased at
his masufsetory • t. a. d.
To workmanship or pattern clank 54 Inches bug
To (181 twat gold, 'miring or dot. pa, at
L 3 Br. 50. per ounce. Mint price

TatO

Wpm thls system. the Q CALITY, WEIGHT, and YALCE of
the goad are ee rtMed. and gumanteed to the parehaser . John
Sceptics looking for s Mir remnocration on the workmanship
only. what* is charged according to the intricacy or simplicity of
the pattern.
JOHN BROODEN, Gokhotith.—lfsmtfactory. No. 11. Hes-
tiettawtreet, Cornat-prgen. London, N.C. istabll•kat 1796.
Awrys made of Chains and Jewellery for Is. each —N.B. This
astabilskamet Is dosed at 6 la the swain& sad on ihttafdaPlMl.

The Saxon, which left Table Bay on the 20th ult.,
Si. Helena on tee 28th, and Ascension on the 2nd
inst., arrived at Plymouth yesterday. She brings
78 passengers, among whom is Dr. Alexander Duff,
the veteran missionary.
No active hostilities had yet taken place on the
frontier, but Sir Walter Otwrition a despatch to
the government, had reported that, as he had found
the ditEcultiss in the Transkei increasing, and be-
lieved war to be imminent, he recommended that
the 2nd battalion of the 11th Regiment should
be retained on the frontier.

Every preparation was also being made for war
by the Cape authorities. The sth Fusiliers are
left in readiness at East London.

THE SEARSARGE.

Secretary Welles has sent to Captain Winslow,
al the Boanswirt, the Mewl's essessitios of his mayhem
la the dietrootion el the Alabama :

" Navy Deparimset, July 6, 1864.

" Your very brie despatches of the 19th end 20th alt.,
beforeibajihee department that the piratical craft Alabama,
es. No. bed hew sank cm the 19th of Jars, near nod-
dies, by /Warsaw, node, your command, were this
day received. I misgratalate yea ea your good fortune
he reestieg this venal, which had so long avoided
the Meet shire sad some of the meet vielant
sod intelligent officers of the senior, sad for the ability
displayed in this combat you have the thanks of the depart-
ment. Yea will plasm express to the officers and crew of
the Keiniarge the satisfaction of the government at the
victory over a vemelsuperior in tonnage, superior is amber
of guns, and ireperior in number of her crew. The battle wee
so brief, the victory so derisive, and the comparative results
so striking, that the muntry will be reminded of the boil-
limit actions of oar infant navy, which have been repeated
sad illustrated is this sagegerthat
"The Alabama represeeted the best maritime effort of
the most skilled English workshops. Her battery was once-
esdof the well-tried 32-pounders of 57 owt., of the femme
68-Imuuder of the &Web navy, end of the only successful
tided 100-pounder yet produced io England. The crew were
Amorally recruited in Great Britain, and many of them re-
ceived superior traiaing on board her Majesty's gunnery ship,
the Ernellent

" ThWieersige is one of the first gunboats built 4 oar
navy yards, at the commenomneet of the rebellion, end
lacks the improvements of vessels now order construction.
ip/rwr.tsci ipel gunscomposing bar battery had sever bees
y hied is an exclusively naval engagement, yet in
nee hoer you sucssedekin sinking your antagonist, thus fitly
main her predatory west, cad killed manyof her crew,
without injory to the Kean age or the loss of $ single life on
board your vseseL Our couetrymen have mica to be
satisfied that in this as I. every naval actioo of this
unhappy war, neither the ships, the guns, nor the crews
have bees deteriorated, but that they maintain the ability
sad amities' the renown which ever adorned oar naval
iamb.

"The Presid" mit has signified his intention to recommend
that you receive a vote of thanks, in order that you may be
&drooped to the grade of commodore.
" Lint-Counnander James S. Thornton, the executive
officer of the Kaarearge, will be recommended to the Senate
for advarmensent tee numbers In his grade, and you will
report to the department the names of sow others of the
officers or crew whose good (*odor' on the °passion entitles
them to especial mention. —Very respectfully,
(Signed) " Grngox

. ---..
" Seoretarj of the Navy.
"Captain Jobn A. Winslow. U.S. Navy, Commanding
U.S. staxneir Kearsarge, Cherbourg, France."

Ta■ BLOCKADE OP TEI GCIIIIAS PORTS.—The
following notificatioo of the raising of the blockade of the
German ports in the Baltic, he., is published in a supple-
ment to the London Gazette :—• It in hereby notified that
Earl lloseell, her Majesty's Priocipal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, Me received from her Majesty's minister
at Copealtsgeo (Sir A. Paget), a telegram, stating that the
blockades of ports is the Baltic are to be raised daring the
suspension of arms which lies been concluded between Den-
mark sad the German powers." The following is a copy of
the telegram above referred to :—•• Capsulate's, July 19.
A military convention was signed yesterday, at Christian.
field, establishing s auspeosice et arms, to cossumees at
noon to-morrow, 20th, and new on 31st, at midnight. All
blockades gives up. Armies and beets to keep thee respec-
tive positions. No communication allowed between the
territories ocsapied by respective ermine."
PLYWOOTH„ JULY fl.—The screw corvette Ell-
-

wanks arrived today from China, last from Fa yaL She
will probably be paid off here. Tbs Enoountrw has been
dire years in 0002111iii09.
The following is a copy of the certificate of die.
GERMAN HOS PIT A 4 DALSTOI4I.-- shame to some ad the eof the Alabama, :-" Aid*
'MALMO 111 BAN UMENT.-11116 WCILDFA of TRIS toi Dia, Jaw, Inc This is board(/ that
DAY. pries ad.. by pool fel., contain,: -lbws View and Plan of , aboard the C. ft. atearaar has this day
Omer floapttal. Dakston-Mum Tablets on Landon Senses
-The Mums Entbrankosent-Kanard Oren Orwastary-Tostutg teen paid off and hollows* discharged from the naval
illydrealki Testing lisehtnes-The Cistercian Monastery of Casa- senors of the Confederato States.-R. Smite, C. S.
mart-New /arra •fiteadlng. Westfield. Scotland-West Landon Navy." This Confederate deg, contusing 14 stars, is en-
&knot of Art-Law of landlord and Tenant- Roping Poreat-An graved on the certificate.
Areblawsaral Trip Is Algeria-The Decide Tall-Tale -Lnifisk-
CILTTAL PAULO/. -- Offl 8H111.1341 DAT. --
man In Garnisny - Ferry scream the Serpentine-Drataatle Collage
Feta. te.-ofilaa York-streak Cowntbgarden : and aU book- TBCIaDAT, JOLT 21.-Admissions on payurnt, 3,800;
sellers. ditto by MIMI UM" 1,211 ; total, 7,011.