The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-21 00:00:00

A,gEIIIO.A.

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ROCHE'S POINT, JAZ. !1.
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The Inman steamship Cdp el Manchester, from
New York, has arrived here with the United States
mails, 70 paaraogers, and 729,000 dole, in specie.
Her news has been anticipated.

Oar &deices from New York are to the Bth.
From informatioa received in Washington it is
believed that the appearance of General Early's
force in the Shenandoah Valley is intended only to
prevent future raids in that region by the Fedora's,
and to protect the railroads to the South. General
Kelly is amply prepared to prevent any successful
raid againat the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The Coafederate guerillas saltines to annoy
General Meade's outposts. The Provost Marshal
at Bealton station was recently shot by them, and
a bearer of despatches was captured between Ste-
vensburg and Warrenton Junction. A correepon-
delft of the New York Herald says that stirring
news may soon be looked for from the army of
the Potomac, but that the precise nature of the
movement contemplated cannot be divulged.
Despatches from Cairo state that General Grier-
eon was in full pursuit of the Confederates under
Forrest, , and bad followed them south of Cold-
water, Tennessee. Forrest is reported to have re-
ceived reinforcements from General S. D. Lee from
Ottawa. The weather was intensely cold, and
several negro soldiers had been frozen to death at
Island No. 10. The Mississippi at that point is
closed, and the Ohio clogged with ice.
There is no direct news yet from Knoxville or
Chattanooga later than that which represented
both armies to be settled into winter quarters, with
no prospect of immediate activity.
Richmondpapers write des ndin 1 of the'
Pu g
events of the past year. The Examiner of Dec. 31
says that the gloomiest year of the struggle has been
concluded, and that neither the hopes of interven-
tion that buoyed up the spirits of the Confederates
in 186!, nor the victory at Fredericksburg in 1862,
cheer them at the conclusion of 1863. It admits
that the repulse of Meade at bline Run, and the
battle of Bean's Station, afford but a poor offset
to the severe loss indicted on the South in "the
murderous assault on Knoxville." The Ezaeaeeer
concludes as follows Unreasoning confidence
has been succeeded by depression as unreasoning,
and the Yankees are congratulating themselves on
the result, which they hawk about as 'the begin-
ning of the end.' We have a heavy score to pay
off, and we know it. This may depress us, but our
enemies need not be jubilant over our depression,
for we are determined to meet them."

Both Houses of Congress re-assembled on the
bib. Io the Senate Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, in-
troduced
a bill to prevent officers of the army and
navy from interfering with elections, which was
finally referred to the judiciary committee. A
meseage was received from the President, request-
ing that the payment of bounties to veteran troops
be continued till Feb. I. Mr. Wilson, of Mass.,
introduced a bill to pay 100 dole. bounty to persons
of African descent enlisting and resident in rebel-
lions States. Also a bill to amend the Enrolment
lAu t. This latter bill decreases the exemptions and
prohibits the acceptance of substitutes.
In the House of Representatives a bill was in-
troduced to repeal the duties upon coal ; and a bill
to reimburse loyal citizens for looses sustained by
the war.

THE ENGLISH PRESS AND THE FRENCH
DEBATE&

The Paris Tempi of yesterday contains the fol-
lowing remarks respecting certain comments on the
French debates which have appeared in the oolunias
of some of our contemporaries :
We have mash reprd for the Englialt prom ; it h the
Ant is the world, and the fitting mimesis. of a peat sad
free people ; bat it is not infallible, sad the NMr is
which some of it. prioeipal organs have regarded
ear discussion epos the Address certainly will
110 t reflect any hamar ape. NUM. It would he
1 impossible to airplay more *eases* sad frivelitY Ulna the
221.. at whose article the Constitaticsusel was unlucky
to make use of, without, however. &Anti, rere-
dos= entire ; a chromium* we sea wily modernised,
far the Tines, under the pretext of se AL Thiess,
drew the roost eajuat and the most insulting p re of ear
inetitutioss, represented ea as aubjected to a sort al
Asiatic despotism, sad rendered homage to the power sad
magnanimity of the Emperor, for the insertion in the
Xcntitairof N. Thieve'. speech.

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The Siecle of yesterday has also some remarks
on this subject. After referring to the diplomatic
correspondence between Saxony and Great Britain
uppaon the Sleswig-flolstein question, it says :
Imbed of oompyieg itself with this diocesan, is which
the British cabinet does not always show to the best advan-
tage, the Timer sad the Meriting Pat prefer to fire WOO
iamb at the address of the Frisch Opposition, sad the Con-
stentioand habeas I. applaud. Canso' the legal& bur-
ask, which boast that they helm to a free country, seder-
stead why Preach deputise should claim the *itemise of
public liberty Are them journals quite sincere is what
they say? An sot their attacks and thin attempts
to beanie the debates a wasp= of war divested esaiest the
t . What has weaned to justify the hostile
iCeetsmbion of the Louden newspapers Paithful to doe-
tribe which do sot date from yesterday, N. This.. mei-
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