The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-24 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

[Stamped, id. Additional.]

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

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PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, JULY 9&
In the Chamber of Deputies to-day a debate took
place upon the Treaty of Commerce with France.
Count Bernstorff strongly recommended its unani-
mous adoption.
A Prussian despatch was delivered yesterday at
Vienna, in which the propoml of Aus:ria to join
the Zollverein was rejectM, mainly because Prussia
is resolved to bold fast to the engagements into
which she has entered, and because the present
tariff is out of date.

AMERICA.

The New York Tribune, of the 11th inst., says :

The President returned to Washington last evening.
Nothinngg has transpired as to what was dons with Gene-
ral WClellan. Our letter from • Fort Monroe says he
west to ass for himself, and learn what °lmages, if any,
were needed ; that all was going on satisfactorily ;
troops Were well reeled, end ready to a man for another
fight The new position is sad the scads to
Idichdudid ire dry and fa
meets have all gone up the ver. eVlPraCaltea
spirits, splendidly disciplined, and eeriest. Harnekle is an
intimate friend of /Mistimes, and will be next in eoensand.
Another correspondent saya :—" On the arrival of she Pre-
sident at Hanison's Lan&ng Geeerai M'Clellan, with se-
vend other generals, visited Mm on board ; after which the
President and generals held • private conference for about
an hour. They then proceeded to General Sumner's head-
quarters, when they took to horse, with the view of visiting
the line of intrenchinente. Coming into the intreasehments,
the President was welcomed with great enthusiasm. The
President then briefly addressed the soldiers. He said he
had acme to see for himself. and that be should go back
satisfied. It was said they had been whipped ; it was not
so, and never would be. He knew the men around him
would prove equal to the task before them, and never give
up without going into Richmond. He declared his confi-
dence in the army and He commanders."
The party continued their route along the lines, and at
nine in the evening returned to General Id`Clellan'a. On
Wednesday morning, after a conference at headquarters,
the President started on his return.

The Herald's despatch says :
The President is satisfied that affairs on the Peninsula are
in a much better condition than has been reported. He
gave credit to teClellan for having in no way exaggerated
the facia. He has seen for himself the necessity for
reinforcements to the army, and returns with the con-
viction that General Milefir:a is in the proper position,
that the army is devoted to him, and full of confidence in
his ability, and that all he required shall be done without
delay.

A Washington despatch of the 10th, to the Post,
says :

The forthcoming addle's, of the Republican members of
Congress to the people will favour the most energetic action
in the prosecution of the vnir ; and the use of all the means
in our power against the rebellion and foreign intervention,
csprcially of employing blacks in militiary operations, is
rapidly gaining ground here. _ _

The Washington correspondent of the New York
World of the 10th says :
An important manifesto, in the shape of a proclamation
from the President, defining the future policy of the admi.
nistration on the great question of the hour, is not impro-
bable at an early day. Mr. Lincoln has been waited on by
senators and members of the house. and will be visited by
• large delegation to-morrow, should he be able to receive
them, urging him to issue • proclamation in the tenor of
the bill reported in the Senate to-day, requiring generale
commanding departments to accept the services of all per-
sons ooming within our lines. This will probably be the
result, together with a declaration in accordance with the
wishes of these congressional delegations foe • more vigor-
me prosecution of the war. The debate in the Senate to-
day merely paved the way for the aasumption of this new
policy, which creases no unavoidable sensation.

General WCknell says, in the course of his
explanations :
Those who have originated the false statements concern-
ing the White House, yard, and spring, are, in fact, as
stated in my despatch of the ith Met, eternise of this army
and the cause in which it is fighting. They have imposed
upon the stugeon.geteral, and caused him to make official
representations which, on examination, proved t 3 be un-
founded in fact, and which are disrespectful to his superior
officer. They have unnecessarily occupied the attention of
the Secretary of War, and have interrupted the commander
and the medical director of this army in the midst of their
most arduous duties. _ _

A bill was reported io-day from the Senate Mi-
litary Committee, which was unanimously agreed
to, authorising the President to accept the services
of all persons of African descent for the purpose of
working on fortifications, digging intrenchmeJts,
and in fact doing any kind of war service. They
are to be paid compensation, and, with their fami-
lies, are for ever to be free when discharged from
such service, any law or custom to the contrary
notwithstanding. This bill will speedily pass both
houses.

Senator Davis introduced a very stringent bill to-
day, punishing severely all persons who give aid, or
sympathy, or advice, to any one of the rebels. It
authorises district judges to require the oath of
allegiance of any person suspected of such sj al-
pithy, and it gives powers to imprison them on
their refusal. It also increases the penalties of
treason.

An engagement took place before Vicksburg on
the 28th u t., between Commodore Farragut's fleet
and the rebel batteries. According to one amount only
one vessel, the Hartford, passed the batteries, and,
according to another, three or four passed, but with-
out silencing them. The fleet was under a heavy
fire for over two hours, but the casualties were only
two men killed and fifteen or sixteen wounded.
Commodore Farragut was wpundet: in the bead,
but not seriously. Our army, under General Wil-
liams, witnessed the engagement from the opposite
bank of the river. General Van Dorn was in com-
mand at Vicksburg.
On the morning of the 20th June an attack was
made by some of Commodore Farragut's fleet on
the rebel batteries at Ellis Cliffs, on the Mississippi
River. The guns were silenced—not, Loweve-,
until a shot from one of them had severely wounded
two of the crew of the Sarah Bruin.

General Mitchell has been assigned to a com-
mand under General Popes and will soon enter
upon the duties connected with it.

A large meeting was held yesterday afternoon at
the rooms at the Chamber of Commerce, to perfect
the o lanisation of recruiting. Exertions are
making to have New York's quota of troops first
in the field. The police oommissioners have pawed
a reso' rtion requesting police officers to exert their
influence in obtaining volunteers.
One hundred rebel priso-rers, including forty
officers, captured before Richmond, have been sent
to Fort Warren.

The Richmond Examiner says that
The rebels could eertsialy cut off ll'Clellan's retreat, but
it would be far better to prevent him receiving farther sup.
plies and starve bim into a capitulation. It remarks :
MI up our armies and prepare for a contest an long as our
enemy may choose to urge it, and let it be as energetic se
we ma make it.

The Rte./mond Examiner of the 4th July contains
the following :
It will be recollected that it was stated with great preci-
sion of detail that on Saturday evening last we had brought
the enemy to bay on the south side of the Chickabominy,
and that it only remained to finish him in a single battle.
Sack in facZ., appears to ban been the situation then. The
an t morning, however, it was perceived that our supposed
resources of generalship had given us too much confidence,
that the enemy had maoaged to extricate himself from thi
critical position, and baring mused his forces, bad sue-
coaled urder corer of the night in opening a way to the
James River.

Siacetbi;untoward event the operations of our army on
the Richmond side of the Chickaboruiny have best to follow
the fugitive enemy through a country where be has had
admirable opportunities of oonceshneat, and through the
swamps and forests in which he has retreated with a judg-
ment, a dexterity, and a spirit of fortitude, which, however
unavailing they may be to save his entire command, must
&snoop oar admiration for his generalship.
The glory and fruits of our victory may have beets
seriously diminished b the grave mishap or fault by which
the enemy was per to leave his camp on the south
side of the Chickahondey, it as open country, and to
plunge into the demo cover al wood and .invaaip, where the
Ur* parties of four se eve days bee been ooewr•ed is
heaths( hint end Indies eat Ms sow position oily is time
to attack him, under the uncertainty and disadvantage of
the darkness of eight. But in spite of delays and em►er-
reemments which have already ocmuTed is bringing the

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enemy to • decisive adios, the maxim of the week's en
memento, es far at now known to us, we net to be lightly
esteeznal. We would not depreciate results aka* ac-
complished became) of errors which, if they had not oc-
curred, would have made oar victory more glorious and more
complete.
The siege of Richmond has been raised ; an Inny of
120430 men have been rushed upon their strongholds and
fortifioationg find put to flight ; we have enjoyed the &la!
of an almost daily succession of victories, some of which
have been achieved in circumstances in which the valour of
our troops has aloes redeemed us from the faults of military
soignee ; we have gathered an =meow spoil, in which we
are reported to have taken at least 10,1000 prisoners, and
from seventy to eighty pieces of artillery • and we have de-
moralised and dispersed, if we have not s'ucceeded in anni-
hilating, an army which bad every resource that could be
summoned to its usietanoe, every possible addition of
numbers within the reach of the Yankee government, and
every material condition of success to Macre for it the re-
sult of the contest which it now abandons in dismay.
The different postures dale dead always strike a spec-
tator as he passes over the battle field. One lay on his
back, with his arms stretched upward at length; another
with his head plunged into a pool of mud and writer, having
evidently died slaking his thirst; and a third lay partly on
the bank and partly in the water of a creek, having been
shot in examine, and died clutching the twig. and bashes of
the opposite beak. One, shot through the had Made
himself • bed of leaves and lain down, draw* blanket
and overcoat about him. His uniform and face betokened
an officer of some rank, All of the above were of the

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Daring Tuesday night time (mpg"d in earrytog the Con-
federate wounded from the field could not nee their lanterns,
se every Bicker from them was sore to draw the fire of the
Yankees.

Nothing was to be found on this portion of the field but
killed and wormded Yankees and their guns and knapsacks.
A mute, and to Virginians• very interesting, story was told
by these Impeach. Upwards of 300 of them belonged to
the famous New York 7th Regiment, who were oboe ao
foamed and fondled in this city. If • remnant of them
return to t►e Rnipire City they may my et* troth that on
Virginian soil they wore appropriately welcomed on the
occasion of both their visite—as friends and as foes.