The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-01 00:00:00

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NEW YORE., Anocar ZL
The Cincinnati Gazette says :—" The:42
threatened invasion of Kentucky has cost
The rebels have entered the state at several paints.
They have captured Somerset, and are moving on.
Glasgow, and threaten Bowling Green. General
Kirby Smith, with 15,000 men, 94 pieces of arta-
lery, and an adequate force of cavalry, is moving
from Zest Tennessee, to cut off the Federal supplies
at Cumberland Gap and compel its evacuation."
Confederate General Morgan is still in the vicinity
of Gallatin. 200 Confederate cavalry are at Mon-
ticello, and are supposed to be the advance giiard
of the enemy. The crisis is truly alarming, and
the Governor is putting forth all his energies
to meet it. Two Federal regiments have been
sent from Indianopolia, and seven more are to leave.
They will go amply prepared in all but discipline
for the conflict."
Latest despatches state that General Kirby Smith
bee captured London in the rear of the Federal;
and doubtless will attack them in front and rear.
Federal General Buell is cut off, and it is feared
that be is in a precarious position. Communise-
. between gps.**Ly and Nashville is inter-

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southern accounts of the battle at Baton Rouge
say :—" General Breckenridge's expedition did not
prove a complete sucoesa, owing to the Arkansas
not having co-operated. Had that vessel not met
with an accident, the victory would have been com-
plete. The Confederate land force accomplished
all that was possible. They drove a largely supe-
rior Federal force from a strong and well-chosen
position two miles through the city to the shelter
of their gunboats. They captured many prisoners
and destroyed 500,000 dots. worth of Federal pro-
perty. The Confederate loss would not reach 300.
General Breckenridge ordered the recall of his
troops after they had driven the Federals quite to
the river under the protection of their gunboats.
The Confederates are now encamped upon the
Comite River."

The Richmond Despatch annowiees that the Con-
federate Congress would meet at Richmond on the
18th instant, and says :
The most important measure to be decided will be the
Conscription Act. The Federal. have called for 600,000
men, aad unless the Confedsnite Comma acts with energy
the South will be taken at a disadvantage. The South can
put in the field an large a force as the North, by calling
out all conscripts between 35 and 45, and by extending tag
list to the ages of 16 and 55 old men could be used to
garrison the towns, leaving the young men to take
the field. If these measures are rigidly followed out,
the South can put in the field a force quite equal to
Lincoln's. We trust that Congress will not be delayed
by the dream of intervention. There is now lees cause to
expect foreign intervention than there ever has been from
the beginning of the war. England not only does pot MOM
to interfere, but has done, and will probably continue to do
everything in her power to prevent France from intervening.
The English people are favourable to the South, but thus
far the English government has not sympathised with the
South. and has pursued a policy little less than openly
hostile. England has withheld France, and opened the
English ports to the Federal for the purchase of arms and
ammunitions of war, while she knew the South could not
obtain them.

One brigadier-general, one colonel, a major, ten
captains, and 24 lieutenants of General Pope's army
are at present iu Richmond as prisoners.
General Halleck has issued orders that officers
and men will be held accountable for all property
taken from the enemy. Officers or men taking pro-
perty without authority will be shot.
A new military department has been created,
composed of the States of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,
Indiana, Missouri, and Kentucky, east of Ten-
nessee River, including Cumberland Gap, to be
called the department of Ohio, under the com-
mand of General Wright.
A mass meeting has been held in Brooklyn. The
usual war apeecbes were delivered, and resolutions
were passed in favour of the war and denouncing
mediation.

It is reported that General Butler will be re-
lieved from the command at New Orleans, and
that General John A. Dix will he appointed in his
place. Mr. Reverdy Johnson will be appointed
provisional Governor of Louisiana.
A semi-official Washington despatch says that Mr.
Reverdy Johnson has made a report to the Federal
Government upon the points which be lately went
to New Orleans to examine, and that President
Lincoln baa approved his conclusions. He recom-
mended the return to the Dutch consul of the
800,000 dollars seized by General Butler, and the
payment to the French consul of 716,000 dollars,
and also that a large amount of sugar and other
merchandise should be relinquished to Britiab,
Greek, and other foreign merchants in New
Orleans.

Mr. Johnson declares that these seizures by
General Butler canuot be justified by civil or mili-
tary law.

ITALY.

(ROM On OWN CORILISPONDINT.)
TURLN, Allover 27.

A few days ago, whilst the Princess Pia was sit-
ting for her portrait, the King entered the room to
see bow the work was going on. The Princess
asked her father was there news of Garibaldi. The
painter did not catch the whole of the King's reply,
but he beard these words, " Poor Garibaldi, they
have driven him to commit an act of insanity,
abusing his lion heart. The f►ult is not wholly
his, and they have compromised me also." These
words were repeated by the painter, and reached
the ears of Signor Rattazzi, who was greatly discon-
certed by them, thinking that they implied a cen-
sure upon the ministry. He hastened therefore to
the King to justify himself by showing that he bad
done everything for the advantage of the Crown,
but the King changed the subject without deigning
to explain himself more clearly. The affair has
put the President of the Council and his colleagues
in a bad humour.

Count Avogadvo and Signor Girod di Nines,
the commanders of the two frigates that allowed
Garibaldi to pass freely out of the port of Catania,
have been arrested, and will be tried by court-mar-
tial ; but these excellent officers will, probably,
have very good answers to give to the charge
against them. General Cialdini, who is too old a
fox to be caught in a trap, insisted on having
written and very explicit orders before his dew-
tare, not choosing to rely on any given by word of
mouth. Perhaps it was the want of precise instruc-
tions that paralysed the action of the two naval
officers. Was the blockade officially notified to
them ? Were they authorised to stop vessels under
the English or French Hag 1 There questions have
yet to be answered.

FRACAS AT THZ 00111IZZCIAL NLRB Room AT
Lunn —oe Saturday, the magistrates sitting at the Town
Hall, Leeds, beard • complaint mode by Yr. Charles
Hindle, cashier, that Mr. Jobe Jas. Cousins, of the Lee
dsDiscount Bank, l'arir•row, on •the 15th inst., had threatened
to smelt his. Mr. Hindle said, oo the evening
of that day be was celled out of the Commercial
News Booth by Mr. Cousins, who charged him with
baring stated that be had lost • large sum of
money by • firm which had faded ; he said it was • groat
lie, denounced him (Mr. Hindle) as • little scoundrel, and
threateeed that if he heard the report again he would horse-
whip him. Afterwards be told him to aormider Lime&
well horsewhipped. Mr. 00011124 admitted the charge, but
said such an unfounded rumour was calculated to injure him
seriously a. • banker. The magistrates required the deka-
duet to find bail for six mouth&
THZ BRITISH Muszmi.—On Saturday a notice
was fixed up at the British Museum, intimating to the publio
that the establiabmest will be dosed this day, the Ist of
September, and will continue alined up to Monday, the Bth.
After that it will be rined three days a week, ft Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday. The bears of admnsice will be,
se heretofore, from 10 ads. to b tliaos the opens' of
the International Exhibition the different departments of
this national iostitutioe hale .been crowded with country
hag bide !hike&

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