The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-01 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(aserna's rsonoaues.)
ARRIVAL OF THE CUBA.
The Royal Mall steamship Cuba, from New
York on the 22nd inst., arrived at Queenstown at
5 p.m. to-day (March 31), with 53 passengers. She
landed 115 sacks of mails and nine paseengere, and
proceeded for Liverpool at 5.10 p.m. All well.
NEW TORE, lance 22, Woos.
Sherman left Fayetteville on the 14th, and was
searching on Goldsboro', after destroying the cot-
ton mills and the arsenal containing all the material
taken from Harper's Ferry. Unreliable reports as-
sert that Sherman had occupied Goldsboro' and
formed a junction with Schofield, while other reports
assert that the Confederates bad evacuated Golds-
boro', and moved towards Virginia.
The Richmond Sentinel publishes a rumour that
four diviaious of Sherman's army had been repulsed
near Fayetteville, on the 16th, with heavy lam.
Hardee retreated from Fayetteville with 26,000
abut. whom it was milowilleiliat
wee In soeserand, having brought with him a
large fore, from Richmond.
Sherman's and fichofield's armies were repairing
supplies up the Neuss River. The Herald says
that Sherman's army is in pomession of three4lths
of the personal property el the counties through
which he has passed.
Beauregard and Johnston are said to be com-
mending before Rishinseni.
Sheridan has arrived at Whitehouse. On the
18th he moved to join Grant, and destroyed all the
bridges of the Jame River between Lynchburg and
Riehmend, and all the railroad bridges between
Mantes and Charlottesville.
The Secretary of War at Richmond has autho-
rised the reining of compesdas of coloured midi=
for lasonediate eunice. Me meounnends theorising
of slaves, bet opposes their emancipation.
The fall in gold has seriously affected trade
throughout the founts?, and several failures have
taken place. The Government Simptiate nm
In-
favourrably affeeted. 20,000,000 dole. of &Ws
remain unsold. It is reported that MacCulloch
Will not immediately anticipate the May interest
payable in gold on the bonds. The New York
Tribono announces, "on the highest authority,"
• that Mr. MacCulloch will issue no more gold-bees-

ing hoods.
The World says Grant believed Ril
would be evacuated in ten days. .s
The Ewald states that owing•to thissienmY stops
of *halm at Richmond, Les and Davis bid deter-
edited to abandoa the ousted
Davis has decided to leave the arbitrament ques-
tion to Lee and Grant. Seward end Lincoln bald
a eossultation over the latter proposal, Seward
favouring and Lincoln opposing it.
TiceTribrue says that Les informed Davis it was
impounds for him (Lee) to make heed spinet the
forges ooncentrating for his overthrow.
The Richmond beaks have, in anticipation of the
government, seemed their gold, disposing of the
same for the redemption of their notes in cireala-

tion.
The Augusta paper says that Stephens has sot
e& SIM. taw last awe feint Googlies JO Ids
allows will not continuo.
A large popular meeting has bean held at
mingtoo. At the call of the Mayor, resolutions
were passed that the rebellion was hopeless, and
that the people would do everything to restore
North Carolina to the Union.
Martial law is abolished in Missouri.
The destructive floods throughout the conotry are
subsiding. The York Central Railroad bridge at
Rochester has been swept away ; the Erie Rail-
road injured for a distance of one hundred miles ;
and property to the value of several millions has
bees destroyed in Rochester.
. pO,OOO lbs. of Sea Island cotton have arrived at
Now York front the Bahamas.
A privateer was reported to be off Nassau on the
14th I her name is supposed to be Confederate
States.
The Talahasses was at Bermuda on the 11th
leader a new name.
The blockade runner Bat boa been captured.
The steamer Colossi Lamb ran into Cialveekas
and carried out 1,500 bales of cotton.
The steamer Golden Gate left San Francisco on
the 13th with 1,140,000 dols. in specie, of which
300,000(1okt. are for New York, and the remainder
far Mexico and Eagles&
Victoria had opened the coasting trade to foreign
relish on. equal terms with British ships.
Thestemners CST of London, City of Washington,
City of Cork, and Borussia have arrived out.
CORNERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW TOM, Ikoo, Nook.
Mosey easy. The panic in gold continua, the
price declining yesterday to 153. The latest Too-
titian to-day is 1571. Exchange on London, 1703;
on Paris, 3283. Stocks depressed. New York
Central, 100 ; Illinois, 101* ; Erie, 613 ; 5.20
Roads, 106 g. Cotton MIL Middling Upland, 60c.
62e. Flour, wheat, core, and provisions declining.
Coffee, sugar, and molasses very dull. Petroleum
dull : crude, 33 ; refined, 66.
MEXICO.

The Emperor Maximilian's Minister of Finance
bee arrived at Matamoros. Lopez has somesdad
3iojia, who has 14 for the city of Marion on Isere
of absence for Mx months.