The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-27 00:00:00


THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER n, 1862.

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ORBOIL 4, Duo. 26.
Her Majesty drove out in the grounds this morn-
ing.

LATB3T INTELLIGENOK:f-

(Rrovia's numax.)
AMERICA.

A deputation from the vestry of the parish of St. Pancras,
Yids'lmes, had an interview with the Right Hon. Sir
George Grey yesterday, and pressated a memorial to the
Secretary of State for the Home Department, calling atten-
tion to the prevalence of robberies with violence to the per.
son and other outrages in the public streets, and be-gltries.
The members of the deputation were Mr. Farrer, Mr.
Roes, Mr. Paris, and Mr. Plow, vestry-clerk.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colosial-offios
from the Governors of Canada, Malta, the Lord High
Commisaionsr of the lonian Islands, and from the Gover-
nors of Ceylon and Hong Kong. Despatches were sent to
the Governor of Gibraltar.

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GREAT BATTLE AND RETREAT OF THE

FEDERALB.

QUEENSTOWN, Dso. 2T.

The Roysi Mail steamship Chins, from New York
on the 17th inst., arrived here at L9O a.m., with 60
passengers and 395,000 Bola. in specie. She landed
67 sacks of mails, and proceeded for I'velpool at
12 a.m. All well

The China was detained off the land eight bouts
by the fog.

NEW YORK, Dm 17, Nomura.
General Burnside, with hiz whole army, has

The Marquis of Lansdowne is entertaining a

family party atitowood. Amongst the company are Count
and Countess de Fialsault and Miss Elpbinstone de SU-
built, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Mr. and Lady
Louisa Howard, Ito.
The Earl Delawarr, who has been suffering from
indisposition for some days past, is now much better.
The Countess Cowper is entertaining a select
party at Panshanger, Herts.
Lord and Lady Southampton have strived at the
Clarendon Hotel from Wbittlebury Lodge, Northampton-
shire.

evacuated Fredericksburg and recrossed the Rap-
pahannock.
The movement commenced at dark on Monday
night. The artillery crossed first, and the last of
the infantry brought up the rear soon after daylight.
The heavy rainstorm and the darkness appear to
have prevented the Confederates from perceiving
the Federal movement. All the wounded were
brought across the pontoon bridges, which have
been raised, and all communication between the

Lord and Lady Tredegar are entertain'ig a Bun-
combe of visitors at their seat, Trrdsgar House, Monmouth-
shire.
Lord Henry and Lady Ulric& Thymic, have left
Maiden Bradley for Worthing.
Sir Culling and Wu Bardley have ani►ed at
Olaridgeh Hotel from Bedwe" Park.

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two shores of the Rappahannock cut off. The
river is rapidly rising.
It appears that the engagement of the 13th inst.
was a general battle, in which all the divisions were
engaged, resulting in the failure of the Federals to
accomplish their object.

Lord Ashburton last evening was somewhat
better.

The Federal loss is not exactly known. The
estimates range from 8,000 to 20,000 k"led and

The Oxford Chronicle contradicts a statement
that Mr. J. H. Langston is about to resign bin seat for
that city in consequence of failing health. Mr. Langston's
health is so much improved that the hon. member will be
able to attend his parliamentary duties at the noromanoc-
ment of the ensuing session. _ _

wounded. No estimate is given of the Confederate
lose, but as they fought nearly entirely behind en-
trenchments it is supposed to be comparatively
small.
The press generally attribute the Federal defeat

The death toot place on Wednesday, at King's
Cliffe, of the Vim. Henry Kay Bonney, D.D., rector of
King's Cigfe, Archdeacon of Lincoln, and Canon &el-
dentistry,
The folloning comparative estimates of univer-
sity expenses, taken from Mr. Latham for Cambt:dge, and
from Professor Rogers for Oxford, are interesting.
The cantion-mouey for ordinary students is, at Cambridge
151., at Oxford 301. The average cost of obtaining a degree,
including fees and outfit, but independent of annual expen.
diture, is about the same at both universities, and may be

to the bad management of the War Department.
General Burnside is but little censured, as the
responsibility of his movement is attributed to the
Federal Cabinet, the immediate reconstruction of
which is urged by the press.
The Federal expeditions wbich left Helens and
Memphis for the Mississippi, have rani Jed to their
point of departure without obtaining any material
result.

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Several steamers have been Been south-east of Cape

dated at between era. and fio/. The avenge annual amount
of college bills is 1037. at Oxford, 901. at Cambridge. An
under-graduate's annual expenses, neitber stint( nor ex-
travagant, but some margin being allowed, lel be at Oxford
2007., at C.miln:dge 1801.

Hatteras, and passing Port Royal, bound south. It
is supposed that they belong to General Barks's
expedition. It is rumoured that he will operate in
the Gulf, and replace General Butler at New

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" It is not easy to understand," says the Army
and Nary Gazette, " bow the Confederate troops are

Orleans.
The report' of troops landing in North Carolina
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in such good condition and efficient order, but the testimony
of the British officers who have lately visited the Southern
army goes to show they are admirably organised, full of
spirit, and well equipped. Colonel Woheley, • very com-
petent judge, notwlthstand;og hie youth, whose experience
has been large and varied, bee forum' • very high opinion
of their state as a fighting body. Means. Wynn, Garden,
and other officers have left Canada wit'i the view of getting

is not credited. One ghastlier of Banks's expedition
put into Port Royal disabled, and another has re-
turned disabled to Philadelphia.
Twelve Federal regiments have left Newbein,
North Carolina, it is supposed for an attack on
Weldon.

Three hundred Confederate cavalry have aga'n

to Richmond, if possible, and several British officers have
contrived to run the blockade, and have been almost as
well received as their comrade* have been in the Faeral
camps."
Mr. Benedict's composition for next year's Nor-
wich Festival is anuesinccd to be a cantata.
The Popular Concerts will be resumed on the
13th of next mootb.

dashed into Mai/land, and retired, after doing some
damage.
President Davis is travelling in Tennessee, where
he has made speeches stating that he left the issue
io Virginia with General Lee, and that his own pre-
sence was not needed in the south-west. At
Murfreeebro' be declared that Tennessee must be

The meetings of scientiio societies for the
week ensuing are :—Mondav, Actuaries, 7, "Rates of
Mortality and Marriage of Europeans and Indians," Mr.
Brown.—Tuesday, Royal Institution, 3, " Air and Water"
(Juvenile Lecture), Prof. Frankland.—Thursday, Royal
Institution, 3, " Air and Water" (Juven"e Lecture), Prof.
Fraokland.—Friday, Itori Academy, 8, " Architeoturs,"
Prof. Smirke ; Philologic A.—Saturday, Royal Institu-
tion, 3, " Air and Water" (Juvenile Lectim), Prof.
Frankknd.

held at all hazards.
It is said that President Davis will concentrate
his troops on the west bank of the Mississippi, and
will hold conferences with the Confederate genera"
iu Arkansas.
The Governor of Virginia has addressed a letter
to the .Richinond Whig, stating that Virginia will
never entertain any proposition from any quarter
having for its object the restoration of the Union

A special general meeting of the Geological So-
ciety will be held previous to the ordinary meeting, on the
evening of January 7, 1863, to consider certain proposed
alterations in the constitution of the moiety relating to ft.
reign members, and the future Flare of meeting.
K Ingrea is engaged to draw, for the Life of
Julius Crave by Mspoleon the Wird. • best of Caner
barred upon all existing authorities. "This play," says the
Atliencettm, "of compiling • portrait from various sor-me
is not quite novel, end is certainly very absurd. Some years
ago the same sort of trick was practised &pipit Shake.
pears"
The great Constantine Simoniden (says the Plus-
grated London New) has turned up again, and acmes Pro-
fessor Titchendorf of passing of m original manuscript of
the Codex Sinaiticus sundry excerpts tranacr:lri, proprio
mann, by 'him, Simonides, when employed as caligraphist
or caligrepher (run a r attire • e dig) to a Oreek monastery
at Mount Athos. The Tirchendorfites fiercely deny the
charge of Simonidea, and the pundit of pe'seolographs re-
' torts, and a pretty little paper war is bear kept up.
A Berlin correspondent writes :—" The appear-
ance of the fifth and lust volume of Humboldt's 'Cosmos'
is, I regret to say, not the literary event it had been ex-
pected to be by the adm,rers of the greet philosopher. Of
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on any terms or conditions whatever.
The Richmond Examiner considers it extreme
absurdity to suppose that any Confederate state
would listen to the proposal contained in President
Lincoln's message to Congress.
The Alabama returned to Martinique on the
26th, and was taking in coal from a British barque
in harbour.
The ship George Griswold is loading with grain
for the Lancashire operatives. The relief fund
now reaches 160,000 dohs.
The New York National War Committee has
petitioned Congress to authorise the granting of
commissions to private armed vessels to capture
the Alabama and similar cruisers, and to offer a
reward for their capture.
A resolution has been introduced in the Fede-
ral Congress instructing the Committee on Foreign
Affairs to inquire whether some method cannot be
adopted to show the sympathy of Congress with
the Lancashire operatives.
The House of Representatives has adopted a

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the bulky contents of this posthumous tome, but one huu .
1 resolution stating that, in their judgment, there
dyed pages belong to the author, thi-ty or forty being de-
should be no legislation changing the law providing
voted to a treatise on volcanos, while the rest is fil'ed with
explicit remarks on ga 'logical strata. As regards the re. for the payment of interest on the public debt in
maining portion of the book, it is entirely taken up with coin.
a general index of the preceding volumes—a production Another resolution, authorising the Secretary of
of stupendous industry, from the pen of Dr. Buschman, the Treasury to pay in coin the bonded public debt
who had been entrusted with the teak by the author
himself." due previous to January, 1862, was referred to the
Committee of Ways and Means.
We read in the Frankfort Journal that the
A bill has been introduced reducing the duty on
colonel commanding the Faustian Brandenburg Fusilier
Regiment, No. 35, has published a regimental order an- paper to 10 per cent.
nouncing that every soldier of his corps who should possess The Committee of Ways and Means have been
or read the Berlin Volk. Zeitung would be punished with instructed to inquire into the expediency of increas-
e week's close arrest. The sentence, the letter adds, has
regi.
just been carried out in the case of three unfair tunate lug the duty on foreign goods not of prime necessity,
so that the importation of foreign goods shall not
mental tailors who had transgressed the new commandment
exceed the amount of American manufactures and
of their chief.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer growth exported exclusive of specie.
Colombo was lost in the Indian Ocean about the same time The House of Representatives has endorsed Fre-
itag the Royal Mail steamer Avon was lost at the extreme sident Lincoln's emancipation proclamation by a
western verge of the Atlantic. vote of 78 to 51.
MASTER ATrENDANTS or DOCKYARDS.—We tin- Mr, Conway (Republican), of Kansas, has intro-
&inland it to be in contemplation to retire forthwith all
traduced a resolution, in effect dissolving the
the master attendants of dock and victualling yards who
have served ten years in those appointments. Ouch a Union, and acknowledging the Southern Confede-
proceeding will be but just to the class of masters who now ray, It was laid on the table, Mr. Conway, alone,
see the most eligible appoiutments monopolised by 11001(1 of .
in its favour.
the existing holders of them.—United Seri-ice Gazette. voting
THE AxmsrsoNo AND WHITWORTH GUNS.—The The steamer Champion, from Aspinwall, has ar-
committee appointed to test the merits of the Armstrong rived at New York with 700,000 dole, in specie.
and Whitworth guns will consist of the following officers :
Major-General Himalaya, inspector-general of infantry, me. The steamers Antonin& and Leopard, from Char-
Major-General•
; Colonel Taylor, R.A., commandant of the school of , leston, on the 22nd, have arrived at Nassau.
gunner.; Major Young, R.A.' director of artillery studies; I
Colonel Simmons, C. 8., R. E. ;Captain Erectly, C. 8., R.N. ; 1 Plymouth, North Carolina, has been destroyed
sad Commander Singer, R.N., with Captain Dyer, ILA., by by fire.
wortierY• It is to be ()beer" that the members have The Great Eastern has been inspected, and again
, sot previously served on similar inquiries, and are free
' from official bias an regards the merits of either invert.. declared sea-worthy.
Lion. We understand that, by order of the War COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
department, six 110-ponnders on the Armstrong brava.
loading principle, are immediately to be constructed at the NEW YORK, Dxic. 16, Erman°.
Ral Arsenal, Woolwich, and in their manufacture steel Money abundant. Gold, 32k. Exchange on
ooj, prepared according to the method lately noticed by London, 145 g. Stocks buoyant. New York
us, are to be used. Mr. Whitworth is busily slimed, we
uuderatand, at Southport, in carrying out experiments with . Centrals, 103 ; Illinois, 78f ; Erie, 61f. Cotton
a view of perfecting his gun, which is to be tested against
one of Sir William Armetrong's of similar weight, fro. . firmer. Provisions dull. Coffee,
corn el ightly quiet ; middling Upland, 67c. Flour, wheat, and
We are informed that the Admiralty have authorised him
to send iu a monthly account of his expenditure, so that it
,sugar, and molasses quiet.
may be settled ; and they have also directed Captain
Inglefield, of the Majestic, coast guard ship at Liverpool, to
supply him with any number of seamen he may require to
assist in the manipulation of the artillery under trial.—

The Times published the following telegram :
NEW YORK., D 50.17.

Army and Nary &aunt.
DONATION FROM HER MAJLOTY.—The ROT. S. B. The battle before Fredericksburg on Saturday was
Craig, of Mariners' Church, Hull, has received the follow- one of the fiercest, and decidedly the most oolo-
n; letter ;—" Sir Charles Phipps has received the com-
mand of her Majesty the Queen to forward to the Rev. I mitous, of the war to the Federal army. The troops
1 Stewart Craig the inclosed post.office order for three ponixhi, , fought with the most determined courage, but
payable to him, and to deans that be will have the goodness General Lee's position on the heights commanding
to heed the amount to Mrs. Harriet Harding, as a donation "
from her Majesty, to assist her after her confinement of we city Wa2 impregnable.
three children at ire° birth ; that circumstance having been I The Federal Generals Bayard and Jackson were
brought under her Meleetv's notice is consequence of an killed, and General Meagher, of the Irish Brigade,
application from' r. Locking is Mrs. Harding's behalf,— • •
AY wounded.
Buckingham Palace, Dec. 20, 1562."—8a1l Packet.

The %deml attack was repulsed with the
heaviest slaughter, admittcl to amount to 10,000
men, and, by some reports, asserted to be at least
[double that number. _

The struggle was not renewed on Sunday or
Monday, the Federal' being busily engaged on both
days in removing the wounded and burying the
dead.

On Monday night, after a short and earnest
council of war, General Burnside issued orders to
rearms the Rappahannock. The movement was
safely effected in the darkness, amid a storm of
wind and rain, the Confederates offering no
opposition, and being, probably, unaware of the
movement.

The army of the Potomac is now encamped in
Falmouth and the vicinity, and the winter campaign
is believed to be at an end.

Great discontent prevails at Now York and
Washington. The President is called upon to
dismiss General Haneck and Secretary Stanton.
General Burnside is blamed for undertaking a
movement against his own judgment, and which he
is said to have expressly disapproved in an inter-
view with the President, the War Secretary, and
General Halleck.

General M'Clellan received a telegram from
Washington yesterday afternoon, and left far that
city in the evening. The object of the summons is
not known. It is surmised that he will be again
offered the command of the army of the Potomac,
and that he will refuse unless he have full power
to carry out his own object without interference
from the War Department or any other quarter.
There is no truth in the ;report that General
Banks's expedition has landed in North Carolina,
and marched upon Weldon and Petersburg. The
flotilla has been spoken on its way to Gulf
Mexico.

A body of Confederate cavalry, 2,000 strong,
under General Wade Hampton, entered Dumfries
on Friday, and captured the Federal picket guard,
the telegraphic operators, and destroyed and car.
tied off a large quantity of stores.
Gold reached a premium of 33 per cent. yester-
day on the news of the defeat of General Burnside.
Mr. Jefferson Davis has visited the Confederate
army in Tennessee. He made a speech at Knox-
ville on the morning of Thursday last.
General Rceencrans is between Nashville and
Murfreeeborough, at the head of a large force, and
General Grant is at Oxford, on the line of the Mis-
sissippi Central Railroad.
The visit of the Southern President had led to
a change in the relative positions of both armies,
and important movements are daily expected to
result.
The Great Eastern has been efficiently repaired,
and is now ready to return to Europe.