The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-16 00:00:00

WAR NEWS.

General Burnside has visited Washington and
had an interview with the President. He has re-
turned to the army.
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The Confederate cavalry have crossed the Rap-
pahannock and captured two entire companies of
Federal cavalry. .

Five Federal gunboats are reported to have pro-
ceeded up the Rappahannock and anchored opposite
King George's Court-house.
A successful cavalry reconnaissance has been
made from General Sigel's army, in which forty
Confederate cavalry were captured.

The legislature of Alabama has placed 1,000,000
dollars at the disposal of the Governor, and has
authorised him to impress one-tenth of the negroes
in Alabama to erect defences. The negroes will at
once commence to obstruct the channels leading
into Mobile Bay and in the rivers above the city.
The Southern journals assert that the Federal!'
in West Tennessee have forbidden the farmers to
plant anything but cotton.
The Federal army of the South-west has com-
menced a general advance from Memphis and
different parts of Mississippi.
Preparations are being made at New Orleans for
an advance by land and water up the Mississippi.
General Halleck's report contains a letter from
General M'Clellan, iu which he strenuously
opposes the removal of the army from the Peninsula
to Acquia Creek, declaring that the same would be
fatal to the Union cause.

Seven transports and two iron-clad steamers have
sailed from Fortress Monroe under sealed orders.
The Confederates appear to have left the section
of the country north of the Rappahannock.
The Federal expedition which had sailed from
Suffolk, Virginia, has recaptured the Federal bat-
tery taken some time since, and has driven the Con-
federates across the Blackwater River.

The Federal gunboat EUia was blown up during
the expedition up the New River, North Carolina,
to prevent falling into the hands of the Confede-
rates. .

The Federal commander has informed the autho-
rities of Fredericksburg that as long as no hostile
demonstration was made from Fredericksburg he
should not shell the town.

General Stonewall Jackson is reported to have
joined General Lee at Fredericksburg.
The Confederates are working on the defenses of
Fredericksburg, and the Federal° are erecting for-
tifications commanding the Confederate positions.
The Confederates have captured a train of Fe-
deral waggons with ordnance stores, in Virginia.
The naval expedition under General Banks has
sailed ; its destination is still a secret.
Federal General Grant continues to advance in
Mississippi, and has occupied Abbeville, which had
been abandoned by the Confederates.
The Federal expedition which went up the Mis-
sissippi has discovered that the crop of cotton re-
maining in the States of Mississippi, Louisiana,
and Arkansas has been over estimated. The
destruction of cotton having been very con-
siderable, only a few thousand bales remain in the
counties bordering the river. The new crop will
be very small.
The Southern journals urge retaliation for the
outrages and plundering committed by General
Burnside's army in Virginia.
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Secretary of the Navy has informed the'
Chamber of Commerce that there is no authority
to permit private vessels to cruise for privateers.
It is rumoured that the Alabama burnt another
barque on the 19th November, in lat. 41,
long. 66.16.
General Fitz John Porter is on trial at Washing-
ton for not obeying General Pope's orders.
During the trial a letter was read from General
WClellan, written during Pope's campaign, urging
General Porter to give his whole support to Gen.
Pope, for the sake of the country.
Nearly all the Democratic candidates have been
elected at New York city election.
The British frigate Ariadne has arrived st New
York.

The Hibernian has arrived out.
The China and Saxonia have arrived out.

Advices from Lasparre, in the Gironde, men-
tion the largest Wes of wine duelsg the pressut )ear. The
produce of Chateau Witte, Chita= Latour, sad Chateau
Margaux has bees mold at 4,000 fr. the 912 litres. PauMaa
sad St. Bdeplie brought 1,400(r. ; Gime, from Sootr. ho
895 fr. ; sad St. Limbed, 800 f r. There are several buyers
is Lower Madoe, who are owlsavogniag to purchaaa at
the prices quoted bnandiately after the vintage, bat the
wine.greweis declare their determination net to sell at law
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It appears that the late M. Verbagen, the former
President of the Belgian Chamber, whose fairer.' the other
day was attended by all the public authorities and the
greater part of the populace of Brumlr, gave special ne.
Amnions on his deathbed that the clergy were ere to per•
ticipate in the ceremony of interment. This injunction wan
carried oat, although several addresses were delivered at hie
grave by distinguished public men in Belgium.
Advicee from Lyons state that the sale of raw
silk is difficult there. The merchants of Lyons, taking into
consideratioa the great increase in the quantity of foreign
silk imported into Prance, have decided, its mil, on
building storehouses for lie reception. Japan produced
3,000 bales of silk, being more than the produce of
France and Italy. The East produces 300,000 bales. The
greater part of these silks arrive in London by the Cape
of Good Hope, but it is expected that when the canal
across the Isthmus of Sues is completed (if it ever be
completed) silk from the East will first arrive in Fnue.
Some considerable purchaser of foreign silks were made at
Marseilles last week.
Mr. William Cope Deacon, having taken the cue.
teener, oaths, was yesterday admitted a proctor of the
Court of Arches by virtue of • remeript of his Grace the
Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Circassian Committee met last night, at the
Ship Hotel, Charing-aose, Mr. E. &aloe, of Ligeoln'eden.
in the chair, and resolved that a public meeting be held
immediately before the meeting of Parliament.
ArgsziceN SIAVERY. —A public meeting for the
purposed expreming sympathy with the oppoesota
slavery is America was held last evening in Wields
Chapel, Exmouth-street, Clarkenwelt, the Her. T. F.
Thereeby ie the chair. Mr. George Thompson, the Rev.
.1. W. Muds, sod Yr. Washingtee Wilke attended
depilation from the Emanoipattoe Society. Some inter'
*Ain speeches were delivered by the above gentlemen, by
the Rev. W. Elliott, of Stern Leone, sod others, and nu-
lutioes were agreed to deprecatory of the slave institut
ionsions
in the Southern States of America. The meeting
I tally attended.