The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-22 00:00:00

j EirtESSi, AUBSDAjr EVENING. APRIL 22, 1882::

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LATEST iNTELL IGOINCE.
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o: ITALY. •

A petition, bearing 36,000 sigoatures, has just
been placed In the hands of Sir James Hudson by
two deputies of the Italian parliament, imploring
the diplomatic assistance of England in securing the
evacuation of Rome by the French troops.
M. Pallaviocino has just left Turin for
Palermo, of which place he has been appointed
prefect. General Garibaldi has sent the following
letter in anticipation :

TO THI PALEBINITANN.

Georges Pallevicrino, my heart's friend, is leaving for
Sicily, appointed to the government of the island—e good
augury for a heave people. In recommending to the
city of berricades the martyr of Spielberg, the veteran of
Italia& liberty, I fulfil a very precious duty, dictated by my
heart.—Yours for life, G. GAILSALDI.

Count de Chambord has just left Venice for
Rome, on a visit to the ex-King Francis.

NZOTZWII

TURIN, Ann 22.

The Doha of to-day announces that a French
squadron has received orders to repair to Genoa to
escort the King to Naples.
It is further stated that an English squadron has
received similar orders.

General Gloyon has been directed to go to Naples
to compliment the King on his arrival in that city.

GREW&

NAUPLIA, Aram 113 (vi► Corfu).
1,230 royal troops entered the fortress of Nau-
plia to-day.
Order was immediately re-established.
VIENNA. APRIL 22.

Despatches received at the Greek Embassy here
confirm the intelligence of the entry of the royal
troops into Nauplia on the 20th inst.

AMERICA. .

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NEW YORK, Aram 9, Nominee,.
(Per steamer China, rid Reohe's Point.)
An extensive engagement has been fought
near Corinth.

The Confederates, under Generals Beauregard
and Johnstone, attacked the Federate, and
at first had a decided advantage, but the Federal'
having meived reinforcements, the Confederates
retreated to Corinth. The Federate are reported
to have lost 20,000 men in killed, wounded, and
prisoners. The loss of the Confederates is esti-
mated at 35,000 men. General Johnstone we.
killed and General Beauregard wounded. The
Federal General Prentiss was captured.

NEW YORK, Aram 8, Evramta.
Flag-officer Foote reports that Island No. 10
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surrendered to-day to the Federal gunboats.
An important engagement is said to have taken
place at Corinth.
A Norfolk paper of the 7th inst. contains a

despatch from Mobile, dated 6th inst., stating that
a battle had been fought at Corinth, and that the
Confederates captured eight Federal batteries ands
large number of prisoners. No Northern account
of the fight has yet been received.
The Federal army under General M'Clellan,
which is supposed to number from 100,000 to
150,000 men, arrived in front of the Confederate
works at Yorktown on the sth inst.

The Confederate position is said to be strong, ex-
tending two miles in length. The batteries are
mounted with heavy guns. The ground in front is
low and swampy, which renders it impassable.

The Fadershi commenced au attack with artil-
lery, which was replied to by the Confederate bat-
teries. The cannonading on both sides was with-
out any material result.
Advice' from Fort Monroe state that nothing
had yet been dune in front of Yorktown. General
WGrader with 30,000 Confederates occupies York-
town; but it is supposed that the place cannot hold
out against the immense force of men and artil-
lery under General Waellan.
The British steamer Phaeton is reported to have
arrived on the Rio Grande. The commander is
said to have stated that his mission was to keep
open the navigation of the Rio Grande at all
hazards.

The steamer Hibernian has arrived out.
NEW YOB.K, Arm 9, Noiurnia.

The battle near Corinth commenced on the
morning of the oth inst., and lasted all day. The
Confederates, having the largest force, gained the
advantage. They were reported to number 60,000
men. The battle was, however, renewed at day-
break on the 7th by the Federals, who having
been reinforced during the night by General Buell
with a large body of troops, attacked
the Confederates, who were compelled to
fall back, and at four o'clock in the
afternoon retreated to Corinth, pursued by
the Federal cavalry. Generals Bragg, Brecken-
ridge, and Jackson commanded the position of the
Confederates.
No official account of the loss has been received.
It is supposed, however, to be exaggerated.
Six thousand prisoners and 100 siege guns are
reported captured at Island No. 10.
General Halleck reports that not a single life was
lost among the Federate at that island.
The Merrimac and the steamers Jamestown and
Yorktown are waiting at Cranes Island.
The House of Representatives has passed the Tax
Bill, and also a resolution to appoint a committee
of nine to report if a plan can be proposed for
the gradual emancipation of the slaves in Maryland,
Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and
Mississippi. Another resolution was adopted to
extend the inquiry to other States.
A resolution has been introduced for a semi-
monthly statement of the financial position of the
government to be submitted to Congress, and
during the recess a monthly statement to be pub-
lished.

The Chairman of the Ways and Means Com-
mittee estimates that the national debt will amount
to 1,200,000,000 dole., even if the war is ended this
year.

The steamer Etns, from Liverpool, has arrived
out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, Aram 8, Evsxnto.

(Pet Chinseict Roche Point.)

Money easier. Gold 2 per oent. prem. Ha-
change on London very firm, at 112} to 113.
Stocks tending downwards. New York Centrals,
831 ; Illinois Centrals, 62; Erie, 37 1-6. Cotton
very firm. Middling Uplands, 28c. 1,000 bales of
government cotton, ex Magnolia, have been sold to
spinners at 271 c. to 271 c., being an average rise of
lc. Flour tending downwards. Wheat dull. Corn
good inquiry. Provisions buoyant. Coffee quiet.
Sugar unchanged. Molasses steady.

QUBBNSTOWN, Arßn. 21.

The Royal Mail steamship China arrived here
at 1220 p.m. to-day. She left New York on the
9th inst. The China brings 102 passengers and
621,201 dole. in specie. She landed 70 sacks of
mails and 9 passengers, and proceeded at 12.40
p.m. All well. The China experienced severe
easterly weather.

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 14th says :
—" Bills are posted up here announcing excunions to the
Exhibition of London, some by land and some by water, so
as to be adapted to all tastes. One of the most fashionable
of those speculators promises to the public thirty days of
uninterrupted pleasure at Berlin, Paris, and Loudon, with
allthe comfort possible, for 2,000 fr. His programme is most
attractive and complete, and even the Owes Cr. mentioned
to be played at the theatres on certain days. For instance,
at Paris, on the Gth of June, the performance le to be the
Count Ory and the Iftoile k Kr sine, and on the 13th
Robert le Diable. As au additional pleasure, this gentle.
Ulan promisee the company the society of a police officer,
appointed by the superior administration of the capital, ' in
order to cause to be respected everywhere both the engage-
ments entered into, and the character and honour of the
Russian nation.' Is not this latter detail a superfluity r

The clerical journal at Turin called the
Campaaile, which was the most violent organ of the
party, has just mused to appear for want of readers.
There are now only two Ultramontane journals at Turin,
the Armenia and the Piemonte.

The friends of the exiled Sovereigns of Italy are
spin spending large BUMS of money in London and Paris
on journals which they supply with letters, dated Naples
and elsewhere, already translated into English.

It has been already mentioned that a corps of
Genoese volunteers bad offered their services to act
against the bands of brigands in southern Italy. The
Turin journals now state that M. Menotti Garibaldi, the
eldest son of the general, is fined on to command this
corps, the other officers of which will be chosen by the
volunteers themselves.

The Madrid Gazette of the 17th anuouncee that
in consequence of the state of her Majesty's health, the
usual ceremony of entailing the feet and giving • dinner
to the poor will not take place this year, but that each will
receive instead • complete suit of clothes and a sum of
mousy. . .

Owing to the contest between the Merrimac and
Monitor in the United States, and the consequent debates
in parliament on the comparative merits of fortification*
and iron ships, the works at Breakwater Head, in the Isle
of Portland, have been stopped, and it is expected that the
Verne fortifications in that island will not be proceeded
with.