The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-15 00:00:00

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

At Adelaide this year's immigration vote of
25,000/. has passed without opposition.
A preliminary meeting had been held on the
subject of Lancashire distress.
Arrangements were being made with the Vic-
torian Rifle Association for an intercolonial match.

—The bill for incorporating the church of England
is strongly opposed by many members of that
church, and by those of some other denomina-
tions.

QUEENSLAND.

BRISBANE, AvG. 23.

A new Cotton and Sugar Agricultural Company
has been formed by Victorian capitalists, and they
have taken up a large tract of country on the
Hotham river, in the Moreton Bay district, where
they intend to commence operations. There are
fresh news of further disasters to the settlers'
cattle on account of the long-continued drought.
The settlers are now very anxiously waiting for
rain in order that the grass, now almost entirely
disappeared, may again spring up. Busineiss is
I stagnant.

AMERICA.

(ms's TMEGRAMIL)
(Pt Etna, via Roches Point.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 3, EVIIII2IO.
The address of the loyal governors to President
Lincoln has been published.

They pledge their support to the President, de-
clare that the work of restoring the Union shall
not fail, and urge raising a reserve force of 100,000
men for twelve months. They approve the Presi-
dent's emancipation proclamation, and think that
the policy now inaugurated will give speedy triumph
to the Federal arms.

Heavy skirmishing has taken place between
General Buell's advance guard and the Confede-
rates. Buell's army is drawn up in line of battle
at Bardstown, 21 miles from Louisville. An en-
gagement is expected.

A resolution has been introduced in the Confe-
derate Congress that President Lincoln's emanci-
pation proclamation 18 a gross violation of the
usages of war, and should be held up to the execra-
tion of mankind, and counteracted by such severe
retaliatory measures as in the judgment of Presi-
dent Davis may be calculated to secure its with-
drawal or arrest its execution.

Several members favoured hoisting the black
flag, and declaring every citizen in the Southern
Confederacy a soldier authorised to kill every man
found on Confederate soil in arms against the
government.

The resolutions were referred to the Judiciary
Committee.

NEW YORK, Ocr. 4, Moszintc.

The Richmond Enquirer says that President
Lincoln's proclamation will simply drive the
negroes to their destruction. They are cheerful
and happy now, but Lincoln plots their death, for
their insurrection is their swift destruction. Re-
leased from authority the negro is a savage, and
the same ignorance which drives him to destruc-
tion stimulates him to excess.

The same journal says : "Our military opera-
tions are henceforward to assume a grave charac-
ter. Lincoln's new problem destroys all terms be-
tween us, and the next campaign will be a tremen-
dous one, both for the character and the magni-
tude of the hostilities."
The New York World of to-day thinks that the
proclamation will add to the horrors of the war,
and make it twice as difficult to conquer the South,
and events will prove the proclamation to be the
gmatest mistake of the war.
The Southern journals say that M'Clellan's army
is on the south aide of the Potomac, and advancing
by way of Harper's Ferry and Shepherdstovrn.
An engagement is impending. The Confederate
General Lee has made preparations to meet the
enemy.
The Richmond Whig has information that the
entire Confederate loss at the battle of Manassas
was 5,000, and in all engagements in Maryland
from 5,000 to 7,000.
General Beauregard has assumed the command
of the Confederate army in South Carolina and
Georgia.
President Lincoln has passed amoral days in
visiting Harper's Ferry and the Auo •Lon battle-
field, and reviewing the troops.
General Butler has ordered all persons refusing to
take the oath of allegiance to have their names re-
gistered as enemies of the United States. Those
taking the oath will be recommended for pardon.
The Federal General Morgan, who was with his
forces lately at Cumberland Gap, has reached the
Ohio river, opposite Portsmouth.
After November the Ist next no foreign in-
voices will be received for entry at the New York
Custom house unless certified to by consul's certi-
cate at the place of shipment abroad.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Oar. 3, Eva:fix°.

Money abundant. Gold 221 premium. Ex.
change : Bankers' bills, 135 to 136. The excite-
ment in the stock market continues. Speculative
stocks rose 2 to 3 per cent. this afternoon.
New York Central are quoted 105. Illinois, 84 ;

Erie, 56. Cotton quiet. Middling Upland, 56e. to
56}c. Flour advancing Sc. higher. Wheat heavy
and le. lower. Corn quiet. Provisions steady.
Coffee advancing. Sugar quiet. Moliussesi good
inquiry.

LONDONDERRY, Oct. Th.

The Canadian screw-steamer. Nova Scotian,
from Quebec on the 4th inat., has arrived here. Her
news has been anticipated.