The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-26 00:00:00

Muntoe, to supersede General Butler in command
of that post.
• The New Ymk Herald makes the following im
ptabsble statement :
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The offer made by Garibaldi to our government laf bit
services has been accepted, and he is to receive the rank of
Major• General in our army. His name and presence will
be of immense value to the Union 011 MOS. They will prows
to the English and French government that it has the
sympathy of the friends of human freedom throughout the
world, and that any interference in favour of the South will
expose them to a severe retribution at their hands.

The following European consular appointments
had been made :—To Glasgow, John S. Pretti-
man, of Delaware ; to Londonderry, Thomas
McCunu, of New York ; to Revel, Henry B. Stacy,
of Vermont ; to Paris, John Bigelow, of New
York ; to Leghorn, Andrew J. Stevens ; to Am-
sterdam, F. J. Mauna.

Reliable information received from St. Thomas
state that the notorious privateers Sumpter and Jeff.
Davis were located, the former at Curacoa, and
the latter at St. John's, Porto Rico.
The Minister of the Interior was about to pay a
visit to New York in order to attend a meeting of
the United States marshals, to confer with them as
to the beet means of more effectually suppressing
the slave trade.

The Confederate Congress at Richmond passed,
on the Bth inst., several important bills. The first
is entitled "An act further to provide for the
public defence," and authorises the president of
the Southern Confederacy to ask for and
accept the services of 400,009 men, to serve
for a period of not less than twelve months,
nor for more than three years. The second act
is for the extension of the army organisation over
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware, and
authorises the President to commission officers to
raise and command volunteer regiments and bat-
talions, to be composed of persons, who are, or have
been, residents of these States.
The third act declares, that all male adult in-
habitants of the Southern States, and not citizens
thereof, shall in time of war be liable to
arrest and removal as alien enemies, provided
that the act shall not " extend to citizens
of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky,
Missouri, and of the district of Columbia, and the
territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and the
Indian territory south of Kansas, who shall not be
chargeable with actual hostility or other crime
against the public safety, and who shall acknow-
ledge the authority of the government of the Con-
federate States."

Section 3 of this act provides that immediately
after its passage, the President shall, by proclama-
tion, require all adult male citizens acknowledging
the authority of the United States within the limits
of the Southern Confederacy to depart thence in
forty days, and that such persons remainingtshall
be liable to be treated as alien enemies. Iu case
these persons are not chargeable with ac-
tual hostility, the President shall prescribe
such time for their removal as may be consistent
with public safety, the dictates of humanity, and
national hospitality.
Tus Kr.sTucKy ELIA:110N. —According to the
returns given in tee latest Kentucky papers, the
Senate, as far as heard from, stands 26 Union, and
2 secession ; and the Lower House, 58 Union, to
17 seoesaion.