The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-04 00:00:00

EXPRE, Effilfil/RDAY EVENING, MAY, 4, 1861.
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THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

Oriental Steam Navigation Company, May 4 :
BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
The Veotia, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at 7 a.m. this day. The mails were to
leave for London atr 10 a.m.
The Elora, with the heavy portion of the mails,
was to leave Malta at 6 p.m. on the Ist, and may
be expected at Southampton on the 10th mst.
The Nepanl, from Mauritius, and the Ottawa,
from Bombay, reached Suez on the 23rd and 26th
respectively.
The Simla, with the London mails of the 20th and
26th February, reached Calcutta on the 4th ApriL

screpuloiiimeiss ; bat then. were limits to its action,
when it violated public decency and insulted the
religion of the state and of the great mass of the
people ; then it was for the law to interfere, and the
articles of the Pietra Infernale now indicted had
been guilty of this offence. He did not come there
to argue theological points, or to question the right
of individuals to believe se they chose, but to
enforce the law and respect for public opinion. The
law had declared the Roman catholic religion to be
the religion of the state, and it must be respected.
I shall not continue a speech which wan marked by
great good sense and moderation, and was very
eloquent. It was received with continued rounds
of applause, and there were some very affecting
moments. The accused was found guilty, and con-
demned to pay a Sue of 400 ducats, and to be
imprisoned three months.

EXPECTED ATTACK ON WASHINGTON.
ELEVEN WAR VESSELS DESTROYED.
QUEENSTOWN, Sainnumy.

The Royal Mail steamship Persia, Captain Jud-
kina, from New York on the 25th April, arrived
here at 6.30 a.m. to-day. She brings 182 pawn-
gess, and diamonds to the value of 20,000 dole.
She landed 12 passengers, and all mails except
those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 7.10 a.m.
All well. The Persia was detained fifteen hours at
New York to receive despatches from Washington.
NEW YORK (via, Qunnrowai), Ann. 25, 2 a.m.

All telegraphic and regular mail communication
between New York and Washington is inter-
rupted.

The Corriere Mercantile states that, not so much
for his own justification u to initiate Garibaldi
into the present policy of the Italian government,
Count Cavour placed before him several documents
of the highest importance, after reading which
Garibaldi declared that he perfectly understood the
actual position of the government. Although the
reconciliation at the general and the minister took
place at the instigation of the Bing, his Majesty
was not present at their conference, in order to
leave them full liberty of explanation and discus-
sion.

The National Guard have arrived at Waah-
ington.

The latest advices from Washington state that
8,000 secessionists were in the neighbourhood of
the city, and that the government had thrown
up defences round the principal buildings. An
attack was expected.
Baltimore is in the hands of the mob, and
a reign of terror is said to prevail there. The
Gosport Navryard at Norfolk has been burned by
United !Mates officers. Eleven war vessels have
been destroyed by the Maryland people, and the
telegraph wires cut. The chartered steamer
Star of the West has been captured by the southern
government.
Kentucky has declared herself neutral.

The following is Garibaldi's reply to an address
presented to him the other day by a deputation of
students from Pavia :

Think your companions for the affection they show ma.
Thank them in the name of the country u well u in mine.
It is not the lest time that I have expressed the same
sentiments to you. We met each other in a glorious
time, in 1859, at Wee, and lately on the plains of
the South. I shall remember your offers and promises
at the wished for hour ; let ns still remain ondstent,
and the day of struggle will and us still all united.
Exercise yourselves, my young friends, is shooting; but
don't neglect the bayonet ;it has done good ssavicie. It is
not for as to fix the du of the combat ; let it emu, and ft
will find us ready. At another time I should have accepted
your invitation sad esn to you town ; but at punt that
is impoeribl ,e for reasons I mewl; explain to you. I know
that I shoulti be quite at home mond you, but I cannot
really comply with your wishes.

The municipality of New York have appropri-
ated one million dollars for the expenses of the
volunteers.

large bodies of troops are leaving daily for
Washington.
Warlike preparations on a large scale are making
in Texas.

The Venetian Central Committee publish the
official document which was mentioned in a tele-
gram a day or two day, and which announces that,
in consequence of the failure of the central and
provincial congregations to send deputies to the
Austrian Diet, the results of certain partial com-
munal returns should be accepted as final. Upon
this proceeding the committee comment thus
"The pressure and intrigue of the government
having been unavailing to fame the Venetians to
name their deputies to the Imperial Austrian
Council, it is now wished to proceed officially to
such election, whence will necessarily result an
Austrian and not a Venetian representation. This
interference, as absurd as it is impudent, cuts
short all hope of compromise between the Vene-
tians, persisting in their opposition, and Austria,
their illegal oppressor. This document is the full
confirmation of the moral defeat which the foreign
government has suffered in Venetia."

The City of Washington, Niagara, Jura, and
Asia have arrived out.

Tho Columbia has put into Halifax, short of
coals.