The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENIIKI, SEPTEMBER 30, 1861.

themselves. First of all, they find out that the
prisoner was guilty of kiting his wife, but that he
had done so without tfiemeditation ; and on the
learned Judge declining to receive this remarkable
jumble as a verdict, they set to work to convert a
case, which is mos% obviously either one of murder
or of suicide, into what even the counsel for the
defence never suggested—homicide. One after
another, howf:ver, this extraordinary jury are
obliged by the Judge to abandon their havens of
refuge, and at last, when really compelled to say
yes or no, they give a verdict of " Guilty,"
accompanied by a recommendation to mercy,
on the ground that when the prisoner went
Lome he had no intention of murdering his
wife, and that "something must have occurred"
to induce him to do so. It is said of the late
Lord MELBOURNE that, when sitting with some
brother magistrates to investigate a case of wife
murder, he turned to his colleagues when the man
was found guilty, and said, "We must really
" let this fellow off ; women are so aggra-
" sating." The jury seem to have had their eye
upon this opinion of Lord MELBOURNE'S when
giving their verdict ; or perhaps they thought that
the " five gallons " of beer consumed by the pri-
water and his wife on the day preceding the death
of the latter might have had some share in excul-
pating him from the full responsibility of the act of
which they found him guilty. If the prerogative of
mercy is exercised in this instance, it should be on
the pound that the jury has given a decision not
warranted by the evidence before them ; and, in-
deed, on that ground, considering the testimony of
the surgeon, arid the apparent improbability of the
evidence of SA I N oncs, there does seem some rea-
son why the extreme penalty of the law should be
remitted.

Ties crisis in the cotton trade is gradually cad-
minating. During the put week the excitement
in the Liverpool market his been almost unprece-
dented. Manufacturers, exporters, and specula-
tors, particularly the latter, have bought freely,
and the result has been the further great rise of
fully Id. per lb. in American descriptions. The
computed stock on Friday was 750,630 bales ; at
the same period in 1860 it was 902,730 bales,
with the period drawing near for our receivingas
fresh supply, which does not seem to be the caL
now. The imports of the past week have been
only about four thousand bales. It is stated that
arrangements are being made for the shipment
of a considerable quantity to the United:
States, for the use of the Northern manu-
facturers. The foreign demand upon our con-
stantly diminishing stock bids fair, therefore, to
reach to an annually large aggregate. Mean-
while, ea cotton rises, additional mills continue to
be closed, or to be put on short time. It will not
be long before the first indications of distress
amongst the operatives in the cotton districts will
hrce themselves upon public attention. In several
other departments of manufacture, however, it is
satisfactory to notice that some improvement is oc-
curring, particularly in the home branch.

if be Court.

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BALMORAL. Si:proms= 27.

Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Alice and
Prince lasts oi Here, sod attended by lady Churchill,
drove yestarday to Loeb Bulg, and rode thence on ponies
to laelwory, sad rouod by 1100-side to Torsah►ah, ►t which
place the carriage was in readiness, and the royal /arty
retuned is the main to Balmoral.
Princess Ha issaloho accompanied her Majesty as far as
Loeb Built, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce.
The Prism Ocamirt went out deer-stalking.
Thera was no addition to the royal dinner party.

airy. 23.
The Qom and Pnnce Consort walked and drove in the
grounds of the castle.
Prisons Alice, attended by Lady Charehill, drove to Birk
Hall, and honoured Mrs. Gordon with a visit.
Prime Louis of Hesse went out deer•stalkiog.
Fad Russell had the honour of joining the royal dinner
ley

His Royal Highness the Primed Wake arrived at Buck-
ingham Palace from Donn shortly before flee o'clock yes-
terday morning, attended by Major-General the Honourable
IL Bruce and Major Teesdale. His Royal Highness left
London in the corning for Balmoral.

Vi‘count and Visiountess Palmerston left London on
Satuighly for Broadlands, Hants.
Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-
office to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.

Ou Saturday the Duke of Saxe Weimar was visited
at the Hotel de l'Europe, Bruise* by his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Brabant, and the Comte(
Flanders, and returned with the primes to the palace. The
Prince of Wales left Brussels for England in the afternoon
at three o'clock.

The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have returned
to Gopedi BA the Earl sod Omotaas Howe's sent in Lei
motembire. from Troy Honor, Monmouthshire.. . ,

. ,
The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanritarle•
have left their mansion on Carlton House terrace, foe their
new residence in Stratton•street.

The Earl awl Countees Craven have been enter-
taining • select circle at Ashdown Park, Berks.

'Lon! and Lady Blantyre arrived iu Paris a few
days since from their seat in Scotland. Lord Blantyre boa
gone on a tour in Germany, and during bin lordship's tour
Lady Blantyre will remain with the Duchess (Uow.) of
Sutherland and the Duchess of Argyll, who are 'ajar's*
in the French capital.

N'isouunt and Viscountess Grey de Wilton have
arrived at Ashdown Park, Barks, on a visit to the Earl and
Countess Craven, from Heaton Hall, near Manchester, the
seat of the Earl of Wilton.

Vi4countesa Jocelyn and family arrived in town
on Frday from a tour of visits in Ireland. Her ladyship
Las left town for Widmer Castle to visit the Earl and
Coniston of Shaftesbury.
liimmtgesice WAX 110131Vra fll w u yeatertmy Of
the death of Lady Wdliams, widow of Sir John Williams,
justice of the Queen's Bench, who died on Saturday at La
kocherville, France.

w, (pogo learn that the report of the serious
illnev of the Bishop of Ripon is unfounded.
A very handsome monumental tablet of white
Carrara marble has just been finished, and will shortly bs
erretrd Dear Mount Pottinger, county Down, to the memory
of I.teut..( :maul Sir H. Pottinger, Bart., late ambassador
Li China.

Baron Sina, the Greek Envoy et Vienna, will be
present at the oorosalles of the King of hues* in the
name of the King of Greece.
General Williams, who Las been sent to Conatan-
tioople by the Kieg of Prussia to prommt A letter of felici-
tation to the Sultan on hie ecueselen, bad received imam-
tionv to proceed from that capital to Athens to corigmtulate
the Queen of Greece on her comps from the moat attempt
on her life.

Letters from Pesth mention that the Hungarian
ladies now weer, as ornaments, black bracelets, called
" fionveeirs of Arad." The names of the revolutionists
executed at Agleam have been (ruled to form the anagram
" !Imagery town; not the dead."

According to the Corm/wisdom-it, of Madrid, the
meeting of Me Cortes hu been fixed for the 30th but
Accounts from Tuna gate that Count de Stackel-
berg, lately ambeaulor of Ru•ea to the Court of &Mk,*
sal at present accredited to the Court of Spain, has left
Tuna for Madrid.

Baron d'Adetiwaerd, Swedish Minister at Paris,
has genet* Nice to away apartments for Prince Oscar of
Sweden and the princess, his wife, who intend passing the
winter them

Advice* from Constantinople state that the Bey
of Tunis has arrived there, and bees rec"ived with meek
diatioctioe. The palace, which bad bees occupied by fiald
Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt, is placed at his dispoaal.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, Busnar.
The Rnyal Mail steamship Arabia, Captain Stone,
which left Boston on the 18th instant, and Halifax
on the 20th, arrived here this morning at 10.45.
A telegraphic summary of the news by this arri-
val has already been published.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND THE SLAVES.
The Nem lurk Times says :

From Washington we have a eoofinnatiob of the rumour
that has been prevalent for some days, in a variety of
phrasea, of a difficulty between the President and Geoeial
Fremont that seems likely to result in the removal of
General Fremont from his comm►od. Such a step, if the
affair should have that result, will incite a very general
feeling of regret.

The following is the letter from the President to
General Fremont :

Sir,—Yours of the Rth, in answer to mine of the 2nd inst.,
was just received. Assuming that you, upon the ground,
could better judge of the necessities of your position than I
could at this distance, on seeing your proclamation of
August 30 I perceived no general objection to it ; the par-
ticular objectionable cause, however, in relation to the con
&cation of property, and the liberation of slaves, appeared
to be objectionable in its nonconformity to the Act of
Congress passed the 4;th August upon the mum subjects, and
hence I write you expressing my wish that that clause
should be modified accordingly. Your answer, just re-
ceived, expresses the preference on your part that I should
make ■n open order fur the modification, which I very
cheerfully do. It is therefore ordered that the said clause
of mid proclamation be so modified, held, and construed, as
to conform with, and not transcend, the provisions on the
same subject contained in the act of Congress, entitled
"An act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary
purposes," approved, August G, INfil, and that said act be
published at length with this order. A. LINCOLN.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS.

The Nero York Herald of the 17th gives the fol-
lowing summary of the state of affairs :
From Western Virginia the news is still very eecouraging.
General Lee, with a very large force, attacked General
Reynolds's troops at Chest Mountains, but after a long
engagement was successfully repulsed, with heavy loss.
The unionists, fighting behind entrenchments, suf-
fered but little ; and when, after the engage-
ment, the scouts were sent out, they found the
rebels had retreated several miles. General Cox's
body of Kanawha Valley Union troops bad advanced
some distance from Ganley-bridge towards Lewis-
burgh, and Generals Wise and Floyd were in full retreat
er-stwanl. General Resencrans was at Camp Scott, direct-
ing the arrangements of the advancing forces.
The news from Baltimore is very important. A few
more of the rebel members of the Maryland legislature were
arrested yesterday by the Ilaltimore police, and every effort
is being made to secure the whole of them. As it in, there
ass be no quorum of the legislative body, therefore the
state cannot now be forced out of the union against the will
of the citizens, a majority of whom are still loyal.
The rebel army before Washington is still reported quiet,
with the exception of a few trifling shots exchanged be-
tween the pickets. The 'tamer Satellite arrived safely at
the Washington Navy Yard, notwithstanding the assertion
of the rebel newspapers that the banks of the river are
completely lined with their batteries, so that they eta
close up the navigation of the same at any moment they
please.
The reported proclamation of the Captain-General of
Cuba continues to occupy the attention of the state depart-
ment, notwithstanding the denial of official knowledge
thereof having been made by the Spanish minister.
Potter's investigating committee is still prosecuting its
inquiries relative to the loyalty of the government
eutployls.
The intelligence from General Banks' column is inte-
resting. A smart engagement took plats on Sunday after.
noon opposite Pritchard's mills, three miles above Darns-
town, between the rebels, about 450 strong, and five com-
panies of union troops. The contest was very spirited,
and lasted two hours, resulting in the complete
rout el the rebels, driving them out of every
house and breastwork they had occupied, with a lees of
ten killed and a number wounded. The union loss was only
one killed, arising, doubtless, from the superiority of range
of their guns.
From Fortress Munroe tidings have been received relative
to the constant change of the rebel forces at Sewall's Point,
at last reports only numbering 500. A scarcity of provi-
sions in the county is doubtless the cause. A number of
United States vessels are reported off Old Point.
From Leavenworth, Kansas, intelligence has been received
of an engagement between Colonel Montgomery, with 500
Kansas troops, and General Rains, with between 2,000 and
3,000. The latter, having several pieces of artillery and
superior numbers, proved too formidable for the former,
who had but one howitzer. Notwithstanding these disad.
vantages, the union men kept up a running fight while
slowly retreating, causing serious loss to the rebels. Night-
I fall setting in, Colossi Montgomery made good his retreat
towards Leavenworth.
A vessel said to have ran the blockade at Galveston re-
ports a great amount of distress prevailing about Texas. A
privateer mounting four gulls, six-pounders, was reported r
baring arrived at the port of Minititlan, Mexico, about the
biennia( at the present month. The privateer Sumter was
reported at Surinam on the 21st ult., threatening to fire the
town unless she was supplied with coal and provisions, at
which she stood much in need

A telegram dated Jefferson City, Missouri, Sept.
17, says :
A man who arrived here today states that on the 14th
General Price, with 17,000 men, had surrounded Lexington,
and bad sent a aummoea to Colonel Mulligan to surrender.
Colonel Mulligan refused, when Price is reported to nays
mat back word that he would give him until Monday at
4 o'c:ock to surrender, and it he did not he
would march on him with a black flag. It is confidently
thought in military quartets hero that General Sturgis has
by this time reached Lexington from St. Joseph, and that
General Price will be cut off or forced to retreat. Quite a
panic prevailed at Georgetown on the receipt of the news
from Lexington, and many families fear an attack by the
rebels. All is quiet here, and no apprehension ate felt of
an immediate attack.

By telegraphic advice@ rid Halifax we learn that
the above threatened attack was made, and resulted
in the defeat of General Price, and a reported lose
on the Confederate aide of 4,000 men. The
Federal loss is said to have been 800.

NAVAL EXPEDITIONS FOR THE SOUTH,
The New York Hensld, in s leader speaking of
the secret naval expeditions now fitting out for the
South, Rays :

It has been rumoured for some time that there were other
secret expeditions In contemplation against the southern
coast besides that which resulted so successfully at Hatteras
Inlet, on the coast of North Carolina, and within the last
few days mysterious notes of preparation were beard which
went far to show that thou rumours were not without
foundation. But movements have now taken place which
leave no doubt on the subject, even if we were not phsced
in possession of facts, which we are not now at liberty to
mention, but which satisfy us that there is something in the
wind.

It had been recently stated that those monster steam-
ships the Atlantic, the Baltic, sod Vanderbilt, had been
chartered by the government for some secret naval service
at the same time that other transports, previously engaged
bad come to this city for the same purpose. The transports
have suddenly disappeared, and with them as suddenly
several regiments encamped on Long Island, at Scarsdale,
Camp Winfield, Scott, Hempstead, at Fort Hamilton, and
other points. The New Hampshire regiment which was
missed frees its camp on Sunday, was seen to take the cars
of the Long Leland Railroad early in the morning, and it is
ascertained that it proceeded to the terminus of the mad,
at the other end of the island. Everybody who "Reread
this movement felt astonished. What, it was asked, can
troops be wanted for in that region ? But the appearance
of the Atlantic off Greesport soon solved the mystery.
The troops were taken on board, and the ship steered in •
southward direction.

Of the precise destination of these troops, mid of the
other regiment—to all from 6,000 to 10,000 men—we
teapot liana our readers ; it is a government secret. But we
may state generally that it is undoubtedly the southern coast.
There are at least three !weal expeditions afloat, end
all the available troops on the northern coast will

be wet in one or the other of them. General Butler went
to Boston to seed forward troops from that direction, and
he is to command one of the expeditions himself. In the
course of three weeks perhaps 10,01.0 U men will have landed
et different points ou the southern coast, where they will
act in cooperation to the same end, and penetrate to the
very heart of the cotton region.