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

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, BUNDLY.
The Royal Mail ateamahip Persia, Captain
Judkiva, which left New York on the 28th ult.,
arrived in the Mersey at 5 o'clock this morning,
after a detention of ten hours at the bar.

A telegraphic summary of the advicce by this
arrival has already appeared.
The followiug the *situatiou " from the New
York Herald of the 28th ult. :

Our intelligence from Washington reveals nothing new
in the movements of the army in that niarter, with the
exception of some picket skirmishes with the enemy on the
part of the isth New York Volunteers near Bayley's
Cress. which was rather a stirring affair, the repels far
outnumbering the Union pickets.
A despatch by way of eineMonti states that Colonel
Tyler's forces,
_a part of General itosencran's army, had
bees surrounded and defeated by the rebel forces under
General Floyd, at Summoned'', in Western Virginia, hut
the report is vague and unsatishictory, and does not ap-
pear to be confirmed by any details. No particulars of the
atria hail reached Cincinnati, and we can hardly conceive
how the rumours of an important battle ie the vicinity of
Summenivillo should reach us by that route.
The new, from Fortress Monroe to-day is important, as
it records the hieuguratioe of a naval expedition of greet
magnitude for some point unknown, en expedition, how-
ever, of which we have been hearing for a considerable time.
It appears that General Bailee has command of this enter-
prise, in which the frigates Minnesota and Wabash, the
sloop of war Pawne, the gunboats Monticello and Harriet
Lane, the steamed Adelaide and George Peabody, and the
propelled Fanny and Adriatic, together with a number of
schooutrs and barges, have been employed. Commodore
Stringhani, it is said, goes with General Butler in command
of the squielrou, which numbers a hundred guns and four
thousand men. The aquadron started (is m Ohl Poiut the
day before yesterday. The Quaker City was to follow.
Tho movements of the rebel forces in Missouri appear to
be somewhat myetorious. The army under General Matthew
Grate, which was supposed to be advancing on Kirksville,
had by the last accounts been discovered to be rapidly re-
turning towards the Missouri.
. . .

Notwithstanding the apparent quietness on the part of the
United States authentics in this city in relation to the sup-
pression of the secession newspapers, it is not true that they
are nut doing anything in the natter. The bundles which
have already been seized while ou their way to the rebel
agents have not deterred the publishers from devising other
methods to send off their papers. This morning every mail
std express tr.w which leaves this city carries with it a de-
tective officer, abuse duty it is to search all packages
and suspectod baggage, with a view to ascertain if there
are say secession papers on the train, and if so, to liaise
them ; or if any such journals should be found in the pos-
session of any persons, to bring them back to this city, to be
properly mired for. As soon as the district attorney re-
turns to the city, it is said that measureswill be taken to
suppress the publication of those papers which administer
aid and comfort to the rebels.

At a meeting on the 26th of the presidents of the
banks of the city of New York, it was resolved that
Mr. Stevens, president of the Bank of Commerce,
should select a committee of five to proceed with
him to Washington to enforce upon the President
and his cabinet the resolutions previously passed by
the bank presidents, that thecouditions of the loan
recently made by the bank presidents are that the
war is to be prosecuted with all the vigour and
energy of the government.
Several soldiers claimed by Lord Lyons had been
discharged from the army.
A demonatration is reported to have taken place
in the island of Antigua. The consignees of a
southern vessel having hoisted the Secession flag,
the American captains in port insisted upon its
being hauled down, and the people responded by
tearing it to pieces.
The Boston Traveller has a letter from Salisbury,
North Carolina, which states that four members to
the United States Congress have been elected in
that State. The writer says that the people of
North Carolina are fast throwing off the secession
yoke, and that there is a Union league throughout
the State which embraces many thousands of men,
and to them is attributed the reaction which is now
taking place.
Not over half of the 25,000 additional volunteers
called for by the recent proclamation of the Go-
vernor of New York State have as yet enlisted.