The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-25 00:00:00

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Jur 12, EVICIING.
(Per Etna, via Queenstown).
The House of Representatives has passed a bill
authorising the appropriation of 500,000 men and
500 millions of dollars for the war.
in the Senate, Mr. Saulsbury, of Delaware,
offered a resolution for the amendment of the con-
stitution on a plan similar to the Crittenden com-
promise.
General M'Clellan's division has attacked the
entrenched camp of the Confederates, numbering
2,000 men, at Rich Mountain, Western Virginia.
The Confederates were routed, and all their guns,
camp equipage and waggons were captured.
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Sixty Confederates and twenty Union men are
reported to have been killed.
General leClillan is now moving forward. The
skirmishing in Missouri continues active. Large
bodies of secessionists are reported to be joining
Governor Jackson, but the Federal troops are
endeavouring to intercept them.
A vessel just arrived from Newport has brought
the crew of the brig John Welch, which was
captured by • privateer off Cape Hatteras. The
same privateer had raptured five vessels, and sent
them to southern ports. Three revenue cutters
left New York, and two cutters sailed from Boston
immediately, in order to endeavour to capture her.
By order art General Lyon Federal troops have
entered the office of a secession journal in St. Louis,
seized the type, and prohibited the publication of
the paper.
The New York Herald states that President Lin-
coln has replied to the resolution of the House of
Representatives, calling for the correspondence
with Spain relative to San Domingo, that it was
not advisable to produce the correspondence at
present.
A severe shock of earthquake has been felt at
Montreal, Ottawa, and Canada West.
The brig Amy Warwick Las been captured off
Fortress Monroe.
The Canada has arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, JULY 12, Evwxo,
(per am. vii, Queenstown).

Money easy. Exchange on Leedon : Bankers' We, 10fif
to 107. Stocks buoyant. Kew York Central, 75a ; Erie,
211 ; Illinois Central, 67i. Cotton market very firm ; mid-
dlieg, 15ic. Flour market very dull. Wheat market quiet,
but unchanged. Corn market slightly fi-mer. Provisions
steady. Coffee fiimer, and moderate demand. Sugar un-
changed. Molasses held firmly.

QUEBEC,. JULY 13 (per Nova Scotian,
TA Londonderry).

The elections for the Canadian parliament are
nearly over. Parties are very equally balanced,
but the ministers so fat have a slight majority.
The central part of the province was visited by
a sharp shock of earthquake on the 11th inst. It
was felt severely at Ottawa City, chimneys being
shaken down and walls split.
NEW YORK, JULY 13, Emma
(by Telegraph to lather Perot.)

General M'Clellan has beaten the rebels and
occupied their entrenched camp at Rich Mountain,
Virginia. Their lees was heavy.
Colonel Smith has been reinforced at Monroe,
Missouri, and has routed the rebels, who had sur-
rounded him. The privateer, Jeff Davis, has
made several captures, including the brig John
Walsh, bound from Cuba for England. Six revenue
mitten have sailed is pursuit of the privateer.
The steamer Tynemouth has arrived.
The ammonia sailed to-day for Europe.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NSW YORK, JULY 13.
(Latest by Telegraph to Father Point, per Nova Scotian.)
Stocks active. Illinois Central, f. 3 ; Erie, 234 ; New
York Central, 76. Exchange on London, 107. Cotton
advancing. Middling upland, 134. Flour quiet and drooping.
Provisions dull. Coffee firm, and at isles moistly withdrawn.

CANADA MAIL.
LIVERPOOL, JrtLY ZS.
The Montreal Ocean Company's steam-ship Anglo-
Saxon, which sailed for Quebec and Montreal to-
day, took 28,4841. in specie.

M. Ganeeco has obtained permission to return to
France, and has resumed the editorakipintansf at the
Coarrier dr DianneAe, which contains this week an article
signed by him.
A communication from Baden says :—" The fol-
lowing incident shows the character of Becker, and the sold
fanaticism which impelled him to regicide. On arriving at
the station, on the evening of the 13th, he gave his bag to •
lad whn stood near, and told him to awry it to the -Hotel
de la Fleur. By the way he natal the messenger if he
knew the King of Prussia. The lad said,' Yes, everybody
know, him ; be is a tall, handsome man.' Etcher nest in-
quimd whether the King walked out frequently, and at what
boors, and was told that his Majesty might be seen every
morning in front of the Trinksalle, and in the Alley of
Lkhtenthat Becker then showed the lad a photograph of
the King, and asked if it was • good likeness. Having re-
ceived an affirmative answer, he paid the messenger and dia.
misled him. on reaching the hotel he asked for • map
of Baden to look for the localities mentioned by bit young
informant."

A letter from Vienna of the 20th says :—" The
following details as to the manner in which the imperial reso-
lution was come to relative to the Hungarian addresses are of
some interest original of the rescript was signed
three days back by the Emperor. His Majesty went on
the pith to Rechnau, accompanied *lily by his sile-
ds-cenip, General de Creeemille. After dinner
the Emperor returned to Lexenbarg, where the
Archduke Replier and H. de Bthmerling had
been summoned; and there his Majesty handed to them
what is called the German project, ready signed. The
ministers themselves had not anticipated such a prompt
decision. The affair had been previously arranged with
Count Forgach, and it is owing to him that the govern-
meat consented to indicate the whole of the mouth of
August, insulal of the special date of the 1111th of
Nat month, for the Hungarian deputise to present them-
selves is the lteicluirath. Wbes Biros Vey, at 8 o'clock in
the mornind of the 18th, west to the palms to solicit an
audience of his Majesty, he was referred to the Archduke
Replier, who asked him in very brief terms if he would
ago the German project. Baron Vay refused, and twenty
minutes later he rexived an autograph note from the Em-
peror, relieving him of his duties. Before nine o'clock
Count Forgach arrived at the Chancery to take the direc-
tion of affairs. Subsequently Baron Vey and Count
Bsocsen asked to ho received by the Emperor to take leave,
but were refused."