The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-01 00:00:00

AMERICA.

NEW TORY.. On. 19.

(Per (ley of Washiegtea, en—geseattowe.)
The qteaneMip I:Lague arrived at New York on
the aft4T11444.111 44 Oct. Iti, and the steamship Arabia
at Ibuton on the 17th, evening.
Mr. Seward's circular to the loyal State.' of
the Video, urging that active meaaiires should
De Mks% for strengthec Mg the coast and
lake 46fencvq, publidwql in New York on the 17th
of 1414414cr, valued on that day the greeted
excitemeat on the New York stock market,
and etock.q, which for several days previously
had hero steadily advancing, fell from to 3
per emit., wider the impreasion that a foreign
war was about to be added to the preeeut civil com-
mnocle. The New )..rk Tiriva and Ihruhl approve
the circular. The termer attributes the hailing of
it to the attitude of the leafing Suropeau powers
towards Mexico, which has excited the anxiety
14 the Federal government, as it has little
Medd the Veiled States is prepared to extend
the Osumi all to Mexico in her extremity,
and to offer armed reeiatatioe if neomezy
again* the attempts at invasion and cooqueet
which Spain may make, and consider* American
prestige and national honour are involved
misting any effort to plant a le Atalu flag on the
weakest and most •xpoesql frontier of the t'uited
Stamm. The Nor rtrt Tribe.. considers the
circular ill-timed awl uusbetvaeary. Time Fro.ing
l'oat say. it may mean a gnat deal or
it may mean nothing, and thinks that, as
I.4orgreqe seseiables in December, and the
State legidatnres do not come together until
4.1 W mouth later, Congress will have ample time
to make the appeal if the general goverioneut then
requires the aid of the State; and is of opinion that
Mr. Sewarrs letter muds a 4-momentary to be
clearly understood.

The Woolliogton corrtspoodent of the N,ir York
Times writer a.t folloss :
It is possible, and more than probable, that t►e Mexicali
govereineet will ask the mediatioo of the 'jailed Mates to
settle the trouble% between Mexico sad the Eompeas
pewees It is passible also that the Mexican
governmest may ask the Ir...entreat of the United States to
become the custodium or trustee of certain properties or
frilebUet, sad to pay t►erefrom the belerest and principal
.1 Ler imlebtedness to European capitsliets, the limited
States gusranteeiog not only the proper et:inertias sad
applicatios of the revenue., but also their sufficiency to meet
the obligatione imposed upoo them. I think the gavels.
meat of the roiled States has isforrnally expressed a framed-
.hip for the present government of Mexico, and a williog-
Dem to do amyl/ 0g that is proper and pomilibe to
ensure bee from the dawn§ by which she is messiest 1
undentesid further that none American capita/We have
already foliaged and almost perfected &mincemeat by
who they will at once advance any mom which our govern-
rocot may require to facilitate the settlement of the
matter.

It is reported from Washington that the Con-
federate army have made a further backward
movement, and have fallen back with their entire
odimiu to Fairfax Court-house. It is also said
they an preparing to abandon Leesburg. The ob-
ject of this backward movement is not known.

A despatch from the Washington correspundent
of the Avsociattsl Press says :
I lamination has been received by the Federal pare meat,
from a wares entitled to credit, that Masts Mlidell and
M usa the rebel moisten to Vasa tad Eadbush are Not
only asithwrind to separate treaties of extraordinary earn•
sdanage with those powers, but to place t►e
southern thialeisrasy for a hailed period ender their pro.
adios.

The New York Sitar and Leather Reporter pub
fishes statistic to prove that the Southerners are
not so had off fur shoes as has been represented. It
shows that during the past three quarters of the
present year a sufficient quantity of brogans went
South to supply an army of 400,000 men for 12
mouths, and allow three pairs to each sun.
The Nt. Petersburg (Virginia) Gazette has the fol-
lowitia particulars concerning the late reported
naval engagement at New Orleans :
The Turtle ran against the nags without firing
gun, sod immediately sunk bar by staving is Mr
siolsis, she, in the insatiate, being died upon ►y
the whole squares, but the halls glassing
frost bar boa form Witholll doing the heel diusage. Mrs
Tattle t►en tweed a the other two ,weals, which, seam
theta* of their cesspeates, eadasveured le get est of the
way, la which effort they were driven in sham their news
darting than.

Oommander Hollin., in his reports, says be
thinks be will be able t.' capture and carry them
both into New Orleans. The Treble cannot be raised.
A large number of arms, prisoners, ammunition,
Ac., were taken during the notion. Commander
Hollins confirms the account of the detest
of Billy Wilson's &mares on Hants Roes Island.
Commander Hollins arrived in New Orleans on the
14th ult. The city was illuminated on receipt of
the intelligence. The number of men under Com-
'sander Hullims was 300. Thu Federalists num-
bered 1,000.

T. surveyor of Now York has seized the ship
Jobs Pyle, lately arrived from Glasgow, on the
pound that ame-siatsenth of her is owned by a Mr.
Brigham, of New Orisons.

A despatch has hem forwarded to the pre-
sident 01 the Rife Telegraph Company, an-
bona:in the eoespietion of the overland line to
Gnat bolt Lake City, and the opening of tele-
graphic communication with the chief city of Utah
territory.

The lateral government has appointed Thomas
8. Dudley, of New Jersey, as consul to Liverpool ;
and Ammo Yawn, of New York, as consul to
The Evening Poet says :

We here limit= beak; hoes armed to take the third OD
=Mose of the 7.30 kw, es the esemblien that inter= Is
'Dowel hen Weber I. The Mr. awe dsd to Jo, and
seam November Ise the dated this West. We bare
ale. that Yr. tie" in raver S. tpgdttea OE the blob
is opal to I= 100 milli. 7 per mt. bendy
which he i. authorial to lane, ialsrusd the sent ef ths
banks that ha had se edit from =age toPinais era to
di par aset. =area at par far the est= =a Mr. CM=
of worm, eapneesal hie village= to intern= dire how
the =oral= hanks of ssything neer the gene =as.
The followleg order was issued by the Secretary
of War alter ha bad visited General Fremout :

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. OCT. 14.
Omend. -- The Seerseary of Wm requests ass to smuna
sluts the follawire as his histructioss for your (oven-
meat. Is vise of the heavy sums doe especially is
the quartermaster's dewiness is this city, amounting le
some 4,5005C1U dollars. it is importing that the mossy
which may sow be so the heads of the dithers.
to Alan or be received by them, be applied to
the earnest *awes of your army ia lirnessid.
sod then debts to remain lisped said they an
be properly examioed sad seat to Washington err ifillatt-
roust. the disbursing °Mem of Yearley tesiishenna the Mask
sad sot twofer them to irresponsible agents ; Is ether wok
these eta do set hold cowls ins frees the President and
an sot under beads. All esetraels tototwairy to be seek;
to be made by the dithering steams. The erase
uusrtunossisn here bars bass reetally thenseled
by the eserelery as shows. It is usasomeary to
meet 11•14-mirics armed this city, mid you will
direct their .lieceatiniume• ; deo them if say, is
verse ef aosstraemos at Jalfllolll city. Is this maser
the it is sees that a somber of coreedisioes bare been
elves by yes. No psyneets will be made ti snit
°Seen, wept them whom appointments bus been
sPrensed by the President. This, of warns dm setedkr
to the oflieers of vulsoteer troop. Colonel Andrew* bee been
Fertmli so finer i ted by the Secretary also, not to mho
limos re of kiwi., exospe fur the wpm of paying the troops.