The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-18 00:00:00

(Stamped, id. Additional.)

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, B►roan►Y.

The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Steamship Company's screw steamer City of Balti-
more, Captain Jeffrey, which touched at Queens•
town yesterday (Friday) to land mails and despatches,
arrived in the Mersey at noon to-day.
By this arrival we received the New York jour-
nals of the 3rd inst., and telegraphic advices, vil
Cape Race, to the evening of the sth inst.
New York was visited by a north-easterly storm
of wind and rain on the morning of the 2nd. The
gale was very violent, and continued all the night ;
and in consequence the City of Baltimore was de-
tained until the storm moderated.

The New York Herald, of the 2nd instant, gives
the following statement of the position of affairs :
Our intelligence from Washington to-day is of a moat im-
portant and interesting character. General Scott has re.
signed hi position as Commander-in-Chief of the Army,
and General 111421ellan has bees plead at the head of the
entire armies of the United States. President Lincoln &s-
-immed in person to General Scott, at the general's mi-
dterm, the aceeptence of has resignatin, sod a:premed the
sorrow which he and his cabinet experiesod at the measity
which compelled the veteran soldier to withdraw from
active service in consequence of age and ill-health. The
some was intensely affecting. Gesell Scott wept, and with
difficulty teadseed his thanks to the President for the kind
manner in which he spoke of him aidssat his anion.
Geesesd was the reetsi ef • sedid ova.
doe yesterday, Itlllallan
of
Ns seseages.tellhablek po plest wifewsw,
mandee.in.cluef of the armies of the republic. He has
sa address to the army, characterised by all
rhrztlitad Woo= whisk belong to him. He woe*
the heavy responsibility with diffidence, yet with firm's.,
and pays a just tribute to the gallant veteran whose place
be le appointed to fill. He relies upon the en-
rage sad discipline of the men under his comwmad
to restore the country to its integrity as a united nation,
and crown the career of the American army, which it was
the pride and glory of his predecessor to maintain with
honour upon so many battle fields.
Intelligence was received at Washington yesterday from
a fugitive that the rebels had erected strong fortificatioes at
Centreville, and that their camps, numbering 50,000 sass,
extended from Manassas to within two miles of Fairfax
Court House, having 10,000 at llamas.
A new rebel battery, consisting of three rifled mama, has
bees discovered on the Virginia shore, a little below Enna-
port, and a mile and a half farther down on the Potomac
than soy batteries which have heretofore shown themselves.
With this exception them is no appeemace of activity swag
I the rebels in that region. The George Page still remains in
Quentin Creek.
From Feriae Macros we have as amount of the Muni
of the United State bark Amanda, from a cruise, is which
she captured four gruattevzreg to rim the blockade,
three of them being it and owe as American.
From the Upper Potomac we lean, by way of Dames.
town, Maryland, that the rebels had pickets posted on Her.
rime's bleed yesterday. At last accounts the main body
of the rebels was at Goose Creek, eves roller south Irma
Leesburg, which pies, it is mid, they abandoned the day
after the battle of Bain Bluff, upon hearing that General
Baaks's forces had crossed the river.

Eight hundred rebel prisoners, Lem Fort Lafayette.
arrived in Boston yesterday, and were received at Fort
Warren by Colonel Dimmick, who commands at that fort.
The same journal of the 3rd gives the following
as the situation of affairs at that date :
Geseral M'Clellan received yesterday a splendid sword,
presented to him by • committee el the city wised of
Philadelphia. Upon accepting the weapon, Gemmel
M'Clalkin said that be received it, not for what he had
done, but for what he hoped to do. He added that all that
was neoesrary was patience sod confidence, and that victory
would eventually be ours.
The Powhattan arrived at Washington yesterday from
Annapolis, passing therebel batteries on the Potomac with-
out heiug attacked. Several vessels passed down through
the Swish Channel yesterday, however, and were fired
upon, though without receiving any damage. Several shells
were thrown from the rebel batteries to our ontrenchments
on the Merylaed shore, but they did not impede the pro-
gress of the work on our fortifioations. Some of our :12-
pounders answered with three or four rounds, but whether
they took effect hos rot been ascertained.
Ws have no intelligence of any movement in the army of
the Lower Potomac yesterday. On the Upper Potomac a
shell was thrown across hy the rebels, and struck an cal-
eer's test on the Maryland shore, opite Edward's Ferry,
wounding • soldier inside. No other demosistvation wr
made in that quarter.

The New York Herald, of October 31, gives the
following aooount of the wailing of the expedition
from Hampton Roads :
By the arrival hare of the government steamer Thomism
Swan we learn that the fleet composing the great naval ex-
pedition have begun to more. Captain Hamilton states
that on Monday afternoon, at live o'clock, the sailing
vessels were getting tinder way, and when the Thomas
Swan left the steamers were also preparing to take
their departure. At midnight of the 28th, off Hog
Island, be passed four steamers bound South. We
also by our telegraphic despatches learn that the great
Meet sailed on Tuesday morning, the Wabash
this lead at daylight, when the gun was fired as a signal,
and the Cabawba bringing up the rear. The vessels.
about fifty in number, formed in line a few mike down
the roads, and went out between the Capes in splendid
style. The Baltic bad the Ocean Express in tow, the Van-
derbilt the Great Republic, and the Illinois the Golds°
Eagle. The morning was the moat beautiful of the season,
and the scene the finest ever witnessed on this continent.

Previous to the departure General Sherman removed
bid quarters from the Atlantic to the frigate Wabash. An
order was Woad on Friday night at 12 o'clock from head-
quarters, and taken to each ship of the deaf, that they
must be ready to start on the followingday (Saturday),
and the signal for getting up steam would to
the " Union Jack "at the foremast-head of the Attne
and each ship must indicate that she understood the
by raising the " Jock " to her own foremast head.
signal for sailing would be the lowering of the mama from
the Atlantic, when, if understood, to be lowered by all the
others. But on account of a north-east storm, blowing very
hard, the expedition was prevented from starting; but the
signal for getting op steam went up and was lowered, and
orders countermanded.

One little event happened on Thursday morning of last
week which is truly worth our notice, for it betokeoa sue.
COM. Captain Saxton looked aloft, and there perched on the
very top of the maiutopmast was an American eagle ,• he
sat there until the roars sod the cheers of the men and the
*wellies music of the Third New Hampshire Band darted
him off—but not in fright— for it seemed as though he just
dropped himself upon the soft breeze and floated gently
away, gazing down upon us ash, went, u much as lofty, " I
have crowned your expedition with success."
Borne fears were entertained that the prevailing gale
would seriously affect the progress of the great naval expe-
dition, and this idea gaiuol strength when the Roanoke,
which has just arrived at Fortress Mouroe, reported that
she experienced very heavy weather on her way from
Charleston, which compelled her to keep outside the track
of the expedition. 'rho Ethan Allen, which has also
reached Fortress Monroe, states that when she left the
fleet, off (hp, Hatteras. the two boats formerly belonging
to the New York and Brooklyn ferries—the Eagle and Corn.
modore Perry—had been separated from the squadron.
But by the arrival of a vessel at Baltimore yesterday
afternoon, we !emu that the fleet was off ('ape Hat-
teras on Wednesday evening, at which time the
weather was remarkably fair, and the squadron
was moving along finely. The captain of this vessel
reports that the gale commenced north of Cape Hatteras,
and give* it as his opinion that the fleet did not encounter it
at all, as the ships bad passed south of that point before it
commenced.

A New York correspondent of the Washington
Commercial Advertiser, with regard to the destina-
tion of the fleet, says :
It has been anuouuced in New York that the secretary of
Commodore Dupont has taken the charts, instructions, &e.,
which slow the destination of the naval expedition, and
"left for parts unknown." It is true, for, with a very
very few exceptions, the destination of the squadron is
" unktiowo," and the secretary accompanies it, and
most religiously is the secret kept. Even the heads of
bureaux in the Navy Department are ignorant, and only
know that the calimit myna& has "left for parts unknown."
One of your New York papers published a map, two or
three days sines, showing the spot where General Sherman
will land, hut it was a map of the entire Confederate States
coast, from Caps Henry to the Rio Grande. A careful fa-
'mention of this and other maps shows no strategic point,
apparently, of equal value to the Union forces as Wilmot.
ton, and there are rumours of a new passage thither,
called New Inlet, by which chips of respectable
sine can enter Cape Fear river above Forts Johnson
sod Caswell, and only some eight mile' below the
city. But it is more generally believed here that Brunswick,
Georgia, is the destination of the squadron now atloat.
General Sherman's cusp will bo followed by another by
General Butler, who is here organieiog a second ex Rion,
and with these tree in the rear, Messrs. Bea sod Co.
may find themselves in rather an uncomfortable position at
Manumit. Then will General M'Clellau advance, taking
good care to fortify his positions as he goes along, and not
to armee almost undisciplined troops to the desperate on-
slaughts of the maddened rebels, who evidently feel that
their chases for success is small—while there is every reason
to believe that a traitor's doom awaits them.
. .

Members of Confess begin to arrive u the seesion ap-
proaches, sad tails same medially *miens the military

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plans of those in command, others urge • forward move-
ment, reckless of the consequences. There is good reason
for believing that President Lincoln, with a majority of his
constitutional advisers, fully approves of General Mll le'.
hin's movements, which are explained to them without re-
serve, at their almost daily visite to hued-quarters.
Lieutenant-General Scott is quite feeble, and moves with
difficulty when aided to his carriage, • low brougham, in
which he goes to and from his of which is near the War
Department, and just round the corner from his residence.
By taking short naps two or three times a day, the old hero
manages to transact a good deal of business, and keep his
staff busily at work.
General M'Clellao has found it neceenny to organise a
staff of experienced army officers, several of them ranking
as brigadier.generals, that they may, if necessary, take com-
mand at a critical moment, should coloneli not prove equal
to an emergency. This is doubtless not agreeable to the
aides-de.camp of General Scott, who only rank as lieutenant-
colonels, and some military jealousy may bays arisen be-
twins the " headquarters of the army," and the "head-
' quarters of the army of the Potomac"
Oar news from the South puts us in possession of the
fact that the rebels have an army of 4'96,000 men in the
I field, which are said to be divided as follows :—De-
,..a..__ ru—s dandthetPor;iar;l.ls°:„roo6;d6== .31
Kentucky end Tennessee, 111.000 ; department of Missouri,
40,000 ; on the line of the Missnsipm, 39,000; at Charles-
ton, Savannah, Mobile, and Galveston, 40,000.
The amount of small arms proves to be 898,000, which
were obtained as follows :—Sent to the South by Floyd,
while Secretary of War, 578,000 ; seized in Southern arse-
sale, 100,000 ; made in stolen arsenals, 20,000 ; shipped
from Europe, 200,000.
We learn Irons St. Louis, on the authority of a loyal
*Bite° just returned from the camp ‘d` the rebel General
eilMexh, Mariam riiir._.til• IMAir_lesisi

—at that place. Large quantities cf cgia,inedictoZa
other supplies, had reached General Price, and be ex-
pected a number of tided 0111211011 to arrive. It was said
that Prim intended to give General Fremont battle at
Neosho, where he hoped to defeat him, and then march
on St. Louis, and make hi winter quarters in Central
Xissouri.

It was reported in New York that General Sam
Houston, of Texas, was dead, but no verification of
the fact bad been received.
The Governor of Massachusetts had appointed
Nov. 41st to be observed as a day of thanksgiving.
That day will be the anniversary of the signing the
original compact of government by the Pilgrims on
board the Mayflower.
Commercial intelligence anticipated rift New-
foundland.

THE MEXICAN EXPEDITION.