The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-02 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AMERICA.

The British and North American Royal Mail
'steamship Europa, Anderson, commander, arrival
in the Mersey yesterday, about noon, with advice's
from Boston to the 21st, Halifax to the 22nd, and
telegraphic advice-4 from New York to the evening
of the 22nd ultimo. tihe brought seventy-four
passengers.

The steamships Canada, from Liverpool, had
arrived at Halifax on the 21st ; the Bremen, from
Bremen, at New York on the 19th ; the Bohemian,
heuee, off Father Point on the 18th ; the City of
Washington, bent*, off Cape Race on the 2Jrd,
and Teutonia on the 24th ultimo.

The subject of an exchange of prisoners, 2,0(M) of
whom were in custody of the Federal authorities,
was found to he a serious embarrassment.

The state department had given notice that no
person would be allowed to go abroad from a port
of the United States without a passport, either from
the department or countersigned by the Secretary
of State. Nor will any person be allowed to land
in the United States without a passport after this
regulation shall become known abroad.

General Scott hiu: issued a general order uniting
the military departments of Washington and
North-eastern Virginia, including Maryland as far
as Bladensburgb, into one department to be
called the department of the Potomac, and to be
under the control of General M'Clellan, who is
ordered to proceed to organise the troops in the
department in divisions and independent brigades.
Apprehensions being entertained of au advance
of the Confederates upon Washington or Maryland,
the war department has made a requisition upon
the governors of ten of the northern states to
forward, without delay, to the capital all the
enrolled troops, whether armed, equipped, uni-
formed, or not.

It was thought that the Confederates purposed
using a large force—which, it appeared, had been
concentrating for a long time in Maryland—to cut
off the connexion by railroad and land between
Baltimore and Philadelphia, while Generals Beau-
regard and Johnston advanced on Washington from
the Virginia side. This movement, it was sup-
posed, was to be accomplished by the transport of
troops on launches and flats, a large number of
which had, it appeared, been concentrated in the
vicinity of Aquia creek, despite the boasted watch-
fulness of the Potomac flotilla. It had also been
discovered that several formidable batteries had
been constructed by the rebels, not only on the
shores of Aquia and Potomac creeks, but on the
Maryland side of the river, st Mineral Point.
Thu privateer Jeff. Davis was at St. John's,
Porto Rico, on the 27th of July, and was allowed
to water. The privateer Echo was cruising on the
Turks Island Passage. The barque Joseph Max-
well, of Philadelphia, was captured off Porto
Cabello, by the C. S. steamer Sumter, on the 27th
of July, and a prize crew placed on board, who,
after being ordered away from Cienfuegos, ran the
barque ashore in the vicinity. The cargo was sold
at Cienfuegos. The privateer Jeff. Davis has
captured the barque Alvarado, from Cape Town,
for Boston, and the brig Santa Clara, from Porto
Rico, for Boston. The schooner Windward was
captured by the Jeff. Davis ou the 4th ultimo, in
lat. 28 lon. 67. The barques Glen and Rowena,
and schooner Mary Alice, prise;, had been towed
Igo Charleston.

The Philadelphia Ledger neaten that the brig
Herald, capture.' by a Federal cruiser, mid claimed
by Lord Lyons as a British vessel, had, on exami-
nation, been proved to belong to America, and that
consequently the order for her release had been
withdrawn. A similar attempt to prove that the
General Parkhill was a British ship had also failed,
and she was sold.

The New York Tribune announces, "on the high-
est authority," that "not one government in
Europe has remonstrated against the closing of the
rebel ports ; but is it not equally true that there is
not a government in Europe that would not run a
paper blockade of those ports t At this moment
the commercial cupidity of England, France, and
Germany is penetrating the inlets of the whole
coast of North Carolina with cargoes of goods in
shallow vessels."

Commander Hickey, of MRS. Gladiator, had
complained to Commodore Striugham that the
blockade was left open at the entrance to Cape Fear
river, Wilmington, Beaufort, and Ocracoke Inlet to
Pamlico Sound.

The offices of the Eastern (Pennsylvania) Sentinel
had been gutted, because the editor was opposed
to the war. Mr. Johnson, a representative in Con-
gress from that district, was burnt in cagy, and he
himself compelled to show his colours. Ambrose L.
Kimball, nominal editor and proprietor of the
Lases County Democrat, was taken from his house
in Haverhill, by a mob of several hundred citizens,
led down to the centre of the town, made to strip
himself of hie clothing, and then coated with tar,and
afterwards covered with feathers. He was then
placed astride a rail, ridden round town and over
to Bradford, then brought back and made to kneel
before the crowd and promise that he would print
no more articles "against the North—so help me
God." He was then escorted home, and the crowd
giving three cheers quietly dispersed.
Mr. Serrill, who was arrested on his arrival in
I the Persia, having in his possession a considerable
sum of money alleged to be intended for the use of
the Confederate government, had been removed
from civil to military jutisdiction, and is now
confined iu Fort Lafayette. He was to have had
an examination before the United States commis-
sioner, but a despatch was received from Washing-
ton advising the transfer, and he was accordingly
taken down. A despatch from Philadelphia an-
nounces the arrest, by order of the government,
of Pierce Butler, and that he was also to be
imprisoned in Fort Lafayette. The cause of his
arrest does not appear. The only mention we see
of Mr. Muir is the following from the New York
I Tribune, dated Washington, August 18 :—" The
despatches and funds intrusted to Muir are in the
state department. Both are interesting. Muir's
lawyer and friends, with promptitude, if not dis-
cretion, begged early on Saturday morning for his
release, when the evidence against hint had not
even been examined. They left Mr. Sewanl's
presence in anything but high spirits."
A steamer from St. Louis, going southward, was
fired into by the Confederates at Commerce (Mo.),
about the 19th, and sunk. Three hundred pas-
sengers were taken prisoners. In an engagement
at Mesilla, between a body of Federal troops and
700 Confederates under Captain Baylor, Captain
M'Miely and Lieutenant Brooks, of the Federal
army, were wounded and two Confederates killed.
Night stopped the engagement. The Texans were
remaining in Mesilla, and the Federal forces going
to Fort Fillmore, 100 miles distant.

From Jefferson city (Missouri, under date Aug.
20, we learn that information bad been received
that Warsaw, Bolivar, and Oceola, points in the
south-west, had been occupied by portions of