The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-06 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, Sinn)AT.
The Royal Mail steamship Perala, Captain Jnd-
kin., from New York on the 25th ult., has arrived
here.

A telegraphic summary of her news has already
boen publisned.

The Nett York Herold of the 25th says :

We have important newt from Washington. Our own
1 gallant Seventh Regiment and the Massachusetts Eighth
Regiment are at last safely arrived in the national capital.
Despatches to that effect were received in the city last
night. Government has sent special messengers on here,
urging the forwarding of troops is fast as possible, and as
many field pieces as can be sent. It will be necessary to
have the national capital reinforced as rapidly as may be,
it being believed that the secessionists have a strong force
in the neighbourhood, and that they are preparing for an
early attack. It is supposed that General Beauregard and
President Davis are Loth in Virginia ready to lead the as-
sault. There is great scarcity of food it Washington.
Further accounts continued to be received of the
terrorism reigning in Baltimore and its vicinity.
No steamers were allowed to leave the city, and
railroad travel being cut off, passengers for the
North could only proceed by private conveyance.
The greatest excitement is said to prevail in the
city, and all northerners are closely watched.
Immense rejoicing took place at Montgomery,
Alabama on the news being received of the seces-
sion of Virginia. Great anxiety existed to bear
from the North, the people being still unaware
of the overwhelming and unanimous Union
feeling which has rendered the North as one man
since the attack of the secessionists on Fort Sumter.
Business in Montgomery was almost entirely sus-
pended. It was believed that President Davis had
left for Richmond, Virginia ; there, in concert with
General Beauregard, to concentrate a strong force
to attack Washington.
The war feeling iu the city of New York con-
tinued unabated. The rolls were rapidly tilling up,
and preparations were making by the various re-
giments for an early departure for the seat of war.
Colonel Ellsworth's Fire Zouaves were to leave
for Washington on the 27th ult., and three more
regiments—the 79th, 56th, and sth—would pro-
bably go on the same day.
In the United States Circuit Court on the 24th,
Judge Betts delivered an important charge
to the special grand jury empanelled to take cogni-
saw* of cases of treason and misprision of treason
in New York.

A gun manufacturer in New York was arrested
on the 24th on a charge of treason, and Dr. Sabot
was arrested for misprision of treason. They were
committed for triaL

The following is a brief account of the destruc-
tion of the Norfolk navy yard :
It wu set fire to on the morning of the 21st by the
government forces stationed there, to prevent it falling into
the bands of the secessionists. All the most valuable pro-
perty there was destroyed, including the line(-battle ship
Pennsylvania, the screw frigate Merrimac, sloop of war
Germantown, brigs Plymouth and Dolphin, frigates
Colombia, Potomac, and Delaware, the line-of-bade
ship New York, on the stocks, and other vessels of
lees value, together with the arms, munitions and
stone, sttiphouses and storehouses. On a preroncertedeigesl
be/mg gives the whole was eat fire to simultaneously,
bud so rapid was the destruction that Commander Rogers o
the Navy, and Captain Wright of the Engineers, were un-
ebbs to reach the point of rendezvous for embarkation, and
were necessarily left behind. The Union men of Norfolk,
It is add, at-operated with the government troops.
It was reported that a Secession army of 6,000
men were in the neighbourhood of Washington on
the 22nd ult. Great excitement prevailed. The
government had been strengthening and throwing
up defences around the capital and all the public
buildings, and every precautionary measure possible
was being taken.
Nothing positive was known as to the Secession
forces supposed to be in the neighbourhood, but an
early attack on the capital was apprehended.
The latest advice. from Baltimore report that
martial law had been proclaimed in that city. All
the places of amusement, the saloons, &c., were
closed. Scouts hadbeen sent out in every direction
toguard the approaches to the city, and to give
warning in case of the advance of the Northern
troops.
The Governor of Maryland had issued a proclama-
tion, convoking the legislature of that state on the
2Uth inst.

The Pennsylvanian troops recently encamped at
Cockeysville, a few miles north of Baltimore, had
broken up their encampment. They had been or-
dered to return to York, Pa., to be despatched
thence to Washington, ei4 Philadelphia.
The Thirteenth Regiment, under the command of
Colonel Abel Smith, left Brooklyn on the 23rd for
the seat of war. The men were most enthusiasti-
cally greeted during their march through Brook-
lyn. The 28th, another Brooklyn regiment,
would leave as soon as the men were properly
armed and equipped.
The Bth and 69th Regiments started for the
South on the 23rd. There was an inimense turn-
out to witness their departure.
An inimer.lo Union mass meeting was held on the
same afternoon in Brooklyn. The number present
was estimated at 25,000. The Mayor presided.
The common council of Brooklyn have raised
their appropriation for the war from 75,000 dole. to
100,000 dole.
The board of councilmen of New York bad una-
nimously ado: ited au ordinance providing for raising
a million of dollars to amid in equipping volun-
teers for the war.
There was no direct communication between New
York and Washington and Baltimore. The com-
munication was understood to be suspended by
desire of the government, in order to prevent its
plans of war from falling into the hands of its
opponents.
. .

A groat mass meeting in support of the govern-
ment in tile present crisis of the nation was held in
New York on the 20th ult. Such a demonstration
has never before been witnessed in the United
States. A series of resolutions were propoeed and
unanimously adopted pledging the meeting to use
every moans to preserve the Union intact and in-
violate, and agreeing to the appointment of a
committee of 25 to represent the city in the collec-
tion of funds and the transactions of such other
bsuiluess in aid of the government as the public
interests may require.
Great unanimity prevailed throughout the whole
proceedings, party politics were ignored, and the
entire meeting, speakers and listeners, were a unit
in maintaining the national honour unsullied.
The New York Herald says that the burning of
the bridges and the cutting of the telegraph wires
were done by order of Governor Hicks, and under
the protection of a strong military force.

SUPPOSED LOSS OF A LITIMPOOL AND NILW YORK
Tussah. —A communication wee posted at Lloyd's on
Saturday, stating that the Spanish brig &infanta, which
had put into Queenstown, bad paused on the Idth of April,
in lat. 45 N. long. 3.i W.,
_a large full-rigged black-painted
ship, waterlogged and abandoned. Thabade were all gone.
The bowsprit was carried away. Some letters were seen on
her stern, and it is thought that she la the Columbia, a large
American ship, smiling from Now York and trading to
Spain.
811 VEMELS WILICAED ON TUE DANISH COAST.—
A telegram was received at Lloyd's on Saturday forenoon,
intimating that a heavy gale bad visited the Dluiah coast in
the vicinity of Thisted, reaching up to the Skaw, and that
six vessels—two or three from London—had been stranded
and wrecked in the vicinity of the above port.. The names
of the unfortunate shitagoa reported to be the Harmonic,
Lever, master, from for Dantric, with cement ;
Neeltjee, from Loudon fu Norway, in ballast; Reform,
Nielsen. from Port Talbot fur Gothenburg, with railway
iron ; Thomas. from Calmer for Christania, in ballast ;
the Val,* Lehrman, from Dieppe for Soderhara, in
ballast; the Choke and Johan, from Newcastle fir Riga.
The menage adds that the whole of the crews were provi-
dentially saved.
Tax ILnsaros MORDEI.—The inquest on the
body of Joseph Smith, aged 40, who was shot by his son at
Ilkeston, at an early hour on Thursday het, was resumed
on Saturday last before Mr. Coroner Whiston. A number
of witnesses were examined, and, after a prolonged inquiry,
the coroner adjourned the inquest until this day, when it is
expected to ekes.

81./PINAILD MCRDiH IN NORPOLL--SOlne sixteen
years mince a woman, named Ann , dis-
appeared from her residence and friend. at rent filling.
ham, Norfolk, ia a very mysterious and inexplicable manner.
Nothing could ever be amet tarried with respect to her fate,
which remaioed an impenetrable mystery till within the
last few days, when some workmen who were engaged in
throwing down a bank in the park h toned a human
akeletoo. The skull was fractured, and it is now supposed
the unfortunate woman was murdered and buried in the
spot from which the remains have now been diaintened.

INDIA.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

By the arrival of the overland mail we have
advicee and papers from Bombay to April 12,
and from Calcutta to April 3.
We extract the following summary of news from
the Bombay Gazette :
India is quiet ; and the best interests of the empire are in
a state of ptugror. The great evil, with which the material
welfare of a large portion of the people of the land has co
long been premed remains unabated. The famine still pre-
vails and extends.' The distress has not yet come to the
worst. The European resources have been nearly exhausted,
while the wealthy natives, as a class, have as yet lamentably
failed in their natural duty towards their famishing fellow.
countrymen. There has been a pretty general fall of rain
in the North West.

The Indian penal code which was to h►ve come into
operation next mouth has been postponed until next
January.
Everything is settled in Sikkim, and the troops were ex-
pected back by the end of last month.
The country is still kept in ignorance of the details of
the amalgamation scheme, except as these are revealed in
the radical changes which are very gradually and
cautiously being made in the military service. The com-
mittee's report went home by the last Calcutta mail. The
branch of the public service which is tremblin_g most in
view of its apprehended fate ie the India navy. The service
is considered doomed : and as suspicions are like bats which
fly in the dark, all aorta of rumours are afloat as to its pro.
bible fate.

One of the /Own family of state prisoners, Prince Boo-
toobudeen, was most barbarously and brutally murdered on
Sunday evening. the 31st ult., at hi house, in Gartien.reach,
Calcutta. The Englishman states that the murdered man
was in the habit of sleeping on a charpoy in the north-east
comer of his verandah, whichts on the north side of the
home. Two bearers slept a short distance in the nine
verandah, and the moonshee in the room immediately
below. At about eleven o'clock, Inspector Wanton was
informed by one of these bearers that the Prince bad bad
a fit of apoplexy, and was bleeding profusely from the nom.
He accompanied tho bearer to the house, and the moment he
amended the steps to the verandah, was met by the moon-
'bee, who told him it was no case of sickness, but one of
murder. The unfortunate man was lying Maul on his hack
on the floor, and his mangled remains preeented an appalling
sight. He seems to have been sleeping on his face and to
have had several severe blows dealt him on the back of his
neck first, with a kitchen chopper. He would then appear
to have turned round and to have received 'limner blows on
his face. His upper and lower jaw, his teeth, his lips, his
tongue, his DC4I3, were all brutally and mercilessly backed
with a blunt and heavy butcher's chopper. The instrument
was found under his body, which was stretched at frill
length, with a small dessert knife by its side. Two of the
windows of the house were foundopen to encourage the idea
that the deed wee that of outsiders. Very fortunately,
however, the inspector had come at once to the spot, and
did not hesitate to secure the two bearers and the moonshee.
The durzee and the melee have since been arrested, and
from the confessions of some of these men, there remains
no doubt that the moonshee and donee were the principals,
and all the others more or lees concerned in the atrocious
murder. The emitlim motive wee plunder.