The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-29 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AMERICA.

The United Staten mail steamer Fulton, Captain
J. A. Wotton, which left New York on the 17th
inst., arrived off Cowes last evening, shortly after
8 o'clock, and went on to Havre, after trans-ship-
ping mails, &c., for Southampton. She brings 31
passengers for Southampton and 84 for Havre.
President Lincoln has issued an important pro-
clamation, interdicting all commercial intercourse
by sea or laud henceforth with the states in re-
bellion against the government, with the exception
of Eastern Virginia, and such portions of the other
recusant states as may be loyal to the goveniment.
The carriage of goods, chattels, wares, merchan-
dise, or persons, is strictly forbidden, and the offi-
cials of the government are ordered to forfeit all
vessels and other conveyances that may be em-
ployed in transporting such proscribed articles from
any of the states in arms against the government,
without permission from the President through the
Secretary of the Treasury.
General McClellan, while dealing summarily with
the insubordinate soldiers of the 79th New York
and 2nd Maine regiments, is taking active measures
to preserve the army from deworaliaation. He
has issued au order restricting the visits of all civi-
lians or others to the several camps or to any part
of the Virginia side of the Potomac, except those
provided with passes from the general in com-
mand, the Secretary of War, or the Provost
Marshal. All outstanding puma are revoked.
This measure has, doubtless, been adopted,
in consequence of the fact, which (says the New
York Herald) has been ascertained beyond doubt,
that Washington is teeming with traitors and spies.
The investigation of the Potter Committee will
reveal an extraordinary condition of things in the
public departments. It is stated on good authority
that there are no less than 143 known secessionists
in the service of the government at Wiethington,
and seventy-five others strongly suspected of en-
tertaining treasonable sentiments. Some of them
were employed in the arsenal on the manufacture
of shells to be used against the rebels, which may
account for the fact that many of these projectiles
used at Bull's Run did not explode.
An arrest of a supposed agent of the rebels
was made on the 18th. A passenger from Liver-
pool by the Persia, named Serrell,who, it is alleged,
boasted while on the voyage that he was the bearer
of a large sum of money for the use of the rebel
government, was arrested by the United States
Custom-house officers, on information received from
the other passengers, and upon searching his bag-
gage the sum of 200,000 dela. in Bank of England
notes was found therein. He was taken to the
District Attorney's office, and admitted to bail in
the sum of 40,000 dole.
The grand jury of the United States Circuit Court
in New York had brought tin an important paper
and presented it to Judge Shipman, condemnatory
of the "treasonable" course of the following
papers :—Journal of Commerce, the Daily and
Weekly News, the Day Book, the Freeman's
Journal, and the Daily Eagle of Brook-
lyn, which express themselves opposed to what
they call " the present unholy war," and for the
utterance of language which if expressed in the
streets would be considered a crime against the
government. The grand jury are aware that the
conduct of these disloyal papers is abhorred by all
loyal men, and hope that it is subject to indict-
ment and the punishment of the court.
Rumours were prevalent in St. Louis that Gene-
ral Ben. McCulloch was positively killed at the
battle of Davis Creek. General Siegel is said to be
at a point within fifteen miles of Lebanon, and was
expected to reach Rolla on the 15th. The rebels,
according to some reports, had entered Springfield
and encamped there.
By arrivals from South American ports we learn
that the rebel privateers are actively engaged in
that quarter, as well as about the West India
Islands. Several of them have recently been seen
off Pernambuco and Rio Janeiro. The Jeff. Davis
ran into San Juan, Porto Rico, on the 26th ult.,
for provisions and water. She had been over-
hauling American vessels in that neighbourhood
for some time previous.

(aVITZIeB TZLIMAII.)
QUEENSTOWN, Avausr 29.

The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Company's steamer Kangaroo, from New York on
the 17th inst., arrived here this morning. She
was boarded off Cape Race, and brings telegrams
from New York to the 21st inst. Political affairs
were unchanged. No farther collision had taken
place. The cotton market was quiet. Wheat was
firm. Sterling exchange. 1074