The Express. — London, England, 1861-01-25 00:00:00

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Mae r%DIAN awl VNITID ISTATIN MAIL .tmailA-vr., CnsamosiciLlm Sy MOM Wham r: . t .1 Askrlrs.orteit I = 2 :z ~.= irk p a.. aser•-iiip pay s ,s Ilisl soissirs will nil Sm. LIVIIIIPLIOL "my Ths= %.OSTSI AIIIIIICAb. Tlualiag 'swing U. ‘..‘ % OICUITIA !I . . reirears 7. ‘s ANA N, riersdas 1/ 14. %./ItTII 11111111/71. Ilisnobig ft MAILMAN, llossday Folmor/11l NINSIINIAI aril TOISSIIIKAS NM ININEW. W.. .4 —To resthurd ,—Sbel elm Ms lila sod O. AS Ss : sassimp. Ts. TIE= ota. 31.0 Tam Moslavd. .___Tollois ...14., Its se. . a.m.,. LS rmiweat. Ss —les 6 Wall. WM SWILL spark mi. wirerrrekss& I. f. curia+ haw& umpad: U. Noah Wsk Mee . rod " I lii ow/, IL AY. MICII at DI %IDE ND. —BAN K of DEPOSIT • rAtarrhoi A.D 1444 . >L PM moll Zama Lombok &M. It Ulla NTS tot lbw MALI' YE.A/LLY INTILMIR at Ito ▪ 3 pat fiat pot aaaaia. t.t lavotit aoctootat. to like Mil y whoa, aro BILADY tor &ivory. aid YAVABLIC Xl4 bo y • the boun of I* aal.4. PXTti MI ORRIAOS. Malmseys tereeter. run N. POI. Pnoperlasse red Yaw mit tree as supleolles. rabid ADVA3C MADE, without dela ,by VV tb• RONDOS ISTIINTYIINT 0011IPANY . 666. at logo of doe* Mlle alb sr aber =l: ll.BL earlty. tepayable b 7 pay laslamourai. amid 6 per veal. ea al sweats above St. Ciellal= b arm at • Wad LI wicb. Prvepecladm sad hem emu Ise • *Wallow ANDZIW J AIM SORT. 11/1"6166. WO l'A PITALISTS. —WA NTED, tram £3,000 I, t.. 'AM by a capital.`esandact boom IRON, wbobiebt track rh. senerley I* far th er Is credal by lin luereattat t * m.l for fa Nikki 4 sarremi mad itt. -ater. C. mil Ca , we al Mom.= Z a =l:::., lorabor4+lne4 ILC. (TOLD OHAINS.—WATHERSTON and MOOD= bog be a& the attention a the public h. the pm( at IX VOWS whine they deliver with tiold Guard dolor pundkaid lbair mamakci.wi . a. 4. T. werharaship id iree S Ask, 51 inches lac T. IS, arid wit es. I-I. pm. MI x 44 . per mom pike Tltsk I pas this system the QUALITY. 11114111111 T. aid YAWN sit &pig amellial. and alienates.' to the iethehmeee: Walser. IM Ilresimay•uktu.‘ fur • LW rememnAhme as 55. werk- VAT'maxwvllkke I..Leged accuriles to the Isleieeey or ty of the petters HT.INT”N bIIVIODIN. Ilettivaltha —Matteteelery, !I. IA Henrietta...tee* Oeveetepergeo. Load's W.C. mar Ilhie4 t. I79LL Old= awl Jowl/Dry law la auk —N.& TO& iW.►urat damialala bibs mush% amass aalarasys &Wm 111111118 FOR JIIVI 1( IL18. eilebei at • Keen • ineelelles s seg. la os. lbe Yet awl Meg dela. my be sommer • d. e 4. Zekliffberlser Milk bs l• 11 , • O WNW ben T 0 bean Amite . U 0 Wile .... „ W 4 Wks *Ht. = , aii.. news .. IS • Osbara• W .. „ 7 4 „ LI II tbeibdiee= l . B ... . 15 5 lurk li. !Wt. .... ... „.. ip f. ----- .." .Ie . MO7II4 ' ANDNON, Mut MAT TAMURA, bbreu.wr D N %mac.. NONIIINR. MOOT AND ANON SAE AND UINDIAL 011TITTIMS. Leaded Ileum: Corm of Illaerire sedAl So. Ikdorti4llllvi. o eser d ritaddlreet Omer of Teeeeebsea-courtereed and Ditgawirced. Conan Lealsbdumente : iterstes'i belldiade. Kri•ler-deeet, IDadtord, Yeetaldre. Narver. Illedleid NA "add ned. say AM. le at be approved It WO be ee. L et sway retu cir ca. p sa. awl eOSa Itt LEA be AILI.DIAINILIKEIT and Ile et prier, grub pamphlet is the liouty-arie Maks Sp. bei pad aml pre.arl iu wals eampgatlee. et poet !ea The IPTAALPUI 111rItT FIIDATIVON. DIG simese Meese rs enaere, ahem beelasee V lesemed ell U Islet RUPTUR 18.-14 Royal Loden Pabst. vntnr. re ISOCILAUI LEV= WW M lmoisibil uleMsd I. Um Lahlbilloa. 1W Is allowed by words of ISO mid omollonmos In be lie mod komol Momr re trommool of ISMS lA. 7100 am of a Mod mob., me d 1 MAN la It. awl{ I. More smiaml : a amil Imodom bolme ems mod lho Vrh..Eih lb. roolofto omil=or =PAW AIMIIISOC-II • omil moo mol eloommo Ibe. N ,rose. is detected. mmi = omoo &dm dom. A Morrlptloo Maar mg 100 ao Tom Smomordool by pot. m Me oloommionom d lir Mt le. lobe, brim Ile Itqo holm mil So limo sialser, IU I 7 Mommlllly A. Volhillomi brMre min We. Ilk NM • AM.M So wait spas 1.41.. RUPTURES,—TM PATIN'? 811L>- ADJUSTINO SIMIAN 12Vt. =NM ~mar .* aft emellisthes, is rwomessilM toy Se WWI, IM we sad Nit el lonia. 1b wwwwary wed* d • good Imo ban larked reektlai power. widows umessmory promore le &Nimble - Is elms .pissed la • hos ismomburwil with slimy spiage. •• poi Mist rimetutr. vr• °MPARINTB sad 017ARDIAN8.—Ths em d mei Se Moir suessilys Sri' miss& Yr Sim • mllsMsE• Oar 06•Ir i MsmIn• ; sal OKLA% tss 111ACAMBAS t•s •••••••••••• t ip .0 sad Mrattplop miss Aid Ur : POWLANII. ••• /servelfts M. sal Illiolask oril man be "sewn. 4.110.86 . W Mufua r raw warn, 4 wribsdas sio 1..& Imostair will* and In' !miss . ••••••mbassd Isolkpimsble asssugaiimms• rs'i•• se of Ors pussems •Ass•lsges so 6.01 Is sad aluirsi—AsU lIWLANI• sal 111) 681.1 42 illadd tad" Aram. ma 4 bff flionslals sell halms& ME he IoWLANINI resift biLBUCHAN% DOWINTIO wzmongis, lamr• beliotsi wafied. Ilidatubdwe the awed, rid did Ise the ewe of every ammo MUT ICYJI.400•111D TIIMATAALS NUL • km* b. ddisldY4 lams bomb. latt s tUs. tr a=lari rYlseg hamesma Idlowallwa. add dlooddi. soorba m lle ew lb * to atums, palm i m li Ike pills wart * wog Qs la ce dry ads d .Dwane. demoted la lhoir rodweddll od, adhosltia seesmalatha, ull tho 4wi b poolOwd, dhe wilds Mas aswoullsd. sal an the disedloas asswedlos do amlude. _Ps ho%l. 1 i tsl a► M. dad M. sdolft AKA deli = 01NT31 1 1017. dialludleg AY " fa =lat lig • eds l " bw tam w all = hada . setts. vhdlilv at thew assoltakft. =41. 6 11 :- . photos. odhassa sad bomiOftlog the *Ea red Id .at declare to be time lull obludat la Yid wait Pirr are. It IlleeliM rtrii IiVrILATItIi V 'Pitfall.' 1111111ACIL —This lowfard. ho amide Mtunle the word sad Ilmedloas sad Men at Sid. • lira ethasmited Ni dedsans hod Amiss. add torn d wino. libels. teemed ea la early maturity lei AI an It is a .ertals care tor of *Ms. hdpoeloostrams. asthma Nowadids. ratio, add lot. edema Reran. deldlity. eM posusamo dam. asw ordeal aminar, a pa oreal ite . _ettlollso rad llhandltaa, ealt their dramas roarwead s dop l odladask as dadvd. dam . Adak sod sparsodte olrldwra addepumni et lie paw Ink medium ed Otte tdaddse, redowska sad sumodsualsa solh owe d taw Ithbaspe. sad all tomb ompleles, TN. prowled Isedlishle rm.* power the power nt eurialau la. ...scrag. sad perifyiaa saga partleidar vital avid, minis awe prollar. ma to evsjay WM sad vismear. Par lbstUa, . Ha. or sae cesdaislart twat tare that iliessamis of rapes proved sad swan to Nlr s xiew = Ilea tat tont Mayor of bombe. add minim a' —SW by DOTHAN sad Ow. yaderdaos Xermeartilleatm bdirdoke e. Leaden. W.. sad aUdrakes le tows dad . 7 61 "woo Armes ladv l 4 tad arm. TS. Pr rhaploaolresd3 . bac=thdied-street . Wary. 411 Odonlodows.: U r. Elm WMaietreet. loadowbridip 16 . 6 14:w Or h steed; Pm* 120, areal Its. loot bee for as. stamp. of all muds, sad a. vasi. drect, attracts front DOXIATIe tribal A Pltyslcisa ssol,Vlessber of the Deed cones. of fretros., t. de registered odder the wow Medical Ad . attends m. ,Move, to aim advice. aided* ha to those yardman looses sad Co.'s Ilbettkillft. (.D, lledkiass Sereanksi to 14 Isms of Use world. re rarely. of fustollos arida to Na a ll- pasha low. Beads sad Ca ANEVER FAILING REMEDY. Dr. BOATS srunri and LITER 111/ i ci= Masai my 31srenris3 Inmedtent. bent Me 11l he bread lavabsable to all wise miler Mens i Vieles si;d liver e milteints.latimutton. wind. immins. diddlnees. Main= el the SArc Yor habitual roeri: ii p , :• dimity aperient me& ad as a partber of the May are truly Mewling: In th.ir um ratio.. and to the stomach. lb. e i_tiu lepelts, promote dl and err nether. the wltiatt r',7 4 nnema.—nekl by W. lemibart. sod 1 4 1110 . 1 .1 .. ..a la lid. aids ot Do er e le ask tor lie. Ana l = rd tire, 1116. The monism are • *mar.. cram seam% with William lambs* 1.. Jermystetrect." engraved on the sienm. IZ WINO'S COUGH LOZENGES.—What non fatalls their coluequeseedi ims owe., Thx.ds. oe Ludi eoi*OH pdat Mlsatives wog heel to IA K TI StrA Lir/ANON& di OnNlis ma slid Id and TIN. b. Id. serA ja a Th AiniClA tv NN Tv, nt. raura tlditidward. Leadass. TI at. JOZZAL"B COPAHINE, or Rocchorated Cap . 413.1 linspltak ac ktswhalpill as as best manly chmelc 41se•assi.— 17" "I. s. kirti. I.rwartled on appticatiow Pier ..tit, al amuust.Jo rw rs. Yar A elb•sigt. C., Nay. .._ 11 .116.1. Lad. ; 24 au yeamila. Mit r 4 tae prischml - "Mkt hie 4 pHOTOOR•PHIC ZXHIBITION. The 001111 ANNUAL LIIIIDITION et the POMO. ONAPUIC suntir el LONDON le NOW OPIDI, alt Dee llat tereol the *NM/ et Maim la Water Cutouts, 6, Palkea NM.Ar. 11 lo Nvesims. 7to 10. FRENCH GALLERY, 120, Pall-Man.—Mom mamma ETU NoOLAPIIICAL OALLUY of WULt- Ti MC bilearnalas lag INA presaloN4 typos ti Ow Maw race. utllol DAILY Ilma $ & Adasisiaa. b. ISLINGTON PILILEIARMONIC HALL (near the fial•'..-11169. I,ohe Pyue sad MP W. Halateen or the &la oven. OesreaAaardra. here kindly ark as exception la hour .1 the above Hall. rad allowed Os crepd••••• to en • grind ideetbm tam. Balks upon "ran Ilan el Cactllle," 51kb is eiebtly received .Ith thawed sup portal 11 tbe botlosslos celebrated an n WT. umekr.rtutu Ines La , 1 / 4 ,1114 Milan . Miss Link Illank Mr Horace Vence pupil et M. %V. Halle. tag. IL Ertmeatla Orem Hear, Perry. aad Howard Hanle. With tall Bead and Chorea thews apes at 7. Family lamas, grind tier, 7s. 1.1 . upper Is.; bal cony and Nab, Is arra, tal. Wallas Alleys °pea from t CHHISTIMAS HOLIDAYS. ARGYLL ROOMS.-GRAND MUSICAL ENTIOITAINIIINT. with the celebrated Rawl, Feely la member. aelehillied clews yam, chows fres 11w Philhanweie Culacerta. Hoye* Dallas Opens. awl the Hnuaeledd Troops Clueeacted by Mon. Lanaete. Curnet-Aplstoa, 11. Wakes& LANCING at, • erdeck. Agassiegara. It MHZ LONDON PAVILION, TichbornePPP, NdimmblL-11 wart to awed limommot worm p to the WNW! PA lead see Is bell ea le bee COXCIIIIT. Almelo (by reepromor hickey el.— Beelle ail Omterko &a Bpi DE Win, Ono to Twenty Guineas mob— Waldman. Cake kr Ivo pier . Dmilse. Ilia*.. wed 1116.•1 ()ANN frelle le Will sea . • brio armusirterAbriad oires tor dianset. la. Sul per Is =lnans. sal Op Beebe Ip . w —Kamm. Oink si= amedfiggew.llll. ei ILIDUCTION or TIM WWI DOTS. EUROPZAN and COLONIAL wisi comPANY. Ili lASesll. lark& eTM above Cm be famed lar i =pre dit or i m ins s tr u karsi charileV m • media of ',per cent. ROYAL VICIORIA SHIRRY Ma per dom. Moe Mallard of Ravallauwi.) SiLlefDID OLD PORT tau psn is Yu wand trays, doom SPARKLING /f2EINAY CHAMPAOAR lea OP. JOWLY CLARDY. sad without acidity 9s. FIX/OT COGNAC RLIDT (Psis aff Wewic Mi. maids. HVNGABLIN CROW( PORT. SHIRRY. de ISA sod Us. We Su m am introduced lan, this country. Reales sod lesdindokand sh dozen awe Imola am ealheny eleedneln=d t Wsi e& Prim Me tree tamp& tiens rr► WILZIIII Mozateee. PO 17L 111 Y, BUTTER, HAMS, Ac. IXPOITA NT TO YAItILI74 . ZOTICL-KRIEPSIS. &e. lisoto, Poetry. FAcs, sot Lolry-Int Park fresh hoot Qs Finest York itaaro,Wltt shrn=t;tislrat or hilt led.: los Americas atom, by late UK or gouger, TN. to iltd. Cbod,ler. SO. to : Closlaso,l44. to let (stss., ad. to 9a. ; Stilton. Is. to IL : Giver% 161. yea lb, : good NU buttsr, la to Is. M.. brook Llsla Y. pow Ik : pow dicers, to id. Imo tow* trays to Is. K ; young turkeys, 4ato as. ad.. young woo, is, Id. tall.. MP ol look nt is M. Fir no. : Wink w. sad J. Z. TATUM, at, LOW Palteneyorott. BARLOWE HOT WATER DISHES are not meg the MA, bat the cheeped: the DISH 01WIWI So oat la lihetro Nam, BrltaaMa Metal, and Double Mock Slo, are Swat la foes sad rasennable la price ;either singly oe la tete,. ANICE HOT PLATE for your Game, Haunch of Mattes, he., Is a luxury at the dinner table . all Hot Water Plates hitherto node have been a reanplete failure. D.AItLOWS HOT WATS& PLATM and MOHO, oft the con trary. .111 be found all that yea can draire. The plates are china, of elegant registered patteraammonneed la the beat doable block Dn. with sissy feet. Moe Oa OIL sad 4a. each. liagraviese and yoke. gratis —JANIS _ , Investor and P• 1•16" 14, Wag Wllliansotreet, S.C. ussi. eVALB by Screw Btkamer lelptabary ad Coal Depta—LlAand Railway.— and Oa PRICE tar Hatton a nda Wobble Walbend. the bud Man nal % . bOn CHM% from the milled l 7w eiesions, fla: Mee small. Ile. INLAN D—HALLWAY: 1111kalask sad beat Clay (TAW No sad ; Bannirr, lan : Hartley, ble per be—art cash. Deliver* aerveard. So as, part al low don All orders So to forwarded to LLA sad Co.. Met Mikan, North Gds. beltway :galloon Illildrary. blispats. or Lbw bend. N.S. lto iamb eanployaL "MUNN% VZONTABLZ (COLZA) OIL, 4A ed. pw iwpodw NW" wird by Wok war p.s Is topitior to rap odor, bolkffier yo nW quit, tool brit =solo=rotilo by =IN mod - 1101111. 111, W I C., to a ports of lows dais. QIWING x„.—.H sad lIITUIONII NOW - ILICIMITCH " ammo MACIIINBIL W r i i i sneL sollAMO slildis• Wants —4kie lessa. 4111, Drattplltre sratba. BBOND'SPERMANINT MARKING INK (lbs arlslaal, for raartlaia. Lhasa. OIL .r aw.. 1. Irse as propondloa. wa r y far the boot talky, °barn ISM so IMpsop star sfalsr has me yet boss prepared. W WI dads boNas bum the address ua ti. label, ts, Lega tor, Wu floitkaold. City, I' , 'bore If any be °Maimed sholasslo Ist Mall. &ad u tin.g drsiglalk assikias nodal, alstissom an. , te this l'aite.l Cowles& Moo Ia par bottle. Reask, ea M the 1141 i. L priret: , the y; Fehreeralabr of B. CuSTILIIT3 L The Seven P.M of Mammon Ivy Aug 2414. Clew IV. Ls Darns an Pressler V. Oa s Yield, 0r e I roes, ' , able. Itee. II Udder Ihe Pink. argesu I. UMW de lidalaild. 21 John llunf.rd . 4. The Coeateme Melosinv & Oa the Came of tails ay Art Went& • Leaden Aar —No 3 thita.,Al3 T. Ilaslksk. 1711 e I. M &new. • Oa Isslatleos oast Cesswell..... • Yoe !Mho ter Wane. Chapters VIII. end IX. la Amiss{ tionicel Novelist.. Fast I. IL Montag. 12. Towels la the County of Ill&thatt. by the Mir. &a • nen the Voiumeeeta. Itegenfopork. to Illiampdadd basik Mho. 1/2. 11,4411sealt. Larima. LC. sormioxa. Doom ADiTAILID CATALOOLIC of approved 11001 U for idesetkeel aarawas wm be meet, 'Keine Irak •• ailabsdift lade.: Palm. Is. sot 'we% Well !gram'. BEIL pine IL, fogoLop boxy OUT WITH C A RI B LDI. IL/ Omprfelny • BM •othentle amount of Out baba. OM IN of %two to Ms fetirenuon to ca m By IL S. Baffott. am MOW. Garlbektiaa 1 Windsor. lases: Ward and I.Jek, 166. nollf-offed. azipdee IL L !". Ino, ta. tray kora, THIINDIAN CHM% Dy 017112•111 AIXAAD, Abbra at "lib Nor alayar." " esimosionk . As. As • sensalva of thrillina lib Advisaiwar• al LM b be Jamb but aa be Prairie, tab wart doesnia baba pabasi. larks : Ward awl Lek tbaLsboaL 'Rut o puibillaboll. prim wag alaispa, rars MANIIA4 on Nervonmin V e la Plenestnre Dec Use. met the as to he In anew 11.11111110 if to retain or regain yotattive rigour and In sloe el lile mud owlet all chreasetances Foch coin, end Ins Was carefully atiebed and analysed Ay Neu asami nininsalas la the rations Conelaantal and LW =s aka lisprbis . anartaes. By it•LPII sawn. Ed the Conga Si lf Maa.ms. Monitor of she Boyd Claw d Iner=. Midas& &a. . J. AIM% 110. Warelek4Nas. 112th 1.11 w., and_prky ; bypoot doom !LITTIRRITABILITI (Modal and Ptyaled holoce,l by spersalore)uro . the Systpllcui, aa.l lational Trootorot. By T. 11. I'Bottai, 11. D., to Uto Gonond Pusteoface Lettor.Cattlear ?reddest !rename. tc. Floe: Uy pout ooly, from the Author, 73. Loyd•puen, JIM pahliebed, Klee la,peet treat's= the Author for It eteilla AMEDICAL ESSAY on the CAUSE sea CV Az of TRIXATU It k. ItatCLIN L paha directions for perfect restorstles to health a. , d rigour. the mutt of Meaty. are Y ears' somewhat ppre..cctt In the &nutmeat at these panne, arrow as 4 nomad dl.e.ee w Melt lead to emalleer mai Manta Ilia By Ur. J. L Ccatte, Albemarbatrest , PleseMllp. Imealess Tide Is !be bed hoot on nein owns."—M•diesi /Word Lemke: Mann. iu. Loruhtll end .3. Allem. 26. Warwlek•lase. Just pablished,c, post fres fee 14 stamps, with S Ode likstrations, KIN DISEA7Ns and their RE1V13311:3. BLltoitur JOLDMI, M.D., Licentiate of the Mani COl leg° of nYnk law. FAlthbOrlib Member of the Royal Coat^ e of annsoms. Lmilaad. ate. lee. Containing the modem trea tment (s• adopted at the Ilmpital Vit. Louis, Parts for the cure of those nanoinins dinsus es prevalent to a high date of civilisation. too 0411111 WaitilllVlsl fob so Impure state of the blood, coming cuta neous tom. scorbutic affections. and scrofula; treatment bur and deep seated ulcers: torphluf the chrth system (111441112 silecolouratinu of the handy, redness, of the thin. illsiluuriss the face and firing It an as- Z ia appearssen, lu Lien of a ckiu, fair, and healthy coin "me honk is, is be bas abused to make It thoroughly Instal sad poetical: "—Medical Thom sad Gazette, August 4, lete). Published by John Chareliitt, :new parbuit,,,, e t s ,t, so d tubs had direct from Ilse Author, to, o*one-street, Ilanoverenuan, use= kr Com/Lake tram 10 to sad Ay appointment GIVIN AWAY to NERVOUS SUFFERERS. De. SMITH has het published • ?XXX CLIITIoN nt his valwalde work YeMELICAL VILIEN U no pages sso the If.eure of NerV.N.lllDsbsisty, Los of Donor ) , Dimness of ssyht. Lassitude. . pnst.free. sin receipt erosive. tackling two postage Mon t i 4ls.tress. n. SMITH. 11. liurtsmoresewst s Sweiseiquate, LONDON. FRIDAY . JANUARY 25, 1861, THE lINITELi-STATtii: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT. Wu have received New York papers to Jan. 11. The leading feature of the news, a summary of which appeared in our paper yesterday morning, is the secession of three more states, Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama. On the Bth inst. the following manage front the Prmideut was rend in the Senate : Tithe Senate and House of Representatives: At the opening of your present serial I called your at tenant to the dangers which threatened the existence of the Union. I expressed my opinion freely concerning the original causes of these dangers, and recommended such measures a,, I believed would have the effect of tranquil lising the country, saving it from the peril in which it had bees needlessly and most unfortunately thrown. Those opinions and recommendations I do not propose sow to repeat. My own convictions upon the whole subject remain unch►nged. The fact that a great calamity was im pending over the nation was even at that time acknow. lodged by every intelligent citizen. It had already made itself felt throughout the length and breadth of the hod. The necessary coosequenoes of the alarm thus pro duced were most deplorable. The imports fell off with a rapidity never known before, except iu time of war, in the history 14 our foreign commerce. The Treasury was unex pectedly left without meson which it had reasonably counted spun to meet its public engagements. Trade was paislyeed, manufactures were stopped, the best public securities suddenly soak is the market, erelF spudn of property depreciated more or hoe, sad themaads of poor UM who depended upon their daily labour for their daily bread were turned out of employment. I deeply regret tha► I am not able to give you any information upon the state of the Unioa which is more satisfactory than what ITM then obliged to communicate. Oa the oontrary, metiers are ■till worse at present than they were. When Ocepses met, a strong hope pervaded the whole public mind that some amicable adjustment of the subject would be speedily ' made by the representatives of the States, which might re store peen between the conflicting sections of the country. That hope has been diminished by every hour of delay, and as the prospect of a &doodler seedentent fades away the public distress becomes more sad more aggisrated. As an evidence of this it is only necessary to say the Treasury notes authorised by the act of the 17th December last were advertised according to the law, and that no responsible bidder offered to take any considerable sure at par at a lower rate of interest than 12 per cent. From these fact. it appears that in a government organised like ours, domestic strife, or even a well-grounded fear of civil hostilities, is more destructive our public and private interests than the moat formidable foreign war. Is my annual message I expressed the conviction, which I have long deliberately held, and which recent reflection has only tended to deepen and confirm, that no State has I the right by its own act to secede from the Union or throw off its federal obligations at pleasure. I also declare my opinion to be, that even if that nett existed and should be exercised by any State of the confederacy, the exe cutive department of this government had no authority under the constitution to recognise its validity by ackoow !edging the independence of suck StaW. This left me no alternative, as the chief executive ofaver under the consti tution of the United States, but to collect the public revenue and protect the public property, so far as this might be practicable under existing laws. This is still my purpose. Xy pinion is to execute, not to make the laws. It belongs to Om:rem exclusively to repeal, modify, or enlarge their provisions to meet exigencies as they may occur. I poems so dispensing power. I certainly had no right to make aareesive war upon any State, and I am per fectly satisfied that the constitution has wisely withheld that power eves from Coograna But the right and the duty to use military force defensively against those who resist the federal officers in the execution of their legal functions, spinet those who awed the property of the federal govern meet, 1s clear and undeniable. Bat the dangerous sad hate attitude of the States towards each other has al ready far transcended and cast into the shade the ordinary executive duties already provided for by law, and has amomed such vast and alarming proportions as to place the subject entirely above and beyond executive control. The tact cannot be disguised that we are in toe midst of a great revolution. Therefore, I commend the question to Cowper as the .only hum►n tribunal under Providence possess iag the power to meet the existing emergency. To these exclusively belonbl the power to declare war or to authorise the employment of military forces in all cases ecstemplated by the constitution, and they alone poems the power to remove all the grievances which might lead to war, nail to secure peace and union to this distracted country. On them, and on them alone, rests the responsibility. The Union is a sacred trust left by our revolutionary f►thers for their descendants, and never did any other people inherit 'so rich a legacy. It has rendered us prosperous in peace and triumphant in war. The national tins has floated is glory over every sea, and under its shadow American citi zens have found protection and respect in all lands beneath the sun. If we deemed to considerations of purely mate rial interest, when in the history of all time has a confede• racy been bound together by such strong ties of mutual in ' tenni Each portion of it is dependent upon all, and all upon each portion, for prosperity and domestic security. Free trade throughout the whole supplies the wants of one portion from the productions of another, and matters wealth everywhere. The great planting and farming Stake I require the aid of the commercial and navigating States to send their productions to domestic and foreign markets, and famish the naval power to render their transportation secure against all hostile attacks. Should the Union perish in the midst of the present excitement, wo have already had a sad foretaste of the universal suffering which would result from its destruction. T►e calamity would be severe in every portion of the Union, and would be quite as great, to say the least, in the South ern as in the Northern States. The greatest aggravation of the evil, and that which would place us in the most unfavourable light both ledere the world and posterity, is, u I am firmly eon viand, that the secession movement has been chiefly based upon misapprehension at the South of the sea. timente of the majority in several of the Northern States. Let the question be removed from the polities] assemblies to the ballot hos, and the people themselves would speedily mega th e serious grievances which the South have suffered. Iltd la Heuveu's name let the trial be made before we plunge into au armed conflict, upon the mere assumption that there is no other alternative. Time is a great conserva tive power. Let ns pause at the momentous point, and afford the people, both of the North and South, an oppor tunity for reflection. Would that South Carolina had been convinced of this truth before her precipitate action. I there fore appeal through you to the people of the country, to de clare in their might that the Union must and shall he preserved by all constitutional means. I most ear neatly recommend that you devote yourselves to the question how this eau be accomplished in peace. All other questions, when compared with this, sink into insignifi cance. The present is no time for palliatives. Prompt action is required. A delay in Congress to prescribe or recommend a distinct and practical proposition for conedia ' tion may drive us to a point from which it will be almost impossible to recede. A common ground on which conci liation and harmony may be produced is surely not unat tainable. The proposition to compromise by letting the North have exclusive control of the territory above a con taro line, and to give Southern institutions protection below that line, ought to receive universal approbation. In itself, indeed, it may not be entirely satisfactory, but when the alternative is between reasonable embas sies on both sides and the destruction of the Usione, it is an imputation on the patriotism of Coupons to assert that the members will hesitate a me meat Even now the danger is upon us. In several States which have not yet os-tested, the forte, arsenals, and magazines of the United States have been seized. This is by far the most serious step which bas been taken since the commencement of the troubles. This public property has long been left without garrisons and troops for its protec tion, because no person doubted its security under the flag of the country in say state .4 the Union. Besides, our small army has scarcely been sufficient to guard our remote frontiers against Indian incursions. The seizure of this property. from all appear..nces, has been purely aggressive, and not ill resistance to any attempt to coerce a state oe states to remain in the Union. At the beginning of these unhappy troubles 1 delennined that no act of mine shonkl incresas the excitement in either section of the country. If the political conflict were to end in civil war, it was my determined purposse not to cam. menus it, nor to furnish an excuse for it by any act of this government. My opinion remains unehanged, that justice as wall as sound policy requires us dill to seek • peaceful solution of the question at hone between the North and the South. Entertaining this conviction, I re- halved even from sending reinforcements to Major Ander ' son, who commanded the forts of Charleston harbour, until au absolute necessity for doing so should stake itself ap parent, lest it might be regarded as a menace of military coercion, and thus furnish a provocation, or at least a pre text, for an outbreak on the part of South Carolina. No neoeeeity for these reinforonnenta seemed to exist. I wan assured by distinguished upright gentleman of Santis Caro lina that no attack on Major Anderson was intended, but that on the contrary it was the desire of the state authori. ties, ea muck as it war my own, to avoid the fatal noose queues whisk must eventually follow a military collision And here I deem it proper to submit for your infor matins eopiesof a communication dated 20th December, 1860 Weaned Ms me by It. W. 13arnwell, J. H. Adams, and James L. Or., Commissioners of South Carolina, with the aceompanying documents and copies of my answer thereto, dated Desesaber Al. In further explanation of Major Anderson's moo re from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter it is proper to state that after my answer to the South aerobes Canonise's:oars, the War Department received a letter from that gannet altar, dated December 27th, 1860, the dip after bit newentent, from which the follow. ing is an extent :—" I will add, w my opinion, that may things courinced me that the authorities el the date designed to proceed to a hostile act (evidently referring to the OWNS dated Desestbee llth, of the late Secrefery of War). Under this imposition I could not hesitate that it was my sologe duty to move my command from a fort which we °add not probably have held longer than forty or sixty hours, le thisose, when my power of resistance is in. creased to • vary great degree." It will be recollected that the concluding part of the orders was be the following words : " The smallness of your force will not permit you per haps to occupg more than one of the three forts, but an attack on, or attempt to take pomession of either one of them, will be regardod as an act of hostility, and you may then put your command into either of them which you may deem most proper to increase its power of resistance. You are also authorised to take similar defensive steps, whenever you bare tangible evidence of • design to proceed to an host& act" It Is said that serious apprehensions are to some extent entertained, in which I do not share, that the peace of this district may be disturbed before the 4th of March next. In any event it will be my duty to preserve it, and this duty shall be performed. In conclusion. it may be permitted me to remark that I have often warmed my countrymen of the dangers which now surround us. This may be the last time I shall refer to the subject officially. I feel that my duty has been faithfully, though it may be imperfectly, performed, and whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country. (Signed) JANNA BUCHANAN. Washington City, Jan. S. Mr. HOWARD (of Michigan) moved that the meanie be referred to a special committee of five, with instructions to inquire whether any executive officers of the United States have been, or us now treating or holding cam. munication with any person or persons for the transfer of forts and other property; whether any de mand for their surrender hos been made, and by whom and what answer has been given ; whether any officer or officers have entered into any pledge not to send reinforcements of troops to the harbour of Charleston, and if so, when, where, by whom, and on what consideration.; whether the custom-house, post-office, or arsenal at Charles ton have been seized, by whom held in possession ; whether any revenue cutter has been seized, and whether any efforts have been made to recover it. The committee have power to send for persons and papers, and report from time to LiJiii al* forts as may be required by the national homer, ke. The resolution psesed—yeas, 133 ; nays, 62. Respecting the firing of the Charleston forts on the Star of the Weet, we have a despatch dated January 10. The Chariesfeet Courier of to-day says that about half pastas o'clock yesterday morning thesteamer General Clinch discovered the steamship' Star of the West, and signalled the fact of her approach to the occupants of the battery on Morris Island. As soon as the signal wile seen by those on guard there, Morris Island was astir with men at their pests before the orders could be given them to prepare for action. They remained in anxious suspense, but ready for what they believed was sure to come, a volley from Fort Sumter. The Star of the West rounded the point., took the ship channel inside the bar, and proceeded straightforward until opposite Morris Island. about three-quarters of a mile from the battery. A ball was then fired athwart the bows of the steamer. The Star of the West displayed the stars and stripes. As soon as the Bag was unfurled the fortification fired a succession of heavy shots. The vessel continued on her course with in creased speed, but two shots taking effect upon her, the ear eluded to retire. Fort Moultrie fired a few shots at her, but she was oat of their range. The damage done to the Star of the West is but trifling, as only two out of seventeen shots took effect upon her. Fort Sumter made no demonstration, except at the port-holes, where guns were run out bearing en Morris Island. The next despatch contains the following corre spundenee which had taken place between Major Anderson and Governor Pickens : CHARLENTON, JAN. 9. About ll o'clock this morning • boat from Fort Sumter, bearing Lieutenant Hall, with • white flag, approached the city. Lieutenant Hall bad an interview with Governor Pickens, and was afterwards escorted to his boat and re embarked for Fort Sumter. The communication from Major Anderson is as follows: MAJOR ANDS:BROX TO GOVERNOR PICKIENtI. To his Excellency the Governor of South Carolina. Sir,—Two of your batteries fired this morning on en unarmed vessel, bearing the flag of my government As I have not been notified that war has been declared by South Carolina against the United States, I cannot but think this a hostile act, committed without your sanction or authority. Under that hope I refrain from open. log a fire on your batteries. I have the honour, therefore, respectfully to ask whether the above-mentioned act, one which I believe without parallel in the history of our country or any other civilised government, was committed in obedience to your instructions, and notify you if it is not disclaimed, that I regard it as an act of war, and I shall not, after reasonable time for the return of my messenger, permit any vessel to pass within the range of the guns of my fort. In order to save, as far as it is in my power, the shedding of blood, I beg you will take due notification of my decision for the good of all concerned, hoping, however, your answer may justify a further continuance of forbear ance on my part.— I remain, respectfully, Rt;HERS ANDERSON. Governor Pickens, after stating the position of South Carolina to the United States, says that any attempt to *end United States troops into Charleston harbour to reinforce tLe forts would be regarded as an set of hos tility ; and in conclusion adds that any attempt to reinforce the troops at Fort Sumter, or to retake and resume poems siou of the forts within the waters of South Carolina which Major Anderson abandoned, after spiking the cannon and doing other damage, cannot but be regarded by the autho rities of the state as indicative of any other purpose than the coercion of the state by the armed fame of the government. Special agents, therefore, have been off the Bar, to warn approaching vessels, armed and un armed, having troops to reinforce Fort Sumter aboard, not to enter the harbour. Special order+ have been given theorem. menden at the forts not to fire on such vessels until a shot across their bows should, warn them of the prohibition of the state. Under these circumstances the Star of the West, it is understood, this morning attempted to enter the harbour with troops, after having been notified she could not enter, and consequently ahe was fired into. The act is perfectly justified by me. In regard to your threst about vessels in the harbour, it is only necessary for me to say, you mart be the judge of your responsibility. Your posi. (Stamped, id. Additional) [T WOPE NCE . P tion in the harbour has been tolerated by the authorities of the state, and while the act of which you complain u in perfect consistency with the rights and duties of the state, it is not perceived how far the conduct you propose to adopt can find a parallel in the history of any country, or be reconciled with any other purpose than that of your government imposing on the state the condition of a con quered province. F. W. nectars. SECOND COMMUNICATION FROM MAJOR ANDIRNON. To his Fhicellency Governor Pickens. _ Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication, and say that, under the circumstances, I have deemed it proper to refer the whole matter to my government, and intend deferring the course I indicated in my note this morning until the arrival from Washington of such instructions us I may receive. I have the honour, also, to express the hope that no obstructioas will be pissed in the way, and that you will do me the favour of giving every facility for the departure and return of the bearer, Lieut. 1). Talbot, who is directed to make the journey. ROBERT ANDEMO - N. Governor Pickens immediately granted the permission desired, and directed Lieutenant Talbot to have every fa talky and courtesy extended to him, as bearer of despatches to the United States government, both in going and re- turning. The steamship Marion had been seized by the government of South Carolina for state's service. The following are the latest despatches : Oumuzsros, J.tx. 10. Despatches noting that the Dallied *fates sloop of war, Droaidyn, is coming here with an armed force, create the most intone excitement. Great preparations are being made in the harbour to receive her. A large steamer called the Marion, of the Charleston and New York line, bas been purchased by South Carolina, and ordered to be reseed for • man-of-war. Her upper cabin is to be taken off, and she is to be supplied with a complete armament. The buoys in the harbour have been removed. The Brooklyn will be fired into. Fort Sumter will then open on the South Carolina fortifixtions, and the fight will become general. The people are preparing for it, and for the worst. The itroOklyn cannot come in without a great fight. Major Anderson will inotect her. He only Fledged him self not to prevent communication between the South Caro lina forts until Lieutenant Talbott came back. A steam tug caller! the Aid left the wharf to-night for the purpose of reconnoitring. She is mounted with one gun, and is under the command of Lieutenant Hamilton, formerly of the Federal Navy. There is much talk of sending to Savannah for tug-boats, to take the place of gunboats. ALBANY, Jai. 10. The news of the attack upon the Star of the West created great feeling in this city. But one opinion is expressed, and that is for immediate action on the part of the govern ment to maintain the Union at all bawds. A despatch from Washington was posted in the Exchange Room at Boston, on the 11th, stating that the government is determined to reinforce Major Anderson, if Charleston is destroyed in con sequence. A despatch from New York says, "The steamship line between that port and Charleston has been abandoned, in consequence of the seizure of the steamer Marion." A Charleston despatch of the 11th (the latest received), says "Thu excitement here has some what abated in consequence of the pacific news from Washington. Enlistments continue quietly." The money market was abundantly supplied, and loans on mill were easily negotiated at 4 to 6 per cent. ; prime short paper was taken at 6to 8 per cent. REFORMATORY CONFERENCE AT BIRMINGHAM. BIRMLSOHAM, THURSDAY. Last evenings meeting was bald in the Town hall, in connexion with the conference reported in theme columns this morning. The hall was crowded. The Mayor presided ; and amongst those present were the Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Ingestre, Mr. Scholefield, M.P., Mr. U. I). Hill, Q.C., the Rev. Dr. Miller, Mr. Charles Retold!, Hon. Secretary, &c. In the course of some remarks at the close of the after noon conference, Lind LYTTEtTON said—lid could not feel the force of the objection raised to these grants by his able relative, Mr. Gladstone, because he did not think that the expense of the present system of *dualities weighed at all inconveniently on the taxation of the country • and, in feat, his own opinion was, that the country coul d pay • great deal more for • more satisfactory system. (Hear, hear.) He was a friend to the present system in its gener al: prin ciples, but he hoped that the result of the present investi gation of the question by a royal commission would . be a decided improvement its detail. (Hear, hear.) Having adverted to the fact that the discussion that day had been confined to one particular clam of education, and re- marked that he trusted the whole question of national edu- cation would thereby be opened up, his lordship went on to enforce the necessity of raising and enlightening the lower classes. It was, he said, impossible to look at the state of the world—particularly of America—and not feel that a time was coming when the principles of self-denial sod fortitude, and intellectual observation, would have to be ex. ercised by all dampes t especially that class to which he had alluded. Arid this being so, it was impossible to shut their eyes to the corresponding neemaity which was arising for education. (Applause.) The evening fleeting having been opened with • few re marks by the Id/twit, Dr. Gurnate addressed the meeting, narrating some in teresting anecdotes. You can never (he said) make men good by punishment. The Gospel is not &Gospel of punishment ; it advocates no forcing system ; but • system of love, and not of punishment. And whet does any wime Christian do with his family ? Does he for eves keep the whip cracking over the heads of his children ? He may punish—and punishment in due measure I believe in : but d a lather is to have an obedient family be must mingle with punishment u large 111011111 re of loving kindness. (Cheers.) And do you think to make these poor children obedient by punishing them in Uslll face of God's Gospel! Believe me it is a failure. (Hear, hear.) Now we do not wish to go to the govern. ment and ask them to educate our children. If the govern ment said to me, " We will pay you the 2,2001. that you spend on your Ragged Schools in Edinburgh, on condi tion that you will baud the schools over to us," I would answer, "Keep your money." (Cheers.) The power lies in the Christian kindness we blew to work on these infanta, and what we say to you is this—if you don't help to educate these children without the prison you must educate them within the prison. (Hear, hear.) I. it • better thing to let disease rage anal ravage in • com munity, and to cure it afterwards, than to prevent it enter irg into the community! (Hear, hear.) But this is the government way in these days. It is a grand thing to give a man the fever and then to cure him ; hut it is better to drain and cleanse the town and prevent the fever from coming. (Applause.) Think of the government refusing money to save • man's leg, but giving him money Unto,' to buy • wooden leg when the limb is cut off. (laughter and cheers.) The government give much more to the re formatory schools than to the ragged schools. They give much more to those who cry out for reformatories than to those who demand prevention. (Hear, hear.) That may be very agreeable to your English notions, but in Scotland we think prevention is better than cure. (Laughter.) And not only this, the government give 1,200,0001. a year for education. How much of that goes to ragged schools! Oh, some say, government is • sensible body, and your ragged schools, as far as schools go, get an immense proportion. What is that proportion ? Why they put us off with a misers.' le pittance of 5,0001. out of this 1.200,00 W., to save these wretched children. (Applause.) They give to every inmate of the reformatory schools Is. each per day, and to every child in the ragged schools • coin which does not happen to exist, so small is it in amount—(laughter}--they give to every ragged school child half • farthing. (Laughter and applause.) I never heard the like of this. It is the most extraordinary thing ever done. I would not quarrel with it only that the go vernment give burnoose sums of money to those who are perfectly able to educate their own children. (Cheers.) Well, then, to come to the third resolution of this morn ing, it was moved by Dr. Miller and seconded by Lord Ingestre, and it,is as follows :—" That the experience of the List eighteen years has proved that this portiou of the population is reached in many district. to a considerable ex tent, and can be effectually raised by ragged anal industrial schools; but that schools of this clads, wl.ich, to be good, involve much pewter expenditure than ordinary schools, cannot be permanently supported in the required effleinicy, or extended to all the districts requiring them by voluntary aid alone." Now, as regards voluntary aid we have done much by it ; and in Edinburgh we have done great deal ; but all we have done in that city leaves us in this puntioa, that large numbers of children ore Irvin; there who should he in ragged schools, who would be there only we haven't the money to pay fur them. Look at the case of a poor wretched woman— she is neither a criminal nor has she been in gaol ; she has been and is struggling hard for her daily bread ; and what is rho to do to educate her children' Some people talk nonsense, and say if you ro on feeding as well as teadans you will soon have all the ragged children in the town in your schools. Well, the mother doesn't care a 'tray for education • the father cares for nothing but that cursed bottle ; and he sinks his soul in drink, and so does th e mo th er. We have bad the ease over and over again. Th ere i s th e vagrant and there the parents."We want you to send the child to school." "Oh, but we can't afford it." And so the child is kept at home, and is sent out to steal and to beg, and the father and mother live on the promeds of the beggary and thievery. (Hear, hear.) The consequenia 114 that we have the greatest difficulty in getting children to come to school, and unless we bridge over the gulf by bread nothing can be done. Accordingly we have set up schools. The children come at seven in the morning —and come in rags and not in decent clothes, for that wouldn't do ; they would r to the pawn-shop too soon. (Hear, hear.) The first thing they do is to strip—not to be thrashed--(laugh. ter)--but washed ; sod we have a loos bath as long as this gallery, and we make them march elm it as slow as if they were attending a funeral, and the asmesquenos is that they get what many people are fools enspall not to get, a delightful bath. (Hear, hear.) What somas after the bath? Some of you are, I dare se Sootehmea, and will trader. stand me. They get a grand of paid,' and milk. (Laughter and applause.) Then comae prayer, and a portion of the Scripture is read ; Uses the work of the school begins, and occupies four hours of the day ; the children learn to read, and to write, and to cipher and they learn carpentering, and boxinaking, and shoe. making. (Hear beer.) Why all our girls wash their own clothes and mesa them, and clean up the house, and cook their own food. (Hear, hear.) The fact's I believe they would make better wises for the workman thee marl woman with km ribbess in her bonnet(Cheraw ) many of the boys make the clothes for our school, and mend them, and a . large number of them employ their time inimaking vatic:au'other useful articles. Then we have so many boon for play. In fact, the chiklres were the pic tures of misery before they came to the school; now there are no children happier. (Chem) They come to us at half-pad saves in the morning, and at half-past seven at night we take otf their school dress and give them back their rag!, rod they go home—and the rags are not worth the pawning. (Loud applause.) We never keep a child from home unison the house is an infamous den of iniquity or the parents cruel ; we know that in the bosom of the child, worthless as the parents may be, God has planted a link of affection, and what we want to do is to improve and strengthen that tie—(mar, hear)—tied we have known instances where these poor children have even carried sal. vation to their homes. (Cheers.) Bet all this, ladies and • gentlemen, requires e we mud feed sad we must clothe them—it entail the expense of teaching, sod of housing a few of them, and I my that they deserve this fostering care—they deserve the most fostering protection and help of the government (Cheers.) And now I come to the last of these resolutions. But you will very naturally say, "You have told us what these ragged hors do in school ; now tell us what they do out of school." Well, they just get on as well out of school as they do in—they get on hi a way we never expected. We fancied that we might get some fifty out of every hundred that would do I well—Weld, we should have been very thankful to have laved fifteen out of every hundred who might otherwise have been criminals—but in place of that we got —why, I will just take you down to Edinburgh with me to-morrow by train—l will show you as respectable boot makers and shoemakers, and carpenters and boxinaken, sad shopmen and clerks—l will show you as r spectable men and women, who have come out of our ragged malteds as _you will find in any class of the community. (Cheers.) I'll tell you, now. M%en they were getting up banquets to the soldiers of the Crimea, and to all the mad members of parliament, we thought we'd give a banquet to our ragged bairns, who bad fought as great a battle as any Cri mean soldier, and far harder too. (Applause.) All of a sadden the thing was resolved on ; all - of a amides the the thing was done. We have them, you know—these ragged school scholars that were—cutting down the forests in America ; we have them healing sheep in Anatolia • we have them in the navy ; and—what dye think?— here was an odd thing iu this way—we had a competition among boys in the navy, and the togged school boys carried of the highest prise. (Cheers.) We have them in the army, too. Just the other da I had in my drawing room one of my ragged school scholars. " What was he doing there? you ask. Well, he was just standing beside a very pretty sirl—ilaughteri—dressed like a duchess, with an monotone crinoline„ and all that. (Laughter. ) There he was ; and on his breast he carried three medals. (Cheers.) He bad fought the battles of his country in the Crimea ; he had gone up the deadly march to Lucknow, and rescued the women and the children and our soldiers there—(cheers) — and I was proud of my ragged school boy when I Bair him with his honours. (Renewed cheering.) Well, as I mad, we resolved to give aha uet ; we furnished one of oat bad , nom, maul and it with gas, and laurel, sad ivy, and the seral-beaded holly—and the quantity o( tea an d toast! It isn't to be told. (Laughter and cheers.) We Jost sent away through Edinburgh, and in a day we got 154 all doing for themselves. I was master of the ceremonies. So I heard a great rush of feet-1 was standing et the door, you know, to receive my company—and I could not be lieve my eyes when I saw the succession of good-looking respectable young men, and the succession of comely, vir tuous-looking happy young women. (Clean.) A gi rl up smiling, and she said, ' You will remember use to Dr. Guthrie ; this is my man"—(laughter)—and then a great, big, honest-looking, burly fellow came up, and he said, You will remember me, doctor ; this is my wife." (Re newed laughter.) And they filled that room. I never saw a more respectable company. And how they laughed and sung, and we prayed too—we prayed. and we gave them advice. (Cheers.) I never spent a happier night— no, not in the greateet, noblest house I ever was in—than I spent when I entertained my ragged school children. (Ap plause.) Well, that is what we have done; and what we have dune in Edinburgh has been done in every town in Scotland. The inTioceedizg speakers were Mr. Scholelleld, M.P., Mr. M. I). Hill, Q. C. Dr. Miller, Mr. W. floskyns, Dr. Morison. and Lord Lyttelecin. After speaking in the most eukiistic terms of the paper reed at the conference by Miss Carpenter, Dr. Miller said he hoped that when this subject was brought before the House of Commons it would be moved that every member of the house should be compelled to read that piper, and be obliged to lay his hand upon his breast and my so before he voted. (Laughter and cheers.) FATAL Bon en EX PLOSION.—On Tuesday eren lag, a terrific boiler explosion happened at the Cockahut Colliery, near Wolverbamptos, belonging to Messrs. Aston and Shaw. This is the second fatal boiler explosion which has occurred at the acme colliery within nine days. In , this case, as in the previous one, the boiler was used to work a pumping eugine. The boiler hail been cleaned out during the day, under the direction of the managing en gineer. It had either been again set to work, or preparation was being inside to set it to work, when it exploded. Elwell, the engineer, was then in the hovel, which was built up against the boiler ; and there was with him John Legge, the eegineman, who had just taken charge of the engine and boilers from John Evans, the day engineman. The boiler, which is supposed to have weighed about five tons, was rent into two portions, one of which was about tons. These pieces, after being thrown about aK feet or :10 feet in the air, fell in opposite directions each about 2(10 yards from the original seat, and the hovel WWI laid in ruins, and Elwell and Legge, in addition to being fearfully crushed in the debris, were for some time subjected to streams of hot water and steam which flowed upon them from the holler which stood by the side of the exploded one. Elwell was found dead, standing up :ig.sinst the fire place, and Legge sitting down at the opposite end of the building. Legge was taken to the South Staffordshire Hospital, but died within an hour after his admission. Evans who was leaving the place at the moment the explo sion took place, was severely scalded, but he is expected to recover. The stack has been dedroyed, and the engine house is a comparative wreck. Au examination of the boiler leads to the opinion that the plates had become red hot or nearly so, from a deficiency of water ; and a close observation rev eals a hidden seam rent. Mr. Baker, the government inspector of mines, has been at the colliery, ex• amiug all the boilers and engines there, assisted by Mr. Wright. The inspectiou showed that some of the ap pliances were of a most primitive and dangerous character, soil that the men who lied the engines in charge were lamentably ignorant of the duties they had undertakes to perform. _ _ THE SALT TRADE OF THE MERSEY.—The e rvat incoavenienoe which has been inflicted upon the commerce of the Mersey, consequent upon the negligence and apathy of the River Weaver Trustees during the Late feed, was yesterday (Thursday) again brought before the Mersey Dock Board by Mr. Boult, who presented a memos is) on the subject from the captains of vessels carrying .alt cargoes to Bombay, Qilcutta, and other ports. Mr. Boult agaiu urged upon the board the advisability of their taking prompt steps in the matter, as it was of gre iat ntere4 to the Birkenhead Dock estate. The Chan-moo said the board amid not well interfere in parliamentary matters con nected with the River Weaver, led they would forward the memorial to the River Weaver Trustees and the Board of Trade. THE CONNTRUCTIoN OF THE BIRKENHEAD Doexg, —The present condition of the Birkenhead Dock works elicited energetic complaints at the meeting of the Mersey Dock Board yesterday (Thursday) from Mr. John latC who said that the works were proceeding very slowly, the q u a ys were dovenly managed and dirty, and not Dearly so well looked after as those of LiverpooL The Chairman and various menders of the Works Committee said that the faults complained of arose from mistakes connected with the docks before they came under the control of the board, and considering the magnitude rind variety of the works ' it ICUworks, at present impossible for them to b ees sa ti s f actor il y mana;ed am the docks on the other side of the river.