The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-04 00:00:00

TEE CABMEN AND THEIR GRIEVANCES.

A public meeting of the metropolitan cab pro-
piston and drivers was bald, last evening, at the Whitting-
ton Club, itrundelstreet, Strand, for the purpose of re-
osiirieg a report from the delegates appointed to prepare •
revision of the Hackney Carriage AM, and to committer other
measures for obtaining • redress of grievances. Lord
H. CHOLVONIALIII eseapied the eitainlet fisaiwin (•
, proprietor and driver) reel the report et the aZt
Which, after detailing their proceeding, at soots lasti
I on to enumerate the various amended clauses it wee COD-
adored desirable to introduce into a new act. at. principal
of which may be thus summarised :—The present 6d. hiring
to be abolished, and no driver to be compelled to let his cab
for less than Is., but to be bound to go two miles for that
sum if required. The metal badge now wore by drivers to
be abolished, it being no proof that the driver wearing it is
the person duly licensed, and that in it. place • certifi-
cate containing the description of the person licensed
be given to every driver on receiving his license,
which be shall produce when called upon to do so. No
driver to be deemed pl Om hire, mikes standing upon
some place authorised by the Police Commissioner. That
all special agreements between hirers and drivers be binding
on both parties. That the distance of four miles from
Charing.moss be measured by the road, instead of the
radius. That children be charged for, as upon railways.
That all packages be charged 2d. each. That all dogs car-
ried in or outside a cab be charged at the rate of 6d. That
any driver proving his one before a magistrate shall receive
compensation for himself and witnesses. That every driver
shall receive notice of the unfitness of his cab or hone for
public work before becoming liable to prosecution. That
none but hirers be empowered to prosecute in any dispute
between themselves and drivers. That • cheap power of
appeal be granted from magisterial decisions. That when
any hirer refuses to pay his fare, or make compensation for
any damage to a oab, the driver to have the power to
compel bim to go to the nearest station-house, where he
shall deposit the amount of such fare, or give security, pre-
vious to going before the magistrate." Mr. Wise, a driver,
moved the adoption of the report, which was ascended by
Mr. W. ToweU, a driver. Mr. Wakelin, • driver, moved
the adoption of a petition to the House of Commons. pray-
ing for a mrliamettary inquiry into the working of the pre-
sent Hackney Carriage Act, which was also agreed upon.
It was also resolved that • deputation should wait upon
members of the House of Commons, with the object of soli-
citing their support to a committee of inquiry ; and • per-
manent committee was appointed to carry on the agitation
during the ensuing session of parliament.

THE ENGLISH PRESS AND AMERICAN SLAVERY.—
The following remarks are from the Debate of yesterday :
"The Times publishes another of those letters it receives
from Richmond, the capital of the Confederate states, and
which are ' pervaded by some little partiality for the
South,' as the journal honestly confesses. There can be
no doubt that this is the case. The correspondent of the
Tian informs us that the slaves 'hide away in the mashes
to hinder themselves from becoming free,' and that they
'are ready to fight for slavery.' It is true that • little
further on the writer, in the same correspondence, adds
that hatred against the North has increased ever sines
the Federal government has given rations ho
fugitive slaves, and fed at its own expense
2,000 negroes at Harper's Ferry. Why did not these
2,000 negroes prefer to 'hide away in the marshes' rather
than swept the liberty offered them by the Federal tunnies?
The correspondent of the Times does not explain this, and
we cannot undmiake to espial° it for him. But, if we may
believe this writer, the love of the negroes for slavery is DOS
the less natural. Can our readers guess why the govern-
ment endeavour.to attract the blacks—why it declares
itself their protector? It is for the purpose of scantly sell-
log them at Cubs. Such is the general conviction in the
South, the correspondent of the English journal tells us.
We much regret that this information comes so late :
if it had been known earlier it would undoubtedly
have profoundly moditled the opinion of Europe upon
the American war. What is clearer, in fact, than the
origin of that war, now that light has been thrown upon it
by the correspondent of the Times? President Lincoln, as
is well known, is a tyrant, although he is alerted by mil-
venal suffrage, although hs is compelled to resign his office
at the end of four years, aid although he allows himself to
be abused by the slavery journals of New York. Never-
theless he is really • tyraat ; sad to gratify his tyrannical
instincts he wants to bestow upon the slaves the freedom
they so much abhor, and then send them to Cuba back to the
slavery they love; this being no excuse fur his conduct, sines
it is • hard can for a aggro to be
I emancipated against his
will, though only for • few mouths. And it is R order to
oppose all these iniquities that the planters hare takeintz
arms. Jesting apart, we en with regret that in England
the press (with some exceptions. among which the ly
News is conspicuous) displays is justice and good sense
than the Eernment. The illiberal tendencies lately
manifested the more important organs of the English
pram, with exceptions just named, do not fail to asto-
nish educated people on this side of the Channel."
rug LieraPool. CHAMBER OF COMIMECR AND
Bzufazasurr Itzairra Alf /Jun.—The adjourned meeting of
the Liverpool Chamber of ()ammo= was held yesterday,
Mr. T. Chilton in the chair, the discussion being mainly
confined to the question of the exemption of private pro-
perty from capture at sea. Mr. Campbell brought forward
the following resolution at this poiat—" That this chamber
adheres to the views expressed by it in its memorial to the
Board of Trade of Jam 19, 1860, sad to Lord Palmerston of
Feb. 3, 1860, and in its petition to the Home of °outmost
of March 6, 1862, in favour of the proposal to exempt pri-
vate property at sea from capture." Mr. W. H. Lemport
seconded the motion. Mr. Patterson moved as an mead-
meet "That it is inexpedient to prosecute further at pre-
sent the question of the exemption of private property at
sea, intimately connected as it is with the law of blockade
and others incident to a state of warfare upon which this
chamber seems indisposed to commit itself to deliberate
opinion without further consideration ;" which was seconded
by Mr. Anion, and was put and lost by a large majority.
Mr. Spence then moved the following amendment : That
to abolish the right to capture the men:lint ships of the
easeny plainly leads to the abolition of commercial blockade;
that this chamber ban recently affirmed that it is not to the
interest of this country to abrogate the established right of
blockade, and now resolves not to further any alteration in
international law that tends directly or indirectly to impair
the efficiency of our naval forces in time of war." Mr.
Bernard Hall seconded the amendment ; and, after some
discussion, the question was adjourned for a week.
THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND THE LIFEBOAT
SERVICE.—Botne few weeks ago the lifeboats of the Notional
Lifeboat Institution stationed at Lytham and Southport
rescued, during a fearful storm, theorem of eighteen persons
belonging to the ship Annie E. Hooper, of Baltimore. U.S.
The Hon. C. F. Adams, the American minister, having
been informed of the facts, promised to bring the case under
the notice of the American government. Mr. Adams has
just sent the following gratifying reply to the institution
" Legation of the United States, London, Dec. 2, 1862.
Sir,—Some time eines I had the honour to acknowledge the
reception of your note informing me of the timely mistimes
rendered to the crew of the ship Annie E. Hooper in their
hour of need by the Lytham and Southport lifeboats of your
valuable institution. I thee promised that I would kninsmit
• statement of the facts to the government of the
United States. I have now the pleasure to ',form
you that, in testimony of hie nose of the value
of the society's labours, the President has directed
me to present, in his name, to the Royal Nationel Lifeboat
Institution the sum of 1001. I am likewise instructed to
present, through your society, 51. to the coxswain and 21. to
each of the crew of the baste which went to the relief of the
Annie E. Hooper. To that mid I have the honor to enclose
a draft on Masan Baring Brothers and Co., payable to your
order, for the sum of 131!. sterling.— 1 have, ix. (Signed)
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAK& To the Secretary of the Na.
tiooal Lifeboat loatituticai."

HORRIBLE HORDIRS AT SEA. —At tbe Soutb-
amptoo police court yesterday, Ferdinando Parkins, an
Austrian, and late carpenter and socood-inate of the ship Win.
throp, an American built ship, Nailing under the British flag.
was charged with having murdered the captain of the vessel,
together with his wits and fine-mate, whilst on the voyage
from Rio to Moots Video. The prisoner was landed at
Neethamptem on the previous day from the seemunhip
°aside, is which vmsel he had tees sent home in custody.
The witnesses were also landed at the earns time. Those
witessees had previously been examined at Rio Grande, and
their deposits:es seat on to Rio Janeiro, where from some
came they were dotsfaed, sad will not arrive till the next
mail The primmer was therefore remanded, is ceder to
await inetnectisos hem the Beard of Trade.
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the deliberate opinion of one placed so high
as the Bishop of Lowuolt is of value.
He ham no hesitation in pronouncing against Mr.
DISRAELI'S maxim, "Thee inquiry—yes, but for
" free inquirers." There is, he acknowledges,
difficulty in the prosecution of any very free inquiry
by those who begin their career by professing their
belief in fixed formulas of doctrine, and he thinks
that thoee difficulties might be diminished by relax-
ing the rigidity of the present subscription. But in
any case, he says, "it will never do to lay down
" that a clergyman must not inquire." But sup-
pose he should err respecting the Church's doc-
trine ? Well then, of course, says the Rumor, he
will resign his office, as many a good man has done
before him. The Boner mums' that he will do so
as an honourable man, and he says that in acting in
that straightforward manner " he is certainly not
" to be denounced, he is entitled to our respect."
This is very different from the language employed
by some church zealots in the House of Commons
when Mr. BOUVERIK'S Clergy Relief Bill was dis-
cussed last Session. It is difficult, the BISHOP
observes, to exaggerate the solemnity or responsi-
biliUes of ordination. Still "no man is bound by
" his ordination vow to turn a deaf ear to the
" whisperings of his conscience, even if it be a
" mistaken conscience, or to resist those longings
" of his higher nature which urge him to make
" sure of truth." The BISHOP expresses his dis-
trust of prosecutions for opinion as a means of
preserving doctrinal purity in the Church ; while
he is not prepared to deny that sometimes they
may be inevitable, he prefers to trust to wise
argument and kindliness "acting on that manly
"honesty of character, which as a general rule,
"thank GOD, we find in all our countrymen." The
general character of this remarkable Charge may
well be represented by one of its sentences :—" In
" dealing with the difficulties of an inquisitorial
" age, the generous confiding policy is the best and
" the most Christian."

Abe Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 3.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louis
of Hesse, drove out this morning, attended by Major-Gene.
ral Seymour.
Viscount Sydney (Lard Chamberlain) arrived at the Castle
yesterday.

Mr. &code, Mr. Tilley, Mr. Howland, and Mr. Howe,
had en interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday at
the Colonial-office.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. An appeal from Canada, "The Beacon Fire Amu.
rance Company v. Gibb" (part heard), was concluded. Lord
Chelmsford gave judgment, reversing the judgment of the
Court of Queen's Bench, and re-establishing the judgment of
the superior court. An appeal from Canada, " Triage v.
Lavallee," was commenced. The lords present were Lords
Chelmsford and Kingsdown, and Sir J. Coleridge.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of Ceylon, Kong Kong, Labuan, Malta,
and Gibraltar. Despatches were sent to the Governors of
Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, and Labour.