The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1864.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29.

TILE American intelligence contained in our
columns this morning may be considered, as regards
the questions which for the last month have been
of most pressing interest, as of a decisive character.
It reports at once the admitted safety, if not yet
the success, of SuenmeN, and the rout of 11000.
There was a rumour, dated from Charleston on the
14th, that the former General had actually captured
Savannah, with its garrison of 11,000 men, after
eight hours' lighting. This may be premature.
But the Richmond papers admit that on that day
he did storm Fort WAllister, a strong earthwork
which guards the mouth of the Ugeechee, fifteen
miles to the south of Savannah, the sand ramparts
of which twice last year repulsed a bombardment by
Federal monitors. This success, it is acknow-
ledged, placed him in secure communication with
the Federal fleet. And on the 12th HOWARD, the
leader of one of his columns, had actually commu-
nicated with the Federals, who, under Forrea,
hold the waterway and the railway to the north of
Savannah, and conveyed to him the intelligence
that the troops were in excellent health and spirits.
There is, therefore, no absolute impossibility that
the operation, which commenced with the capture
of Fort 31`Allister on the 12th, may have con-
cluded with the capture of Savannah itself.
At all events that city must by these movements
have been closely invested, and as the railways are
held by which reinforcements could reach it, there
is small chance of its being relieved. Nor, as we
have formerly pointed out, is it probable that any
such garrison should have been thrown into it in
time as would suffice to defend the works of a
town covering so considerable an extent of ground.
That the Federal troops are fresh and in good
spirits is an almost necessary consequence of the
circumstances of their advance, for they have made
easy marches, and it has never been pretended
that they have suffered from any want of supplies.
There is, therefore, no reason why they should not
be ready to undertake at once any operations
which their commander may consider advisable.
From Tennessee the intelligence of Federal
success is still more positive. General Tuolias,
who lay in Nashville while his detachments con-
centrated, found himself on the 15th sufficiently
strong to take the offensive. With the aid of the
flotilla on the Cumberland, he forced the left of
the Confederate line, and drove it back in disorder
to a distance of eight miles, capturing a thousand
prisoners and several guns. Next day he fol-
lowed up the advantage, penetrated the whole of
H...i.'s entrenched positions, and captured from
3,000 to 4,000 prisoners, with 30 or 40 guns.
The account of these two days leaves no doubt that
Hoou's army was utterly defeated. And a defeat,
in the middle of December, of an army known to
be not very well supplied or clothed, and greatly
dependent for subsistence on the resources of the
country, is, it need scarcely be observed, a most
serious affair. If Hoot, can make good his way
back to Alabama he will show higher qualities of
generalship than he has yet discovered. Mean-
time two independent expeditions directed from
Raton Rouge and Vicksburg, expressly with the
design of harassing or cutting his communications
with Mobile, appear to have met with some
success, and if this should in any degree be the
case, it will undoubtedly add much to his diffi•
culties.

That these achievements should hare altogether
turned away the attention of the public from the
result of the liberation of the " raiders " in Canada,
was, however, not to be expected. There is in the
comments of the American papers on the subject
some of that hasty generalization of which our
own press has not been guiltless, in which the un-
authorised and unapproved act of an individual is
imputed to the nation and to the Government.
general Dix, who is in command of the military
defence, has re-issued a formal order, authorising
his troops to shoot any persons who may attempt
to make again such an attempt, and if they should
escape, to pursue and seize them in Canada. The
former part of the order we are not concerned
with, though we may observe that it is one fully
justifiable if the " raiders " are regarded as belli-
gerents, but quite contrary to law and custom if
they are looked upon as mere robbers. The second
part of the order we may hope will not be
sanctioned by the superior civil authority. That plea
which could alone warrant it—the refusal of the

Canadian Government to administer justice and
observe the duties of allies—has happily no founda-
tion in fact. The Ministry has, on the contrary, lost
no time in disavowing the deciaionof Judge Coo mot.
The Attorney-General has issued fresh warrants,
and the police are again endeavouring to arrest
the discharged criminals. The Government is re-
ported to have already appointed stipendiary magis-
trates on the frontier, expressly to take cognisance
of the breaches of international law, and to have
furnished them with sufficient polio* force to sup-
port their authority. The Legislature has also
been summoned to meet on the 19th of January.
these measures will probably, as soon as they
are known to the American public, suffice
to remove a natural irritation. But we must
repeat that their vigorous execution is • duty
we owe to ourselves even more than to our
neighbours. We are bound to show the example
of doing as we would be done by, and as we have
in former times uttered keen remonstrances, and
even resorted to actual force, when an enemy
used neutral soil to prepare machinations against
us, it is, imperative that we should now vindicate
our fair dealing and maintain our friendly cha-
racter by prohibiting absolutely the abuse of
our protection for the purpose of directing
treacherous violence against the inhabitants
of a bordering and allied State. We should expect
France to do thus much for us if we were un-
happily at war with America, and Americans
plotted and directed from Calais expeditions to
sack Brighton, or born Hastings. And
it is clear that what we should regard as the
duty of France in such a case would be still more
her duty if the war were made upon our sea-
board, not by a foreign nation, but by a portion of
our own subjects in revolt. This is the American
case at present, and there must be no hesitation in
our doing to them the justice which we, should
look for from every friendly power if the case were
our own.

THE Peace Address lately forwarded from Eng-
land to the United States, and which Mr. SEWARD
declined to receive, preserves all the mysterious-
ness of its origin. Why it was drawn up, and by
whom it was signed, was never clearly explained.
The most tangible statement publicly made re-
specting it was that it had been carried to America
by Mr. JOSEPH BARKER, well known on both
sides of the Atlantic as a public lecturer. Our
' readers have already learned from • paragraph
which was inserted in our issue of Tuesday last,
that this assertion has no foundation. As we
have accepted the statement on the authority of
others, and as it has been repeated and made the
subject of comment which Mr. BARKER considers
injurious to him, it is our duty to show its ground-
lessness. The statement that Mr. JOSEPH
BARKER was the bearer of the Peace Address first
came under our notice in the columns of two
of the most respectable daily newspapers
of New York. By the next mail we
received a copy of the A nti•Starery Standard,
in which the statement was repeated in the most
circumstantial manner. The editor of the
Sin durd, apparently entertaining no doubt of the
identity of the bearer of the address, referred to
Mr. BARKER'S former professions in America as an
Abolitionist, and his supposed advocacy of the
southern cause in this country, and reflected
strongly on the inconsistency of his conduct. It
was finally added that he appeared in America
under the assumed name of .PARKER to
escape the unpleasant notoriety which must
follow his identification as the former
Abolitionist. We need not repeat the com-
ments of the A nti-Startry Sta ndard : it is
obvious that just in proportion as they were ade-
quate to denounce the course of conduct attri-
buted to their subject, they were calumnious and
injurious if the facts assumed were untrue. The
portion of the article from the A 'di-5ta....P.!,
Standard was published in our columns about ten
days ago, and we never doubted its accuracy until
last Monday, when we saw in the Mu neinst, r
Era min, r a statement that Mr. BARKER was still
in this country, and had been delivering a lecture
at Leeds, in which, referring to some newspaper
reports about him, be said :—" The purport of
" the last story is, that I went on a mission to
" America to present a peace petition or docu-
" ment to the Government ; that, for fear of con-
" sequences, I went under an assumed name, call-
" ing myself JUsEPH PARKER, instead of .lo,r.Pit
BARKER ; that I have abandoned my anti-
" slavery principles, and I do not know what.
" The whole is a tissue of pure fabrication and
" wicked slanderous lies. I have not been out of
" England for the last five years, except once to
" Guernsey. I have never been the agent of the
" Southern rebels, and I have never gone against
" my anti-slavery principles."
We read this paragraph with surprise, because
it was evident from the breadth of this denial,
that the misconception was not confined to the
circumstances detailed in the A nfi-Shirtry
Stm,,bird. We have certainly heard • great deal
before now of the name of BARKER in connexion
with a pro-Southern agitation in the north of Eng-
land. It was plain, then, that a mistake as to
identity had been made. Yesterday, before we
had had time to complete our inquiries, we re-
ceived a letter from Mr. JONEPH BARKER himself,
complaining that we had given publicity to false,
calumnious statements concerning him ; stating
that he had nothing to do with the mission to
Washington, and, of course, not with the change
of his name to PARKER ; that he was
still opposed to slavery, and had not
been out of England for two years. Mr. BARKER
adds, that in the use of reasonable care we might
have ascertained these facto before publishing the
paragraph from the A id;-Stnecry Stu talc, rd. We
will not, even in self-defence, say anything to ex•
tenuate the responsibility of the press. We have
in this case fallen into an error, which it is our
object completely to repair. We will only ob-
serve that, as • matter of fact, in accepting the
statement of Mr. BAnkEit's presence in America
as the bearer of the Peace Address, we did what
we are under the necessity of doing six days in
every week—we relied on the accuracy of the
public journals of the locality for information re-
specting the movements of • well-known public
man. We should have been glad if, on the appear-
ance of the statement that he was in America,
Mr. BARK ER had enabled us at once to contra-
dict
slaveholders had one advocate less than has been
supposed. As it is, however, our course is plain.
We entirely accept ME..IOSEPH BARKER'S affirms-
. tions and denials regarding his movements, grin-
; ciples, and public relations ; we recognise that the
statements of the .Inds Starer!, Standard respect-
ing him are false and erroneous, and the reflections
founded on them groundless and unjust ; we with-
draw from them whatever countenance or sanction
they received from insertion in our columns ; and
we offer to Mr. BARKER the expression of our Rin-
i cere regret that they were ever published in this
journal.

The Industrial Exhibition at Dublin will close on
Saturday seat with the old year. The stheadauce now is
very small, though the =Sok reduced to 61.

Cbt Qtoutl.

ODOR Dal A

The Queen, accompanied by Prince Arthur and
Pfiloll Leopold, walked out yesterday, Led Primes' Louise
drove, attended by oousters Blucher.

The Duke and Duchess of Somerset and Lady
Gaged°Ens St. ➢faor are expected to leave Stover Park,
Dear Totems, shortly after the 7th proximo, for the noble
dukes official reclaim* at the Admiralty.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings have
loft the SL George's HoteL

The Marquis of Bowmont joined the royal circle
at Sandringham a few days sso.
The Karl and Countess of Leicester will entertain
a distinguished party at Holkham Hall during the ensuing
week. Viscount and Visomatess Powerscoart hate ;lobed
the family party trout their seat is Ireland.

The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and leuly
Emily Villiers are expected to join the party invited to
Staawberry Hill next week by the Countess (Pronoun)
Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Portant., M.P.
Lord and Lady Taunton and the Hon. Misses
Labonehere, goo, they left Castle Howard, Yorkshire, have
been staying at their seat, near Tanntoo.

Lord Houghton has left town for Broadlands,
Hants.

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., M.P.,
and Lady Grey return to town the week atter next for the
num

We (Tines) understand that Captain Astley C.
Key, C. 8., commandiug the Excellent gunnery ship at
Portsmouth, and Governor of the Royal Naval College,
will, on *storing upon his duties as the head of the new
Naval Ordnance Department, be succeeded in the command
of the Excellent and in the Naval College by Captain
Priredy, C. 8., now in command of the iron frigate Hector.
Earl Stanhope thinks that the Queen's Librarian
a good deal overrates the importance of those short Boise
made by Prince Charles Edward which appeared with Mr.
Woodward's letter on Tuesday. Such short notes of Priam
C Lulea are by no means uncommon in the Stuart manuscript at
Windsor. They are usually written is a very close hand, on
small cards or fragments of paper. Sometimes they contain
a graceful or a touching thought, such, for example, as the
following which Earl Steahope found among them some 25
years ago :—" De vivre et pis vivre sat beauoonp plus que
de mourir." " But in general," writes his lordship,
"I regret to say they seem to have proceeded from those
hours when the prince after his return from Scotland, too
often sought in intemperance a refuge from his sorrows and
cares. They are then telut avri comma. It is difficult to
derive from them any definite meaning, and still more
difficult to ascribe to them any historical value."

THE FRENCH COURT.

The Emperor gave a grand dinner at the
Tuileries the evening before last to the marshals now in
Perin

Prince Napoleon, accompanied by Colonel Ragon, his
aide-de-camp, last week visited the valley of Chamounix,
wishing to see that place in its winter dress of snow. The
excursion, notwithstanding the great cold, was unattended
with any accident, sod the Prince returned two days back,
to his estate of Prangins.
A number of persons collected yesterday before the re-
served garden of the Tuileries, when they could perceive
the Prince Imperial skating on one of the basins of orna-
mental water. The Empress was standing by looking at
the Prince, who appeared to greatly enjoy the exercise.
The Emperor shortly after came and skated on the same
basin.

" The Prince Imperi►l," say. the Sport, " has his guests
at the Tuileries as he had at Comniigne. Every Sunday
and Thursday he receives in his apartment his young friends.
the sons of Dr. Coonean, GeDllllllll Fleury and Burgoing,
and the son of the late General Espinosa.. The afternoon
is passed in play or in a drive; at 6 dinner takes place ;
and ►t Bor half•past 8 the young guests take leave of their
host. On the occasion of Christmas his imperial highness
invited his friends, and, after having made them gather
from a tree charged with presents various objects, kept
them to dinner."

On the 17th Madame Riatori was at Constanti-
nopletand had already appeared is some of her most brilliant
parte. She his been received with much enthusiasm by
that portion of the community consisting of foreigners.
As to that section known as " l'era Society" they prefer
listening, night after night, to the Trorutore sung out of
tune, than to a performance which, seemingly, is beyond
their comprehension.

Boxiug-uight at the Theatre Royal, Dubliu, wee
distinguished by tremendous crushing in all parte of the
house except the dress circle. So great was the pressure
that the noise rendered it almost impossible to attend to
the performance. The title of the pantomime is The Hauer
that Jack built, which, however, forms but a small part of
the diversified entertainment. At the Queen's the spat* is
very limited, but the most has been made of it. The sub-
ject of the pantomime in this little theatre is Robiusoa
Crutue.

A Constantinople letter of the lith says :—" A
bra—one of those frequent disasters in the capital—de-
stroyed on Sunday last the beautiful palace occupied by
the Grand Vizier, Fuad Pacha, end compelled the inmates,
with the Grand Vizier himself, to take refuge in the street
in their night clothes only. An enormous amount of pro.
party hu thus been lost ; the whole furniture, the plate,
jewels, the valuable library of the Pasha, his seal of effice,
and a large collection of interesting relics bequeathed to
him by his father, with all the vast accumulation of house-
bold gods with which the palace of a great functionary is
geoerally crowded, have all been lost, Fate has not been
propitious to the Grand Vizier lately as regards his private
and domestic interests. Not many months ago he lost his
only remaining son ; a few days line his grandson, a
favourite.child eight or ten years old, was taken from him
by death—two unfortunate events which have left • deep
impression upon him."
The whole of the Paris Boulevards from the
Place de la Madeleine to the Faubourg Montmartre is
covered with stalls, which fur the nut fortnight will be
held by the poorer classes, in most instances the wives of
poor artisans, whose chief stock consist of cheap toys and
lollipops intended for the middling classes, whereas the
shops in the Rue de la Pair, the 'Weis Royal, and the
' Rues Richelieu and Vivienne remind one of the most bril-
liant descriptions in the "Arabian Nights." They are
converted, for the nonce, into fairy palaces, blazing with
gems of priceleas worth, and dazzling with everything
that can 'be invented to please the eye and gratify the
caste. Bronzes, pictures, furniture, and diamooda, enough
to develop the spirit of rubbery, attract one's attention and
glitter in the windows.

A Paris correspondent says of the Italiau opera
in that capital :—" Preschini has pleased much in Poliuto,
with Madame Chartow Derueur. We have had Z.,o•ni and
Riyohrt“, but the t of the last week was the repro-
duction a few nights ago of Dosizetti's Li,idd di Cha-
wounir. This opera does not generally attract at Paris.
Patti as Linda, Madame Lehlache as Pierotto, and lirignoli
as Carlo, have, however, at once made it a favourite. I
seldom remember to have witnessed so much really enthu-
siastic approbation bestowed by a crowded house on any
previous performance. Patti equally surprised and charmed
the audience, not only by looking and singing, bat by
acting the n.Vc of Linda with as exquisite percep-
tion and clever dramatic reading of a part which has some
fine ' situations.' You heard people my after the touching
seem of her arrival at the village, and then the cued episode
—' Patti is a dramatic artist as well as an enchanting
singer.' The 'No ! floe i ver !' was perhaps never given
with more touching pathos. Brigooli sang his part (not an
attractive one) better than he acted. Endeavouring to
make something of the rGle, by introducing a romance of
Mercadante's, Brignoli has established himself a favourite
already. No doubt you will hear him in London. Madame
Lablache did the Minstrel Boy delightfully, and sang
hatter than usual."

About 60 tons of copper ore are now brought
moethly to Southamptoe from the Cape of Good Hope by
the Gape mail packet. This ore a few yaws ago was worth
nearly 1,31.. a ton: It is now doubled in value.

The only other steamer to arrive from New York
this week is the Glasgow, which sailed on the same day u
the Haan. No later news is likely to be received before
Monday, the Dent Cunard steamer being the Canada, from
Boston, which was to mail on the 21st.

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REOPENING or THE LAW OFFICE4.—This day the
common kw °dices were reopened after the Cblistuiss re-
cess. The mark will not resume business until the 11th
Jemmy. being the brit day of Hilary Term.