The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-24 00:00:00

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The Inman steamship, City of Manchester, from
New York on the 12th inst., arrived at Queenstown
at 6.45 this morning. She brings 160 passengers,
and 672,782 dollars and 208/. in specie. She landed
the mails and 18 pamengers, and proceeded for
Liverpool at 6.50 a.m. Her news has been fully
anticipated by the Hibernian, viL Greencastle,
which brought New York advioes to the 12th,
evening.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Germania, Captain Ehlers, from New York on
the 12th inst., has arrived off Cowes. She brings
102 passengers for Southampton, Havre, and
Hamburg, and on freight 417,100 doh. for Eng-
land, 37,163 do's. for France, and 4,000 dole. for
Hamburg. She experienced very rough weather
during the passage, and on the 17th and 18th it
blew a Leavy north-east gale.

,3111 SSA OF THE CONNED4RA4I
PRESIDENT. *.(;
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We h yea American paws containing
the =stage delivered by Jeffersou Davis to the
Confederate Congress on the ith.
The review of the campaign of 1864, into which
the Preeident enters, concludes iu the following
terms :

The lessons afforded by the history of this war are
fraught with instruction and encouragement. Repeatedly
daring the war have formidable expeditions been directed
by the enemy against points igoorantly supposed to be of
vital importance to the confederacy. Some of these expe-
ditions have, at icemen's cost, been aucoessfel, but in no
I instance have the promised fruits been reaped. Again,
in the present campaign, was the deletion fondly cherished
that the capture oL Atlanta and Richmond would, if
effected, end the war, by the overthrow of our government
and the submission of our people. We can now judge by
I experience how unimportant is the influence of the former
event upon our capacity for defame, upon the courage and
I spirit of the people, and the st►bility of the government.
We may in like manner judge that if the campaign against
Richmond had resulted in success instead of failure ; if the
valour of the army under the le►dership of its accomplished
commander had misted in vain the overwhelming manes
which were, on the eoutrnry, decisively repulsed ; if
we had beep compelled to evacuate Richmond as well
at Atlanta, the confederacy would have remained as erect
and defiant as ever. Nothing could have been changed
in the purpose of its government, in the indomitable valor
of its troops, or in the unquenchable spirit of Its people.
The baffled and dis►ppointed foe would in vain have
scanned the reports of your proceedings, at some
new legislative seat, for say indication that pro-
gram bad been made in this gigantic task of conquering a
free people. The truth so patent to us must ere long be
forced upon the reluelent Northern mind. There are no
vital points on the preservation of which the continued
existeees of the costederaey depends. There is no military
success of the enemy which can accomplish its destruction.
Not the fall of Richmond, nor Wilmington, nor Charles-
ton, nor Savannah, nor our of all combined, can
eve the enemy from the *outwit and exhaustive drain of
blood and tremors which must continue until he shall din.
cover that no peace is attainable unless based on the rung-
nition of our indefeasible right..
Before leaving this subject it is gratifying to aware you
that the military supplies essentially requisite for public
defence will be found, as heretofore, adequate to our
needs, sad that abundant crops had rewarded the labour
of the farmer, sad rendered abortive the inhuman attempt
of the enemy to produce, by devastation, famine among
the people.

The following is the part of the message
relating to the foreign relations of the confederacy :

armies we regeire and sus afford to keep in the field, to
employ as • soldier tie negro who has merely been trained
to labour, and as a labourer the white mac accustomed from
his youth be thew of firearms, would scarcely be deemed
wise or advantageous by any ; and this is the question now
before us. But should the alternative ever be presented of
subjugation or of the employment of the slave as a soktier,
there seems no reason to doubt what should then be our de- ,
Maim. Whether our view embraces what would, in so I
extreme a cam, be the sum of misery entailed by the dotal-.
nion of the seamy, or be restricted solely to the effect upon
the welfare and happiness of the negro population them.
selves, the result would be the same. The appalling deroo-
raliaatios, suffering, disease, and death, which have bees
caused by partially substituting the invaders' eyeless at
polies for the kind relation previously subsisting between ,
the master and the slave, hays been a sufficient demon-
stration that external interference with our institution of
domestic slavery is productive of evil only.
If the subject involved no other consideration than the
mere right of property, the sacrifices heretofore made by
OW people have been such as to permit no doubt of their
readiness to surrender every posseadon in order to /years
their independence. But the social and political question
which is exclusively under the control of the several
States has a far wider and more enduring importance
than that of pecuniary interest. In its manifold phases it
embraces the stability of republican institutions, resting
on the actual political equality of all its citizens, 5.4
includes the fulfilment of the task which has been so
happily begun—that of Christianising and improving the ,
condition of the Africa= who hays, by the will of Provi-
doom, been placed in our charge. Comparing the molls
of our experience with those of the experiments of abbess
who ham borne similar relation to the African race, tha
people of the several states of the confederacy have
abundant reason to be satisfied with the past, and to use
the greatest circumspection in determining their coarse.
These considerations, however, are rather applicable to
the improbable cootingency of oar need of resorting to this
element of resistance than ie oar present condition. If the
recommendation above made for the training of forty thou-
sand negroes for the service indicated (pioneers and engineer
labourers) should meet your approval, it is certain that
even this limited number, by their preparatory training in
intermediatedaties, would form • more valuable reserve
force in cue of urgency than threefold their number end.
dimly called from field laboar ; while a fresh levy meld to
• certain extent supply their placer is the special service
for which they are now employed,

The Message closes with some remarks on nego-
tiations for peace :
Peace is manifestly impossible nasal desired by both
parties to this war, and the disposition for it among our
seeming will be best and moat certainly evoked by the as-
monatration on our part of ability and unabakea dotertnina-
Mon to defend our rights, and to hold no earthly price too
dear for their parches*. Whene►er there shall be on the
part of our enemies a desire for pears, there will be no diffi-
culty in (lading moans by which oeigotiatioa can be opened ;
but it is obvious that so agency 010 bo called into action
until Wm dears shall be mutual. When that contingency
shall happen, the goverement, to which is wadded the
treaty-making power, can be at no lass for means adapted to
accomplish so &nimble an end.
In the hops that the day will soca be reached when, nader
Divine favour, these Slates may be allowed to enter on
their former peaceful pursuits, and to develop the abundant
natural rosourcas with which they Aso blessed, let us than
resolutely osatinos to devote our 'totted and unimpaired
owess to the defence of our homes, oar byes, sod our
liberties. This is the true path to pesos. Let us tread it
with coo6dsoco is the assured result.
Richmond, Nov. 7,1961. J 1771180111 Danl.

(awrza's nmsozams.)
THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.
TURIN, Nov. 23, Emma.

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The senatorial committee appointed to er-amine
the bill for the transfer of the capital are favourable
to that measure.

The Chamber of Deputies bee adopted the bill for
a reduction in the emoluments of public func-
tionaries.

Capucines. One of Lie accomplices, cinitictel
negotiating the railway shares with a fraudtheLt
knowledge and for a pecuniary consideration, i, a
nobleman bearing the high sounding name,
two particles, of the Marquis de Fitte de Sutv:r.
There is little change at the Bourse,
opened with a slight improvement, bat wa
like other securities by the heaviness of L.,
Italian Loan. The last quotations were 65fr.
to
both for cash and account, being a fall of 14.
the ooe case and a rise of Sc. in the other. 3191,...,1
fell tar.

The following highly sensational news a: prat,
the Band, of Berne, of Nov. 21 :

A kart de faire part (letter announcing a deceaa,
the Demme family, anoonnoes that Dr. Demme
affianced bride, Miss Flora Trrimpy. have drovuol
selves in the lake of Geneva. It is p aitivel► ,44
the two bodies have been found. Dr. Demme and ti•
left Berne on the evening of Sunday, the Lich, without ui
parents' knowledge, for Fribourg, and thence to Ll 4.
From the latter place the lovers proceeded oo foot, ur. 4
said, to the lake of Geneva. Nothing ca„ be kernel
what they did after they left Vevey or Villeneuve. V 4
a sad tragical denoileavit.

I think the above news stands greatly in see.i of
confirmation ; ..be telegraph could scarcely '.,ac,
failed to have given earlier information of Rich a:.
event had it been true. The paragraph, it wi;i Le
observed, makes no mention of the marriage tr
tween Dr. Demme and Miss Flora, which wa., 44.
nouuced the other day.

,-(111IS DAY.)

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