The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-22 00:00:00

[Stamped, Id. Additional.]

at least to Nomadic merely a solitude to their
enemies. This might be foreseen from the commence-
ment of the rebellion ; the new Confederacy contained
within it two germs of death, slavery and the very principle
of secession. The South rose against the North because it
believed its favourite institution threatened, and sow, at
the end of four years of contest, people begin to talk at
Richmond of giving arms to the evicts, and of offering
them liberty as the pries of their alliance ! The slave-
owneee took up arms in the name of the sovereignty of the
States, and now the Governor of Georgia plays off that
sovereignty spinet the despotism of Richmond, and gives
it to be understood that each of the Confederate States can
separately make peace with the North! Never has the logic
which flows beneath the events of history been
MOM imperious or more visible ; nothing has been able
to retied its decrees, neither the courage of the Southern
armies nor the firmness of that soldier•Prisident, at once
military and civil organiser, wound whom there is some-
thing of a tragic grandeur to which even the most resolute
enemies of his canoe cannot remain insensible. If the war
in the United States had been an ordinary war that com-
manding figure might perhaps have Neared the favours of
fortune ; bet this great content is in reality a revolution,
and is the struggle of principles at 'take the victory will
rest with the citiaen•Preaidsnt.

DESPATCH OF AMERICAN MAILIL—SOCTIIAMPTON,
DIO. 21.—The North German Lloyd steamship New York,
Captain Weak., riled hence at 2 p.m. to-day with the
German, Preach, and English mails for New York. She
took out 227 passengers and a general cargo, including
jewellery from Havre, value 80,2501.
DESPATCH Or AMERICAN AND WEST AVRIcAN
MAILL—Tbe Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's
steamer Nova Scotian will sail from the Mersey today
(Thursday) for Portland, Maine, with mails for Canada and
the United States. The box at the Post-office will hoopoe for '
the receipt of letters, be.. until 1 o'clock p.m., and
Deny until 8.30 p.m. On Saturday next the Royal Mail
steamer Asia (Canard line) will leave for Barton, with the
' United States and British North American mails. Letters,
dui., will be received at the Post-ofßoe until 230 p.m. era
by way of QIIOBOB,OWII until 8.30 p.m. The African Steam.
ship Compthr's steamer Calabar, A. J. IL Croft, commander,
will also leave the Merely on Saturday, with mails for Ma-
deira, Teneriffe, and the West Coast of Africa. Letters.
he., intended for despatch by this steamer will be received
at the Liverpool General l'oeteolfice until 1 o'clock on the
day of sailing.
THE ORANGE CELEBRATIONS IN LONDONDERRY.
—The quietness with which, up to the present time, the
annual celebrations of the Apprentice Boys of Derry have
passed off is creditable to the good series and moderation of
the classes who formerly allowed themselves to be provoked
by these displays. As historic commemorations, they are
in themselves quite legitimate. It is natural end laudable
that the citizens of Londonderry should feel pride in the
virtues of their ancestors. There are few things in British
history more heroic than their endurance of the long
siege which reduced the number of the garrison
by more than half, and brought them to strait.* of
famine which only the horrors of the siege of Jerusalem
have exceeded. The courage of Walker and the treachery
of Lundy are not less worthy of being bold in perpetual
remembrance, for honour and disgrace' than the fidelity and
patriotism of Washington and the treason of Arced. But
the great memories which dignify the past are diegraoed
when they are made pretexts of keeping alive old jealousies,
for rekindling uncharitable feelings, and for disturbing
the peace of the present time. It is matter for regret
that men of all creeds have not felt them-
selves able to join in the celebration of triumphs
which have in the end secured the liberties of
all, though they were for a time, and by acci-
dent, associated with ecclesiastical rivalries. It would be
hard to say whether the spirit in which protestants com-
memorated these events, or that in which citholics de-
nounced and held aloof from them, was the more irrational
and ignorant. We hope that a better understanding is
beginning to prevail on both sides. The necessity for abstain-
ing from popular celebration of historic struggles in Irelthil
has, we bold, been real and urgent. We should be glad to
thick that that necessity is now partially ceasing, and that
the people of at least some portions of Ut-ter are becoming
worthy to commemorate great names and great deeds which
many have profaned, and continue to profane, by the igno-
rant sod malignant prostitution of them to the vile palaions
and sinister denims of faction.—Norrid,rn

THE TRADE IN MISLETGL—Daring the month of
December last year the county of Hereford produced an
immense supply of misletoe, which was forwarded to
Liverpool, Manchester, and many of the adjoining towns.
It has been ascertained that about 20 tons were sent from
Hereford. 15 from Ledbury 12 from Leornioster' C. from
' Ludlow, 15 from Ross, and 'altogether above 80tons from
other localities. Many toes were forwarded to foreign
enmities, besides many loads of the holly bush. The price
paid for the mialetos was from 4a. to the out. Last year
there was a greater traffic in this description of produce than
on any previous year, but from present appearances it is
expected that the trade this year will be still brisker. The
supply to the metropolitan market from the home counties
b very large.
HEPE/IVR OF THE HOWDEN 31URDEEES1, ALICE
WILSON. —The miserable woman, Alice Wilson, who was
convicted at York assizes on the 12th instant of the wilful
murder of her child at Howden by soffocatiog it in a pigstye,
at d who was sentenced to death, has, after consideration of
the circumstances of the case and the recommeodation to
mercy by the jury, been respited during her Majesty's plea-
sure, noder the advice of the Home Secretary, and her sen-
tence will, as is customary in similar cases, be commuted to
penal servitude for life. An official notification of the fact
wee forwarded from the Home-office to the governor of
York Castle last eveaing.
HEMARKAHLEI PRESERVATION FROM DRAM
AMONGST THE HILLS. A correspondent, writing from
Cergarff, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, sends us the following
particulars of the remarkable preservatioo from death of •
woman after three days and three nights' wandering amongst
the snow :—" Isabella Burton or Campbell, a vagraot,
sweaty-three years of age, • native of Manchester, left the
farm-house of Incbmore about two o'clock on Wednesday
afternoon, the 14th lost., to proceed' to Laggnauld, three
miles distant. It aopeare that she had at down by the
way and fallen asleep, and it being dark when she awakened,
she lost her track and wandered amongst the hills (on which
was a considerable depth of snow) for seventy-two hours,
when she was found lying at the side of the River Doe,
half • mile from its source, greatly exhausted. She was
carried tack to Inchmore by the persons who had turned
out in search of her, and every attention was paid to her.
She is rapidly recovering."—Scoisnotoi.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDE-NT. An inquiry
was held at Walsall, on Tuesday, into the circumstances
attending the death of Thomas Law, a labourer, who died
on Sunday last from the effects of • wound indicted under
very singular circumstances. The evidence was to the effect
that on Saturday, the 10th inst. the deceased was holding
a pig, which Mr. T. George, btitcher, Stafford-street, was
killing, when the animal, in its death struggles, kicked Mr.
George's hand. and caused the knife which he held to enter
the inner side of the deceased's right arm, 'Oinking •
severe wound, and entirely severing the brachial artery.
Mr. M. O'Connor, assistant to Mr. Whymper, surgeon, was
called in, and subsequently Mr. Whymper himself attended
the deceased. Dr. Day, and Mr. Heifers Davies, his as.
detest, also visited the unfortunate man at • later period,
and the four gentlemen named consulted as to the pro-
priety of amputating the injured limb, mortification having
then set in. The operation we. deemed inadvisable, and
Law continued to sink until Sunday when Le expired.
After hearing several witnesses, and the remarks of the
learned coroner, the jury found that the wound had bean
secodentally caused, and that, accelerated by heart disease,
it had resulted in the death of the sufferer.

DEATH IN THE Pt'LPIT.—A sad sense of bereave-
ment ban been induced in Pembrokeshire in consequence of
the death, under somewhat sadden and indeed very re.
markable circumstances, of the Her. Hugh Hughes, more
generally known uTegei. The reverend divine held a very
eminent position among the dissenting ministers of Wales,
and be was not more distinguished for his piety and sim-
plicity of life than for the nervous power and eloquence
with which his pulpit discourses were commonly
clothed. On the Sunday be preached • discourse
having significant reference to the uncertainty of life,
for which he chose as the text the remarkable declara-
tion of Scripture, "Bleated are the dead that die in the
Lord." He was explaining the passage, and applying it
with fervour and power, when he wee observed suddenly
to stagger and fall. Those present rushed around him and
raised him up, when it was found that he had been seized
with paralysis, of which some time previously he had had
an attack, although not of a character sufficiently severe to
compel him to entirely ceasefrom his pastoral and pulpit
labours. He was carried to his residence in • state of
stupor, and never spoke afterwards. Every attention was
paid to him, but his malady was beyond the reach of human I
shill, and oo Friday it became known amoopt his many
admirers that be bad breathed bas last during the previous
night.—.Lireepoo/ Aferesry.
The cotton excitement still continues in the
Central American States. The worm has made, and is still
making, sad havoc among the plants in many places. On
the lowland estates, adiaceot to the Bay of La Union, the
plants seem less affected by the worm than those higher up ,1
on the side of the volcano, only • mile or two distant.
Whether this is due to the difference of temperature, or is
merely accidental, experience has not yet determined. It
is, however, very certain that at least one estate on the aide
of the Talcum has been entirely destroyed by worms, while
in the lowlands the damage is comparatively trifling. The
yield of cotton In the states of Guatemala end Salvador will
be very large.—Paaame Correspondent of the Net; York
Times.

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MR. GOLDWIN SMITH ON THE SEIZURE