The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-09 00:00:00

STEAM RAMS FOB THE CONFEDERATES.

The Committee el the British and Foreign Anti.
Slavery Society hes seat to Earl Russell a memorial on the
subject of fittiag oat of steam rams for the Confederates,
• oopy of which is forwarded to us for publication. The
memorial is as follows:

"27, New Brosdatrest, EC., Sept. 4.
"To the Right Hon. E■rl Russell, nor Majesty's Secretary
ot Mate for Foreign Affairs.

"My Lord,—The Committee of the British and Foreign
Anti-Slavery Society feel constrained to addrem you on a
subject which has for many months claimed their attention,
and which appears to them to be one now requiring imme-
diate &Mice on the part of her Majesty's government; they
refer to the eoestruttica sod equipment of verde of war
in the Mersey and in the Clyde, and particularly of two
madam man with turrets, intended for the rebel or Confederate
Mates of the American Mahon to be employed against the
commerce of a power with which we sic at peace.
" Your lordship is aware that the society has for its object
the extinction of slavery wherever it exists ; wherefore they
carioca view without deep concerti the attempt by force of
arms, which is being made by certain parties in the United
Stable to constitute a new and independent republic, formed
of slaveholding communities, with the one avowed object of
porpetnatieg end eomolidating slavery as an iastitatios ;
nor reword without apprettesaion the material assistance
which Is being extended to them by the equipment of war
versals in British ports, in direct violation of the Foreign
&Altman% Act, and of the Queen's proclamation. Al-
though the oopunittee onuld urea man. unmet ~nee fey
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goirefornens insonerenCe presen6 Mao, Me) consider
that on antislavery grounds *lune such isterfersom is jus-
tifiable ; and they therefore respectfuly but earnestly en.
treat her Majesty's government peremptorily to prohibit the
departure of the two skean rams referred to, until the con-
structors shall produce satufsetory evidence that they am
not intended foe the rebel or Confederate States.—l have
the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's obedient servant
(on behalf of the committee),
" L. A. CHANLIROI7IOW, Secretary."

SUSPICIOUS SHIPBUILDING IN FkiNce..— The
Ph,are de la Loire data that two steamers are being con-
structed at Nantes, the object and destination of which are
surrounded with mystery. The vessels are eighty metre
keg, are to have imagines of four hundred horse power, will
carry twenty-two guns, and their guaranteed speed is to be
fourteen knot. an hoar. Speed would appear to be one of
the male objects aimed at is their construction, as they are
remarkably narrow, and their stems are said to be es sharp as
the blade of a reaor. A very suspicious circurnstanoe in
coonezioe with them is that they are to be delivered up at
sea, twenty leaver from Belle-Isle. It le generally be-
lieved, the Phan de la Loire says, that these vessels are
intended for the Confederates.

The Inman steamer City of Washington. from
New York m the 29th ult., arrived at Queenstown at I pan.
yesterday with 166 emeengen and 797,800 dollen in specie.
She proceeded for Liverpool at 1.20 p.m. Her news has
been anticipated.

The extra Inman steamship Kangaroo, from New
York oil the 29th nit., arrived at Quenon:two, at 3.40 p.m.
yesterday, and proceeded for Liverpool at 4.15 p.m. The
Kangaroo briap 67 reasengers sad 84,850d015. in specie.
Her news has been anticipated.
Tug AMERICAN WAR An ♦ SPORTING "EVENT."
—Au immense number of bete bare been made in South.
aroptoo, daring the American struggle, between the sync-
with the North and those who an for the South.
is fack books have been made upon every particular
areal. between the belligerents. One of the mot emu►
las wagers wee a new hat that the Federals would ester
Richmond before the Coefederates entered Washington.
As both parties have heads of the same sin a new hat was
at nee ordered to be wade and kept until the bet wee
decided. When Lee MOW to the soak of the Potomac
or the Federal. ems So the mouth of that riv r, the fate of
the hat excites the greatest curiosi.y. The siege of Vickr
burg caused a large numbest of transactsoes, the Southern
sympathinn betting freely owing to the 000rident state-
ment/ of the Tines and Standard that the town could not
possibly be captured. A bushel of ripe apples of a new
sort, grows et Woodland., in the New Forest, was laid that
the great forte... on the llinsiesipp! could not be taken, sad
the winner bee Just reserved the Viekshiirg pippin," as
they have lees named. The carnet odds are that the
SWAM rem will escape from Laird's, and get into the hands
of the Confederates.

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