The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-25 00:00:00

EVENING, Dl

THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT LM
IRELAND.

On Tumidity evening, a large and highly roapee-
ahle meeting of the friends of the anti-slavery movement in
Bi last woo held in the Methodist Chapel, Dmegall.place,
fir the purism* of considering the propriety of presenting
•n
address and testimonial to Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe,
the author of " Uncle Tom's Cabin." There was a large
attendance of clergymen of various d •nominations In the
say of the house, beeidea those taking part in the proceed-
ings of the evening. The chair was occupied by Dr. M'Oee,
m..yor sleet.
The 1t.,. Dr. Witana, in an eloquent speech, moved
the fallowing resolution, which was unanimously adopted;
—" That Ibis meeting avows its deep and solemn conviction
that the slavery /Meting in the United Stites of America is
throughout opposed to the laws of eternal right sod justice,
and to the principles and spirit of Christianity ; that it is
inimical to the social and moral interests of the nation et
large, as well as grossly inconsistent with the great prin.
eiples which lie at the basis of the American constitution ;
sad, as such. it imperatively demands the condemnation of
all the friends of freedom, humanity, sad religion through-
out the world."
. .

The &lowing resolution moved by the Bev. Mr.
0' I Tenho, woe else adopted with Reclamation :
'llet this meeting acknowledges with di light the
nighty impulse whisk has been given to the anti•davery
cum, both ea this sod the ether side of the Atlantic, by
the asparellaled oireuletles Untie Tein's Cabin,' sod
would take tab opportudiy se tirtityiag 1W nese, Oat salt'

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of the leamatamle genius yed to that tholuollon, bat
, mem especially lathe vele* of the great prig-
girl's which lit *owls, breed's* throngithst the hand
both of R and of Anodes."
The rouewtns Addams to Mrs. Bucker SWIM VW thin
adopted :-
1 We, whose names are subscribed, publicly amovelthel in
• Belfast, the capital of Ulster, in Ireland, most eimilially
offer you, as author of the work mititled Cade Tern's
Cabin,' our sympathy, and adothsllan, and gratketh. In
our own name, we thank yea
_for the Immo of wisdom we
have been taught, sad the Ultra we have felt i• in the use
of the downtrodden slave, we thank fee, se his meet nth
quid, powerful advocate ; the same- of the whole /010 y
of man we thank you, fur peer trimththeet thanes of
human dells, est for the *mg with whist' yen bete en-
girded and ennobled the human name. BIM ehetellelly do
we 'elusion our testimese, that by asomplereased Mr-
pissed, of mete, end inventise, end memo r, end hilioltal.
vigour, and command of diatom above ail that usually falls
to the lot of mortal, you have made self-denying virtue and
heaven-born piety interesting sad inviting, is a work of
imagination founded on fact, sad have thus become 011111
theof greatest putrid benefactor of this or of say age.
Though separated from you by the broad Atlantic, and,
never, perhaps, to me year fare in the Seth, we feel
towards you as a dear familiar friend, not merely be-
cause the acme of Stowe ie known to us, and your own
character shines with such sweet "Unction in your
' &mutual' sad ' Uncle Tom,' and ' Sabbath' and
' Aunt Mary,' red other inimitable ' Tales and sketches
from real liter but because lathe rodeo excellence of
the chief character,of Uncle Tom's Cabin,l we have
become familiar with your own ; and because, by the con-
nexion which your name, Beecher Stowe, establishes be-
tween your maiden arid married tile, we recognise you as
a beloved and honoured daughter of the great and good
Dr. Lyman Beecher, the father of the Temperance Refor-
mation, one of America's most eloquent orators, popular
authors, and devoted patriots ;—one,who by himself and his
family, exalted by talents, acquirements, iinweeried bene-
volence, and Christian principle, has conferred such benefits
on America, and shed on Mr such a glory, that, amid all
the infamous slave•owners and wretched slaves who all
her mother, it may 0.311•0111 her to have live, birth to •
family, whot with the name Beecher will transmit to pos-
terity a pearlassexample, en ism blade' influence, and
a deathless fame. Tot ourself amour rev. red father may
suitably be &MIN the language of Sir Thos. M'lntosb,
regarding the great Sir Thomas More and his admirable
daughter whose leaning was cekbrated through-
out Ch and whose remains were found in the
grave with beravasderod father's trunkless head lying where
*nee bad bees ewe haw:—" It is seldom that literature
wears a mete egnemble aspect, than when it becomes a bond
of union betwees such • lather and such a daughter."
That daughter is now, in the great sphere of human
rights and liberty, the woman, in distinction from all others,
on whom comes the blessing of him that is ready to perish,
end towards whom the eyes of countless multitudes torn,
with in interest, fervour, and enthusiasm which hearts can
feel, but which tongues cannot tell. She is ruling in the
world of mind, with a power, in cowpvuos with which the
might of the conquering sword and despot's iron sceptre
are but as the toys of infancy ; her benevolent genies,
sanctified by the truth, in effecting reformation which can
be exceeded only b miracles of divine grace; by her
powerful beaignaat inflames, she is "dusting beau
liberty, accordies to her own beautiful language, as the
sunshine edemas' the Sower tato full and perfect life; and
when all that is mortal of her dies to this world, her words
sad deeds of unutterable lees will shed a twilight armed
her memory, only to fade away in the brightness of heaven.
Our main object, however, in thus addressing you, is not
to give the tribute of our admiration to genius of the highest
order, se to reesed our veneration for Inestimable personal
worth. We seem before the world, under our commas
bright eneand clear sky, to claim you, in our common
mother longue, se a fellow labourer, Jetted, and sister, in
the beads W a coma= love *liberty, and detestation of
elawery is all its abonsisaMis hew ; and to assure you of
ear use dorms sad mania* se operation with you, by
~Roe& sad writhg, sad labelers and prayers, to put
down, is America sae everywhere, now and for evermore,
that accursed thing, whisk we utt- sly detest, and utterly
abhor, bemuse it is an aseaseed Mag. We desire to
azurites yew base. awl Oa Mae a/ all friends of the
slave, by the expended. ewe km belief that American
slavery not only bag M wwwwaseuwat, no apology in the
Bibb, but is an Meath the Oed of the Bible, dot an out-
rage against Nis law—ea estregllhgainst the spirit and pre-
cepts of Ws law —who, having tide of one blood all us-
, noes, bids each man love his neighbour as himself—loose
the bends of wickedness—break every yoke—and whose
own Son' sonde to save the lost, pro laimed liberty to the
captive, and hate the oppressed be free.
Looking ta Americo, as we have long looked with ten-
dered interest, as the adopted home of many of our dear
friends—the last refuge sad last hope of multitudes of our
evicted, howler. homeless countrymen—the great young
kingdom of the West, where the language, and customs,
and relieve of England and Ireland will live and spread
when we are all gone—we earnestly desire its prosperity,
and, therefore, with our whole heart we seek the imam-
dice, rod otter, and denial extermination of its slavery,
because its slavery is the essay of its wealth—compulsory
labour being withering red wasting—the enemy of its edu-
cation, without which no nation an be groat and free—the
enemy of marriage, and female virtue, and domestic bliss,
without which tin's let now be degradation and misery—
the enemy of the Bible and the religion of the Bible, tor,
u the despot haunt fell well, by the healthy public senti•
sent which the religion of the Bible forms, slavery has
1 beea already basished from many lands, and shall yet be
budded from all the world.

la the spirit of Christian sympathy and love, we offer
you our prayers, oar oestribstros, oar help in every way,
curator with the gospel, reusing the slave from the
fiends of his manstealirg opprouve lord, being courted
that opposition to arbitrary power is striking for liberty,
and that the lifiebbed of liberty is the gospel, •bith,
wherever felt is power, elevates the slave from the degra-
dation a a beast to the dignity of a man, gives him pro-
perty and liberty, and rustics, and wife, and children,
and home and country all secure, end enables him to feel
and act with the independence, salt-respect, and solfuli•
ants of a with freebies. Is the exercise of Christie& love
to the alaveuraers, as well me to the slaves of America, we '
come With to do hewer to the writer of " Uncle Tom's
Cabin," because we heartily concur is her terrific exposures
of the ruinous retrace of slavery on the muter as well as
the slave. He who knew man's heart pat the prayer in his
lip.—" Lead as not into temptatios • " and In who knows
his own self will tremble at the Geri& off being placed at
the mercy of his own unbridled swiss sad set above
the restraint of law. What Mess meld tell the hatred
of God and his worship, awl peogie, the oaths and
blasphemies, owl seihnstione ef-the Sabbath, the im-
purities mid stieboeloo, end robberies and warden in their
moot egparded and rewiring hems, not among slaves,
but 'browsers, whisk Ms See generated by this unjust
and cruel, end vile end dessMting scourge? Alai! that •
single individual, beat* the some of man, should be sub-
jected to Use brutalising inflames el a spier, under which
conscious lases Ns pewee, the bears Lsts seesibility, and
the silketiele Sur temieress ender which, the victim of
the system he seepres, made eardld, *GINA, Goon
bare baled the wrack of whet loe was, and to all that is
purr and Seely, end ef pod report, bids a last farewell.
Knowinges we mew de, bluer than ever before, the ills
of alarm Steeps • week eireented sad approved beyond
all prent, wee ossontbs wish ibellip et inezpremi• '
his bittoonamilibet the mippotons sad delltedere of Atm-
rissa dama p all its enutteralde horrors, with all its
sepia eloping and creel bondage, are net slaveholders
rises, mil the legislates mei pigie et the slave sums
merely, bet the 01111.11111 end peep* the whole
Christian pregle, oaf sepossatatims, of the
whole sited LIMN etAnaelle, by peedei and upholding
tho unjust, lesoeseliellargrre Fugitive filar Law.
By the whale , especially. the whole
%nails pestle ortre"United Steno of Amara*, we wish
ear voice to be heard In this oar address to one who has
dons a week foe their country, like tut of • Sagest
angel, to deliver them from diagraar sod mere, to saes
thus hem the assepseess M Heaven's accumulating
wrath, which is gatberies every day that the cry of the
appearedbelleviag it eaters into the era 111 ON Gait a &bath. In-
stead of not far Sob hewer that God bath
sold their Gamy Into the bond of • weeny lot them glory
la the thought that the Misses of theemelms and their
stare gaspers* by no bisedsalned iasarrection, or
ser-
vile war, but by the power of the truth, through woman's
guileless Um from woemaa's heart of love ; and that the
soap of their eassaggenen may be sere pure sad more
sublime by far than that of Deborah sad Barak, when they
sing—" Blessed above women shall Jae', the wife of fisher
be; blessed shall she be above women."

LAUNCH OP Tilt GILNEHJS SCREW STIA3I.IIHIP
Anoo.—The Argo, the sixth of the splendid fleet of 1,800
tuns iron screw-ship., built by Mare and Co., for the Gene-
ral Strew-steam Company, who have the contract for
conveying the mails to St. 'Vincent, Ascension, St. Helens,
Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, and Calcutta, was launcher{
from Orchard-yard, Blackwell, on Thursday morning, in
gallant style, and for the first time floated on the water, ne
beautiful a speetnienof naval architecture as ever swam upon
the River Thames, or any other water. The Argo Ls 247 feet
long, 39 Teet in breadth, 27 feet 3 Inches In depth. She
measures 1,810 toss, and is to have engines nominally 300.
horse power. This enterprising company hate now alma,
in addition to the smaller ships, including the Harbinger,
the following sister ships: Queen of the South, Lady
Jocelyn, Indiana, Calcutta, Mauritius, Ilydaspes, and
Argo, and we may remark, that confessedly a fitter, more
faithfully built, and more handsome and aficient fleet of
screw steamers were turned out, as the performances
of those now in commission have proved ; and we may fur-
ther remark that if the Args proves as efficient a ship as
the Queen of the South, she will bring that credit to ilr.
Mare of whirl.' the best British ship.buidders in Great
Britain may Well he proud. The steaming qualities of the
second 1,800 ton ship, the Lady Jocelyn, has surpassed any
p..dole- wheel ocean steamer that ever started on the total
to India ; but the Queen of the South is the Ent screw ship
that has made the voyage to and from India ; and we may
form some notion of the general qualities of thew ships,
when it is known that her peewees, under all the vadat-
tadmiaatsrally attendant on the fleet voyage of so large a
anew steamer, have been most successfully made, and that i
especially her salting qualities ere so tar superior as to
rival most of the celebrated clippers of the day, Americaai
or English.
EDINBURGH AND OLASOOW AND BATUOATE RAltel
WATIL—The committee appointed upon the matters in die
pate between thew comp min hats just r:portird that the
terms proposed by the Edinburgh and Glasgow of a Ina
rent of 9,5001, from July last are inadequate. without Pie-
vistas for scream of rant, amounting to 23.7501., being
mods.

LITERATURE.

BOOKS.

'Ma grumblers at times present, and lovers of
times put, a race who seem born with eyes in the
back of their head, can have but little to say against
the modern Englishman's appreciation of Christmas.
Our forefathers were not a whit more jolly than we, '
their descendants, at the celebration of the great
national festival. Nearly all the old holidays have
vanished before the intense earnestness of a world,
which from day to day seems to recognise mo e
clearly its groat mission of labour; but Christmas
stands out as boldly as ever. Like the single prise
gooseberry on the bush, which has appropriated to
itself the freshness and strength and flavour which
was intended to be shared amongst all the rest, Christ-
mu seems to have grown great upon the ruins of all
other festivals. In some respect ,we excel our tomes
tors in the preparations which we make for the cele-
bration of Christmas. la addition to the happy
meetings, and the mistletoe, and the podding, and
turkey, and beef, and other appliances is which they
delighted, we have piles of new Christmas books.
Publishers keep back many of their works until this
time, or prepare others expressly, sure to meet with
appreciation at this season. Next to the sight of the
dining table glittering and steaming within a circle
of happy faces, is that of the drawing-room or
library tab!e, laden with books rejoicing in bindings
of crimson and gold, as though they had put on their
best looks for the occasion. This is a new feature in
the socislities at Christmas, and one which the most
bigot ted antiquarian will scarcely complain ot It does
net disturb the old feature of the festival, it com-
pletes it. It is fitting that jolt at a time when we
are most fitted for a mental treat we should have a
large supply of mental food. At Christmas we begin
to breathe after the long labours of the year. We
look back with contempt upon whatever annoyances
we have experienced during the twelve months that
are past. We fling off care, and look upon Christmas-
day as one oo which all old griefs are to be buried,
and thoughts are to be turned hopefully to the
future. This is the proper temper for reading. We
are able, freed as we are from regret for the post and
anxiety for the future, to fling ourselves into the
spirit of an author, and look as kindly upon him as
upon a Christmas guest. Even if we are critical, wet
are good natured, and a stupid book is to us a matter
of amusement instead of disgust. It is with feelings,
prompted by the near approach of Christmas,
that we proceed to notice some of the books which I
the season has sent us.

Vs. Poets of Me Woods. Teske Pictures of EnydisA
Song Birds. Bosworth.
This another drawing-room book of an agree-
able character. The illustrations are printed in
colours, and are likely to satisfy the artistic require-
ments of most purchasers of Christmas books. The
letter-press consists of selected pieces of poetry de-
scriptive of various birds—in some instances more
to be admired for accuracy of description than poetic
excellence, but there are some beautiful passages,—
as, for instance,—Shelley's Ode to the Skylark.
Altogether it ta a showy volume, carefully got up,
and with good type and elegant binding, forms a
very seasonable book for a Christmas offering or a
New Year's gift.

Chrianinstide ;i4 History, Festioiliee, and Caro.i. John

Ruiiell Smith.

An admirable and complete account of Christmas.
The history of the festival commences in the earliest
times, and is carried down to the present. The
antiquities of this subject are well woven into the
narrative, and display considerable and careful re-
search. 'fho book is profusely illustrated with
lithographs and wood engravings.

•
The Satestandriac A Poem. B CHARLIS MACILLY.
Ingram and Co.
Moat gorgeous of the Christmu books is Mackay's
Salamandrine, with its gold embossed c seers and
graceful illustrations. If it achieved success in its
humble guise, surely it will be a welcome Christmas
visitor in its gay attire and glory of hot-pressed
paper and profuse illustration. The poem in its new
shape has all the freshness of novelty, and may fitly
be introduced by an extract from the author'. preface,
telling the legend upon which it is founded.
In the Rosicrucian »mum of the Count de (»belie,
or Conversations upon the Secret Sciences," by the Abbd
de Villare—a volume to which the world is indebted for
the renal personages of.the " Rape of the Lock," as well as
fur many graceful fancies is English and Berman literature
I —occur the following »meg» :
Wl.en you shall be enrolled amount/ the children of the
phdos.,phers," as» the Count de Gabalie to his incredulous
but inquiring disciple, " you will discover that the elements
are inhabited by very holy creatures, whom, in consequence
of the on of unhappy Adam, his too unhappy posterity have
been forbidden to en or know. The immense 'pace that
is between earth and Heaven possesses inhabitants much
more nob:e than the birds and gusts merely ; the van
oceans have many more dwellers than the dolphins and the
whales; the depth of the earth is not nested only tor the
moles; and the element of fire, more noble than the other
I three, was not made to remain void.
of,:hTeh:sair is fi
etan fioll of an
rm, grineonturotoeorarobleor
tuhlotitoomileenomf.cressotivir
benevolent to the wise, but enemies of the stupid and igno-
rent. Their wives and their daughters are of told sad
meacaline beauty, sash ea painters have »presented the
Amazons.

" Know also that the seas and the rivers are as fully in-
habited as the air; the wise ancients have mentioned three
populations under the name of Uodines or nymphs. There
are few males among thew, but vast numbers of females ;
their beauty is extreme, and the daughters of men are not
to be compared to them.
" The earth is filled nearly to the centre by Gnomes,
people of small stature, guardians of the treasures of the
mines and quarries. The latter are ingenious, friends of
mankind, and easy to command. They furnish the dill-
siren of the wise with all the money that they esquire, and
ask little for their service, except the glory of being com-
manded. The °notables, their wives, arc small, but very
agreeable, and their costume is very curious.
" As regards the Salamanders, inhabitants of the region
of fire, they serve the philosophers; but they do not wish
orseek their company with much eagerness; and their
daughters acid their wives rarely allow themselves to be
seen. The wives of the Salamanders are beautiful, and in
fact more beautiful than all the others, because they me of
a purer element. I pass over the description of these people,
because, when one of us, you will see them yourself at
leisure, and easily aloe have the curiosity. You will see
their costumes, their modes of living, their manners, their
policy, their admirable laws. You will he charmed with
the beauty of the lr minds, even more than with that of the it
bodies but you will not be able to refrain from pity when
they tell you that their souls are mortal, and that they have
no hope of the eternal enjoyment of divine felicity, in the
presence of that Supremeßeingerhom they know, and whom
they religiously adore. They will tell you that being rim
posed of the purest particles of the element which they in.
habit, and having no contrary qualities in them, as they are
made of but one element, they do not die till after many
centuries: but what is time compared to eternity ? They
return at last into eternal nothingni es ; and this thought so
laflicts them, that the philosophers have much trouble in
consoling them.
Our fathers being true philsophers, and speaking to
God fare to face, complained to Him of the wretched Tate
of these people ; end God, whose mercy is illimitable, re-
membered Him that it was not impossible to find a remedy
for this evil. lie made known to them that in the same
manner as man, by the alliancewhich he has contracted
with God, has been made a participator of the divinity ; so
the sylphs, the gnomes, the nymph., and the Salamanders,
by the alliance which they may contract with man, can he
made participators of man's immortality. Thus a nymph
or a sylphide becomes immortal, and cupeb!e of the bliss to
which we aspire, when she is happy enoegh to wary one of
the wise;' and a gnome or a sylph ewes to be mortal
from the moment that he marries cue of the daughters of
men.'

Punch's Pocket Book for 184.1, The Creak Alawartar for

181$

Punch's Pocket Book, although intended to do
duty for the year '63, oomes out time enomflt to
assist in making the Christmas of '62 as " meme" as
an English Christmas ought to be—the unseasonable
weather and the dislocation of the ministry notwith-
standing. Fur the frontispiece we have a bevy of
Leech's merriest leases starting off for the " diggins,"
where they are so much wanted, and casting some
wonderful g'ances back at the disconsolate "Jeamee's"l
and " Foker's" by whom the jetty is lined. This a'one
will raise one" mule" round of laughter, and when
it has subsided into a smile, *Connie'', medico% al illus- I
trations will fan it again into the broadest of grins.
The statistical tableau is frightfully suggestive.l
The merely useful portion having been disposed of
with a care which is wholly unworthy of genius, the
proper business of a comic almanac's opens with a
succession of choice Inoreenus, of which the following
piece of "good sound advice" is one which may
easily be digested along with the Christmas pud-
ding: