The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-30 00:00:00

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---eidered. The IaII reported fail Joie hero the
of the Whole on the State of the lAA.. with
antlescistag the enlargement of the Shetedipla ==
oral for the pease of gunboats, nurnillepe el war, am.
and also the eaiargeineat of the Erie and Clew* mash for
191151,9411r9ce% connecting Lakes Erie and Oseario with the
HOOKS Biter wee taken up. and • motion to lay on the
I bias disagreed to by s vote of 42 to against 93. The debate
on the bill providing ways and MN= for the support of the
government wu then resumed, and continued anti the ad-
joasament.
LIVERPOOL, THIMBDAT.
the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Catapany's screw steamer City of Washington,
which left New York on the afternoon of the 17th
instant, arrived in the Mersey at 8.30 this evening,
briinfi 88 Pomanders, and 936,727 dollars and
1,8001. in specie on freight.

EMANCIPATION MEETING AT BRApPORD.

13R&DPOILD, Niger.

This evening a large meeting was held iii St.
Otergele-hall, the object at which 8/ id forth by there.
metiers was to give the people of Bradford se appremley
cd eleowing that they bated slavery with ell** Mak,
anti that they sympathised with Pgigilleb Limb is ble
ektie swoop away tip Ism gliffrellfrneggie Mirth,
droggi mg.ih
• lg. Etheeld--
Led snuck weaker blew what alum
brio • giving freedom W. too lives la rebel
Agee, He rejoiced at that peedeeptelus, bat did not
apron of the way in which it wee food. Me thought
that eider the circumstances in sgch it *es lensed
it might have gone further. He thong have
been glad if • President Wools had dared to go
further, and, contrary to the constitution, bad sad
• MSS is the revolution now going on he would consider rin-
glike which were above the constitution, cad that he would
sot be boned by any parliamentary ties, and that even se
a war aessure it was necessary to abolish slavery through-
emt the Union. (Applause.) We ought, however, to make
allowthees for the difficulties under which Lincoln was
plaisefi, and of this he was quite sure, that thou writers and
speaker in this country who denounced the conduct of
Presideot Lincoln because be did not go further, would have
dinenagei it still more if he had gone farther.
lApplaue.) The President had not • issued tab
proclamation on antislavery grounds, but iu issuing it
it be in effect mid to the alaveholders, " You men of the
South are waging war against um because of slavery, and
them very slam who are the tense of your fighting ark";
m are made use of by you, and render moat powerful mkt-
semi in this rebellion. Therefore we my to you, you shall
net use them any longer." He did not believe that this
pfookmation would remit is a slave insurrection, but it
this was the result it would be because the masters of the
slievelf- would try to nrennt their attaining the
Mabel given by President Lincoln. He rejoiced
over the proclamation bosom it would have the
Aka d oontrolling the generals of the Coefederthe
NM who had treated Depose most diagreoehally ;
,he *geed over it, berme it iiiimmitted the United
Stator government to the eameirtion of 'host three
milieu of slaves who were under their rule ; he rejoiced.
over it, as making the wont of all the results which could'
have come out of the war—the re-union of the North and
South, upon a basis of slavery—imp:rigs ; he rejoiced
over it because, although it was not nominally ea edict of
sismaipatioo for the million of slaves in border Sense, pat
by its working it would make slavery imposible at leth,
eves in those States. After all, this terrible wen bad
given slavery a very great shook. Upon a moderate ems-
panties 200,000 slaves bad been made free by it. The State
of Miseouri was ninths to pm an emancipation set, and so
were the States of Delaware and Western Virginia, and if
the late •50010/ ef the Federal armies in TIMMONS were
outinned, Fast Tennessee would got into the bands et the
Fedend guersesest, Wert Tensaw* would be hemmed in
by three free territories, and it would be impaling' for
slavery to last there. The United States government was
thus becoming forced by circumstances to adopt an
emancipation policy, and it wan becoming especially
disgraceful 'for us to depart one iota hem our
principles Of neutrality and non-intervention is
this war, and that great meeting would strengthen his
hands in proiestiop against such interference ; thou who
cried out for peace were more likely to obtain it if they
put the burden of the war upon the right shouldays— if they
acknowledged that it was the men in the South who Degas
this war, and who began it in a bad cause. He was told
they were fighting for freedom. They might fancy oe, he
believed they did, but for what freedom were they lightine
They were fighting for the freedom to enslave—hippleneg
—for the freedom to oppress—for the freedom to tear the
wife from the bighted, end the mother from the child—
for the freedom to make it legal to torture or kill a block
father for defending his outraged daughter—for the freedom
tombs it lepl for • white father to sell hie own child is
the mike" place—far the freedom to make it a time to
Math ben and girls to read and write—for the freedom to
inked that system which makes labour a curse. That was
that freedom for which the South was fighting. (Applegate)
Mesh as he hated war he would not be led to help them in
their efforts to attain that freedom. He believed that if he
Were to do me it would be vain, for there would be so
pmentheist pease on the American continent while the
slue power wag triumphant. (Applause.) He did not
believe that the war would last much longer they the
middle of this year, and ha did not give up the hope even
yet that it would cease with the lave power subordinate
to the fns power, for peace on any other foundation would
net be pennansat. He looked forward to brighter den,
and he did believe that the result, perinea after a good
. deal of suffering--for, gee ! it requiem& a large Immo of
suffering to purify the country from ouch a sin as slavery—
would be that all men of English race would be united on
the Ida of freedom, and would look forward to a common
future in the spread of liberty and civilisation throughout
the world. (Applanes.)
The meeting adjourned at a quarter to 11.