The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-19 00:00:00

[Stamped, id. Additional.]

RECEPTION OF THE PRUSSIAN AMBAS-

HADoi AT THE TIIILILEIE&

The Moniteur of yesterday oontains an account
of the reception of the Prussian ambassador, Count
Goats, at the Tuileries on the 17th inat, Upon
being received by his Majesty the ambassador said :
_ _ _ _

Sire,—l have the honour to ,deposit in the hands of your
Imperial Majesty the letters which accredit me as aides-
sador of the King, my august marten, at your court.
In conferring upon his representative the most elevated
diplomatic rank, my sovereign found himself in accord with
your Imperial Majesty ; it is a fresh evidence of the friendly
relations happily (aiding between France and Freesia.
These relations are in conformity with the sentiments and
tbs desires of the Rios ; they respond also to the true in-
terests of the two nations, which fully appreciate the ad-
vadages of them. The treaties of the god August, destined
to inseams the osemercial relations between the two countries
and to open out fie then a new path of prosperity, will
dresigthse still more the ties of frieolehip which mite them.
Delighted to be caned upon to cultivate such valuable re-
lations, I am emboldened to bops, Sire, that in devoting all
my cares to them I shall succeed in obtisiaing the distin-
guished favour of your Imperial Majesty.
The Emperor replied in the following terms :

I eagerly accepted the proposition of the Sing of Prunes
to elevate our legations to the rank of embemier ; it is a
fresh proof of the friendly sentiments which ant-
mate the two sovereigns. Sine* I have presooally
known him whom you represent I have always desired
our relations to be mare intimate. I hope it will be the
same with the two countries when the multiplicity of com-
mercial ties has enabled them mutually to appreciate each
other. You will receive among us the most cordial wel-
come—the selection of your sovereign, the nation to which
you belong, your personal merit, all guarantee it to yon.
The new ambassador then withdrew with the
members of his embassy who had accompanied him
to the palace.

JEFFERSON DAVIS'S NEW MODE Or
WARFARE.

The New York Time, of the sth says :—" The
amounts from the battle-field near Murfreesboro' reveal •
new phase of rebel atrocity in the treatment of their late
slaves. Every black teamster, or black follower of the
Union camp, captured by the rebels, is immediately shot
No has than twenty were found thus murdered, and
lying along the Murfreasboro"pike, after the recent rebel
raid upon Rosenmanz's wagon-train• This is, ea-
, doubtedly, the inauguration of the mode of warfare
indicated by the late proclamation of Jefferson Davis.
It is not literally within the terms of that document,
but is in accordance with its temper, and no very
nine discrimination will be observed by the rebels

in executing the spirit of the renguinary order of their
chief. At Murfreesboro' only the nepoes found in the
national service were butchered. Next we shall hear that
whites and blacks, when found together, will be indisori
minately shot, and then will ensue oompliosti•a which
all Christian people will shudder to contemplaw. It is
bard to account for the ruthless spirit that thus butchers
• mild and inoffensive race of people on any other
ground than the irredeemable moral callousness pro-
duced by the institution of slavery. The Degrees
of the present day have served their Southern me-
ten faithfully for years. Their ancestors served the fami-
lia of the whites faithfully in the generations that are past ;
and by their labours the blacks of the past and present have
built up • greet name, wealth and power for the South.
Surely the race is entitled to some gratitude, if not reward,
on the more of t►e past. But the cruel rebel masters do not
see it thus. Their poor slaves desired liberty—nothing
more ; and when caught in the act of enjoying it, however
innocently, the penalty is instant death by a ball through
the leak. Surely Gad will not prosper a cause so fiendishly
cruel"

It is related that wham M Orabow, President of
the Prussian Chamber of Deputise, arrived the other day in
Berlin, the octroi people at the gate bad their suspicions
aroused by the vast bulk of a chest that accompanied him.
It was far too much baggage for any ordinary traveller, and
they fancied that the respectable-looking elderly gentleman
who owned it wished to smuggle in provisions liabip to toll,
with which he proposed nourishing himself economically
during his stay in Berlin. So the chest was opened ; bat
instead of its proving to be a travelling larder, it was found
to contain only the intellectual and political nourishment
since served up to the deputies on their well-covered table
in the form of nearly 200 addresses and upwards of 200,000
avatar*.
The last accounts received of Madlle. Emma
Livry, who was so severely burnt at the Grand Opera,
Paris, about nine weeks since, are not favourable. The
burns, which were nearly healed, have again broken out,
sod her position, after so much suffering, is said to be pre-
carious. She is replaced in her favourite part is the Mudge
do Partici by Madlle. Marie Vernon, a young and promising
actress.

Carron PROM MELEr.—The Smyrna Mail of
the 31st ult., after alluding to the interest attaching to the
opening of the Smyros and Aidin Railway Company, by
means of which Ephesus is brought within ten days' jour-
ney of England, nays :—" But this is not the only advan-
tage which has accrued from the opening of this railway so
far ; it has laid open a fertile tract of land capable of every
cultivation, and adaptable more especially to that of cotton.
Oar columns have daily been nearly filled with the reports
of the cotton commission which has been established here,
and the exertions which have been made, not only by the
imperial government, but by private individuals, to increase
the growth of this important staple of English requirement.
Continually have we urged upon onr friends io England
the great efforts we are making to alleviate their wants,
and bow desirous we are of showing that Turkey, under
the good administration it is now, is capable of becoming
a country from which the introduction of exporting large
quantities of cotton may even help to rival America. The
12,000 balm of last year have augmented to above 60,000
this season, and will next season Masses to above 100,000
bales, which shows not a email item for the capabilities
of Asia Minor to supply cotton, considering the rude mode
of cultivation hitherto adopted. Facts will, however,
speak for themselves, and the public throughout the
world will know in time the value which our journal
has hitherto been in promoting the publicity of cotton
cultivation here."

THE CABE or THE Rzv. ME. M'LAuonuN.—At
the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, cm Saturday, the
court gave judgment in the case of the Rev. Patrick
M'Laughlin, the Roman catholic priest. The Lord Justice
General (IPSeill) delivered the unanimous opinion of the
seven judges, which was to the effect that Mr. Wlenghlia,
however unintentionally, had been guilty of contempt of
court. Whatever privilege of confidentiality the law might
allow in certain circumstances between a penitent criminal

and his 'Mellott' adviser, the privilege could not extend to a
cue like the present, where the question related not to
any communication between the penitent and the clergy-
man, but to an act of the priest himself. With regard to
the limitation of the oath, that procedure was altogether a
mistake on the part of the justice, and it did not in any
respect take away the obligation of the witness to tell the
whole truth, inasmuch as that obligation rested on the
common law and not on the form of the oath. Their lord-
ships, however, in eonsideration of the priest having been
led into some confusion as to his obligation by the conces-
sion of the jostles, and in consideration of his exertions to
repair the offence the culprit had committed, resolved to
mitigate the sentence to the term of imprisonment already
sawed, and to suspend the further execution accordingly.
Tara Joawserame AND Horan Dealing' Pao-
VIDINT 711111).—'ni• fifth sonnet bell is aid of the necessi-
tous members, and widows and children of Members in the
event of death, took place at Willies Rooms, King.street,
St. James's, oe Thursday evening. the 16th inst., and was
decidedly the beet attended of all the previous assemblies.
Nearly all the leading members of the various professions
were present, and the general management the
b4hest prams on the stewards and eacretara (Mr.
V. T. Clarks.) A handsome supper'
provided, and re-
freshmeets, both before and after supper, were most liberally
siwlied by Mesas. Willis.
CRYSTAL Pair oz.—HALF-A-CROWN DAY. —SA-
/VADAT, JAS. 17.—Admierions on payment, 687; ditto
by season tickets, 1,9t5 ; total, 2,632.
Importing tea without colour on the leaf pre-
vents the Chine', passing olf Interior 'worn leaves as I the
easel Wads. ltornuesaa Tea ts uncoloured. therefore always
good alike. Sold In packets by 2.180 agents.--iadsertlalteekl.l

[TWOPENCE

ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING AT LIVERPOOL.

A conference of gentlemen was held on Saturday
at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool, "to consider what steps
should be taken to bring the policy of the American govern-
ment on the slavery question fairly before the public mind,
with a view of promoting inquiry, and eliciting opinion as
to the duty of England in relation thereto." The cute of
the meeting was mainly Northern, though Mr. Space (the
author of " American Union ") sad several other gentlemen
of known Southern tendencies ware present.
Mr. Jour CROPPER, who woe celled to the chair, ob.
served that the time had arrived when Englishmen should
have an opportunity of expressing their sympathy with the
movement in America se regarded the enemipation of
slaves. The great question which sow troubled America
originated in that vast sin. (Hoar, hear.) He was sot there
as a politician, but he could not help expressing his confi-
dence that the danger which was suppoeed to be imminent
lay not in the proclamation of emancipation, but in the re-
sistance to it ; not in carrying it out, but is the attempt to
regabjapte the disenthralled slava. This was the sole
muse of the massacre at St. Domingo. In conclusion, the
chairman annouead that the Lembo Emansipatioa Society
I intended to hold a seeds* on the subject on the 26th ina.
Mr. Romano° GrAnerorri hoped that the meeting
would sot only dad with the pastas of slavery, but with
other matters also which, by the enemies of the Federal go-
vernment, were made the pounds for accusing that govern.
ment of dishonour and cruelty.
The Rev. C. M. Bulgur. (Baptist) then moved the fol.
lowing resolution :—" That in the opinion of this meeting
the war now raging in the United States of Amorist origi-
nated in the institution of slavery, sad in the antagonism
which that system inevitably present* to the institutions of
freedom ; that in the great asthmal aide now nested by
the announcement of its emancipation policy, the Federal
government is entitled to the generous sympathy of free
Englishmen and to the moral support which such sympathy
always affords ; that to insure this front the inhabitants of
Liverpool it is now deemed advisable, by means of lectures
sad paWb discusgions, to fully instruct the public mind on
the tens conditions of the American question, preliminary to
• general agmepte meeting for the adoption of an adders
to President " In moving the remattion Mr. Bina
said, though it was too late in the day, especially is Eng-
land, to dame the abstract question of slavery, ft cuss
no means too late, but the enact moment h which
Englishmen should make their voices heard in Wens of
those eh° seek to establish universal freedom. He wan not
there as a Northern or Southern man, but simply sea man
holding the rights of • man, Lod prepared; to act is defence
of those rights. There was a question in Amelia now
under decussion, apart from the political wormiest, of
the great conflict—s question of humanity, is which
Englishmen were interested and had • right to ewers
their opinion.

Mr. Cass. WILSON seconded the resolution, and warmly
vindicated the sincerity and legality of President Liaeoin's
conduct and policy. The President had not beta two years
in office, but he had accomplished more than the most ma-
rline friend of the slave bad dared to hope. The oesetitn.
tion denied the President the t of meddling with
slavery in loyal States, and be could not, thereinto, claim
emancipation in them, but he came [attend with a power
of compemathio for the slaves of all not in rebellion. In
all owes the President bad gone as far in the direction of
omuripation se the law permitted him to do.

ROBERTSON supported the motion. As long as it
was a matter of belief that the policy of the North wait
Umply that of the restoration of the Union, without regard
to the question of slavery, he could understand many
Englishmen standing aloof from, or remaining indifferent or
adverse to, that policy ; but now that Chars was so doubt
as to the policy of the North on the question of slavery, it
was right that they should be informed that Englishmen
endorsed that policy. Though on the political part of the
question there might hitherto bare been differences of
opinion in England, yet when they saw the second Aker
in the Confederate States coming forward to declare that
" slavery was the corner-stein of their new institutions,"
Mr. Robertson thought it was time for English sympathisers
with Southern independence to denounce such a policy.
_ _

Mr. J. SPIZCZ objected to the portion of the uscaution
which =premed " a generous empathy with the action
of the Federal government in this matter." He was one of
those who, on the political part of the question, amps-
thised with the action of the South, and desired itainde-
pendeooe. He also desired the extinction of slavery ; and
the true mode to cause this extinction, he believed, would
be the establishment of the Southern indapeudeoce. (Cries
of " No, no," and cheers.) Slavery had grown
up under the shelter of the Union to an
extent which was perfectly marvellous ; therefore the dis-
ruption of the Union was a very likely means to abolish it.
In fact, slavery would have been abolished in the Southern
States many years ago but for the very oourse of agitation
which they sow desired to follow, and which produced •
resistance and irritation which tended to rivet more firmly
the fetters of the slaves. George Washington, Madison, Mon-
roe, Jefferson, and many of the most eminent men the
country had produced, were slave-owners. Eighty years
ago, however, slavery was regarded as a temporary and de-
plorable evil, which it was hoped it would please Prowl.
denoe to extinguish, and the reason for the change of opi.
nion in the South was the fanaticism with which the North
had been agitating for abolition. We were ourselves slave.
holders thirty years ago, and to the hugest extent and in
the most offensive manner upon earth ; but instead of
abolishing slavery woad we not have been rather driven to
an opposite course had • virulent denunciation of ourselves
and our slave system been got up on the Continent ? (Cries
of " No, no.") Let some rational and businesslike
mode of removing the evil be dewiesd which as nun of
business they could approve. But there was not a particle
of wisdom or principle in the recent measure of the Presi-
dent. In fact, President Lincoln bad himself declared that
he wool] free the slaves if it suited his purpose, and it not
would keep them in slavery. Mr. Spence believed that the
President having abandoned the hope of subduing the
South, had issued the emaneipation proclamation as the
only possible means of effecting its humiliation sad rain.
He himself believed that the President was too kind-hearted
to have trued the proclamation if he had not thought it
would have been null sad void. It must either be null and
void; or one of its results must be a revolt of the slaves, which
would be attended by enormous bloodshed end destruction
of property. The slaves, however, must ultimately sue.
comb, for while they numbered four millions, the
whites numbered eight millions, and in this respect
there would be no parallel between the revolt in St.
Domingo, where the slaves had an enormous numerical
superiority. Alluding next to the recent article in the
Times, to the effect that a strong argument might be built
up for slavery on Scriptural grounds, Mr. Spence said he
was prepared to support that assertion, and to refer to the
LasMein the Bible itself. [This statement, however.
sso much excitement and opposition, that Mr.
did not pursue this portion of his argument further
' conclusion, he argued that the words of the resolution, if
adopted as proposed, would be disastrous to the cause of
emancipation that we had no right to interfere with the
domestic affairs of America, and to leave Cube, BreA
and the King of Dahomey out of the question; that
meddling with the question of slavery on the American
issue bad an ugly political appearance, and that we should
deal with it on broad and general grounds only.

MS PAITELBON replied to Mr. Mr. Spence with much eio.
queue and force.
The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which was carried
by a large majority, and a committee was afterwards sp.
pointed to take measures for carrying it into effect.

POACHING IN THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S
PRISZEVIES.-0. Saturday last • labouring man named
Austin Nessus was brought up in the custody of one of the
Kent county oanstabulary, and placed at the bar of the
County Justices' Office at Canterbury, before Mr. William
Delmar, Captain Mettle'', and three other county justices,
on the charge of having been found in Covert Wood, in the
parish of Barham, belonging to his Gracie the Archbishop of
Canterbury, on the 14th of December last, with intent to
poach. From the statement of Edward West, a keeper, it
appeared that as the eight in question three diets were
fired, sad shortly afterwards footsteps were heard in the
wood. The keeper then hid himself, and the defendant
approached to within about two yards before observing
him. Ile then ran hack to a man named Cock, who was a
little distance behind. The keeper followed, and ascer-
tained who the parties were. Each of the men had
• gen—one loaded and the other not—but no
Clof any kind was found in their possession.
,' both absconded the same night. On Neatue's return
be was immediately apprehended, and now plesdedguil
to the charge. The beach sentenced him to be imp.a
with hard labour, for a period of sic weeks, and at the end
of that time to find sureties not to commit the offence
again for one year, himself in 101. and one surety of 101..
or two sureties of each. lu default, to be further int.
prisoned for • term of sic calendar months. The man IMO
removed from the bar evidently astounded at the punihs
meet awarded him, his position being such as to render lb
a matter of almost impossibility for hint to podium the
required sureties. En sentence, therefore, virtually
amount' to ocie of seven mouths sad • fortaight'a inter.
wad= in the county gaol of St. Augustine's, Canterbury.
SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF YOUNU
NeLie.—Thie excel eat society will shortly be removed front
Tottashani to the Woodhouse mansion et Winstead, the
Conservative Lead Society having sold the residence, late
in the occupation of Money Wigmm. Esq., with Dearly fist
acres of lard, to this admirable institution, of which the
late Prince Consort was patron, sod ia the preeperity
which the lamented prince took the deepest interest.