The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-25 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1863.

AMERICA.

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qumwerowx, Awns! 24.

The extra Inman steamer, City of Cork, from
New York on the 13th inst., arrived here at 6 p.m.
She brings 69 paesengers but no specie.
The City of Cork proceeded for Liveratg at
6.46 p.m.
(Per the Eats Simmer, Cityal Cork)
NEW YORK, AuGuer 12, Erasure.

General Meade has published a report from
General Kilpatrick, refuting Genesal Lee's official
denial of the accuracy of Meade's report of the
engagement on July 14 at Falling Waters.
A new Coafederate camp has been discovered at
Pony Mountain, near Culpepper.
Considerable excitement has been caused through-
out California by a contemplated rising of Seces-
sionists.

An affray has occurred at Visalia, in the
northern part of the State, between the soldiers
and fleceeedonist& The citizens were arming, and
cavalry was sent to Vs/AUL Secession outbreaks
are also rumoured to have occurred in Santa Clara
and Sslano counties, north and south of San Fran-
cisco Bay. The fortifications of San Francisco are
to be commenced immediately.
A vessel which passed Charleston on the night
of the 7th states that Fort Sumter and the batte-
ries on Morris Island kept up a terrific bombard-
ment on the Federal position.

The New York Tribune denies the Herald's state-
ment that the republicans will hold a convention in
Washington.
The Judge Advocate-General has furnished the
Governor of New York with a report upon the con-
scription and enrolment, showing that 12 districts
which have voted the democratic tioketare required
to furnish more conscripts than 16 republican dis-
tricts polling double the number of votes. The
report says :—" It is a partisan enrolment, designed
to takeout of the city the greater part of the demo-
cratic majority, and as far as the draught has pro-
ceeded the names drawn were mainly democratic.
This fraud was certainly perpetrated without the
knowledge of the President and the provost mar-
shal. A general and irresponsible cabal outside
must be looked to for the source of this iniquity. If
justice is not done it will remain in history as a
gigantic political fraud."
The New York Herald says : "If a riot and
anarchy should arise out of the quarrel between
President Lincoln and the Governor of Nes York
the country will hold to a rigid reckoning the two
actors playing political parts so full of peril to
domestic peace and the very existence of the
nation."

MINISTERIAL ANTI-SLAVERY CON-

FERENCE.

The follovina ecauninnieations have been re-
ceived by Mr. Thomas B. Potter, of Blanchester, in
reply to the letter addresse4 to the President of the
United States, enclosing the address and other
documents adopted by the Anti-Slavery Conference
held in Manchester on the 3rd of June last.
Legation of the United States, London,
August 22,,
Sir, The President of the United States having received
at the hands of the Reverend Doctors Massie and Rylanc•
the address of the meeting recently held at the Free-trade
MA Manchester, I have now the boson, under Instruc-
tions frost Washingtat, to forward to you the sooompsoy-
tag letter, in reply, from the Secretary of State.
I bate the bosom to be, sir, your obedient servant,
Nauss Faatas ADAXL
Thomas Bayley Potter, Esq., he.

• THOMAS ZATIXT Forma, 1:84. , 121CILLND.

814—I haus bed the /Maria; to moseve fro` the Rev.
Dr. Mamie and the Rev. Dr. Itylsout your oddly= in the
name et • large public meeting, which was roottutly held at
Free Trade Hall, is Mancrester, to the President of the
Uelted Skates, together with papers which coast:ante the
aoieetpaaiteesh; of that communication. These perms
have beta hubmitted to the Preadeut of the United Mater
and I am charged by him to inform you that he has read
them with the most lively seta/faction, and with a profound
sense of the obligation which the reverend reit/doom pastors
in Franca and the reverend religious pastors in Great Britain
have laid upon the world by their eorreepoodesee with each
other, and their common address to the Christian ministers
sad pastors throughout the United States. The proceedings
of the meeting at Free Trade Hall, and its address to the
benident, touchingly and admirably harmosiee with the
neatienste which pervade the oorresposdeuut before mca-
timed.

The parties in these proceelinp will readily undentand
that the attempted revolution in the United States sensibly
affects this government, and American society itself, in
many ways which it has not fallen within the province of
those partite to examine. While the interests thug nein-
sally and not improperly overlooked in Europe furnish the
'trowel possible motives to the people of the United
States for suppressing the insurrection and maintaining the
constitutional government received at the hands of their
father", the President readily socepte and avows, as an
additional and irresistible motive, the suggestion made by
the friends of oar country in Damps, that the somas of
the insurrection would result in the establishment, for the

Ent time in the history of the human rue, of a State bend
upon the exclusive foundations of African slavery.—l have
the honour to be, sir, your very obedient servant,

WILLIAM IL flawsu.
Department of State, Washington, July SIS, 1863.

A " SVISATION " NEWSPAYII.—The Debate; of
Suaday says :—" It appears that the telegraph has deter•
mined to send us regularly with all the gravity in the world
summaries of articles published by an aomatrio New Yak
paper, called the Herald. We coasider it oar duty, there-
fore, to warn our readers that the Herald is what is called
on the other side of the Atlantic a sensation journal,' an
expression that may be rendered into French by the
following periphrasis a journal which empires a
great repotation by the fertile imagination and
the fancy it displays in publishing news, which
facts do not always eonfirni, under some pompous heeding,
such as ' Latest Intelligence," Important Occurrence.'
This kind of journal is doubtless not peculiar to America,
but it flourishm, and is developed in an exceptional manner
in the land of Barnum. Moreover the Herald is neither an
official nor even an offieleur journal. Its assertions are not
only onweetlay of credit, but they do not deserve the
slightest attesties of limy kind whatever.*

The Pen., which left Southampton with the
Australian Mail on the 20th inst., took out three valuable
rsoehoreee, via., Buckstooe, Millionaire, sod Investment,
deetiried for China. The Ceylon steamer, which arrived at
Southampton this morning, brought news that Investment
died on the 21st inst. She cost 3,000 guineas and was the
property of Mr. Dent, • merchant in China. The Ceylon
met the Peen on the ?2nd inst. _

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REFAVEHENT Or THE CITY. —Yesterday a large
body of workmen employed by the firm of Meters. Mowlem
sod Burt, commenced the requisite operations for repaving
that portion of the city immediately opposite the Mansion.
house. Consequently for the next two or three drys the
entire omnibus and other traffic will be diverted from its
usual track down the Poultry. and will have iodinate either
down Walbrook. oe by the Bank, and the Old Jewry. The
road is being realised with granite.
PROPOSED RZCOONMON OF THE CONFEDERATE
STATER— A circular relative to plans for iseurisg_ peace in
America a bas been lamed by Mr. E. Movyd, late M.P. for
Huddersfield ; the Rev. James Binleley, M.A., rector of St.
Agee's. Manchester; Mr. W. B. LimaisT, M.P. ,• the Her.
F. H. Williams, M.A., incumbent of Clanstchuroh, Ashton-
mider.Lyne ; the Rev. William Barley, IL A. rector of
Chariton ; the Hon. A. Buncombe, M.P. ; Crook, late
M.P. for Boltoe ; Mr. Pearson, the mayor of Belford, and
many other gentlemen. It is an invitation to others to form
a " Central Association for the recognition of the Con-
federate Statea" _ _ .

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THE LATE Rat. DE. RAFFLE& —Tho interment
of the remains of the kis Dr. Raffles took place yesterday
at the Necropolis, Low-hill, Liverpool, • cemetery which
wee formally emerged is the year 1821 by Dr. Raffia himself.
The services at the grave were conducted by the Rev. Roach
Mellor. M.A.. who succeeds the Rev. Dr. Raffle' as a minis-
tee of Great George-street Chapel, but preliminary services
were also conducted at Great Geegge-street Chapel by the
Rey. C. M. Birrell (Baptist), Rev. E. Mellor, and the Rev.
John Kelly. The Rev. Mr. Kelly, from the words, ..me
fathes7,. where ere they ? and the prophets, do they live for
ever ? delivered ma appropriate and touching address, in
which be took occasion to allude frequently to the
virtues and eminent character of the late Dr. Raffles. Th.
service' at Great George-street Chapel were attended by an
inaneose concourse of people, including ministers from the
various large towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, and includ-
ing also a large number of ladies. The communion area
and a large space in front of the pulpit were reserved for
ministers and clergymen from distant towns. There were
, presentd . ministers.dt it denominations,
and ,i b°
by appeared
tr:sar • r
1 During Mr. Kelly's address, the body of Dr. Raffles remained
i in the vestibule of the chapel. bet at the cloth of the service
it was transferred to the hearse, end a procession formed
from the chapel to the necropolis. The procession included
the mayor, all the leading inhabitants of the town, and the
members of the various learned and scientific societies. The
streets throughout the route were crowded with people, and
the shops for the most part were closed, from feelings of
respect for the deceased.
fee FAIL'CRE OF ova SEA-FISHERMS. —The real
came of the falling-off in our sea-fisheries is the non-oh-
arvance of proper seethes for taking certain fish. Who,
for inaterme, will wonder that the supply of mackerel should
fall short when we destroy the breeding fish by millions
when heavy in roe? We have regular fame month.. for our
salmon and fresh-water fish, yet our sea fish are taken at all
times and seasons, and (as in the case of mackerel and her.
liege) the breeding fish are preeerved for the market be-
cause the public will have full-road fish. I have watched the
working of the trawl-net for many years. and It appears to me
preposterous to charge that apparatus with destroying spawn.
beds, amongst which it menet pomeibly be used. whilatat the
same time its detractors are enooursging the destruction of
fish in full roe, cootainiog each from 300,000 to 100,000 ova.
There is an old and homely riving that it is well to " put
the saddle on the right horse," and, as a fisherman myself of
long experience, I do not feel disposed to allow the " trawl"
to be condemned without a word in its favour. It will be
saked me, " Does the ' trawl' do no harm, then?" To this
1 reply, " Moat urquestionably, but not by disturbing the
spawn-lbeds." Thai I. a conclusion to which only those
ignorant of the method of using the net could possibly
come. It is because it destroys beeps of young fry, small
soles, plaice, kc., a few inches only in length,
that the trawl must be condemned as mischievous.
What, then, is the remedy for our fading sea-fisheries?
Clearly to regulate the size of the mesh by law; to inflict
• penalty on those taking fish under a certain size, and, above
all, not to permit the wholesale capture of spawning fish.
Our rivers would moos become banes were there no da-
nces for their preservation ; and it is by no means aarprkiyt
that, sotwithetanding the supposed inexhaustibility of oar
seas, the want of proper rules and regulations should be
beginning to tell on the supply of fish. Let me bring this •
little nearer home to the readers of this paper. The annual
value of fish sold is Billiegegate alone is Dearly 4,000,000 f.,
or from 200 to 300 tons weight of fish sold daily. Sopponag
only rise quarter of this amount to be spewniug fish (which
is very far under the mark), we have from fifty to sixty
tone of brood-fish sold daily ie one market alone. Each of
these fish it mackerel or herrings, will contain from 300.000
to 100.000 ova ; if soles, about 100,000 ; and, if codfish, ea
average of half • million each. The remedy for this whole-
sale destruction of an element of future food, is surely the
I hibition to take any class of Ash during its own panther
brasdis season, and the only cure for the existing evil is to
extend to our sea-fish that protection which is afforded at
gremlin time to the fish in all our fresh waters.—Once a
Week.