The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-07 00:00:00

IMAMI OP LONDON.

The weekly rebus of births and deaths in Loa-
the kesedb7 authority al the .ewer./
th dribs i• Lambs, is the week tier mill
year Frarday, abbel es as the Merge el the
three revises weeks. The serlaw wee 1,842. The maw
somber of deaths derived from the Mem el the leg week
el the year is tes yews 11153-412 berseess, with a serveries
for iserear el sagebries, 1.454.
_ It ropers beet fhb
elelerest thee iirest •a hided prism AA is the week
'them Or amber SW word have bees reerded if the
emir ere el seerislity W ruled. The deaths rosy
Zwirllves me ler week to 25, sag the is
ire
a desided temissey to imams It is seer
flea Bette r fetal as ft wee is Ostrom Kerbs
wee Mel is 110 err ; 1111111101/611 is 73. Masks
aireddeaths is the subilekiet el Kissisites Tows. 4
▪ litherave. Serislies as red Bis IL Miry
11 i Issigtes. The deaths relented to yhereleillrea.s.
11111•01.0 seamen; they ere he Mk The meta*
bre hessehilis was use rather heavier. This empire*
hal deelbsi when the oold weather el Nereserter sr (A-
bleed ir a mess al erred shames: bet the balsa fres
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el a sees bet week to 1115. Thum wee me imams. bat sates
W•
arr, aged 17er died is 9t. daistair
Heertel. to
Ilia reeked bra been& bra 3, flosedsheildisp, Or.
wires* of "des•Mos" mere% se regkel eenseser.
Five strepreriess died is tM week. The two older
wore seas sal • wesess, sod severely 84 pare. lasi
week the birdie el 1,09 her sad 1,017 girls is AI 2,10
wee, wee registend is Leedom. Is the ten earsospere,
iir yeas of the years 155342 the avenge sumber
reeled) wee I,llld.
At the horn Obearvatery, Orrawieh, the moos beige
of the beserrer is the week was 111.497 is. The
`hm.mehded waft deeressed hem 3514 is. et the be-
41seles el the week S. 211.31 is. es Desember Was. and
leak meries wee below 301isethe
days al the week. The mem .rtit
is the week was 411.11 deg., is 4.9 deg. obese
Or avenge et the sere week is 43 yore bs deler-
mined by Yr. Olaisher). Th. lower sight temperekers
err 33.5 deg. • Waseelay. The higher day Map stew
wee 52.3 deg. • Therday. The amp ii
the week we
Orrefors 18.8 deg. The Isms deny rev wee 5.3 deg. The
difference berm the mesa dew peer terysrekweeat ilk
twopindow• was 3.2 deg. The roe degree of leuesieity
the so wee 80j emplebe surimetbs heir sageserted by
100. The red blew km the essthweet .Mil Teeeday
afternoon, whir it easeged to aserthweet, nrewleg, how-
ever, to mthweet es the fellowleg me i& sad perrebet
is that quarter ening the reel d the week. Os Itureby
it blew with • width reathed s sessistess A ts tbs.
to the square dent. sod se the blew* day the poster
meson wee 1411 s. ; es tie ter thy {/.tray) it wee asks.
Rain tel on Nasday, Tamar, sad Friday ; the amuse
dozing the week neared OS/ in. lb. mess of time Weer
tempi:stem of the Themes wee 4.3 deg.: that al the
-vot 41.3 deg.

MAPPIN BROTHERS*
' WEST-END HOUSE
in soh and VMS
ttt, 11.30/ST
Ice 50 yam BZOTHIMIS Ilanaiactsum have been
gaining odebrity and • good name : but it la Tate • initial's to
suppose that thelitaattdin Oxford-street at all.
In Ethelneld A.D. 1810.
CITY liOni7-47 and M. mita wumeidgisisr,
11A11117A0101Y—Q17111DI !salsa DUMMY WOW, anniMILD.

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slooad-hotet Itukaartalt by the moat aptamai wake" at
ova* !edam& prima—Wl. Itaitsalaliesi.

11401E-HIS-KARS.—PIESSE and LUBIN'S
DOW mrtrits foe the festivities, the sequel to Stolen
Muses, else eir Roger cis °overlay bys Swrour, three bottles, In
pretty
caw,
battle, 2L ed. None genuine without
our nerve be writing—Men sad LUBIN, Boudoluest,

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00VIENT GARDEN.
THIS Evian', THE PIIALTAN'e DAUGHTILL MAIM. P►repa
and Mr. W. Harrtoon.—And Os comic Christmas Pantomime,
canard HAILBQUIE BLOW AND THE Busr.—Coo-
dactor, Mr. A. Yalln. Oonetenes at ten nalasits to 7.

MAYMAJtirt
THIS Imo, OUR AMIZLCAN COUSIN. Mown
Sothern sad Blackstone: Km 1 Intzwiltlam.—B.AßßlLAß
PRINCI Or ABYSSINIA. Mr. Onintan and lams L Keeley.
—And Mit& WHIT& Mn. Campion and Mlle Mariner.

PILINCESIES.
TRU EVENING, THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Elm Cesetesee
Aylmer. - And tM Peatoestmr, BIQUET WITH THE 1117 T :
Or, Harlequin and Mother ShlSaa. Awe. Elleao, I. Power,
and Raiford M 1 A. Oothenow.

—BEITANWIA.
Tine EVIIIINO, the Pantomime, AHOY HASSAN. Wm. Lane.
Mama grans, Lou* Newhall. and Wile. Celeste Stephan ;
To Were and his two performing Mulee.—And SOH'
HELLS THAT LANG. —Oonumenee at hall-peat 6.

HIGH WAS= AT LONDON DAIDO/A
Ton DAY Nana& 30. tiaa.....Aßassa. ili. 425.
Zo-Dosiow—Nondag. SA. less.....MiriEsims. 4 160.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7.

Twosa who have not reflected hitherto must now
see what sympathy with the slaveowners in their
rebellion leads to, and what it requires. Before it
can prevail in England, English opinion must be
resolved into its elements, and formed anew. The
moat certain and most sacred beliefs are found to
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stand in its way, and must, if possible, be got rid of.

Those who are attempting this work have not
estimated the greatness of their task. What might
happen if we listened to the apostles of the " higher
culture," and gave up our Bible to the learned as a
book too difficult for the common people to under-

atand,we cannot tell. But the Bible uin the hands
of the people, and the miserable endeavour
to make it appear that the " last revealed phase
" and development of the Gospel" rivets the
fetters of the bondman by recognising the right of
one man to hold another in chattel-slavery, will
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only cover its authors with shame. This is not
the first attempt by ten thousand to represent as
inimical to human society a book which has done
more for human freedom than all other books

put together. Just as Sr. PAUL'S CODOOTII that
°animus should do nothing to bring an ill name

on his religion, but rather forego hie rights, if
needful, for the sake of the Gospel, is repre-
sented as a tacit sanction of slavery, so the same

Apostle's exhortation to civil obedience while NKR()
was on the throne has been perverted into an
exhortation to suffer all manner of tyranny.
But the common sense of a Bible-read-

ing people has never been misled by this
sophistry. On the contrary, it has seen in Sr.
PAUL a man whose noble life was a manly resist-

ante of tyrants and a brave obedience to Goi, and it
Lae not misunderstood the vital and essential spirit
and the glorious precepts of our religion on account
of a few exhortations designed for temporary and
local use.

If the Bible contains not one text that can be
" perverted" to prove slavery unlawful, let us then
see what it is that the Holy Scriptures are assumed
to sanction. If the Times rightly interprets the
Bible, then the holding of white men in slavery is
not unlawful. The slaves which ST. PAUL
saw around him were not all drawn
from barbarous races and countries. To-

gather with the menial drudges brought from
Thrace and Cappadocia were the trained and edu-
cated slaves from Greece and Syria. They exer-
cised the skilled trades and learned professions,
were builders, engineers, silversmiths, architects,
surgeons, physicians, antiquaries, painters, and
grammarians, and were bought and sold in the
market at prices corresponding to their acquire-
ment'. If slavery is sanctioned by Sr. Petri, the
enslavement of men of your own race—the edu•
cated, virtuous, and refined—is sanctioned by him.
To this desperate strait the defenders of the SlAVO-
owners' rebellion in this country are brought. We
commend their argument to the attention of the
Lancashire operatives who met on New Year's Eve
to condemn American slavery.
There is not a child in our Sunday-schools but
can remember precepts of Holy Scripture which
are utterly and eternally opposed to slavery. But
the Loan did more to destroy that and every other
form of social evil than could be done by issuing
any number of precepts by proclaiming Divine
truths about humanity which placed the enor-
mous wickedness of slavery in a flood of light.
Christianity has taught us to look on man as an
immortal being, and his moral and spiritual nature
as of incalculable dignity and worth. Such a being
cannot become the " property" of another. Slavery
says that this nature goes for nothing if the man
can be seized and made useful on a sugar planta-
tion. " A slave," says the Louisiana Code, "is
" in the power of the master to whom he belongs.
" The master may sell him, dispose of his person,
" his industry, his labour ; he can do nothing,
" possess nothing, nor acquire anything but
" which must belong to his master." Natural
justice teaches that the pretensions thus set
forth are a monstrous usurpation : nobody in
the world ever believed that any slave owed
it as a duty to his master not to gain his free-
dom, by any means in his power, even to the em-
ployment of force against his detsinor. But our
religion, by what it teaches of the nature of man,
makes slavery nothing less than impiety. It de-
clares that man, created in the image of GOD, is
in the highest sense His child, created to unfold
godlike faculties, and govern himself by a divine
law written on his heart, and republished in GOD'S
Word. To seize a creature with such a nature and
such capabilities is to insult the Cee.rroz OA well as
to inflict social wrong. He may be ignorant and
depraved, but the capacity of improvement allies
him to the instructed and refined. His mind can
entertain the great ideas of GOD, Law, Duty,
Truth. Such a being was made to be an end in him-
self, made for his own happiness and virtue. He
cannot rightfully be a thing, • mere instrument,
a chatteL No human laws can repeal or override
this first ordinance, which comes direct from the
Divine Throne.
The rights of every individual man are laid
deep in the foundations of his nature. It is
because he.is such a creature, and not • lower