The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-16 00:00:00

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U)NDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16.

Pun lse•opinion has bees a good deal weakened
of late by -the unsertainty and confusion which
attend American affairs, but we are glad to per
t hat it is still strong enough to exact a cer-
tain amount of deference oven from Infallibility
itself. That extraordinary defence of slavery
from the .Bible ativentured last week has not
turned owt.well. It was a recoanaissance, and

it revealed an antagonistic force of unsuspected
strength. It is found that although English-
men may sot be inclined to distress themselves
about the existence in a distant country of
an institation for which they are not an-
swerable, *hey wil not have their morals
aad religioa tampered with. ,Heace the
palinode of ;yesterday in the Tears :—" To
"slavery we have ewer entertained the most
" rooted aversion. Not all the valour, not all
" the success of the Swath, has ever blinded us
" to die black spot on their fair escocheon."
We take these words as they are meant, ri
some satisfaction to outraged public opinion.
But it is significant that even in this act of
homage the institution of slavery--characterised
by Viao-Presideat Srareinis nearly two years
ago as the cornerstone of the Confederacy, and by
the Bishops of the Confederate Church in their
recent pastoral as " the system upon which we
" are about to plead our national life"—should be
spoken of as a mere black spot on an escutcheon
otherwise fair. Unless Mr. firsraswe and the
Bishops of Missiaaippi,Alabama, Georgia, the Caro-

limas, and Virginia do not know what they are
talking &boat, it is nonsense to speak of the slavery
of the South as • spot. " Our new govern-
" ment," said Mr. Stara Errs, in his speech at
Savannah, " has its foundations laid upon the
" great truth that slavery is the negro's natural
" and normal condition ;" and again in the same
speech, " African alavely as it exists among us
" is the proper station of the negro in our form of
" civilization." That is the only relat,on of
slavery to the South which the world has to
do with. If we wish the South to establish
its government, we wish for the confirmation
of the first Government which since the coming
of CHRIST has dared to proclaim that sla-
very is its corner-stone. We cannot alter the

elements of the choice. We may reject or embrace
that which the North holds out foradmiration, but we
shell not diminish it by calling it a spot. We are
glad to record the rooted aversion of the Times
to slavery. This profession, however, loses much
of its value when we are told that these have
always been the sentiments of the Times, because
they have not hitherto withheld it from publishing
with the weight of its full authority opinions on
slavery which have been eagerly welcomed in Mis-
sissippi and Alabama. It is time this hidden root
began to throw up a stem, and put forth leaves, and
flowers, and fruit.

Ir is pleasing to note from day to day the tokens
of sympathy and goodwill which our colonies,
emancipated and unemancipated, send to the unem-
ployed working population of our cotton districts.
The Americans have again shown us, embarrassed
and perplexed as they are, that with them blood is
stronger than water, by sending freights of food.
But the liberality of our gold colonise, rich and
easy in their circumstances, surpasses all expe-
rience. We find by the Sydney Empire that New
South Wales alone has contributed 21,5791. for
the relief of the distress in England.

The following are the remittances by the Sydney
Committee, nearly through which the whore of the
money has been sent :
By the July mail £5,000
By the August mail 8,500
By the September mail 3, 760
By the October mail 2,500
By the November mail 6OO

Total

£20,360

In the Supreme Court, at New York, Mrs. James
has succeeded in getting • decree el divers front Edwin
James, the lawyer. filos can many again, bat he cannot,
"although," says • New York correspondent, "most
husbands under similar circumstances do get married and
the law doss not touch them. Mr. James to-day is sot
the hatband of the late Mn. James. If she is single, be
Is too, in a comma-sere point of view, although the law
says be is not."
THD RDPRDSZNTATION OF WHIT 1301IERNET. —Mr.
Moody has just issued hie address to the electors of Wert
Somerset announcing his resignation of hiss seat in the
House of Commons. Mr. W. H. P. G. Langton. of Hatch
Perk, who formerly represented the division, bee ansolpord
hie intention of offering himself in the ceoservative in.
West ; god Mr. Ralph Neville Grenville, the present high
sheriff of the county, is spoken of by the liberals as likely
to be his opponent.
COLONIAL AID FOR LANCANNIIti.—The Provin-
cial Government of Onatiwbury, New Zeeland, have appro.
petaled a sum of 10,000/. for granting free pansies to that
province to female domestic servants of good character,
and single men sod married couple, having a knowledge of
farm and labouring work, to be selected from the cotton
districts. The amusements for oarrying out the object, it
is noderstond, are to be married to her Majesty's Emigre.
tioo Commissioners.

SORGH um.—A state sorghum convention is to be
held in Columbus, Ohio. co t►e 6th of Janaary next It
le estimated then 12 000,000 gallons of syrup ham bees
made daring the pot year. The Toledo Commercial say.
—" We see it stated that in the astral pert or the Mate
parties are dealt to buy up all the syrup that ie armed to
simply the Ciesineatt market. The retail pries generally
seam hem 50e. to 60e. par gallon. la all parts of the
shato the sorghum crop hes beam remarkably good this year.
There ham beau 5,000 mills sold la the slate durum the
past summer, which. added to these sold is farmer years,
maks as aggregate of sheet 11,000."—Aitimouri paper. j

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OSBORNE, JAE. A
The Queen drove out yesterday. Countess Blott-
cher had the honour of accompanying her Majesty.
lady Churchill has succeeded the Countess of Gains-
borough as lady in Waiting.
Earl Rumen arrived yesterday and had an audience of her

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Majesty.
Farl Russell lettito-day.
Prince Lon 4 of Hare visited Salisbury Cathedral and
Stonehenge yarterday, attended by Colonel the Hon. A.
Harding. and Captain WesterweUer.
The Prince returned to .borne at half-past fire o'clock.

A deputation from Ashton-node-4mm, consisting of Mr.
W. Pennington, Mr. JUDOS Schofield, Mr. W. Gill, and
Mr. John Clough, had an interview with the Right Hon.
C. P. Villiers, M.P., yesterday, at the office of the Poor.
law Bond, and laid before him a testimonial, signed by
1,14) penes, the workpeople of Mr. J. Whittaker, cotton
manufacturer, of Anton-ander-Lyme, mod preened by them
to that gentleman in acknowledgment of his liberality and
kindoem towards them daring the present chimera&

Despatches were received yedeeday at the Colossi'lottles
trees the Goveroors of the Welt India Islands, New
Zealand, Labuan, and Canada. Despatches wen sent to
the Governor of Canada.

TRH PHINCH or WALES AND THE HIGH SCHOOL
or EDIFINHIGH.—Dr. Schisita, the rector of the High
School, has received the following communication "
Osborne, December 24th, lS62.—Sir,—l MK directed by
his Royal Highness the Prism of Wales to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter embalm( a leper% of the proceed-
ings at the inauguration of the bust of the Prince. His
Royal Highness desires sea convey to you bin thanks for
your letter, and to lay bow gratified be is by the feelings
escrowed in the report. The Prince will always take
great interest in the High School, and looks back with
pleasure to those days in which he was more intimately
cionnected with Edinburgh during We own education.—l
have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, G. H.
GAM —To Protege.), Schwas"

His Royal Highness Prince Frederic William
Louts of Hesse sad suite arrived at the Salisbury station
of the Loudon and South Western Railway by the train
due at 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and pro-
ceeded to Stonehenge. After viewing the stones his
royal highness returned end visited S►lisbury Cathe-
dral, with its beautiful cbapter-house, which be in-
spected apparently with much interest, and then pro-
ceeded direct to the railway station, sad left by the 2.15
p.m. train to return to Osborn.
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_
The Marquis and Marchioness of Northampton
ale panda. the season at Madeira.
Lord and Lady Overstone are expected at their
residence in Carlton Gardens on Monday from a tour of
visits.

Lord and Lady Skelmersdale, who have been
slaying at the Grove, Watford, on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon for some days peat, wOl return to
town on Monday next.

Lord and Lady Taunton have arrived at Stoke
Park, Enough, front a tour of visits.

Sir Stafford Northoote, M.P. (says the Stamford
Mercury), has intimated to Dr. Pratt, the president of the
Stamford Institution, his willieguess to deliver a lecture at
the Institution on the 17th of February. The hon. barceet
proposes to adopt u his subject the "Treatment el
Crinzinids," the question being one which the recent
prrAte robberies by ticket-of-leave men have rendered
interesting to all claims.

The Bishop of Peterborough has presented the
Bev. William Landon Scott, M.A., to the ♦:ouaee of
Great Daamow, EMIL Mr. Scott wee formerly curate of
St. Gika, Northampton.

The Morning Herald continues to attack the
ministry in • most violent manner, for not forming an
offensive and defensive alliance with the South. "No one
in his sensce," it says, " imagines that the remnant of the
United States could cope at once with the South and with
England, or France and Engluid combined. War with the
North would be far better than peace on present terms."
And it does sot even scruple to aid :—" We repeat what
we have mid before—that for the continuance of slaughter
la America and elarvation in Lancashire Lord P►lmerston's
cabinet an solely responsible."

In Portsmouth dockyard the main force of the
shipwright department continues to be employed upon the
Oaraces and Rik, wooded frigate and corvette. The iron.
owed frigate Royal Alfred and turretwhip Royal Sovereign
are comparatively abandoned. The money allowed for the
geed by the led voted estimator having been already ex-
ploded, sad ships of war being required to proceed at once
te forage stations to relieve others whose term of service
has expired, and no small iron-eased ships being yet avail-
able, the Caracas an I Rik have to be at once prepared,
while the experimental ships Royal Sovereign and Royal
Alfredare seamanly delayed in their completion.

At the dinner lately given to him by the English
residents at Alexandria Sir Henry Bulwer said DO doubt
the Viceroy of Egypt powers faults ; the chief among
them, and that from which almost every evil has been
derived, is one that has moats in it that is amiable—namely,
extensive good-nature. But there is • Spanish proverb
that if a man is ell hooey the flies will eat him up. And,
remarked Sir Henry, "I never knew such a country as this
for flies." There is the mercantile fly, who certainly canna
ao small trouble ; but there is elan the great blue-bottle
Ocinaular fly, and, finally, the persevering mosquito fly."
His Excellency proceeded to remark upon the urgent
necemity that Englishmen, whether officials or merchants
should, for the sake of the true interests of their country
sod of themselves, no less than for the credit of their good
muse, observe that strict reprd for integrity and justice in
their dealings with the government and people of this
country which they themselves have also a right to exact.
_-

Mr. R. H. Horne, the author of "Orion," leo-
tared in Sydney on the 13th of November, hilt subject
being "The Canna of Saorms in Lae"

GnMot, who has been residing for the last
six months at his country seat of Val Richer, is about to
return to Paris. It is said that he will bring with him the
fifth volume of his Memoirs ready for the press.
" The publication of the Memoirs of Marshal
Bonn," says the Boni, "is announced. M. Xavier
Raymond, of the Dlbats, baa been entrusted with the
arrangement of the papers confided to his care by the
Mammy family."

A Melbourne letter says :—" Despite the hot
weather—ter = ere sow is the fall wing of our semi-
tropical rummer—the theatres have been well attended, the
Opera House during the but fortnight being crowded to
wham the representation of The Huguenots, which was
produced ea a scale of unusual completeness and magnifi-
cence. At the Haymarket, Mr. Charles Dillon has been
performing Belphegor, and, on the whole, has favourably
inspremal his audiences. He has been engaged for a time
at this theatre, and will, so doubt, appear in a variety of
other characters."

The new great opera Margaret, by Gounod, is
the principal event of the day at Berlin for those who are
not implicated in political affairs. Its libretto, by Barbieri
and Carte, is described se a feeble paraphrase of Goethe.
Feast, bat the music contains many fine and melodtoon
parte, and the decorations are splendid.

. -
The candidates who presented themselves at the
lake nadergddniste sad " little-go" examinations of the ca.
cure Ijoiversity were r many as 1,334, of ages varying
from 18 to 20. Of these only n Christians sad 48
Mahoskedans. The Hindow shows third for English, with
• view to service under government or io English offices,
which is time may be felt for knowledge far its own make.
Nearly half of the candidates are from schools sot wish-
'Shed by goverment. The candidates are spread over
an area erksoding from Lahore and °chatty in the north-
ers and meth-emit, to Colombo in the far south. All
must per is &gilds, and it is curious to observe the sewed
language which each profeeses at his option. One solitary
maa goes up in Arabic, three in Hinds., nix in Persian, 11
is Oorya (the lemma of Orissa), °sly 30 in Sanserit, 51 is
Latin, sot cos in Greek, 99 is Hisdasesai, sod all the rest
o Bengali.

At Melbourne, Medan. 013banassy and Duffy
are messed of using their position as members of the go-
vernment to advance in His most wholesale manner the
intonate et their fellow religiooista, the Roman catholic*.
The effects are said to be apparent through the w►ole of
the aanl servios of the colony. "Coder Mr. ONhansosy's
►fyiwe ►o be Irish and Roman catholic is all that is weir
cry to aware appointmeot sod advaaannest. The cow•
orgasm) is that our public offers, our railways, and war
police force, swarm with the Celtic and the nations
elsasaat."