The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-03 00:00:00

OLYMPIA.

The faros of A* *la Rise in Apiries ha. b t
withdraws M this hewn aad its place Ma 'applied Is.t
night with a Conjugal XiCUO fl This little oilseed**
originally played by Mr. Babson and Mn. Stadia& is now
supported by Mr. Atkins and Mn Leigh Murray.

REPLY TO THE ADDRESS OP THE CONN:IIZ
RATE CLEMY ON SLAVERY.

The following is a reply by ministers of the
churches in Scotland to the " Address to Christians
throughout the World, by the Clergy of the Con-
federate States of America" :
We, the undersigned ministers of the churches in Bent-
land, in reply to the 'mewl made to us in the "Addrem to
Christians tiroegboet the world," recently patios& "by
the clergy of the Confederate States of Armories." feel
bound to give public expression to our viewa, last our cos-
tinned silence should be misconstrued, as implying either
acquiescence in the principles of the document, or indiffe-
rence to the crime which it seeks to defend.

We refer, of mune, to a single topic—that of slavery—as
it is handled in the address. We desire to say nothing in-
isomiatent with our country's attitude of strict asutrality as
regards the war raging across the Atlantic. We do not
discuss any of the political questions commend with in
origin, progress, and probable issues. We offer no opinion
on the measures adopted on either side. Nor are we to be
regraded as shutting our eyes to the past sad present sins
and shortcomings of the North in relation te the African
Mom The one object we have in view is to expresa the
deep grief, alarm, sod indigestiou with which we have mi.
rued the pleading on behalf of shivery la general, and
American slavery in particular, to which so many servants
of the Lord Jesus Christ have not scrupled to append their
WPM With the feeblest possible incidental admission of
"ahem," which they "may deplore in this as in other rids-
floes of ineakint" we find these men broadly maintaining,
in the most unqualified manner, that " the relation of
master and slave"—" among us," they add, to make their
meaning more explicit—" is not inoompatible with our holy
Christianity." They thank God for it, as for a missionary
iestitatios—the best, as it would seem, and the most suc-
cessful in the world. They hold it to be their peculiar
function is defend and perpetuate it. And they evidently
contemplate the formative of the Southern Confederacy
upon the basis of slavery as one of its fundameotal and
permanent principles or el/meets, not only without regret,
but with entire satisfaction and approval.
Agaiest all this—in the came of that holy faith and that
thrice holy name which they venture to invoke on the side
of a system which treats immortal and redeemed men es
goods and chattels, dinner them the rights of 1:1411/Tiage and
of home, catalpas them to ignorance of toe first mailgrams
of educatiou, and exposes them to the outrages of lust and
petition—we most earnestly and emphatically protest: We
do not think ft needful to argue. The time for argument
has for many • year bean regarded by the whole of en-
lightened Christ/skim as past and gone. Apologists for
slavery, attempting to shelter themselves sod it under the
authority of God's word and the Gospel of Jesus Chriet,
are to be denounced as really, whatever may be their Mien.
ttoo, the worst enemies of both.
All reasonable allowance, no doubt, should he made for
the circumstances of Christian animaters rolled in Pro-
vidence to labour where slavery exists. SION 111171•1111101,
even, on their part, rider what they repel es uujustitiable
and dangerous movements on the other aide, might be ex-
cused as not unosturel. Aed if we saw them manfully
lifting their voice on behalf of universal liberty, and setting
themselves to aim at the instant redress of the more flagrant
of the woes incident to • state of bowlegs, we should be
mewed calmly to listen to their representations as to the
best and likeliest practical methods of promoting the lore-
sect as elieratio• of the condittoh of the slaves, and se-
curing, within the shortest period consiraent with safety,
their complete and dual emsucipatioe.
We am reloemet to alendon the hope that, upon recon-
sideration, sod in the view of the sentiments now ottani-
mously held sad expressed on this subject everywhere else,
all over Christendom. our American brethren may yet be in-
duced to take spa position more worthy of our common faith
than that which they at primmest occupy. Eat, stall events,
the obligation lying upon us. as thins now stand, towards
towards ourselves, towards the rhumb and the
tbmwelZ towards the /Stile and the Gospel, is to mooed, in the
stroopat possible terpia, our &biennium of the doctrine on
the subject of slavery whith the Southern clergy teeth. sod
Ism whisk they net ; sad to testify before all mikes that
any "Oa aspire, ft republic contituted ot reoonstructed,
in these dam of Christian light and liberty, upon the basis
al thee deadaia, Ilisetieally applied, must in the sight of
God be regarded ea founded tie wets and crime. sod as
demerelag, not Hie blessing, but Hie righteous wrath.
Nearly one thousand signatures, including every clergy.
awe el as* have already been received.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3.

A PATIENT and long-suffering public will probably
not be displeased to learn that a real, actual, prac-
tical beginning has at length been made in the
great metropolitan work of embanking the northern
aide of the Thames. A very long time since, a sort
of feint was made by the sinking of a few miserable-
looking piles in groups of three, along • portion
of the route, but these were merely very early pre-
liminaries, and had so long remained stationary
and desolate that the promenaders on the bridges
had at length ceased even to bestow a panting
glance on them. Yesterday's proceedings were,
however, of a very different character, and
although they were only a beginning, and
a small one, they constituted a movement
of the right sort. The first of the great
caissons which are to stud the river on its
northern side between Westminster and Waterloo
bridges, and within which the sea wall is to be
made, was shipped yesterday morning in pieces
from the factory at Deptford, on board several
barges, and carried up to the immediate neighbour-
hood of the railway bridge at Charing-cross, where
it is to be gunk, and within it the actual work of
the embankment will forthwith be commenced.
It was only very recently that the contract for
the first portion of the works, namely those of the
embankment between Westminster and Waterloo
bridges, was "let out" to Mr. Furness, but it
would appear that since then there has not been
much to complain of on the wore of loss of time.
About five of these great caissons, the first of
which arrived at its destination yesterday, will have
to he let down into the river, over the whole length
of this portion of the work, and within each the
building of these* wall will be executed. The mole of
proceeding will be something as follows :—The
foundation (within the caisson) will be scooped out
by machines technically called "misers," connected
by a long shaft with steam power working above
the surface of the water. The diving-bell will then be
brought into requisition to lay the concrete and put
in the masonry, and when the caisson is full of solid
work it will be taken off pieoenceel, and again sunk •
little further on on the line. The same process
will be carried on in the five minions simultaneously,
and in this mannerasolid sea wall will be gradaslly
erected throughout the whole distance. When this
has been done, and the water has been permanently
excluded, the work of excavation within the wall
will commence ; and it will be heavy work, tearoom
has to be made for two erections, both of great
import•nes, and involving an immense amount of
labour in their construction. Down deep in the
concrete the great sewer which is to receive all
the drainage of the north side of London
is to be imbedded, and above it will be the " sub-
way" of the embankment, for the reception of the
gas and water pipes of the district Within this
space and towards the shore there will be a very
large space still unappropriated, but the general
impression is that it will ultimately be made avail-
able for a subterranean railway. The commence-
ment of the works at this period of the year,
although attended as it must be by short days and
broken weather, may on the whole be considered
as being rather fortunate than otherwise, as it must
give a great deal of employment to the labouring
classes at a season when the other sources of out
door metropolitan employ .nent are apt to be yeti
much diminished.

A long period has intervened between the
time when Martin, the painter of " Belshazzar's
Feast:" first sketched out his wondrous design
for an embankment of the Thames, and the day
when the first caisson was brought up the
river from Deptford. During the interval
artists of note and engineers of skill devised plan
after plan, but without producing any practical
result, lentil at last the Metropolitan Board of II
Works discovered that they could not carry out
their great scheme of drainage without seriously
disturbing the traffic of the Strand and its neigh.
bourhood, and they determined upon embanking
the Thames, in order that within the new work
they might build their great main sewer, and thus
avoid disturbing and suspending a great portion of
the trade of Western London for an indefinite
period•

The work, which may be said practically to
have commenced yesterday, will extend only from
Westminster to Waterloo Midge ; the second portion
of the embankment—namely, that lying between
the latter bridge and Blackfriare--not having as yet
been contracted for. It will, in fact, be a continua-
tion of the embankment which already runs along
the river front of the Houses of Parliament, and
the reader will, by recollecting that terrace, be able
to foam an adequate idea as to the elevation and
general appearance of the future esplanade.
At Westminster there will be a new steamboat
pier, harmonising in general design with the bridge,
but the approach to the embankment (which at this
point will be 100 feet wide, and four feet above
high water) will be from the east side of Bridge-
street.. The embankment will thence run along the
river, striking the first brick pier of the Charing-
cross Railway bridge and on to Waterloo, poising
in its course at the rear of Ifontague House, of
which the public will bare a lively recollection in
consequence of the preposterous claim set up by
its noble owner to "stop the way" of the entire i
public to snit his own ideas of aristocratic man-
'ion, and the animated discussion, which the said