The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-12 00:00:00

MIL LINCOLN AND THE EMANCIPATION

SOCIBTY.

The following is Mr. Liamln's reply to the
address of the Emancipation Society, Manchester :
Digstioa of the Milted &des, Loudon,
Jae. 9, 1865.

Sir,—By direatfon of Mr. Aclents, I have the
beef* W trammit hieeerithalealee free the Itialest, ip
same, to the reeolutioesideifed by the Unto sad Emaa•
elpittee Society of Mesiebeeter, with referee°, to bis nt-
elettlect, which Mr. Ads= bed the pismire to receive frost
you ca the Ist of December Usk
I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient meant,
Itamt. Moses, Itsurehml of Iwisktim
Thews B. Polies, log., ho., lfeoth•ter.

"To the Union aatl Etexacipetioa Society, Manchsetor,
Eagles&
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"Goatlemm,—l have reoived from Mr. Adams, and have
onteniliod to the Preedoet of the Untied Sates, your
&dolma of oongratulatloa upon the result o our lato
national .Lotion.

" I am eh►rgd by him to say that the amertaining of the
safeness and the declaration o the choke of the electors
yet reenala to be perforated by Oengres. It would, of
coarse, be preearoptsona es his part to aaticipate that Mal
&abash°. by a reply to your felicitations. Nevarthekes,
the President feels himself at liberty, and under may
obligations to thank you for the favourable °pinkie of his
pastadmlnistratioa which you have been pleased to explain,
and for your motile ►nd hearty devotion to the beet lakeside
of our wianky, and the beat hopes of 'mankind.
" I have the beewar to he. gentlemen,
" Your °Wheat warramt,
" WaLlaa H. BSWARD.
" Department of State, Washington, Deo. 22,1864."

REPLIES TO THE CONFEDERATE MANIFESTO.

The Index publishes the following notes that
have bees received from the governments of Sweden nod of
tie Nethorlands by the Confederate eanunioionere in reply

So the manifesto dinned by the Confederate Oaegsees :
itoricholm, Dee. lii, 1.864.
The naderigeoltiliaister of State sad erForeige Affairs
of his Majesty thr King of Sweden and Norway, has lately
received the hitter addressed to him. ender date of PtiZ
the 11th of November UM, by Maim. Masa,
Dal mintIIiSIDIODOTO of the Oonfederateattles of
Amerrica, and which oommunioatee to the government of
the Aug.n has august sovereign, the EMMA" adopted
hy the Connor of the Confederate BMW oe June
14, se well as a reeolutioa setting forth the intim.
Moos. principles, and viers of those Mates to referseco to
the war Wei waged between them and the United Mates
of America ; and he considers it a duty to acknowledge_ re-
ceipt at the same, and to state that he ham not failed to
Ere trees detainee* under the eyes of the King. It is by
's order that he must confine himself to a Astir
ratkillasitn• oormaissiouers that the government of Sweden
and Nceway is resolved to maintain. as is the pest, thinnest
strict eentrelity Is regard to the implacable struggle which
has sprang up between the states heretofore forming the
peat and powerful Americas Coofolaration, at the same
lime that its earnest wishes ere for the emulation of so diger
Wens. amnia% and for an arrawysteat which may moat On
just claims of each of the states that were members of the
Unice with which, !rem its beginning, the soveraumat of tba
United Kingdoms has satestamed tbe most cordial
Mom In obeying this cider, the undersigned prate by the
reopportunity to offer to Masers. Mason, Slidell, and Mann
al7urstaosa of his very distinguished consideration.

(84gasd•
Yours. J. M. Mum, J. Slidell, sad
A. Dudley Maas, sa Paris.

The Have, Dee..3o, 1864.

Goutlemen.—l have had the honour to receive through
the Eines Legation at Paris your letter of 11th November
UM, socompossing a copyist the manifesto Mend at Rich-
mood on the 14th Jon, 1864. In thanking you for Wm
cormatmication. sad with an earnest wish for the prompt
rwastablialiniesit of poses is America, I yew. gentlemen,
to accept the SISIMaill of my high oomideratios.--Micmsd)
Masers. J. Slidell, J. M. Mason, E. CIIIRINS.
and A. Dudley Mann.

PLTMOUTII. JAN. 11. (Reuter's Telegrams).—
The Medea% government peddle vessel, lett this port to-
night. under orders to proceed to the maratince of the tripte
Aurora, behove nisi Cherbourg.
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The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have m-
oduli the following letter from Mr. Milner Gitook whom
they invited to visit Liverpool during the week he intends
addreeing his ocestituests at Asithea-ender-Lyse :—" I
beg to acknowledge the invitation which I have bad the
homer to receive from the Liverpool Chamber of Oorn-
mime, to take the opportunity of my being in Lurceshire,
to attend the animal meeting of the Chamber. I regret to
may that the few days that I shall to in Lanosehire during
thle month are so pre-oconpied that I dull be nimble to
avail myself of the isvitatioe, end my engagenrsain require
me to return to Loudon immediately after my visit te
Ashton. I hope at some future meeting of the Chamber I
may be able to have the pleasure of attending."
THE BIRMINGHAM CONSULATE FOR Tea UNITED
STATIL—itt • misting of the Town Council et Binning-
' ham on Tuesda, the fdlowiag othuseniestioa to the Mayca
was read :—" Whitehall, Dec. 30, 18SL—ilk—The United
States Minister at this court having notified to her Majesty's
' government the appointmest of Mr. Milan Merritt as cos-
solar agent for that government at Birmingham, I am
directed by the Secretary of State to request that you will
give directions to the proper authorities to recognise that
gestithean in the osperity to whirls he has bees appointed,
if there should ha so objectors to that course ; sad that you
will teens the Seentary of State whether such direction
have been given.—I am, sir, your obedient servant, H.
WADDINGTON."
THE REPRESENTATION or EAST CORNWALL.—
After repressed., Post Cornwall in pa-dimmest for seven-
tees years, Mr. Agar Robert" of Lanhydrock, as Tues-
day announced his determination not to seek reorlortioe.
At • dinner of agriculturists at Wadeiridge the hos.
gentleman took • long and thoughtful review of the past
sadoe, and thoneisted kb edaom on most of the pro
=inset tesalions of the day, and at the coooludes el his
'dines declared his physical inability to represent the
elector* of Eut Cornwall with that efilideacy and essiduity
which they had • right to expert. As *oddest which betel
him some yeses ago caused partial loss of eyesight. and the
patient Moeda:we is • gar-lit chamber which was
for • member of •parliament was too great a tax Zissnmilg
theories. Therefore he should decline to again become • eta-
didate, swept possibly, as a temporary substitute, to mom-
midst, the constituency, until hie successor should be
chosen. Than are few men in the county of Carswell
(says the Wester* Noneisolieses) more thoroughlynopested
than Mr. Roberta. The owner of large estates, he has !
ever sought the welfare of his tweets as acemientithsly ea I
he had endeathered to represent them la the House of
0/12111101111. In 1847, when 39 years of age, he was eluded
without opposition for East Cornwall, sad has held the
seat eves MN& A tbareogh liberal is his *aim, Kr.
Roberts was sated far the treaders with which he exer-
cised and acted apes kis ladepandeat judgment on all
public goodies& Whether screams fully with all Mr.
Rthisetes' mendisents or not, there is so &oder in the
county whe will net lamest that ill-kasith ban compelled
him to repose o private life.
Rzrassanirsriois or Borsenum—A requisition
is is onus@ el sigsatsre ask* the Han. George Frederick
Boyle te hewer, • outdate far the repreesetthion of the
thirsty at Hide is parliament. is racer of Mr. Mena who
has keen appointed are of the jokes is the Omni of Semion.
The requisition has already been sigma by sewed of the
most isilinestid electors at Rahway ; end .... owing to WS
reeldesee is the othath and the atiestion whisk he peps is
Leal waders, Mr. Boyle is very popular with the ethyl= of
all sleuth, these the he no doubt of his mous, If he
screw to steed, so we have throe to believe that be is
willies to Mr. Isamest, of linockdow, lam else treed
era

The Lineolashire, a fine Sr built ship of 1,200
tons, has been burnt to a mere shell whilst lying in
the Hooghly Dock at Calcutta. The fire was dis-
covered, about 2 a. m., in the after cabal, and in lees
than an hour the whole of the upper deck was in
flames. As soon as the alarm was given the dock
authorities opened the dock gates and scuttled the
ship, so that the cargo has only been damaged by
water. It consisted of about 4,000 bags, and has been
valued at Ba. 30,000. The origin of the fire is a
mystery, but the papers have all demanded that the
government should wake a stringent inquiry into
the matter, as the occurrence is supposed to be
the work of an incendiary.
" The progress of aims in Afghanistan," says
the Madras Atheaccues, "is far frost re-aesarin, as
to the prospect of our not being ultimately eassegod
In them, especially now that the Russia= are posi-
tively, and the Persians probably, advanced further
Into Omani Asia than oonsists with oar intermPt
We reject the notion that either of belt et Mode
Powers can carry out Peter the Greet's day-dream
of invading India and wresting any portion of it
from us, but it is not to be doubted that the tran-
quillity of the British frontier, and the Jonfidestoe
of the restless tribes who lie within it in the stability
of British power, may largely be affected by reports
of movements made toward it by hostile forces. It
is beyond measure inexpedient that we should
repeat the disattrous expertment of 1839, of occu-
pying any country with a permanent force or
attempting to force upon it an unwelcome rule,
but we cannot safely be inattentive to what is
going on."
The fund for the relief of the sufferers by the
cyclone at Maanhipatam has reached the amount
of more than half a lakh of rupees by public sub-
scription, in which Bombay figures very liberally,
according to her wont.