The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-15 00:00:00

[Stamped, id. Additional.]

The Illinois and Rhode Island houses of Ade-
pt's have ratified the amendment.
President Linooln has been serenaded at Wash-
ington, when be made a speech, in which he said
that the passage of the amendment abolishing
slavery was an 00011110 D of congratulation for tin
whole world. He thought the measure was a fit-
ting if not indispensable adjunct to the wind-
ing up of the great difficulty. He wished the re-
union of the States to be so effected as to remove
all causes of future disturbance. " The emanci-
pating proclamation," said Mr. Lincoln, " falls
short of what the amendment will effect when con-
summated."
Mr. Fernando Wood has introduced a resolution
into Congress that it is the duty of the President
to maintain in a legal and oonstitutional manner
the integrity of the Union, and not to proffer or
accept any negotiations admitting the existence of
any other Federal or Confederate government
within United States territory.
A coloured lawyer has been admitted to the bar
of the Supreme Court.
The quota of troops from New York has been
reduced 25 per cent pending negotiations.
The Toronto Loader announces that the United
States passport system has been rescinded for
Canada. _

Messrs Jay and Cook have been appointed sub-
scription agents for the ffeven-Thirty Loan.
NSW YORK, Fix 3, 10 LK.
The departure of President Lincoln for Fort
Monroe is confirmed.
The Confederate commissioners were loudly
cheered by the Federal and Confederate troops on
the James River.
A resolution has been introduced in the Confe-
derate Congress, and referred to the committee for
foreign affairs, declaring that the time may not be
distant when the Confederate States will be pre-
pared to unite on the basis of independence with
those most interested in vindicating the Monroe
doctrine.

Richmond despatches, dated 31st ult., state that
Hardee reports that all Sherman's efforts to cross
the Combahee River had so far failed. The Con-
federates assert that the Tallahassee escaped from
Wilmington before the capture of Fort Fisher.
NEW YORK, Fmk 3, IL3O a.m.
President Linooln is stated to have left for Fort
Monroe, in consequence of a telegram from Mr.
Seward.
Gold 205 f.
NEW YORK, Fn. 3,1 P.M.
The Confederate commissioners were conveyed
yesterday afternoon in General Grant's special
despatch boat to Fort Monroe, where Mr. Seward
was awaiting their arrival in another steamer. At
5 p.m. yesterday afternoon both steamers were
anchored side by aide in the stream.
The Washington Chsonickt the organ of the ad-
ministration, says that " slavery being practically
and constitutionally abolished, we are ready to
concede everything else to recall our erring
brethren."

The New York Herald has a rumour that the
peace programme to be discussed will include a
oonatitutional amendment abolishing slavery, an
amnesty, and the reunion of the North and South
in the Monroe doctrine.

Money easy. Gold, 206 e. Exchange on louden,
225. Stocks slightly firmer. New York Centrals,
104 ; Illinois, 114; Erie, 70j; 5-20 United State
Bonds, 1081. Middling upland, 83c.

NBW YORK, Fm. 3, 2 P.K.
The Canadian authorities have delivered up
Bnrleigh to the United States.
The Canadian Lower House has passed the
Alien Bill.
The Western Virginia Legislature has ratified
the constitutional amendment.

SAXONY.

DRESDEN, Fn. 14.

The official Dresden Journal of to-day says
" The negotiations alleged by some newspapers to
have taken place between the Saxon and French
governments, relative to the Bleswig-Holstein
question, may be reduced to a conversation be-
tween the French Minister and Baron Beast, in
consequence of which the former received a des-
patch from M. Dronyn de Lhuys. In no quarter
has there ever been any question of a renewal of
the Rhine Confederation or any similar project."

THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE
PAPAL NUNCIO AT PAEII3.

F. 14.

Advice' received here from Rome to the 11th
inst. state that the note published is the Moniteur
relative to the proceedings of Mgr. Chigi, the
Papal Nuncio at she court of the Tuileries, had
reached that city, but that the journals were not
allowed to publish it.
According to intelligence received from Naples,
the British ironclad squadron left that port on
the 9th inst. for Syracuse. .
Mail packets from all directions are putting into
Marseilles, being forced to seek shelter by the tem-
pestuous weather.