The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-18 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY MinNO, DECEMBER 18, 1881.

INDIA.

We have received advice' from India by the
Overland Mail, dated Bombay, Nov. 27, and Cal-
mat* Nov. la
The Viceroy melded at 0.1.1114 meeting in OW
dVMacn the R 6 Naverabar 'en' behalf 4thateal;
film in the Illalltrfaelatingliptriets of Lanearhirs,

Ind modes most earnest and effective leech.
♦ ocesespondent of the renew of India gives
following account of the meeting :
the mat*is aY of the Leacurie• Baud 44, the
unnin beton Wt. sea a tasty snail affair. fflesotly Asir
saws his Exesillocy arrived awl took the chair, mit•
wank Ir•ottoff.
no room thou pesassiad very
—. H assisiord the knpat arid uses•dfstberdaksd ass
oseddags Odense has ems amemisied far • long tins, paw
wkly sear. Os the atars, sessauiralirs mad tie ilsar9Z,
en Ike Lissitcroact-Goveroca„ the Ank &OM; tk•
tai Bev. Dr. Duff, the President of tit. Charabou of Qom-
Mires,
_Rajah Dumarais Sins,a the Vaasa of ladia ;
BalchLabium% Dab, Inds, sf Matsu Ethisstin; tins
Attvocale-Ciesersi, • taw raseassffla netaktiftissi _the
timodat of the Trades ASllOO6*.• sad bit ivalisiors
stall. la the frost sows et chain below
Celt ware the Chief Judinessiabssa of the
I:Conseil, tam sessral the division,
Wm Bus of °walks., th
eme
sad tram tbs.. boas lb VS
of *slag apertitioat wee a thick muter et Ileverea
Ohba poetesses, • geedly sambas holies betas *co,
et
peed.azT:r suns woo altogether • Willy striking me is!
Thegovern ment of India has decided to place the
balance of the money sent from Britain for the
relief of the Indian famine at the disposal of the.
Lord Mayor of London, for the benefit of the ant-1
firers from the cotton famine.
The Commauder-in-Chief of India 'Lae been
prostrated by a sun stroke; but is nowconvalement.
It is arranged that the camp of the Governor.
General will formed at Agra in February next,
and that durbars will be held at Meerut, Delhi, and
The Ameer Dost Mohamed is still before Herat,
collecting troops in order to attack Sooltan
Ahmed Jae.
His Excellency the Governor of Bombay laid the
foundation stone of the Victoria Museum on the
19th ult., and Lady Frere opened the gardens on
the same day.
The Government of India have sanctioned pen-
sions for the destitute members of the ex-royal
family of Delhi to the extent of nearly 9001. per
month.
The lint of the Meseageries Impdriales' steamers,
the Impiratries, reached Gallo on her contract day,
the 13th ult., with • complement of passengers for
India, China, and Ceylon.
A European ship ms reported wrecked on the
African mast below Cape Gnardafui, and the crew
Murdered by natives.
The American steamer Mississippi, of 2,0301
bons, Oaptain Taylor, was lost in her passage from
Manta Video to Hong Kong—passengers and crew
eared.
The Duke of Lancaster (British ship) of 463 tons,
Osptain Bahnano with a cargo of rice from Singa-
pore to Shangbai,'Las been totally lost near the
Island of Formosa.
A hurricane bee taken place at the Seychelle
Islands, attended with considerable loss of life.

AMERICA.

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NEW YORK, Del
You will receive the Ppoidant's liermat by th

mail. ♦s fat as I blare been able to ascertain,
people have been disappointed by it. Not that
anybody expected graces of style from him, but
they did expect an account of the way in
which the war had been conducted, an explana-
tion of the delays and difficulties by which
it had been beset. On all these points
be says little or nothing, and by far the larger por-
tion of the Message is devoted to the question • of
emancipation. He obviously regards slavery, as
does every thinking man in the country, as the
question of the crisis par excellence ; but the pro-
gramme he offers to Congress is a modification of
the one set out in his proclamation. He evidently
wants to get rid, if he can, of the responsibility of
making emancipation a purely military measure.
But the difficulties in the way of compensating
owners for their slaves are immense. The sum
that such a scheme would add to the national debt
would be enormous; and the anti-slavery men very
naturally ask why, after having incurred an
enormous burden for the purpose of fighting
the alaveholdera, they should now have to incur
another in order to compensate them for losses
brought on by their own wickedness and folly.
There was a time when the matter might have been
settled by money, but that time, they allege, has
gone by : now—