The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-19 00:00:00

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Doc. 18.

The session of the Council of she Empire was
closed to-day.
In his speech from the throne the Emperor ex-
pressed satisfaction that the confident* he had
placed in the nation, by granting the constitutions
of Oat. 20 and Feb. 26, had been justified. His
Majesty hoped that the blessings of peace would
continue to exercise a beneficial influence, and said :
"Our resolute progress in the path of peace has
powerfully increased confidence in Austria's
strength, and has gained her the sympathy of other
nations: The Reicherath has proceeded firmly
upon the solution of its task, and has already
passed important measures. Basing the regulation
of the budget upon the principle that the resources
of the country itself must supply its necessities, I
am oonvinoed that such a result will be brought
about by an equal division of burdens.
"Commerce has already shown increased anima-
tion, in consequence of the abolition of transit dues.
" The bill regulating the control of the Reiche-
rath over the national debt secures, also, the co-
operation of the legislature in supervising the
expenditure.
"The new Bank Act has established the relative
position of that institution to the State. The re-
trenchment of the expenditure has exercised a
favourable influence upon the state of public
affairs."

His Majesty requested the members, upon their
return home, to promulgate among their consti-
tuencies constitutional principles, with a view to
their better socomplisbment.
The Emperor, in conclusion, took leave of the
deputies, thanking them for their labours, and
hoping to meet them in the coming year.

RUSSIA.
ST. PETSREIBURG, Dec. 18.
The Grand Duke Michael has been appointed
Lieutenant of the Emperor in the Caucasus.

RUSSIAN POLAND.
WARSAW, Dic.lB.
The state of siege has been suspended in this city,
Kalisch, Plocli, the districts of Petrikaw and Lipno,
and the two railway districts. It has been renewed
in the district of Krasoyslaw.
The council of the district of Pazaanyoz has been
dissolved for abuse of its official power.

MR. BRIGHT, hf.il., Ar BfititllfaH4M.

BIRMINGHAM, rffOIICSDAY Mawr.

nig evening, the members for Birmingham
addremed their oosettineste at the Taws-hall, whisk was
liesesiy erowded ; the MAYON wee is the chair.

Both hog. utgeghens on eaterieg the room were lewdly
cheered.

The MAYOR opined the peossedimp by calling upon Mr.
lielsoledeld to sailselethil tikettag, which be did In a speech
which we iseirdidireelei lei the war in the limited State.
lieliatail that ilitiihkeliestreictien wee that the mem-
meet was booed slaimillielidp w reoeselse the Boothaes
State% a etatieseet width treated Tory comidetable
uproar, in which it was hopmesible to tell whetter
the doers or the poem sad ahem prepeadenged.
He cite not far either loterosetion or asedietles,
became the former remit war sad the latter haw.
het be contended that it would be consistert with
ell oat policy in poet yew to adusowitdge the Soma IS MI
iodspeedeut power, ad he quoted the epilog's/ sodosit
sethalithe on inttriaticemil law le show that O• ow, bah
Doe St hoot each a rorritket..

WErligoemilhiett he w laiseTit-Terlie;
Si•an of Me_ Me se peens,*
eaMsti solees Idle. lie believed 11 hie esineed had
hem we have bad at this sament
quantity of cotton wUdess which the looms of Lamaism
might esquire. He believed that the oaks is the Vatted
States watt this present meneent is mush se Man the
here time
_sad girl Oat it :it /11. Ito eIAPEIbi.
to he led, sad that it was more than
that Mire never will be ash as American alp of
edge grove ley slue labour. Attica hositineed Mr.
Bright) te sow being palatal to by many nisei of
miss, but that Is a land of • Sages, and Its
diesels Jo to Isiugail to Eames@ thee 1 ebotild net
encoange the hope that slyest supply out be resolved hem
that esstinest. Bcrpt will send hi 30,000 or 40,000 balsa
vase then laid sat, sad with the hgh prime, Bola willow
doubt, inenesseitnesedesi, bet I hold Mere is sit oeelek
at pressed hemm who* you lea iris any hew
-piny ex-
ceptysget it from your dependeocissio Inds If dun hes
mireelstion to be grown in America for our eupply. we shell,
reptile nearly six million additiooal bales from some
sourest. hit taken the United Males 20 years, from
IMO SUMO. to tissue is growth of want from two
millie of bates to lour million.. How long will it take
any Shea country, without the capital or advantages of ,
Awes tolls us 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 additional bales
Thai isms inmates, the only se I know al, and although 1
I has not recommended it to the goverment and know
not moldy the Emits it would entail. yet I shall om-
tiouy
egit cs and Ido so the authority of a gentians' the
. acquainted with Indian agriculture himself, his
lathes having bon landq.enan end. cultivators in ladle for
sixty years, sad Sines there is bat are mode by which you
can sthenlate the gSwth of cotton In India, except the sti-
mulus which coma from high pekoe which now for some time
have been ruling. Belays if the government would declare
that he five years they would et all land from the
land whiskduels that time should grow cotton, there
windfilis the mostextraordinary Scream is thegrowth el that
article that has ever been seen with regard to any brash
of wishes in the world. (Chem.) I believe the ad-
man Would be enormous. Thelma of Yeses wield be
eoesedriag, but the deliverance to the LaMar, el bum-
shiny if it succeeded, would be speedy and perhaps cam-
ttelCsheen.) Short of this, I look on the prosperity of
as most remote. I .belles this misfortune will
eatail rain on the whole waking popalatioo, that it will
gradually engulf the Ma Indus and those posses*
thetas spital, audit may far years-I don't sit will-
:sake the whole factory property of L almost j
entirely worthless. This is a most dismal look oat fora ;
great many persons in this country. HS it comes from the
utter neglect of our opportunities and our duties which
has distinguished the government is India. (Hear.) Ad-
dressing lumen to the American war, the hon. member, in
the emus of hie remarks, expressed a wish that Mr. Ca-
dets sight be employed to transact with Spain the exchange
of (Silsalter for a oommercial treaty. He continued
The abject et this war is that white nun on that
siontinget may lord it over countless minima al
de Meek by the very head that made es
t=l ma
.4b oldest is that they shoal have a power'
to breed Degrees to work, negroes to lash, negross to
sell, segtaa to deny them the commonest ties of families,
to break their hearts by separating them at their pleasure,
and to close their mental eyes from a glimpse of
that knowledge which separates us from the brutes
(for by their law it is criminal aid penal to teach Pogroms to
read), to seal from their hearts the book of our religion, to
make chattel/and things of men, women, and children. I
wish to ask whether this is to be the foundation of a new
alas empire, and whether it is intended on this audacious
and infernal basis that Eugland's new ally is to be built up.
e' Hese, bear," and "No, no") It has been said that
Gress was recognised. 011008 was not recognised till after
it bad fought Turkey for six yeas The republics
of South America were not recognised some of
them till they had fought the mother country
I think for a score of you& Frame did not recognise the
United States of America till five year, after the beginning
of the war of independence, and it was received u • declare
Soo, and why should we be so eager to become the ally of
this great conspiracy against human nature' I should have
no
great objection to recognise a country, or to be at amity
with a country, merely bemuse of the existence of slavery,
because it would be monstrous that we should object to
trade with a country or have political relations with it
merely because it happened to have within its borders the
institution of slavery, but in this as it is a new state which
intends to set it elf up On the sole basis of slavery, and
slavery, ids blasphemously said, is to be its chief corner stone.
We have urged that there are milliliters of state who are
in favour of the North'; that there are members of the aris-
tocracy who are terrified at the shadow of the great republic;
that there are rich men on our great commercial ex-
changes deprived, it may be, of their ric:sai, and living
within the atmosphere of the privileged classes; that there
are conductors of the public press who would barter the
rights of millions of their hums fellow creatures '
that they might bask in tae smiles of the greet.
But we know what we know that there are
miniders of state who do not wish that thin
insurrection should break up the American Union ;
that there are members of the aristocracy who are not
afraid of the shadow of that republic ; that there are rich
men cot deprived of their riches ; and that there are public
writers of amines, and honour who will not barter human
rights for the patronage of the great. But most of all I
believe, and am sore it is sista Lancashire, where the
working men have seen themselves going down from pro-
erity to ruin, from independence to a subsistence on
charity, I believe-I say that I believe that the 111:11311•
franchised but not hopeless millions of this country
will never sympathis with a revolt which in intended to
destroy the liberty of a continent and to build on its
ruins a miglf.y fabric of human bondage. (Cheers.) But
gentlemen who differ from me when speaking in private on
this matter generally end by saying that the Republic is
too great and too powerful. 'But if we were at New York or
Boston, and were speaking of England instead of America,
and if any one were to may that England has grown too big,
not her 31,000,000 at home, but her 150,000,000 in Asia,
and nobody knows how many millions in every other part
of the globs, what would be our feeling'. Surely an
American may fairly say that be has not covered the ocean
with fleets of force, or left the bones of citizens to blanch
on the turf of • hundred European battle fields. He could
say a thousand times more fairly than we could say it of his
country, that England was large and powerful, and that it
had been thought perilous for nations that the should be so
great. (Cheers.) Bat bearing in mind that every decla-
ration of this kind, whether from au Englishman who pro-
fesses to be strictly English, an American strictly
American, or an Englishman who says in • bold, arrogant
strain, "That Britain rules the waves'-(laughter)-or an
American of manifest destiny who says "All creation
must at least look up to the stars and strips"-or
from Frenchmen who think their eagles having
overrun Europe once might possibly have • right to
repeat the experiment-I my that all these ideas and all
this language is to be condemned. (Chase ) It S not
truly patriotic, it is not national, and it is not moral. If
may man wishes the Republic to be severed on that ground,
in my opinion he is only doing what tends to keep alive
jealousies which to his mind will never die, and if they do
not die wars must necessarily he eternal. (Hear.) I shall,
perhaps, be told that the North don't like us. Well, its
not necessary that they should ; but if the North does not
like us, does any one believe the South does? When the
South was in power, and it has been in power
the last fifty years - whenever hostility towards
this country was cherished, it was stimulated to the
utmost degree by some of those very men who are now the
leaden of the insurrectioo. (Cheers.) Take the case of the
Alabama. The government were informed of the chine.
ter of that vessel, but such were the delays occasioned by
the want of vigilance on the part of the officials, that
although a telegraphic message wu sent to Liverpool to
order that the vessel should be arrested, she bad sailed au
hour or two before !be message arrived here. She has never
been in a Confederate port-they have not got any porta.
She hoists the English Mg when she wants to come along-
side of a ship. She sets the ship on fire at night, and,
seeing soother ship bearing down to rescue the unfortunate
people who are exposed to the combined horrors of fire and
shipwreck- she seizes that also and burns it. (Cries of
" Shame.") If we ware citizens of New York. I think it
would require a little more calmness than I. shown in this
country on foreign quoins, to look at all that u if it were
a matter with which we hail no concern. (Chess.) People
do not know in America what we know of public opinion
lira There are men in this country, and men in oar cabi-
net, who an upset friends to freedom and as much r*