The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-12 00:00:00

TfS.-MR. SUMNER'S LETTER
OF ACCEPTANCE.

The following letter was reecircti by the Massa- '
ehuants Ileum on the 23rd of January: •
" Fellow-citizens of the Senate and Honee of Berme-Ina-
tires, —I have been officially notified that the people of Mns-
eachusinte, by concurrent votes of both brenches of the legis-
Leture, have charged me with the duty of mpresenting them
fin the Senate of the United States for another term of Fix
years, on the expiration of that which I now have the honor
to hold. This rennet trust I accept with gratitude, en-
hanced by the peculiar circumstances under wLich it has
been bestowed. But far beyond every per. tial gratification
is the delight of knowing by this edge, that the people of
Masasehumes, forgetting ancient party hates, have at last
ens together in fraternal support di a sacred cause compared
with which the fete of any public 'errant is of small account.
When first selected for their eminent trust, I was a stranger
to all official life. Untried in public affairs, I was taken up
and placed, without antecedent aspiration, in the station
where, after an experience of nearly six years, you now,
with spontaneous unanimity, bid TOO remain. Abort to
commence a fresh term of service, I turn with honest pride
to that which is about to close, while I greet anew the dutinn
and responeibilities of my position; hoping that, by eon-
gientious endeavours, I may do eetnething in the future
better than in the post, and menthe' that he who girdeth on
his armour elmuld not boast himself as he who puteth
it off. The duties of a public servant are not always
conspicuous. Much a he time is abeerled in nues
which, if not obscure, are little calculated to at-
tract public attention. Mroixachueetts justly expecte that
no such intents shall be neglected. But by solemn
reaolutions of her Legislature, by the votes of her
peciple, and by the voice of her histry, Massachusetts espe-
cially enjoins upon her representativea to roe that, at all
hazards, and whatever elm tnsy suffer. freedom shall prevail.
Let me not neglect this injunction. Alike Ly synervithy with
IM slave, and by a determination to save curilelves from
Ink-bed thraklim, we are aim summoned to the effort now
organised for the emancipation of the national government
from a :degrading Intharice—hostile to civilisation—which
wherever it shows itself, even at a distance, is brutal, vulgar,
and mean, and constituter, an unnatural tyranny calculated to
arouse the generoite indignation of pad men. Of course, no
person who ie not ready to my in his heart that there is no
trod ran doubt the certain requite. Itut this result, like every
great good, can be arevieplielied only by well-dinted effort.
I know something of the labour and trial which such tier-
' vice impose.; I also knew tioniethieg of the mtisfaction
I whirl, it affords, giving to all who truly espouse it a serener
joy than anything in office or honour. •In the weary pee-
r tretion of menthe, from which I have now happily risen.
my sharpest pang came out of my enforced separation from
the cause which was so dem to me ; and now my chief joy is
in the gisurance that to this service I nay deeliiate the
vigorous health which, through medical care and the kindly
miniatrationa of nature, I sail peened to In this
well-founded assurance I welcome the trust which has again
been conferred upon me, while I once more bespeak the
candid judgment of my fellow-citizens, and once more in-
yoke the guardianship of a benignant Providence.
I have the homer to boy fellow-enigma, with grateful
regard, your faithful servant and assator,
"Cuts. atlefl3t."
On the motion of Mr. Hale, of Boston, the above letter was
ordered to be entered in the daily journal of the house.

A Warsaw correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette
writes:—" Great preperations are being made for the recep-
tion of the Emperor Alexander. The day of his arrival is
not yet axed, but It will probably be before the expiration of
a fortnight."
The Monitor, Suroisien records the following
A priest of Annecy learned that a young workwoman, one
of his parishioners, had undertaken to make some shirts for
M. Eugene Sue, author of the "Jolt Errant" (in this
work, it will be remembered, the Jesuits were roughly
handled), and ho forbade her, under pain of eternal con-
demnation, to execute the work. In consequence, the young
woman returned the alerts to the writer I "
THE CAME GIsEASE IN GERMANY.—Advice',
5001 Konigebare give unfavourable accounts regarding the
cattle dimmer, which during the put two years has mani-
fested itself in Poland and other parts of RUM* and which
now threatens to spread to Germany. For a short time during
hurt autumn there seemed to be some abatement in the dis-
temper, hut it has again beano very virulent. It CUve the
animal soddenly, and after severe trembling and purging
they die within four-and-twenty hours. One proprietor
lately lost 300 head in a single night. It attacks cattle ex-
climerel, and dew not communicate itself to sheep or any
other kind of stock. Every effort is used to prevent infec-
tion, and detachments of the military ere charged to destroy
and bury all that become affected. On the Prureicua frontier
a strict quarantine Is enforced; but it has already wide its
appearance in ems villagea, and the authorities have or-
dered that If even only one of a herd be attacked the whole
are to be slaughtered. The recent progress of the disease
northward toward at. Peteraburg has been a chief cause
lately in the advance of the tallow-market.
BANKRUPTCY OF MESSES. Fox AND IiENDERSON.
—Messrs. Pox sad Henderson, engineers and contractors,
were yesterday declared bankrupts in the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court at Bankraptee, and duly surrendered in the
aurae of the afternoon. the reluctance of a large English
creditor to sign the deed of inspection agreed upon in Novem-
ber, and not the recent decision of the French Court, ie said
to have precipitated the bankruptcy. The first meeting is
toed for the tad of Meath, and the last for the 30th of the
the same month. Mr. Coleman, of London, is to prepare the
amounts. The roust granted an allowance of M. per week
to each of the bankrupts.
LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS CORPANT.—Traffic
receipt', work ending Fel/nary 7, 9,064/. 31. lid. Num-
ber of omnibuses belonging to the company, 604; number
st work, 671.