New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-09
Gpc1f Britain.


Mr.. Richard Green, the eminent shipowner and
thipDuilder OF London, died on Saturday.
Horace Nerlet, the great French historical paint
er died on Saturday. He was OF advanced age,
having been born in the first year OF Inc great
Revelation.
The Times says: It is announced that subna-
zine cable laid by Messrs. Glass, Elliot 20. De-
tween .ue port of Caglari, IN the Island OF Ser
dna, and lrapani, IN Siciya. lehslh ol %Vo iuiies
--has been successful.
TIE Tires of Tue.day says: According to the
letters from New-i0ik to-day the ieehng III COM
ercia circles is tina, the only chance OF peace must
be found in the exhaustion of both belhgerents-a
result to which the recent battles at Murireesboro
and Vicksburg must have greatly tended. con-
vielion is expressed that the Federal government
could not now raise new army OF lOO,OOO men,
either by bounty conscriptlon, or any other
means. Prudent merchants are contracting their
operations much possible, every business trans
action being necessarily OF tue most gambling char
acter owing TO the hourly fluctuations III the cur
rency, and the prospect that before long these
fluctuations will become doubly severe. Although
IL is professed that the interest the public debt Is
10 be continuously discharged in gold, there are ap-
paIently few experienced persons by whom the idea
Is entertained that any payment VIII again be made
IL that form.
LIVERPOOL, Holyhea Shields, Dover, Chatham,
Portsmouth and London were visited with violent
gale on Sunday and Monday. Much damage has
been doue TO shipping.
poa, arrived in the Downs, reports having been
boarded on the LIST January, in Let. $3.50 NJ Ion.
3045 w. by Union war vessel, in search Of the Al
ALBANIA,
ANTI-sLAvERY MEETING AT LIVERPOOL.
A conference OF gentlemen was held on Saturday,
Jan. II, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool, to
consider what steps should be taken to bring the
policy Of the American Government on the Slavery
question fairly before the public mind, with view
Of promoting inquiry and eliciting opinion to the
duty Of England IN relation thereto" The caste OF
the meeting was mainly Northern, though. Mr..
Spence the author of American Union'') and sew
eral other gentlemen OF known Southern tendencies
were present..
M John Chopper, who was called to the chair,
observed that the time had arrived when English.
men should have an opportunity OF expressing their
sympathy with the movement in America as re-
garded the emancipation Of slaves. The great quss-
tion which now troubled America originated IN that
vast Fin. Hear, hear. He was not there as a
politician but he could not help expressing his con-
tdence that the danger which was supposed to be
Imminent lay not In the Proclamation of Emancpa.
ton, but in the resistance to it; not In carrying 1t
out. but In the attempt TO resubjugate the olsen
tbralled slaves. This was the sole Of the
sacre at ST. Domingo In conclusion, the Chair
man announced that the London Emancipation So
Getty intended 10 hold meeting on the subject on
the 28th inst.
The Rev. C. NJ. Brrell (Baptist) then moved the
following resolution: a" That III the opinion OF this
meeting the war now raging III the United States
of America originated In the institution OF Slavery,
and in the antagonism which that system inevitably
preeents to the institutions Of freedom; that in the
Great national crisis now created by the announce
Inent Of it's emancipation policy, the Federal Gov
eminent s entitled TO the generous sympathy Of free
Englishmep and 10 the moral support which such
sympathy always affords; that to insure this from
the inhabitants Of Liverpool 1t Is now deemed adj
vsable by means Of lectures and public discussions,
to fully instruct the public mind on the true comb.
tions of the American question, preliminary to
general aggregate meeting for the adoption Of an
address 10 President Lincoln" In moving the
resolution Mr. Brrell said, though it was too late
in the day, especially in England TO discuss the alb
stract question Of Slavery, 1t was by no means too
late, but the exact moment in which Englishmen
should make their voices heard in favor OF those
who seek to establish universal freedom. lie was
not there as a Northern OF Southern man, but simply
as man holding the rights Of a man, and prepared
to act in defense of thoie rights. There was qoes-
" ton in America now under discussion, apart from
the political movements Of the great confiict-a
question Of humanity, in which Englishmen were
Interested and bad right TO express their opinion
The resolution was supported by Mr. Chas. Wilson
AMI Ur. S. Robertson.
M. j. Spence objected to the portion Of the reso-
luton which expressed "generous sympathy
with the action Of the Federal Government In this
matter" lie was one Of those who, on the pollti-
cal part OF the question, sympathized with the
action Of the South and desired Its independence.
He also desired the extinction OF Slavery, and the
true mode to cause this extinction, he believed,
,yould be the establishment Of the Southern indie
pendence lCIies of "No, mo-" and cheers.
Saver had grown up under the shelter OF the
Union 10 al extent which was perfectly marvel!
ous: therefore the disruption Of the Union was
very Likely means TO abolish it. In fact, Slavery
would have been abolished in the Southern States
many years ego but for the very course OF agitation
which they now desired TO follow, and whic1 pro-
duced resistance and irritation which tended to
ryet firmly the letters upon the slave. George
Washington, Madison, Monroe Jefferson, and many
of the most eminent men the country had produced,
were slave owners.
Eighty years ago, however, Slavery was regarded
as a temporary and deploraole evil which 1t was
hoped it would please Providence 10 exlinguish, and
the reason for The change Of opinion in the South
was the fanaticism with which the North had been
acitatng for Abolition. We were ourselves slave.
holders thirty wears ago, and to the largest extent
and in tie most Oilensive manner upon earth: but
instead Of aboEshing Slavery would we not have
been rather driven 10 an opposite course had vIru-
lent denunciaiOn of ourselves and our slave system
been got up on the COntinentl lCries Of mo, no"l
Let some rational and business-ike rod9 Of re.
moving the evil be devised, which, as men Of bust.
ness they could approve. But there not a
particle OF wisdom or principle IN the recent
Of the President. Ia fact, President Lincoln had
himself declared that he would free the slaves If it
suited bis purpose and if not be would keep them in
Slavery. Mr.. Spence believed that the President,
having abandoned the hope OF subduing the South,
had issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the
only possible means Of efecIDg ;is hupiliation and
ruin. He himself believed that the President was
too kind.hearted 10 have issued the Proclamation n
he had not thought it would have been null and
void.
1t must either be null and void, or one Of its re-
suits must DO revolt OF she slaves, which wonld he
ATTENDED by enormous boodshed and destruction OF
property. The slaves, however must ultimately
succumb, Tor while they numbered 1000, 900 the
whites numbered oOOO,OO0 and n this respect there
would be no parallel between the revolt in 81. Do