The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-15 00:00:00

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In the principal towns In Ileglaud ;or wh01e.,!,. its, Great Windmill-street, London, W. Observe the red I. pwk label, and cork brawled "lilnahates LL Whisky.' IIIEA is CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d., 25., 24. NI tit:r pound :ire the 'rives at which PHILLIP'S and Co., tea merchants, li, King Wlllimpaireet, City. London, KC., are selling earl and flue IILACK EA. A price current post free 40a worto carriage free to any railway station or 'um-kat town in the United kingdom. Observe —1•11ILLII's and Cu. have no agents, nir soy connection with any house in Worcester or Swan ana tulg.l.l, are supplied at market yrftxa AVALUABLE NEW YEAR'S GIFT. A cli I \ MIK CABBY, containing 1611 e. of really good BLACK ILA, FL at arriat4e tree to any railway station or market town In Enclasi.l. I rcbmi, St...aunt, or Walm, on receipt of 40a., by PHIL LIP"; and Co. , tea merchanta, 8, sing Williaili-street, City, E.C. rRESHER and GLENNY, OUTFITTERS. thily estat.:sdintent in Loudon, next door to Somerset tod. N.B. Lots of tarersoary outfit for every purpose aod „,,tmrut to !WI:4 (;hint, sad the Oclottlits. will Ls for warded , m arplicatloit. HYA.%I and C11:8 ATTIRE. RYAN and Co., 66 and 1;7, OXFORD-STREET. HYAM and Co:a WINTER OVERCOATS. R V AM and Co.'s SILK-FACED OVERCOATS. H YAM and Co.'s REEFERS. HYAM and Co.'s SUITS. HYAM and Co.'s MORNING COATS. "[YAM and Co.'s PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE. RVAM and Cu.'s VESTS and TROUSERS. H YAM and Co.'s LADIES' HABIT'S. HYAM and Co.'a LIVERIES. HYAM and Co.'s HATS and HOSIERY. E L YAII and Co.'s ATTIRE for GENTLEMEN, Go and 67. I I xford.-t reel. London. if yarn and Co.'s Winter Tweed goverousta 3IS. to 30s. kl)ana out Co.'s Winter Overe,.ts than no.' Co.'s Whiter Reefer ibuin n. 14 OA Winter cults 4s to 70s. Ilyatu sod i . u..• Winter Jueketa !ls. to 425. lino and Co.'s I% inter i'rock Coats Hyant soei t• ..'s Winter tents 6s. to 14s. ilysin and Co.'s Winter Trousers lIYA NI and Co. 's BOYS' WINTER CLOTHING, Gr. and (37, Oxford street. London. The Ord e..tahliehment in tie kingdom for Juvenile Clothing. Soya Sats .ringhlun thvronitts bole Prit.. e AM.! Keefer l6e. Od. to Me. thl. Boys' tn,roone for Litu o Bo ) . its. Od. to SOL 011. Boys' hiliekkrborker Sults IL.) s V.', •odnrieraod inborn., '314 los. 0.1. to. 3:44, Ott. Boyar i t...n. Ilarrovr, and Rugby suite 1 . ...)5' Jackets for School and Home— AL 04. to 2/s. Od. HYAM and Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS. No. I. Gentlemen'e Clothing for bninediste wear. ~ Y. Bespoke or Order o.partawat. & Boys and Youths Distinct Department. , . •. Hats, Cape, Hosiery. and Outfit Deyaruuent. HYAM and Co. 's ESTABLISHMENTS, t..NDON-443 and 67, OXFORD-STRUT. BI 131 INGHAM-21. 22. and tf, NEW-SULEIT. 11.1..1.3a4-4.2. BMOC ATE and 143% NISI: kIi—WEiTUATE. 11 - 4)W COLD IT HAS BEEN.-NEGRErri 3... i ZAMBRA'S celehrated •111ERMOlf ETERS will cer t.. r'. ter the lewest temperature, Price 3s. Sd. 1, flatten- Cornhill : 122, Brent-street: and 1:4, Fleet street. Ilse the Magic Lantern, and obtain the best effects. i'. l.l .trat..l 1 TPARENTS and GL'ARDIANS. —The return • • eth to their respective hnardhillircisonill Induces • ~1 r their personal comfort and attraction, and ROW- Lt Its 11 it • %SOAR 01L, for accelerating the growth and üb.l beautifying the heir, Rowlands' Kalydor, fee Its. t: skin and complexion, and removing cutaneous (ie .'''. ab-1 Rowlands' Odonto. or Pearl Dentifrice, for rentierhig citifully white and preserving the gums, are con indi,pensahle accompammenta.—Sold by chemists and " T imer, Ask for Rowlands' articles. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, without any mercurial ilimuit ii n nt!Zi r will be fouiZl vilunble to all who suffer from Moss indigestion, wind, spears giddiness. dial thr eyes. &e . Fur habituai eostivene,s, u a family a.k t., et and as a pander of the blnud, they are truly tsteli”bt ; o.itd in their operation and grateful to the stomach, h r, crest , - appetite, promote sod strengthen the system.—bold by W Lambert. , chemist, 8, King 4 •'''' Charing-cross, and by most druggists, to box" rt three times the quantity In ML Be sure to I ' , Dr. ~ ft's Bilious and Liver ?ilk The genuine are to • I ltVe gri.,” package. 'lilt Iminbert" enveeed on the QUNDAY F.N INI :S fur the l'Eol'L.E.—St. Nlartit, I Ow tor. J. W. I. h:r. Warwick .41 • i•i I t. , ,acrdNltt%it• mittoll ' a oat, ~. • ; s takat. at t-a: 1.311 tha• er. ii ilia ‘.llllll i•at II n.a , r in %I ihattt ut.rtnlence at 7 FIELD'S I 1.1 ED PARAFFIN F. CANDLES thy A ul)1111l . r.•, • r warryn to oplat t.. •‘! It, the advantage ..t thc :li c [jsel.ll,,,p,r. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (BErTEICS ITALY. F1.0111:NCH, JAN. 14. To-day, in the Chamber of Deputies, Signor Friscia announced his intention putting a ques tion to the government relative to the disturbances at Palermo io - , eptember last. Signor 3lordini s.id he considered a question addressed to the government on this sul'ject would he useless, and moved that a parliamentary co ittee should be appointed to inquire into the wants of the inhabi tants of Palermo, and to indicate the best mode of satisfying them. The Minister of the Interior in timated th..t he assented to the motion fur a com mittee of inqairy provided it was nut intended to imply a Leasure upon the govt nonent. He was also of opinion that the course proposed by Signor Friscia could answer no useful purpose, all the documents relating to the subject in question having already been made public. After several speeches had been made Signor Friscia withdrew his proposal, and the motion of Signor Mordini was referred to a committee. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, J•x. 14. In to-day's sitting of the Upper Honee the bill increasing the Chamber of Deputies by 80 members was the subject of a long and animated debate. The Minister of the Interior declared that the government earnestly desired the continuance of the old friendly understanding between it and the Upper House, and that it would propose to the King that the number of members belonging to every rank in the Upper House should be in creased. The first paragraph of the bill was adopted by 4 against 48 votes, and the amend ment introduced by Herr von Kruchen was re jected. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. 111.7CHAREziT, JAN. 13. The Hoapodar gave an audience to-day to the members of the principal bodies of state, to receive their congratulations upon the opening of the New Year. The president of the Chamber of Deputies deli vered an address expressing the greatest devotion to the person of the Prince. His Highness graciously received the address. INDIA. (B 1 DIRECT OVERLAND TELD:RAPIL) BOMBAY, JAS. 2, 2.45 P.M. Shirting and mule t orist unchanged. Cotton firm, but little doing. Dhollerah, 280 r. Exchange on London, Is. Hid. CALCUTTA, Dr.c. 31. B.llb. shirtings, Br. 4a. 40's mule twist, 7d. Exchange on London, 1.. ma. Government se curities : Four per Cents., S 6 ; Five per Cents., 104 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 1101. We read in the Diritto of the 12th :—" Yester day the Duke of Argyll, Mr. Gladstone, and other English statesmen were present at the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, and occupied plum in the tribune of the diplomatic body." A PERQUB.ITION IN ROME BY THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE—The Rome correspondent of the DOW., writing on the Itth, says :—" The National Committee has just effected* perquisition in the house of a person living in the Via della Vita, who is well known for his legitimist opinions. This perquisition was made by means of a plan often employed and always successful. Three or four of the trustworthy are disguised as Pontifical gendarmes and cirri. They present themselves in the name of the governmental police ; they carefully select the moment when the muter of the house is absent. They declare that they have a warrant ; they ask to be assisted in their search by the servants, who eagerly obey ; they lay bands on papers, which they make up into a sealed packet ; they draw up a proses-verbal, which they make the persons present sign, and when they leave they carry away the objects they have seized. It appears that this time some important documents have been carried off. Mention is made of the programme of an association called the Catholic Party of Action, with ramifications in France and elsewhere ; a list of members of the society, and of the instructions which are given to them ; and correspondence, among which arc some letters of bishops. It is moreover announced that the committee is preparing to publish the papers it has found." DEAN STANLEY AND THE DONscIENCE CLACSE. —Dean Stanley preszhed a sermon on Sunday morning in behalf of the only schools in England (so it is said) where the conscience elature has been voluntarily adopted and in corporated in the trust deeds. They are in connexion with Holy Trinity Church, Shepherdess-walk, Heaton. Dr. Stanley took for his text Isaiah ass. 15, "In quiet ness and in confidence shall be your strength." After dwelling at genie length on the peculiar characteristics of the prophet Isaiah, the dean east the schools on b e h a lf o f which he preached were an example of the success of the principles which be had drawn from the teschinp of the prophet. In the confidence that the principle of our church, as handed down to ns, was to embrace as many as possible within the circle of our sympathies, they were carried on in the assurance that those who differed from the church in creed need not differ from it in prac tice. Those were the schoolrooms in which children, whether of the churchman or of the nonconformist, could be taught the common principles of the Christian faith and Christian duty. He might almost my of them as it was said to Moses, " Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place on which thou standest is holy." At the presence of those little children leave off thy shoes, stained with the dust of the world's controversy, for the place on which thou standest is consecrated, is holy, with the presence of those little ones, whose spirits always behold the face of " our Father which art in Heaven," whose simplicity was a rebuke to our worldly, carnal differences about things which they cannot understand, and from which they can derive no good. Those schools were but a foretaste of brighter and happier days to come. THE MEMEERS FOR SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE AND THEIR CORSTITVETTA.—Some dissatisfaction having arisen . among the liberal electors of South Stafford with reference to the votes of the members for that division, the Wed nesbury branch of the Reform League a short time ago issued circulars inviting the electors to a conference to consider the conduct of their representatives. The confer ence was held yesterday, in the Congregational School room, Wahowbury. when a large muster of delegates from ' reform, temperance, trade, and other societies assembled. Letters were read tram Messrs. Feeler and Foley, the county members, defending the course they had pursued on the reform question last session. An animated dis cussion ensued upon the reading of these letters, and eventually the following resolution was carried, : " That this conference, taking into consideration the man ner in which Messrs. Foley and Foster voted on the late reform bill, is of opinion that they have violated the spirit of their former pledges, and have thereby forfeited the confidence and support of the liberal electors of South Staffordshire." A general committee was then appointed to watch over the liberal interests, and take such steps as may be deemed necessary for securing a proper representa tion of this division on the reform question at the next election, and each town and village in the constituency was recommended to appoint a sub-committee. The con ference was followed by an evening meeting of like purport. Messrs. H. W. Inglis and T. Leathern, masters R.N, have been appointed naval mail ',agents on the Southampton station. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15. ISO 7. irluosit. MONDAY POPULAR CONCEITS. After the usual Christmas recess them, entertain ments were resumed last night. when I (err Joachim rem,- pc.Lrot a 4 leader of the .!u.irtots and solo violinist. The following wax the programme: PAM' f. R.l j:, I. Vat.f 'p. LA 'po,iinanoUS. for two lola. mud Joadthei, i. Lot., ll.ilry lIH I.Vv. awl Platti •• L'otol,rota nott, vi, it" ;Nlatikl.t , is. L. , 1111311 nt: swou.t.,„ It, t'snloor, Iry 1, so. I, for plato,forte tdoor, Mr. I hwto,, rlt:r 11. Anitnit4., , •....... """"'" j Herr [Adair. hatti, hatti," Nip I..•niin bile. blotto, Nig4l..r Matti 4•t, in f. plan..torte, v 1.411,, vkia nn I vit.loiwelh.. NI M. Charles Hallo% Joachim, I I cnry :1:01 Viotti , .. M.lzart. It is nut too much to say that in the elevation of style remind in music of this grand school Herr Joachim lea, no equal, while in mechanical facility he has at least no superior. His coadjutor:4 were worthy of Lila, and it was evident that much care had been bestowed on the rehearsal of the quartet, which cam scarcely ever have been more finely played than on this owe, &ion Herr Joachim's performance of Bach's sonatas for violin unacconipanied has long been celebrated for rapidity of execution, command over the intricacies of " double stops," and that dignity of style which is indispensable to a right reading of the music of the grand old classic. It is difficult to imagine that the sonatas which Bach wrote for violin done could ever have been played in his time, judg ing by the comparatively limited powers of executants at that period, and other music for the instrument of the same date. Bach probably, in this case, wrote with a view rather to abstract possibility than to immediate realisation. Certainly he could never have Lewd these pieces played as we now hear them by HorrJoachim, whose performance last night drew forth, as usual, a torrent of applause and an encore, which was responded to by ',laying a movement from another of the mme set of sonatas. Mr. Halk's pianoforte !playing exhibited all his well-known minute and careful mechanism—his phrasing being generally distinct if sot alway vigorous. Hummel . ' song is graceful and refined, as might be expected from so distinguished a pupil of such • master as Mozart, but it is in his pianoforte music that Ihunniel's genius is embodied, his few attempts In the dramatic style being unworthy of his reputation in other respects. The song, however, was effective, partly owing to Miss Pyne's excellent singing. Neither it nor " Batti, bath," are very eligible for performance in a chamber eon cart, belonging as they both do to stage situations, and requiring orchestral accompaniments. Mr. Benedict was, as always, the conductor of the evening. For the concert of Monday next Madame Arabella Goddard and Mr. Sims Reeves aro announced. Drama. HAYMARKET. The Haymarket comedy of The Seriutia Family has been revived at this house as en afterpiece, to follow Mr. Sothern and the Le.sson for Life, and Mr. Buckstooe appears in his original character of Aminidab Sleek. The satire of this comedy is coarse and stagey, but the so-celled " serious " classes can hardly expect to be gently treated by actors and dramatic authors. The prejudice and ill will of the pulpit and the meeting-house are void by stage caricatures of religious hypocrisy. Thousands of worthy people look upon Mr. Bnckatone and his fellow-actors as " lost sheep ; " Mr. Buckstone, as the chief representative of the existing theatrical profession, probably regards music-halls as " sinks of iniquity ;" music-hall proprietors doubtless look down upon penny gaffs, penny gaffs upon travelling showmen, and travelling showmen upon street performers. THE LAW OF CONTRACT BETWEEN MASTERS AND WoRKMEN. Last evening, at the meeting of the Law Amend ment Society, Mr. A. EIIGAK read a paper on the law as regards coetneas of service between masters and servants. He said he propowel to state succinctly the existing law upon the subject. to consider the grounds upon which it is supported. and the objections to which it appears to be liable, and to make some remarks upon the resolutions agreed to hyth • .elect committeeof the Houseof Commons. After the extirmtion of vieenage in this country various attempts wise made to compel lab urea to work and to fix the rate of wages. It is difficult to ascertaiu bow far the statutes whet, had these objecta in view were really operative. lait before the middle of the last century it was considered that a new was necessary, and that while the workman must to left free to cuter into a con tract for his services, the euutraia ought to be enforced against him by mieeinal procee lings of a severe character. Since that time N. : lOntl statutes have beeu 'meted with this object in vi l'y the s nnctinents on this subject agricul tural labourers and artificers employed in manufactures, if they have contracted in writing to serve any person, and do not enter on the sei vie,- aceording to the contract, or if they abet themselves before the service is completed, or if they be guilty of any oth. r misconduct in the execution thereof. they may be apprehended and committed to the house of correction for any term not exceeding three months. This punishment, however, does not put en end us the contract, as the offender if he retirees to return to the merrier may be usain roma-Witted for the same offence. On the other bawl, if any labourer or workman complains of any (misusage, he rimy summon his employer before a justice of the peace and obtain hie discharge from his em ployer, and facilities are giver, work 'nee (erre:severing their wages before it justice of the peace. But notwithstanding this set-off, it must be admitted that the law has a very harsh aspect towards the workmen. And not only is the law with respect to workmen exceptional and hard, but it is ashninudered by a tribunal which cannot perhaps be quite impartial. Thu state of the law Mr. &lime oon eidered, for various reasons which he alleged, as unjust and ineenitable, the treadmill being n bad instrument for enforcing labour. Nor did he think that the evils to the employer from the non-fulfilment of the contract on the knot of the worlanan, was a justification for this stat e of the l a w. He considered that the proceeding against the workmen ought to be of a civil and not of a criminal character. Mr. Edgar then referred to the report of the select com mittee of the House of Commons on the subject, stating that it would have been more satisfactory if the committee bad stated the grounds on which they arrived at the con elusion. they did. The resolutions were as follows : " 1. That the law relating to master and servant as it now exists is objectionable. 2. That all oases arising under the law of master and servant should be publicly tried in England and Ireland before two or more magistrates or a stipendiary magistrate, and in Ireland before two or more magistrates or the sheriff. 3. That procedure should be by summons in England and Ireland, and by warrant to cite in Scotland and failing the appearance of defendant in answer to summons or citation, the court should have power to grant warrant to apprehend. 4. That punishment should be by fine, and failing payment, by distress or imprisonment. 5. That the court should have power, where such a MUMS is deemed advisable, to order the defendant to fulfil him contract, and also if necessary to compel him to find security that be will duly do so. 6. That in aggravated eases of breach of contract, causing injury to person or property, the magistrates or sheriff should have the power of awarding punishment by imprisonment instead of fine. 7. That the arrest of wages in Scotland in payment of fines should be abolished. 8. That a suggestion having been made to the committee, viz., that in all cases of breech of contract between master and servant, it should be competent to examine the parties to the action, as in civil cases, although the offence be punishable on sum , mary conviction, the conuaittee are not prepared them selves to recommend the adoption of each a principle, in volving as it does a departure from the law of evidence in such cases as now settled." There were only three of thew resolutions to which he had any serious objection—the fifth, the sixth, and the eighth. With regard to the second, he should have preferred the jurisdiction of the I county court ; hut as it was doubtful whether a speedy remedy could he obtained in the county court, the judo ' diction of two magistrates might on the whole be the best for the present. He thought, however, that an appeal should be allowed. He thought also that the pro ceedi ng should be by summons, and not by warrant, and that a warrant should not be issued except on proof that the workman meditated eight. From the fifth resolution he entirely demented. If the defendant were unwilling to complete his contract, it appeared to him the only expedient mode was to order bins to pay such an amount as might be considered proper damages. As to compelling the defendant to find security that be would fulfil am contract, he could scarcely imagine a more unjust and oppressive proceedieg. How was the ' court to compel him to find security ! Was he to be kept in prison till he did, or till the contract expired! To have recourse to such an arbitrary and unfair promeding would only he giving too good a handle to those who maintain that there is one law for the rich and another fair the poor. The sixth resolution be considered as mast ob jectionable. The seventh resolution related to a matter peculiar to Scotland, on which he did not feel himself competent to make any very decides' observations, but some of the witnesses were 'strongly of opinion that ' although the arrest of wages might be objectionable it was much better for the interests of the working man to , adopt this mode of enforcing payment than to have re course to a system of criminal treatment. In rejecting the suggestions mentioned in the List resolution, the committee appeared to him to hove made a great mistake. Upon the whole he did not think that the report of the committee afforded a satisfactory solution of rho question which was referred to them. It attempted nothing more than a mere mystification of the present system. It abolished the warrant in the first instance, and it did away with hard labour as the punishment, but it still left the proceedings against the workman for breach of contract essentially criminal in their character. Something more than this was necessary to allay the feelings of the working classes on this matter. He was persuaded that any legis lation founded on this report would go but a abort way towards putting an end to the dissatisfaction and discon tent which undoubtedly existed on this subject, and which he believed would continue to exist until the same measure of justice was meted out to the working man as to the rest of the community. A discussion ensued, in the course of which Mr. FREF.C. KICK Hitt strongly supported the views of Mr. Elgar, and said not only ought proceedings against workmen to be of a civil character, but many of these contract :ought not to be allowed at all. He moved that the paper be referred to the committee of this department to report upon it. Mr. Rowers, hoped the society would not too readily adopt the views of Mr. Eiger. We had now entered into a system of competition with foreign countries in the manufacture of various products which were to be used by the world at large. The English workman was now more than ever he was before in direct competition with the foreign workman. He held that one of the elements of success was certainty of production within a given and limited time. If the workman who had contracted to give his labour for say six months was to turn round at a critical moment and say, "If you do not raise my wages, I will leave," it appeared to him that the manufacturer ought to have the power to bring him to book sharply and Dr. PANKHURST observed that when once the statute book was cleared of this legislation he did not know whether they would be more astonished by the law itself than by the reasons that were assigned for it. The law was a badge of servitude. On what ground could they justify . the arming of ono party to a contract with the authority and sanction of the penal law, and denying the same thing to the other! That was the whole question. blr. Newnoi asked whether Mr. Eiger had carried out his views to the extent that they would cant him ; whether they were to be confined to civil proceedings in the case of soldiers and sailors. Mr. E~ ara rid the case of soldiers and sailors did not apply. They had planed themselves under a different status. Mr. J. T. DANN INC said the rationale of the law wu that this legislation wee for an inferior class, and that wu what it was kept up for. It was monstrous that a man should be able to enforce his contract by imprisonment. while he himself, if he broke his contract, was only subject ton fine. TEgLo' remarked that the very few cases of persons being brought before the magistrates in the metro polis showed that in practice the law was not oppres sive. He knew of a can in whick a number of locomo tives were left unfinished in consequence of the men 'wiring their employ. This was a matter which required to he looked at on all sides. Mr. APPLFGARTII, of the Amalgamated Society of Car penters and Joiners, spoke strongly against the continuance of the ',resent law. Mr. E. Porreg, M.P., said having been one of a select com mittee whmrresolution had been so strongly condemned, perhaps he might be allowed to say a few words. He was strongly opposed to the law, because in the first instance he never saw the necessity of it, and never as an employer or as a magistrate knew of a working man being sent to prison for an infraction of the law. He went into the committee expecting that they should have a large amount of evidence of the grievance of this law, and he came out of it very mach surprised with the small effect it had in the entire country. There was scarcely a case, except one of a distant date. The question was a very serious and exceedingly delicate one, and he was exceedingly anxious that it should not be legislated upon too rapidly. The law was most intimately connected with another very difficult subject, the subject of trades' onions, and he thought it desirable that that question should be referred PRINCEW'S. Barnaby Budge, with its effective scenery and stage management, and The Invisible Prince, with its gay draws and Mrs. John Wood, have been withdrawn, and Mr. Vining has revived the Streets of Lyndon, in which he performs his original character of Badger. The wonder ful panoramic scenery by Mr. Lloyds, and the realistic scene of the house on fire, helped to make this the moat popular drama ever produced at the Princtse•—not ex cepting Acre li-ita-Pugue. THE DISTRESS AT THE EAST END. Mr. T. Loud, hon. secretary of the committee for the relief of the unemplo3 od in Poplar, dates that there are upwards of 9,000 persons receiving relief from the parish of Poplar alone. Many who had saved up con siderable sums out of their earnings in the Post-office and other savings banks have been living upon those bard earnings, and have not yet applied to the pariah for relief, but are now becoming destitute. Altogether there cannot be much less than 16,000 men and their families who are at the present moment suffering from the present depression of trade. Most of the men win are now receiving relief from the parish are skilled workmen, capable of earning good wages—say from 20a. to 50s. per week, all the different classes of workmen en gaged in iron and wooden shipbuilding trades being sub rated to the same dire necessity. During the past week 1,500 men have been working in the stone-yard at the workhouse. " I have visited (says Mr. Loud) many of the homes of these suffering and destitute mechanics, and the state if utter wretchedness is truly heartrending ; the rooms are completely bare of furniture ; no chairs, bedding, or tables. In many of the houses there was no fire in the grate, and the children were crouching I together like sheep in a pen, for the sake of warming each other. In two ca-es the wives were going blind, and in two others the children were suffering from inflamed eyes, and in 12 of the families the smallpox had made its appearance." Contributions in aid of the fund will be thankfully received by Dr. Bowkett, treasurer, at the Limehouse branch of the Loudon and County Bank ; or by Mr. T. Lond, hon. secretary, at the committee-rooms, to, High-street, Poplar. The chairman of the Limehouse Special Relief Fund states that the committee, including the rector, clergy, and parochial officers, the resident dissenting ministers, and a large number of respectable inhabitants, before ap pealing to the public for assistance, took steps to ascertain the actual condition of the people. Having visited they found of 3,000 families at their own homes they found that there were upwards of 1,100 artisans and labourers out of work, and that the means of subsistence of 3,500 women and children de pendent on them were thereby cut off. In addition to this there area vast number of widows with families re ceiving parochial relief in aid of their own email earnings by needlework or @haring, and who are now suffering the greatest privations. The committee have net up two soup kitchens, and are now distributing 1,600 quarts of good soup weekly. They have also issued large numbers of tickets for bread, coal, &c., but their funds are rapidly dwindling away, and, unless they are speedily recruited, the committee will have to curtail their operations. Subscriptions will be received by Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and Co., bankers, Lombard-street ; the London and County Bank ;or by the treasurer, Mr. Blunde ll , West India Dock-road ; or Messrs. Peachey and Horne, church. wardens, Town-hall, Limehouse. THE RIGHT HoN. SEYMOUR FrrzotuaLD. —A large number of the friends of Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, who is about to proceed to Bombay as governor, assembled yesterday afternoon at the King's Head Hotel, Horsham, for the purpose of witnessing the presentation to the right hon. gentleman of a portrait executed in the highest style of art by Mr. Lucas. The chair was taken by Mr. C. S. Dickens; and amongst the company were Lady Elizabeth Dickens, Sir C.C. Pocock, Bart., Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Sey mour Fitzgerald, Captain and Mrs. Filgat,', Major and Mrs. John Aldridge, Captain and Mrs. Dulaney, Major Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Sanctuary, the Vicar of Horsham and Mrs. Hodgson, the Revs. J. Martin, E. J. Drury, and J. 111`Carogher ; Messrs. Rawlison, Rostock, Mathews, Lintott, Thorpe, Moon, Lc. REFORM SOIREE AT HANLEY.—We learn, by tele graph, that the Ices] members of the Reform League held • soiree list night in the Lecture-hall of the Mechanics• Institution, Hanley. Resolutions in favour of the pro gramme of the Reform League—registered residential manhood suffrage and vote by ballot—were carried with acclamation, and an address was delivered. At the same time • soiree was held at the Town-ball at Stoke, under the auspices of the National Reform Union. The resolu tions pasted at this meeting were in favour of the Man chester programme. ,:STAMPED, Id. ADDITIONAL] to a select committ•• e of the House of C ommons, or hitter still it. 4 myal cominissiou. But he believed it was an utter impossibility that all employer could place confi dence in his men unless he had an educated elms of men to deal with. He did not altogether agree in the paper. The evidence of the representatives of the tropes' limns was in favour of the rvoultitions of the committee. Mr. Oise is denied that hia evidence before the com mittee bore the construction put upon It by Mr. Potter. The resolution was agreed to, and the customary vote of thanks to tlAo chairman (Mr. Charles Clarke) brought the proceedings to a close. RITUALISM. Last evening an ordinary meeting of the English Church Union was held at its offices; the Honour. able COWS LINP' , AY preaiiling. A report of the council on llU!uliMn, was presented, and this and the expected presence of Dr. Pitney attracted a large atten d ance ; Dr. Pusey, however, rent a letter of apolozy, in whi. h he said it was a great disappointment to him not to abbe to attend. The Rev. T. W. of :it. Michael's, Brighton, read a report, the .id.st.ince of which is embodied in the iub lowing ri owl utiens, with which it concluded: 1. Thrt istasuaeli so the opinions of the counsel consulted by the i.oglon four.-1, Vision are ustanhoonsly Its favour of the 1.101:ty of the Eucharistic vsidneents, and that a nodosity have prossene..l for the lawfulness of the two altar lights and the wafer os to the mixed chalice the m spirity are not adverse to It, but rather theemthssev, rho slow te homed to defend their use If it shall he ~,,, 41 in the Feclesfastlcal Courts. 2. That the opinions of itlllll3l being unanimously adverse to the lawfulness of " censiige nun and th In the course of the ...mice," the Unkm mind undertake to defend this practice, unless further isformatoos .ltd! warrant comisel its that sceit pr.sotice is lawful. But that inasmuch as the Lower 1101111 e of Colman. don of Canter:miry have reported& the Upper House not an. favourably of the ',undue of incense, "for the twofold purpose of sweet fumigation and of serving as an expresalvesymbol." the Mee is peep:red, li sexessary, to defend such a mode 6.f using it as not substsntially agree with the report of Convocation, especially as Use majority of the legal opinions obtained by the nil di do not conflict therewith. 3. That, having regard to the general custom of using very frequently and very variously Iq saga, anthems. un l CIO like, in connexion with use different services of the church, ant considering the fact that Convocation has 0.4 ..bjects,l to the custom, It apsieari to the Union that at tempts to deprive churehinen .4 the Iffierty which this precedent affords ought tos le resisted by the Union. If necessity shonid arise: though the Ussims must he understis. to reserved to itself* discretion 1111 to the mode nod nature ..f the hymnody used heroic it could undertake its defence. The Rev. N. W. MA YON, of St. Mary's, Brompton, mid the object of the report was to put those interested in pos session of the principles which would guide the council in the administration of the funds of the Union, which in the present state of opinion, and the unsatisfactory state of the law, did not deem it inlvisable now to provoke eccle siastical litigation or legislation. Re moved the adoption of the report and resolutions. Mr. TW )11AS C. 'Lim, of Sydenham, seconded the motion. The report itself was first adopted ; and the resolutions were discussed seriatim, and adopted. A tonD OP THE SOIL. The recently published number of the " Royal Agricultural Society's Journal " contains a most interesting and well-written prize essay on the " Farming of Leicester shire," to some parts of which we shall hereafter draw the attention of our readers. For the present we refer to an account given of one of those vast aggregations of land in the hands of individuals which influence so injuriously the whole system of land-management in England. The essavist, in an earlier portion of his paper, states, " That to the native excellence rather than to any pains bestowed on their [the pastures] improvement is Leicestershire indebted for her surpassing fertility, and for the high rental—prob ioly the highest of any county in the kingdom— received by her landowners." The Duke of Rutland's estate extends to " one-sixteenth of the whole county," and this account, so far as it goes, is correct, having been xeived by the writer from the duke's agent. , ' The estate comprises 39,000 scree, of which about one-half is strong loam and clay lthepastures of surpassing natural fer tilityl, of which the Vale of Bolvoir, on the line, forms the chief part, about 5,060 acres beyond Leicester being composed of strong marl and gravel. The remaining half being about equally between white and red creach ' [soil] upon the coedite and marlstone formations. The farm@ vary from fifty acres to 750 acres • the moregeneral sire is from two hundred to four hundr'ed acres. the portions in grass and arable being about equal." Some detail of the plans of cultivation pursued are then given, about which there is nothing peculiar. Here we have an estate producing • clear rental of at least 80,0001.—more probably . 100,000/.—per annum, com prising one-sixteenth of the richest county in England in the hands of a single man. And be it observed, that it is only by the laws specially provided for the artificial aggre• gation of land by means of entails and settlements that such an unnatural condition of ownership could exist, fur there arc numerous younger and collateral branches of the Rutland Manners) family amongst whom this gigantic mass of property would naturally have been divided. It may have happened, however, that the poli tical influence and power oi the head of the family has been of great use to the other members in obtaining them provisions out of the public purse. Of course all the ducal tenantry hold their farms from year to year. They have ,no formal agreement, but a sort of ukase or memoran dum is printed on the backs of the rental receipts given whenpayments[of rentlare made." This memorandum com mences as follows : "Take notice, that the following are the conditions upon which you rent or hold the land and premises in your occupation under his Grace the Duke of Rutland." The provisions are few, simple, and stringent—binding the tenant to farm in a husbanahke manner, knd to keep the buildings, fences, gates, posts, drains, &c., in good repair, not to underlet or break up grass land,—nor to sell hay or staw. Then, "3. That no trees growing on the premises will be permitted to be lopped or in anywise injured. 11. That on your quitting the premises all the manure will be considered as belonging thereto, and will not be suffered to be removed therefrom or allowed for. 7. That the game and right of spo rting on such lands is [common English would have been are '1 reserved to his grace." It is also said the tenants " are further! protected by a liberal schedule of allovninces as tenant-right for purchased manure," though how such a schedule can co-exist with the 6th condi tion, would pu ule tho acumen of legal interpreters of the con tract should any litigation arise thereupon. The Rutland tenants are probably held too well in band ever to dream of disputing the behest of their lord. As showing the amount of political influence such a territorial magnate can wield, by the agency of a subservient tenantry, we extract the following 185 S there were unler a rental of r4l. per annum, 759 occupiers ; above Si. and under 10/., 52 ; lug. anal under 12!., 40 : 12/. and under 151., 49 ; 131. and under WI. ' ; 201. • and under 50 1 ., 113 ; 501., 19 8 ; Making a total of 1,273 occupiers.—Evonvinist. We understand that a now political and literary paper, to be called The Mroairle, will shortly make its appearance among our weekly contemporaries. Its origin isdne to persons connected with the late Howe wad Fereige Review, the principal contributors to which will form part of its staff. lb politics will be frankly liberal, and its literary department will include a systematic criticism of all the leading publications in this country and abroad. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INbTITUTION.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has signified his in tention, through General Eno!lye, to take the chair at the forthcoming annual meeting of the Royal National Life boat Institution, which is expected to take placelabout the latter part of the ensuing month. The Prince and Prince= of Wales have always manifested considerable interest iu the great and national work of the Lifeboat Institution. On the drat arrival of the princess in her Majesty's yacht, in Marmite Roads, the lifeboat of the institution on thst station gave hoe royal highness the earliest welcome to the shores of England. Again, the Manchester branch of the institation, ou the representation of the Rev. C. Hewlett and 31r. Robert Whitworth, received permission from his royal highness to name one of their nine boats the Albers Victor, after his eldest son. Since then that lifeboat has contributed to the saving of thirty-one shipwrecked persons. The City of Briitol, through Admiral Tryon, about three years ago pre sented to the institution the cost of a lifeboat, and deci led to name it the Albert Edward, after the Prince of Wales. The lifeboatwas stationedetPedstow, on the coast of Corn wall. Thefollowingwinter,during a fearful midnightstorm, the Albert Edward was happily the means of saving, under Providence, seventeen poor fellows from an inevitable death from the barque Juliet, of Greenock. Her Majesty the Queen is also a warm friend of the institution, and sends it every year a subscription of NA Thus this great and philanthropic society, which last year contributed to the saving of nearly nine hundred lives from a watery grave, receives the support and sympathy of all classes of the community, and is thereby enabled to accomplish sue cessfelly and energetically the national work it has un dertaken to do on behalf of our shipwrecked sailors. EXAMINERS OF PRIVATE BILLS.-011Friday next, the 18th inst., the examination of the petitions on private bills by the officers of the Hones of Commons will be com menced, and continucd, as to the compliance of the stand ing orders, until completed. As there are this year only 317 bills, the examination will probably be (concluded shortly after the commencement of the session on the tab proximo. RAILWAY PROJECT"; AND LOCAL Sitis.—Yester day was the last to deposit 8 per cent. on railway pro jects. and 4 per cent. on other public works, in Chancery, on 317 undertakings. last year the number was 633. [TWOPENCE .SRRIUUS RAILWAr AerlDifliT AT GLA.wulr. A special edition of the North Prit;dl IMP!, broil of yesterday contains an , mcount of an accident attended with injury to upwards of twenty persons. but, fo;tu• 'lately, with fatal consequences to none, which oc arc-.l yesterday forenoon to the 10.30 a.m. train from Greenock when nearing the Bridge -street station, fila , iiew• appears that part of the spring of a carriage —the one next the engine o• tender--had snapped—the effect, us is presumed, of the severe frost, and the broken piece having caught upon the iron beam of Cook-street bridge, the carriage was thrown off the rails. and after proceeding a short distanoe, went through the parapet wall, and tumbled over the side of the railway, passengers and all. Happily the coupling between it and tie second carriage broke, otherwise the rewrite must have been were serious. The .hock of the fall was probably also lessened from the circumstance that in disconnecting itself from the train, the position of the carriage became changed, so that on reaching the ground the ends were found to hive been reversed. The carriage, which fell into :he gravel depot of Messrs. George Miller and Ca, Commetoo•itreet, was • third-clasa one, without seam, and at the time is said to have continued 26 or :rtr persons, the majority of whom were more or less injured. A runnier were iwme di►tely taken to the :Southern rolice-oflic 3, others were taken into scorns at the Bridge-street railway station, • number were conveyed to the residence of Dr. Dunlop, Carlton-place, while two or three were sent at oi.ce to the infirmary. ----- - THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH. EDINBURGH, Motility NIGHT. About twenty mail hugs front the north are over due here. On Sunday many of the Aberdeen and Inverness mails due on Friday and Saturday were rewiv..d ; but there has been agate a large arrear, and no through com munication has to-day taken place with Edinburgh from places north of Blair Atholl on the Highland line and Montrose on the Aberdeen line. The latest telegr.uns from the north, however, Intimate the re-opening of the communication between l'erth and Aberdeen. The snow fall here has been slight, and a keen front prevails. ABERDEEN, Moxtur NIGHT. During last night and to-day snow continued to fall heavily at frequent intervals. Since telegram of last evening there has been no railway communication what ever to the north or up Deeside, and traffic in these direc tions has ceased. The Leaden train of Saturday due at Aberdeen yesterday at noon did not arrive here till this forenoon, 2.1 hours behind time. A mail fur London and the south was despatched this afternoon, but in the evening it was reported not to have got beyond Stone haven, 11; miles from Aberdeen. The weather to-night is fair and frosty. MEMORIALS OF LORD l'ai.xstorrow.—A public meeting is to be held at Eomsey on Thursday next, in order to make final arrangetuenta in reference to the monu ments to be erected in that town to the memory of the late Viscount Palmerston. It was at tint intended to erect a mortuary chapel at the cast end of lionise' Abbey church, but that design ha. been abandoned in favour of the insertion of stained glees in the large windows at the western end of the church. The Right Hon. W. Cowper has written to soy that this plan has the full concurreoce of Lady Palmerston. A subscription was also raised for the erection of • statue of Lord Pelinetiton. It has fallen somewhat short of what was expected, and Mr. Cowper has offered to wake the deficiency, so that arrangements will be made for placing • suitable statue in Ramsey market-place. DR. VAL:aI:NE ON ENGLISH PEOTESTANTINN. The Times this morning contains a long letter from Dr. Merle D'Aubigne, dated from Geneva, entering very fully into the ritual stic movement in England, which he says has attracted much attention amongst continental pro testant". One of the requirements of the present epoch, he says, is the acquisition by the laity of their legitimate influence in the church. by to the present the laity have been looked upon as in a state of minority; tha day of their majority has arrived. Is not convocation, he asks, generally felt to be a relic of the middle ages ? Its place should be supplied by an upper house, in which would sit the bishops and lay representatives elected by the different dioceses ; a lower house for the clergy and lay represen tatives of parishes or unions of pilule. ; an executive council to carry out the decisions of these two houses. The laity should now petition the queen and parliament for a better constitution of the church, and ask fora synod or assembly, where their representatives could be heard. " Never was it more necessary," remarks Dr. D'Alibigne, " that the protestantirm of England should beeouie well organised. Everyone knows the ambition of Humanism ; the papal aggression was not so dangerous ea are the covert but persevering efforts of the Jesuits, wet king, as they do in England, with the aelp of continental Romanies. Have they no share in the ritualism of the present day Was not the identity of the two systems pointed out by Dr. Manning ? But, whether demotion is at the bottom of the present movement in England or no, the almighty power of God and the organise 1 efforts of Christian people are necessary to preserve the treasure recovered at the Re formation." THE LOCK-OCT OF THE DZEBYEIHRE MINERS. Last evening a deputation from the Derbyshire Miners' Association, consisting of Melees. Th omas Hill and Charles Barber, waited on the Lyndon Trades' Council at their meeting in the ILll Inn, 01d Bailey, for tae of asking the advice and assistance of the London trades. The deputation stated that the association had la-en in existence for three years, and last September invited the miners of the surrounding districts to a meeting called fur the purpose of extending the association. About WO vipers responded to the invitation, and iutniediately after the meeting the masters—the principal being: tic Clay cross Company and the Staveley Company—commenced discharging their men and ejecting them from their homes, obliging the miners and their families to go into tents erected in • field at Whittington, procured for the purpose by the association. The men sent letters of renioostrsnoe and deputations to the mas ters and fore men, but without avail. The masters had now declared that unless the men destroyed the rules and Looks of the association tliey would not employ one of them. Fifteen hundred miners were thus looked 0ut—....r.) in Staveley and the remainder in Clay cross and surromidin,g districts --although the men were w Wing to resume work without any advance of wages, merely stipulating to preserve the principle of union. The association was allowing 9s. week to each miner locked out, and la. a week for estli child in his family, the total expenditure amounting to 750 L week, which exceeded the income of the association. Under these circumstances, the association appealed to the London trades for assistrmce to enable the miners to resist the oppression under which they were suffering. After some discussion, credentials acre given to the deputation entitling them to apply to the London trade so.ieties for assistance. CITY ur MOSCOW GAI Comr.txv.—The exten sive works oi this company, built for about NO , retorts and the necessary ameiritus, were publicly opened on De cember 27, old style, by the Prince Mayor of Moscow, the governor-,;eneval and grand toaster of police, the English consul, Mr. Roberts, and a large number of umtd taries and intuenti.d citizens. In the large eiete..-house, at 2 &clue:, all the great personages being assembled, the Russian religious ceremony of the benediction of the esta blishment was gone through by several priest:, aolisted by a choir of :10 buys, whose singing was very effective. At the conclusion of this ceretatny the Rev. It. t:. Penny, the English chaplain. offered up a irayer. Mr. Itibdoll, who represented the London board cf directors on the OCOASiOII, then read an address to his eNceliency the Prince Mayor, during wide:, Mr. Frederick Leslie, the engineer-in -chief, presented an elegant silver lamp. cf Russian manufacture, to his e•xellency, with which the newt public lamp in the Kremlin was to be lighted in the evening. The mayor expressed his gratification at being able to assist at the opining of works which would confer many benefits upon his fellow-citizens. The mayor then pronounced the works opened. After an inspection of thu works, success to the company was drunk in bumpers of champagne. The mayor gave a handsome donation to be distrim,ted among th.• workmen, and at half-paq 4 o'clock his excellency succes,fully lighted the first lair p in the Kremlin. A hand of 40 musicians immediately played the national air, and afterwards " God Save the Queen." Itrilliant illuminations appeared at the Emperor's Palma, at the Holy Chapel, Kremlin, and throughout the city. Upwards of 2,000 public lamps were then rapidly lit, to the admiration of a large number of spectators. The weather was severely cold, registering on Leaumtr's thermometer 20 dega. of cold, bat the day pasted of wi.:_- out accident. _ _ Prtuanccrat t, DEC. 27, 18G6.—The clipper David Crocket from San Francisco in IA days, wit'. a cargo of 66,000 bushels of white wheat and 4,015, bushels of barley, arrived to-day. The order for shipment was telegraphed to San Francisco Sept. 1. This u the first direct cargo of Californian grain over received IA this port. —New Fork Herald. . . Sours Kaxstxorox Mrszrx.—Visitors during the week ending January 12. —On Monday. Tues day, and Saturday, free, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.u., 7,107 ; on Wednesday, Thursday, and Triday (adads iioll 61.), from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m., 1,199; total, 9,566. Average of corresponding week in former years, 9,691 Total from the opening of the Museum, 6,C,00,659.