The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-11 00:00:00

SAILORS' BOMBS INSTITUTION.

At a meeting held at the office of the Sailors'
limes lasittattee, Craven-street, Strand; Montagne
GM bit, le the simir, a resolution was passed, inviting
ibeworat Mew to afford aid to the widows, wives, and
Mies of sailors, soldiers, and marines involved in the
war, also to the wounded and sick who may require
rest when peming through any town where
Mee are established. It was also shown, that the pre-
lims glves hyped ammo in general to sailors' homes,
Mfint tithe /Is plasm re which they were compelled to
gm Wire boom were established, was very much on
SlMMiese. That the homes at Portsmouth and Devon-
Pa 11010 of .very great benefit to our men-of-war's
la Very gratifying accounts have also been received
Ms Dahlia, Cork, Queenstown, and Belfast; at the
11111s4 ,is consequence of two shipwrecks, 27 men
Ilmilefiged in the home, and private lodgings obtained
bellow, sad their committee have received 1,7001. to-
il* blidiegAnew home. At Dover, 61 shipwrecked
siosisse MN received into the home during the year ;
Ltriessa Ise do been subscribed for the purpose of
s Was, sad the harbour eommissionen have
emteplese of greend for the site. At Cardiff, a megnl-
me_ Mem bellt at the sole ezpense of the trustees of the
midi of Bates estate, is nearly complete, and will be
risk Ist the reception of inmates in course of a few weeks,
Mithellunevolent masehiouess will build a church for the
lade, hese, at her sole espense. At Sunderland, 1,264
us. eta nesse, have been inmates of that home during
floc

IROXMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETING.

TIM Waal quarterly meetings of the irontuasters of
ikaillielst for the current quarter commenced at Walsall
Mlllllthelhe second meeting was held here this after-
was a thinner attendance than anal, and
INAIMIS basin's' was transacted. The trade is in a
"11111106, there are no orders in from America, and as
Sto palm of manolacturod iron the resolution
IS the preliminary meeting has been abandoned;
_as II a general concurrence ea the part of the trade
ell ale ham 40'. per ton on the last quarter-day's prime,
tie ether descriptions of iron being' in proportion.
*abode is in • depressed state cannot be concealed ;
...on lb bast informed members of it 'gram that therein
rase for despondency. There are no stoeas of iron
eYid OD hied, for unlike former periods of languor,
bwpl the last quarter the mills and forges were kept
eftmot man than half time ; and the opinion is very
eatartained that another two months will bring
a change for the bettor in American cosauserdal
a cireunistance which would instantly impart re-
vital_ ity to the iron trade, especially as the States, not
Ma Importing Iron during the last three aanthe,
alltelmors ivy have been exhausting. Prior to the public
illaWY treday a my Important meeting of the pig
%Ins was held at the Swan Hotel. The object was to
Vale the expediency of reducing the make et pig::
A'" seat. during the present quarter. About
fter furnaces of the district were represented, sad
las Sisihoontient voice only it was agreed that to redoes
nenate to the extent proposed would tend greatly to
mho tits trade to a healthy state ; but before coming to
ra fennel decision on the subject, it was agreed to adjourn
_,lleetiag for a week in order that the opinions of such of
▪ .111nalses as were absent might be toast. The present
1 price of hot-blast mane pig' of Staffordshire make M
iet cold-bleat, five guineas per too. Ironstone
nem 18s. to 20s , and coal fully maintains its price,
h to wine extent attributable to the feet that
▪ Malty raised is very much lessened by mama of the
1,--, experienced in getting the mintre to work; on
"tur they will not work more than three days a
„4
ii, la seine of the pits ere almost at a stand. Up to
i'Lfessent time the wages paid to the mill end fergemea
L' beta kept up to the same standard as when el descrip-
k72l.ras aufactured iron was at least 21. a toahi.ther than
.:72' 4 i the Present scale cannot, however, any longer be
-Ltals: ed, and it was intimated to-day that • general
-17"'s
is
otdiitakebplace. immediately. TuhaertedreTasysd
thefir
:41, Pierce
price l i
s "32 st . 1641 . it
tow3l.° n
per last
box, delivered at

Wo LI

TM Yaks
alta Times states that upwards of 100,000
have been ordered st M'W
Malts for the ore of the
Meek SIB

FARRINGDON-WITHOUT WARD.—A meeting of
the inhabitants, crineedad by the alderman of the ward,
was held at the Sessions-house, Old Bailey, yesterday, to
take into consideration the report of the Consolidated Com-
mittee to the Court of Common Council, on the recommen-
dations contained in the report of the commissioners ap-
pointed to inquire into the state of the Corporation of
London. Alderman Sir James Duke took the chair at the
time specified, 2 o'clock, but besides some seven or eight
common councillors who accompanied him when he came
into the court, there were not more than a dozen persons
present. Alter waiting for half an hour, Sir James Duke
said, in consequence of the meeting being so thinly at-
tended he should adjourn the meeting. Some conversation
ensued, lathe worse of which Mr.Herapeth observed that as
the report deo Committee of the Court of Common Council
had bees dresdated among the inhabitants, and as they were
not present Mopposeit,it was to be inferred that they approved
of it. Mr. Smith said the report in question had het even
been received by the Common Council, and he attended for
the purpoee of supporting another most which was re-
ceived and adopted by the Common Council on the 24th of
February. The Alderman said any resolution that meeting
might come to, there being so few persons present, would
have little weight, and be therefore felt it his duty to ad-
journ the meeting, and he would co another when he
thought that circumstances required that he should do so.
The meeting then adjourned accordingly.
LAM:MOURN WAnD.—ln compliance with a re-
quisition presented to him, Mr. Alderman Cubitt
convened a meeting of this ward to be held at
Oa, rsway's Coffee house yesterday. At the hour appointed
there were not more than twenty persons present, including
the alderman, deputy, sad majority of the common council-
men of the ward. Mr. Alderman Cubitt in taking the
chair, said that he had convened the meeting in conse-
quence of a requisition presented to him, but as there were
so few present he thought it would be well to consider whe-
ther they would be acting wisely in then discussing so
important a question as the reform of their corporation.
Mr. Medwin considered that from the thinness of the
meeting they might take it for granted that the ward was
satisfied to leave the discussion of the question in the hands
of the Common Council. As there was not a fair represen-
tation of the ward present he thought they ought to ad-
journ. Mr. Smith moved that "the meeting be adjourned until
after the printing of the parliamentary bill for the reform of
the corporation of the City of London." The resolution was
seconded by Mr. Finlay, and, after a short conversation,
carried unanimously. Thanks were then voted to the
chairman, and the meeting separated.