The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dustin. Dsc. 31.
The Northern Trhig, referring to the present ex-
tensive strike of workmen, says :
The mischief is not confined to England ; it has made its
appearance In Belfast, and in such a manner as proves that
a oWlfullyarrsaged organisation exists between the engineers
and mactiiniste of Great Britain and Ireland. In one lead-

ing establishment in this town, 26 of the workmen have
struck," after presenting their employer with a notice re-
markably similar to that of the wise men of Oldham. That
our readers may understand the position in which these men
stand, who believe themselves so ill-treated, we may state
that their wages, as we have been informed, range from 26e.
to 365. a week for each man. And their demands would
appear to be these :—thnt the time of labour shall extend
only tram 7 o'clock in the morning to 6 in the afternoon,
allowing one hour for meals; that Saturday he a " half-day,"
as it is with schoolboys; that no over-work or Sunday work
be done, unless in case of accident; that for such labour
they be paid double • and that when they work outside,
they be allowed certain additional pay, with other advan-
tages, the object of which, we wakes, we ourselves do not
clearly understand. Some of these demands, we believe,
the employers expressed their willingness to comply with—
others, such as the restriction of the hours of labour, they
considered too ab.urd to entertain for a moment. The re-
sult has been a "strike," and these gentlemen are thus
temporarily inconvenienced in the execution of some im-
portant orders which lie on their hands—a difficulty, how-
ever, which we doubt not they will speedily overcome.
Archbishop Murray has, through his Archdeacon,
invited his clergy to may certain public prayers
ordered by the Pope, to avert threatened calamities
from the church and state. He addresses them iu
the following terms:
The Sovereign Pontiff, our Most Holy Father Pope Pius
the Ninth, argues forward the distinguished piety of the
several catholicbishops of the entire world, desires, in his
lineyelicel Lettersof the 21st November last, that public
prayen M offered op to implore the Divine mercy for the
purpose of averting the great calamities which are impend-
ing over both the church and the state. To fulfil these
truly pastoral aspirations, in which we most heartily concur,
we hereby invite all the catholic clergy and laity of this
diocese to unite in fervent sad public ; far which
purpose we enjoin that the colleen Pro /CM be recited at
every masa, for one month, commencing neat Sunday, the
4th of January, 1662, and that the Litany of the Saints,
with the prayers attached thereto, be read aloud in all the
catholic churches sod chapels edam city, every Friday, at
each mews, during the said month ; and in country
thumbs% and of Ibis diocese ea every Sunday within
the same period.

CLERICAL

Raw. Illastaipas Earl. Walby, to it. Paul, P.C., Skelly,
CHaamorpaakire.

VACANCIII.

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RlCTOZT.—Ballesgh, din. Derry; pat., Bishop of Derry,
&e. ; Rev. 0. N. Kooc, dec.
VlCASAo3.—Nether Wallop, Heats., ; dio, Winchester;
value 1911. and residence; pate.' the Vicars Choral in
Tech Tab
Cathedral; Rev. W. B. Ta dec.

MILITARY.
DECEASED OFTICEBS.—The MUMS of
theansed °Seen have been notified to the Ni arcdfite since
**Army List for let December wu published :
General Paul Anderson, C. 8., Colonel 78th regiment,
dlod 17th Dec.

Sir G. A. Queatin, K.C.H., died 7th

December._

Colonel Bradshaw, C. 8., 60th Foot, died 18th Oct,
Lient.-Colonels—thxyltnan, 27th Foot, died let Dee.;
Collington, lt.A., died 30th Nov. ; Poynter, C. 8., late 24th
Foot, no date.

MSjors—Maaon, retired full pay, 77th Foot, died 13th
Dec.; Cannon, retired full pay, 97th Foot, died 16th Nov.;
J. D. Brown unattached, died 16th Dec.
Captains—Austen, 73rd Foot, died 21st Oet.; Deere,
Canadian Rifle Regiment, died Nth Dee. ; Fry, half-pay,
Ilth Foot, died 17th Oct. ; Sondwith, half-pay, 38th Foot, died 27th Nov.,;• llon.: S. M. Gardner, haltpay, 103rd
foot, died 28th Nov.; Smith, Adjutant Sussex Militia,
died 13th Dee.
Lieutenants—Norris, 6th Font (of wounds at the Cape of
Good Hope), died 14th Oct. ; Hardy, 3rd West India Regi-
men., died 29th Sept. ; Carter, half-pay, 6th Foot, died
17th Dec. ' • Cleary, half-pay, 76th Foot, died 24th Nov. ;
Brohier, half-pay, York Chasamirs, died Gth Dec.
Rub-Lieutenants—Stratton, late of Sapper. and Miners,
died 27th Sept.;Stevens, half-pay, of ditto, died 21st Nov.
Ensigns—Cla'rke, G7th Foot, died 14th Dec. ; Hon. W. H.
Ly.aght, 86th Foot, died lot Nov.; Hamond, half-pay,
71st Foot, died Ist Sept. ; Harvey, half-pay, Corsican
Rangers, died Ist Dec.
Paymaster Vernon, 38th Regiment, died 13th Dee.
Quarterleasters—Thomson, half-pay, Scotch Fusileer
Guards, died 6th Sept. ; Henstock, half-pay, 6th Foot,
died 12th Dee. • Sleator, half-pay, 97th Foot, died 3rd Dec.
Deputy Cosentino' Ty-General Elliot, half-pay, died 23rd
Oet.
Veterinary Burgeon Edlin, 7thsDra3oou Guards, died
26th Nov.

GREAT WWITIN RAILWAY.—Thia company are
about to band as iliteasive air Usual* depot at their
PoddWilda Malice, to moot dm rapdromauts of blurb goods
treas.

This was a writ of inquiry to assess damages in an action
brought to recover compensation from the defendant, Mr.
Thomas Vemey, attorney, of Cold Ilarbour.square, for
ne ligenise in the conduct of an action. Judgment was
aniseed by default.
Mr. Wilkins. solicitor, appeared for the plaintiff, and
from hie statement to the jury, the evidence of the plaintiff,
and a number of documents put in, it appeared that in the
coarse of 18.30 a person named Smith brought an action
against one Frederick Orchard, for goods sold and deli-
vered, and the declaration isi that action contained two
counts, one on a bill of exchange for the amount given by
Orchard when the goods were sold, and the other in the
usual form for goods sold and delivered. Orchard, being a
minor, appeared by his next friend, the present plaintiff, to
defend the action; and he instructed Mr. Verney as his at.
Wiley. The defence was a plea of infancy, but a person
who drew the pleadings for Mr. Vessey, pleaded infancy to
the first count of the declaration only, and the general issue as
to the count for gods sold and delivered. The result was that
Orchard succeeded as far as the Issue on the ant count went,
but failed on the second, and a verdict was given against
him for 1341. 17s. 6d. Execution was issued, has goods were
seized, and he was arrested and is at the present time in
Whitecress-street Prison. it was alleged in the declaration
that this was through the negligence of the defendant in
not pleading iufancy "to both counts, and on the part of
the plaintiff the jury were asked to give a verdict for the
amount recovered against Orchard, and for a sum of 171.
which the plaintiff hail paid out of his own pocket as the
action was going on. The action against Oichard was tried
at the summer wises at Guildford in 1860.
The plaintiff, in cross-examination, said Orchard was his
nephew, and was now of age. Me was is his twenty-first
year when the action was brought against him by Smith.
The action was brought for furniture supplied. The greater
portion of the goods seised under the execution were paid
for; the whole of them certainly were not paid for.
Orchard was in business at the time as a tarpaulin
manufacturer. Witness knew the person who took the
active part fur Mr. Vinery in isefending the action. Had
never offered to settle the whole matter if Mr. Vessey would
pay him 71., but had offered to settle it for that sum inde-
pendent of any claim Orchard might have against Mr.
Verney for redress—that sum being part of what he (wit-
nese) paid to Mr. Vessey's agent, as the proceedings were in
progress. Mr. Vessey had admitted his liability for the
whole, and bad said an adverse verditl, if he was proceeded
against, might compel him to go through the Insolvent
Debtors' Court
Mr. W. Cooper addressed the Jury fee tie defeedest.
He mad* some stringent observatiese spa Oveliud% der
fence to the action brought against Ma to mover for puts
sold and delivered to him as a testes ea, and said that by'
• fortunate slip for the creditor, but as issfortunato one fear
Mr. Vessey—an attempt to sorb the proud of a just
debt had been defeated. Mn. Maw MS sot Isms the
pleadings himself. The goads, or • peeks of tbesa, takes
under the execution, had never bees paid for. r. Or-
chard, it was trite, was in Whitecrogeogimet, and he thought
the utmost extent to which the plaintiff ought to recover
against Mr. Vessey was the 71. which had been talked of
between them.

The learned eeerratlary having summed up.
The jury found he din plainuff—damages, 1411.17 x. U.