The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-01 00:00:00

!Si LANCIAHL

CENT AL P.1314EF FUND.

The weekly meeting of the executive committee
was bald at the Town-hall, Manchester, )eatcr,Lty. The
Earl of DLIBT presided ; and there were present Sir J.
Kay-Shuttlewurtb, Bart, Lord Egerton of Talton, Lord
Edward Howard, M.P., Coloael Wilson Patten, M.P.,
Messrs. It. Gladstone, Hugh Mama, Si. Roes, E. Ashworth.
G. L. Ashworth, S. J. Stern, W. Liathboee, jos.. H. B.
Farman, J. Fenton, T. Ashton, J. Platt, J. W. Machine,
boa. aaarreary, J. Worrell, B. H. flatchinsoo, and the
Mayorof Manchester, Mr. Rawhoson was also in attendanoe.
Mr. MecLues reported that 2,63. W. I2s. lid. had bees
received duriag the past week (including 1,5741.35. 4d.
from Oxford University), sad that the balance in the bank
was 245,818& 12s. sd. Four packages of clothing bad been
received, and two sent off.

FAIINALL presented the following re-
port :—" I beg to inform you that on the 21st instant there
was an lamas* in the number of persons receiving parochial
relief in 27 unions in the cotton manufacturing districts, as
compared with the number so relieved in the previous week
of 863. This Mamas of 863 is explitioed as follows :—There
imam Mamas at Barton-upcs-Irwell of 29, at Blackburn of
201, at Bottom of 63, at Burnley of 5, at Bury of 114, at
Chorltou of 04, at Clitheroe of 21, at Haslingdeo of 52, at
Lancaster of 11, at Leigh of 38, at Macclesfield of 50, at
Meacesetter of 124, at Prestos of 53, at Rochdale of 300. at
Salford of 49, at Todraorden of 49, and at Warrington of 42;
making a total increase of 1,273. But there is a decrease at
Ashtomeader-Lyse of 93, at Chorley of 17. at The Fyide
of 58, at Garstea; of 9, at Gloomy of 37, et Oldham of
22, at Prestwich of 32, at Saddleworth of 6, at Stock-
port of 134, and at Wigan of 2 ; making a total decrease of
410; go that there is a net increase of 863; bat since the Bth
of Deoember last a total demotes) of 142,539 has taken place.
There were. on the 21st instant, 121,444 persons receiving
parochial relief in the 27 unifies adverted to ; in the corn.
spending week of 1861, 53,206 persons were so relieved.
Mere is, therefore, an increase of 76,2:16 persons in the
receipt of parochial relief, or 143'3 per cent. In the *corm-
@poodles week of 1862, 259,383 persons received parochial
relief. The total cost of outdoor zehef on the 21st instant
was 8,0311. 4e, Bd. ; is the corresponding week of 1861 it was
2,0641. 16s. ld. There la, therefore, an increase of 5,426/.
Ba. 74. or 208'3 per cent. Is the coneeponding week of 1862
it was 17,6811. 7s. &I. The average per mintage of pauper.
km on the population of these unions on the 21st instant
was B*s ; in the corresponding week of 1861 it was 21, mid
in the corresponding week of 11362 it was 13'1. The amount
of money in the handsel the treasurers of the above unions
on the 21st instant was 93,0181. 15a. 4d."
After some discussion,
Os the proposition of Colonel PArreN, seranded by Lord
Eonrroe, it was resolve,! unanimously :—•• That the chair.
man be requested to cell the atteetioa of the Home Same.
lazy of State to the complaints made of the delay and ex.
pease attending applications for luaus under the Public
Weeks Act paved in the last session of parliament, and to
submit to his consideration the suggestion made to this
committee, that the balance accruing to the government
in raising money under the provisions of that act affords a
imam of relieving pestles burrovnug from the expellees cora-
',buried of."
The committee, in email/ring applications for grants,
again refused an application from a local relief committee
by which the practice of supplementary wages had been
adopted.
The following gnats were made for general relict and
clothing :—To Staleybridge, 2,0601. ; bukenfield, ;
Withoell, 501. ; Buruley, 100/. ; New Mills, 50/. ; Tooge-
cuto.Alkriogton, 100/. ; Bledieuro, 2,001,1. ; Preston,
2.000/. ; linsenden, 10/. ; Sluterforth, 150/. ; Mosaley, 400/. ;
Blackley, 801. ; Lower Crusapeell, 601. ; Anemia (Man-
chester), Froni the Employment and 50b0.,1 Fund
Preston, 241. lda. ; Blackburn, 33/. For superinteedeses
of labour :—Prates, 301.
The committee thee rose.

THE GALWAY PACKET SERV T.—The Royal Mail
steamer Adriatic has made the passage from New York to
Galway within the prescribed time, and heels( a few boom
to spare. When tt ts cousidered that the weather was so
severe u to cause her to lie.to for 17 hems, it may tame-
able' be concluded that this doe ship will °matinee to main-
tain her former prrd The Adriatic left New York ow
the 17th inst., and Arrival at St. John's on the 21st. Here
she made but a,very short stay. and resumed her her journey
on the some day. When about 300 miles from Bt. John's,
she eocountered a fearful hurricaor, which left its effects
visible on the vessel. She was sadly shattered when she
arrived in the roads. The passengers spoke highly in praise
of the officers, and the kind treatuteet received on this is.-
sage over. She arrived in the bay at 8 o'clock this morning,
hewing on board 41 first-clase and fA steerage passengers.
Most of the passengess landed hers al with the mails, and
the vessel then left for Liverpool, bar a good cargo for
that port. She is the last vessel that will leave this port
after such a short stay.—Dablin Daily Espress.
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subsided, that I hare been induced to adi Ise Its substitution the
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that the force of England in Europe Is the force
of her example, and that " influence " in Europe,
in any other sense than that of example, is not
understood in these islands. Our semi-offi-
cial friends in Paris do bat beat the air
when they accuse us of being selfishly content to
let other nations take care of themselves. It is
part of this incurable selfishness of ours to
insist that to propose a Congress of Sove-
reigns and diplomatists to meet in Paris—or
London, or Brussels, it matters not where—to
decide the destinies of millions of mankind, is to
put back civilization, not to advance it.
Such a Congress is, in its essence, the con-
tradiction of that new idea of the right of
every nation to dispose of itself, to which its too
zealous promoters enure us it was invited to give
its solemn sanction. A Congress of Paris in 1864
is in principle no better than a Congress of Verona
in 1822, ors Congress of Vienna in 1815. And
it would be difficult to find any sovereign more
•
Iphilanthropically disposed than the First
Amaarrose. of Russia, or any plenipotentiary more
favourable to Poland than Lord Careir.szaon, or
more opposed to violent restorations than the.
Duke of WELLINGTON. A Congress may denounce
and deny the principle of non-intervention ;
it cannot carry that principle into opera-
tion t and yet non-intervention is all that the
interests of weaker States demand. " Except in
" Poland," we hear it whispered. Yet what has
Poland, whose cries of agony are scarcely heard in
Paris amidst the clamour of angry voices de-
manding a Russian allianoe against England—
what has Poland to expect from an exchange of
compliments between the Courts of the Tuileries
and St. Petersburg, or from the conjunction of
Envoys from Rome, Vienna, and Berlin I M. Di
Graserinr, who, in his capacity of universal
peacemaker, proposes to NazoLzoN 111. to
join hands with ALISANDIR 11. and run a-muck
at Europe, leaving England, as the Americans say,
" out in the cold," is so good a friend to Poland
that he desires to use Polish liberty merged in the
liberty of All the Remiss ; that is, the liberty
which All the Rosales are to enjoy when M.
DE GISARDIN becomes Prime Minister of France.
M. Di OLLAILDIN is better inspired when he tells us
islanders to keep to our island. Yet it is because
we desire to mind our own business that the organs
of the French Foreign-office denounce our selfish-
ness and our perfidy, and send their own funds
down for their pains. This is lamentable on all
accounts ; bat, happily, hard words break no bones,
and we are confident that the Emperor Naemou
gives us credit for sincerity and good will, and is
not entirely dissatisfied with the glory of having
thrown a great idea away on a world as yet unpre-
pared for its reception.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1.

Ws observe with equal surprise and regret that
the prompt publication in the London Gazette of
the correspondence between the French Govern-
ment and our own concerning the Congress has
somewhat ruffled the temper and disturbed the
digestion of some too impatient political idealists
over the water. With surprise, because an invita-
tion is, after all, not a command, and may be de-
clined without a thought of offence, and no invita-
tion was ever received with more respect or
declined with more reluctance than that to which
the FOEVON SZCIETARY has just made known her
Mansrr's constitutional reply. With regret, be-
cause we are well persuaded that nothingwasfarther
from the mind of the English Government than to
lend the slightest pretext to the most sensitive and
exacting susceptibilities of our gallant neighbours
in the strict and scrupulous fulfilment of a delicate
but obvious duty. The English Government had
a duty to perform towards France, Europe, and
England—a duty that demanded above all things
the courage and honesty of open speaking and
plain dealing. Would it have been more courteous
to have been less candid ' • more respectful and
considerate to have dallied with the invitation,
accepted it ostensibly "in principle," with the silent
conviction of its impracticability, and with a de-
termination to reject it at the last moment, and
procure its rejection, after a long winter's diplo-
matic strategy I It cannot fail to strike all
reasonable minds on either side of the
Channel that the irritation displayed in
some semi-official quarters at the im-
mediate publicity given by the English Govern-
ment to its reasons for considering a Congress im-
practicable at present, is an argument the more on
Lord Itinenz's side. For, if the mere public
statement of these reasons was sufficient to set the
pugnacious peacemaker of Paris in a blaze, how,
it may be asked, would the interests of European
peace be likely to fare on the first actual meeting
at a table of Austria and Italy, of Italy and the
Court of Rome, of the partitionere Ind the think'
Piano of Poland, of the ficurair and the reveries=
Sht Tanta empire I The Cabinet of London,
*with the full consent of the English nation, de-
clares its unwilliUgeres to simist at a preliminary
diplomatic conflagration of this sort ; and some too
zealous semi-official organs of the French Govern-
ment resent this exercise of free will on the part
of an ally as almost an insult, forgetting their
own Sovereign's express declaration that the Con-
greet was not a question of personal vanity for
him, but rather of pure, dispassionate, and disin-
terested goodwill to peoples in general and eon-
reigns in particular.
The Emperor of the FRANCK had a great and
generous idea—an idea be has had these twelve
or twenty years—of bringing all the Sovereigns of
Europe by the ears to Paris, to talk over each
other's faults and failings, make restitution of each I
other's outlying territories, and be solemnly virtuous
at each other's expense. It is naturally believed
that the heir of the author of the Treaty of Campo
Formic), and of the destroyer of the temporal power
of the Papacy,wonld rejoice in the poetical justioeof
aCongresswhich should persuade Austria to restore
Venice to Italy, and Italy to restore the Legations
maths Romagnato the Pore. Bat it is apprehended
that between the King of ITALY, who looks to a
Congress for the completion of his kingdom, and the
Pore, who is prepared to receive back from
the Congress a portion of the King of ITALY'S do-
minions, there must be bitter disappointment in
the end. Such a Congress would not, perhaps,
terminate like • battle for want of combatants,
but it would part at its first meeting for want of
subjects open to discussion. Now, we have suffi-
cient faith in the good sense and good feeling of
the great liberal public in France—the public to
whom the future of France belongs—to feel admired
that the loyal answer of the English Government
to the Imperial invitation commends itself to their
sense of what is just and tree. The great Liberal
public in France are not concerned to divert
attention from the pressing and vital interests of
liberty at borne for the sake of entertaining
a select party of Ministers and Plenipotentiaries
at the national expense on the banks of the Seine,
and contributing • chapter entitled " Congress of
" Paris " to the annals of the Second Empire.
The intelligent French public prefer peace and
liberty without a Congress, to war without liberty
before or after a Congress; they know that what
Fame wants to consecrate and elevate her gran-
deur in Europe is not military glory, but those
institutions which only peen can give, and all the
barren conquests of the sword cannot atone for.
Liberal France and free England, so long as they
are true to their own interests, can never be false
to each other, or unequal to their rank and duty
in the world.

No one in France knows better than the Ewrzsoa

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1863•

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

011.011 OUR ORS

PARIS. Noteruy Emma.

The Emperor, who came to Paris early this
morning to preside at the ministerial council, re-
mained at the Tuileries till 4 o'clock. Besides the
Pope's nuncio, he received other foreign ministers,
who presented him with the answers of their
sovereigns to the proposal for a congress. Nothing
has transpired as to what passed at the ministerial
council, but there is great bustle and excitement
in official circles, and a very angry feeling towards
England.
M. E. de Girardin, who is a most dangerous
friend, expresses himself (in the Please) disappointed
that the Moniteur has not already published such
of the replies of other governments as M. Drouyn
de Lbuys has already received, in order that the
contrast between them and that of Lord Russell's
"rude" despatch might inflict a lesson upon the
latter statesman. Girardin knows perfectly well
that the text of these despatches would dispel the
delusion which it is sought to keep up, that there
will be a congress after all.
The Opinion Nationale lays that " the refusal
of England has put an end to "—what ? all hopes
of the congress ? No—" all hopes of maintaining
peace (a fait evanouir la esperanees pacific/ma).
This alarming opinion ought to be a well-con•
sidered one on the part of K Gueroult's journal,
for it is repeated at the distance of two columns
on the same page.
The Pays has no instructions to ibe ferocious to-
night, and contents itself with applying the epithet
" strange" to England's conduct.
The France is still pacific, and reiterates its
opinion that France, having eased her conscience
and done her duty by pointing out to other powers
the " sword of Damocles" which is hanging over
all their heads, has "no mission to go further ;"
and leaving England to the wretched reflection
that she has paralysed the generous intentions of
Napoleon 111., may now devote herself " entirely"
to the amelioration of her internal institutions and
the development of the prosperity of her contented
people.
K Louis Blanc writes to the Temps, from Lon-
don, a truly sensible letter, stating that although
public opinion in England is unanimous against the
congress, yet that there is not the slightest feeling
of animosity or jealousy towards France. It is
• curious fact, showing how strong the war feeling
sets in here, that • man of cool judgment and
a moderate man like M. Nefßzer should say, in
commenting upon his eminent correspondent's
letter, that the result which Lord Russell feared as
• consequence of the congress—namely, war—may,
as regards France and England, be brought nearer
by the refusal of it. Who does not see that if
—which God avert !—this should be so, the only
reason is that there must have been a foregone
conclusion in the mind of the Emperor of the
French 1

The Bourse is very bad indeed. Rente fell 20c.,
Mobilier nearly 30fr., and railways from 12fr. to
15fr.