The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1862.

waste or spoil them, for want of training in
cookery. It might be far otherwise henceforth if a
dozen schools were opened for the young women to
practise in. The whole institution in Glasgow
coat at first 2,6601.—a small sum in comparison
with the funds spent every week in relief in Man-
chester. A general manager and a cashier super-
intend the whole set of kitchens, and there is a
matron in each. In Manchester the plan would
be longer in becoming self-supporting, because the
young women have everything to learn, and
because there must be a constant succession of raw
pupils in order to fulfil the purposes of a school ;
but it is plain that, at worst, this mode of
assisting the distressed might be one of the least
expensive and most efficient that could be de-
vised. There cannot be a doubt that, from the
day when men, women, and children found them-
selves able to get good food so cheap, in a warm
room, in comfort and in society, they would be as
eager to exchange their relief food or money for
nourishment as the women now are to enter the
sewing schools. It should be remembered also
that these warm eating-rooms, with their supply
of newspapers, would be powerful rivals to the
public-house and the gin-shop. All England will
be glad to hear, any day, that the relief food
throughout Lancashire is given out through these
kitchens.

One of the remarks in the Guardian is that
the gentlemen have their hands full of busi-
ness—between the sewing schools and the admi-
nistration of the relief funds ; and that this new
scheme is the proper business of the ladies.
They should undertake the raising of the fund for
the beginning, the search for proper rooms, the
furnishing the kitchens, the choice of the matrons,
the purchase of the main stores, and the discipline
of the young women. Whenever they resolve to
begin, they have an admirable pattern to work by;
they have every reasonable security against
failure; and we will undertake to say that they
will have the sympathy of all the world. It will
be a noble recompense for any toil and trouble
they may take upon themselves if it should be told
next year that Manchester has ceased to exhibit
an increased mortality under the cotton famine.

THE outrages committed against the liberty of
meeting and speaking by the lower order of
Irish in our large towns require to be met, by
those who are answerable for the public peace,
with much more rigour than has hitherto been
opposed to them. The disgraceful attack on the
Brooke-street Institute, at Birkenhead, on Wed-
nesday evening, shows that it makes no difference
to the evil•disposed whether those they dislike
meet in the open air or under a private roof.
That some persons had made known their intention
to talk about a hated subject—Gsamtun and
Italy—was quite enough to stir up the Irish dock
labourers to a riotous attack on the building in
which the meeting was held. Between three and
four thousand persons, we are told by the Liverpool
Mercury, were in front of the institute, when they
suppressed the meeting, and broke the windows,
and then dispersed the congregation from Dr.
BAYLEE'S church adjoining. It is quite time that
this tyranny should cease. The tyranny of a
majority is bad enough, but the tyranny of a
minority is not to be borne. It appears that the
police were not strong enough to disperse the mob,
and the superintendent was compelled instead to
make a speech, and endeavour, we are told, to
" prevent a collision between his men and the
"rioters." The consequence was that none of the
ringleaders were taken into custody. There is
something wrong here, which Birkenhead will have
to look to.

areas was beaten at Juke the other day, when we know by
all the authentic report. that he completely demolished
General Pries sad his rebel army. It is said that among the
trophies captured were six batteries, 36 guns, and 600 pri-
aooe4l.

We have some information of an interesting character
from the Gulf coast, by the arrival of the gunboat Con-
necticut. The Connecticut captured the British schooner
Rambler, which tad ran the blockade at Sabine, Texas,
bound be Havana with a heavy cargo of cotton, the pro-
em& of which, according to the papers found on board,
were to be invested in ammunition, medicines, and other
contraband article+ for the rebels. She was sent to Ship
blood. The Connecticut also report. that on the after-
noon of the 30th the United States gunboat Winona,
Lieutenant-commanding Thornton, ran under the
fire of Fort Morgan, which is considered the defence
of Mobile, and opened fire on a rebel steamer
lying inside, driving off her crew and damaging her greatly
by the explosion of an eleven-inch shell in her bow. Fort
Masan opened a heavy fire on the Winona, but she 'soaped
unhurt.

Reports from Apalachicola state that Piro rebel ironclad
gunboats, mounting six 68-pounders, are nearly ready for
sea, under command of G. Catesby Jones, who says he
will sink every gunboat on the Gulf coast.
The steamship Philadelphia marked at this port last even-
ing, from New Orleans on the 18th of September and Ha-
V4lllllll on the 20th. The news from New Orleans is two
days Liter, but of no political importance.
General Butler has issued the following general order :
" Head-quarters Department of the Gulf,

" New Orleans, Sept. 14.
"As in the course of ten days it may become Paperer) to
distinguish the disloyal from the loyal citizens and honest
neutral foreigners residing in this department,—it is ordered
that each neutral foreigner resident in this department
shall present himself with the evidence of his nationality
to the nearest provostuarshal for registration of himself
and his family. This registration shall include the fol-
lowing particulars :—The county of birth, the length
of time the person hu resided within the United States,
the names of his family, the present place of resideooe,
by street, number, or other description ; the occupation,
the date of protection or certificate of nationality, which
shall be endorsed by the passport clerk " registered," with
date of register. All false or simulated claims of foreign
alliance by native or naturalised citizens will be severely
punished. " By order of Karr-General Butler.
" Oconee O. STRONG, A.A.-Gen., Chief of the Staff."

Among the recent exchange of prisoners are 94
Federal officers, the majority of whom are of Pope's
army, released by the Confederates notwithstand-
ing President Davis's threat of regarding them as
felons.

The first and most important section of the new
tax bill before the Confederate Congress is as fol-
lows :

That on the first day of January, 1863, there shall be
levied and assessed on each person resident in the Confede-
rate States, for the support of the government and the de-
fence of the country the following tax, to wit : One.fifth the
value of all the wheat, corn, rice, rye, oats, potatoes, hemp,
flax, peas, beans, barley, bay, wool, resin, tar, pitch, turpen-
tine, cotton, sugar, incluse% and tobacco produced by him
in those states during the previous calendar year ; also one-
fifth of the value of the increase for the preceding calendar
year of the horses, ames, cattle, sheep, and swine; aud, also,
one-fifth of the profits made in the preceding calendar year
by the feeding of swine, sheep, cattle, or mules; also One-
fifth of each person's yearly income for the preceding calen-
dar year, from all sources whatsoever, except f corn the
sources hereinbefore described, and except from the interest
on Confederate bonds, certificates, or Treasury notes ; pro-
vided that said tax so levied and assessed shall be due and
payable on the lit day of April, 1863; provided, further,
that foreigners resident within the Confederate States shall
not be required to pay, except from the aforesaid articles
produced by or for them, or from incomes or profits derived
from business conducted by them within those States ; nor
shall any tax bo levied upon the products of residents where
the total value of such products, during the said year, is
less than 500 dols. ; nor shall any tax be levied upon the
income of residents where the total value of such income is
leas than 500 dole.