The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-26 00:00:00

THE • EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, li

managed for the working classes rathariZa'ad by
them. One result of this was,
the mechanics getting what theytt.wan
they got only what their superiors in sofia ignition
thought would be good for them, or—as the
mechanics dropped off—what the new class of
members who supplied their place were supposed to
like. But even supposing the arrangements to be ad-
missible, it was a fatal mistake not to confide the
carrying them out very largely to the working men
themselves. They will not only value the Insti-
tution far more highly, and take a keener interest
in it, if they manage it themselves, but this very
management involves a mental exercise and moral
discipline of the most important kind. The duties
and responsibilities of such a position supply exactly
the kind of training these men most need, and
would help directly to produce the sense of
personal dignity and habit of self-command
in which they are often specially deficient. Dr.
Eurcrr, of Carlisle, who has laboured many years
for and with the working classes, puts this point
very happily. " Why should we guide them t
"We are so accustomed to it. More in our
" way is it t If so, how came it to be sot Is it
" not because a good Providence put it in our
" power to do this and that for ourselves without
" consulting others or needing any help ? We

" have had to drive ourselves, and we proffer our
" aid to drive others as our paelemiers
" rather than leave them to learn, bemuse
" they are not equal to drive. We put then
" side ; but when and how there are they to IMO
" No, set them on the box ; let them try their
" hand in turn at driving, and who shall say that
" they cannot learnt The success of the expert-
" meat here is complete." The plan of the Union,
therefore, is, that working men should always in the
main manage the clubs and institutions they assist
in establishing. "In some cases," we are told,
" the Managing Committee consists entirely of
" working men, andthey have obtained the necessary
" counsel and help required beyond their own body
" by being able to apply for it, informally, to one or
" more zealous and easily accessible friends in the
" chum above them. In other cases, the committee
" has been of a more mixed character from
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first, and men of all classes have worked use-
folly and harmoniously together. Occasionally

the trustees form a sort of council for conaulta-

" tion ; but whatever the composition of the
" managing body, one-half of it at least should
" consist of working men. Several failures in
"otherwise well-devised schemes have taken place
" from want of attention to this principle."
The plan by wldch the Union endeavours to carry
out its design is that of stimulating local effort and
emitting it in every possible way. It seeks both to
extend and improve existing asaociations of a
kindred nature with its own, and to establish
new ones where none at present exist. The Council
of the Union propose to effect these objects by
correspondence with the officers of thisting Afro-
ciations throughout the kingdom ; by visits of '
their own officers and conferences with the work •
ing men in places where this may be useful ;
by the distribution of special papers explaining the
nature and objects of the institutions ; by grant-
ing loans of books, &c., for club-houses ; and by
grants of money in special cases for building, en-
larging, or altering of club-houses. The new So-
ciety has only been in operation about four months,
and already we are glad to find it has originated,
in whole or part, Working Men's Clubs in a dozen
towns of the kingdom,and is in correspondence with
nearly twice as many more. Those who are inter.
ested in the permanent welfare of the country will
desire it all possible success in its noble and moat
honourable work.

7, int Court.
I •
WINJ;IBOR Peg. S.
Royal Highness the prince of Wakowsttended
by Major TesedsleArrived at Windsor Outle yseteeday, from
Abhor!) Park.
The Bev. Dr. McLeod arrived at the Castle on Monday,
amid loft to-day.
The Donates of °dodos has snootaded the Domeier
Cloantea of Monet Edscumbe as lady is waiting.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon,
at the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present
were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George
Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C.
Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon.
T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the
Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and. the Right Hon.
Edward Cardwell.

The following deputation had an interview with the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers yesterday et the dike of the Poor-
law Board, viz. :—Mr. W. W. Wright (chairmen), Mr.
Henry Whitworth (clerk), from the Barton•upon-Irweß
Union ; Mr. Conon (clerk), from the Burton-upon-Treat
Union ; Mr. John Trevor (chairman), from the City of
Chester ; Mr. J. Grant (clerk), from the Dcareatet Unioe ;
Mr. Joseph Hughes (overseer), Mr. H. F. Hews (vestry
cleric), from the parish of Liverpool ; Mr. W. Barnett
(chairman), and Mr. John May (clerk), from the Macclesfield
Union ; Mr. C. Cheshire (clerk), from the Northorick Union ;
Mr. J. B. Hughes (chairman), sad Mr. W. Cleaver
(clerk), from Tosteth-park ; . /Ir. H. Bleckley (chairman),
Mr. R. Thew* and Mr. T. Geddes (clerk), from the War-
raglan Union; Mr. J. Hayes (chairman), Mr. T. Haigh
(vice-chairman), Mr. Owen Roberta (deputy vino-chairman),
and Mr. W. Cleaver (clerk), from the West Derby 'Union.
The deputation was accompanied by Mr. M. T. Bane, ILP.,
Lord G. H. Cavendish, ILP., Mr. John Chapman, ILP., Mr.
J. U. Gobbed, M.P., Mr. 0. E. Horton, ILP., the Hat
Wilbraham Egerton, M.P., Mr. J. C. Ewart, M.P., Mr. B.
Greven, M.P., Earl Grosvenor, ILP., Lord Richard Gros-
venor, M.P., Mr. John T. Hibbert, IL P., Mr. T. B. Hon-
fall, M.P., Mr. P. B. Humbersion, M.P., Mr. F. A.
Leathern, M.P., Mr. W. J. Legb, Major Y. Corn-
wall Leigh. 11. P., Hon. Colonel J. Lindsay, hLP., Mr.
John Laird, ILP., Colonel J. Wilson Patten, ILP., Mr. J.
B. Meath, M.P., Yr. W. P. Thornhill, ALP., Mr. J. Tolle-
macho, LLP., Mr. C. Turner, 1L P., and Mr. Henry Woods,
M.P., Mr. G. Greenell, M.P.

LATIBT INTELLIGENCE.

POLAND.
The following is the order of the day of General
Meuse Langiewicz, military chief of the palatinate
of Sandymar, addressed to his corps d'armde, after
the defeat of the Rusinluts before Staarow, on the
17th February :
Oompsaioss is Arms,--A company of oomacka, a squadron
of dragoons, and a detachment of chasm= have dared to
attack our camp. According to their barbarous custom,
the Bnsdans before savaging in the combat traitorously set
fire to the town, In order that thousands of families might
perish in the foment and fields from hunger and cold. Your
bravery, companimis in arms, has saved the town and
driven the enemy to a shameful flight. You have been
under arma only a few days, and your courage, your parse-
vinare, soar discipline, your ardour, sod the terror of the
Itumiann compel me to regard you as already soldiers old in
battle. Sedlnia, Szydlowiso, Bodsentyn, fluchedniow, &re-
nown., Gors,Wouliock,Salnte-Clvix, and St scow have in the
space of twentyneven days covered you with glory—you
who are ill-clad, tried by hunger, half-froten, and fatigued
by marches and bivouacs. The country which furnishes
so oh soldiers must be free and powerful. Companions in
arms, the country and history will not forget the 17th of
February.

The committee of landed proprietors in Russian
Poland have issued a circular, in which they say
that the moderate party were opposed to the com-

menoement of the insurrection under such unfavour
able circumstanoes, but that nevertheless, now
that it is begun, they adhere to it with all their
hearts. The circular concludes with these words :

Whatever may be the issue of the struggle, heaps of dead
bodies, ruins of cities and village', will declare in the face
of God and humanity that Poland will never abandon her
inalienable rights, and that at least there are oertain social
and moral duties which any government, even • despotic
and foreign one, is bound to fulfil, if it wishes to govern in
any other way than by fire and blood.

The Russian troops certainly appear to be more
inclined to fall back before the insurgents than to
attack them. The Russian corps which menaced
Ojoow has retreated precipitately in the direction of
Miechow in consequence of its advanced guard
having been repulsed at Skala and lwanowice ; but

what is more serious than the retreat is the discon-
tent which is becoming apparent among the im-
perial troops. The insurgents in the neighbour-
hood of Olkusz have maintained all their positions.
They have received considerable reinforcements,
which add greatly to the courage of those who first
took the field.

The Diritto of Turin publishes an appeal to arms
from Garibaldi, dated from Caprera. This procla-
mation, which is addressed to the Roumains of the
Danube, the Magyars, the Germaine, and the
Scandinavians, calls on those people to co-operate
in the struggle which is now going on in the land
of the Sobieski' and the Kosciusko'.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

OWE ODE OWN 00111111201 DIES.)
PARIS, WIEWEBDAT ETNNING.

A postscript in the Opinion Nationale says it watt
rumoured at the Bourse that the Emperor Napoleon
had received • letter from the Czar of Rnssia
offering to submit the affairs of Poland to his
arbitration. I cannot tell whether any such letter
has really been received ; but I can certify that the
rumour had very little, if any, circulation at the
Bourse. 1 was there myself for a long while, and
up to the close of business, and the only reason I
heard assigned for the great rise of the day was
that Prussia had given way. That seems to me
more probable than the news of the Opinion
Nation* which, by the way, is not noticed in
any of the money articles of the even-
ing papers. It is difficult to understand
what can be meant by the submission
of the Polish question to arbitration. The con-
stitution of an arbitrator supposes two parties
equally willing to accept his decision. The offer
alone is not likely to stop the Polish insurrection.
And who are the parties competent to treat on
behalf of the Polish insurgents 1 If, then, the idea
of an arbitration, properly so called, be inadmissible,
as I think it is, the letter supposed could only
imply an offer on the part of the Emperor of Russia
to do with Poland whatever Napoleon 111. may
please to suggest. I cannot think the Czar has
come to that. If so, the Russian alliance must
indeed be • great fact.
As to the present attitude of Prussia, the Opinion
Nationale says, in its " Latest news," that M. de
Biamark has asked for five days' time to consider
his answer to the lent French despatch.
It is curious to observe how emphatically all
the government prints repeat the charge against
the English journals which I noticed yesterday—
viz., that they endeavour to urge France to under-
take a war in favour of Poland, while not meaning
that England should draw the sword. The Petrie,
Pays, Prance, and ?lotion, all speak in this tone
—evidently from identical instructions. The
Nation, quoting Shakspeare, says that France may
say to England, " Were it my cue to fight
I should have known it without a prompter."
The France, with • clever jesuitical noli
epiaeopari affectation, pretends to understand
that the English journals tempt France to rush
into war by holding out the Rhine frontier as a
bait to her vanity. I dare say the France would
like to be better assured than it is that England
would have no objection to this immense sop to
French ambition. I rather think the English
journals have said just the oontr►ry to the repre-
sentations fathered upon them, and that the pre-
sent crisis must on no account serve as a pretext
for France to get the Rhine. The France now says
that it is premature to be very angry with Prussia
about the convention of Feb. 8, because we do not
know exactly what it is ; and because, as the Alba,
in an article by an outside hand (who writes in a
different spirit from its daily productions) suggests,
there may perhaps be nothing in the convention
incompatible with the standing obligations between
Prussia and Russia with respect to their frontier&
The Bourse, for some reason or other, was very
buoyant. Rents rose 75c. for cash, and 55c. for
account, closing at 69fr. 75c. and 69fr. 55a Mo-
biller rose 57fr. 50c. The Southern Railway rose
llfr. Isc ; Lyons, 7fr. 500. ; and the other lines
2fr. 50c. to Mr.

ThePhare de laLoire has received a warning (the
second) for an article which is stigmatised as " ex-
citing to hatred of the government by charging it
with having checked the impulses of public charity"
in favour of the cotton operatives.

REPORT.-(TRLS DAY.)

LY. iiiiimAT 26, B as

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY. )

ZQUITI" COURT.
(Before the Lords Justices of Appm/)
lINOWDZII v. TIM MITROPOLITAI LIILWLT 0011PATI.
This wee an wpm' motion spinet a dear:not Pine-Chace.
cello( Stuart, milder Chamber, involviwen ripactint point
of pertain of the Court of Chancery. Theatre' maim
wee made on behalf of the plaintiff, John Park. Snowden,
that the company might be ordered within one week from
the servios of the order to produce at the alias of their
solicitor, 5, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, for tbe inspec.
tire of the plaintiff, certain documents mentioned in the
misedide to the 'Marna of Jobe Henchman, secretary to
the company. The suit was instituted to compel
apeeifte perfannenos of an agreement dated 15th July, 1861,
which the company declined to perform on the ground that
it was not erred into by the authority of the company.
Mr. Henchman, in conformity with the usual order, made
as affidavit respecting documents in the proration of the
company. The Vice-Chancellor refused the motion, and
Mfr here the
Mairet.ol 1'9.1. J. Bovill raised an objection, that
the ppeeaaeawsnt motion was in contravention of the decision in
Y ',mph v. Creel" by the Lord Chancellor, which also
wee an appeal from an order made by the same vice-chan-
ostler in clambers. His lordship therein said it
world be • mischievous thing if the court received
appeals from orders made in ambers • as these would
be eminent appear sad all the delay and Warranter.
which led to the abdi of the office of Master in Che-
rry might be reintroduce!. He should decline to unction
such padre. A judge in chambers had • discretionary
power et adjourning any question into court for argnmeat,
end in • ptcper cam would consent to an adjournment ; but
if be retried to do so, the court would give credit to the
exacta of hie discretion and not interfere with his decision.
Ur. Oradmall, in support of the motion, said the Lord
Chancellor had given him express leave to set down the
motion before their lordships.
Lord Justice Turner gave it ea his opinion that the mote
Lion ought to proceed.
At the close of she argument,
Lord Justice Turner delivered judgment, varying the
Vice-Chancellor's order, and directing the production al
one of the letter, and of two entries in the compeit e
minutabook (excepting certain parts to be sealed up) sully
were mentioned in Mr. Henchman's affidavit.