The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-23 00:00:00

TES DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE

THE CENTRAL RELIEF FUND.

The following letters ham been received from the Arch-
bishop of Yuck, and the committee of the Water Colour
Painters' Lancashire Relief Fund :
" 49, Eaton-place, London, 8.W., Jan. 21, 1863.
"My dear Sir,—l enclose a draft for 6761.4 id., bang
the sixth instalment from the diocese of Gloaesetee and
Bristol, making in all 5,7521. 6s. ld. collected in the
churches of the diocese for the suffering people of Lacs-
shire, and forwarded to you by me. This is exclusive of
2,9421. 12s. IW. collected in the same way„hat forwarded
through other channels, making in an 8,6941. lea ll&
am yours moat truly. "W. Ewa (Elect.)
"J. W. Maclure, Esq."
"Committee moms, 5, Waterloo-place, S.W., January
21, 1263.—Sir,—We have the pleasure to hand you a
cheque for 5001.' the lint instalment from the Water-
. Colour Painter.' lanceshine Belief Fund. 1 have the antis-
' faction to inform you that, after • very careful valuation of
the paintings coutribated to this exhibition by the artists
'morally, the set amated vales of the oelleetion amounts to
4,500 guineas. • This sum our committee have every
hope of realisir g. The exhibition will clone in Loudon on
the 31st inst., ricer which the collection will be exhibited
in Manchester, at the Royal Inatitutioa, the galleries having
been placed at the disposal of oar committee for that
purpose. V.'s have the honour to be, fia, your obedient
servants,— A. KINNAIRD, LOUIS HAUHL—JLIIIii FLAIL!,
Hon. See-- —To J. W. Maclure, Esq."

"P. - Upooolleying to the Has. Arthur !Cloward for
his DIDs tare, as ut treasurer, 1 And you are reedy
k Down t each other ; he, however, bad not time to write,
bat /02,nastad me to my so Dinah, with his rogue:

B& mex.—At the weekly meeting of the board of
par duo. on Wednesday the number relieved was stated to
6a j 1,061, at a cost of 5561. 19e. 6d., being about the same as
t week. The expenditure of the union was estimated in
ptember lest for the half•year mallet 25th March, 1663, at
7.0,2741. 10a, and mile were made for that amount. The ex-
penditure, however. has been found meetly to exceed this
estimate, sod on Wednesday as addi was mode to the
Icall amounting to 1,0571., making a tool for the half-year
of 25,3311.

NIB AfiraOPOLITAN UlD111020(IND
JUILWA r.

The =mem with which this new line is working,
as far as it a yet be japd by its gnat sad magas—
truths Mara has up to the prat (mays the Tani)
kthlthelaroirbeasted eels expeeletions of tie promoters. Even
whoa mor Mend margin for the nab of
obtrely eerie= ridges maxims to see the Has for the list
Mime, tie premed delleterme are still are-tbird
=time were IR fate the as-
ere by no mime too ism to Aims sOOlllOlll7,
or ma a. large as they so doubt will lb.whew the p
'both
wear, aragements ere easiplete— oboe extr tame
an mare& a.., above ell, whoa the polar get used
tow MOM 00•111141100, of this main way of
ommuhrtatica)et for the premat the nab of pea-
sawn eager to be roe ed arra the noose of a
liners sew and so un pwnssi in ander as to mare the
most vieilant suponstalear till all is is tall working
order. Just sew pleat. Mews, and canals me
worked ; sad in the ea al the arias chi inn peoltadvir
saran in the lawyer of rem in the tuna some-
times in the alpaca pm being dam hem the to,, ud
let into the awl Is satheieset pada to make it most
"puma to the Atha, and mew, theardraf carer be a .
ler apes, to the peerawswe theasiver Tea jb.
emeasiere i ad as Mad due to the ea
dam ed the elegises being too mall so to the for
of the trans bag too kip. The engthes woes built to
work well sad amease all their rsat with sedan',
tans ed three or four op the rare oat_
Toole carriages than these,""alkall them ars abso-
lutely mama ; se that ash more Amer • ad to draw
tan time theathapers igegAggegg ad the
Aria klehrepete ethane noel—Usieek—a mom whir
draws the pe hem the &nom sad sett it lose ia. the
covered way, I. the seroyanes of en New engines
with very imp acedeamers bare bow eared, sad
tell thine are ready the pmeepow will Mate pat up with
whatever faeoweaslosee the am of the prowea mew
Wail. h it haposelbia, elite the nadir
continue r high as it is now, that goy e 1 tks aglow
a be spared her lb. lie I. bare their atheasere
enlarged, for they are ander ram pearly IS ham out
the 24, and la spite of airy ananpmemie peragene
have ates to be la behind at inamodinee eleekene in nhe
morning, the train being hied at sterig. Thennexpeolled
popularity of the line has, es we knee ad, bra alma lage
much for its ramose. Oa WS laseary Owe ea NOW
or shoat the manateme amber thdrebe Oral
passengers
ever takes down to Named sad leek as
the most carded days. Of taunt with the n: da i
wed
hours of working an Semi" it aid have-bra quite
impossible to get this groat weber op sad dolga the la
had the quarteebonr ices the bane boon ad- •
aid to. The Art 03111111.011 ad* en obi day was go •
run the trains at seveeend-ebelfinimage r=7 bat •
even thinwasfermi imalleher, and it wee '
maw to sal the, beta east sad war, at foam al ate •
intervals between each.
There appears to be not the lead doubt bat that before
bog the aide line will have he le woad eight sad de
by double staff, the ler boa ef the night berg
to goods trade alth the 111/Oher of trate will
make
it eremeery to arta& how thy dam the
day. Up to the present it has been feted impossible
to make any engagements for the trait of goods, though
the great lines with width the 'ethereal to in con-
arra are most maidomely abler few it. A
lisle for small pram orge or aka a day, war=
be attempted, but the great balk of the goods drake
sat, we sheath think, be taken la the nighit. after
the term bare awed swig. time plea
of H lid the anneal by pa, less up te SIMI
prima been had to work admirably both as rr-
gaNe senammy red power of Himeimtim. Mee gas
remora is the rod of emote wrap a bee-
from the stead-pipes in two minutes mad a half, and one
Meng nearly three bore. As be expand from
the asses wale has so far aoudad the opining of the
la per of the la., it is Intended to lm me time mash-
ie( It. main length into the very bat of the City • near
Noorgatestreet. This podia tram the terminus Far-
4000e-street is a litW over iluragareste of a mileg and
all be made in two breathes ; one arab Ham-
bill• or rather Skase-dna sad oseause its coarse due .
.oath under tie rite of the old Fla Price Is died a Na-
tion with the Chatham and Dover line, which is to cross the
Thames at Black friars. The other, and the ma import-
ant breath—in feat, the main lies—to Is be ocathauedin •
cutting through the pound north of theithield ad mouth
of Caterboueenquara, beneath the Bairn. into Fins-
bury, terminating in an ample station, nearly an awe is
saint, at the back of Noreepactrest, ea the wards.
Ilua whole of this baths Ursa is to be as rise coating
inning from 30 to 25 or 30 feet der mid el peat width,
es this portion is to be laid for four lass of mixed or
double gage nails, every arm leas ler ad to
take this part of tbe lie the lea viable proper-
ties in the neighbourhood, yet the arm .of completing
this three quarters of a mile to Finsbury albs very peat—
nearly half as much as the whole of the sad the work hes
cost. By its paring the earth side of flaiithisld it
destroys a hideous sootht74.ltneckers' reds sod slaughter-
houses, blood nears and glee and gat makers, who
now combine to poison the air in this pert of the city. As
it also in this neighbourhood disparage a amber of poor
people, and pulls down their hoar, • ease in As Act
compels the railway to rum two cheap trains eath way,
morning and easing, for at a uniform fare
of one pay for the whole of the Ire, or to ay in-
termediate stations.. This ease, heaver, does sot oar
iota force till the line is einithed to the City. From Far-
✓imed= street there will rely be a alight rise in thiJine to
the earth of fingthileld, sad the... to Tabery ie will be
taken at almost a dead level. At Alta intonations of
streets along the cutting—mad these ear coarally—the
tel=that will COMISUIP the roadway ever the Hare be-
to be made of seedy three ass the real width.
Is order to allow of the mega' of shops and warbouses
on aka side of the road, ad by rain fre selleg than
freeholds the compay baps to wares tiaras for a
considerable 'bare of their outlay ia the ooestrunken of the
line.

PRINTERS' PLVSION 801111:117. The. animal
election ol pensioners to tie besoils d thisorzeollooo
institution is sonoonood to Oak* Ono on Maui*, the 2nd.
of March. There are 36 midlands for 8 onosninon

Courzir Hinz Astmots.—Tbe annual wester en-
tertainment to the Mien* new umbering Beady 1,900, of
this institutioe Mok place co the 30th inst. befogs • large
assemblage of the county megistastes, thein. Mends and
others interested iii the subject of ineanity. M 4 o'clock
about 230 remand 330 women assembled m Mises* hall,.
which was very brilliantly lighted, mid decanted with flap,
Chinese lamps, and mormiemet The menesseseto com-
menced with the tricks of a peetemed cionjum sapped for
, the masks, who was followed by Mr. Punch. Kis. Judy,
sad the faithful dog Toby. After this at 8. o'clock, the.
patients retied to their mirds, where they mire resale&
with plumlike, oranges, spited ale and leemaile, in which
those who were linable tolls present in the ball participated..
At 7 o'clock the ball was Nein filled with the busy snd.
happy population, who dewing commeaced, and was kw*
up till nearly 10, whoa the Notional Anthem closed the,
proceeding* We are happy to record that not • single
casualty or unpleasantness occurred to saw the piessues of
the firming. During the time the patients were at supper
the magistrates entertained the rionipsny at a very sump-
tuous repeat. It is right to add that alifigeed in dewing
mid the various efforts made to anises the patient., and it
ens universally admitted that the (keney Hatch winter fete
of 1963 is entitled to rank as the most brilliant and mows-
ful is the mylosn'e history. Timm.
Till ADOLTIMATION OF PILL.—At the Sheriffs'
Court, Red Lice-square yesterday. before Mr. Coder.
Sheriff Harebell, an action brought M the Exchequer was
tried is which • defence was made niched** Adidteratim
of Food Act, 23rd and 24th Victoria, cap. 84. The plaintiff,
Moses Godwiu, a farmer at Farnbcrough, Haute, claimed
61. 14a. Id. so a balance for milk supplied to thedefendaat,
John Piggia. of Harp.slley, Farrinedlon.stmek milkdesier.
The plaintiff had seat milk front his farm hr the bonsai
Western Railway, anal the defendant fetched it from the
Waterloo statics. He complained that the milk was
watered, but paid the first bill. The sicced bill, in August,
he refused to pay, and had • certificate from Dr. Letheby,
the analyst under the Adulteration of Feed Act for the
City of and two parts only were fumed to be milk.
The defendant had paid for the milk two-tbirds of the ac-
mint, and refused to pay the halms of 61. 14s. Id. for
water. Dr. L 0.6167 Weeded the court, but his certifi-
cate was received as evidence. The plaintiff and his man
stated that the milk was seat to the railway perfectly pure
and unadulterated, and the ticket-collector of the Farn-
borough statics moved the manner in which it was placed
as the railway, unlocked, and came to the Waterloo station.
i The defendant declared that the milk was watered, anal be
bad thrown some away ; and two milkdealers, name Cole
and Davis, had Mated the milk at the Waterloo station sod
found it adulterated. These were .middlemen," supplying
dicier*, sod they Meted that they did not adulterate their
milk, but could not rate the condition in which it was lap-
, plied to the Leaden customers. lir. Peckham, solicitor. on
I the part of the defendant. said the question raised under the
act was one of public importance, and be relied as the
certified* of Dr. Letbeby. The action was fur milk, sod.
as be had proved that water had been mixed with it to the
extent of one-third, the defendant bad paid two-thirds of
the claim and releted the remainder, being determined that
he would ant pay for water. On the part if the plaintiff
Mr. 11. Rigby contended that if the defeedsut au...soled
the jury meld coeviat his client of groin dishonesty ; be
bed proved that the milk was sent to the railway in an
unadulterated state. The learned I:oder-Sheriff said the
jury bad to determine whether the milk hod sees met by
the plaintiff in a pare and coarlelorrotoi elate. we whether
when it reached the Waterloo station it bad bees sized
with water. The defence was under the act, oe which •
questiou might wide, but he would simply tut the came to
i the jury on the qmatioe of edulterstiou. no pug 6
verdict for the pkiatiff for the amount dams&