The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-24 00:00:00

MANCHESTER.

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It is stated that at Manchester there is a feeling
among the employers favourable to re-opening the work-
shops to all the non society men, and of putting the labour-
ers forward as well as they can—at the same time, also,
taking back all such members of the Amalgamated ociety
as arc willing to renounce dictation and foreign interfer-
ence. A deputation of Manchester employers are under-
stood to have gone up to London to confer upon this and
other subjects. The employers ore also revising their rules or
drawing up new codes to be posted up in their workshops,
so that there may be no misunderstanding with their hands
whenever employment may be resumed. Taking into con-
sideration the hardships to which the non-society men and
labourers have been exposed, it is proposed to give them
work in cleaning, and other jobs, so as to earn something
which will keep them off the parish. In Salford we heard
of two non-society men who had applied to the union (or
relief, but, generally speaking, the mechanics have a spirit
that will induce them to resist this course to the very last.
The following circular, issued by the Association of Em-
ployers, bears upon the question of opening the workshy,
to the labourers :—.4 It appears to the executive committee
that the rule of the association referring to apprentices and
labourers, has been is some instances misunderstood. We
are, therefore, directed to inform you that you are at
liberty to employ your apprentices and labourers in
cleaning, stock-taking, •, the rule only requiring that
the engine should be stopped, and that no productive labour
be earned on."

The working men have been holding meetings at Preston,
Bolton, and other large Mans, at which the nature of the
question at issue has been explained in much the same way
as at the Manchester and Oldham gatherings. The Bolton
meeting was ver7 crowded, and was attended by employers
and bytes and clergymen, but they took no part in
the p At Manchester Ahem have been meetings
of other' societies to express sympathy with the
mechanics, and the society of fine spinners have wade a
grant of 401. towards the support of non-society men and
the unskilled ; whilst the society of house joiucn at a
similar meeting voted 251.
ASSOCIATION or ENPLOTIRS OF EMI:II/72E1%13.-
011hr*, 3, Crass-street, Market-street, Manchester, Jan.
23, 18d2.—(To the Editor of the Daily News.)—Sir,—Tho
statement that Mr. Marsden, of this city, whose worse
closed on the 10th lost., on Wednesday seceded to the pro-
positions of the executive council (of the Amalgamated
Society), and would resume work yesterday, is quite un-
founded. Mr. Marsden (who at present is out of town),
has kept good faith with the Employers' Association ; his
works remain closed, and he has put forth no announce•
ment of his intentions to re-open them. We visited them
ourselves only a few minutes ago, and found a boy and a
man the only occupants thereof. We are sure you will
require no apology for our thus troubling you.—We are,
your most obedient servants, BICHASIDISON and WHIT
WORTM, Secretaries,

THE AMAZON.

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SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.
A meeting of the Southampton Amazon fund com..ittee
took place today. The utmost difficulty still exists in
ascertaining the number of sufferers by the loss of relatives
in the Amazon. The district committees in Southampton
had got a list of 29 widows and 58 orphans, but numlzers
yet arc not known. le addition to the above there were 14
widow women who had lost their chief support through the
death of dutiful children on board the ill-fated ship. The
relatives of H. Keneboe, a French gentleman, passenger on
board the Amason, will experience deep distress through
the loss of him; and the committee think that those rela•
tires will have claims on their bounty. When the report is
completed it will be immediately submitted to her Majesty,
who has manilested the greatest interest in the great and
terrible calamity which has excited so much attention.
It is believed that a great many perished on board the
burning ship, owing to the height between decks, and tasks
want of ladders at the fore hold, as none could escape by
means of the fore saloon stairs, because that was where the
fire raged.
The carelessness of sailors respecting fire is almost in-
curable. Notwithstanding the terrible catastrophe on
board the Amason, and the orders that have been given by
the Royal Mail Company in consequence, the storekeeper
of the Dee, which left Southampton with the West India
mail on the 17th inst., was actually detected going into the
storeroom with a naked lamp. Ho was dismissed, and has
since gone mad, and is now confined in a lunatic asylum.
Sailors, in using naked lamps, carry with them a kind of
tweezers, by which they pull up the wick and snuff it, the
snuffed parts being thrown almost invariably in the most
careless manner about the Elan.

Nearly 1601. has been subscribed in Plymouth towards
the Southampton Amazon fund. The officials in the
Southampton Custom-house have subscribed above 221.,
and Lady Gertrude Stanley, aunt to the Earl of Carlisle,
has given MI. towards the fund.
Concerts are about to be given in Hampshire, Dorset-
shire, and the Isle of Wight, in aid of the fund.

DESTRUCTION OF THE AMAZON.