The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-09 00:00:00

(Stamped id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

AN ACCONPLISHIID

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on the Imeleeimell eg Senthampleo- Moooll 1119.=
by the Brum* stimatin
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MM am wee • ISA Mier's, a littsipog, lebe smile
=Before km Amid lee emit kmbisine sheet tbe
the latter *wool be weel zimmir
op el Me Pier Hood.- lie sistalls* wits 12
mialeakly affable mil slogebip gemelillons
2strk be @War belted ma Meg deity
Y bed raMeient luggage to ware a Imre
After mom time he ezpremed to Mr. Curdle WM et
Me Flo/Hotel. his perfect @diabetics at the ammosoadaties
that had been afforded him, sad stated that treeim=s
sake he had takes private lodgings at Wadden. •
mile tress the tows, hem whence he sfterwaide iseMined
Bernard-street, near the railway laminae. Ism be
melded until Maks the last few days. He be. tor months
been men &Maka Southamptea is geed style, riding the
bat bum sat &Mai the beet anises to be bead at the
limey stables la Pe tows. Often. desk* ibe day he need
te IMO le the siege of the p_riedpal tralemisa, glob'
oedeos and l He semis* to take quite a
farm liiii7a6tZlistahe Pier Heed, sod frequently vi-
sited Wm, to smite dame entiddsh wile in his coffee-roan.
He was a NOM judge of tepee end vibe, and was partiess•
lasizciettiesk wweds" epolhiss a these amides
w be ohlainel Ili bold. At first be paid for every.
thee lea NS slims be ma up • bill of Meat 101.
Wins bo bud*a balm 10 el NW es Kr. Curtis for
kM spleissealde pombnin Li isogik be stated ;that he
had Non • miaow lo the Kew Pend, where he was going
gni mimed a e quanti of mines,
mitt* god dims le Me* kb *stinlarggs wine biasty and spirit
stele. The i s%spdtfitr said eigsre were ill peeked and
le be sent Mel • seement's mdse. Their departure
wee bowwied, en osemat of the delay of the work-
men is wWimp seedy. He several dame them
up led» M Wee est Mr. Curtis to see the setts" sod
to give Wm a day's shooting In the neighbourhood, ever
whisk he had purchased the right to sport, but the land-
lord always happened to be busy when he tame, and Gould
sot get away. Mr.Cartis else bad minder to provide a dinner
lot banes manilas as soon as the cottage was ready. About
twenty peones were to be of the dinner party. Kr. Cortis
drew out a bill et lire, and teenaged the garniture of the
dieter tables oa paper. It was to be a splendid affair. It was
arranged that the hotel keeper was to go with his cook into
the New Forest to superintend the genial; up of the dinner.
The cottage poultrylard was 'Massive, and Kr. Curtis
had agreed, at the epeeist regent of his patron, to take all
the poultry reared by the latter, for his hotel, at the market
. A few weeks ago Mr. Curtis had promised to let
price
..Arlingten have a newspaper, of a aerials date, to read,
and failed to do so. The nest de, the former took the pamr
to Bernard-street, intending to apologies for the delay, but
Kr. Arlington was most Indignant: be would neither take
the paper nor listen to the apology. He was a man
of his word, he said, and he would not suffer any
one to be otherwise with whom he isalt. The
scorn of the gentleman rather riled the landlord,
and he left in dudgeon. Mr. Arlington rather
relented, and galled after him and said, that as Mr. Curtis
bad brought the paper he would take it. The landlord now
had his revenge, and replied, "No, sir ; you would not have
the paper—you are a man of your word, and now you shall
not have the paper." Mr. Arlington was pleased with the
wit and spirit of the landlord; and in a week afterwards he
called mails at the hotel, apologised for his own quick
temper, and rallied Curtis on has. He then, as usual,
smoked cigars and drank a bottle of wine, talked confiden-
tially with the landlord about money Nutters, stated that
he had purchased shares in the Hampshire Bank, that he had
lest 601)1. out a life polity to set up • young tradesman in
the town, offered Kr. Canis a 1001. or so, as he was a young
beginner, and left him with a cordial grasp of the hands
end borrowed of him Mu guises' cant his governmeetl
dividends became dee. Soon after this, Kr. Curtis hat
business to Winchester, and returning from thence in a
chaise, he stopped at Widmann, to bait his home. There
he met Kr. Arlington with a disreputable female. Thisk-
ing that that gentleman was in the New Forest sepetintend-
big the preparation of his cottage, he was rather surprised
to end him et Otterbourse, and la suck eompeay too; and
now for the first time it attack him that all was not right.
as began to institute some inquiries, and soon foand that
his patron's statement of having bought hones of a livery-
stable keeper was sot tress, and that be had oily
hired them. He seat drove into the New Forest,
and ascertained that the cottage was still to let,
and he begin to reflect that each time be had
been Invited into the forest to see the cottage sad to
shoot was osa foreign packet days, whoa he could sot pos-
sibly get away. He at ones wait to the person in Bernard-
street where Kr. Arlington lodged, revealed his suspicions,
and made amegemeate to become acquainted with any
preparations for the removal of the foreign gentlemen from
the tows, and had resolved to act promo ly and deter.
=Madly by forcibly stopping his "zit Unfortunately the
MA lilted owe midnight without hie Wag made acquainted
with it, and he was cheated. The livery stable keeper was
also cheated of about 601. for hire of horses and carriages ;
and some of the shrewdest tradeentea in the town were vie-
Maimed very sonsiderably. Kr. Cattle, as coon as he
heard his friend had bolted, rushed to Loodea after Wm,
bet could not trace bin. He and his fellow ?tertian have
laid their ease before the Southampton ungietrates, wise of
smarm occult Weed these so redress. Kr. Arlington Is very
elm% Ansa sin sip, wears black whiskers, and is
net verg
Illative. He wore generally a low
at
crowned rbiliffedippasrance would betoken him to be a
German, though he spoke Zuglith with a Preach aceset.
Considering the time, viz., five months, be les been in
Southampton. living on his wits, and the reputed shrewd-
lieu of his Maim, he must be considered a very finished
pupil of his school.

GREAT STRIKE EXPECTED IN MANCHESTER.

A meeting of factory operatives was held at the
Peeples lastitate. ailrod•strest, Meashater, as Wed-

wan ovens& is eionieq aesee et • number of master
spinners having given anise to their operatives of sa in-
tended radian= of wages equal to 10 or 12 per nat. Tho
Whine is • Jorge sae, with • gallery, but it was crowded
fa every part, sad wee of the operatives bad to Inn foe
want of asoonstodatiss. It was stand that 27 inns had

gives setts, el redaction, bat that several had sabesquently

lrawa It.

The Ciminitart was one of • provisional sosamittee of
three appointed to sell the westing, bat the operatives
present expressed ea •nwilliogaess to give Wass. Ho
opened the steering by requesting the operatives at the
Merest wills who might happen to be present to state the
privport of t►e notions given thew, and when the notices
would take effect.

Aa OPRZAIIm at W. F. Mulct and Co.. will eau that

Yr. Jelin Clarke was deducting 2d. per diamond from
them. He was taking a piecer off, sad the notice would
mph* next Wednesday night.
An 01P1RATIT1 at Mean. Kennedy and Co.'s mill said
all Ms egemilms there hod sauteed Kota is stop waking
neat Wednesday night, and since then the employers had
sentairious papas and lists of prices amongst them. They
to an assistent from each minder or two.
hriterhdad beta no deputation to the firm from the work-
people, and he supposed they would some out on Wednesday
night.
An Oe from Meson. I. and D. Clarke's mill said
—Mr. Dadal Clark* has offered m a reduction of 2d. pen
Moused. Naas will be op on Wednesday night. We
have not been to him, and we don't intend going to his.
(Laughter sad applause.)
Au Orzeurrrn at Hanover Mills—Last Wednesday night
the manager gave notice of a reduction of 21. per 1,000, or
to stop fa 14 days. There has been no shop meeting ernes
the notice, nor any agreement, sad everyone seems deter-
mined to own out. I hope they will come out, like calm
(Laughter and chem.)
An Ormunvn at Meson. Price and Clarke's mill aahl

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they were told there, lest Wednesday, that U things did net
take a tuns in the nest fortnight the hands would lace to
take Domethlag We.
An OtIII.IITIVII at Maus. Kelly and Gilmour's mill said—
Makin bugle's as notice he will take 2d. per thousand off,
and we are determined to come oat neat Thureday week,

everyone of us. (Cheers.'
An Oren/flea at New Islington Mills said—They
have takes 2d. off us here. Where there his not bees a re-
ductka is mosey it has been taken in another way, and we
are mains oat to-morrow night. We could not stand it
any larger. (Chews and laughter.)
Aa Oesithrion at Meson. fiirley's—Our manager cane
sad told us he would not go on past Thursday night, at
parent prime, bet he did not say what he wanted off.
Aa Oirastholva at Mr. Bowler's mill said they had re-
mised Murmur days' notice there, which would expire to-
morrow (Thursday) night. After that neither party
was to give or require notice, so that the employer could
either go upon short time at moo or not, as he liked.
The CHAIRMAN said several inquiries had been made as
to what was doing at Masers. Pooley's mill, and perhaps this
would be the tints toilet it out.
An Oraitavivi—The notice is withdrawn:
The Caeraseaw—ls all the reduction withdrawn ? (Loud
Mies cf " No.")
Another OPRRATIVII—No, we are to work without
*ems.
11 The CHAIRMAN thought there should be a candid stato-
Merit respecting Peelers. Some of the strongest firms in
Manchester seemed determined to take • slice off the work-
ing man's wages, and it was for the men to determine
whether they would submit.
An OPRRATITR—I am told he has taken a piecer from
them and that then be made a reduction, and now wants
sootier. I think we oughtn't'. to stand that, and allow him
to be made • finger post for other masters to point at. I
With the heads thine should be brought out, it they will
set SOON out. (Cheers and laughter.)
Another OPIRATITI at Poole's, said they had discharged
all the spinners, and when they altered the twist
they took Id. off. When they got the majority of the
frames a-gate, with only one In the wheel-house, they took
another 2.1. off, or 3d. per thousand oat of Is. 6td.•' but
they gave the men • doffer extra. The speaker 'dried that
there had been an Intimation that if the reduction proposed
is other stills were accepted by the bands, they (Messrs.
Feeley) would have to take off something more ; but they
would let it stand until the others were settled.
The Common asked whether Pooley's men were
satisfied with the system; sod the speaker replied that
although there had been a reduction in the mill generally,
the wages of the minders were increased—at least, be could
speak for himself—from 4e. to 61. per week. When there
were two in a wheel-home, they lBe. or 19'. • week;
but now, with nee, they got 245. or 255. (Cries of" No,
no,, and„ Vim yes ")
The CHAIRMAN contended that the work could not be
carried on with one in each wheelliouse ; he knew from
experience that it was too hard. What speed bad been
taken off
The previous Speaker—About four teeth.
A Voles—No, seven.
The Cu/mutes appealed to the meeting whether they
would stand by their previous declarations, that they would
not work without piecers• So long as Messrs. Feeley con-
tinued to work with one in a wheel-house, with what gram
could the bands go to Messrs Kennedy and say that they
would not do the same ? If the thing was wrong, is should
be stepped ; if right, they could cot ninth to do it foe
Mean. Kennedy, and the gnat battle would be with that
firm upon that point. (Cries of " Fetch 'em out I fetch 'em
est I" applause, and • reesturnendation that Mears.
Parley's heads should be brought out " as they were before,"
the men generally laving • " siege to the whole firm.")
Theehalresen argued against my such proceeding, contend-
ing last times had changed. They should seek to use legi-
timate est physical means with Pooley's men, and see
wheelie, they could not come to some arrangement with
these. There must, at least, be shown a disposition not to
be trodden down just because it was winter time and pro-
Aims were high.
A Voice—We can live upon a little loaf, if we can get it ;
if we can't, let's " fotch " it. (Laughter and applause.)
la reply to an observation that " No good would be done
until they (Messrs. Pooley's hands) ware fetched out in a
body,
The CIAIRMAX again urged that nothing like compulsion
should be attempted. Let those present publicly come to
some resolution—by which they were determined to stand—
whether thews reductions and alterations were to be put up
with or sot. (Loud cries of "No, oo.")
A motion was proposed and carried without a dissentient,
as That the hands come out as their notices expire.'
A Voice—Fetch Pooley's out and all.
Another motion was proposed and seconded, "That the
majority bind the minority ;" but it was not put, • epether
being loudly applauded on suggesting that if every man
would come out for himself there would be no question
about • majority. Beth man should stand true to his
eoloars, and there moat be no dictation.
The Csainsthet observed, that until something was done
about Pooley's hands, the legitimate business of the meet-
ing would not be concluded. It use clear those men had
lest themselves into • very false position, and they ought to
be assisted in extricating themselves.
la reply to • question it was stated that fourteen days'
amiss would be regaled by Messrs. Finley, and It was sop
petted that if the hands did not come out after being
asked to do so, they should be fetched out on a Monday
morning.
The Cithiewaw agate argued against the men being
" fetched out." They might not agree to give notice
amongst themselves, but they might agree if requested to
do so by a resolution of the meeting.
After some further discussion, it was unanimously agreed
to appoint • deputation to see Memo. Pooley's minders,
with a view too-ming to terms with them, or of inducing
them to give • legal notice.
Six workmen volunteered to form the deputation, and
their services were accepted.
The discussion bowleg led the meeting away frees the
notices to the settlement of Messrs. Feeley'. affairs, the
questions on this subject were not renewed. A provisional
lamiwdmmeitgr.
aonfd manage
npenons was Opp, anted to cull future
the tarn outs. It was agreed that Sd.
a week should be collected from minders, and 3d. from
fapfriFirsrma,aiteffliesUtlasprinfirtnd
ttphpiertposiunre;toiasounts:...agAgespotrp.todparitntionneetogafitngls. 6d.
"8 they
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come to as ..teal strike, because the y could not
afford to have • strike with few soldiers ia the country to
protest the towns. The government must interfere, and
get the sfillowners to withdraw the notices.
The CZAIRMAN motioned the meeting not to lay the hope
held out by the last speaker to their hearts. The masters
smut what they were at, and government would sooner
help them dna otherwise. The government of the country
was net elteptiter one of the landed aristocracy sow, but
the macs pewor wee la the aristocracy of money. Mr. Bright,
wouldthat before two years were over they
would be their elitism in the streets, and it was
well heownthat the Maacheeter school hed their eyes open
the refried the attempt
sad he thought there was some
deep &alga in the attempt now making to reduce wipe.
The operatives might as well prepare at one* for • fierce
""&itfee, &peed on it, It would be one. (Rear, hoar.)
leesing seen eberwards adjourned.

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TO COBRISTONDINTS.
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and be at the OS" Beinerl by Two Visa es ibe
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LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVIDERBI 9.

AT Mark-lane, on Moody, wheat TN =forts.
natay 2e. per quarter dearer than on the previous
Monday. It will be a sellielant reply to the asser-
tion that the pries is determined by emsbinadon if
we remind the reader that the principal buyers in
Mark-lane are the millers. and nobody will for one
moment suppose that they have combined to keep
up the pries against themselves. In most of
the markets of England and the neighbouring Conti-
nent, the mice has latterly again tided upwards,
and in all these markets the millers are the chief, if
net the only, buyers el wheat. The millers of Great
Britain alone number 37,268: it in a gross and pal-
pable absurdity to suppose that they do net straggle
to the utmost to avoid paying sixpence more per
quarter for wheat than they can possibly help. To
maintain also, as we see some writers in the Biwa
assert, that the 303,720 farmers rehandle the omens
as inhabiting Great Britain have entered into a oar
battiest to keep up the pries of wheat, is is the last
degree absurd. Every farmer and every miller
tries, the one to sell, the other to bey wheat on the
most favourable terms, but there can be no combina-
tion. The result, however, of their joint mad animal
operations—the Dataquest:a of information gleaned
from every locality, and of their knowledge of what
is waled as well as of what is harvested—the price
which they settle in the market, mist be a far better
criterion of supply and demand than the infermatioa
collected over a narrow space by any one person, or
even any mere enumeration of produce, however
maturate. The penal rise in the market may be
assumed, therefore. without farther Warsaw to con-
Biding statements, to be a complete answer to Mr.
Catania supposition that we shall not require much
same than 1,000,000 quarters of wheat to meet our
comearoptioa this year. It is oleo an emphatic,
practical refutation of the inflammatory letters
in the noes, written by Linoolashire violas and

other idlers, vituperating inners and millers because
the price of food is high.
Last year we actually respired about 3,000,000
quarters of wheat, and the average rice of the first
two months after the harvest was 56a. 10d.; this
year the average price at the same period is Ma. 6d.;
from which the presumption is that much more wheat
will be required to supply the delideseiss of the
harvest of 1855 than of 1854. These Agues teeth
us something more than that Mr. CAIRD has been
extremely hasty in forming his judgment, and that
Merkel incendiaries an be extremely foolish. The
average price of wheat during the last six weeks was
775. 2d., which is 4s. 9d. above the annual average
pries of 1864-725. &l. The average pries of the
present year, as far u it hes gone, is 73e. 5d.,
and it seems likely to mount before the slam of the
year to 78s. Though we may led a higher pries
than this for one or two weeks in latter times, we
art go back se for as the year 1819, when the ave-
nge was 735. ed., to find a yearly price greater than
Sit of 1864, and equal to that of the present year.
The present price, with a gold standard and free
trade la corn, is a most important feet. Bach a prise
has heretofore only been met with under a depreciate&
wanseey, and a rigorous system excluding is bus
the markets of other ereatries. A ►ap of rigid%
from COBUTT to Lord Dean—Free-tradess eke
hoped for ao equable pries of about 40e., amiPte.
Modernists who dreaded a fell to Ml&—are puny at
fault, and the strange fact whisk Isegbatleue tell, as
it were, to scorn, is surely desenlegjelumesilsetive
consideration.
Now, it is plain that the present war was sertebly
not the first nor the main cases of the great rise in
the price of wheat, for in February, 1864, it was
804.10 d. In November,lB63, it stood at 725. 3d. The..
high prices were not caused by the war, which only
began in Mardi, 1864. After the war was declared,
in September, 1854, the price was 68a. 7d. Nor can
the war have greeted the prise in Prase* whisk hes
lately been buying cern is Enema, and reposes to
redeem the import duties la the Zollverels, that her
people may be fed. EMI la 1863 the average pries
of wheat in Prussia was 41s. 9d, being 13e. 11d.
above the avenge of the previous 26 years; sad it
hr sines mmtlanally rises. Lest year, too, the pries
of wheat mesquite as high in the United States as in
Engkad ; and it was not sleeted by the war. In
truth, a general rise has taken place la the price of
corn throughout Europe, and, we may my, through-
out the world, which must not be lightly weed over,
or treated as a momentary deviation from the adi-
eu" prim to be corrected by some petty municipal
or imperial regulations.
On such a fact being brought under notice, the
almost forgotten doctrine of Mr. Mumma that
population is for ever outrunning the mane of sub-
lastest*, rises spin to the surface; but the mode
la which the increase of population has recently
shown its effects requires to be traced. Sines
1848, when the avenge price of wheat was about
605., the exports of Great Britain have risen from
62,000,0001. to 97,000,0001. in 1864. They were not
given away nor wholly sent to our colonies, sad they
therefore indicate a corresponding increase of mew
mace in other countries. In fact, we know that
in 18534 the trade of the United States harrowed
nearly one-third, and that the trade of all Europe
increased to a great if not similar extent. To
quote one example only, which indicates what
has been going on over all Europe as well
as in England, the exports from Hamburg awl
Bremen to Australia and the South Sea Islas& rose
from less than 100,000 thalers in 1862, to 2,900,000
thalms in 1864. Thus, coincident with our increase
of traffic here, es exemplified by our exports, a oar-
responding increase of traffic has taken place through-
out the commercial world.
We published on Wednesday an instruetive skies
meat from our special correspondent in the Unified
States, which throws a steady light on this very Im-
portant subject. Our correspondent stated that the
wheat crop of 1854 in the United State. fell eon-
@Useably below the average of 100,000,000 bushels.
But the maize mop of the year, the staple food of the
Americans, it is well known, was not defective ; and
the effects pith* mere deficiency of the wheat crop is
thus described :
I travelled (says our aerrespeedeat) several thousand miles
through the great granary of " the Groat West," and &s-
-haded my tour late the meet remperom of the Bdd.h
'mime en our anthers frostier. Everythlog wee seams
sad dear. Milhous of fame bad beta literally stripped el
ell hat mad be spared to mistaia the life of man or beast.
Wheat la t►e laterlor of Mina* which for dm MN dad
avenged set same lam sow SO mats per bushel, Wee selling
hem the greseries for double sad treble that ammo.
Isaias seta bad BUSS from 26 sad 3e eats to 50 and El, sad
everything la PrePaltios. Nagleramil ad maketei &Aria*
where a sossatster la beasts& bad saver bees sues, were
messed by agents of provides leases, like base of lessees.
Bach a serious defisiency maid scarcely have admen