The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-12 00:00:00

TO TER IDITOR OF TNT 11111.111 SO.

cannot refrain from ezpte.wng n. 17 entire
aprobatioa—habit though it be—of your ag &Weis
of this teeming ea the subject of the recall of Sir Hem

it appears, from what has transpired ia the house,
that sot only the ensisaader-ia-chlaf of a eolosy can be
written to in a most offensive style, bet Asa the representa-
tive of Majesty itself nay be insulted by ma G&W at horse,
and even recalled, with reproof end amore, given in lea-
gues it is hardly to be supposed ewe geselwas Queen would
heel persaitted to have been mud, paelielleriy towards an
old mad faithful snort. ens had be been /tatty of the
grossest errors of jeitIMIIIL
Every Englishmen& me" dr. sainsiend aad '
the high tone yea have tam, as IPA on fullyssduataad
and appreciate the lures
sad lagrawari of stay word you
hare written. bed every gendemen sad Won will thank
Wirt their
mamkhe Ware me th_ e dead pas Ham, la
of telmeleatned fir &
The day hue gene by, I sin happy to woe, when thus In
wellerity sus ill-treat eves by Wadi and unl beggar
these plead ender them. The shirielsr of eeklier and
Inlareels see,l am happy nettheteve, as slash the ewe sod
the thought of the yank of Ingtead ae ewe the eheweeter
end leileseete of them who serve se skilless. And, if the
prw dues net meat the voice of the amides se as to satisfy
whit Iwln k see at all events nitlgele the pain and heal
whip the wood blielsol by unfeeling sad ungenerous
treatment.
Let us hags that one good at all treats nay arise out of
this dillbremes elephant toms the Duke of Wellington
and Earl Grey.
I trust acme tgaseden may yet be asked is the how,
that will let the essaley know why his lordship held aloe
M Misled
rase he wee pointed at as the only Secretary of State not
at _ _ _

—Fonianet eeMdude this letter, sir, without exprewdeg to
fr.2.lkm belief that the opinions you ham given, end
you bare this day made, are those very generally
I line of dm pi= Ilegband,—certainly of all those with whom
L this ewe ties Earl Orey may rest satisfied that the
pram sad the pow* Si. unanimous in condemning hiss,
and in their sympathy with Sir Harty Smith.
Fob. 11. A CONSTANT READER.

DEPARTURE OF A FLEET OF MERCHANTMEN
TIOM LITIIIPOOL.—For nearly a foresight swing te
the prevalence of strong gales or adverse nunsiper
of ships windbuund in the Mersey has been greater thee
ever before remembered. The wiad Irving shifted on
Tuesday afternoon to the south, the meet Mies preparr
trees commenced for the departure of a aismiaress lest of
merchantmen, bound to all climes and "mem of the glebe.
During the vveuies tide of Tuesday and the neresieg tide
of Wednisilay no ins than SE ships ler hesign pert left the
Meney, and in the afternoon • eanaiderable additional
number, independently of hundreds of earning vamele, of
which no account is taken. The appearanee of the port if
Liverpool throughout the whole of yesterday was very mai-
mating. A beautiful mild, sunshiny day, hundreds of
well.dreseed persona of both min on the shores of Lanca-
shire and Cht attire, the river crowded with ships, many of
them in tow by steamers, and the bustle and activity at all
the docks, firmed a scene fur more than fire miles in ex-
tent such es hrs rarely, if ever, bees witnessed I. any sea-
port in the empire. One moat remarkable mil sammal cir-
cumstance connected with the sailing dsaßeenslMfed
number of 'mete is that not a single famel ship
mitered the port daring the day.

THE STRIKE.
LONDON.
Yesterday afternoon a general meeting of tho non-
society men of Loudon (skilkd workmen) was held at the
Temperance-balk Lambeth, to take steps towards the
formation of • new workmen.' association, to act in conjoit.'
tion with the Amalgamated Society of Engineer., te,, mad
to receive the report of • deputation appointed at a privies
meeting to confer with the executive council of that essisity
upon the subject. The following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, I. That in the opinion of this meeting it is essen-
tially necessary to adopt the Met means for the formation
of an association, which shall be in accordance with the
views of the Amalgamated Soeitty. 2. That a committee
of ten be selected from this meeting, with • vote of con-
fidence and full powers to form the association, in riceord
since with the views of the executive council of the Amal-
gamated Society. 3. That the name of this areciivion
*hall be "The Vniverval Society of Engineers." A com-
mittee having been appointed to conduct future operations,
the meeting separated in a quiet and orderly minutia%
Tim IltaicTows or Titt LONDON, BIIIOIITON, AND
Sourn Cuter RAILWAY have issued • circular to the men
employed in the company', workshop., in which, after re-
ferring to the good understanding which has hitherto ex-
isted between them and their workmen, state that their
wish is to stand strictly neutral, to make no change in their
Resent system, and to leave other parties to fight their own
battles, it the workman in their employment nee content to
take the same course. But if the men, who admit that they
have au complaint to make in regard to their own estuhlislis
went, insist upon taking an active part in the contest which
is going on, by subscribing to support th..se who are thrown
out of employment by disputes with which this company
has nothing to do, they must be prepared to take the con-
sequences of such a course. No railway company
can leave itself in a position to have WlTPOOnlint/IC
conditions enforced at any . mom lit, even against the
letter judgment of its own men, by the threat of • strike, in
obedience to the order of a committee who have openly
announced their determination to " rule the destinies of the
trade," and alto have already announced by ,suing a
regulation respecting overtime und piecework, which every
man in the company's employment must fi el to b., in our
owe, altogether uncalled tar and unwarranted. Amin'.
ingly, the directors now appeal to the good sense of the
men, and to their experience of the treatment which, for
many years past, they have received front the company,
whether they are satisfied to go uu amicably under the
ranting system, remaining neutral in the present contest,
or whether they are determined, at all haxerds, to sup-
port the principle of " combination ?" In the termer
one, the directors arc quite prepared to remain neutral
also, and to make no change iu the system which has
hitherto been brand to give satisfaction. In the latter
ease the min must hold themselves fairly warned that the
directors will consider themselves at liberty to take what-
ever steps may appear uecessary to make the company in-
dependent of tbreign dictation.

SOUTIIAMPTON.
Sixty of the men who were turned off from the
establishment of Messrs. Summers, Day, snot Daldock, the
engineers at Southampton, have signed the masters' ilecla-
ratiou against the Amalgamated tscciety. The above firm
have now got about Ifs) persons at work on their establish-
ment. That number includes a numbs rof apprentices and
labourers whenever left the establishment.

ANCI I ESTER.
On Tuesday afternoon there was a general meet-
ing of the employers association, at the Clarence Hotel. In
the absence of Tnorniut Sharp, Esq., the chairman of the
anociation' the chair was occupied by JOHN PLATT, E.q.,
Oldham. About forty gentlemen were present, the repre-
sent•tins of must of tbe largest engineering firms in this
and the surrounding towns, Mr. Richardson, the secre-
tary, read a report whith had beta prepared by the esecu-
five committee, in which the counts of events to the present
time were detailed, and the prospects of suttees attending
the proceedings of the emaciation, were alluded to. The
different nsemben of the association have been firm in
requiring the signature of each person they eitgan to
the declaration; in several CM'S all clauses of workpeo-
ple have refused to accept work on condition of signing,
but in the majority of es'ablishments a sufficient nuns-
bee of hands have signed to enable the various
branches of work to be resumed. A report was made by
seventeen firms of the numbers who had s smell and were at
work, amounting in the whole to 1,698 men of all classes,
a good average proportion of whom, it was said, appear to
be of the skilled class. llurinc the sitting of the meeting
a telegraphic despatch was received from London stating
that, up to the evening of Monday, the number of men
in the London district who had signed the declaration
amounted to 1,118. It would thus appear that a total of
2,816 men have signed at the establishments of members of
the Employers' Association, exclusive of those establish-
ments Iron whom no returns had been received. Mr.
M'Ciregor, of the firm of Messrs. Forrester and Co., Liver-
pool, attended on behalf of the Liverpool engineers, and re-
ported that, as the Amalgamated Society had only extended
its influence in a small degree in Liverpool, ho hat had no
difficulty in obtaining the signatures of the 450 men em-
ployed by their firm to documents of the same purport as the
declaration. lie believed a similar disposition had been
manifested by the hands of Messrs Fawcett and Co.
Several of the Manchester empl ,yen have received written
offers from merhanics in different parts of the country to
come to work in their establishments. We learn from the
local secretary of the Amalgamated Society that the shop of
J. Houston and Co., resumed work here on Monday morn-
ing, and that about 40 men were taken into employment
without being recesired to subscribe to the pledge of the
Employers' Association. it is said that a perishes. of men
lately in employ at Patricroft, members of the Amalgamated
Society, have received notices to quit the cottages which
they occupy under their late employers At Newton-in-the-
Willows, ahout 50 men, it is reported, have already in this
way been compelled to break up their homes. At sevetal of
the shops in Manchester numbers of the unskilled bends
applied on Monday for work on the employer.' terms, but
in some eases labour could not be provided for them, owing
to the absence of the skilled workmen.