The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-07 00:00:00

THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE.

Among the amounts received by the Lord Mayor
in the course of Wednesday sad Thunday, in aid of the
fund for the relief of the distressed Lanombire operatives,
were tbe following :—From the Royal Chamber of Commerce, '
Calcutta, 1,0001. ; Yeans. Dupree and Co., 2106 ; Yr. P.
W. Flower, 1001. ; Mesas. 'Laney Campbell, and Co., of
London and Liverpool, fourth monthly instalment of 2,0001.,
2001. ; A uselmode Arroysve, 1001.; Mr. C. Maynard, 1001; her
Majesty's civil servants belonging to the Treasury, 1251. 12s.
A large number of smaller donations have been received,
and the total amount which came to hand during the two
days was about 5,3001.

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Cambridge having learnt that very many members of the
university are desirous that steps should be taken for
collecting subscriptions in the untversity towards the relief
of the distress in the cotton districts, has formally re-
quested the members of the mate to meet hiss fa the
eclooh on Monday. the 10th November, at two o'clock,
with the view of organising a plan for carrying the above
object into effect.

A publio meeting wan held in the Town-hall at 1
Oxford, yeetenlay, for the purpose of miming a subscription
to alleviate the present distress in the manufacturing din-
Uinta The meeting was presided over by the Mayor (Mr.
Aldermen Ward) and wee attended by several ineenbers of
the university, parochial clergy principal tradesmen, and a
few ladies. On the motion of John Perinea, Req., beaker,
sad seconded by Mr. Alderman &dim, the gollowing nen-
-4°4, w" "114 "wwii"w4ll_7 ''1"133 rntglrt(

"tfx7 incrisaing &strews in Linea/him and the surrelinding
cotton manufacturing districts, it is desirable to solizit sub-
scriptions and donations to alleviate, as far as poeaible, the
operatives in those counties" On the motion of Mr. Alderman
Browning, seconded by Mr. Sheriff CUT, • committee was
appointed to carry out the foregoing resolution. The
Mayor of Blackburn attended, and addressed the meeting
at considerable length, after which upwards of 5001. was
raised in the room.

The clergy and ministers of various denomina-
tions belonging to Liverpool and its neighbourhood met yes-
terday at the Town-hall, at the request of the Mayor (Mr.
It. Hutchison), to consider how far they could co-operate
with the relief movement by congregational collections and
other modes of organisation. There was a good deal of dis-
cussion, and some important suggestions were made. The
Rev. Dv. M'Neile mentioned that his congregation bad
adopted a somewhat original form of aid, but one which
they thought calculated to be highly effective, arid to
enlist • warmer personal interest than ordinary con-
tributions to the general fund. They had selected.
after careful inquiry, 23 families in Manchester and
25 In Blackburn, and had determined to subscribe
a sufficient sum for the maintenance of such families
for five months, the amount averaging 2s. 6d. per head per
week. He recommended this plan for adoption by hi
brother clergymen, but at the same time thought it need
not interfere with periodical congregational collections to-
wards the general fund. as by such collections casual con-
tributions, small in themselves but large in the aggregate,
might be secured. A very strong opinion was expressed
by many of the clergymen present in favour of co-operating
with the laity, and taking advantage of the ward organi-
sations for the purpose of obtaining regular weekly Conti..
both:ars from householders and residents generally. Ulti-
mately it was resolved, on the motion of the Rev. Mr.
Stewart (Church of England), seconded by the Rev. J. H.
Thom (Unitarian), "That the clergy and ministers of all
denominations be requested to appeal to their congre.
!cations on behalf of the fund, and take such other measures
rn connexion with their places of warship as they may deem
most expedient to answer the purpose;" and oaths motion of
the Rev. Rector Campbell, seconded by the Rev. J. Kelly
(Independent), "That in the opinion of the clergy and
ministers present it would be expedient to co-operate with
the laity for the purpose of making • house-to-house col-
lection throughout the town." The Mayor mentioned that
the funds which bad been hitherto raised in Liverpool had
not been sentoff at once, but were despatched is monthly
remittances, and that the amount had so much increased
that the Liverpool committee now sent 6,000 f. per mouth,
which would be continued daring the next three months.
The Bridgwater-house committee, he believed, were giving
at the rate of B,ooot. per month, and would continue to do
to during the next four or five months. The Mayor also
stated that a depot had been established in Liverpool for
the reception of clothing, blankets,

A public meeting was held in Manchester on
Wedoeaday evening for the purpose of memorialising the
government to appoint • commission of inquiry regarding
the beat means to ensure • full supply of cotton from India.
A resolution was adopted calling upon the government to
°obstruct roads, canals, railways , bridges, and make the
riven navigable,and to open out India forthwith, to enable
merchants to obtain cotton in sufficient quantities to com-
pete with America.

At Birmingham the amount raised up to this
time is 6,655/. The Working Men's Committee have re-
ported 8021.

The Bishop of Oxford has published the follow-
ing letter to the archdeacons of the diocese, recommending
• diocesan collection for the distressed operatives in Lan-
cashire:

"Cuddesden, Nov. 5.
" My dear Mr. Archdeacon.—May I request you to let the
clergy of your archdeacoory know that 1 recommend them
to bring the needs of our distressed brethren in the manufac-
turing districts before their parishioners, and to make collec-
tions for them in their churches? In order to make the appeal
as sitnultamionsas possible, I would suggest to those to whom
it would not be inconvenient to make their collections on
Christmas Day—a day on which our thankfulness for our
blessed Lord's nativity, and our own home and family
blessiogs, may well move us to liberality towards our
brethren suffering, through no fault of their own, from
hunger, cold, and nakedness. To any to whom Christmas
Day might be an inconvenient time, I would suggest, instead
of it, one of the Sundays in Advent.
" The sums collected may be remitted to the Manchester
Relief Committee, either through a London banker or
through the rural dean ; but in either cue the amount of
the collection should be stated to the rural dean, that the
total amount collected through the diocese may be sneer-
tained.
' " I sin, my dear Mr. Archdeacon, your faithful friend
and brother, " S. OXON."

LORD MAYOR'S DAY.—As the 9th of November
will fall this year on Sunday, the banquet and procestioa
will take place on Monday, the 10th. It is understood
that the procession will be pretty much the same u last
year, with perhaps a little addition of the military element
in compliment to the position of l Mr. Alderman Rose, the
Lord Mayor Elect, in the City of London Rills Corps. iThe
procession will start as usual from the Guildhall at eleven
o'clock, arid will proceed through Gresham-street to St.
kLutiu'e-le-Grand, past the Post-office, and along Cheap-
side, King Willizun•strest, and timing round wilt proceed
through Cannon-street. It will then pass down Queen-
street to Thames-street, and will pass through Queenhithe
Ward, of which the Lord Mayor Elect is the alderume, 1
to Bridge-street, and so by Fleet-street to Westminster as
usual. The procession will, of course, on its retain to
Guildhall, pass through Ludgate-hill and Cbeapside, but
it will be seen that by the route taken in the morning
there will be very little obetruation given to the ordinary
traffic.
THE HuNTERIAN Mrszum.—The council of the
Royal College of Surgeons has jcat purchased some
skeleton of rare and interesting animals, beautifully pre.
by Professor Eyre, of Vienna, a distinguished
rtrieng arian, and by him for warded to the Internationel
Exhibition, where they were justly admired. They con-
sist of Chlamydophorns truncate, found at Nudism, in
Chili, and first described by Dr. Harlan from a specimen
now in the Philadelphia Museum. It is supposed that there
are but three skeletons of this curious little animal in
Europe, which is very much like the Glj, ptodon clavipes so
familiar to the visitors to the College Museum, only that
the one in question is so small that it could readily run
about in the mouth of the Glyptodon. The late Mr.
Terrell described and figured the animal in the Zoolo-
gical Journal; this, with a second specimen obtained by
' Sir Woodbine Parish, is in the British Museum. The specimen,
now the property of ae college, has bees the subject of
se elaborate memoir by HyrtL Another case contains
akele.ons of rare fish, including examples of the three poem
, of existing ganoid fish, Lapidusteua, Polypterus, and Amis.
Also a case of Batrachiaos (frogs and toads), two cases of
tailed amphibis and snakes. These specimens have cost'
i the College of Surgeons nearly 2001. This department of
: the museum has also been reosutly enriched by some fine
1 skeletons of large British fish, admiralty prepared by Mr.
James Flower, the college articulator, one especially which
will well repay a visit, being a line specimen of the sword
fish, upwards of ten feet in length, taken iu October last
off the Suffolk coast in the herring nets. and purchased by
the college. The museum which has been opened on extra
days and hours during the International Exhibition, has
been crowded with visitors, including a great number of dis-
tinguished foreigners.
GARIBALDI AND THE LONDON TRADR&—The
' secretary of the Trades' Garibaktian Dernonstratioa Com-
mittee yesterday received a letter from General Garibaldi,
of which the following is a translation, in reply to the ad-
dress forwarded to Llm last week by the Loudon Trades'
. Committee :—" Spina, Nov. 1, 1862. Dear Sir,—You
, know how my heart feels. Pray accept my heartfelt thanks,
• and communicate them to the generous people of London,
amongst wham dwell the 100,000 working sea who mines
so much affection fur use. I too belong to their claws, sad
my only pride is never to dissociate myself from them.—
, Yours faithfully and sincerely, G. GABERALLDL—To the
bearalwa of the TradeesCommiiiee, livadas.

NATAL 43D MILITABT.

.—Master

ADMIRALTY, Nov. B.—Aryoi
G. Gilpin, to the Phaeton.
Ilsater's Malatesta H. A. C. Karoo, to the Euryahm ;
and W.. 7. Dunmore, to the Redstanse.
Amistant-Sarrpons Dr. T. A. Roe, to be additional to the
Sutlei ; sad Dr. J. Simpson (acting), to the Trafalgar.
Pan ned's H. Gray (A.), to the Leopard.
Clerk E. B. Nettleton, to the Formidable.
Assiatant Clerks 8. H. &raw, to the Excellent ; and
G. Beer, to the Leopard.

PORTSMOUTH, Noy. 6.
The Hero, 89, screw, Captain Alfred P. Ryder,
serived at Spithead last evening from North America. SW
left Halifax on the 21st of October, and brings home a few
invalids and passengers. The Hero will be paid off, having
been in commission three years and eight months.
The Plying Fish, 6, screw vessel, Commander Warren H.
Anderson, arrived at Spithead this afternoon from Amen-
don. On coming up the western channel last night, she
got ashore during a thick fog which prevailed, but was got
of this morning without having sustained any
damage.
The Himalaya, iron-screw troop ship, Captairelsey,
was removed from No. ID dock to-day, to allow the Re-
sistance, Di, ironserew ram, to go in to repair some slight
defects When these are completed the two ships will
again change their positions, this shifting about being cc-
maimed by the want of sufficient dock accommodation at
this port.
Orders have been received at this port to fit the Sharp-
shooter, 5, gun-vessel, with a bow-rudder, constaassed on
Sa• dal* Opsarkader Pesdseiek Wane,. The object is
Oft *miles yam of the reilareata Idea strictly fa as-
oordance with the design of the inventor.
The Black Eagle, steam yacht, arrived at Osborne last
night from Calais, having on board the Princess Alexandra
and Prince Christian of Denmark, who have come on a visit
to the Queen.

WOOLWICH, Nov. 6.
THE ARMSTRONG Gaze.—lt in gated on
authority that the result of recent ex • to at Co° !
buryness and Shonicliffe to test the relative merits of the
Armstrong and Whitworth rifled ordnance, and the report
of a commission specially appointed by the commander-in-
chief, is very decidedly in favour of Yr. Whitworth's
weapon, both u regents simplicity of working, durability,
and efficiency.