The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-01 00:00:00

VIOLATIONS OF THE TRUCK ACT.

On Saturday Mews. John and Henry Blakeley,
dyers and bleacher.. at Prestwich, near Manchester, were
summoned to the New Beilet C 'urt.house, before the
county magistrates, q.anawer an information charging them
with • violation of the let and 2,.d William IV.. cap. 37.
sec. 9, commonly called t• The Truck Act," being an act
passed for prohiniting the payment, in certain trades, of
wages in good. or otherwise than in the current coin of the
realm. Mr. Robinson, of tho firm of Messrs. HOOD and
Robinson, solicitors, appeared for the prosecution, and
stated that the &nee of the defendants merited attention,
hirsute they carried on a large busin.se, and employed
more than one hundred workpe•iple. They had a shop
upon their premises, from which the hands were
supplied with almost everything—both in food and
clothing. The name over the situp done wee Wil:ism
Blakeley, who was the eon of Mr. Henry Blak..ley, one of
the defendants, and this system of payment had been car-
ried on at these works for 20 years past. The merle in
which hatinest was tran.act. d was that the workpeople
went to the shop and were furnished with goods, each of
such persons having a book in which the geode were
entered, and this book was presented when they were paid
their wages every four weeks. and the amount deducted
from the sum due—the workpeople often being left con-
siderably in debt to their employers. A workman was
called to prove the cue, but Mr Phillips, attorney on behalf
of the defendants, oficred to plead guilty if one ease oily
Were taken, and in mitigation of the penalty it was pleaded
that the system had been established to accommodate the
workpeople, who were a mile from the nearest shop, and at
whose solicitation it bad been recomme. cad after being once
suspended. The betich retired to consider the matter, alai.
Mr. Trafford, on their return, said the•
y had resolved es..
convict in the whole six cases, imposing • penalty of 71. lin,
in each case, with costs.

SWINDLERS AT SOUTHAMPTON.—Tbe Soutbamse n
papers of Saturday give partii-uhirs of the detection saw sx-
poeure of two audacious swindlers in that town—u lav► and
woman, who west by the name rf Heinenteiere. The 'man
is about 35 years ot age, 5 feet 9 or 10 tattles in b eight, of
light hair and comp mon, and speaks English correctly,
with a stung German accent; the woman is somewhat
younger, of middle sm., and lady-:ike its ter lan•Ausge and
addrees. Herr Hi inemeiere set up in South. moon as a
surgeon-dentist, and Mrs. litinemeisr• opener', a school, in
which she eageged to commence and li' iii a the educa-
tion of her pupils on advantageous terms. The
duties of bee acnool commented with religious in-
struction, and the integrity of eharattrt o'. her pupils WJa
to be strictly attended to. Altar termini y in debt to the
various tradesmen of the towL, they ens ro. ited last Sulid.iy
night to leiter, Southampton secretly, witl s large quantities
of household furniture, china, drapery, ai .a millinery which
they bad bought but never paid for. rib' waggons which
contained the pool's were detained at t JO railway station by
the tradesmen to whom they had beie aged, and the swin-
dlers were given into custody. On sp,ereing to pies up the
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goods they were liberated, and the tc,(l posses.
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soon of whet goods they could Sod h eloneing to item. This
.—ln spite
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losses which many or h e &et haw ineut.o tradesmen
sii,eur sustained
trhaHmepintoenin : and
the,
indignant de-
i this2fialetlhoehfaat;e:he;eiet:ihtigtephsetupne• re of Friday, General Gortchakoff's
despatches, as published at Uerho, are correct, so far as he
knows what the allies are doing at both ends of bas line. It
is no secret that the Frencti and Sardinians have moved up
the Haider valley, and are pushing forth their advanced
poste in that direction, and supporting them with
as they premed. It is also well known that the force at
Eupatoria has been greatly strengthened, and that they,
too, bays advanced on the Russians, who are now driven to
that part of the peninsula for their supplies, as well as for
their chances of retreat. It is now coming fast on to the
time when ovary post may bring us the news of great and
decisive events. For neither the government at home nor
the generals in the field are idle for one moment. They
do not cheer* to make the enemy acquainted with their
moveglente by the aid of the electlio telegreph.—Oeseeefr,