The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-01 00:00:00

THE DJSTWS IN LANCIIIIIIIN.

The Liverpool Jim:wry publishes the following
letter troy lila lb:lmm :

TO TIM IDITOZB OF THI LIVERPOOL 30:11CUIT.
Gentlesnes,—l have just men something which impresses
me so much that I hope you will greet me space to dew:ribs
it, and to taro weed Me facie to my countrywomen, on be-
half of the sewing schools of Lineman and Cheshire.
1 mad hardly explain that these sewing schools furnish at
once • safe refuge for the unemployed factory girls, a goal
training is domestic needlework, and the means of buying
clothing exceedingly cheap. The plan is is every
way admirable; and to sustain and multiply them
schools is to do unmixed good. While some
people send mousy (and much many is wanted),
others cannot do better than mod materiels for clothing.
The cry for material is very urgent, and it is about this
that I write. Whatever is sent should be good and suit-
able. It would be • cruel mockery to lead rubbish, when
cold weather is cooling on. and substantial warm clothing is
becoming a necessary of life. But there see ways of get.
tiog good materials cheap. For children's dram penes.
lady this is easy. and the chi does have the very first
claim, if Lord Palmentaa's advice is to be taken, sad the
pramt
and girl at boy dmary
sch opportunity is to be used for keeping every
001.
boy
other day • fraud of mine went forth with 51.ia her
pocket, to see bow mach good sound clothing material Abe
could get for that sum. I have just bees looking over her
packege before it goes to the Blackburn Sewing school, and
I find the contents to be as follows ; —l5 women's gowns,
seemly and serviosable ; 7 trick' for young girls and chil-
dren ; 6 petticoats, limey sad stuff ; 4 petticoats, woven ;
Hamel petticoats, very good ; I child's pinafore; 2 boys'
blouses, dark blue damsel, very good; 11 women's shifts,
unbleached calico; 7 cape, strung muslin, checked;
4 bonnets, °Daum, drab ; • good supply of tapes, ham
buttons, and hooks and eyes. It will be asked how such •
purchase was achieved? and this is what I have to tell
11 y friend went to a shop (kept by • good-natured trades-
man, which is an important element in the case) where
there was likely to be • reminder stork at the close
of each season of the year. She explained her ob-
ject, sad was shown remnants of Hansel and
calico, dresses oat of fashion, out of seasoo, or soiled (base
washable) or faded. Baas too short form soma would
serve for a frock ; odd eode of stuff would make bonnets;
the discarded fashions in limeys yield excellent warm petti-
coat& very chimp. There were no cheap shawls in stock nor
cloaks ; but in a town these might probably have been
obtamahls. So might the list mid cloth selvedges from
clothiers' land woolloodrapers' shops, from which warm
capes boy be
,made, in a way which every imedlewomen
knows.

Now, there are good-natured shopkeepers everywhere ;
and wherever there is a draper's shop of any consideratios
there are rinmants, sod faded and old-fashioned articles
of dress. Ladies who hare hours to spare
can do much to serve their Lancashire sisters by trying as
my friend has done, how much they can get for 51. Fifty
ladies doing this might go a luug way twards clothing the
women and children of the suffering districts. And why
should there not he 50 and twice 50 ladies doing this thing
withia a week'_

I may remind them that there is little time on the spot,
and little space sod resource of seavesieses ; and that
therefore everything should be soot in readiness for the
needle. The unbleached calm° should be wubed out; the
garments should be cut out, in breadths at least, ft sot to
fit ; and each soft should be ticketed, each parcel of gowns,
petticoata, kc.,hetug separate, aud ticketed with the number
and quantity.
It will be a great kindness to put in half-wore clothes,
As I said before—no rubbish. But there are few houses in
which there are notoome articles of dress which am be
spared before they are nearly worn out. I will only say
further that every charge of carriage should be paid by the
seeder, and as little trouble gives as possible. It will add a
grace to the gift if everything that own be wanted is put
into the. parcel—linings, taps, buttons, hooks and eyes,
threel, and even needles sad pies. The very completeness
will be a lesson to the girls, sad will give pleasure in places
where pleuures are very rare et present:Ll am, dm.,
liatater MArruaAu.

MILL= or LONDON. —The return published by
authority of the Registrar General fur the week ending
Saturday, flepeember 27, states that in the week that
ended oa Seturday, the deaths of 1,140 person (af
whom 575 win males and 56. i females) were registered is
Loodoo. If the deaths from epidemic cholera in the 39th
week of 1854 are withdrawn from the calculation, it will to
found that the average number of deaths in oorrespooding
weeks of ten years (1852-61) was 1,138, and if this result is
corrected for increase of pupulation, it becomes 1,251. The
comparisou shows that the deaths of last week were lees by
111 than they would have been if the average rate of mot,
tality had prevailed. Of the 1,140 persons who died, 651
were coder 20 years of age, 141 were 20 sad under 40, 162
were 40 to 60, 154 were PO to 80. and 30 were 80 years of
age and upwards. 359 persons died of zymotic diseases, ia-
eliding two by cholera, 72 by diarrhea, 38 by measles, 84
tlea.a rtans', 63 by typhus. Of 172 deaths assigned to
of the respiratory organs. 72 were caused by brim.
antis, 71 by pneumonia, 9 by asthma. Plithisia wee fatal
is 121 oases. The son of • clerk, aged one year, died at 5,
Uoderwood.street, Sboreditch, of cholera infantum (12
hours). The zoo of a plasterer, aged two years, died at 41,
Cumberlandotreet, Chelsea. of choleraic diarrbcea (3 days).
A cab-driver, aged 25 years, died at the Westminster
Hospital from what appears to have bean glanders. Lost week
the births of 899 boys sod 843 girls, in sU 1,742 children,
were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks
of the years 1852-61 the average number (corrected)
was 1,865.
THE Heavy Raixs. —The recent heavy rains,
particularly that which fell on Monday night, have caused
imosiderable damage to property. In the 'metropolis several
streets wereflooded, owing to the sewers being overcharged,
the water forcing its wsy through the drains into the base-
ments aid cellars to the depth of between three and Bve fest;
ii parts of Lambeth, Bermondsey, and Rotherhittie, the
water flooded thegrouod floor of premises in low lying loca-
lities, many of the occupants bevies to leave their beds and
melt shelter elsewhere. The surface of macadamized roads
is the suburbs is entirely washed away, and the damage to
the growing crops in the market garden-gmand and young
shrubs is nurseries is very extensive. In the vicinities a
Deptford "ad Leririlbsra a serious Ices of property lua bees
occasioned by the ~flow of the Ressosbouras; sad shad-
Ise disastrous cceurrosome bays taken place to pimperty co
the hanks of the Brest, Lea, mid Colo. the whole of the
esustry around Foyle, Long.foril, sod Langley Marsh ban
Mandated by the overflow of the last mentioned river, *ad
much Mad has bees laid nyder wirer at Greenford, near
Barrow, by the overflowing of the Brent.

THIN INTERNATIONAL IZEIBITIOL
There is little to be said of yesterday's proceed-
ings at the Zxhibition, beyond the fact the bad
weather exercised its usual influence, by
1
clipping some ten thousand o the attendanoe. It
$ still expected that the people will own* "at a
rush," as Mr. Healey says, in hundreds of thou-
sands, bat if they mesa to do so there is no time to
be lost. If they hesitate much longer they will be
apt to find the doors shut in their fame. The
foreign exhibitors especially those from the north,
are getting exceedingly impatient, and will remove
their contributions at the earliest possible oppor-
tunity.
We have still to notice with much regret the
rarity of red tunics or bluejackets at the Jabal.
lion. There are 30,000 in or within two
hour' journey of London, and of these about 2,0001
have netted the Zxhibßion, owing the treat
entirely to the liberality of individual Akers.
One or two ships' cram have been equally forta-i
nen% but not a single cabin boy from the Baltic
Zest has as yet found his way to town. A little
generous sympathy with the private soldier and the
A.RE a little trouble, and a' little organization,
would brMg them all up, and then the stigma
mid nut rawer *pier our authorities that they
bat pillaiMstialliu pod latiuntrini lliehibititerto4

pass away without inving the men whose bravery
and devotion has made England the secure empo
film of the world's industry even a glimpse of its
contents. If it is meant to do anything there is no
Itime to be lost, and a beginning might be made with
the camp at Alderahott, whence the South Western
Railway Company would give return tickets at
perhaps a shilling a head, judging from the fact
that they have given an excursion train to South-
ampton at half-a-crown, double the distance.
We believe that many of the soldiers and sailors
who have as yet seen the Exhibition have done
so at their own expense, and in addition have been
mulct of their pay during their absence from duty.
Admiral Hope Johnstone was, we understand,
the only naval commander who assisted his men to
see the Exhibition.
There was a meeting of the board yesterday, and
the question of the final arrangements with the
building contractors did not come under discus
non.

A brochure has just been published by Mr. E.
Ward,jun., entitled, " The Zoology of the Exhi-
bition,' in which the writer gives a detailed ac-
count of all the stuffed birds, &c., in the different
courts.

The following is a list of the schools, Ac., visit-
ing the Exhibition yesterday :—St. John's, Disgust',
School, 60, expenses paid by "ascription ; Holy
Trinity Church, Margate, School, 40, by committee ;
Oldham Rectory School, 24, by the Rev. C. Ban-
natyne ; Bedford House Brixton Oval, School, 8,
by the principal ; Bruce Castle, Tottenham, School,
26, by A. Hall, Esq. ; Earl Dude's Middle School,
Crumhall, Gloucestershire, 15, by subscription ;
Industrial Home, Sloane-street, Chelsea, 47, by
subscription ; Female Orphan Asylum, Westmin-
ster-road, 39, by Mr. J. Burnett ; Chessington,
Surrey, National School, 38, by G. W. Clark, Esq. ;
Millhill, Hendon, Grammar School, 35, by Rev.
Dr. Hurndall ; employds and their wives from
Messrs. Ind, Coope, and Co.'s brewery, Romford,
450, by the firm, with liberal refreshments;'
labourers from Broughton House, Northampton-
shire, 50, by the Duke of Buccieuch ; employ&
from Procter and Bevingtou's Glue and Size Works,
Bermondsey, 10/, by the firm.
The highest temperature yesterday, as shown
by Negretti and Zambra's patent thermometers,
was :--ln the nave, 66.5 deg. ; in the galleries, 67.3
deg. ; in the western annex, 71.9 deg. The read-
ings were taken at 3.15 o'clock p.m.
The following were the total numbers admitted'
yesterday, compared with the corresponding day
in 1861 :

ISM.
i Season tickets 3,466
One SWIM* day. I Teo Mulling mama
Tuesday, Sept. SO 1 tickets
trayuteut

Total 41,684

One Sldalsel tar 7Seaton tickets
Tuesday, Sept. 110
Total fia,SiS

VISIT OF MESSRS. IND, COOPS, AND CO.'S
IMPLOYES TO THE EXHIBITION.

Yesterday 500 of the employes of Messrs. Ind,
Coupe, and Co., the eminent brewers, of Rumford, paid
a visit to the International Exhibition. the journey and
entertainment being at the espenee of the liberal term above
named.

Ac about 10 o'clock the procession formed at the Osborn-
street establishment, them from Rumford under the ewer-
natendenee of Yr. E. S. Palmer, and those from Osborn-street
under Mr. G. Parker ; the whole arrangement. under the
direction of Yr. T. Westcombe,

This procession through the City attracted much notice.
It wee formed of a full hand, twenty-three vans, a coach
and four, a coach and pair, two and pairs, and two
carriages and pain, the elide esmi by police, who cleared
the way diligently and efficiently. On alighting at the
western entrance, the body of visitors placed themselves
touter the wall of the Eshibition, the men who had
brought their wives falling in twmand-two and passing
into the building, the number being checked by two clerks.
Each of the party wore a red ribbon on the left side,
.0 at to be distinguished in any part of the building.
On entering they were conducted to the room in which they
were to dine, and, after having satisfied themselves as to
the positioo of the dining-room in the building, they dis•
pelted, meeting again at half-past 12 for dinner. After par.
taking of refreshment they roamed again io the building ;
not forgetting to assemble in the same room at 5 o'clock
for tea.

Ths arranpneente of Mr. Morrish, the contractor, gave
emend eatidactioa.
The chew was taken by Mr. Weetcombe, and the utmost
good feeling and hilarity prevailed.
"Prosperity to the Firm" wee entbueiastically drunk,
with thanks for their kiodneee and liberality ; also, "The
Health of the Chairm►n," appropriately acknowledged.
A day of rational enjoyment closed by retuning home in
the order in which the party had rowing tie Exhibition.

SOICIDII or • LADY.—On Thursday evening an
loosest was held at Matlock Bath, the body of Jemima
Whodcroft, the wire of Mr. Edward Wheatcroft, who had
that morning committed suicide by throwing herself from
off a balcony, some 20 feet high, into the river Derwent,
which runs behind her husband's house. From the medical
and other evidence it appeared that the deceased had been
in a low despooding way for some time, and that she had
frequently expressed her intention of destroying herself.
On the Wednesday previous she had become unusually ex-
cited and wild, which causal her family great trouble and
uneasiness. She was, however, got to bed, and as the
evening wore on she became more quiet. The family re-
tired to rest with their fears somewhat subsided. On the
bashaed awaking at the break of dr v. and not finding his
wife in the room, an alarm was immediately raised, and •
search was made for her throughout the house ; bat not
finding her there, a boat was procured, and, on proceeding
down the river, the lifeless body of the poor woman was
found floating on the surface, some distance from the bonne.
After • careful consideration of the facts the jury returned
a verdict, "That the deceased bad drowned hoself whilst
. _

aufferingfrointemporaryinimnity. —Notting/tam Guardian.
A DIMPERATZ LEAP. —On Sunday night an in-
speeter of carriages on the Routh Eastern Railway, living
at 'ruobridge, jumped out of • train which was goiog at its
full speed peer the Tunis idge station. It appssn that the
man, whose name was Blanche, had by mistake got into an
excursion train at Ashford, expecting that it was a train
which would stop at Tunbridge. It happened to be the ex-
corsloo train from London to Ruminate, on its ratan, and
did not stop betweea Ashford and Redlaill, so that it passed
through Tunbridge station at great speed. The man, heed.
less of danger, jumped out at Tnobridp in order to get
home. The wonder is be was not killed on the spot ; fortu-
nately, however, he camped with injuries which, though of
a serious character, were not such as to endanger hie life.
He was cut. and bruised about the head and face, sod ens-
, Mined a shocking laceration of the baud, part of which has
since been amputated. He was rendered almost senseless
by the shock, and wandered down the line as far as Pad.
dock Wood, when be remained till an up-luggage tmla
brought him back to Tunbridge. Mr. Cook, surgeon, wan
galled in to attend him, sod he is still under medical treat.
meat, programing favourably.—assres Express.
Gentlemen who require good and fashionable
dress can depend on the bait materials and latest style (et
which specimen garments are kept for Inspection or sale), at
liernlltoo and lamptou'a 106, Strand, opposite Itzeter.ball.—
I advertiaement.l