The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-22 00:00:00

-Okirdifts.

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The Journal de Chorisroi publishes the follow-
ing letter, giving very presies information with regard to
the paring over Erquelines of the Giant tvoloon, which
set out from Paris, as is known, on Sunday, at 5 o'olleek
in the afternoon

" Erquelines, Oct. 19, Isms..

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"Sir,—Litt night, towards midnight, Porrkeig, the
pointaman, and Collard. the Custom-house officer, on ditty
at the terminus of Erquelioes, gave themselves up, for
the want of something better, to the pleasures of medita-
tion. when an event of the strangest nature cut sheet
their reflectious. The horizon, which an instant before
was clear and starry, appeared to them to become
suddenly &more, and they thought they saw ad.
?arming, under the impulse of • rapid power, a large
cloud, black and opaque, which stopped its course above
them and seemed to descend to the ground. When it had
got about 200 metres above the buildings of the station, the
two witnesses of this mystetious spectacle were in the
greater' astonishment at perceiving, sustained by invisible
cords, an object which they took for • railway carrier.
Surprised, frightened, fascinated, not being able to under-
stand by what impossible circumstance • carriage of the ,
Northern Company could suspend it in the air, and I
prepared to attribute so misplaced a pleasantry to some
genie hostile to the railway and Cr•tom•house, they
were about to hurry to their chiefs to inform them
of the incident, when a clear and sonorous voice reached
them from the supposed carriage, mid asked them—' What
department are we in ?' The pointsman and the Custom-
house officer, being polite people, and seeing that what
they had taken for • cloud was nothing but • balloon of
gigantic dimensions carrying an immense car, replied, ' At
Erqualines, Belgium.' They then heard a conversation
amongst the aerial travellers upon the situation of the
locality, which ended in their reiving thanks from above.
The incident was over for the railway employi; but the
Custom-horse officer, who had resumed his presence of
mind, and who never loses sight of the requirements of his
service, made • trumpet of his two bands, and shouted,
'Everybody stays here fur the visit of the Customhouse
. .

officer.' This remark was received by the occupants of
the car with laughter, and, without attending to the imi-
tation, they went off in the direction of Louvain."

The Journal de Charleroi adds that after the balloon had
left the officials of the Custom-hoots at EnloeLusa were

really aerials ma to the coosequences which might result
to them from this unexpected viobition of their regulations.
" What prohibited merchandise might there not be in that
cur One of theee gentlemen, who had grown grey in the
service, and who sees in Nader and his colleagues the ene-
mies of the profession, declared that if he had been on the
spot he should have made the whole staff take up arms,
and summoned the audacious cootraveuers of the law, under
the threat of a discharge of musketry, to descend in order to
submit to a search.

MR. W. E. FORSTER, M.P., ON THE POLITICAL
BEARING OP WORKING MEN'S INsnrurss.

Mr. Forster, presided, on Tuesday even-
ing, at • meeting held as behalf of the Bradford Working
flies Institute. In concluding a very excellent address.
the boa. gentleman said be did sot know that be had bad
an opportunity of meeting with the working men of Brad-
ford ninon the time when he met them in St. Georges-hill
on the oocrsion of hie election. He had felt ever since
that time, whet be felt and expressed then, that in bdag
member for Bradford, be was member for the working
men sod the noe-electors as much as for the electors—
(applanee)—for they bed an much claim upon him in every
respect, and he should be delighted to do anything in his
power which might be of advantage to them. (Applause.)
Now he had heard it said that them institutes were taking
working men away from what politicians who 'greed with
him wished to keep them at, namely, afro to obtain that
abate in the government of the country which many of them
thought that they ought to have. He did not himself think
mat all; but he should not think it an a% accent if it were so,
because the first duty of working men was to endeavor,. to
raise themselves socially, and let politica take care of them-
selves Bat he did not think that the connection of work-
ing men with these institutes would have the effect which
he had mentioned, for the fact was, there was r.o more slue
and certain way to their obtaining political advanosenent
than to raise themselves socially. (Hear, hear.) In the
Ent plea they removed the opposition against them.
By their efforts and self-denial they proved semi to the most
bigoted opponents of what they, and he, and others,
considered their rights, that they might safely, and with-
out any danger to these opposing parties 'teethe throe
rights. He found, when he went up to London, that very
different opinions to his own were held by many indivi-
duals with regard to the power with which the working
men of England might safely be entrusted is the manage-
meet of the country. These differences of opinion did not
arise because he had a better feeling in his heart towards
working man than these people had, but because they did
sot know the working men so well as he did. (Hear bear.)
The more, therefore, they made use of these efforts, the
more their fellow men in England would know them, and
feel that they might safely be raised to community of power.
(Hear, hear.) There had been a curious change upwards and
downwards in the political feeling of working men, especially
with regard to the suffrage. Fifteen or twenty years ago,
during the old Chartist movement, there was an earnest
feeling. It was grounded upon the belief—which was a mis-
takes one—that by some change in the organisation of the
oouotry, working men could be placed in a different social
position. That was • mistake ; they found it out, and lost
all faith and hope in politics in consequence. Well, he
thought that as they raised themselves in society, a strong
political feeling would return—that which was at that
moment felt by them would be felt more. But it
. would pot be based upon the ground which that old
feeling was—the idea that they could help themeelves—
the irk& that they could obtain riches from other classes, or
honour for themselves. It would be a much higher sod
nobler feeling—the feeling that they had rights to enjoy,
and duties to perform as free Euglielimen. and that they
thought they ought not to be prevented from enjoying those
rights and Inifilliog those duties. (Applause.) That was
• feeling which from the information they obtained from
books and newspapers, sod from other samosa, would be
more and more otroogly felt and expressed. The time wor'd
mime, and he did not believe it would he long hence, when
they would attain to their true position in the country.
When the time did come an immense edvantap would arise
to them if they were not made richer, and it would lead
parliament to do • great deal for those of their fellow.
countrymen who were far worse off than they were, and
who were suffering from evils which the least political
arrangement could in some measure obviate. (Applause.)

The Mexican deputation will have their audience
of the Emperor Napoleon on Sunday sent, to " abash
him, in the name of the whole Mexican people, for all le
Lao dose for them, and to rel►te the result of their mimics
to Miramar."

A letter from Rome oontainl the following :-
01 have sot for some time spoken of the ex.Kiog of Naples
and hie little court. Fidelity in misfortune is not the
dominant virtue of courtiers In general, and of Neapolitans
in particular. These latter are abandoning the court on a
thousand pretexts, and their ranks are beoornieg thinner
daily. Some write from Naples that their revenues do not
come in. and that the presence of the master is indispensa-
ble ; others have lalrellital to terminate, or inheritances to
obtain pomession of ; some again are undertaking journeys
in the interest of the good cause, and arrive in Paris or
Vienna, when they are drawn into the vortex of pleasure,
sad soon forget the exiled nonarett In the Fames place