The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-18 00:00:00

THB COLLIERS' STRIA'S.

The resolution proposed at the meeting of colliers
at BilsWs, on Saturday, woo practically retried oat yes-
terday morning, when large numbers returned to their
work. No meeting" of the men were held anywhere to the
district. The collieries is the more immediate neighbour.
hood of Wolverhampton an ermin getting into fall basilica
Yesterday, she Wigs. eolliera, to the number of 2,000
to 3,000, met in Boy's Well Fields, to hear addresses from
several leaden of the /liners' Provident Benefit Society,
relative to an advises of wages. Mr. BAXINDALI pre-
sided.

11:. WILLIAM RIGBY coasidered that an advance of wages
was doe and was necessary, but he deprecated any resort to
a strike if the mastics refused the demand. Restriction of
labour was far better, for let them look what Wilms were
doing in South Staffordshire, and remember how
imanaz
families had been beggared in Yorkshire, though, tt
God, they bad obtained their end.
Mr. Ws.hits PIC/CARD gave an account of a visit he had
paid to South Staffordshire. The Staffordshire nies had
sent a request that the Wigan million would strike if their
masters did sot desist asodisg coal into the diets:bed
district, and the answer be had conveyed was that the
Wigan district did not think it had any right to sa to the
mater that they should not sell goal in Staff er
anywhere else. The meeting resolved unealmously to can-
tinas the society's support to the Staffordshire miners, sad
then a propositioo that an advance of wages should he asked
from the local employers was carried seer. die. amidst
applause. The members of the lodges represented in the
meeting wen asked to send to adelepite meeting, to be held
on the following /gouda repremetatives. prepared to my
whatadvance was wan and how it was to be asked.
Six men were exami before the polies magistrates at
West Bromwich, yesterday, on charges arising out of the
deplorable strike in South Staffordshire. Four of them
were committed to prison for sir months, and two were
discharged, directions being given to take oat 'immerse
against these for common amaulta. Notice of &ppal wee
also given is the first case, though there was little diffi-
culty in finding the requisite sureties and baiL Twenty-
four men were also charged with haring left their work
without notice. It is said that thaw men turned out at a
brief notice became the workmen in other pleas had sot
such good wages as they (the prisoners) had.

Carnes COLLECTIONS.—OR Sunday last, after
two sermons for church expenses. by a well known incum-
bent et tt.e east-end of London, the following items were
found in the plates :-7 cheques, 6 sovereigns, 15 half.
sovereigns, 1 crows pima. 36 half-crowne. 179 Irel
shillings, 302 roomiest, 63 tamps:miss, 176 tlueepeenien,
171 pennies, and 151 halfpennies. makix total of 1.099
pieces, of the aggregate rake of 561. 5.. 6 d.
THE DROUGHT IN YORKSHIRE.— e remarkable
Amoco of rain which during summer caused the Yorkshire
pastures to be burnt up, and which be. now caused such a
mucky of cattle food, I. yet motioning. The rainfall of
the last six weeks has been very slight, and never Bahama
to restore vegetation to the fields, and as the whole of the
aced lands which should have carried sheep to the end of
the month are utterly deed end bare, farmers bare been
trying to Mks an early season for wheat eowr. The
weather is remarkably gee with frosty nights, and it hes
been totted that wheat sowing cannot be got on with as
the land is very hard and can only be turned up is un-
manageable clods. Nothiog therefore can be done till rain
does fall, of which there is at present no prospect. Turnips,
which are now being need, are complained of as being small,
hard, asd stringy, yielding very moderate food for either
Waste ar sheep.
ODD FELLOWS IN THE UNITED STATES.-011 the
let of July this year We powerful body numbered, is the
free States maid in Maryland, Delaware, filimenri, Ken-
rocky. and Tennessee, no Una than 131,000 members ; in
Canada West 668, and hi the Sandwich Islands Si. The
&mesa expended daring the year ending July 1 was
407.000 dole. Of this 283,000 dole. sae for the relief of
16,370 brothers in distress or sickness, 59,000 dole, for the
relief of 2,398 widowed families, 66,000 doh. for
the dead, the deaths being 1.649 in number, and 3,177 Is.
for educating orphans. Tie urinal receipts were 1,014,000
do/ a. These figures, we heifers, do not Melo& the Oread
Encampments, which number some 20,000 members.—
Boston Travelkr._ _ _ .

reier te;ldiers seem to have lost their late
amti pethy to the Federal ooloored soldiers la Great's arsay,
sad line coned to fire upoo then. as they formerly did,
whomever the wren nada their appanage That part
of the kin when the ooloured troops are employed is now
as (met as soy other, and it is noticed that whoa dosertore
some is they an afterwards bequeath fond eating with
the Perron having appareatly lost their late prejudice.—
Aswrices paper.