The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-09 00:00:00

TO TII lEDITOIL OF THE Masse.

Sin,—Working people are 'err much alarmed
about the government raising the militia; because, if we
are taken from our work, our families will be sufferers. I
bare got a wife and four little ones, and, if I am drawn,
what are they to do? Why, the workhouse will have
them, and I shall lose everything I rare for. A great many
gentlemen who can afford it offer themselves to form ride
clubs ; why don't Lord John have these who can come,
and are willing so to du, and not to ruin us working folks ?
Stick up for us poor, and we will bless you.
J. T. 8.

INSPECTION OP MAIL PACKETS. The muter
mast-maker of the Portsmouth Dockyard has been sent
for to Southampton to examine into the effici-
ency of the lama of the Brazilian mail packet
Tay, which leaves the latter port on Monday. This
is the AM time an officer of the dockyard
has been desired to impect the Southampton contract mail
packets. It appears that metropolitan Admiralty officers
examine into the efficiency of the packets, and after they
are pronounced It kr the mail service, the local Admiralty
superintendent at ffizethamptee, is bound to see that they
have sullicient crews to go to sea with, that they have
proper mail moms • that the mails an safely embarked ;
and that the mach take their departnie according to the
contract tinse. Re has also to see that an Admiralty 'pat
takes shame of the =silt, and that the latter is
properly instrubed in hi, deities abroad. In eon-
suers= of the less of the Antasms, a strict watch
will be kept en the efficiency of the mail packets imme-
diately preview to their departure, and in important cases of
emergency the officers of Portsmouth Dockyard will be
called in to give the assistance of their judgment. It
would be advisable, we think, that the local Admiralty
superintendents should see that mail packets are fur-
nished with a sufficient number of proper boats, and that
the latter are properly hung ; for although the safety of
passengers, in ease of accident, is a matter that concerns
principally the steam packet companies, yet if there an
not means of saving the passengers the public would
suffer, because ill circumstances of life and death the mails
would be the lest thing that would be attended to, or
thought of.
MR. GIBSON'S COLOSSAL STATCE OF SIR ROBERT
Peet is progressing very fast, the model in clay being near
its completion. The talented sculptor has successfully en-
deavoured to leave the usual hackneyed range of paths-
raentAry statues, by communicating life and feeling to the
ductile material toner his hand ; he has abandoned the cus-
tomary placid and contemplative dna/minus and pendent
scroll with which omen are so frequently represented, and
has aimed at poartraying the late Sr Robert as animated
by the heat of debate, with dilated nostril and parted lips,
striking the scroll upon his left hand, in the act of triumph-
ant argument. The statue, which is destined to eanspy a
place in Westminster-abbey will be commenced in marble
forthwith.—Roston Cbrearreadent of Ms Daily NeloB.

BOOKS AND WOW CM ART PER POST.—It
affords us great piweale te be alio to samosa's that ea the
l*t of Match aiiitisamt biller wit be @Swami by the
Post-office in the trameskisa at hada art woke at eft
Our readers are aware that at present Inkyasr lekeee
allowed to be sent in a shilLrltee„ mai that as writ
is permitted except on • page of the bush. Both
these restrictions are to be heed ; and, der the day
mentioned, any number of separate yublieatkes may be
included in the same packet, mad they may coati& any
amount of writing (provided, stesursc, that it be oat at the
nature of &letter); and, it with this latter exeeptios, •
person will be allowed to mad the beak-poet say quan-
tity of paper, whether p written upon, we plain,
together with all legitimate ammatuig, or carving
including also rollers in the ore of plate, and is short
whatever is nceersq for the ash temseelesion of Weary or
artistic matter.—

RAILWAY RA0.1.1,08.-o'l y,an opportunity
was afforded as of viewing the weak. kakis at limn.
Cunningham end Carnes anthems he narking ea Mil-
war Bustinospßerie pontr—in in= the =tare of
which been mom than ewe to the public
journals. The invention may be said to seed* of sta-
tionary steam-engines or other indtasestkeg power, a main
pipe lying the whole length of the Ile% la which the air is
to be ratified by means of the stwamemghtes, airmsgines
situated in pairs along the Lae at distances 'of
about one hundred yards commuticating with the
moil] pipe, traction rails attached to the
within • short distance of the mond enrol& .7r=
brought into contact laterally wages pressine with the
peripheries of the wheels of the ak infin• and being with-
drawn from ontect with nen. and ityperehts attached to
the earring, whereby the ale MOM ass illsins4 to Muni
the proems et the sesesphsso me the Lain appromehem
each pale end ere shoed as the teela haves itt the maw
of pregame bang reemalabal by the pima to nags of the
engine by the vetoing or delmoodeg of the vendee whelk.
Security, anitiaty, and owerstay- in working, as senyered
with the ionnotive, are claimed for this invention. We
bear testimony to the admirable working of the
sod recommend it to the mead attention 0 1=:1:.
neeted with newsy
SUICIDE at A TItraLONEIL-00 Saturday an in-
(PICA was held by the coroner of Liverpool ou the body of a
young man mid John Jones, who had been convicted of
fe:ony on the previews day and sentenced by the recorder to
15 years towunertediets. The crimper was removed to the
Liverpool bessegh eau' and clothed io the prison dress ;
the turnkey pee him sonic oakum to pick, and on going
to his cell sheet an hour after he was found hanging by the
• having tied his braces to an iron bar placed across an
hole in his cell, and life quite extinct. lie had pre-
viously many times protested his innocence of the crime
for which he was sentenced to transport/ion, and, from
some vabsequent inquiries, there is reason to believe that
owe of the witnesses who spoke to Joses's identity may pos.
sibly have been mistaken. The jury returned a verdict of
" Temporary insanity."
BA sl NUSTOK It AN I) SALISBURY RAILWAY.—On
&husky the standing orders were declared not complied
with in the case of this company's bill for making • rail-
way from Basingstoke, in the county of Southampton; to
Salisbury, in the county of Wilts, at a cost of 280,000/. The
non-complianeee were only with reference to the point as
to whether the subscription contract signed for 212,2001.,
mid with 21,2201, paid up, was a copy of the original.
LONDON AND MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY.—
The scrip in this company is being celled in, prior to •
division among the shareholders of the funds recovered
from the directors.

Two °Tuna.
The account day in shares is near at hand, but the
market is firm, the prospect of favourable dividends
making a good impression. All the leading stocks
are higher, including North Westerns, Great
Westerns, South Westerns, and Midlands.
French shares are at the same prices u Saturday.
MAINS AND STOCIN CINGUARANTRID.

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