The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-11 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE.

A meeting of the general committee was held at
three o'clock yesterday (after the meeting of the executive
committee) in the Mayor's Parlour, Town-hall, Manchester.
On the motion of Mr. Go'Ashy, ex-mayor, the Earl of DERBY
was called to the chair. Letters of apology were read from
Lord Stanley and Mr. John Ponder.
Mr. GOADSBY said he had invited a number of gentlemen
to his residence last Thursday, including Mr. Cobden, and
from a chscusaion which took place he had ventured to call
this meeting. Heald not wish to interfere with the execu-
tive committee for distribution of relief but only to ensures
more earnest effort, andincrease the fund, if parable, sixfold.
lie felt that Manchester had not done what it ought. The
manufacturers had done nobly, but warehousemen, mer-
chants, and others, had not done what might have been
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He called attention to the greatness of the diatreas. They
could not looms° their rates without increasing permanent
pauperism. At Oldham the magistrates bad found it desir-
able to strike off 2,(.30 from the list of ratepayers. He
would ask that the ;patronage of her Majesty should be
someitiand that a general appeal be made. He,coacludedby
moving the following motion : " That in order to give a
more national character to the labours of the central com-
mittee. and to afford ready means of co-operation to all
benevolent persons who may desire to assist in mitiating
the distress which has fallen upon the population
engaged in the cotton manufacture, • letter be ad-
dressed to the ,lords lieutenant of counties, the mayors
of boroughs, and others possessed of local authority or in-
t UV:KAI, suggesting the appointment of committees for the
promotion of subscriptions in their respective districts, and
for the transmission of the proceeds thereof from time to
time to the central committeefor distribution. That such
committee, when formed, be requested to place themselves
in cuminuoication with the secretary of the central com-
mittee, who will be directed to furnish them with every
information in his power. That the chairmen of all such
committees be invited to become members of the central
committee, with the full right of attending and voting
thereat."
The Earl of DERBY seconded the resolution. He first
exculpated himself from • charge of discourtesy to Mr.
Cobden at the last meeting. He had thought at I
national committee would clash with present efforts. The
appointment of the present central committee bed been
earefully considered, and he should have been sorry to see
it merged in and overruled by a national committee. He
thought it better, therefore to endeavour to form local
committees throughout the kingdom, to co-operate with this
committee. He also felt great deholey, under present cir-
cumstances, in applying to her Majesty for patronage, after
the liberal subscription she had given. He thought the
proposal now made was the one which would conciliate the
greatest amount of support. He did think, hi common with
the mayor, there were parts of the county that bad notdone
their duty, and therefore he thought it would be best to
make • further local canvass, and then they could go to the
mantra with • better claim.
Mr. t. Cuero moved a committee, to make the canvass
suggested by the noble lord.
M. JOH:: WATTS seconded the motion, and regretted
this step had not been taken earlier. He heartily approved
of the resolution proposed by Mr. Goadsby, with some modi-
fication.

Mr. JOHN Pharr, of Oldham, said that town was pecu-
liarly a manufactnriog place, which Manchester was not.
He thought Oldham might be taken more u a criterion of
the state of the manufacturing towns. He read statistics
showing that out of 16,000 ratepayers those who could ray
would be rather over 8,000. At the meeting referred to
persona rated to the amount of 1,4001. had been excused.
Ho went on to say that the number of contributors of rafts
would have to be much further reduced.

Mr. HENRY RAWSON thought the number of the com-
mittee should be much increased.
Mr. GOADSBY wee desirous this canvass should be cora-
plated in seven days. (A laugh.) He knew it could be
done within seven or ten days, and it would be desirable it
should be done soon, that they might go to the country. ,
Resolution carried.

Uwe. usa, lb' 11,7 aiierest one. He understood
300,000/. would be wanted for clothing before Christmas,
which was mots than they had yet raised altogether. He
would not wait a day in appealing to Manchester and the
' rest of Lancashire. but appeal to the whole country at once.
Manchester and the rest of Lanosabire would do ita part in
time. He mentioned instances in his own knowledge of the
noble help given by individual manufacturers. He differed
from the noble lord as to the Queen. He did not think
. they should abstain from asking the patronage of the
' queen. He called attention to the suggestion from Bir-
mingham, that no time should be lost in distributing
• clothing. Typhus fever was no respecter of persons, and to
say that England, with abundance of provisions in the
country, could not find the means of supporting • mere
section of the working community ha thought was out of
the question, if proper efforts were made.
The motion was adopted unanimously.
i The meeting was not over when our report was de-
spatched.

CAMBRIDOR, Nov. 10.—A meeting of members of
the senate. is aid of the distress in the manufacturing districia,
convened and presided over by Mr. Vice-Chancellor, was
held in the schools this afternoon. The attendance was
numerous, though there was an understanding that the
meeting was merely a prelltiz one. Mr. `'ice-Chan-
cellor having opened the rags, the Muter of St.
John's (Dr. Bateson), mov , "That in the present state of
distress in the cotton districts it is desirable that the mem-
bers of the university be invited to contribute in aid of the
funds, which are being raised, by voluntary offerings
throughout the country, with a view to the relief of the
suffering population of those districts." Professor Jeremie
seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously.
The Public Orator moved the appointment of a committee,
with power to add to their numbers, to collect subscrip-
tions and remit the same according to their discretion,
and read a letter from Lord Stanley, pointing out
that a general subscription was most important ; for
though a few individuals might subscribe large sums, it was
the 51. and 101. subscriptions that told up. Hie lordship
further suggested that one penny in the pound upon the
income tax would produce 1,2C0,000/., and it was not impro-
bably that the nation would willingly submit to the same in
this emergency. His lordship said that the magnitude of
the disaster was little understood by the public,
who knew something of the truth, but not the
whole truth. The distress and pauperism were in-
creasing week by week, and in increasing proportions.
Professor Selwyn seconded the motion, which was also
carried; and a discussion ensued as to the best practical
m: .ns of carrying it into effect. In the course of this din-
-00114011 the importance of the uodervailuate element was
fully recognised. Eventually, it was agreed that a sub-
committee, consisting of Mr. Vice-Chancellor (president),
the roster of Christ's (vice-president), Mears. Campion,
Emery, Hammond. sod Jos. B. Mayor, secretaries, and the
Public Orator treasurer, be appointed a sub-committee (with
power to add to their number) to carry out the resolutions,
after putting themselves in communication with members of
the various colleges.
Sr. MARGARET'S, LOrHBURY.—A most eloquent
and affecting appeal was made on Sunday morning in
this church by the Rev. T. J. Rowsell, late of St. Peters,
Stepney, on behalf of the suffering Lancashire operatims.
The rev. incumbent preached to a large coog.vgatiou. and
the reaulteof h s appeal was the collection of the handsome
sum of 1491.

Mr. MALCOLM Ross moved that the county of Locate
be requested to make another general appeal, and that he
lord lieutenant be, requested to calla county meeting for I
this purpose.
Colonel W. Perrier seconded the resolution, and said .
they had granted 60,000'., which Van committee thought I
was beyond what should have been done but for the
urgent demands upon them, and but for the hope that the
measures now to be taken would justify them. They never
thought, and the Bridgewater-bouse committee never
thoughts, that what they were doing would meet the whole
need's of the country, but it was a beginning. He thought
amongst the noblest subscriber's stud philanthropists
were these manufacturers who were employing their work-
people,
or ]coding them money to keep them off the rates.
A gentleman mentioned one firm which bad sacrificed
30,0011. or 33,000 f. to keep their bands at work.
The resolution was then weed.
The Earl of Deasy, who had been relieved of the
duties of chairman by the new mayor, Mr. Heywood. said
it would now be the proper time to take the resolution
moved by Mr. Goadsby and himself.
Mr. COBDEN said the wording of the resolution entirely
met his approval. What he bad wished to suggest was
that the general committee 'should be employed in collect-
ing money, while the executive committee distributed it.
He was afraid now, as he had been from the first, if the
American civil war went on, a great gulf was yawning
bakes them, into which they had not had the courage to
look. We appeared to be advancing in destitution at the
rite of nearly three thousand per day. He thought the owe
of Lancashire wee that of • strong man suddenly struck
down byparalysio, unable to help himself. There wu •
i mistake n Manchester being confounded with Lancashire,
beeause the town itself was a great emporium, whose
Essesisaate might yet be able to do something,
bat the cede of Oldham and the manufacturing

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY' EVENING, NOVEMBER

his owe valour, treasure, personal sacrifice, or by service as
good in his own department? With this blot removed from
our national honour, this heavy load lifted off the national
heart, we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces
among mankind. We shall cease to be hypocrites and
pretenders, but what we have styled our free
inatitutions will be such. In the light of this
event, the public distress begins to be removed.
What if the brokers' quotations show our stocks
discredited, and the gold dollar costs one hundred
and twenty-seven cents? Them tables are falls
dom. Every acre in the free states gained substantial value
on the 22nd of September. The canes of disunion and war
has been reached, and begun to be removed. Every man's
house, lot and garden, are relieved of the malaria which the
purest winds sod the strongest sunshine could not penetrate
and purge. The territory of the Union shines today with
• lustre which every European emigrant can discern from
far : a sign of inmost security and permanence. Is it feared
that taxes will check immigration? That depends on what
the taxes are spent for. If they go to fill up this yawning
Dismal Swamp, which engulphed armies and populations,
and created plague and neutralised hitherto all the vast
, capabilities of this continent—then this taxation, which
makes the land wholesome and habitable, and will draw all
men unto it, is the best investment in which the property
holder ever lodged his earnings. Whilst we have pointed out
the opportuoonesa of the proclamation, it remains to be said
that the President had no choice. He might look mist.
fully for what variety of courses ley epee to him; every
line but one was closed up with fire. This one, too, bristled
with danger, but through it was the sole safety. The mea-
sure he has adopted was imperative. It is wonderful to see
the unseasonable senility of what is called the peace party,
through all its mask., blinding their eves to the main fea-
tures of the war, namely, its inevitableness. The war
existed long before the cannonade of Sumter, and could not
be postponed. It might have begun otherwise or elsewhere,
but war was in the minds and bones of the combatants, it
was written on the iron leaf, and you might as easily dodge
gravitation. If we had consented to a peaceable secession
of the rebels, the divided sentiment of the border states
I made peaceable secession impossible, the insatiable temper
of the South made it impossible, and the slaves on the
border, wherever it might be, were an incessant
fuel to rekindle the fire. Give the Confederacy
New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, and they
would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore.
Give them these, and they would have insisted on
Waahington. Give them Washington, and they would
have assumed the army and navy, and, through these, Phila-
delphia, New York, and Boston. It looks as if the battle-
field would have been at least as large in that event as it
is now. The war was formidable, but could not be avoided.
The war was and is an immense mischief,l but brought with
it the immense benefit of drawing • line, and rallying the
free states to fix it impassably—preventing the whole force
of Southern connection and influence throughout the
North from distracting every city with endless confusion,
detaching that force and reducing it to heedful', and, is the
progress of hostilities, disinfecting us of our habitual pro-
clivity, through the affection of trade and the traditions of
the democratic party, to follow Southern leading. These ne-
camellias which have dictated the conduct of the Federal go-
vernment are overlooked, especially by our foreign critics.
The popular statement of the opponents of the wsr abroad is
the impossibility of our success. 'lf you could sdd,' say
they, ' to your strength the whole army of England, of
France, and of Austria, you could not coerce 8,000.000 of
people to come order this fioveroment against their wilL'
This is an odd Wog for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an
Austrian to say, who remembers the Europe of the last 70
years,—the condition of Italy, until 1&59—0f Poland, since
1793—0 f France, of French Algiers-of British Ireland and
British India. But granting the truth, rightly read, of the
historiggi aphorism, that ' the people always conquer; it is
to be *tad that, in Southern states, the tenure of land and
the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not • de-
mocratic, but an aristocratic complexion ; and those states
have shown every year a more hostile and aggressive temper,
until the instinct of self-preservation forced us into the war.
And the aim of the war on our part is indicated by the aim of
the President's proclamation, namely, to break up the false
combination of Southern society, to destroy the piratic feature
in it which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the
human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and
healthful bisis. Then new affinities will act, the old repul-
sions will cease, and, the cause of war being removed, nature
and trade may be trusted to establish • lasting peace. We
think we cannot overstate the wisdom and benefit of this
act of the government. The malignant cry of the secession
mess within the free stake, and the recent action of the
Confederate Congresa, are decisive as to its efficiency and
correctnessof aim. Not less so is the silent joy which has
greeted it in all generous hearts, and the new hope it has
breathed into the world. It was well to delay the steamers
at the wharves until this edict could be put on board. It will
be an insurance to the ship as it goes plunging through the
sea with glad tidings to all people. Happy are the young
who fled the pestilence cleansed out of the earth, leaving
open to them an honest career. Happy the old, who
see nature purified before they depart. Do not let the
dying die : hold them beck to this world, until you have
charged their ear and heart with this message to other
spiritualsocieties, announcing the melioration of our planet.
Incertainties now crown themselves ensured,
And Peace proclaims olives of endless age.'
Meantime that ill-fated, much injured race which the pro-
clamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection
sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance, uttered in
the wailing of their plaintive music—s race naturally bene-
volent, joyous, docile, industrious, and whose very miseries
sprang from their great talent for usefulness, which in a
more moral ago will not only defend their independence,
but will give them a rank among nations."

Lab, Intelligence.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—Nov. 10.
Sittings in Banco.—(Before Justices Wightman, Blackburn,
sod Mellor.)

RICUMETS V. THE MrtHOPOUTAN RAILWAY COMPANY.
Mr. Hawkins; Q.C., moved for a rule to show cause why
a certiorari @tumid not issue calling upon the sheriff of Mid-
dlesex to bring up an inquisition and judgment dated
bth October, 1862, taken in this case, on the ground that the
inquisition and verdict were given for matters which were
not the subject of compensation, and that the proceedings
were erroneous. The defendants, in constructing the Metro-
politan Railway, stopped up the thoroughfare in Coppice-
row' Clerkenwell, which the plaintiff alleged had diverted
the traffic from his tavern, the Pickled Egg, situate in Crsw-
ford-pasrge, in that neighbourhood. A great deal was
made before the sheriff about the Pickled Egg
and its antiquity, and the house bore the appearance of
having been built before, or at the time of Charles 11.
When before the Under-Sheriff great stress was laid by Mr.
Keane, on the part of the plaintiff, on the feet that on one
mamma when Charles 11. was taking a walk in the neigh-
bourhood of Clerkenwell he called at the house arid tasted
a pickled egg. (Laughter.)
Mr. Justice Blackburn asked what had Charles H. and
the pickled egg to do with the case. (Laughter.)
Mr. Hawkins—Only as an historical fact.
Mr. Justice Blackburn thought the learned counsel bad
better confine himself to the material points of the case.
Mr. Hawkins could enure their lordships that a strong
point was made of it on the inquiry. The plaintiff claimed
compensation on two grounds; first. that the house was
structurally injured ; and second, that by the obstruction
in Coppice-row the highway was diverted, and the traffic
that otherwise would have passed through Crawford-pme-
sage went another way. The jury found there was no
injury to the structure, and gave 1001. damages for the
diversion of the traffic. It was an important question to
the company whether they were liable for stopping up •
highway according to the provision of the Railway Act,
because a claim had been made on them from a person living
more than • mile from Coppice-row in consequence of a
verdict before the L'ader-Sheriff in this case.

Rule minted.
Mr. Hawkins asked for a stay of proceedings under the
inquisition till the case had been argued.
Application granted.
- TIM QUEEN V. TEAM AND OTHESS.
...• • • •

Mr. Joyce moved in this cue for an attachment sod the
entreating of the bail. klathway, one of the defendants,
left for America before he could be served for the costs in
this use—(laughter)—and he feared it would be difficult
now to serve him. Mr. Train was served before leaving
this country, and he (the learnel counsel) supposed arming
the attachment at his last known place of residence would
be sufficient. He moved for a rule absolute against Train,
and a rule nisi against the bail, to show cause why the re-
cognisance, should not be entreated.
Application granted.
The court disposed of several other motions, but they
were of no general public interest.