The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-31 00:00:00

7BE
MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.

TBE POST•OFFICE SUNDAY DUTIES,
soffit Miforfrehentior tilde eesperiing the awe
Y Su 'trade dirty sersermestr. Timue provincial
they
tht
oatie. have bees made forwarding offices have not
Mid oil additions: duties impelled oa m.. n
soli gala on Safsittlav sight the bundle. of Load's
ora stub they receive (ram
to the thou
ir offiown Lich do not
am rake sp far Luc
ruins ba,s,
sal Twine IPS Sendsy alit t to the local bats the bundles
g Wen hit ns' g to them from their own London bags.
&me base lee of letters are not disturbed at the for-
esaw/ dims, bat are merely trineferred if, us one b ig to
steirert
Its plot whisk hat es contemplatebour whd to r.
ich a • iron_ the pnk
.o.
*gal deem from the Sanday la tua
oitarvis awe. arid y.t to render Sued ty
ely is lb. Omura Posttolfier unare-istry, is to
Om railway pot-nage on every trunk line ostf
mlemy sensosted with Liedon, is which prtvincial p
clerks are to be stationed on Saturday riahts. t son
rslerers e fleeted es their lines during the r j tansies to
leafy, Gni ino seeds and then cn eertuin offices sltua eat
sabot tea; ard, on their rotors to the country on Sun-
day eights. to in .ke up begs for every office or the lines ow
eliatkey travel. It this "Pula aecompl.shed, the set el;
sl ibis* claw. would be 60•41 soon after Ste nre ay
®fought:mie..ieh,
la woad merely commence before Sundvy
ad thus the ;rad communication between places shunts('
ingtosite sides of Linda would be uninterrupted, and th.
Sudsy lahcar, wbnti a flank day necemardy imp. sea on
lere mineral offices, 'foliated, without any Sunday duty in
the Sutra Pea-. See.
Tke followitur wilt nun. the modesoverhadi el
tbe railway Pee. tfi• scheme intelligible. The van-
ity Pcuotfiu A. oat the Gnat W. stern, I. r in-
ternee, ir..1.111 tint separate all the letten thty collected
their Ire ea Strain sight according as they were ad
reed to place" cm .he other trunk lines, then re- can the
I IMO foe places es the 14 ads-Western for example he-
ly tn.lll Ludas and Trivg on Tying for places woesbe
• Us, and Walurton on Wolvertus, &c. The North-
Tatars lt.ilwey Put . nice eletka ea Sunday night would,
woo" as their train started, open the Trine bag, sort the
lifts, end maks up b.gs tor Harrow, Watford, King's
Leaky, Bllktillipbl.ll,l, for et pleas, inMt facfat,
the betwboeen
Lod. IMlTrica ; and so on with the
ps.
leers 6,r pl.cis at a distance from the line, would e sent
foreard on statiu• from *hone. mail arta or coat hes *tat t,
sere an could he again re.sorted auto the ration. note
Itl.natog to the &Crest post towns. Should •uch a
'dame ft carnet out the present art .sgement by which the
Wane tfas/S, made so on Saturday nights, have been re-
fute, *mild be to de available. It must be remembered
rat the L reds bag atuld not be dune away with at any
font odic. nolew some time elapsed between the arrival at
the Litnem mai tram at the f rwarding office, and tumorparture of the mail f that local office, because of thethe
in et bundle' from one bag to another, cons.questly
eulogy P,et.oibce clerks to whom the saving of time wo
the
uld
be of Or protest importance so account of the wed of
train, could tort all the letten for certain loc .1 offices on a
im'rudise office, sod bags far a diminished number of
plan. would only have to be made up on the rail. The
isles thee imposed on the forwarding offices would not in-
ner, with the Sabbath, becalms they would be performed
by so night on Swanky, and would not be commenced be-
ton midnight on Sunday.

MONET ORDER' granted daring the month •f
October Raabe promoted for payment to day or they De-
mme lapsed alien ; ant all mosey orders grated before
the let of 'many, 1319, most be manned for payment to-
day. or the data to have them embed le forfeited.
11IREL BOYS DROWNILD.—Aft inquest was held at
Nee Aar altos, ea view oldie bodies of Richard Clough,
Gnats Whittaker, and Jortathaa Chambers, who ant with
am deaths nectar the followialt circumstances Sherry
Air I ceche% on Sandal sdnettoca, the three boys left the
town of Air parents, lac the purpose of attending the Sun-
day KUM, bat appear to have been diverted fain their
Wien by the aunties of a pond of water, which had
bees from over, sad upon which a number of leds were
144.4. Alter remaining a short time, the deceased late',
Soled their lateati a of proceeding to another she et 01
satedwter
lath Leisb Awl% cid, but were advised not to go by
named Hobert Bindle, who told them that the ice on that
peed wodd not bear, His attempts to dissuade them, how-
fur, wen amending, and they immediately pr. ceeded in
the direction of the place in question. About 3 eelick the
tam annaceet, • witness, named Jaws Walmaley, was
PePtor sear the goad, and was attracted to the spot by
beaten tries of distre 5; and as proceeding to the aide of the
water. he ens Iv. cl that the ice had given way, and two of
the tabu orate tiz,ys were struggling is the water, rise of
the tine huhu ..ady disappeared. Waltman, Moused
to a aevlibeseiafe hedge, lid tore down some Whop ; out
ea In mere, OA water wee closing over the little lellswe
he the last An alarm was aims; and, • neastspr or
Pimpts evince:rime, a " creeper" was procured, sod the
Unte ihastia•te o.j. • were dressed 010 ..f the males. VII"
die," Auidutel des b."—Marwhessir Guardia).
linocrosn. -On Christmas-day last, a party of
I°ug Sea, hew Aaltes.upearKeney, went out with' gun,
whin use owned by a young man named Jahn lloatock.
Alter they hat been out for some time, Hassock told his
remade+ that if he I,und nothing to shoot at very soon, he [
eroa:d have a shot at one of them ; and some, w were
Warmed at this remark, left fie company. In a whoes
41br‘tr!.. Baton pointed the gun at and *hot a yowl;
an, awned Jolla Dediey, In the thigh and head. A meth- [
tal mss wee immediately rammossed, and he dressed the
"mrals, ht.t the stat had listeied too fee into the sole part
61,„ ttul. °oil% to be . dratted. We end. stead the young ens
fs on T. iry veal . and then is no d AAA of his red only. I
--ileediester Guardian.
A GANG or Itutinuns.—Soon after 12 o'clock cm
Inday sight lour m. n tweet to the faun-house of Mr. Taws- [
serf In* re,sdes bete's& Monte' and I,OIM, end baying 1,
sunlit the occupant, ol the hoses, requested an audienee
with Mr. Tanner, stating that they were mamben of the
"a"... balmy and wanted to speak to him; Mr. Taverner,
"worm, sospethyr tome to be is pursuit of every dif. rent
o j• et t° °int fefornented, fetched his gun and advhem.ised them
to rlifo psoceably. er threatened to tire upon tAt
trot they ealy ridiculed kin, and seemed bent upon effecting
sa eatranes : but the fint discharge thought it brbeen to
tf,Bll,- The setaeat party then proceeded to the Imre of Mr.
Smith, Mont.'', end three of them having hid in ambush'
me an the inmates, imploring their mistime. awl
astute ttat his hover MLA fallen down in the toad; the ow
st Mr &kith Itaiinu op. aid the door, four men, with their
Gees mewed with lit►k nape, rushed in, demanding money.
he Series that man be overpowered by number, Mr Smith,
In** en offered ao resistance, and number,
haulers
nnvelnd the rows, Wing from the hutch a U. sot, of the
Ewe bank, with shad 34. in gold anti silver; they also to lc
sway a "Ate 'We., a hat, and some breed lid meet, and
tti,e'e'thel,eesue There is no doubt these men form
14.10er. ul est ,Ifdteperadoes who hive been the terror
01 .Le neighouttrio,.. • for a Ion; time, sad who a short time
sine" attempvtl a hishway robbery upon Mr. Taverner, but
which they
failed to accomplish in cassequellter of the lady
cries of that path:nen for maistance.—Esees Mandard.

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THE FEMALE EMIGRATION MOVEMENT.
A meeting of then M21710)011* Vestry was held on
Saturday, in the Court Howe, the Rev. Dr brae, the sector,
in the chair. Ater the traaseetion of some formal business,
Mr. H. C. WILSON said he rem to cell the attention of
the board to • subject of very geed hapmtanos. He bed no
doubt that all must had read with the attention which it
deserved • letter written by Mr. Battey Herbert, some talne
ago, bit► regard to female emigration ; s risoition which had
previously occupied the atteutioa of the hosed They were
&Isl, daubtli se aware that • committee had been f timid to
Gerry out theliuggeetions coatattied in that valuable letter;
that subscripiuns to • ler.• animist had already
been collected; and that there appeared to be •
disposition on the pert of the public to sid so important an
object. He (Mr. Wil-oe) had not been unobeerv.nt of pas:
events by several years ; Lnd be ventured to my that amoapt
all the public question. welds Lad been discussed at different
periods there tied never been one more fraught with public
benefit than that to which he referred. (Hear, hear.) Up
to diet time th- subscriptions in aid of the object Lea been
limited to the upper claws of society; but he believed it
wee only nowseary for • body of genth men like those who=
tie had the honour ot addictions, to put their shoulders to
the wheel, and is °wee pushes essociatii ns would be
formed similar to that whteh he should ask them to amiss
in tormiag in the parish of Marilebone. (Hear, hear.) The
object wee a national one, and he ;mud that its promoters
would receive from the different parishes 'ha aseistmce to
which they were entitled. (Hear, hear.) Tnete were many
parties who were greatly interims din the quecion. The
first party was that large portion of the commune y,
the iudustrious and well-dispiesi women who, in come.
quence of the pressure oar the labour market, and of the die-
prop:rtion et the sexes in this country—a disproportion so
mai ked that then were from 600,000 breaks in excess ol
males—sere exposed Weevers hardsh pi and privations. The
imsgination of the poet, the ingenuity ot the moralist, and
the wit of the eatirist, had torn aside the veil from sults:dog,
and pourtrityed the various hardships to welch this large clue
of persons was now capon d ; and there could be no doubt
that the (MIAMI! of the ptiOl.e preee bed made a deep ins-
pre eioa upon the public mind. The scanty preance which
ea' earnest did not deserve the name of remuneration; it
hardly enabled the parties to ltist; and, even if the quer
'ion sere left to the severe test of political economy, it must
be admitted that the rem .val of 20,000 secopstreeste, who
were now e' badly paid, would be • most effectu it insane of
enabling these who remained to take their labour tu a bent:
market. sad to obtain • remunerative peke toe it. Wne,
tioiv it was remembered that in the Autitralien colonies the
disproportion of the sexes was equally great on the other
side, end the fearful evils resulted from that diaprupor
ii',
it must be evident th .t the emigration of thousands of te-
rasles was a =mare pregnant with beusheitil results to tbose
e 'Louie% as well as to the Mother country. (Hear, laser.)
lie concluded by proposing the following imitation:
" That the Ye of this baud-room be allowed to the under-
signed petiti eters, for the parpues of enab.iiig them to tire
a parochial aseociation, in aid ot ,ha committee vetted, sp.
pointed to carry out ea disc:ties system of lomat: emigre-
tuns."
The following names wire appended to the risuluti .n :
the Hee. J. H. Spry, DI) (Rector), George .4 allsffue
iChurchwerd•u).
_Henry Charles Wilso. , T. H. Bridgman,
H. °green. Edward Joseote Thomee Potter, R. Hoek
man, O. Wotan. Joon Lovsii4ir, J. H. Dark*, O. S. Et-
weed.. William Fist • !W
Oeorge A, J Ain B.Liue, William
Wee:, James Davis. Jacob Bell, George Rowuey. 'ikons@
Powell, Jam.' Hakes, Sampson H degkiasoa, 1). R. Watt.,
J. D Kitt , Atehtbeld pieties F.eurrick Charles Ward,
t. heats Server, Oeorp Gioia Martin Thealt.-roy, JIM'S
Nob t, Peter Matthews, Bisset Inner, Fronds Calder,
slam Joha Hamilton, Bart, Jon ph Wiagfield, Peter
tirdham, William Williams, Jo. SIP Emily, W. lieu's,
Chutes Carr, Jonathan Soden, Robert Tarupp.
Sir JAMBS HAMILTON seconded the rec.latios
Mr. MICHIB, who was steely inaudible, was utelcrstood
to say that the vestry ought to pause before committing
itself, as needlewomen were hardly the sort of emigrants
well o were required in toe cslowes. They were not say
e tined tor form service, or fur domestic oeeupations.
Mr. JOSEPH said, he welenti.oi Mr. Michle to mean
that se ediewossen would not make the best vie s tor
coldnial agracueurists. Ile horrid that the present movement
would be • &tamable, nut so much to the esaiiration of a
sea or • clam, as to smigratica in general. (Hear, hear.)
The CHAIRMAN *did, that ia a conversation which he
had he with a gen-ettasis who bad been commercially cote-
nteted with Sydney, and who was well acqu iintsd with the
-tats snit p *Mee of the i habitants, be had asked him who.
thee nee-Wolves• a would be an acceptable chat of persons i-
the colony. He Posh trod he was not at all prepared for the
&uses? which he toe. teed. The gentleman said, " I assure
yeti bola pi mobil obarvation when I was there, that these
us eillewonien are exactly the doss of women who wouel be
beat restive,:: they to wanted r ry much, an I you are mush
mistaken d yin suppo e that on leeching the colony they
wouid not bud employment; if they are virtuous and
ievectaLle they will be well employed and very comfort-
etre. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. JOSEPH said it was most erroneous to suppose that
all the poor nemilswomen bad been brought up to their pre
sent etup.uyannt from infancy, and that teey were fit for
nothing es.. The truth was, the needle ass the dernier
resort of servants and others who had been uriven from
tb,ir burner employments.
Mr. SWAIN, in supporting the resolution, mentioned
the case of two girls who had emigrated from the metro-
pal, in cane queuce of lo.ii g their father, and on arriving
in Ault. retie, had obtain, d situetione as dome-tic servants,
one at 301. a year, and the other at 201. When 26,000 young
women, under eighteen years of age, were employed in
the suetrople in making shirts at lid. oath, it sway wee
nee-beery to make same alteration (Hear, hear.)
Mr. SODEN also supported the resolution. He said the
board art guardiaes had already acted on the principle in-
vole. d n this movement. Most of the iempstreesee lived by
their needle because they could obtain no other kind of
employment. The streets were crowded with ilea who
ould be glad to obtain some useful occupation.
Mr. DELL earnest d a Lope that proper care wi ad be
liken to p. ev. nt the emigrant ships employed in carrying
out the object from being ether burnt or wrecked, and gene
rally to provide for toe escurity and comfort ot the emi-
grants.
Mr. GLAZIER also supported the motion.
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
A undo ion was also carried on the of Mr. OAR-
Imre, seemeled by Mr. Butbostee, with the view of securing
tree services o' the rev. chairman (Dr. Spry) a. the chairmen
of the association ; and one requesting Mr. H. C. Wilson,:he
mover of the remintim, to act as secretary.
Mr. WILSON 'aid he should be happy to render every
'mistimes in his power.
After the despatch of some formal business, the vestry
wParliod•

(from the Daily Nara.)
MANCHESTER, Dec 29.
The appearance of our trade market continues to be
enemeraping, and there is evidently mush busieess doing
both in yarns and in cloth. The advance is the market for
the raw material is one c •use of this. Moreheads as well es
.91Ablifacturers now appear to have toms to the conclusion
that there in no fear of the cotton market giving way, sad
stocks of goods being unusually light, buyers for the home
trade and shippers to all porta a-e inelned, as it were, by a
common impulse to make the best of the rsuonable Tans at
pria•nt prevailing for I:crating orders on hand or to mph-
Gish exhausted stocks. Twday's os aket fully bears oat this
report. Not only it the demand from all quarters
but it is almost universal in its !application to the counts of
yarn and varieties of (Mode. Even T cloths and domestics,
which have so long suffered from depression, are rapidly
disappearing from stock, awl are to some extent ?Wing in
pries. The tendency of mines, generally, is upward. is
yarns, 40's mule, fee India, which a variety of circurr.stanees
have conspired to render scarce in stock, have advanced to
the event of Id. per lb Fine numbers of yarn have gone
off well, common& g advanced rates, and the lower num-
bers of water and mule twist for export, as well as home use,
are is demand at iumeating rates. In clans, 36 and 40
inch a` trine', and pr wing moths, have been in much re-
quest and in the form. r an advance of about 31. per
pins has obtained. In jecconet mudins there ha
been an advance of nearly three halfpence, since the
does of last week. The demand in shirtinas and printing
cloths and in the finer counts of yarn continues to prepon-
derate, and some curious Cale-la ions have been put forth by
the trade as to the saving effected in the consumption of
cotton by the tendency of the market in this direction. This
laving his been estimated at upwards of 6,000 bales, or
nearly two million p.unds of cotton per week.
Respecting the defalcation in the Rochdale Savings Bank
nothing more has transpired of any interest since my I.st letter
on the subject. The amount of the probable driloit, placed
in that letter at 71,0001. to 74,0001., is likely to be about the
mark ; and the amount subscribed towards making it good
still halts at 13,0001.—no steps having yet been taken to
appeal other public. Some extraordinary statements have
appeared in your London contemporaries, wherever picked
up—extraordinary fibs—reflecting on theists deceased actuary
of the bank The writers have probably calculated the
chances in their favour that no oae will come forward as
champion for the deed on whom sack a heavy weight
of infamy already rests, and perhaps they ar irreet so
hr. The parties most to he sympathised with are
the readers who have been unwittingly Induced to abates
ismanyhich absurdNes. The main fiction in these matements
one w tends to keep alive a notion that Kimono has
left behind him a board of moot y somewhere, which may
yet be traced and app:ied to tie liqiuidatien of the bank's
liabilities. The ,arses most likely to form a correct V least*
of the value of these stories treat them as simply ridiculous
inventions pat tor'h by ignorant gossip-1w ngers.
The movement in progress in this county and the West
IR:ding of Yorkshire for giving the payers of county-rates a
i control over the expenditure of their money seems to be pee-
-1 ducine come fruit etre edy. The county magistrates appear
to los tatting to work to reform themselves so far as Las-
molar* is concerned. and at their next meeting
an attempt is to be made to economise their
expenditure, as well as to correct abuses. There
is reason to fear that the reform party may
not b' •troog enough to effect their object, bur if they can-
not effect rood from within an exposure ma• result from it
which will help the movement without. Since the couwy
meeting of boards of guardians at Newton, to prowls- the
he
out door reform, Mr. 11.-berts, the secretary, has reciived
hallowing iateressing letter on the result of that meeting
from Mr. Joseph Hume. M.P. :
Burnley Hall, Great Yarmouth, 20th Dec , 1849.
Win. Robber% Esq.,
Dear Sir,—l am favoured with your letter of the 18th inst.,
and hasten to inform yon that I entirely concur in requesting
Mr. Giloon to take charge of the bill "for the establishment
of financial boards for the assessing of county rates, and for
the administration t f county expenditure." I would have
nothing to do with any other county metier foreign to the
existing rates, and the expending of existing county funds,
as my object was, and still would be, to place, by statute,
the counties on treacly the same looting in ream et to tie.
control of their financev, as all boroughs now are by statute.
In 1837. when my bill for these objects was milimirteir to
Lord John Russell, the then S tretary or Sate, Mr. Bethune, 11
the then law adviser of that department, stated to his for
`-
ship in my present'. aft, r going oughtth the bill Mouse by
clause, that he bad always teen ot opion ht the " tin ineeel
of counties should have been placed on the same footing as
the fineness of Fermate.. were, and that my bill would effect
that object." Mr. II ywcod, by the course he proposes, is
taking ex e•ly t e same means as Sir John Pakingion and
the oppours of the bill did, to shelve it for another session,
and to raise questions that belong to the judicial department
of counties. I always intended, if pressed by the house, to
agree to a committee on the bill after its second reaoieg, as
there no recorded (valence would be taken or any delay
allowed. The submitting the hill is, in het, an agreement in
the principle and object of the bill ; and for the purpose only
of makieg the establishs ent sod means suitable to carry out
what is required by the bill. Mr. Disraeli and his sup-
porters will gladly avail themselves of such an inquiry to
defeat your bill. Keep, therefore, I request you, to the
single ohj•ct as exr essed, and I should thenas hopes of
RUCCIMS. I need not add that in any way that Iy can assist
the bill, I shall willingly do so, and remain your obedient
servant (Signed) Josnru Hume.