The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-17 00:00:00

DISTRESS OP THE FRENCH OPERATIVES.

Last year the Municipal Council of Rouen
opened a subscription on behalf of the operatives thrown
out of employ by the dearth of cotton, and the sum mimed
amounted in a few days to nearly 250,000 fr. A new fund
has just been opened by a committee presided over
by • deputy of the legislator., and having
the presidents of the Chamber of Commerce and
the Tribunal of Commerce es Vioe-Preadenta. The most
influential of the manufacturers of the lower Seine bays
leaned a circular appealing to the benevolence of the French
public. "The cotton of American production," says the
circular, "is almost completely exhausted, and that which
is by great exertions received from other parts of
the globe is insufficient for the yenta of Europe, and
is used with difficulty by the machinery of our country.
The consequence is, therefore, that, from day to day, mills
stop, labour ceases, sod want of work becomes generaL It
is rain to the manufacturers and merchants, indeed ; but it
is distress and famine for the workmen. Already more
than 100,C&O unfortunate people are struck down by
the crisis; shortly they will be 150,C00. Oa all sided,
in the cities, in the villages, in the country districts,
painful complaints are being heard, and the communes have
come to their last resources. The small shopkeeper is at
the end of his means and credit, and the master cannot
continue an impossible labour." The committee announces
that it will receive gifts of all kinds, and employ a portion
of the funds for works of public utility, "in order," it is
"to give the speediest possible satisfaction to the
laborious habits of our workmen, in order to preserve for
them that moral dignity which deserves the esteem of all,
and in order to render fruitful for the country the sacri.
floes which each imposed upon himself by coining to the aid
of misfortune."

Tait Suitt. Pox IN &ISM—There wee att ad-
ureed meeting of the Wilts Mutual Sheep Association on
TThursd at the Town-ball, Devises, for receiving the
report tithe chairman, Mr. George Brown, as to the result
of theinaculatioa upon the lid Nov. inst., of the six ewes
now in Mr. Hulbert's flock at Langley, and which had all been
previously veconated. Four of them had then been eleven
days with Mr. Hulbert's flock after the effects of vaccination
had gone off, and the two others had been twenty days with
Mr. Church's flock, and were then removed to Mr.Hulbert's
flock, where they had boss four days without exhibiting any
signs whatever of small-pox, although during the whole of
that time smallpox MIN raging in both flocks to • fearful and
virulent extent. The chairman stated that since the last
meeting he had attended at Mr. Hulbert's with Mr. Parker,
surgeon, Shrivenham, on Monday, the 3M beet, when, upon
examination, all the vaccinated ewee appeared perfectly
healthy, while the whole of Mr. Hulbert's flock were in a
very bad state. The vacciaated ewes showed no symptoms
whatever of small-pox, and indeed were the only heathy ones
in the flock. Mr. Hulbert's sheep were then inspected, and a
wetber directed to be caught which Mr. Hulbert considered
to have passed through the disease of small-pox, and to have
entirely recovered, but upon turning it up, its thhrhe were
found covered with pustules in a confluent state. From this
sheep Mr. Parker took lymph, and inoculated the whole of
the six previously vacciasted ewes, and left them still with
Mr. Hulbert's flock. Mr. Holbert at the same time eordial/7
expressed his concurrence he the steps now being takes by the
association, and offered every facility in his power for fully
tasting the ameliorating influence of vsecioa. NZ. 11,01111
also stated that he had received a letter, that mons* only,
from Mr. Parker, stating that be had inspected the six sheep
at Mr. Hulbert's, on Tuesday last, and found all of them
affected by his inoculation, but under very different cir-
cumstances to those which had not been previously Taal-
Dated ; but that at present he could not feu-nigh any report,
en he must first re-visit the sheep, which he intended doing
on Tuesday next, at which time he should be able to deter-
mice whether be should meet with secondary fever or not
atter the rumination, and when be would endeavour to pre-
pare a clear state neat of the facts of the case with Tepid to
the treatment and results. The meeting wee thins adjourned
to that day fortnight.
ARRIVAL. OF 'rids FIRST CAW* or PZZIIVIAA
Guano roe Issymio.—We have the pleasure of announcing
that the first cargo of 2,00fi tons of Peruvian guano im-
ported by Messrs. I. Thome" T. Boner, and Om, the
ship Neptene"s Favourite, ham arrived ia the CMeasi. sad
will be landed la the dome In Dahlia le the wens of a
few day, and that farther arrivals for the depots is
Waterford, Oork, Unrifled's, Galway Londonderry, and
Belfast, may be shortly expented.—Wrekty Agricultural
Review.