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

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1862.

served by the worst waiter in all England, or pro-
bably in the world ; and who Nola that nothing
can equal the badness of the whole luncheon.

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WINDSOR CABTLI. Nov. 16.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess
Alexandra, Prince.' Louis of Hone, and Primes@ Helena,
walked and drove in the Home•park this morning.
Lord Charles Fitzroy, Equerry in waiting to her Majesty,
was in attendance.

Prince Louis of Mese rode on horseback, attended by
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. I). de E.

Nov. 16.

Her Majesty, Princess Alexandra, Prince and Princes.
Louis of Hare, Princes. Helena, Prince*. Louise, and Prince
Leopold, attended Divine Service in the private chapel this
morning.
The Hoe. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated.

A deputation to the Right Hoc. T. Milner Gibson of the
following gentlemen interested in submarine telegraphic
communications between Great Britain and America bad an
interview with the President of the Board of Trade on
Saturday. The deputation consisted of Sir J. D. Hay,
Bart., M.P., Sir W. Wiseman, Bart., Rear-Admiral George
Elliot, W. Vivian, Beg., W. H. Smith, Esq., Captain
Rowett, and Mr. Francis Edwards, solicitor.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on
Saturday, and heard a petition for a prolongation of
Goucher's patent for thrashing machines. The lords pre-
sent were Lord Chelmsford and the Lords Justices Knight
Bruce and Turner.

Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial-
office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Mends. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the
West India Islands, British Columbia, Bermuda, the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and to the
Governors of the North American provinces.

THE LISTLESS IN LANCASHIRE.

MEETING IN &F. MARTIN'S.INTHE-FIELDS.
(THIS DAY.)

This morning a public meeting of the parish_
loners of St. MArtin's-in-tlie-Fields was held at the Vestry-
hall, the Rev. G. W. HUMPLIERY (the vicar) presiding, to
take into consideration the best mesons to be adopted, in
ocroperstion with the general effort now being made, for the
relief of the distress which presses so heavily on their fellow-
countrymen in the manufacturing districts.
The CHANCELIAMI of the EXCLINITKR, in moving the first
resolution, was most warmly received by the meeting. He
said that as a parishioner of fit. Martin's-in-the• Fields, be
at all times felt a great pleasure in co-operating in
the philanthropic efforts of his fellow parishioners, but
more especially did he do so on the present
occasion, when he appeared before them not only as
an inhabitant of their parish, but also as a representative to
some extent of their afflicted countrymen in Lancaahire. He
was himself a native of Lancashire, and he was also con-
nected; with that great county by property, being the pro-
prietor of a small estate near Liverpool. He was,
however, but as one of the small fry of the
territorial owners of the soil, but still he could,
he thought, speak for them, and also for the
great employers of labour there. There was, he was
sorry to say, an impression abroad that those of whom he
spoke had not done all they might have done to relieve the
suffering of their neighbours. Now, whenever there was an
angry feeling of that kind producing an ulcerous sore in the
public mind the usual custom in this free and happy country
of England was not to shut it up until it festered, but to
bring it to the light of day, and let the fresh air of public
opinion play upon it and heal it. (Hear, hear.) There scald
be no doubt that such a calamity as that which at present
prevailed in Lancashire ought to be regarded as a national
affliction to be met by a 'miaow' effort. There was no
doubt a general responsibility thrown upon the
people at large in this matter, but there were also particular
responsibilities resting upon those in the immediate neigh-
' bourhoods of the distress, and shame would it be to
Ragland, and shame above ►ll to the county
of Lancashire, if those responsibilities were thrown
snide, and if no efforts were made to relieve
those who were now patiently suffering under great aftlic-
Coo. The landowners of Lancaahire, whose property had
increased tenfold in value by the growth of the cot-
ton manufacture, ought to be earliest in their
efforts to relieve the want' of those by whom
they were surrounded. In Liverpool, too, there
was a class of gentlemen who were by the importation
and sale of cotton reaping large fortunes from the continu-
ance of the cotton famine, and they ought liberally to come
forward to the assistance of those who suffered by it.

Meer, hear.) Again, the milloweers ought to be earnest in
the same comae, but a subscription list was not their place.
Indeed, he thought their names ought not to appear upon
it. He would explain what he meant. Some of them had
at an immense loss kept their mills at work sooner than
deprive their workmen of employment, and he knew of one
house in Glasgow which, although it had closed
its mill, yet, at the expenditure of 13,C031.
per annum, continued to give to those who
had been in their employment half the rate of wages they
used to earn. He had no doubt that several other houses
acted in a similar manner, and therefore it would be idle
for such people to put their names upon • subscrip-
tion list. He mentioned this merely to show that the
public, because they did not see the great Lancashire
houses joining in the general subscription, ought not there-
fore to come to the conclusion that they did not sympathise
with the sufferers, and were not actively and energeti-
cally engaged in ministering to the relief of this noble
population. (Hear, hear.) It was • noble popu-
lation, and when he rid that he should not
be considered as Battering those poor persons, for to peo-
ple in their dejected condition flattery was inapplicable, but
surely there was never • grander spectacle than they bad
now for some time since presented to the world, and the ex-
ample which, as had been truly said by the vicar, they
afforded to the labouring population in London
and elsewhere. It was an unprecedented sight to see such
large masses of men so severely visited, who, conscious of
their own physical power, had yet never as • body or even
in scattered knots, uttered a single murmur of complaint.
This resignation to the affliction which beset them truly
entitled them to the sympathies of their countrymen.
It was, too, a moving sight to witness the deep feeling of
religion by which they were actuated as exhibited in their
meeting together not to noise forth their complaints,
but to sing hymns to the praise of God. Pro-
tected by that High Power, and supported by the
sympathies of their countrymen, they would, he
hoped, be able to surmount their present affliction
and prove themselves as loyal to their sovereign and as use-
ful to their country as they had hitherto been. The right
hon. gentleman concluded by moving • resolution to the
effect that the meeting united in expressing its sympathy at
the distress of the Lancashire operatives and its admira-
tion of the patience and fortitude with which they had
hitherto sustained it.
Colonel HARCOURT seconded the motion, which was
unanimously adopted.
A committee was then appointed to collect subscriptions
from the parishioners, as their parochial contributions to
the rerief fund, and the proceedings terminated in the
usual manner.