The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-07 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OP THE EXPRESS.

Sir,—l have seen in the public journals that the
employers of large bodies of workmen aro about to pay the
expenses of the latter to enable them to go and see the
Gnat Exhibition ; 1 have also seen notices that bodies of

men employed by government departments are about to
have similar favours grunted them. I have not seen, how-
ever, any notice that the thousands of poor employes in the
Poet-office department are to have any assistance in seeing
the greatest sight the world ever witnesses!. The majority
of these poor employsS fu the country could not, without
special leave, have time to witness the Exhibition; and, if
they had time, could not afford, from the lowness of their
salaries, to go to London. Pleasure to them (to parody the
words of the immortal Milton)
"Never omen
That comes to all; but labour without and
Will urges, and a paper deluge, fed
With eau-written lettere undediverei"
A CO4NTRY LETTER-CARRIZR,
Who delivers a district of 20 miles for 12s. a week.
June 5.

LIBERAL EMPLOYERS. A correspondent states
that Mr. W. Joynsen, paper-manufacturer of St. Mary
Cray, Kent, defrayed the expenses incurred by 160 of his
workmen, in visiting the Crystal Palace, and also paid them
for their day's work. Ile, also, gave 300 of the females
engaged in the factory, a holiday, and allowed them full
wages.—Messrs. Garrett and Son, the well-known agri-
cultural engineers, of Leiston Works, Suffolk, have pro-
posed that every workman and boy above fifteen years of
age in their employ should spend a week in London during
tie Exhibition. Two vessels have been fitted up with
bertha, cooking apparatus, and every requisite, and a steam
tag has been hired to tow 'he whole party from Aldborough
to , The masts will be taken out of the vessels, so
that they may be towed under the bridges, and mooned at
the Westminster-wharf, near Vauxhall-bridge. The board
of the party is to be of the old English character. Four
bullocks and ten pigs, slaughtered, will form part of the
freight of this novel and interesting flotilla. Plum pud-
ding will be provided each day, and each man will receive
two pints of porter per diem. The foreman will come up
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with the men, and superintend them during their stay, and
see that they return to their lodgings at proper hours. In
addition to visiting the Exhibition, means will also be
plated at the disposal of the men to enable them to visit
other places of recreation anckamusement in the metropolis.
Messrs. Thorne, the brewers, have liberally placed their
wharf at the disposal of the party.
A HOLIDAY.—The directors of the Great Western
Railway having resolved to allow to each of the officers,
clerks, and servants on the establishment of this company
leave ofabsence for four days, to visit the exhibition,and• free
I pass to and from London for that purpose, to be need at
some period during the months of July, August, or Septogo-
her, the superintendents of the London and Bristol &M-
I 'ions, and the heads of departments, are required to make
out a list of all in their respective districts or offices,
wing
to each person a particular date and period of leavlcl
Ci"absence, which is to be mainly determined by the
insure eli-
the service. The arrangement for leave must
of
eo amnia as, in every instance, to the proper per-
foresaw* of every duty, and due caution for the safety of
trains, &e., the numbers leaving at any time being limited,
so that others may undertake their duties during their
theses. The 'directors, subject to this condition, wish
that the convenience of the oldest servants should be first
ascertained and consulted, and, as far as practicable, the
moat for leave, distributed over the three months
fhrolunl i'
of

q'y4,HAnudAN, wig% szieseed be made in &Manner mat suitable Tie objects
all the company s officers, clerks, and other servants—By
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tact 01144 de WM hamar dens order of the board, Ca•axas A. SAIINDE23, Secretory.—
then by the awl,mem so =ay el the repreesslatives of ma 29, 1861.
age jesine, owl and industry, of the world, and Y
the seeseien as peculiarly calculated to show the The Central Congress of Agriculture in Frame—
grest allesseleps of the peace and harmony which existed a society formed by the union of 600 delegates from the
assiert ninon various agricultural societies of France, wider the yresi-
The Mew ef SODOR and MAN, who was present as deney of M. Dupin—has recently appointed a momenta=
• niter, i sebssaing thanks for the toast of Church and to visit England, for the purpose of reporting upon the
State, drew the attention of the company to the agricultural implements exhibited in the Crystal Pulses,
happy ofi,, from which Mapised had derived such solid and also to inspect some of our model farms. This com-
mission, of which M. Maureny • chairman, has arrived in
Minn wee sinfolded with their reception London to fulfil its minion, and has commenced its labour
and with the evident MiYen et the soft to do them by an interview with the committee of the Royal hgnoul•
Mom Um Nisei tr be mew *mei with the style turai Society, in which it presented to the Duke online
ef the 114 whisk is ewe of the ellen in die city, and with mond, as president of the society, a set of the proceedings
the wines, which are certainly el the best ffid, u well as of the sister society in Prance.