The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY .20, 1848.

ceived, sad Sees wide! place witness brought him up to
tows tei make the sharp, but without any intention to pro-
secute him. Witness told him if be would render an account
of the monies he had received he would not give him into
custody; he, however, refused to do so, and denied having
received anything, until it was clearly proved by letters from
the damn% firms that he had. On Saturday he was taken
ill, and Mr. M'Murdo, the prison surgeon, attended him.
He was then labouring under the combined effects of mental
excitement and drink. Oa Monday his mind appeared to be
somewhat affected, and he became suddenly tranquil,
and expired without a struggle in about an hour
after. The surgeon said the cause of death was
delirium tremens.—Verdiet, " Natural deeth."--Fotta
PERSONS FOUND DEAD IN THE RIVER.—By Hr. W.
Carter, on the bodies of three persons found dead in the
river. The first was taken at the Hero of Waterloo inn,
Waterloo-road, Lambeth, respecting the death of A. Lae,
aged 10 years. The deceased was the son of poor parents,
residing at No. 7, Salutation-place, Cornwall-road. On
Sunday last the deceased was amusieg himself on the Surrey
side of Waterloo-bridge by playiag with a toy boat, and in
endeavouring to catch hold of the same he walked too far
out in the water and disappeared. An alarm was raised, but
the body was not found until the following morning.—A
second inquest was held at the Star and Garter, Waterside,
Battersea, as to the death of G. Cook, aged IS years. The
deceased was bathing in the river off the Surrey ►hore below
Battersea-bridge on Saturday lest, when he by some means
got out of his depth, and before assistance could be rendered
he was drowned.—A third inquiry was gone into at the
same place, touching the death of Charles White,
aged 17 years. The deceased was bathing on Monday after-
noon last off Wandsworth, when he was seized with the
cramp, and disappeared. He could not swim, and although
every search was made for him the body was not recovered
before Tuesday—Verdict, " Accidentally drowned."—At
the close of the first inquiry the coroner was informed that
the body of a youne man had been picked up yestertay
morning near liuneerford-bridge quite naked, and rather
decomposed. The deceased was carried in a shell to the
vault of St. John's Church, Waterloo-road, where it was
identified to be the body of Robert Bryant, aged 19, who
lost his life on Sunday last off Battersea. The inquest was
accordingly fixed for Friday (to morrow) —Somme HY
A. LICENSED VICTUALLEIL.—before Mr. W. Baker, at the
Nurtb Briton, Commercial-road, East, en the burly of Mr.
Benjamin Sharp, the landlord of the above puldichouse.
Joseph stated that he was potman to the deceased,
who was a licensed victualler, and aged 41 years. The de-
emed bad behaved very strangely during the last month,
and bad frequently complained of his head. On Sunday
night last, about 11 o'clock, witness went to the bedroom of
the deceased, and upon opening the door saw the deceased
lying upon :he bed, bleeding mon profusely. His head was
nearly d from his body, and eraser was found lying near
the bed covered with blood. Charlie Harrod said he had
known the deceased five year', and during the last two
years he bad been at times deranged in his miad. He had
latterly drunk eery freely, and on Sunday evening last he
appeared more calm. His wife died very suddenly about
two yearn since, and an inquest was held on the body. Her
death affected bias very much, and his grief was greatly
increased by the death of a eon, 14 years of ege, about four
months since. The deceased was embarrassed in his eircum.
stances, and his trade was not so good as it was formerly.
The jury, without any hesitation, returned a verdict of
"Temporary Insanity."

appear very e:early why it is more despicable that
he should work for their sake, than az the eons-
munist system for the sake of the idle and stupid
among his fellow-workmen. A man exerting his lull
skill and energies, practising self-restraint, and out of what
he makes sod saves beyond his less industrious and prudent
fellows supporting his family in decent comfort, and edu-
cating his children to make them more valuable members of
the next generation, is doing nerviest to the community
which it is illiberal and cruel to ce , by speaking of his
love of mammon and his want of fraternity. Rather let us
applaud him,and recommend his neighbour, who blusters in
the beer-shop and never entered the savings bank, to follow
his example.
The workman has reached a high point when he sur-
rounds himself with personal comforts and ele-
gancies. They an all inducements to him to tax his skill.
Worn evil times come he wi.l make considerable efforts be-
fore he Imes them, and if he have become well impregnated
with the spirit of thus making a gentleman of himself he
will strive bard for their restoration when bettor times !s-
-tuns. The picture of the high-toned workman has been
beautifully given by one whose pride it was that he be-
longed to the working classes, and who showed how much
steadiness and high spirit could do to make a workman a
great roan—Ebenezer Ell ot :
You seek the borne of taste, and And
The proud me-hanic there,—
Rich as a king, and lens a slave,
Throned on his elbow chair;

Or on Ilimi. reedlegLocke
Beside hie open door ;
Why merit why envy worth like blot
The carpet on his door
And behold the other side of the picture:
You seek the home of eluttery—
" Is John at homer. you say;
" No, sir, he's at the Sportsman 'it Arms;
The dog-fights o'er the way."
Oh, lift the workman's heart and mind
Above low sensual sin;
Give him a home--the home of Mate—
Outbid the house of sin!
This prayer should be devoutly responded to by every
well-wisher of our race, except the poetical license which
bids some third party " lift the workman's heart." and
" give him a home," &c. These are things that can only
be done, if they are to be done, by the workman himself.
One man thinks he has solved the problem by a total ab-
stinence esciety--extother by hiring a field and amusing
about the one thousandth part of a city population with the
novelty of cultivating little square allotments of ground. It
is doing good rather than harm to make one additional
sober man ; it will at least do no harm, and may be bene-
ficial, to tempt a man out to dig in the summer evenings.
The only evil of such things is that people seeing
sobriety and gardens round them suppose that this
is a little leaven which has leavened the whole
lump. They forget the power and magnitude of the work-
ing classes, and the meagerness of the effect of topical reme-
dies. The convocation the members of which =Lot be
respectable without taking a aoleme and public oath of ab-
stinecee is Mil; the evidence of a great diens.. If the men
were not corrupt this minute bmy called a total abstinence
society would not require to erect such a rampart of vows
and other isolations between itself and the rest of the com-
munity. In the middle classes and the aristocracy hard
drinking used to be the rule—moderation the exception.
The system has been reversed without vows, and the quan-
tity of liquor still consumed by the working classes, to whom
it is more injurious, will he reduced, if it is to be so, by the
sax.e cause—an elevation of tone and feeling, increased eel:-
respeA, and a consciousness of higher resrionsibilities.
There is no propensity implanted in mankind that has not
its good as well as its evil development. Pride, ambition,
and vanity are, like avarice, tendenci, s plentifully abused ;
yet it is possible to imagine their diffusion amongst the work-
ing classes in such a shape as to be productive of good. The
workman has generally toe little professional pride. Hit
emulation is more apt to be exhibited its the tavern or the
trades union than in the exercise of his creative skill. Some
social arrangements have certainly tended to foster this
lethargy. However great may be his genius and energy he
is not likely to be known beyond the workshop: It may be
as impossible that the capitalist could have exhi ited the mag-
nificent wares to be seen in his shop without the skill and
industry of the workman, as that Murray could have pub-
lished " Childe Harold" without the aid of Lord Byron;
yet the admired production is spoken of only as the manu-
facture of such or such a house; the man whose intellect
and energy have given it all its excellence is unknown. In
Eugene Sue's " Wandering Jew," an eccentrically benevo
lent princess insists on putting the name of the ouvrier on a
beautiful vase. Eccentric princesses may do this from time
to time, but the workman will not hold a higher position
than he does in any permanent shape till he has gained it
for himself, without being handed up by an eccentric
princess.
There have been efforts from without, and efforts from
within, to raise the labourer's position. Of the former, it
may generally be said, that they have seldom done harm,
but that those who believe them to have any more than a
limited local or temporary effect, are in general grievously
mistaken. The body is a vast and powerful one, and at-
tempts made to change its condition from without, like level.
hinge made on or mines sunk in the crust of the earth, ar
apt to appear great in themselves, while their proportional
effect is very small. The main influences on the men of the
working classes, whether for good or evil, come from within.
The great movements by which they have attempted to keep
up or to raise their condition have been strikes and combi-
nations; and in my next letter I shall inquire how far they
have been successful in accomplishing their object.

IRELAND.
OUTBREAK AT CARRICK-ON-SUIR.—
PROCLAMATION.
An outline of the following appeared in yesterday's
Erpress :
DUBLIN, JOLT 18.
The crisis would appear to have commenced, and to
have had operation, where all men who know the
temper of the people would have anticipated, in the
county of Tipperary. The formidable organisation
which the club system assumed in Carrick-on Suir,
the enrolment of 2,000, out of a population little
exceeding 18,000, the parade in avowed opposition to
official warnings, is known to all your readers. The
government have sent a special stipendiary into the
district, as I have already stated ; and what pre-
sented the moat grave feature in the case,
the head of the organisation was openly and avowedly
assumed by the Rev. Mr. Byrne, catholic curate in
Carrick. This rev. gentleman marched at the head of
the clubs of Carrick to the meeting on Slievenamon,l
where he made a speech that led to his arrest. The
rev. gentleman was arrested in the afternoon of yes-
terday, at Carrick-on-Suir. The information of
the occurrence, coming from such a distance, is
necessarily vague, but about the main facts there
is none. The reverend gentleman, after his
arrest, was conveyed to the Bridewell in the town,
which is a strong building, and there he was lodged
for the night, with the intention of conveying him to
Clonmel this morning. The distance between both is
twelve Irish miles. The news of the rev. gentleman's
arrest spread rap'clly through the town, and immense
crowds instantly collected, which, being joined by
the peasantry from the vicinity, soon as-
sumed a very formidable aspect. They ap-
proached the Bridewell with cries and menaces, de-
mending the instant liberation of their priest. The
'police refused compliance, but the populace, embold-
ened by their overwhelming numbers, insisted, and
the prisoner was let out to them, on the undertaking
of two respectable persons that he should be forth-
coming when called upon. They did not proceed to
any violence. There was no magistrate to act. The
town, of course, was completely in their power all
night.
These are all the facts as they have reached town.
It is said that special information of this occurrence
was in the hands of the Lord-Lieutenant this morn-
ing by five o'clock, and that his excellency instantly
transmitted the contents of the despatches to England
by specialsteamer. Certainit is thattheShearwaterput
her steam on this morning and was on her way out of
Kingstown harbour—whether upon this or tome other
service I can only conjecture. The privy council has
been sitting all day, and the government journal of
this evening contains the following
PROCLAMATION; . . .