The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-23 00:00:00

euyutineers examined the votes, and reported that the resolu-
time wee confinsed.
'WE POOR IN sr. PerteltaB.—Yesterclity, pursuant
to adjot:entisent from the Bth inst., a meeting of the vestry
of St. paeans took place, at the verery-rooms, Gordon-square.
Mr. Church warden Howarth presided. Sir. Mann called
the attention Of the vestry to the charges respecting the
treatment of the troor in the workhouse, more especially the
case of the blindb.`4o Whitfield. He considered the course
pursued by the diree:ors of the poor in that Matter mon
unfair and unsatisfactory, in refusing to hear the witnesses
which the poor man Whitfield was prepared to call.—Mr.
Hetherington was prepared to prove that the report of the
master of the workhouse, which had been received as satis-
factory by the board of directors, wait based upon eelsehood.
He was prepared to prove, by fifty poor persons !It the
workhouse, a decided negative to that document. Fe? his
awn part, he should he ashamed to belong to a beard w!`o
one week pronounce a matter es satisfactory, and the
next go into what they were plowed to call an investigation.
After charging the new =Wm with cruelty, in refusing to
allow the aged paupers to go est at the Sunday, unlem they
wore the workhouse d=ark.... Hetherington concluded by
moving the following
I That the report of Ye NNW to answer to fie charges alleged
aplnetbis by the Imam Mae wortfficese Is me saillstsctoryto the
mazy, Immesh es It meats dr *lob deli' et se person moll-
mot, Wiwi eta reel et the ergo *Towline, elicited from
an Impartial Imestleeise Whale. by die Aragon of the poor: and
It mews le MY refry set the ambled mode et aseertsinuig the
MO or bYsieslet aegedeme preleree se fay thee against the
pule idiom he massondost cad mould be, to examice
theeses epee wake they rest, of the denial of the
Greenwood seconded the resolution--Mr. Howell ex-
pressed his want of confidence in the present board of direc-
toz was negatived;and, ae
by a majority o
raeery longandtstormi r 6 toll, thediscuuion, themo
tiformer
being nearly all directors of the poor. The vestry then
separated.
ROBBING A Cuußcll.—During the past week two
robberies have been committed in the parish churches of
Haswell and Hayes, on the Uxbridge-road, apparently by
the same person—a middle-aged man, who, under pretence
of examining the interior beauties of the edifices, borrowed
the keys, and contrived to carry off a large number of bibles
and prayer-books belonging to members of the congregation.
A reward of 10 guineas is offered for the apprehension of the
offender.
Tile ART-UNION PRINTS.—We understand that
the great value of the prints distributed to the subscribers of
the Art-Unioa will ultimately consist in the antiquity of the
pictures from which the engravings are taken. By the time
the print is ready the picture is forgotten, and thus the
former has all the interest of an antique, without the trouble
of putting it by and taking care of it till old age gives it au
excessive value. Considerable curiosity exists as to whether
the prints will be claimable by the next of kin or the execu-
tor of the party originally entitled. We think there ought
to be an act of parliament exempting the engravings from
legacy duty, supposing them to descend to no more distant
relative than thereat-grandchild of the subscriber.- Punch.
UNCLAIMED VALUABLES IN THE POST-OFFICE.—
An official return has just been printed, showing the num-
ber of letters now lying( in the General Poet-office, contain-
ing coin, bank-notes, bills of exchange, or other property.
Thu return shows that 4,201 such letters are lying in the
Dead Letter-office, containing property valued at the almost
incredible sum of 40,4101. 7d. ; this too has accrued
during the last three years. For the system pursued in such
cases is that when all inquiry after the destination of the
misdirected letters is found unavailing the letters are kept
three yearn to give time for application for them, after
which period so muck of the property as consists of money
is paid into the ',venue, and this has been done up to the
beginning of 1844. Any other description of property is
periodically sold, end the proceeds also paid into the revenue.
The articles now lying for claimants are of the most varied
character, some of them of a bulk and description little cal-
culated for transmission per pest. There are trinkets Mall
kinds, silver spoons by the dozen, mi nudes, watches, waist-
coats, shirts, soda.powders,artificiL flowers,books,seuff-boxes,
fiddle-strings, dish-mats, petticoats, old clothes, firkins/4We,
razors, pictures, night-gowns, a clarinet, brass wedgkW,
buttons, window curtains, a whistle, Prayer and other books,
bunches of keys, brad-awls, scissors, and a panorama. The
more portable articles consist chiefly of lace and Berlin work
in the form of collars, cuffs, " dolls' things," and purses.
Of documents and papers there are wills, railway and other
shares, one Greek manuscript, subpeenas, a vast number et
pawn tickets, and portage stamps innumerable. Vse
number of money-orders undelivered is 346, for ma
to the amount of 407/. 12s. Bd. The return from
Scotland is quite characteristic of our more careful
neighbours. The valuables undelivered and remaining
in the General Pon-office in Edinburgh on sth January
lag consist chiefly of coin and bank notes, V. 16s. Id. of the
first, 131. 10s. of the latter, and only 10s. worth of other pro-
perty, all contained in 89 letters Only five epistles contain.
ing money orders are among the " dead," for sums amount-
ing to 31. 1711. 9d. In the Irish General Post-office are
457 undelivered letters, containing property valued at
4621. 9s. 11d. Several of these missives contain " a free
passage to New York." Thenumber of unclaimed money
orders is 64, for 381. 141. 9d.
THE DRAPERY TRADE.—An important movement
has recently arisen amongst several branches of trade, more
particularly that of drapery, in the course of which facts
of a startling character have been elicitedaffectiog the honesty
of home traders, and tending to operate injuriously upon our
religions with foreign markets The question first arose from
• idly of slew of the retail dealers to obtain from the whole- I
elhe houses 37 inches to the yard. without, however, intending
seinen the public more than the regular 36 inches. In the
Mehl' dispute certain extensive frauds have been de-
= Amsetialtfoe investigating some of the allegations made
Mthe seale houses has taken place within the lam
i t e
is the presence of several exporters end others
in des speestaon. At this meeting sealed packets
genie hese wiry of the wholeaale houses were i
embed, awl the result showed that there was
much reams ihr emplant. Among other instances, twin
of cotton throng meshed " warranted 100 yards" ware Mil
to measure rupssetssly Kt, 89, 861, and tit soar erred
25 per amt. less thew the quantity iediceted by the stamp,
while lasedesie Weals did the measurement remit the
full stamiegi. In tapes the deficiency was found W still
more esraidtembhe. It is metal to make white tapes is
lengths ef 9 yards, one dome of these length, being packed
in a parcel, and than issued from the wholesale house with
the vender's mark upon it as " warranted." On measuring
the " nine yard lengths" it wee found that in 'eery instance
they fell short, sometimes to the extent of two and three
ards. One sample of tape had been stamped at the end is
indelible iuk as nine yards, and was found to be but 51. Other
goods were submitted to the same ordeal with like result'.
It appeared from inquiries that for some time the manatee-
turers have been accused of being the guilty
in these transactions; but their account of the •=l6l
that the are compelled to follow the instructions of the
wholesale houses in making up the parcels, or to run the
risk of the transference of the custom to some less scrupulous
trader. The wholesale house, , in their turn, extenuate their
sonduct by reference to the competition which exists, and
which compels them to adopt this questionable system. But
by this system, it is contended, they not only bring unde-
served utopia/in on the retail dealer, but ruin also on the
small shepkeeper (frequently females), who, ignorant of the
custom alluded to, measure out small portions of the vari-
ous articles at what they calculate • fair price, and thus in
the long run find themselves serious losers. In the foreign
markets loud complaints have for years been made against
these practices, more especially at Leipsic. In reformation
of this system, meetings are in course of organisation
throughout the country, and the principals of some of the
wholesale houses have intimated their desire to lend their
influence towards the establishment of a sounder system of

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Barr. 21.
The gentlemen of Kerry seem to go the right way
to work in their attempts to meet the pressure of cir-
cumstances upon them. The Castle-island Relief
Committee, their functions having closed, have re-
solved themselves into a committee of safety, and
have commenced with energy the duty of providing
employment for the labouring population, that they
may not be a perpetual burthen upon the land. The
committee have called upon the landholders of Kerry
to avail themselves of the resources the law permits,
and to take from the Treasury, on the security of
their estates, that money which it ie proposed to lend
for their improvement. The gentry have pledged
hthemselves they
.will do this, and while they will
as relieve their properties of the burthen of the
maintenance of paupers m idleness,they will at the same
time add ly to the value of their property.
An act of generous indulgence was announced at this
meeting on the part of Mr. Herbert, M.P. for the
county. This gentleman pledged himself that he
would not only pay for all hie tenants the present
poor-rate, but the whole of the relief advances to
which the property he holds may be liable.
It was not earlier than needful that Mr. John
O'Connell issued on the part of the association a
recommendation to pay rents, for, from all parts of
the country, we receive accounts of tenant repudia-
tion. This has been no doubt encouraged by the
manifest support which the spirit of repudiation of
rates received from many of the gentry ; and mask of
it springs also from the circumstance that all the root
and arrears due are claimed at once from the tenantry,
who, finding themselves unequal to the demand,
determine in many instances to pay nothing. In
Cavan it is said the landlords are taking a propor-
tion of the rent and arrears due, and giving receipts
in full. The tenants on these terms pay freely. Mr.
John O'Connell's severity of language to the landlords
has been objected to.
M. 1)e Mussy, the French physician, sent here to
observe and report upon Irish fever, and who had
been attacked by typhus, is now pronounced out of
danger. His companion, M. Alexandre Rodier, has
proceeded home.

SCOTLAND.
EDlNBrzion, SEPT. 21.
maDn:stt the put week fever appears to have become
le in Glasgow ; its intensity being in the
inverse ratio of the number of houses cleaned.
reftsence to the contemplated municipal and
sKaitary bills for Edinburgh a police commissioner