The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-19 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

THE MANCHESTER MANUFACTCRERS AND THE
Cu= ATION OF COTTON IN INDIA.—The prominent man-
ner in which this subject has been brought before the manu-
facturing interest lately by the Manchester Commercial
Association would seem to have been productive of much
benefit. We understand that the forwarding of many orders
for cotton has been the result. tinder such circumstance',
the immediate attention of the Eut India Company has been
called by the emaciation, through their secretary, Mr. Hugh
Fleeting, to the expediency of facilitating the means of
transit by • the roads, and furnishing hand-saw
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This answer shows that the Fast India Company see how
the prosperityof their territory is bound up in this movement
A NONCONFORMIST LEAGUE ill proposed to be
started at Manchester and a preliminary meeting was held
at the Town-hall, on Teemlay evening, Lt which resolutions
,
were twined, agreeing to form a board of deputies, represent-
ingsiderable majority of the independent ministers of Manchester
the entire body. The meeting was attended by a eon-
and Be neighbourhood—upwards of thirty in number; and
amongst the laymen were—Mr. Choir Redfield, Mr. Pren-
tice, and Mr. Samuel Giles. Mr. Bright, M.P. ; Mr. Daw-
son, of Lancaster ; and Mr. Robertson, of Liverpool all
influential nonconformists of the neighbourhood—though
not present, had written letters, which were read, approving
of the object of the meeting, but suggesting modifications of
the outline given iu a printed document accompanying the
circulars calling the meeting. A letter was also read. ?tom
Mr, Sand, E.:toiler. a lead • • - • -
•• • - • ing I"npendent, disaper7:4 of
the ooject of the meeung, and expressing an opinion that the
rights of nonconformists were in no danger, and that a
similar proceeding fifteen yearn ago having excited alarm,
and led to the formation of an antagonistic aseociation in the
church, which resulted in the reingruition of a reform admi-
nistration, he believed such a board would be pregnant with
misctief to nonconformity. The obect of the board is set
forth in two reasons, of which the following are copies
I. That the obligations of religion in its doctrines and ordinances
being derived from the relation subsisting between the Creator
and his creature% it is a sinful violation of sacred preroguiree
when the ruler, the were, or any weldor confederacy, interferes
as an authority to propagate raigious opinion ; to institute or
enforce ecclesiastical appomtznents or observances • or to endow,
from the revenues of the state, any religious imuriactors, whether
for young or old. That, therefore, to constitute bibiapries ; to a
point or him bishops ur pastors in thc church of God •• or to provide
plans or salaries so for teachers of *christen people. Is no part of the
province of the political authorities, and ought to be withstood by
all who bow to Christ as king in his church, 2. It is manifest
that, without an organialtion suited to their principles sad relations, ,
nonconformists do not command, as if they powassid, such power for
efficient oo.operation as the times require. Retest government mea-
ewes, especially the bill for the bishopric of Manchester, render ex.
pedient and necessary in this district an energetic confedeney ; but,
moreover, the continued demands of stato-churchism cnfurc it as a
solemn duty on protestant nontonformista, as citizens and members
of the commonwealth, to watch over and maintain their right, to
promote their diatinguishing principles, and vigilantly to reset the
usurpations and encroachments of the church by law established, and
of other wets endowed by the state.
Mr. W. P. Woodcock of Bury presided and a series of re-
solutions were pared to the effect that for the reasons above-
stated it was incumbent on the nonconformists to establish

a board of deputies, whosespieniOiaciion ,hosed be the
county of Lancaster ;• that the outline row submitted u a
plan of organisation be adopted, subject to such modifications
as the association might afterwards adopt at its first annual
meeting ; that such gentlemen u were present, and agreed
to the proposed measure, and such as might be proposed and
adopted at meetings of congregations and permanent asso-
ciations within the next six weeks (each such body being
allowed to nominate two deputies) form the proviallsnal com-
mittee for the first year ; and that a subscription b.) set on
foot to cover the incidental expenses. In the course of the
speeches, reference was mane to &meeting of nonconformists
held in May lut, at which Dr. Vaughan took a leading
part, and at which resolutions were passed holding out offers
to meet the government half way on the minutes of
education, so far as they affected the congregation-
Mists, and much disapprobation was expressed at
the disrespect and want of courtesy shown towards the great
bulk of congregationalist' on that occasion, when, it was

alleged, that very few persona except those moving and se-
conding the resolutions were present. It was stated that a
regard only for the interests of the college, at which Dr.
Vaughan was president, prevented many parties from coming
forward at the time and disavowing their concurrence with
the resolutions, and expressing their disapprobation of the
course taken. _ _ _ _ _

CASE BETWEEN MASTERS AND MEN.—On Friday
last, Messrs. Smith and Willey, ironfonnders, of Liverpool,
appeared at the County Court to defend three actions brought
against them by men lately in their employ, for balance of
wages alleged to be due. A legal practitioner, who ap-
peared for Smith and Willey, stated that they refused to
pay the demand owing to the men haring wilfully spoiled
the work entrusted to them; and explained that, in conse-
quence of the conduct of the moulders belonging to the
moulden' club, they (Smith and Willey) had been forced to
put labourers and boys to perform work previously done by
moulders, and that strong ill feeling had been displayed by
the club men in consequence. One of their plans was to

send men to take emplOyment as moulders, and slier those
had worked a day or two, the work entrust. / to them
they wilfully spoiled. The parties who were then in court,
they had reasou. to believe, had acted in this manner, and
therefore they felt justified in resisting payment of wages
for the time spent up in the bad work.—Mr. D. Grigg, fore-
man moulder to Smith and Wiley, was then called, and
said that the articles given to the plaintiffs to make were
such as any boy who had been a few weeks at the business
could have made without difficulty, and that be had no
doubt the work bad been spoiled designedly.—A young boy
was then called, who stated that be had only been working
three months as a moulder, and that he had made several
articles from the same pattern as the articles spoiled, and
that all his work was good. Similar evidence was also
given by a man who had been labouring in Smith and I
Will. 's foundry for two yearn and a half. lie stated
that he had never previously worked in a foundry,—in
fact, was an old soldier: since the plaintiffs had been dis-
charged, he had made several articles similar to those men-
tioned. All his work had turned out correct, and the
job was particularly easy. Oa behalf of the plaintiffs it was
attempted to be shown that the work was not spoiled by de-
Mgn, but from accident ; and several witnesses were called,
who stated that they, as moulders, had frequently lost work,
and that their wages had never been stopped in coasequenee.
In reply to a question they admitted that their employers
were justified in refusing to pay, provided they were clearly
satisfied the work had been lost designedly, stating that this
was a case they had never known, and did not believe a
moulder would act to wrongfully.—His Honour, who paid
great attention to the ease, was of opinion that the work had
been wilfully damaged, and refused all the claims, observing,
that although it was possible a single article might have
I been accidentally lost, the fact of three men losing their
work at the same time was sufficient to convince him that
the defendants bad taken a correct view of the case, and
were justified in resisting the demand.

CRUELTY TO A CLIMBING BOT.-A man named
Hamer, a sweep, was brought before the magistrates at Man-
chester yesterday. charged with cruelty to an apprentice.
The prisoner had taken tho buy, who was only six years old,
as an apprentice from the Manchester workhouse, and had
made him climb chimneys till his knees and elbows were
covered with ulcers, and had then beaten him when hecould
no longer bear the torture of ascending chimtur in that
condition. On Sunday the boy absconded, and being taken
to the workhouse by a policeman, the
.governor of the work-
house brought the case before the magistrates. The boy was
carried into court wrapped in a blanket. Hamer was com-
mitted for trial at the Ensions for an assault.

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REPORTED SALE OF THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—
Our Liverpool correspondent, writing last night, says,
—" Mr. L. Goldsmid and Mr. Baily age down here, it is
said, to negotiate the sale of the Birkenhead Dock Com-
pany's docks and warehouses to the Liverpool corporation.
The company have a meeting today, but as reporters are
excluded I hare not yet heard the result."

THE POOR IN TIEL:TN10;11---01,'SE,
having suffered severely from disrrhcca, an analysis of the
oatmeal used for their food was ordered to be made. Dr.
Topham, after having carefully made a microscopical ex-
amination, found that it contained a very considerable por-
tion of extraneous material (about one-third) of a nature
incapable of being nutritious as an article of human food.
The specimen, when compared with oatmeal derived from
another source, differed from the latter in showing a much
larger quantity of non-nutritious vegetable matter present,
but which was not of a poisonous quality, yet likely to prove
irritating to the digestive organs if used u diet. The dried
husk in eat bran appears to have been rather copiously
mixed with this meal, and was doubtless the cause of the
disease complained of ; for, on a better article being sub-
stituted, the children began to mend, and are at this period
in good health.

HISTORY OF A irI"ETTPOFNDI"OTE.—A case, about
which there hes been a great deal of discussion, was finally
decided by the Cambridge Magisteatte last week. 44 boy,
generally employed by butchers, not one of the best ache
meters, named Robert?, found about two months since a
fine-peund note, in the market-place. In the course of the
night preceding the morning on which this note was found,
Mr. Walpole, a cattle dealer, lost that particular sum,
and the next morning preferred a charge of felony
against a person named 'William Bulley. Bulley was
charged with stealing it under the following menus-
'dance.: Walpole asked Bulley to get it changed; Bailey
accordingly went out of the room in which they were
both stung in a public-home for the purpose; on return-
ing some other matter was the subject of conversation, and
Walpole omitted to ask for the five pounds' worth of
change. In the morning be missed it, and charged
Bailey with retaining it. Bulley denied the charge ; he
declared he gave the money to him, which was corrobo-
rated by the landlord of the ion, who saw something pass
on Bailey's return from one party to another, He also
produced the boy Roberts, who said he found a 51. note
in the market place; at the time he thought it was a
piece of waste paper (being unable to read), and carelessly
put it in his pocket. Shortly after this be met a son of
Mr. W. Bellamy, butcher, who was looking for a piece of
paper to light his pipe with. Roberts screwed up
and gave him the note, upon which Bellamy informed
him of his mistake, and at his request got the note
changed at Mr. J. Fenn's. Between 21. and 31. was ex-
pended for clothes; the remainder was given to Bellamy
to keep, with the offer to deduct Ioe. fer hie trouble. The
magistrates quite exonerated Bulley, who was looked
upon as a likely object for suspicion, he having been in
some little trouble before, end having had the note in
his possession to change. The note lost was one of
Lacon's, so also was the one found ; still the prosecutor
declared most positively that the one which wee found was
not the one lost, and refused to lay any claim to it. So con-
vinced was he of this, that he sued Gulley for it as a debt
in the county court; but was unsuccessful in prosecut
ing his claim, Under these circumstances, the question
has often been brought before the bench as to the disposal of
the residue of the money ; in the absence of any proof as to
the note having been stolen it reverted to Mr. Fenn. The
point of difference was, to whom did the balance belong.
The police kept it two months, and on Wednesday
the magistrates ordered it to be gives to the boy Roberts.
The majority thought this WM their only course, as the
fact of the note being a stolen one was so distinctly
denied. Mr. R. Hammond thought that as the boy
slept in the house the night of the robbery, and .4 he
was not a good character, the balance should be retained.
He made no effort to fled an owner far it, which
he was bound to do, and to give him back the balance was
like offering a premium for parties when they found money

or valuables to keep them and appropriate them to their
own uses. In reply to this, it was said the boy had no idea
of the value of the note, and that no evidence had been
produced to warrant the belief so to the property being
stolen.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.—A correspondent of
the Cambridge Advertiser says:—" Robert Jackson, a
farming labourer, of &ham (whose wife and three chilirea
instantly became chargeable to the parish), was last week
arrested, and conveyed to the county gaol, for a debt of ale-
leen shillings, inclusive of costs. It appears from Jackson's
statement, that the debt for which he has been arrested,
was contracted seven years since. Jackson positively de-
clares such to be the case ; end that he, Jackson, has
never dealt with the plaintiff, or entered upon his pre-
mises since 1840; and positively denies the justice of •
• apaiuit hum. he. •
.11n1 . gtoos toot when sum-
. .

mooed before the court, he, the defendant, rolled upon tho
plaintiff to prove the different items of the debt, and also tho
I dates when the debt was contracted. And the plaintiff posi.
Lively refused to comply witn this demand. That the plain.
till a answer to the judge was " that be believed that the de-
fendant owed him principally for flour." The defendant
further states that the plaintiff did not in any way molest tho
defendant on two sut:sequent court days; but at this mo-
ment, when the defendant had an opportunity of earning
some additional wages during the harvest, and thereby pro.
siding for his family, he is carried off to prison, and his family
are immediately thrown upon the parish."
LIFE IN CAMBRIDOE.—The Cambridge Advertiser
says " This town is now particularly dull. There is not a
mouse stirring. The very dogs seem to be stricken with the
universal languor. What with the dull weather, the long
vacation, and the consequent absence of undergraduates, and
the silence of the university cloisters, with no more elections
or installations, or even Spinning-douse riots to make the
blood circulate, it absolutely seems to the gloomy imagina-
tion as if every individual in Cambridge were meditating
suicide to make an end of it, If this should really be the
upshot of the present state of things, the respensib:lity must
rest on the heads of the Eastern Counties Company, who,
by the late rise of their fares, have totally stopped the com-
munication between Cambridge and London ; and, unfortu-
nately, Jenny Lind cannot transmit the enchantment of ber
voice per telegraph. It is so far satisfactory, in these
circumstances, to be able to lay the blame somewhere."
PS NOOLK.

INSECNRITT OP NELSON'S MONTAIENT AT YAR-
Not:rm.—At the town council meeting, on Thursday, the
Mayor of Yarmouth brought forward a subject, in which, he
observed, not merely the town, but the whole kingdom was
interested. He believed it was generally known and
lamented that the basement of Nelson's monument was fell-
ing into a state of dilapidation. He bad been given to un-
derstand that if a memorial were presented to the Trinity
board, who used the column as a sea mark, that board would
feel it its duty to take care of its preservation. It was re-
solved that s memorial addressed to the Norfolk justices be
placed in the hands of I. Preston, Esq., the local chairman,
for carrying Cut the vomit.
YARMOUTH ELECTION.—A correspondent says :
" The parties engaged in inquiring into the practices adopted
at the last election for this borough are so fully convinced
that the present members (Messrs. Lennox and Cooper) will
be unable to retain their seats, that they have taken all ne-
ces'ary steps to prosecute a searching investigation before a
committee of tte hoists. The petition against the return
will be presented immediately after the amembling of par-
, liament."

A PUBLIC HALL FOR Irswicu.—A plan is on foot
for the erection of a public hall, at Ipswich, suffieieutll capa-
cious to provide 4,000 sittings. It is intended to raise the
sum of 2,0001. for this purpose, in shares of 21. each, of
which sum upwards of GOO/. have already been obtained,
although the project was only started on Friday last. It is
to be open to all who will pay the rent required, which is to
be fixed on the lowest