The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-18 00:00:00

MEETING OP WEAVERS.

A meeting of the weavers was held on Saturday evening,
at foot o'clock, in the Temp ranee all, I ehind the perish
church. Nutwi.hat■nding the extreme wetness of the after-
noon, the ball was well filled with male and female opera-
tie. 5.

Mr. Pavca IiCKPIiIIEYII, weaver. was called to the
chair, and in opening the business said that the masters
wanted to diminish combination and to destroy the com-
mittee, but there were persons on that committee eche could
weigh their characters against aloft of the Masters' Assoein-
don. The determination of that committee was sever to
yield until they were eomdletely beaten, and with their
assistance that would never be, (Appian...)
Mr. Cow&LL, one of the Secretaries of the Preston Com-
mittee. said Blackburn was at their beak, and not only
the weavers, but the nsechanice, engineers, millwrights,
joiners, carpenters, cabinet makers, and all other trades,
throughout the kingdom. There was nothing to fear on
their parts. (Hear, hear.) They talked of their funds
failing; they had never tailed yet. (Cheers.) Subeerip-
ties§ kept rolling in, and should the agitation be carried on
for twelve months, he was satisfied the subscriptions would
never fail; they would constantly keep augmenting. There
were plenty of places they had not yet been to—Bradford,
Leeds, Birmingham, She Meld, Liverpool, Crewe, and other
places. He called upon those present during the turn-out
to enjoy innocent recreation, to attend public meetings, and
he hoped the clergy of every denomination in the town
would open their schools, and would teach the male and
female operatives to reed and write.
Mr. lionrog, of Blackburn, the next speaker, said the
contest was not whether they should have an advance of
wages, but whether they should submit to a future commis
of despotic rule on the pert of those who claimed to have •
right to say what they should have for their labour, and
that they bad no right to say what they demanded for it.
(Hear, hear.) Was that fair or honest between any two
men, plane them in whatever position in society they might ?
(.. No, no.") Wes not the poor man a man? The rich
man was ao more then a man. As delegates from Black-
burn, it was said they had no right to interfere in this
matter. Were they not in the same rank of society,
amongst the serge dames? Had they not to do with mas-
ters, sad labour, toil, sweat, sad live on labour ? They had
• right ; for if the operatives of Preston did not get the
advance they sought, the operatives of Blackburn must
have the disadvantage of that, for if Preston was not raised
to the level of Blackburn, Blackburn must come down to
the level of Preston. (Applause.) That wee their 'coition,
and there need be no secret about the matter. If they
did not gain this struggle in Preston, they lost it through-
out the length and breadth of the manufacturing district'.
(Cheers.)
Mr. WALTON, of Blackburn, next addressed the mooting,
and informed them that the whole country had declared
that the operatives of Preston should not lack support.
Mr. Caanas, also of Blackburn, followed. He poisted
out the various evils which arose from under-paid labour,
and warned the mill-owners of the calamities to which their
conduct would inevitably lead.
Thanks were them voted to the Blackburn delegates.
Mr. ii011110:4 then proposed the following resolutioa :
" Teat this meeting pledges cent,
itself to the 10 per with.
oat equivocation, until it maintained in the entire of the
manufacturing districts of this land, from this time."
Mr. }Welke! ascended the motion, which was unani-
mously agreed to.
Thanks were voted to the chairman, and the proceedings
terminated shortly before 7 o'clock.

A STA

FINED AND

T. LMd.U, the railway station-aster at Stamford, was
Mhaa late custody as Wednesday, sad charged before the
Rev. C. Atlay, at Barrowden, with an offence against the
Railway Act. He was fined U. It appears that about a
fortnight ago be wont to the village of Barrowden, intend-
ing to return by the train due at Stamford at 10.7 p.m. On
arriving at Luffenluten, be found he was too late for the
train, sod ha then proceeded to walk towards home along
the line. When he reached Ketton, being exceed-
ingly tired, he persuadel the porter at that sta-
tion to get out • truck, in which he proposed to
ride home, thinking that, as the line from that sta-
tion to Stamford is on a descent, he would be able to get over
the three miles without propulsion. Haying been pushed
foeward a short distance, the truck kept in motion till it
arrived at the bridge approaching Easton-wood, where it
stopped, and being partially laden with beans, Mr. Liddell
could not again move it. He went to the Easton gate house
for assistance, and the gatekeeper and his wife helped him
to get it on after much labour, to Stamford. By some
mesas the foolish transaction reached the ears of the directors
and Mr. Liddell had to attend before the board at Derby on
Tuesday. Ile returned to Stamford that evening, believing
that be had got over the difficulty, but the nest morning an
officer arrived and took him into custody. Had a luggage
or any other train come in contact with the truck so reck-
lessly put upon the line, the consequences might have been
fearful. Hence the directors have thought it necessary to
make as example of one of their mponsible servants. Mr.
Liddell is dismissed from his duties u station master.—
Nionsford Mercury.
THE PRINCESS BELGIOJOSO.—The Debate says

Most of the French journals have announced, on the ;nth,-
rity of a German paper, the death of the Princess de Belgio-
jos°, in Asia Minor. in vmsequeuce of wounds received
from an asraisin. We are happy to be able to give a com-
plete contradiction to this report. The friends of the
Princess in l'aris have received letters of a recent date
from her, announcing that *he was in good health, and that
she felt bat very slight effects front the wounds which she
had is fact received from the person who attempted to
murder her.

RESIDENCY OF BARODA.—The friends of the gal-
lant Colonel °atrial will be glad to, hear that he has been
re-appointed as Itesideat at bared'.