The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-16 00:00:00

POS " MOTHS."

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The author of " Eothen" say s " I wanted ligbt iw
Paving pitched Lis tent in the Dant. " They brought
me a taper, and hum diately .mm out of the silent divert
there rushed in afi rot of life, unseen before. ?doubters of
moths ot all shapes and hues, that never bi fore, perhaps,
had looked upon the shining of a flame, now madly thronged
into my tent, and dashed through the fire of the eau,:le.
Is it not the same with the human moths, " unseen be-
fore?" Let a leper be lighted in the highway to
dissipate social darkens, and what a eleud of
mot ster moths dash at it ? Marvellous is it to
think of the strange, odd, spectre moths, death's-bead
moths, and moths of every monstrous make —of
every fantastic pat ern—that, as though resenting the intru-
sion of light, blind.y beat it with their wings! We have
only to look at the Morning Herald to find motl4l cf this
frantic sort—moths dashing through and through the Sun-
day Port office candle. We could rut Delius in the existence
of such nosh us creatures were they not attracted from their
holes and corners by the suddenness of light. Who, for in-
stance, could have dreamt of such a moth as the " Constant
Reader" moth that, in the Herald, flutters after this
fashion? The moth has " heard " that "strangers" are to
be brought into the Postale* on the "ensuing Sabbath,"
to do toe Sabbath work. Whereupon, the moth asks of
English bankers sad merchants—
" Witi they tamely submit to such an alternative ? Can
they have any guarantee that the men who for money will
break the fourth commandment will not also for money
break the eighth And that letters containing property will
not be abstracted by strangers during the Lord's day work."
Upon this reasoning of the moron, moth the Postmaster-
General is hardly to be trusted with a Sunday money letter,
se, leg that he gives his countenance to Sunday sorting.
This is only one specimen of tee " monster molts " that,
for the put three week% have dashed wildly through the
columns of the Herald—brought from the strangest places
by the Post-office candle. Experience had prepared us to
allow much for human folly anti human wrathy in the
way of indignaat correspondents, but—we confess it—the
moths that have Mien foul of the early Sunday taper of
Rowland Hill, beat ell our former experiencein ugliness and
wilful stupidity.
The Herald himself--in a rAemn leader upon the Thanks-
giving Day—steps out of hie path ; and—to show his piety—
throws Pateffiee mud at the u.,nistry. He asks, with
lacquered cheek—
Are ministers going to appear before God, protecting to
offer him thanks tor hi. goodness in removing the pathetic',
and yet revolving to insult him by dragging their poor clerks
to the Postale' work on the day which Ile has set apart
for his worship i If there be suck a sin as hypocrisy, when,
can we find it more legibly written than here 1'
Where ? Let the writer open his wais coat, and take a
owed look " nearest his heart." If—knowiug, as he must
know, that Sunday labour has been greatly diminished by
the last Sunday poen) regulations—if he does rot sea about
' the region of his left breast hypocrisy written " more legibly"
than in the doings of ministent,—wht, then, the vice dote
not thew through. Bad blood, unlike lemon-juice, cannot
be warmed into characters readable.

SUICIDE UNDER DERANGEMENT AT LIVERPOOL.—.
On Monday an ingu•et was held on view of tee body of
Mary M'Millan, widow, aged 40. The deceased was well
known se the daughtr of the late Buy Taylor, fruiterer,
Jc., in St John's-market, to whose business suceseded
some few years ago. About half-put 8 'o'clock en Saturday
morning she lett her lowa, in St. Vincent-street, to go
to the market, and then appeared in a thinking way, and
spoke very. lade. She retuned home in about an hour,
and went into the parlour for a bill, for which she searched
amongst some papers in a box. She then west into the
kitchen with several bills or papers in her hand, and vent
her servant girl for a threepenny r, cript stamp. When
the girl returned deceased told h. r it would not do, as it
was only for 101., and she wanted one for 601., giving her
Is. 64. to pay for it. It was brought and given to
her. She then sent witness to the markte to ask her (de-
ceased's) father to remain at the standing until she CJInAI
down, as she had some particular business to attend to whisk
must be settled by eleven o'clock, or it would ruin her for
ever. On the girl leaving, dentinal gave her a key, ssyirg,
" Take this, as I shall b • gong oat.' The girl thought it
was the key of the door, and she returned with it in a gut-
ter of an hour, and tried to open the lock, but the key was
to,, large. She knocked twine, and heard deceits d call nut
her name. She then looked through the keyhole, and saw
a shadow on the kitchen fl sot. She called to her =stress,
end saw her feet between the stairs and the frort d -or.
She (deceased) was walking ba k arde and forwards
in and out of the kitchen. Another female came up,
end peeping through, saw her standing at the kitchen
door, flapping her arms at her aides, and she then
observed blood upon her clothing. The women ran
I. the market fur her father, and he got in by the
parlour window, the house being otnerwise secured back
and tient. She was then found will her throat cut, and
quite dead. A bloody razor was found neer her. The girl
had observed her for two or three months to be much agi-
tated, and in et ry low spirits, and could not emir her. Geo.
Taylor, whose step-daughter she was, end who molded in
Chester, said he had seen her on Friday night and Saturday
morning, when the appeared to be dejected. On his asking
her what was the matter, she replies, " Nothiorr." He did
not know or think that she was at all in difficulti. a. Several
other parties had also observed her to be low spirited, and
not like herself in transacting business. Her br“ther, Geo.
Taylor, who bad been her partner for two or three years, had
also observed her to be in a melancholy way on Friday, but
hod not noticed it before.—The jury returned a verdict to the
egret—" that she had destroyed herself during a temporary
fit of insanity."
BILLETING OF SOLDIERS.—On Saturday an eppli-
cation was made to Mr. Rushton, at the Liverpool police-
curt, by Mr. Bremner, solicitor, r..latire to the billeting of
soldiers on publican,. Oa Friday Mr. W. Liver* dge, pub-
lican, Burlington street, was swam ned before the magis-
trates for refusing, on the pnviout Sunday morning, to take
in a soldier who had just arrived from Ireland, and had a
billet upon him. He said he could not admit him at such an
hour, and was not prepared to And him accomm•daVons.
Mr. Rushton had no option and fined the publican the
lowest penalty, 405., and 41. cats, hut he agreed to hear tho
caw again on Saturday. Mr. Bremner said that Mr. Livers-
edge told the soldier he had only sufficient room in the
house for his own family, and could not conveniently receive
him at that mentionable h'ur. Mr. Redden maid that
though there appeared to be some hardship in the case, he
had no discretion under the set, but (as suggested)
he had no objection to the cue being represented
to the Secretary of War. Mr. Bremner admitted
the nature of the set of parliament as stated; but the
matter affected the licensed victuallers as a body. The
question was whether they were compelled to admit soldier
after 12 at night, or rather oa Sunday morning at unreason-
able hones. Knowing the stringent regulations znainst pub•
Inane opening their houses at all on Sunday morning, his
client considered himself justified in refusing, and he could
net at that hour go out and get aecounnodati ebewher•
for the applicant. Ile wished the case to be laid before the
Secretary at War. Ho said that he also appeared in be-
half of all the licensed victuallers in this matter, and he
pointed out the large sums they had to pay for the privi-
lege of carrying oa their trade, and their liability to heavy
penalties for any reset by themselves or servants. He
thought that in a eau like the present the captain of the Teo-
eel should be required to keep the soldier on beard until a
/*amenable hour in the awning. Finally, it was trader-
stood that the question will be taken up by the Licensed
Victuallers' Association, and a memorgil presented to the
pruner authorities in the army departmlit.
THE MITCHELDETIE FARM LABOURERS.—The pro-
tectionists have tried to make the world believe that the
labourer Is the special object of the farmers' care. The in-
tense solicitude of the farmer for the labourer's well-doing
has been paraded up and down from one end of the table to
the other at their after•dinner gatherings. At all times" the
laborer" was at hand, and used to do the pathetic at the le-
hennas of the canting farm of " Agricultural Dianna."
But if we go behind the scenes what do we find ? Why
the very class the most clamorous in public against the
application of the doctrines of free-trade adopting them,
and carrying them out in the article of labour, and in the
omen, and families of the very labourers for whom they e:-
presto such unbounded affection in their speeches before the
public. In illustration of this fact, we may state that in the'
perish of Mitcheldever a regular combinatioa of the fumers•
bad been entered into to reduce their labourers' pay from
eight shillings to seven shillings per week. We alluded M•
this fact last week, but we were not thee folly aware of
the special designs the farmers had in view. It appears now
that the men wen to be made the
yt's•paws of the farmers
to act upon the fears or sympath of Sir Fermis Barng,
their landlord, and thereby to get a reduction of rent. TO
effect this selfish object, they resorted to means which- we
can only call unworthy and despicable. They knew that it
was nukes to in to get rents reduced in a. fair, straigjildoe-
ward, business-like way, became there wage plenty cf men
to be found reedy to take their placer as his Wants,
therefore the peace of the vilbp and of the community at
large was risked, and then labourers tempted to semen
acts of desperation by a general and smtematio reduction,
of their wages, under the plea that their yenta were too.
high for the peasant prices of produee; the mea resisted,
the attempted redut.m.te 7e. a week„ and left their work,
saying they mold bat just keep body and to
together
with Be., and that it was melees M attempt it with 7e.
They then appealed to Sir Fringe Bung, who noon-
mended them to ay* to the booed of guardians for relief_
Accordingly, on Saturday last, 22 presented themeless. ak
the union- house aia4 claimed edits?. Upon an investiga-
tion of their resiteothe OM it appeared that one man had
worked 33 yeandet his mastic, that he had four children
and a sick wife, wide 30e. a you to pay for rent (in nest
of the other cream the mow bed 21. a year to pay for rent).
Of the °thee married men with families one bad worked for
the same muter 10 years, one 25 years, one 23 years, two
22 years, two 20 years, and other 18, 17, 16, 10, 8, and 7
years rempeerdteely • the remaining four or five wen young
men. The Man ordered out door relief intriediately to
those who had sick *ives, and the °thus were ordered to
come into the anion house on Monday. Sir Franc* Baring
had communicated with Lord Coining, the assistant_ poor-
law coeamiadoner, on the teat'
clerk of the union, desiring,f"
We have mince heard that'
they are in, that they are
labourers are determined II
violence, that their plot lor
rick lards and granaries at
of a most abundant barest
would have to keep the met
house, and have **rotors
shuttle's:oda with
allowed them to toil I
pittance of et. a week:

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