The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-29 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

LANCASUIRE.

How PAUPERS MAY BE USEFULLY EMPLOYED.—
The committee of the Industrial Relief Fund, Warring-
ton, during the past week, appointed a sub-committee for
the purpose of conferring with the board of guardians, re-
specting the course to be adopted in procuring suitable em-
poyment for the able.bodied operatives at present wanting
relief. The conference took place, and the following rag.
gestions were made to the board by the committee :—That
the poor should be employed to cleanse and whitewash all
the cottages, yards, and musages, within the borough, but
not to include any cottages that are assessed to the poor's
rate at a higher value than 7!. per annum ; also, that they
should be employed to repair Dallam-lane and other roads,
provided assistance can be obtained from the turners and
occupiers of property in the vicinity of such roads ; and in
Macadamizing part of the Wigan road, which is within
the township of Warrington, provided the assent of the
trustees of the road and the surveyors of highways of
Warrington can be obtained. The board cordially approved
I of the suggestions, and accepted the offer of the assistance
of the committee in providing the necessary emsioyment,
subject to the approbation of the poor-law commissioners.
In addition to these proteedinge, the mayor has been re-
quested to write to the head of the ordnance department,
urgently requesting that the map of the town, long since
ordered by the late police commissioners, may be immediately
supplied, in order that a system of drainage and sewerage
may be commenced, and the operatives employed on the
necessary works. Several subcommittees have also been
appointed, one to report on the propriety of establishing
industrial schools for young men, and another for procuring
employment, to be called " The Employment Committee.'
This latter body has issued au advertisement addressed to
farmers and others within three miles of the town, offering
to treat for the execution of field labour, draining, the re-
pairing of roads, &c. Another committee was to ascertain
the numbers of operatives unemployed, whit their ageand sex.
They have ascertained the numbers to be as follow, so far u
their inquiries have extended: Factory operatives, 921 males,
1,012 females ; fustian cutters, 54 males, 103 females ; other
employments, chiefly labourers, 79 males ; total, 1,034 males,
1,115 females. The operatives themselves object to being
employed in the whitewashing of cottages, &c., on the ground
of the prevalence of fever in them, and their generally
filthy state, which they consider woald be highly prejudicial
to their own health, so that at present not much hu
been accomplished for them ; it is, however, to be desired
that the efforts of the committee to procure work may be
successful.

BRITISH ANTI-STATE—CHURCH ASSOCIATION.—A
public meeting of the inhabitants of Leeds was held on
Wednesday evening, in the Music-hall, to receive a deputa-
tion from this association " for the liberation of religion from
all state interference." The Rev. W. Footer, of London,
with Mr. Wall, attended an the deputation. The Mttaio-
hall was thronged with a respectable company, embracing
the leading dissenters in the town. The Rev. Dr. Hamilton,
independent minister, took the chair, and explained at some
length how the present movement had arisen out of the
much-agitated question of state-endowed education. The
Rev. Thomas &ales enlarged upon the sane topic*, and
concluded an animated reek by proposing

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supported by the Bet. W. Forster. The meobation haring
been adopted, it wee ieurred by the Bev. B. Brower, baptist
minister :

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supported by Mr. Mali, who anpremod the sOom which
he felt at meeting so large and respectable an assemblage of
the nonconformist body, because it afforded hint an earned
of the future success of the views which the emaciation had
been established to effectuate. The time was at hand,
felt persuaded, when the state-protected church would be-
come a thing that was—an establishment known only in the
records of history. Rio address was frequently cheered.
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proptild. and Mr. James Itishardson seconded
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J. Tin:jell'', WiaZaidaltAmoefation minister, that thanks
be given to the Rey. . Forster and Mr. Nell for their at-
tendance as a depilation, and for their able advocacy of the
principles of the hmeciation. Those gentlemen having seve-
rally acknowledged the compliment the meeting broke up.

THE " Rux" AT NEWCABTLT..—A private letter,
!looted by the Scotsman, says : " There were several amusing
incidents daring the run on Friday. One fellow drew 1,3001.
out, and having paid it in gold, he would have it out in
gold, and nothing sloe. 1,300 sovere4ns were, therefore,
shovelled into his hat, with which he waled off down Grey-
street to the Bank of England ; but they would not emotive
any deposits at such a time ; so he sat down as the
in the street with his hat before him, sedan—
one pocket full after .another, to the entsinhhasent of the
passers-by, many of whom had never before ems a hat fall
of sovereigns.

CHESHIRE.
THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS. —A meeting of the
coeunissionen was held yesterday, for the purpose of receiv-
ing and considering in a more detailed form the proposals of

provernsaent for completing the dock-works at Birkenhead.
Mr. Mallaby weeks chairman, and there were 16 commis-
sioners present. Reporters were excluded ; but the result of
the meeting (which extended over nearly three noun) was
stated to be, that the commissioners had accepted and signed
the proposals of the crown, which are in substance the same
as announced last week ; and the bill sanctioning the ad-
vance is to be submitted to parliament as a government
measure.

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MR. O'CONNOR'S POLICY WHEN IN PARLIAMENT.
—Last evening, Mr. Feargus O'Connor, M.P., addressed an
assemblage of nearly 2,000 people in the Exchange Hall,
Nottingham, principally in defence of his land plan. At the
conclusion of a speech which occupied more than two hours,
he said ke had a few words to say to them as their represen-
tative. It was said that when he went into the House of
Commons he would wow find his level. He had been
there before, and then he found his level ; and that
level was, independence and uprightness of conduct. And
when he went into the House of Commons again, he should
go with more experience., with more knowledge, and better
tempered out; and that portion of the press which imagined
that he was going there as an inflated, furious, ridiculous de-
claimer, would perhaps find their own mistake and disappoint-
ment. The great value that he would be in the House of
Commons to the working classes would consist in the feet that
whilst collegians, drawing-room gentlemen, and perfumed
lords boasted, prided themselves, and rested their strength
upon the education they had delved from books, he piqued
himself upon the education and the information he had re.
ceived front the people, looking for justice themselves. This
was what would make him powerful ; and be !should be
inoperative in that house, a nonentity, a disgrace to his con-
stituents, and a nullity to society, if he had not sufficient
discretion to know how to bring that knowledge to bear
upon that house. He pledged hamar If to the men of Not-
tingham, that, however the members of the House of Com-
mons might try to shout him down, they should not do it ; he
pledged himself that, however the press might be opposed to
his principles, they should not be able to expose his follies as
a ranting demagogue—they should not be able to denounce
him as a rioting fool. The experience he had got was worth
mines of gold; and he did not say it vainly, Whereas go-
vernment had formerly to glean something like a balance
of truth front misrepresentation on both sides' he would tell
them the truth, and the whole truth. Good God! when he
walked through their lanes and alleys, and saw the little
decrepid children, with their pale little faces and their totter-
ing limbs that ought to be exposed to the free open air of
heaven, to the country air—when he saw the wan and hag-
gard looks of wives, who, under ether circumstances, should
be the comfort of their homes, the pride of their establish-
meats, the honour of their household—when he saw the
happiness of the working climes destroyed that others might
live upon their sweat and blood,—how could he, professing
the love be did for them, do otherwise than stand up proudly
as their defender and their advocate ? The world, without
the affection of the people, would be as a blank to him. Ile
reminded them that the municipal elections were near at
hand : these were the normal schools ; and if they hoped to
preserve the power of securing the representative of their
choice, they must exert themselves in the coming struggle to
place men of their own stamp upon the corporation of the
town.