The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1853

colliery at pews there is a few =maunder your employ That
will not do as other men do that is soport there Trade we are
afraid that if they are net formed to do as the Rest of the men do
that are under your Employ that it will Cause some ue-
easeyness to take Place at your Colliery, so we hope that
you will use your 10111011C0 to pi so grest number of
your men to have to stop work for the sake of two or three
bad men that does not Can whether your work. are swiped
or not we hope that you will oblige us in this Request.
We remain Truly_youn,
Tux MINIRS UNDER YOUR EMPLOY.

MUSIC.

Among the musical events of the coming season
we arc to have, it appears, a new opera, under the title of
11 Castello di Kele°. composed by Signor Emanuele
liiletta, the libretto by the poet Maggioni, is to be produced
at the Carnival of Parma early neat month, under the
special patronage of the Grand Duke and Court of that
duchy. Hors than ordinary interest will attach to this
performance, from the circumstance that Signor Biletta
received his musical education direct from the great Rimini,
and is, we believe, the faroorite pupil of the gran nuiestro
of the century. In this couatry Signor Biletta is chiefly
known and much esteemed in private circles, but has
already made a highly favourable impression on the public
mind by the composition of an operetta called White Magic,
which was performed, as the first entire work of this young
artist, at the Haymarket Theatre, in the spring of last year.
with very marked and well-merited success. The press of
the day were unanimous in rendering a liberal tri►ute of
praise to an effort of decided talent and much future pro-
mise. In the present dearth of musical composers the
advent of a fresh genius, cultivated and esteemed by the
great Rossini, is necessarily an event of interest to the
musical world at large.

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To this request were appended four names. An answer
was returned by Mesas. Swire and Lees, in they say,
" We have received a note stating that ►t is from the
' Miners in our employ,' in which it is indirectly demanded
that we should compel certain men to coutribute a portion
of their wages to support the colliers' union. and in case of

our refusal a turn-out is threatened. Such a course of pro-
ceeding on our pert would be most unjust and illegal.
After we have paid a man his wages we have no right wLat-

ever to interfere with him u to the mod. of spend-
ing such wages; and we quits agree with the
remarks made by the late Lord Chief Justice Tindal," .1c
[The extract of Chief Justice Tindal at Stafford Is then
given, laying down the right of the working man to the
exercise of his own personal skill and the enjoyment of his
own free will, uushackled by the control or dictation of his
fellow-workmen.)
The strike of shoemakers at Stockport has proved as dis-
astrous is all the other proceedings of a similar kind, and
they " are now about to accept the offer of wages made to
them by their masters some months ago. They called a
public meeting in the Lyceum, and specially invited the
public to attend and hear their grievances; but the meet-
ing proved a failure—no person attended, ■nd nothing was
done. Suspicion began to arias as to the honour sad inte-
grity of the committee; a meeting of the title was con-
vened, auditors appointed, and the accounts examined,
when it appeared that the money obtained had not been
properly applied, and several officers were implicated in the
affair, one undertaking to repay what he had unjustly ob-
tained. A general split has been the result, and the great
bulk of the men have either returned to their work, or are
anxiously waiting to do so, having waited upon their em-
ployer* and asked for their work at the prices offered to
them in the new list."

DRAMA.

HAYMARKET.

A new comedy was put on the Haymarket stage
on Saturday. The author, Mr. Sterling Coyne, introduces
us to Sir Henry Melville, who has made • misalliance, a
great calamity, which is mitigated by the timely death el
the wife, wtte, however, leaves her son is this world. As
the boy would interfere with a new and more ambition
match his ezisttnee is carefully concealed, through the
agency of a very convenient combination of the lawyer and
the scoundrel, who entrusts him to the care—that is to say,
the neglect—of • schoolmaster of congenial morals. The
bey, having • sagacious objection to being flogged and
starved, runs away, to perform the popular process of
..seeking his fortune." In the meantime the son by the
new marriage dies, and the father not being able to find his
legitimate heir, is compelled to do without one altogether.
In

PRESTON, SATU lIDAY.
Mr. George Cowell, the popular leader of this move.
meat, having returned from London, there was an im-
mense gathering in t►e Orchard t►is afternoon, it being un-
derstood that he was to address the assembly. Immediately
on his arrival here ye►terday afternoon, he gave a brief
account of his metropolitan mission, stating that having had
interviews with the representatives of the various trades,
be found them unanimously resolved to render assistance to
the operatives of Preston in the prosecution of this
struggle.
At the meeting to-day, the Chairman, Mr. Rhodes, of
Stockport, said the millocracy of Preston were now resort-
ing to their last expedient, and if the operatives would only
be firm and determined, and above all things keep the
peace, victory was certain, and that ere long. (Cheers.)
He advised them to be of geed cheer, despite the resolu-
tions of the Masters' Association at their meeting on Thurs-
day last. They seemed to think that as Christmas time
was coming on, the employers in some of the manufactur-
ing districts would cease labour for two days, and in some
instances for a week, and that as a result, the operatives
here would only receive a small subscription, and would
thereby be starved into submission. But he begged to in-
form them that the places referred to were each keeping •
sum of money in hand, so that instead of their having a
small subecripiion in the short week, it would be larger,
than ever. (Cheers.)
Mr. 0 zo. Cowin'. was hailed with general acclamation.
He observed that after a struggle of eight weeks they had
gained one victory. The object of the masters is closing
their mills was to crush the operatives' union. Now then
(said he), when they have thrown ns in the streets, and find
that they cannot crush our union, what do they say now
They will let us go back to our work, and we must have
est union. (Derisive exclamations.) The speaker pro-
seeded to criticise a placard, headed " The mills re.
egened," and addressed "To the factory operatives of
Preston," which was issued to the public this evening, and
greeted considerable excitement amongst the unemployed.
The Preston lock out (be said) was not at an end. they
had fought for the union, and now they would fight for the
10 per cent. He hoped they would n succumb to the
last proposition of the masters, because they had fresh
channels of support opening up every day, and might de
peed upon it they would have the 10 pet cent. It was not
the Russian war that caused the manufacturers to run short
time; it was the bugbear of Preston which terrified them.
' Give us, said the people, the ten per cent. and our union,
or if you don't like that, give us the Blackburn standard
list of ',rine ; we'll have either the one or the other. We
are determined to be paid as much for our labour is Pres-
ton as they are in other towns. (Cheep.) Mr. Cowell
concluded by moving • vote of thanks to the masters of
ilsokburn for the noble spirit trey had evinced during this
esttatiost.
The motion was received with great cheering, and carried
Uesekteuely.
Mr. Gaistruaw reported that during the week he had
addressed large meetings of various trades as well as factory
operatives ►t Church Parish, Great Huwood, Over Hu-
mes, and Lancaster, and the most cordial sympathy was
Smaitestiod on behalf of the downtrodden people of Pres-
et& (Cheers.)
Mx. HADDINOTON having briefly addressed the vast as-
sembly,
Mr. Coteau. again stood forward and said—Monday
Meriting incoming, when the great doors are to be opened ;
mid you are told that when year late employers get as
many hands as will start half their machinery they will re-
sume work. Now all you who are determined to stand
by the committee and to maintain your demand for an un-
conditional ten per cent. held up your hands. (A forest of
hands was displayed, seeeseded by reiterated cheers.)
The meeting, which summand at three, separated at
-..et four,

THZ PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL COMPANY'S
MAXIS Ignite, which left Southampton yesterday with
the Indian and China mail, took out 120 paesengen and •
vary large cargo. Among the passengen who will proceed
through Frame and join the Indio at Malta, are the Hon.
F. Eruct, the new British cansul-general in Egypt, end the
wheel of the Rajah of Sanwa, who has been many years
la England unsuccessfully prosecuting the claims of the
Isiah against the East India Company. The vakeel is
band he India. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
ship Manila arrived in Southampton yesterday from Lon-
don. No has been built by Mare, of London, and Sumacs
and Co., of Southampton, will put is her engines
and boilers. The Manilla is destined to convey
coal for the company from Labuaa to Singapore.
The next outward overland mail to Australia will be con-
veyed from Singapore by the steamer Bombay or MadraN
each of which is much larger than the ones now employed
between Singapore and Australia. This arrangement will
ensure an earlier arrival of the Australian mail cis India.
It is expected that the Peninsular and Oriental Company
will commence the Bombay mail packet service about March
next.
ARRIVAL OF THE SULTAN.—The Oriental Com-
pany's Steam-packet Sultan arrived at Southampton on
Saturday with 12 pamengen and five distressed seamen.
Her dates are Gibraltar, Nov. 23; Cadiz, 24; Lisbon/ 29 ;
and Vigo, 30. Gibraltar remained cut off from communi-
cation with Spain by land by the governor's orders, but by
sea the communicatien was open. The Odin was seen off
the entrance of the Tagus. The Valorous, Imperious, and
Desperate wen mon steering for Lisbon.
A MAD Doe AT A SCHOOL.—On Friday, at the
Windsor National School, where 2011 hue and as many
girls are edusalni by the united loseenimess of be Ma-
and the iihetiteste et the beestsbi aye greeteet terror
was caused by Mit Magenen, eff a Mad of ameaget the
*Wren ea the gide side el* ediesilsod, PO as they
had meamblind anoints to maning myna The poor
Mem etnisken, sole their way as fist as they
'mild out albs wiwkead all wowed but one mehetnaate
*de girl, whamMie a* seined* the back pang=
wad& it dreadfidly laesratel. The child wee
Idris le the Royal Dispensary, where, under dr Whew
ell eliseelles, the bitten parts were carefully dienglail eel
afterwards canteriaed by Dr. Eton. The dog wee after-
wards shot. The anxiety and distress of the mama of the
pow child, whose name is Heath, are indescribable.
Swltit RAILwATB.—The Grand Council of the
canton of N ratchets!, in its sitting of the 29th ult., una-
nimously voted the coneemits of the railway of the
Venires-Thielte, with a breach line on Tverdon, to a
(sinned company of French and English capitalists. This
important line will serve as the prolongation of the line of
.Bs-Poatarlier, to reach into the centre of Switzerland.
The Municipal Council of Genoa has subscribed for shares,
to the amount of six millions of francs, towards the con-
struction of the Lukmanier Railway.
NINE WAGGON LOADS OF MoNsir.--Cousidenble
curiosity was manifested on Saturday morning last by the
arrival at the Waterloo station of the South-Western
Railway of nine waggons filled with silver money, for
conveyance to Southampton preparatory to bong shipped
for India and Hong-Kong. The silver weighed 30 tons.
HYDROPHOBIA.—The Franzry Gazette ale :—A
woman of Boujan has just been attacked with hydrophobia,
from having used a pocket-handkerchief with which she
had, a year back, wiped away the foam from the month of
a child who had been bitten by a mad dog. The child died
in terrible convulsions, but the woman, not apprehending
any danger to henelf, felt no alarm at that circumstance.
She was quite unexpectedly attacked in her turn a few days
back, and expired in great agony,