The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-23 00:00:00

CRICKET.

NORTH T. SOI7TH 01P ENGLAND.—Thin match
was brought to a 000c:usioo at Lord's yesterday evening,
in forcer of tb• North, in 1 senior and 10 rues. The
benefit for Grundy, we behave, has been a good one. The
score was as follows :—North, end tunings, 271 ; South,
first innings, 61 ; sewed innings, 200 ; total, 261.

CHARING CROW RAILWAY, AND Tar LAST OF
HUNOZAFORD Naaarn—Yesterday another sale of this
psoperty, comprided the rugs of shops forming tbe colon-
made of lianseeferd-market mad the street communicating
with the Strand, and which seedy completes the disposal of
that extensive property, wes:etected by Mr. Marsh, the
eowipiny's auctiemen imelmilimg the two weil-kmown towns,
is front ci which the Piebegloss and Oicamtwtown omni-
buses had their • la a wok or two the satire
PlwriwtY will undergo and be levelled te the
ogled. The market, pies heel almady ciosiolisird and
the materials are removed, amd poptate a perhetly
open some hem the Strand to &Omaha of the Thomas, and
a-large body of works'sa are camtimpai by the ecolnators
in *Ogg the fowidatiom for the inters westosd as
station. The sorthers. or Middlemen end ci the peat bridge
to carry the lime from the Inectlem-hridos station over the
AM. is aloft pliegnstaiss sod, in odor be fsed,tat•
obtain. the emserwalme oil the Thom have isso d orders
to all the stems-beata mad river-craft, to keep as roach in
the *Wm of the slums as pooh& The paamager
between the Adolph! mad Whitehall is not u •
rutted.

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have W
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111,"VPRAXISES at
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with a lame solleetloa et their intandatioree, and they hope to
resolve, se they sill sedenetteg to atone, an extension of the
damn lithisteateards4 Ulla at lb* City letablisheaset,
NIRO WILLIAX-STRERT.

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NATMAILLIT.
TICOP ErieriMA TEE WOLF AND THE LAMB.—OCR
AIUMICAN OOIIsiN. Mama &Ahem Nuckstons Mn. Young,
MisOUver.—lA CONTRABANDISTA. Peres Tess and Moor
Monets.—And FAMILY JAIL

PRI maws.
DIM Evvirso, TOO MUCH 07 A GOOD THING.—THE
CoRsICAN BRoTREPA. Masers. Charles Kean, Jordan, Shore,
R. Cathcart, Everett, Garden, and Meadows : Misses Fielding,
B. Leclerc% sad Chapinan.—And THRICE MARRIED.

T. /AIMS.
THIS RTsimmi. ORD= THE ROBL—FRIENDO OR FOUL
Mews. George N'lnt Dewar, aad F. Matthew" Mrs. T.
Matthews, Wawa and Mks Tarns.—And PRINCE
MUSIC!.

BRITA II NIA .
Tins Mona', TEI aLTJZ Messrs. J. Reynolds,
Drummond, Holloway, mood: Mrs. E. Tarnobt—glngtng by
Mr. Sydney and an. per, THE HARVEST STORM.-
-And THIS BREAK OF MOWN.

TRU [II/NO, MAZEPFZ—AIt; which SCENES IN THE
CIRCLE Mlle. MaaottL—To conclude with THE MAIMED
BACHlLOP..—Cairmeas at T.

KIM WAX= AT LONDOS BALMY.
Tins DAY —llssvasg, 11b. Sara— Afternoon. Oh. on.
TOnosaon—Matinas, ad 10...... Afternorn, Oh. Ma.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23.

TER great problem of how to meet the severe
and increasing distress in the manufacturing dis-
tricts has now reached the stage which those who
watched its growth have long seen to be inevitable
. _

—that of formal legislative intervention. The
application to Parliament for an exceptional ex-
pansion of the existing machinery for affording
legal relief follows close on the organised appeal to
those connected by property with the suffering
districts which was inaugurated at Bridgewater-
House on Saturday last. The urgency of the
crisis not only imperatively requires both forms of
relief, but will in all likelihood tax their available
resources to the uttermost. Nor does the one at
all necessarily interfere with the other. Legal relief
can only be administered to those who have no means
whatever of subsistence, while the main object of
the voluntary effort commenced at Bridgewater-
House is to assist those amongst the unemployed,
or all but unemployed, operatives who are striving
amidst bitter privations to keep themselves above
the condition of paupers. This class is not only • '
large one, but includes amongst its members many
of the best—the most sober, industrious, and in-
telligent—of the workmen employed in the mills.
These men have supported themselves hitherto
partly by means of their little hoards, which have
been gradually withdrawn week by week from the
Savings Banks, and partly by means of voluntary
and private aid. The hoards in the Savings Banks
are, as the returns show, almost exhausted, while
casual local aid of a charitable kind has already
been drawn upon very largely. If any considerable
number of the operatives out of employment are
to be kept above the condition of paupers, this
can only be by the more extensive, complete,
and systematic organization of voluntary effort
contemplated at the Bridgewater - House
meeting. But to ensure any reasonable amount
of success, this voluntary effort must include not
only large and numerous contributions, but a
thoroughly searching and efficient local machinery
for their distribution. Apart from this essential
condition of its practical usefulness, benevolent
effort on a large scale might eventually rather
tend to increase than to diminish the army of
silent sufferers which already crowds the avenues
of legal relief.
But whatever in the way of partial relief may
be accomplished by voluntary effort, it is certain
that the number of mill hands wholly dependent
on the rates for subsistence is rapidly increasing
every week, and may be expected to increase for
some months to come. According to the statistics
given by Colonel Panty, the increase is at the
rate of from a thousand to fifteen hundred every
week. This heavy pressure of course strains
severely the existing machinery of legal relief, and
at some of the chief centres of distress it has
already become difficult, if not impossible, to col-
lect anything like the amount of the higher rate
already levied. Under these circumstances it is not
surprising that the Government should have felt it
their duty before Parliament separates to make
some provision for any emergency, any increased
and overwhelming pressure of local distress that
might arise during the recess. Three ways of meet-
ing this possible difficulty have been suggested—by
parochial loans, rates in aid, and grants from the
public treasury. The last plan is for the present
at all events out of the question. Though the
distress is in the truest sense a national calamity,
its relief is unquestionably, in the first instance, a
local duty, and the proportions of the calamity,
though large, have not yet expended the ample
local means that exist for meeting it. The Mayor
of Manchester, at the meeting on Saturday, showed
an honourable anxiety to clear the city ho repre-
sented from the suspicion of wishing in any
way to evade the serious duties and responaibilities
of the crisis. He assured the gentlemen as-
gambled that the wealth of Manchester was fully
able to relieve the distress of Manchester ; and
what is true of the chief town is equally true of
the country at large. Mr. VILLIEJLB was thus
justified in expressing his conviction that the pro-
perty of the district would be equal to any
emergency that might arise. Of the two
other suggestions, that of parochial loans
is open to the serious objection of con-
verting a temporary pressure into a permanent
burden. Such a scheme if adopted would, in any
case, heavily tax the industry of these districts for
some years to come. The other plan, that of a rate
in aid, seems therefore, on the whole, best adapted
to meet the special wants of the crisis. It has the
advantage of belonging to the body of existing law on
the subject. It recognises the principle of local lia-
bility for local burdens, on which our whole legis-
lation proceeds, and simply extends its application
under exceptional circumstances. If a particular
parish is overburdened with distress, it may apply

to the Union of which it is a inseinber foil'
awe, and if a Union is p •
,insolvent,
may in the same way recei
Unions. The object ftt_
~ Bin lotro=tlr. y
tpse
Mr. \qualms last net 41- lk- jive volpity
to the principle and provisions o? the exist-
ing law relating to rates in aid, and to ful-
-1 litate their application under circumstances
of severe and exceptional pressure :—" It
" was with this view that the present Bill had
0' been introduced—namely, to carry into effect
" that which had already been provided for by
" the law of the land, that when any pariah
" should be overburdened by excess of expendi-
" tore—when the account should exceed by two-
" thirds the expenditure which during the three
" preceding years had been incurred in support of
" the poor, then that parish should have a claim
" on the common fund of the union, and the guar-
" diens should order contributions to be made to it.
" The Bill proposed to fix a certain point beyond
" which the common fund of the union should be
" charged for the parish. He believed himself,
" from having carefully examined the returns of
" the value of property in the different unions,
" that they would be quite sufficient to meet any
" difficulty which could arise during the approach-
" ing recess." The Bill further provides that the
burden of • distressed union shall be shared by
the other unions of the county. It would be pre-
mature to discuss the special details of the mea-
sure, which were only alluded to last night. But
the principle of the Bill is essentially equitable,
and its leading provisions are well adapted to meet
the special and prospective wants of the crisis.
The Bill being exclusively provisional, it is proposed
to limit its operation to the Ist of March next.

Mx Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Jou 22.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena
and Princess Louise, walked and drove is the grounds yes_
terday afternoon.
The Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg visited her
Majesty to-day.
Her Majesty and the Prince cf Wales, Princess Helena,
Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and
Princess Beatrice, left Windsor Castle for Balmoral this
evening.

The suite in attendance consisted of the Viscountess
Jocelyn, Lieutenant-General Use Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the
Hoe. Sir C. Phipps, Lord Charles Fitz• Soy, Captain Grey,
Major Elphinstone, and Dr. Jenner.
Viscountess Jocelyn has succeeded the Counter of Donut
IA Lady in Waiting.

The Prince of Wales came up from Windsor Oastle yes-
terday, attended by Lieutenant-General the Ron. C. ()key
and Captain Grey, and visited the Great Exhibition.
Hie Royal Highness subsequently visited the Prime of
Orange and the Greed Duke of Saxe Weimar, and honoured
Mr. Theed and Mr. Noble with a visit to their studios, and
also inspected Mr. Buicer's Photographic Collection.

The Prince »tamed to Windsor at four o'clock.
Princess Hoheslolie, attended by Lady Attitude Bruce,
left Buckingham Palace yesterday morning for Balmoral.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial office
to the Lord High Commissioner of the Imam Islands.

Last evening, at 14 minutes pad 10, her Majesty
the Queen and suite passed through the station of the
Great Western Company at Snow-hill, Birmingham, on
her way to BalmoraL Her Majesty stayed for ten
minutes at Leamington for refreshment, and the royal
train passed through Birmingham, without stopping, to
Bushbury Junction, where the royal train left the Great
Western and entered upon the London and North Western
system, and the engines were changed. The journey was
conducted with the utmost privacy, the public being
excluded from the stations on the line of route.

Their Royal liighimasee the Duchene of Cam-
bridge and Priocess Mary, the Grand Duke of Saxe-
Weimar, and the Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg-
&relit: honoured Lord and Lady Llenover with their
company at dinner oe Monday last. Lady Caroline Cunt,
Colonel Home Purees, and Baron von 7.edlits were in
attendance on their royal highnesses. There were also
present the Austrian Ambassador, the Duke and Duchess
of Argyll, the Duke of St. Albans, the Marquis of Abet-
corn, the Marquis of Tullikardine, the Marquis and Mar.
chimes* Bandioi Giustiniani, Earl of Delewarr, Pert of
Cork, Viscount Sydney, and Mr. sod the Hon. Mrs.
Hebert, of Llanarth.

The Karl and Countess of Fife and family have
left town for Mar Lodge, Abordeensbire.

Lord and Lady Belhaven have arrived at the
Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood.

Lord and Lady Vernon and the Hon. Mime
Vernon Warren have left Thomas's Hotel, foe Sudbury
Hall, Derby.

Mr. White will ask the Secretary of State for
the Horne Department, to-morrow, what progress has been
made towards effecting the abolition of metropolitan turn-
pikes.
Viscount Enfield intends to-morrow to ask the
Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education,
whether be will consider the advisability of making the
districts connected with the committee of council on educa-
tion smaller ; and whether there is any intention of pro-
inciting the masters in these schools to the post of
examiners.

To-morrow Sir De Lacy Evans will ask the Secre-
tary of State for War on what principle it is that gentle-
men who have purchased appointments in the corps of Gen-
tlemen at Arms are to be compensated for the price of their
appointments out of what is termed the reserved fund, •
fund created altogether by contributions from the officers of
the regular army ; and what are the intentions of the go-
vernment as to the continuance or rectifications in respect
to that fund.

The departments of Woolwich Arsenal were closed
yesterday quid Moaday to permit the men to visit the Great
Exhibition, and it wm intimated by the authorities that
the men were expected to follow out the conditions for
which the holidays were granted.

The military rifle watch at Ahierahott, which
has been looked forward to with great interest by tho
troops, and which is to extend over three days, commenced
yesterday at Cssier's Camp. The weather throughout the
day was delightful, and the arrangements of Capt. !Peres,
inspector of Musketry, in conjunction with • committee
of officers, were excellent. Sir J. L. Pennefather, accom-
panied by Major Paget Bayly, visited the ground about
4 o'clock. The tiring began at 9 o'clock at 12 different
ranges, the bull'o eyes, upon this occasion—following the
precedent recently set at Wimbledon—being square in-
stead of round, as formerly.