The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-17 00:00:00

EXCHEQUER.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterd.oy received
• depwation of the committee for promoting 111, formation
of a park for Finsbury, at his official residence !)owning•
street.

The deputation was accompanied by Lord It. Grosvenor,
M.P. for Middlesex, and consisted of Messrs. Bowerdank,
F.A.S. ; J. J. Downes, F.R.A.S. ; W. C. Birch, Jan. Barnett,
John Leonard, John Reynolds, James Jackson, Henry
Spicer, Jacob Vincent, F. Sandoz, Thos. Dix, and James
Lloyd, the honorary secretary.
Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR introduced the subject, and,
called the right hon. gentleman's attention to a letter
of his own, addressed to Lord PaMurat°, in which
he said he should be wiliiog to go the length
which had beeu proposed by Lord J. Manners under Lord
Derby's government, and by the previous ftvvvrugNerit of
Lord J. Russell, viz., to assist by a governmen. grant, pro.
vided the greater proportion of the money required were
raised by local rates, or by some other means th.n from the
Exchequer.

The CUANCELLOR of the EICHEQUEU—I have no nub
to recede from that letter. .1 recognise it as a pledge and u
an engagement to the extent stated, viz., to make an ad-
vance, provided the larger proportion of the money be
provided by ►ocal or other means than the Exchequer.

Lord IL. Gaosysnon and several of the members of the
deputation urged upon the Chancellor the necessity of
giving the necessary parliamentary notices for the introduc-
tion of the bill in the coming session, and the right hoe,
gentleman, though declining to take any steps in Met
matter himself, ultimately promised to consul: Lord Pal-
merston on the subject, and communicate the result to Lord
IL Grosvenor some time to-morrow.
The deputation then withdrew.

THE STRIKES IN TILE NORTH.

(FROM OCR LOCAL CORRESPONDENT.)

The colliers at Wigan have been fairly starved
into a surrender. The interview between a body of them
and the manager of one of the largest collieries on Friday
was characteristic. They went and proposed to halve the
difference of advance in dispute, and finding there was no
hope of concession, gradually decreased their own demands
to a halfpenny per ton advance. They were told even this
could not be given, and then they asked when they could
go to work. The answer was that it had n their own
fault they ever left work—that the factories b.ing closed
there was not much pressure of demand for coal, but the
pits should be opened tor them on Monday or
Tuesday. But it was hunger that was th.: negotiator,
and the anxiety for food would not bioJk such a
delay, and Saturday was named—for there was a desire to
secure wages on Saturday night, if it were only a few
shillings. Some of them ultimately proposed to go down
into the mines there and then. The manager objected that
there was not a sufficient number to make it worth while
to open the pits ; but this objection was greedily removed,
for a large reinforcement were discovered to M within call
and, unlucky day as Friday is held to be by colliers, they
did not stay to think about evil omens. They a;! descended
as fast as the steam-engine would permit, and it is believed
that many of them will think twice before they consent to
another strike. The following is an estimate of the men
and boys in the Wigan collieries who have been on strike
and have now resumed work:—

Haigh Colliery, Earl of Crawford's oeo
Kirkler's Hall .. 416
Spring Branch, Mr. Pearson'a llb
Holme Houle, Mr. H. Wood's ll4
Ince Hall lOl4
Hound House, Wright and Tqlor's ...... ..•••• 2t2
Moss Hall
Gidlow-lane and lace Coal Company, Mr. Hail
burton's
Pemberton and lace 11065, Blundell and Sons 170
Winstunley, Mr. 11. Bankeis
MtlFfP. A. Eccles and Sons
Douglas Bank and Rose-bridge, Mr. J. A.
Case's
Westwood Hall 4O
Standish Lower Ground ll4
"

Bull Ring

Blackrod; Ridgway and Co's.

4,2h4

Besides these there are still on strike about 750 colliers at
the mines in Upholland, Bisphian, Walthew-iouse, Claps
gate, and Standish, who it is supposed are acting upon
plan of the trades delegates to take their employee in de-
tail, or a few at a time, to enforce the advance. Thew, it
will be recollect d, were the tactics of the factory delegate's
11 which have been frustrated by the employers closing their
mills upaa them iu various districts; and it is supposed
that this plan if persisted in by the colliers will deteimile
the c:,litery owners upon a similar mode of resistance. The
colliery owners meet to morrow.
At Darwin. on Thursday last, the operatives held
meeting in the Assembly Room, to take into considerstion
; the state of affairs at Preston. Mr. John linosles k%sllt
the se.retary of the Damen committee, was in the chair;
; and the room was filled almost to suffocation. The meeting
I was addressed at great length by a Mrs. Fletcher of Prestos,
a "rights of women" advocate, who urged that every wan
should tarn as much money as would keep Lumen and
family without being under the necessity ‘)I ,en.line his
wife t.. tha mill. The pri:icipal speaker wai Mr. Itho.les,
or who gate a general view of the 10 pet `'drat'
que‘tim, arguing that the employers were well able ti else
the to and expre,si am his conviction that the geni-
tives rJ Pri,ston would ltnng their masters to null, to 6
short taue. The amount collected last week to this tetra
for the Preston operatives was 1241. its, lid. A ProPsi-
tion that aispenee a loom be collected oust week 616/
carried ; sad the meeting then separated.