The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-17 00:00:00

SATURDAY. CU MOM
Li to B. W. sad bock, COMM
inoituroto to holt.

LAE to 8.8. W., froth
to strong. rain In
nose places.
As above.

N.B. to S.E. and 11. W.,
moderate, visitable,
aessrally Ilse.
ltartberne&sobiand. Weeeiennlielmed, Wales, and adja-
cencies. lloatbaravtliaillii Mond and By at Amy.
Beisternmnseiward Eagles& and North Bea.

PROFESSOR FAWCETT ON Till LOCK-OUT.—
Writlag to the Timer on the subject of the lock-out,
Professor Feweett says :—" No one who lest night heard
the speeches of the delegates from Staffordshire and from
the London Trades Vetoes can doubt that the working mss
of this country feel that the masters have inflicted
upon them • most grievous wrong by resorting to the
policy of • general lookout. No body of Englishmen
will tamely submit to what in their hearts they believe
to be gross Mitotic.. If some otheiliating settlement
of the prams dispute cannot be arranged, a contest
between capital and labour will be commenced, which
will develop. • rancorous enmity which hes never before
been witnessed. The greater resources of the masters
may canes them is the sad, probably, to succeed ; but they
will do well to think of the oast at which such a victory will
be purchased. In the tint place, se the dispels proceeds, •
bitter antagonism of feeling, which years will sot offset,
will smarm.. the employers and employed- The labourers
are already beginning to prove that they will carry their
deterministic.: into practice, sad emigrate to other winkles
when they believe the working men receives a more amble
reward ; and industry must be permathbertecllyirlifpled if it
is deprived of de supply of • sad ly•trabied
labour ; arid &vie it should be MIDI= that foreign
ironmasten. while our owe Washy is paralysed, may
obtain a permanent supremacy in a trade where the com-
petition is so keen and close. There is so time for delay.
E.ch hour rancour will be accumulated by the embittered
!trollop which ere being rapidly intensified ; and I judged
from the toes of the meeting lest night that the dispute may
be settled if omicthatioe is promptly proffered. The iron-
masters remitted to a lock-cat bemuse they believed that
the puddle's who are os strike in North Staffordshire were
assisted, and would °saline to be assisted, by the iron-
workers employed is other Aikido. The Geteihead Exe-
cutive. speaking for the keeweritars of the North of Eng-
lead, have promised that they will the paddlers of
North Staffoodehire as farther . It le am
thee probable that the Bolerly-hill limmtive repreesetkag
the hoe works,. of the swath el Zeeland would give •
similar promise. If the -mein will be Wilda with
these promises and will epee their worth, I believe they
will obtain all that they cam hope to secure without ea-
tacking in a costae which my be fraught with dissalier,
not °sly to themeless sod these whom they employ, bet
may a/so prejthieially affect the welfare el the °pastry. A.
quarrel is ohm prolospd, Imam ma party le the dispute
dislikes to be the het to
propose reeseesss. There ere
may room why the easseeire whim they differ hem
their mos should met baskets to temper jostles with
gesseisity. There are imity offemetheess ethoseted with
the emeasnie moths es of oar labourer whisk may appear
to him to be eejastaild anomalous ; be there ewe siatemse
elegoothly demribing the vast theme. in the matt
wealth, mid be does set lad thth his owe let I throe...seta&
1• sun ; seseitatheal sweetie= Woe esseed untold
be eroded, and yet his hoes of toil bath net hese moth-
rielly shortened ; le boars giowith deseriptions of the growth
of We mighty nostespolis. ami at the sum thee ith knows
that the home of the Larks work* ma is not mere
comfortable, theme es new sheds see mewed and ether
her
improthenests ithredthol, pleas where the laimathe
dwell GM Wife Pa MOW 111101141611. If time emeloyeen think
ea ask topics ea lark the, gip me dot with tea loos!
they cm be the Ant to SIM forward and extend the hand
of remeiliaties."