The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-24 00:00:00

THE WAGES MOVEMENT.

THE COTTON MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.—Wer
mentioned last week that the operatives employed at
Blackburn to attach .warps to the frames of the weavers
(called icemen) had demanded an advance equal to 25 per
cent., and that although these men form but a small portion
of the opetatives,:there wee a danger of the mills being
stopped' should they strike. It amen that Messrs. Fielden
and Jackson's locomen have struck, and that the firm ob-
tained the assistance of Women from other towns and at-
tempted tog* on, but the weavers in this emergency, sym-
pathising with the learners, have also turned out, thus
showing that the combination was a general one, and
not confined, as at first supposed, to the loomers.
'Under these circumstances the masters also, like those
at Stockport, have combined. The associated masters Nye
given notice that they will close all their mills in a Mt
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night. At Stockport, Mr. James Kershaw, M.P., a partner
is owe'oftlie firma there who have resisted the workpoople,
has, it is reported, been employed in using his good omen
to bring about an accommodation of differences, bet not
with an& immediate prospect amnesic At Denten, the
locomen at Orchard Mill have struck, and strangers having
been employed to supply their place, the old hands have at-
tacked them, beating one man very seriously. The short-
time movement has been successful at Ashton, Stalybridge,
Mossier, Oldham, and all the places where the masters per-
sisted in the long-hoar system. It is amusing to think how
the practical precocity of the youngsters has outran the
wisdom of older heads in this respect. At Huddersfield them
was &meeting last week of the Stephens, Osader, and Fielden
party—the old agitators 'Cr short time—who received that
no Kimmel would be successful in bringing about short time
but petitioning parliament to
_put • restriction on the
moving power, or machinery. These gentlemen have no
hops but through legislation: a few boys working as
pintas atAshton, being impatient of legislatton, turned out
sad •et an example which brought the machinery to •
stand in an inconceivably short time. The old short time
committee, with whom the 2arl of Shaftesbury formerly
acted, have put themselves at the head of the latter move-
ment, but at a public meeting recently held, one of them
expense., stated that they claimed no credit for the scheme:
it well the young urchins had done it all."

PROJECTED STRIKE.—The journeymen painters,
plumbers and glaziers, of Southampton have met in the
Towmhall, by pernaizaion of the Mayor, this week, for the
purpose of obtaining higher wages.

WELSH IRON TRADE. GREAT STRIKE AT
LLTNFI Wosucs.—A very general advance (says a corn-
spendent) In the rate of wages paid to the men at the
venous iron works, has jest taken place. At Dowlais, the
extensive works of Sir John Guest, an advance of 10 per
cent. has been promist d ; and at the Maesteig iron works,
an advance of 5 per cent. has taken place. At Treforeet,
likewise, much joy has been caused by en announcement
on the part of Mr. Crawshay that a rise of 2e. and in some
cam 3s. in the pound, would be made immediately. These
have been voluntary acts on the part of the masters. The
great strike of the men lately employed at the Llynfl Valley
works still continues, and there is no prospect of an amica-
ble adjustment. Large meetings of the men have bees
held, where the proceedings have been most peaceably con-
ducted. Vast numbers of these men are now leaving the
place, in order to seek employment elsewhere ; and soon it
is expected that the whole body, numbering 3,000 souls,
with their families, will have left. Public sympathy is very
much in favour of the men. lift, colliers and their fami-
lies have left Poulypridd for Australis, having been en-
gaged to work there.

FCNERAL OF CARDINAL GARIBALM.—The funeral
obsequies of the late M. Garibaldi, the Pope's Nuncio, took
tlace in Paris on Tuesday with great ter_mony. The pall-
bearers were two of the cabinet minis err, and the minis-
ters of Prussia and Belgium. , Lord Cowley, the Eng-
lish ambassador, acted as chief mourner upon the solemn
oetuioo.

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111 ELAND.

1111.L.!7(, jrNE 23.
Tbs. I. e...1-Lieatensnt and the Countess of Sr. tier-
Imps •Irral the Exhibition with a visit yesterday.
Then 1::• flll3llled about au hour iral
half. number of limiters was about 7,1100, and
the attesdanco was chiefly of a fashionable character.
remai:is of tl.c late Mr. Maurice (Moore%
M.l'., arrived in Dublin yesterday. by steam-packet
from I.ivtrpoul, and were conveyed in a hearse which
was i:t waitiog to the residence of Lis lee father iu
Meet! .:144111.111.. John O'Connell, the brather, and
Pink!. the son of the lamented deceased, with
aevaal other members of the family and a few
friers :w, attended the remains to the:Louse of :he
lute Lihervtor, whence they will be removed this
morning to (liasnevin Cemetery. there to be ihr.).
ith those of his father. The funeral will be
Sir Michael D. Bellew, Bart., the father of Capt.
Bellew M.P. for the county of Galway, is to be ap-
pointed a member of her id .jcsty's Privy Council for
Ireland. It is stated that the appointment has
already bees made.
The health of Chief Justice Lefrnv is so far re-
tamed, that he will be able to undertake the duties
of the approaching circuit; tat it is probable that
this will be the last time the venerable judge will
encounter that fatigue.
Mr. P. G. Barron. It.M., Limerick, and Mr. Joseph
Tabnteau, Waterford, have been directed by
the Lord-Lieutenant to attend the Clare election on
special duty, and there nee to he on the whole ten
etipendiary magistrate:3 in attendance at that elec-
tion, two at each pulling stutiuu. la addition to the
encampment at Simile-bridge, the Limerick, Chro-
nicle mentions the following among the military
arrangements for the Clare election:
Captsin Carlyon's temp 3rd Dragoon Guards, from Bal.
'iamb, to Ennis, to emit* on Saturday ; two companies of
Ilighlantlera, from:Galway to Bon's, to arrive or.
Saturday aid Monday nest; one company of 16th Kept.,
from Castlisher to Sailinrobe ; one company 14th, from
Limerick to Ennis ; one cempmiy dn., to Kilrush ; one cow-
piny lUh, and one comrany 47t0, from Limerick to Tulla ;
two companies 11th, to Ermis on Saturday, en route to
Xunietymen.
The Boman catholic soldiers of Captain Trevor's
eovipsny, I Ith, at Kilrash, were ordered out of the
chapel on Sunday Met, when the priest began to
address his congregation about the Clare election.
The following particulars of the murder of Mr.
Robinson, of Scant, in the county of Wexford, are
from n 'Waterford paper:
It ie our painful duty to announce the most foul and cold-
blooded murder of the above gentleman, which took place
at ri.wu on Friday last, while the deceased was returning
In p .rt of his estate There daes rat appear to have
eat tee' the idightes cause for this wanton merifiee of life,
and ti'- whole affair is, np to the present, a complete mys-
r• ry 'the deceased had his gun with him, which was found
!stag by hi. side loaded, and a discharged musket was die-
iovsred it, the d.tch at the road:ide, some few yards from
the a
sot where the body was found, but there is not a trace
'.l the re r; etra•or or perpetrators of this awful deed. Mr.
Hawkalsaw, coroner, hell en inquest on the body on Satur-
day, when a verdict we-. returned, " That the deceased
came by his death from the elf, cts of a gun-shut wound,
maliciously inflicted by some person or persons at present
unknow r..

It cl, of not yet appear quite eerta7n that this mur-
der is to to rauktl in the catalogue of agrarian
crimes.

Tut: Frx or at ISIAH FAIR.—Ott Thursday !let,
being a :dr day at Ballynohinch, • riot occurred, in the
cisme of which an unwatrintable and unprovoked attack
well stole upon the constsbulary stationed there, as well as
those who timidly attend liallynahir-h far the preservation
of the peace ou fair days. The circumstances are briefly
thew, —S nee time doting the day a drunken man was
arrested by one of the police, who, whilst in the act of con-
sreyirg hi• primmer to tho lock up, was attacked by some
country people, who endeavoured to rescue the man from
his cav!..ty. Tito constable, having gat the assistance of
others nt the force, succeeded in retaining the prisoner
and !ging him in the police barrack. This was
not elf cud. however, without the greatest danger, at
the imminent risk of the lives of all the constabulary
of the town. A most diabolical and savage attack
was nicle upon the police with sticks, stones, and
other missiles, by the country people, who as-
sembled in large numbess for the purpose. Several of the
police L :v., received material injuries by being cut on the
head with stones. After the prisoner had been secured,
an attack was made on the police barrack, the windows of
which were taken oat by order of Sub-Inspeetor Stafford,
who bad an armed man placed at each. We are informed
that the moot intense excitement at one time prevailed, and
that the Heifer the police were in the greatest danger. To
)dr. Stafford is due the credit of having displayed great
tact, and sound discretion, as well as firmness and
energy, otherwise the lane, it is to be feared, would have
been very tragical. The police ultimately succeeded I. ar-
resting eight or tea cf the rioters, and in identifying a
number of others, who it is h..pcd will he brought to jus
tice at the ensuing quarter sessions, which will commence
here on Monday.—boompotrict Recorder.

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