The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-09 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP MARKET-THIS DAY.

Mew.. l'atltnclen and Smith report that the hop ra.rket
in very firm, or. cm likely to rto higher, on Acc.unt of
the amount of itu:y I:eing so much uuder the ai,nual con-
...itoption of hci!s.

COAL. ARK Et. -Tills DAY.
itolywell. it; Ve.t Marl.... 21e. ; W• 11,4 End
liawsll, 24i. 60.—Ships at musket, N.

POLICE ENPIOSAGE.

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On Monday. Mr. R. M. Walker, proprietor of the
OM Mansion gatel, Drury-lane, Lverpool, appeared .t the
lice-court, far the purpose of complaining of an i etre-
ordinary proceeding ou the part of the police, on Sunday
forenoon. Mr. Wainer put in a written statement, in which
ne said, " For two years past 1 have been proprietor of a
restaurant in Chapel-street (next doer to the ordees of
drown, Shipley, auu Cu.) Fria the premises being re-
quired, I during the past to•‘nth removed to the Man-
uaii-house II .tel, Drury-lane. Since I have been in busi-
nets it has been my rule to close entirely on the Sabbath.
Yesterday morutia,/, aster part of the family bed gone to
church, I was call d from dressing by my wife in terms
repeated so fr,.quiatly and rapidly that I became
alarmed and rushed down stairs, where I found
three men in the habiliment of spring-cart drivers,
or even worse disguises. They convinced me they
were officers by excluding dirty cards. I admitted their
authority, corceivit; they had made a legal catranc •, and
told them the house was ,pen to their inspectlon : hut
judge my surprise to find, on their departure, that they
had gained admits,on through a wii.dow. As a rate payer,
and as a cons. rector of the law, I ea. your advice, at sti-
pendiary magistrate, if an entrance is to be effected ihto my
house, where time iry tea females, by the window, how
am Ito guard against felony or (lett r crime ? TNT, ordi-
nary men might enter in the same manner. fled 1 had a
friend or relative in the house, or hail I invited any ono to
dinner (as 1 often do), the result might have been a cots-
vi,tion, as I theutd not in such a case have closed the
sources of hospitality ; for though a licensed victualler, I
e ,nnat conceive I alt -..41,1 be rest, deed more that any other
Leftist& subject, whatever hie trade or precision." Atter
same conversation Mr. Walker weer recommended to lay a
complaint of the conduct of the police officers before Capt.
Cirri!, the chief of the Liverpool farce, and he hit the
court, stating his itatehtion to act upon the advice. We
learn that an intesthrazion juts the case will rake place
forthwith.—Northorn Times.

REVERSE OF FORITNE.—In midsummer last year
a merchant fittcil ~o a Tema.' from the Clyde for aieeeierne
—he being owner of both ship and carpi. She carried
a number of pasacngcre, and among the crew wee a poor
hey, who was taken out free for his labour. When the
vessel aerie ed at Me.oourne, the owner sold the canto, oral
shortly afterward, the vessel, and remitted the ereeseds to
his friends at horne. This poor hey got employment in one
of the numerous lighters that ply between the large emi-
grant ships and M.:iL,-,,arne, carrying cargo, a very prcfit-
able trade, and i.e lust w ck remitted 10/. oi saving?,
accompanied by. a lutt.at, in which he says, " I am well em-
piesed, and saving nt.mey. You may perhaps be aware
that the ship I same by was net here, and toe owner it
driving a cart threuet Melbourne, the captain is employed
es • labourer about the wharves, while a young gentleman,
a relative of the nose.. r, is carrying a hod in a Erick store."
—North British Mail.
TimuEn.—Trattie in this valuable commodity has
so rapidly increased, that orders have been sent to England
fur as many a, fifty Cutting and eplittieg is a
mode more remunerative than gold-mining. The average
of the weekly earnings of digg -re bear no comparison with
an equal number et our Ilunn sawyers. This is a well-
authenticated face—colonist (Van Diemen'. Land paper).
A RECREANT LOVER Stior.—A melancholy affair
occurred in this county about eight miles from the city, on
the Bardstown turnpike, on Saturel ie morning. A man
nem( d Christian G. Martin had been teaching school there,
awl engaged iliM4tit to dig Emily Shaw, ale', r,
whose parents retitle there. Martin had in fact obtained
the marriage license. Afterweree hit cure:duet-4 nut to
marry her, and to screen himself from the coneequee eels
presented a paper to her for signature, in which eats was
charged with having =Weed the grossest improprieties.
She, of course, refusta to sign it. Martin and a hrother of
Miss Shaw then got into a tight ea the road. S'isew drew a
pistol, which Martin a-tempted to wrench from him. eel it
went uff accalentally, the b-all entering in (exit near the
shoulder, and leileinit .11 the back. Miss Shaw, uncenscieue
that Martin was wour. red, then jumped the fence, widktd
uo to Martin, aud shat him in the si•le. He died in shear
fifteen minutes, though it was thought +hat the first wound
would have caused his death.—Louiscille Journal.
AN INTELLIGEN CRlTlC.—Bouties tithed.) was
much liked in America. An old yankee, who had never
seer. n play, gm, talt."o to wittiest Booth's performance of
the Moor ; and on b. log asked, at the termination of the
piece, if he liked it, be replied," Yes, amazing ; but rue me
if I don't guess that tattle nigger (Othello) played as well as
any o' the white feilors—if not better!"—A. Bunn.
EXPENSIVE WARFARE.—Letters from Santa Fe
announce that F. X. Aubrey reached there on the I.lth
ult. The Indian, were numerous and very heetilre
and hail forzht the party for thirty days, wounding
nearly all of Olean. Aubrey received eight wounds at dila
ferent times. The fighting was chit fly with the " °trot's."
Tney met a tribe of lueians two hundred miles west of
es le, who used acid bullets fur their guns.—Neic lurk
It eet/y Times.
DR. E. H. NoLAN.—In 1849 and lt3i:l0 the name
, at Dr. Nolan wall rep: atedly before the public in connexion
with some tratumetians and charges, which we need not
further particularise than to state that they were the sub-
' jeet of an 'dims at toe South Lancashire Spring Assizes of
18&d at Liverpool In the April of that e^ar the aunqal
meeting of the L v.wiehire Congregational Union was held
in Liverpool (Dr. Nolan being present), and three mt a-
tians were unanimously edumed the first expressing their
grave disapprobation of 1)r. Nulan's " retinal to submit the
examination of toe charges f,r some time in eirenlation
against him to Christina brethren in Manchester:" the toe-
c'nd, that having chos nto seek redress in a court of taw,
where he must have had a verdict on the merits of the rare,
be, by his couneel, availed it ; and he basing also oh-
jected to submit to at. investigation before a suleconiteet-
tee of the union, t 'cep: on corolit.4.ris utterly nurear.na•-le,
the committee dreier tbeir determiestims to withdraw
from nun all further connexion. The third was to the
tifeet that as " the ce weemhliug iii Mein Chapel,
hal id.ntilieil theateelvee with Dr. Elul n, and (beetled to
submit to any inquiry according to the laws of the Union,
the meeting declare : them to be " .pelted from the
le eowthip of the am teiated churches." For more than
1, three years, since this decision, a portion of the c.n,
tion have continued to attend the ministraeans "C Dr.
Nolan in Dade Chapel but a great number left the con-
gt, gation has fur some time been dwindling, and at length
!el: la so impoveristed a condition, that r is said, not only
the communion plate, 1 at bibles and otha r books, and in-
dee 1 almost every article that was portable and imitable,
tint been disposed of to maintain the necessary expenses.
At length, however, Dr. Nolan has withdrawn from his
nearer, and, it is said. has let,: Maticheeter, and is about to
iineertake the editoreleie of setne polemist. peel Ace' in the
mdrouolts. Ducie chapel is consequently without a
minister, almost witheut a congregation, and ih such a
ite, as to tarniture, enc., that it is said it will rtquire
:o 20)1. to reinstete it, in these respects, in the sums

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LONDON. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9.

" fat: LORD MAYOR'S carriage stops the way""
This is literally true at the time we write.
'flat lumbering house upon wheels, iu which
the Loan March is jolted into office, will be crawl-
ing through the streets of the metropolis to-day like
a sick snail, with an outlandish troop of fu.lowers
wriggling behind it, and putting a stop to the whole of
the serious business of a city, of which business is the
%cry life-blood. What is the reason for con tin ui rig such
precis:hien' as this, now that all the meaning which
farm.etiy attached to the exhibition has passed away P
nit! base been times when the thing had a meas.
NIAIILAND, writisg a century ago, at:scribe*
Lord Mayor's Show on the river as "such an august
and majestick aqueous procession as probably le se
where to be paralleled except in Venice." He speaks
in raptures of the " dare.ling navy" on its return to
the City, " when, landing at Illackfriare, most of the
compaules come en shore, the liverymen whereof, by
the reake and sumptuousness of their robes, appeu like
many z•-tiators. That ;mind ani poweclie officer the
• Mavott is preceded in the march by the Arta-
'try C impany of Citiseus, a military body which for
men acid discipline of exercise is scarce to be excelled
by the best veterans. This solemn and stately show
may he justly said to vie with the coronation of some
prince." This might have passed tolerably current
in Ma: 11. s time, when the boundaries of London
did Li-. differ very materially from those of t heCity—
when the traditionsof the work the City had performed
in the cause of advancing the liberties of the nation
were tolerably fresh in the minds of men, end when
the great men of the City lived within its walls, and
look,: forward to civic honours as the great reward
of a :de of labour. Then the procession smacked of
reality; now it is an useless and troublesome sham.
However well it may be managed, scarcely any one
except the idle, who are glad of any opportunity of
making a holiday, will view the show in any other
light than that of a blunder, in the commission of
which the circulation of the population of the greatest
city in the world is stopped in deference to un antique
tradition which has lost all its significance. The
movements rendered necessary by tee gigantic
operations of a trade and commerce surpassing in
magnitude everything of the kind in the ancient
and modern world, are to be suddenly checked
because the chief magistrate of a small fraction of
the town requires the streets to himself, t hat he may fill
them with mimes and mountebanks. Thi so streets are
nut sufficient for the ordinary traffic. If they were tre-
bled iu breadth and number they would not more than
satisfy the demands made upon them, mid yet we
allow them to be made absolutely impassable during
the busiest time of the day. And this too at a time
when the inconvenience of crowded streets is so
grea4 that subterranean railroads are being planned
to tare off part of the pressure, and when a pro- .
jector seriously proposes to construct two lines of
railway running the length of Oxford-street. elevated
above :he gas-lamps, as an easement to the traffic.
Wails the City was doing the work ot consoli-
dating its own liberties, and helping on thus of
the cuuutry, it was but natural that :ht• ceremony
or the installation of their "great and powerful
°dicer" should be accompanied with all due pomp
and splendour. Any one who reads the nistory of
the City from its earliest period, treeing its conduct
through the middle ages, how the citizens forced
Mop to bestow privileges upon them possessed by
the few only, bow they beheaded bishops, seized on
the Tower, extorted charters, bearded monarchs in
days when nothing was to be gained but by the
strong hand and stout heart, will not wonder at the
fact of the inauguration of their chief officer being
attended with all the magnificence they had at com-
mand. But this has all departed. There is no longer
need of the old-fashioned mode of struggli ig to obtain
liberties. The LORD MAYOR exercises but few et
those functions which men required of him in the
feudal times. The age of procession, too, is past.
Even the SOVEREIGN Ins aside, in the majo-
rity of cues, all the tedious pomp which
was supposed to be necessary whenever royalty
made its appearance in public. The LORD MAWR is
no longer the chief magistrate of London ; he only
exercises his functions over a small central portion
of it. Tem millions of the inhabitants of the metro-
polis have no municipal connexion with the City.
They all, however, have an interest in the due pre-
sercatiou of order and freedom of motion throughout
the metropolis, and they know that the processions ia
which the City magistrate indulges, of which Loci
Mayor's Show is the mast important, are destructive I
both of order and possibility of intercommunication.
The pace of the world is getting much too fast for
processions. Time is too valuable to be wasted in
barbaric trivialities like those of the Show." A
hundred years ago the ancestors of the City shop-
keepers regularly locked their shop doors in the
middle of the day, that they might retire behind to
eat their meals in peace and quietness. Now a
tradesman complains that the day is not long enough
for his needs. If he does not want to be outstripped in
the race he must be for ever on the watch. We
must not allow our increased energies to be impeded
by cumbrous antiquities that have lost all their mean-
ing by the progress of time. We are all struggling
to get on, and can have no Lord Mayor's carriages
stopping the way. The dignity of the City and its
chief magistrate is not increased by an exhibition at
which most men laugh and all aro impatient.
We do not wish the City to lose one fraction
of its really use All municipal privileges. It
is through our municipal institutions that
we have gained and maintained much of the
liberty that we enjoy. However cumbersome
they may appear occasionally in their mode of ac-
tion, it is a price that we must willingly pay for the
advantages they secure to us. But we want them to
fling off all the tedious formalities that are nut ne-
cessary to their existence, and to make the City of
Landon fit for its proper position in the year lea
It must be thoroughly reformed, both in its institu-
tions and its "show." In former times the public
mir.l might in some measure be educated
by a great pageant bringing forward symbolically
the meaning of old traditions. In the present
day no one would think of doing the work of educa-
tion by so slow a process. In the feudal times, the
nation loved processions—they were i feature of the

age. Now few lore them but the idle and the
thoughtless, and they are in striking contrast to the
practical mode of our life. Anciently the trade of
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the City was neither so great nor of such importance
as to be damaged by a proccuion; now ever).
thing which impedel the traffic eauges loss and
damage. Then the streets were wide ecough fur all
the purposes that are required of ,hem. Now we
arc torturing our brains to find devices to overcome
the difficulties we suffer from the on. crowded state
of the main streets. Abolish, therefore, the mediaeval

mummery, which is not adapted to the spirit orthe
age, and which is productive of the greateat kason-
venience, without prolucing any countarailing ad-
vantage. One innovation has bees Aida this Now in
i the usages of Lord 3layor's Day. Are wo to
regard the absence of the name of one of
the Sheriffs in the invitations sent out for
the dinner as a sign that the antiquated edifice of
civic ceremony is tottering? The invitations are,
issued this year in the name of the Mayor and one
of the Sheriffs only. What does this mean? Is
the one Sheriff standing aloof? If so, may we not
expect that the example may be contagions, and
that we may not have many more Ninths of Novem-
ber after the " show " fashion? Surely the City
will make up its mind to alter its pace so as to keep
up with the activity of the world around it, and
look to the preservation of its dignity not by the
continuance of absurd customs, but rather by the
purification of antique abuses and the establishment
of such institutions as will be alike honourable to the
municipality and to the great free nation of which it
farms a part.

No SMALL amount of nonsense has recently
appeared in the Times, on the subject of Beer.
The complaints and reasoning it has lately printed,
are far more fitted for the pages of a Socialist or
a Protectionist publication than for the columns
of a journal professedly of Free Trade principles.
Cheapness is, of course, just as desirable in beer
as in bread and in everything else, but all that the
Legislature can do, or that a public journal ought to
advocate, for the promotion of cheapness, is to take
care that trade is open and free. Under a system of
freedom and compet it ion, producers are quite justified
in obtaining as high a price as they can for their goods.
If purchasers deem that price too high, or if it is one
they cannot afford to pay, of course they will not buy ;
acd, should this be the case generally, the manufac-
turer must be content with his high price on limited
sales, or will have to reduce his price to maintain his
business. The Times argues otherwise about beer,
and by its recent articles has been perhaps inten-
tionally playing the game of Metropolitan Monopoly,
for the destruction of which as enormous effort ought
now to be made. What we require and ought to insist
upon in London (and the case is more or less the same
throughout the country) is An Open Trade in Malt
Lipmr. This we can only secure by a complete re-
formation of the licensing system. The law at present
regulating that system is something much worse
than the substitute of a bad sumptuary law for a good
and effective police law, for it has enabled a set of great
capitalists to subject to a large extent this huge
town to their tribute, to destroy the independence of'
an important trade, to keep up artificially high
prim., and to force on popular consumption a bad
article. Now, in the long run, these enormous public
evils are really and truly profitable to no one concerned
in them. To maintain bis monopoly the great brewer
is obliged to employ a mach larger amount of capital'
in his business than his manufacture requires,
and over this extra capital there are always
hanging risk and danger. To get into the trade
the retailer is obliged either to give or to come under
pecuniary responsibility for a. large sum of money
which exhausts his capital. or reduces him at once to
(lA:tallies ; consequently, he cannot live on the ordi-
nary profits of his trade. As a general rule his
cat eer is one of embarrassment with the brewer who
is his creditor, and of something very like fraud on
the public. To force the retail trade, all sorts of
custom is encouraged; vice, dissipation, and de-
bauchery are unchecked; and at last, after years o
lei:, disappointment and injury to health, in a large
proportion of cases, one licensed victualler,deep in the
bre wer'sdebt and books, is ejected ruined; and another,
wish a little ready money to reduce the account of
the house at the brewery, takes his place. lu such
a system, neither the manufacturer nor the retailer
has any real interest; and if the great brewers and
the licensed victuallers would only look the ques-
tion and their position fairly, honestly, and impar-
tially in the face, they would be foremost in advo-
cating a complete reform of the present system.

But, whether they will or will not, a change in
that system the public must have, on public grounds-
The relaxation of the Beer Laws, in 1830, by pro-
moting competition, materially reduced the price
of beer, as sold by the brewer. But the
Licensing System continues to interfere with the
quality of beer as sold by the retailers; for houses
licensed by Justices of the Peace have a fictitious
value given to them. A magistrate's license increases
the value of a house, say 1.0001., and it frequently
does so to twice or thrice that sum. The interest of
that money must be raised, in addition to the profit
which would be sufficient were no artificial value
given to the house; and it is too frequently
got by adulteration hurtful to health. Now,
the retailers, if freed from this fictitious
premium consequent on a magisterial license,
might still be restricted as to where they purchased
their beer, but having no extra profit to find for the I
discharge of the interest on the extra capital re-
quired, they would at least be able to vend pure beer,
and nothing would tend more to increase their trade
than its purity.
If the victualling were thrown open entirely, pub-
lic demand would then regulate that trade as it dose
all other trades. Not more houses would be kept
permanently open than would pay their owners and
supply the public. It is quite possible that under
the present system the number is greater than
it would be under an open trade; for many
houses are carried on at a loss to the brewers,
who keep them going in the expectation of
regaining, one day or other, their outlay. But if
in supplying public demand, public-houses should
increase, that increase would tend, in all probability,
to the decrease of immorality; and for this plain
reason, that the fewer the number of persons assem-
bled in each house, the less the chance of drunken-
ness and vice. Free Trade in grain has not, it is now
clear, injured farmers ; nor has Free Trade in ships
hurt shipowners. Why, then, should Free Trade in
beer damage licensed victuallers or brewers?
There are, it seems, in London some 6,000 licensed
houses. Of them Mr. HANGURS, the head of the ex-
tensive establishment that bears his name, told the
Commons Committee over which Mr. C. VILLIERS
last session presided, only 1,000 were in the power of
the great brewers. If this statement be correct, it
follaws that the interest of these so-called monopolists
in the licensing system is, comparatively speaking,
small ; for 1,060 houses divided nmoogst the twelve
larger breweries, would not give 'JO to each of them ;
whereas many of these manufacturers serve upwards of
;00 public-houses a piece in London alone. Thus, it
I would appear from Mr. HANSI:ItI'S calculation, the
number of brewers' free and voluntary customers is
infinitely larger than their compulsory " friends."
But this statement of Mr. H iNnt:ltti is flatly contra-
dicted by Mr. ASHLEY, the solicitor of the Beer
Dealers Association. He, on the contrary, assured the
committee that it would be much more correct to say,
that of the 6,000, full 5,000 were under the control
or influence of the great brewers. Nor is this die.
empanel of statement at all irreconcilable ; for the
prabability is that Mr. HAN/31:11T limited his esti-
mate of 1,000 to houses whereof the larger brewers had
either the freehold or t' a leasehold, and the licensed
victuallers occupying them were their immediate
tenants; whilst Mr. AMIILET, in raising his figures
to 5,000, included therein all that were either directly
or indirectly under some pecuniary obligation to the
---"--ers. And the probability of the accuracy