The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-19 00:00:00

THIS 745078 AND TEE 812113.

The Muter Builders have received the following
proposal:
"Mosses' Cowaiitue-were, 8m Inn, MONNI-Selle4
Lambeth! Nov. 11, 1&59.
"To Tee MAMMA BUILD ASSOCIATION or LONDON.
'ems—W. have the pieunite of forwarding yes it.
• ler the duel mijulret et the esittisig dispute:

propositior ._
- .1. The mesons ere prepared. to resume work a tbs-eree 1
tars es when ' locked out' ow Arnim 6.
's. The meters to dispense with the declaratiom
wll. The mow ere willing le resume work with those of si.
their own trade et ether who may her accepted the dodo- a.
es.
term The warns TM work in strict omformity with the I
law at the brL
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6. The whom et Loadon are wWa to noir fats • ifb
Monona of than byelaw*, to be regasend by eh mean I
with six amplenre, sad should teetaintem soil the owe.
fives hot arm to the sonniction of both parties amp
point at name, the maim to be decided by a ahartmea
edges] from the following gentlemen Merin Barry, os,
Mr. P. C. Hardwick, Mr. Dishy Wyatt, Mr. J. Vidllemy,
Mr. G. O. Scott, and Mr. W. Butteedeld. ea
6. The mason of Logos' wish itto be Oniony seder t
stood that they have withdrawn from the oohing*, sad
that they give up the strike at Trollope' s for the aloe bony e.
It being considered by them useless to °mind longer epos
that question.
Several attempts having failed to bring about a re. E
conciliation with the master builders (for all parties) we
=folly glint ths employers to dispense with the ink. ot
root the area.
" Sighed oh behalf of the arrow of London,
" TEOKAI Para, ChairOWS. IS
11.1111•11D11 AXDUSON.
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Geom. (34111.11217.
"Timms Paw..
" RICKMID TMOUIS.
"a. Ar.i.inaoh, Secretary.
" RICILIOLD BARXOTT, C.C. IL

At the seat meeting of the Jerkin:al Society, t.
which will be held on Monday swabs, Mr. W. D. Lark, I
Q.C., will reed a paper on " Liberty of °Maim, in rehabs es.
to the Law of Blasphanove Libels." The Right lira. the Z
Lord Chancellor will preside.
The Peat announces that " the dangerous and 11.
thorongly arionirions condition of having only one national Z
war laboratory and arsenal—cod that one does to the metro- a.
polio—bas forced iteslf oa the consideration of govern.
mane. Woolwich will at no distant date cease to be what it tOt
so long hes been. On a site oomparatively remote from as
danger there will soca spring up a second war laboratory and
ansuaL Nor le this all, many departments of management at
will, we are given to naderstand, be committed to civilians. so
This is is It should be. The promisees of manufacturing
Boas and guncarriages, shells, rockets, and cartridges—in
abort the tools sad appliances of war—assuredly do not
used the exclusive superintendence of military men."
We regret to learn from a cotemporary that Mr. g
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C. Gilpin, the Secretary of the Poor Law Board, Is at present
entirely incapacitated from business by indisposition. Mr.
Gilpin appears to have caught a severe chill, which has
brought on a swims attack of ulcerated wore throat, with
great prostration of etrength.
WHITEHALL, Noy. 16. The Queen has been
phewd to present the Rev. Charles Avery Moore, 11.C.L.,
ee the vicarage of eattertou, in the county sad Macon of Tx;
Usesta, void by the death of the Nev. William George Nott. th.
POSEIGN.OVFICS, Nov. 17.—The Queen her been 41,.
=approve of Mr. Aaiun Carl Gunneries emend at p.
to y
for the Free Hanseatic City of Hanthww.—Gasetts.
CAGE BIRDS AT THE CRTSTAL PALACL—'fbis
*AGSMs, which opened to-day, sad candour. during
Moo-
Teallsy),~ sod Wediessdn nem stands both la number
end variety the sitellaroneof lesteessen ltoomprises
of 400 nen coataiolog sees thee ISO !tide. Beary=
misty of canary le ',pretested, intindlag several beentitel
of the Norwich, the Belgime the Limed, end
London frog. British birds else well repreneted.
Agana ellittiss of the later are one yellow-breasted is
bellenek en/ a Mese that pipes the Huntsonan's Chorus,
mattway seek we oaderseend, te pselbetka, In a meaner
Mlinty sairthfol. Of birds of persege and reigning
s there I. also a large collecdss, and of foreign Mods se se
army of pencils, paroquets, macaws, and cockatoos of gay lf
end variegated plumage, talking, screaming, and dancing
together In a mon 41.4;Ni:heat medley. The exhibition has S
ben weasel meter the direction of Mr. Houghton, in the te
northern transept, withia the tropical department, where t
the dames of tempormsee h mainly mutable. The cages et
are placed se akin Mang the walks which are tastefully I
adorned with mergenne end meat pleats. The prime,
which are nanoress, wig he ainieded by the judges as
Monday sad Temilay. ISt
Ms GMAT liennan.-Borrnsemon, Nov. 16. rt.
The Great Ship I. now bosom* astresaely smart fa her set- ik
ward appearance. Os board todocks have been sershbed
sad whitened. although the sstentatios et pine plank for
teak is still a glaring imperfection. The masts sad hounds at
have tun palmed, the brass-work highly polished, the galls to
Mewed, sad every rope hauled taut. A number of ei
Mal beleaglmg to the ship are now *sting the hall. The ex
epees to he meowed by poet on both aides of ills ship own-
' prises an area of he wren Daring this week a large ty"
notenber d peewee have visited the ship. Among the cow m
pony brew we method the Priam de Joinville, who, name U
the crensientement of the ship. apposes to hare taken a great 10,
interest is her. The newly-elected Mayor of Southampton m.
(F. Perkins socompanied by his chaplain (the
is
' G. Bradshaw), went on board to-day to invite Captain Her.
I
rise. end hie Mikan to a banqoet at the Mayor's private re-
' Mews *Web Is appointed for Thursday next. eaptain ra
L was aeon * the Invitation. The repairs hinds the
Witt:Ng*to
tot yet his. mensemord. iX
A HIGHWAY ROSS= AT ROYE.—Count Philip eg.
Antessin, governor of the Pontifical State Bask, eta st.
brother d the Cerdloal Seentary of State. wee coming out ens.
of his paean, neer St. Agatha, on Sunday evening about Si
as her after dark, ha that ancient portion of Rome which It.'
still preserves the classic denomination of auburn', when
he wee socinted by two decently-drereed individuals.
Supposing that the intention of the foremost aim, who
came close up to hint, was to ask permlesice to light
his cigar. ma is a common custom here, the count tack
his own lighted weed from betwixt hie lips and mesented It ILI
to the stronger. The latter deeps d the proffered coamery, to
and, showing a poignerd to the astounded count, demanded
Immediate amender of his property, which intheation was 1
incontinently complied with, between three and low scull le
—a modest reason I.r so wealthy a man—finding thee way
from the p' theta of Count Philip to those of the freebooter
who insisted oleo upon the transfer of a riog sad pin which
adorned the omat's person. It may bo easily imagined that
in so hellions a cam of aggression the powers that be were
aroused to immediate action, and the offenders axe already be
the bands of the police.
ANOTHER VICTIM TO CRINOLINE.—OD Tuesday
night last an accident of a most painful character occurred
in York to Mime 1t... Watson, *young lady known through-
out the county of York se one of the Mimes Watson. a
couple of vocalist/1. I tappears that the unfortunate young lady
on the above treeing, while reaching something from a cop- s„,
board near the Seeping, set fire to the beck part of her dress. in
Unconsolons of what one had done, she eat down; bat If
shortly perceiving • smell of something burning, she got Kg,
and Isnot that her three was in demos. Her annum
=genstence, and the flames were extingulahed,but not
wet most eeriourly burnt. She now Iles in • pre-
-1 seam whim This is another accident arising fretn the
peewit pepenurous cage for crinoline.—Maishester Guar- n
&as.
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CILWOUNI • RZYTOZ FOR THE DIBTRESSID.—
Darin the weaved d.y'e coursing ea the Leapt= Woad. •
bora, Wag Ma pew* ran noble • lady'. crinoline, to the
gnat honey sad coeht.ion of the wearer. Poor Pao, how-
ever, wee not secure even there—the doge quickly unbowed
hr.—Perk Herald. . . .

A Kau SHOT BY A GANIIKIEPER.—A deplo-
rable accideat onerred at Bromfield on Tuesday. A
Arty of 'timekeepers, hasten, and other., seven in number,
west out about 11 ticket in the morning to kill birds.
Amempt them were George Coggin, keeper to Abel Eiroiih,
Meg., M.P., Alfred Jamie Slight, keeper to T. M. Wrgoelln,
let, end James Menial, who was also in Mr. Wegeella's
empicry as • beater. It metes that the party set at
the Greadfson Anne, and after having something to
drink thee, bat being perfectly sober, went down the
leas end through Perk-wood into Perk-Sad. Some of
the parry were • few yards in drones of the rest, three
were wail:log Dearly &wart, sad Muriell wee following '
ekes Is tidr rear, and inateedistely behind Slight, who was
carrying • diablirternelled gun over his shoulder, holding
it by the &yak. Slight was opsaltiog to Mr. J. Brand who
was roe of the party, when • gun went of, sad Slight's
gun fell frees his shoulder. The party immediately turned
round and saw Wardell on the ground. They went to Wm
and found hlenl dead—hie foreneed had teen blown away,
and death was lostanteraeosta.—Etrtjerd Mercury.
Between twelve and one o'clock on Saturday
morning last, a publican, named John Fletcher, wee
thrown out of • boons of ill-fame, la Temple-streak LIAkI/2
by the son of the occupier, and was en severely injured dist
he died the same day. Yesterday, the me, whose ammo is
Free.rick Johnson, was charged before the Leeds otegis•
trots@ with murder, end remanded till Moadag