The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-24 00:00:00

nri 8f2112 IN VII BUILDING 174DZ1.

At a meeting of the operatives in the iron and
metal trade% held ca Thunday evealag, • resolution wee
'dotard, pieleng the meeting to support those ca strike.
Instals, • deputation tram the Society of Operative
Mama, waited by appointment upon Mr. Myers the ea&
seat Nostra bail& la the Ifork•road, Lambeth, 'sad in the
come eta keg interview antamitted thrmilt him to the
Masters' lastratim Committee, who are t r mest agais on
Tuesday, • twereakee be theng the 'Mike, 10 ler as the
MOMS II • body ere moaned. The deputation con-
sisted of Mr. Weird Harped, secretary of the Coated
Committee of Operative Minor, width is located at MIMI,
another mama from that shy, sad two other members of
their craft saideat he Loadsa. The pope* &myna& to
Mr. Myers is ambneleed to base Men this—that, maddag
for their mastkasate, who are presamed Is bo the whole of
the lessens ca ad* days. gemmed to abandon the ate-
Was moat sad to work tea homy a day as amid, ;wo-
rded the mambas of the Cedars' Association of luster
Baden agreed to withdraw the declaration. It is said, dam
that should there be any customs regulating their kaadkraft
width the seeders regard is grievanees, they caper their
cabmen to dhows them with their employers in a friendly
spirit sad with a view to their mutual intansts. Tab Is the
*abeam. of the recoaciliation which the masons submit to
the Masters' Execniivo Committee, and it is understood that
Mr. Myers will undertake to being It under notice at their
and mania&
The nee received from bodies of sympathising workmen
la the predates by the conference oa Thursday was 1364
Mr. :Potter, the secretary, spoke at • large meeting of
operadves at Brighton on Tuesday evening, and delegates
from the conference are yielded the large provincial tones
for the double pupated allotting sympathy and pecuniary
aid dm the ea en arise and of prevailing on the workmen
time to abstain from ooming to Londoe to eke oat the soy
ply of beads. _ _

- Oa Saturday week, Ist October, it Is proposed to soaks the
farther aletributiondNon-flociety Men's Relief Fund. It had
bees purposed to make • distribution in the present weeks
bat for avowal cogent remorse it was deemed expedient to
deter the distributim till next week. The subscription list
will be selvertieed on Tuesday next —thee. who purpose coo-
b:buting ate requested to forward their subscriptions to the
bankers (Smith, Payne, sad Co.), on or before Monday.
This distribution will be *soloed Or non-society men who
have resumed work under the declaration, and the master
builders have been requested by the managing committee of
the fund to tend in the names of the persons whom they
deem eligible re recipients of it.

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, 4VD PROMO-
TIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Foceigrn Department—The consulship of the
Society Minds has beams vacant by the death of Mr. B. T.
Nicholas, stelimg onsinlesioner consul-general kr the
Sandwich Islands, salary WI. The Board of Trade—Mr.
A. Bitumen has been appointed private secretary to the
Right Hon. William Cowper. Education Committeo.—Thsre
are vacancies for six clerkships in the Educationet dice, for
which there will shortly bee competitive examination. The
Admiralty—A vacancy In the Contract-office, Storekesper-
General's Department, Illoinerset-bourn, has been eaaesd by
the death of Mr. Augustus Frederick Douglas Browne, that
class clerk, mond section. War-office—Mr. T. Oldle hes
his 'gemination for • clerkship In Pill-mall; Mr.
roraa Manning Rudd tae pawed for • temporary clerkahtp in
Leedom •, Mr. George Shapes Ellis has paned fore tem-
Cnclakehip at Wooleloh. Payoneter-Genereseoffice—
enry Temple Robins has passed his examination kr a
clerkship. Office of Woods, Ac.—Mr. Horace St. Bourne
hue pawed his examination tar • clerk/hip. Record.offlae—
Mr. Duncombe Pyrke has passed hie examination fora clerk.
Win. General Post-otlea—The posunsaterahip of Rochdale Is
vacant; eatery 1001. Beak of England—A vacancy in the
cashiers' department, Bank of Brigand, has been caused by
the death of Mr. Samuel Pariah, cashier. Custoras—Mr.
Mort C. Barton has been promoted from sixth to fifth
dale kr general basins, London ; Mr. Edwin Colima has
been promoted from seventh to cloth clam clerk for ditto;
Mr. Francis W. Patine has been promoted from eighth to
seventh class clerk for ditto. Inland Revamp Department,
Stamps and Taxed Branch—Mr. Joseph Mayhew has pawed
fur a clerkship In the Incotosetaxeofilae, %meat-house;
Mr. George William Wicker hei passed lot a supernumerary
surrsyorehip of tam. destlend—The Prodesessettlp of Peso-
Peal Astronomy in the University* Glasgow has become
vacant by the death of Dr. J. P. Mahal. East India—Mr.
H. Balfour has been appointed joint magistrate and deputy
collector of Tithoot; Mr. C. lAmmd has been appointed
joint magistrate sad deputy collector of Dann; Mt. R. A.R.
Alexander has been appealed joint magiatrate and deputy
collector of Backargnage; Mr. A. J. Elliott has beim ap-
pointed joint memento sad deputy collinear of Benue; Mr.
C. J. litukeesie bee tales apprising joint magistrate and
deploy collector of the mend gtnia.--Gwwl Savior Ossetic

THE AIMAsSINATION OF Ma. CROWE. TWO
ALILWITS.—Dusus, Father Evantao.—Two brothers,
named O'Brien, who were soder adios of eCetion by the
leta William Crowe Crowe, at the period of hie assassination,
in July last, on Lord Derby's Haat proper y, hays been
wrested sad othamitted to the county geol.
THE in-ROYAL FAMILY OF FnAxcr...—The ex-
Boyai Family of Frames, among whom were thee ex-Queen,
exeCoorstam of lientlly Doke sod Duchess de Nemours,
Mums* J Peace de oinvilla, Count de Pert' &r., with
their fannies sad attendants, to the number of thirty or
more (some fifteen or twenty yet roundtable), left
the Water Head Hotel for Bournemouth, Hants,
ea Tuesday and Thursday Ise., after a sojourn at
Condon el about a month. It was intended by them to
have st.yed longer, but the weather having bowing so
stormy and broken, preennted their rambling about as
much as they could have wish, i—hence their more early
departure. When the weather, however, permitted, they
did not fall to avail themselves of it, to tad, or walk, sod
ride out aloe, the roads end lanes about Coniston. The
ea-Quern end some of the children of the princes, when
not walking, generally made we of a smell oonveysnre
drawn by • donkey, while Pi ince de Joinville end odors
rambled about the hills, or went on &Meg elcursi..ne to the
Ickes and tams around. Prince de Joinville, who Is a Isms
dark ample:toned man, seemed to be a moat determined
pedestrian. This is • second or third vieit to Coniston,which
shows that he appreciates the beauties of the neighbourhood.
TM two pone of the Dyke de Nemoure—fine youth., as well
as the daughter., have all the features and fairer.*
oneoplexion of the Bamboo family, and Blanche.
• sweet little child, by her dietribution of sweet
biscuits, &c., made herself quite a favourite among
the children in Coniston. M.ny of the attendant.,
&c. seemed aged, and to have followed the fortunes of the
family fain Fresco. Altogether the kind, charitable, end
emassuadag mamas of the family of Franos, eeyecially the
maseable es-Qum, who diedalasd not to mop and converge
milk say ems es the read, woo the rapes and sympathy of
every ame misstated with her family's history and her
many Moderemen—drestel Ifsresny.
DEATH OF J. T. WAWS, ESQ.—.I. T. Wawn,
Esq., J.P., of West Bolden' died on Wednesday afternoon,
In the Arty-aluth year of his age. Is 1827, Mr. Wawa mere
tied Miss Emma 'lota, ei.ter of F. Horn, Esq., Sunder-
land, by whom be had one sot, the late Mr. Twirell
Wawa, who was unfortunately drowned while !Ming neer
Hexhane. His first wife dying, be married in 1833 Miss
M.ry Masterdom, daughter of Mr. Wm. Mattersos, Tea.
This lady died about four yeses ago, leaving three ems sad
two daughters. The deemed gentlemen was Was
elected to migircrst the borough of South Shields is Par-
Bement, sad at the general election, a few months ago, be
opposed Mr. Meteor, but was defewed. The constituency's
appreciatkin of Mr. Wawa's parliamentary core r was
marked by bit being enteetalted at a public dinner I. South
Shields when be retired from Ira repementation in 1882. Mr.
Wawa wee chairman of the South Shields Sbipowners Bo-
et, ty. • member of the Local Merino Board for the Port of
Shields, &Moms deemsl of the insurance committees; In
the town, and a v.cdpteeident of the South Si 'rids Mw
chinks' Inallutlen.
' TOWN-HALL FOR BIRKENHEAD.—A company of
resident gentlemen having proposed to erect a Town-bill on
the vacant land in Itamilton-eqcare, Birkenhead, a special
meeting of the commissioners was held yesterday (Friday),
Mr. John Laird in the choir, to cowed rte subject, as the
protovlttfill of the lichens. dfcred to find suitable aocommoda-
lion f w the c.mrobwientra at a foetal of 4410/. per annum.
After a lengthy diacuesion, it was agreed to defer the decision
of the c-uitoiseioners till 'heir next mastics is o.tober.
A ItclLwtr ENGINE AT BMTINA.—A Smyrna
oorrcspoodent of the Lentil Herald, ander date of the 7th,
send. us the following, announcing the landing of the Mat
pora neer engine for the Aidin railway :—•' The 8. 8.
Melbourne srired bare last weak (non London with the first
peas:neer nem for the Aidin railway, and brought at the
same time a liege quantity of steam easing and other
machinery for the works of the line during the coming
autumn. TM whole had been despatched hither by
Mr. I. R. Crampton, the merged* enntraetor for the
work,. The landing of this very large and powet fat
locomotive and its tender was a took of great responsi-
bility sad diflikulty ; but through the admirable measures
token by Mr. Hansmoad—who ha, charge of the
coalrat—ln coojanction with C vain Benson, master of the
Meibourno, the ponderous tsar was safely unshipped and
planed on 4 railed *Mom raked on • con:de of liege
bargee firmly I Waal amethar. Oa thin oessicate, the huge
1 'trouser was Mated seams the bay to the OtWherbour works,
to gad by f car selling craft sad welcomed to the landing
placeby the dim.. of the hawked. of spectates& who
thronged the ahoro. As the weather had is the meantime
(reheated • little it was densest advisable to wait till neat
morning before attains flog to loathe huge mar, which was
aenordiogly nicety secured till theu, when it was placed with-
out 40/14eUt en terra firms. It lea splendid piece of ma-
chinery, and will ratter "aotonish the bailees" when it files
through there Asian glens some weeks Mao. at forty or
fifty mike an hour."