The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-14 00:00:00

A rosr OPFICN ON BOARD MP.

By means of a Post•office, the first that has been
establiehed on board ship, the letters and newspapers brought
by the Royal Mail steeling,. Teviot, were completely sorted by
the time she arrived at the Needles. About 200,000 Austra-
lian letters and newspapers were shipped at Alexandria. These
had to be taken from the boxes in which they were enclosed
and sorted into towns and lines of country, then tied lip In
bundles and replaced in bags or boxes. The bitten for Ina-
don had to be sorted into portal districts. The whole of this
labour was accomplished by Mr. Nash, of the Metro-
politan Poet-ofEce, and en assistant; 10,000 letters
were sorted by the time the Teviot reached Malts,
and pent vlt Marseille*. The poet-offtos en board the
Teviot is on deck, and oecasiooally the sea beat Into It, and
the officials got wet. In rough weather they often had to
teat their shoulders against the aide of the aloe while soil-
ing to steady themselves, and were thrown with the letters in
their bands to the opposite side of the office by the lurching
of the ship. They were often at work 13 hour. during the
24. They had only just completed their task when the
Teviot arrived at the Needles. The letters for Hampshire,
Dersetshirs, sod Wilts, were deapitched to their destinations
from Southampton on the night of the Teviot's arrival there.
The rust of the letters and papers were sent to London.

TIM STRIKE AT ABIRDAHL—The Sec wren Herald
lays :—" Just before fro* to press we received the folionvieg
account of the clot* of the strike, from our Aberdare cor-
respondent :—' Aberdare, Tuesday, Six o'Clock.—The strike
borer 1 The pits will be full as ever to-morrow rooming—
:tot of , but of the old hands. This morning, at
twelve =line worn% of colliers went down to Mountain
Ash, to meet the Monmouthshire turn-outs and form a pro-
cession, from thence up to Aberdare, and finally to hold a
monstre" meeting on the Hirwain Common. All the men
that had already gone to work refrained from working to-
day; and it was understood that if they would not unainue
to strike with the rest that all ebould go in. Tile poor fel-
lows waited for a long time at Mountain Ash for the Mon-
mouthshire reinforcement, but In vain. At last a menage
was received, to the effect that when the Monmouthshire
turn-outs were on the point of starting two men informed
them that every collier in Aberdare had gone in ; PO they
decided upon staying at home. There is joy in many •
house this afternoon, and many an anxious mother will go
to rest this evening with • lighter heart than she has done for
seven weeks.' "

WORKING MEN'S COLLEGE.
The experience of the nett term has proved very estiefectory
to teachers and students in this institution. Ninety-thme
students have been In attendance, and by their regularity
and willing diligence have given the beet proof of their
interest in the clews. The following is a list of the number
of students in each clam during the pest term, from October
19th to December 20tb :—Ebble class, 29 students; ele-
mentary arithmetic, 14 ,• first French, 6 ; Iwll., 16; English
grammar, 19; 6; vocal music, 16; physiology, 2 ;
algebra, 'l2 ; second French, 8 ; geometry. 4 ; English
literature, 14. Cheese in history, geology, mining, and Gar.
man, were not formed for want of guiltiest numbers. Il
• hoped that at least a history and geology class may be
formed during the next term. An additional aritlunetio sod
English grammar class will aloe be formed. The next teems
rMots from Thursday, January 21, to Wednowlity, March
. Deems* eeri/at ife.rthe neat term lord Irroweekey,
ginklent of the has kindly promised to Most trod
the students.— W hawk* aikrosoiddk
LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS CoxPANT.--Traffio
receipts for the week ending Jae. 9,9,846 i. 9e. 64.