The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-08 00:00:00

7715 SNUBS IN TSB BUILDING TRADE.

Among the large and important works in Loudon and the
vicinity the propose of whit hind be rounded mote or laps by
the unmet movement may be mentioned the Patriotic Asy-
lum at Wandsworth, the now wine to the Howe of Correc-
tion at Wand...rank the church in &Owner sardine, the
Artillery Bennie and ISULDIMIIB goversinestel warts at
Deptford and Woolwich, on which at moat between 3,000
end 4,000 teen &reemployed, the arms Guards'
ti Ftwebeater-rww, considerable alleratione to the 13wIlaTnir.ck

I kind, still =ivy worm at the =mew of parliament, tier
Inhaler Pekoe Hotel, the Middle Temple Library, and
help wareleasse is New Cannou-strest, sad houses in dif.
Omni parts ot the metropolis. It is tattered that ia all these
come with the exception of the Guards' Barracks, in Rs-
chirerie.row, as extension of time has been conceded to the
=Olden; while ia Mr. Myers' metre= for the Westminster
Palace Hotel, about which a good deal of anxiety WAS felt by
the public, there I. what balled • "strike dense," which is
specially intended to provide gale= say emergency that
millet occur of this description.
Al the matting of the Maryiebone Vestry, on Saturday,
osairoWcanons were read bum Mews. Rowe and Ebbe,
ewers contractors, praying for ma extension of time
he the completion of eciamacte, =dog to the strike
is the balding trade. Both the contractors st-
t=Rel before the board, and Mr. Rows, is reply to
the chairman, said that they were is Dopes that there would
not be a very lag delay of the work.. They expected to
start again about the middle at as= week, but they were =-
ems= on the point, as they had to wart until Meters. Trol-
lop'', men resumed work before say further employment wee
given. Messrs. Trollope's weeks would be open on Monday,
and it was expected the men would resume their labours on
test day or Tuee ray. Mr. Hutchins remarked that he cos-
&Dieted the parish contractors and others engaged in largo
woe= should be 'sighted ia their present =oatmeal, sad be
therefore moved that the application should be greeted, the
matter being left in the head, of the parish surveyor, to see
that nee work, were creamed at the proper time. Mr. Film=
itennied the motion, which was at once agreed to.
At four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Mow= the
bander sad contractor, who hes the construction of the great
wimp births main drainage of London from Haropeteed to
the River LW, at Old Ford, Bow, stopped the program of
the weeks by discharging the whole of his men, several
is thonards la umber, In accordance with the determisation
eons so by e meeting of employers. Placards were posted
on =rim of the work. Intimating Mr. Moron's oaten-
ties, sad n the time arrived the men were paid off, and
not the slightest 'batik* of feeling was evinced towards
three acting under the orders of the employer. Among the
gess discharged eras a large number of labourers and =ea-
more, who have not the remotest connection with say err-
=My whatever. Their cue ie had, sad much sympathy Ili
manifested on their behalf. The late fins weather has four
•unately Devoured Mr. Melon in completing, probably, the
heaviest patios or the works of the great SOW.., exceptsg
those at Old Ford Bow, which, from their magnitude and
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enormous solidity, are acidic a nth .moat of laterest.
The sewer to completed under the Victoria-pat M tie east
aide of the North Leaden Railway, where it crater over
Hackney Wick-lone, some Meta or twenty feet above the
carriage-roid.
Up to the present time no less than two hundred end
twenty of the largest building arms in the metropolis
have given in their adhesion to the principles adopted
at the ...sting of the employers held in the Freemasons'
Tavern. These 220 firme include all those who employ 50
men or more. if we say that on en average each firm em-
ploys 100 men, there are 22,000 men at once thrown out of
work. To them mast be added the labourers, who, is this
iestanos, strike with the skilled workmen. It hoe been con-
jectured—and the suppootion does not seem unreasonable,
eousidering.the vest event of these trades—that 40,000 men
Ina be without work in these drum alone on Monday
morning. This number will be further lammed by those
men who will not be received by the small builders;
but se these small builders foe the most pert carry on their
operation. on a system of credit, and it is therefore obso-
letely ementisi that they should get their lets completed, in
order to meet the dowse& upon them, it Is not believed that
the number of the uthreployed will be much augmented by
exclusion on their pert. At a meeting which woe held lest
night at the Pavisers Arms, Millbaak, Mr. Potter, the
secretary of the Workmen's Conferee., stated that only
client half of the building firms in the metropolis had closed
their establishments, end that communications had been re-
ceived from Menctester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Oxford,
Prestos, tint otherpleces, to Wee tbat the artiaani of those
town. made elven/uncoils. with their London brethrea,and that
though tempting offers had been muds to them, they would
nor, for a person.' sad term orary delirium be " traitors to
their order." On the ether head, that portion of the public
with whom the liege battier. have coatrute appear to have
acted with the utmost liberality, sad, except in the cased
the Wallingera-barruks, en exteneion of the lime for com-
pleting the contracts hes been given. The working men, in
=my instance., complain of this, and my that the public
ouebt to maintain a strict and indifferent neutrality. They
also emir:lain that the press generally hoe prejudged their
cue. and that whilst the stew of the masters has been
urged in every posible shape, not only ignorance, but
sentences., disregard of theirlemilles, envy, and the worst of
motives have been attributed to them. It is curious to
mu oneself emoemit some of the knots of workmen who are
everywhere discussing the strike, and to listen to their
reteerk.. In the first place, they ever that the leaders of
the movement are net only the best workers, but the moat
eitelligeut men in the 11111iUlth trades; end they conclude,
that if ignorance, ea is generally said, be the reel source
of the strike, it is very singular that their best men are its
most active promoters. Tie, also say that the very first
condition of knowledge is spare time, end that those who no
strongly oppose the nine hours working day, instead of the
ten, canna be very Itheere in their wither that the working
chimes should possess mere knowledge—that it is a notorious
tact, dmittM by the pelmet inspectors and by states-
men, that the greet obstacle to education is the
diOicalty of gediag the children of the working clue to
attend the abode Etter the age of ten or twelve, they being
withdraws et these weft ages to eke out the scanty miming.
of the parent& . la awn little street reunions they do wit
cease themselves, ea may
bon
pposed, to (hemming the
zuerits of this pertimdar strike. - They launch out into a
wider area end epee up the whole field of political economy.
One man, who seemed to have read math more then ea
worked, quoted Adam Smith and 2. S. Mill to show that
they were not so much astray even in political economy se
their opporrents supposed. If rid lie, "Lebow produces all
the wealth of the world." as Adam Smith set's, "how oaths
It that a min who works ton hours a day at • really pro-
ductive employment earth late than • thus who
works half the time at • really unproductive one.
On Saturday night the men handed in their matey to •
casulderable amount In support of thiourea.

REPRESENTATION OP DEVOPPORT.—The election
to ell the radio/ in the Fermentation of Dovonport in the
Homes of Commons, caused by the retirement of Sir E.
Perry, will bike place title day (Woodsy), at II o'clock, when
Admiral SW M. Seymour, late coustaandm-inetial of the navy
in China, will no doubt be elated. It is expected the election
to fill the randy created by the retirement of the Richt
Hoe. James Wilda will tete place os Thunder. The
liberal candidate selected by the liberal committee is Sir
Arthur Buller. Admiral George Elliot was also before tea
committer, and Calomel Eamill3r's use was mentioned, but
Sir A. Buller had the preterite*, and has put out his address,
in which he mates his political principles are identical with
these of hie lamented brother Charles Buller, and his
late highly-emeemed friend Sir William Meleewortb.
lie approves of Lord John Russell's saggestimee as
to. reform bill, and would rote for the roped of the church
rate.. He is for =attaining the nom of stiarlal defence
on lead sad sea, bet Minks en improved made of *dudish-
tering the public Stance neceesary. Sir Arthur I. in Dam-
mam and addrerard the elective at the Mechanics' laatitate
on Saturday 'priming. Mr. William Farmed, who contested
the borough is conjunctiam with Mr. Arthur Peel, is the con-
servative canddate. He arrived in Derceport on Friday,
and met a Sege number of the elected on &nudity evening
in Ms Guildhall
(INSTAL PALACI.—FIALIS-CIOWN DAT.—SATUR-
D4T, AVOVIT 6.—Admilefass as mimed, 9,919, by
mom Maass. 2,489; 4,806.

4! ICI7OIV COMJUTIESB.--1784TURIAdr,1

BEVERLEY.
`Cent cued from Saturday's ittpreu.)
At the conclusion of Mr. Pickering'. indress on Whit' of
Mr. Waters, the bitting member,
Mr. Welters wee celled and sworn—l em the sitting mem-
ber for Beverley. I went does to Beverley last year, when
I knew only one person there, Mr. Aldermen Atkinson.
There was a public meeting called by handbill, which I
attended. The Town-hall was Alla. No charmers wee
provided, and upon m asking the maths to elect a chair-
man toe themselves, thy ere were calls for Daniel Bons to take
the chair, and he did so. I bed not Innen him before. On
that Meeks Mr. Boyes did lot support me. I went again
to Beverley in May, when then was another meeting, at
which Dr. lendwith teak the chair. There was a resolutica
to the elect that I wee an eligible madidete, and promising
me the sown of the electors resent. Mr. Boyce objected
to those word., and they were mulch out. There was also
a resolution for forming a commithe in my behalf, which
was also objected to by Soya' and withdrawn. I went to
Beverley about three weeks before the lest election, and re-
turned to Lthdon. In the interval between that and the
election Mr. Crustal and Mr. Boy. celled on me, and told
me the reform interest fa Beverley was strong enough to
return two members, and if I would come down I should be
certain of emcees. I went down on the 26th of April,
Today. A greet many persona were at the station, some
bowie:de, and Mr. Buys wee moose* them. They amora-
-1 panted me in proottasion to my lodgimps. I bad oohed Mr.
Cresskill to take lodgings for me. I appointed Mr. Todd
my election agent. I nave did any act of convulsing with
Mr. Boyle. ftever saw Mr. Bays except in the menu*
of at hem low she ether person. and generale many
men. I Bone la any way whatever to
nape kind el 'payment Om me. I sever had the slightest
see laid I beard the evidence of what was going on
rot Erikept-noes. I remember ceiling at Guyer's shop
to mollins W. I did not tell him to go to the Reform-
room ilk anywhere. I did sot know of the Raorm-roni at
that time ; nothing of the nut ever peeled between me and
any voter.
The hon. member baying been cross-examined,
Mr. Coot replied maths part of the pentionere, and con-
tended that then imam* proof of the agency at Boys.
The Chairman said the committee would now adjourn till
1 Monday. They wished to know tionanhing shoat the other
petition.
Mr. Welch said he appeared on behalf of Mr. Glover in
the petition egeinet Mann. Edwards end Welters jointly.
The Cher:men said they would sent take that cue, and
hear It through before they gave their decision on the pre-
vent cue, unless the practice was thorn to be otherwise.
After some conversation it woe agreed to leave this point
open for decision upon the meeting of the committee this day.