The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-19 00:00:00

INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIP OP CLOTHIERS.

A public meeting was held last evening, at the
Whittington Club, for the purposeof furtheringaschenie for
a limited liability company for supplying clothing upon a
piinoiple of co-operation which shall be advan4geous alike
to the parties investing the'r money, the workman who
makes the clothes, and the customer who purchases them.
The Rev. Dr. Buses (one of the directors), who was
called to the chair, in explaining the views of the pro-
moters of the proposed company, stated that it was in-
tended to be similar to those co-operations of the working
classes which had been so eminently successful in Rochdale
and other places in Lancashire and its neighbourhood.
What they required was a wide basis, and to effect this
the shares were fixed at the low sum of IL each, and the
calls at 2s. 6d. They desired to invite not so
much the speculative capitalists as the working
classes and with that view the profits would be
divided, one-fourth going to the customer, another
fourth to the workman who made the clothes in addition
to the ordinary price paid for his labour, and the remain-
ing, half to the =vaster. Thus it would be open to the
working man who found employment for his labour in the
company to obtain all the advantages of the three posi-
tions. In Lancashire one company, which, however, gave
no advantages to the workman or consumer, paid as much
as 20 per cent, profit ; but it was not the • ques-
tion that he so much regarded as the higher soeial status
which the working men who joined it would undoubtedly
achieve.

Mr. H. Fowtxa, the secretary, read letters from Mr. J.
S. Milli M.P., Mr. Layard, M. Kr. W. Cowper, M.P.,
Mr. Oliphant, M.P., Mr. Lichfield, the treasurer to the
Working Men's College, and others approving of the prin-
ciple of the association, and expressing an opinion that, if
properly managed, it must succeed.
Mr. BIERIIIILAN, the solicitor of the company, explained
that the Limited Liability Act would give legality to the
association, and afford full protection to the investors. He
added that 1,000 shares had been already taken, a large
proportion of them by working talkie, and the remainder
by Sentlemen, like Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., who
desired to aid in the movement with the view of improving
the condition of the working clause.. It was not intended
to call up more than one half the nominal capital.
Resolutions affirming the practicability and advantages
of the association were moved and carried, and speeches in
support of them, and in further explanation, were
delivered by Tweedale, one of the directors,
Mr. Harding, the Rev. J. Lorry, Mr. Green, and the
chairman, who, in reply to an observation from Mr. Wes-
ton, said that all who joined the concern must do so upon
the understanding that ultimately, if they were successful,
the whole 11. a share would be called up ; and several
names having been added to the " list of contributories,"
the proceedings terminated.

A SAD CASE.—At the Brighton police-court on
Monday the sitting magistrates had to decide upon a very
painful case. An elderly woman named Waterman, the
wife of a shoemaker living in the eastern part of Brighton,
was summoned for giving a false eharacterof her daughter,
Susannah Delves, whereby the latter obtained a situation
in the service of one Isaac Isaacs, whom she had since
robbed. From the evidence heard in the use it appeared
that Waterman (who is a man of most exemplary cha-
racter) and his wife have had sixteen children,
who were all brought up, but who are now all
dead, except the young woman in question, Susannah
Delves. About ten years ago abe married a man named
Wilmhurst, who deserted her after her second child was
born, sailed for Australia, and had never been heard of
since. To use her father's expression, the desertion
" seemed to drive her mad," and although she had previ-
ously been a good child, wife, and mother, she began toles.
that reputation. Her parents keep her two children. She
subsequently married her present husband, Delves, but
in 1864 and 1865 (after one previous acquittal) she was
convicted of felony at the Brighton sessions, and was on
each occasion sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
Her second sentence expired on the 16th of July last.
Soon afterwards Mrs. Beluco, mother-in-law of the prose-
cutor (Mr. Isaacs), took a pair of boots to Waterman's
shop to mend. Mrs. Waterman brought the boots back,
and some conversation then took place in consequence of
which the young woman, Delves, was employed to do
needlework for Mrs. Belaaco. The latter states that Mrs.
Waterman afterwards called and gave her daughter a high
character for honesty, sobriety, and industry, in conse-
quence of which Mr. Isaacs hired her as domestic servant,
In the name of Wilmhurat, she being represented as a
widow, who had lost her husband in the Royal Charter.
The defendant, on the contrary, said she had given no
character, but that Mrs. Bellow° had hired Delves on her
own responsibility after she bad worked at the needlework
for a short time. Delves had not been in the house long
when she suddenly absconded, taking with her wearing
apparel and jewellery of considerable value. Her previous hia-
tory being then made known to Mr. leases, he summoned her
mother on this charge. Mr. M. D. Scott, in passing sentence,
said no one could have heard the case without being
touched by its details ; but they were, he was sorry to say,
compelled to believe the evidence of Mrs. Belasco. The
legislature had thought this so serious en offence that they
gave the bench no discretion of mitigation, and they must
Inflict a fine of 261. and costa. Waterman said they could
not pay the fine. Mr. Scott said the bench had a disci*
tionary power as to the default, and he would inflict the
lowest penalty allowed by the act—one month's imprison-
ment, during which term defendant would be kept to such
labour as would suit her age and strength. The poor old
coriple appeared almost crushed by this unexpected blow.
Two LIVERPOOL SHIPS IN A HURRICANE. —Yes-
terday the ship Trenton which left the Clyde upwards of a
month since, put back to the Mersey in a very crippled
condition. Thirty-two days since, the Trenton, under
command of Captain Walker, sailed from Glasgow for
Quebec, and shortly after clearing the Channel she en-
countered fearful weather. About a week ago she was
caught in a terrific hurricane which carried away the fore-
topmast, main and mizcn topgallant-masts, arils, 3a,besides doing other damage. This so crippled the ship,
that her captain deemed it prudent, instead of pursuing
his voyage to Quebec, to bear up for the Mersey, where, as
we have stated, he arrived yesterday afternoon. Intelli-
gence of another disaster to a Liverpool ship was received
in Liverpool yesterday afternoon from Queenstown. The
ship Bates Family, which left Bombay for Liverpool on
the 2nd of June, put into Queenstown yesterday, in a very
disabled condition, having been caught in a hurricane
some days previous. The Bates Family lost all her top.
mast', bulwarks, and several sails. This vessel, which is
commanded by Captain Hogg, belongs to Mr. Edward
Bates of Liverpool, and has the enormous quantity of
10,582 bales of cotton on board. On the news reaching
Liverpool the splendid tugboat Cruiser was at once
despatched to Queenstown to tow the disabled ship round
to the Mersey. . .

A CURE ,
FORA CRIPPLE.—At the Lewes petty
sessions a few days ago Timothy Walls, a labourer, was
charged with stealing five growing turnips, value 2d., the
property of Mr. R. R. Verrall, at Fulmer. Prisoner did
not deny taking the turnips, but gave the following extra-
ordinary reason for doing so :—He had a child who was a
cripple, and a person told him that if he got five turnips,
not his own, and rubbed the child's back with them, and
threw them away without saying anything to anybody It
would cure the child. He had turnips of his own, but
was told they would not answer the purpose. The noble
chairman, the constable, and others, gave the prisoner en
excellent character, and in inflicting a fins of en., in-
cluding costs, the chairman said prisoner had dearly been
guilty of stealing the turnips, but he bad made an excuse
which he had no doubt was a true one, but the person who
gave him the advice must have been very unprincipled.
He asked defendant if he had applied the alleged rfalB
for the child's infirmity. Defendant replied that be
but could not yet say whether it would have any bonen
effect.

CRYSTAL PALAcs. Oxs SHILLING DAY..•
TUESDAT. BIM I&—Admission on payment. 4,213; dMW
b 7 soma tioirats. 1,373. Total visitor', 5,5e6.