The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-23 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

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Week ending June 16. L
Great Southern el India 127 648 499 1,047 763
Week ending July 6.
[table snd San Frandsen 761 181 138 317 424
Week ending August
Ottoman 3Ol
Week ending August 11
London,Tilloury,ehlouthend 1,980 809 2.789 3,252
Week ending August 16.
[Whist and N. Counties
Dublin and Meath 35 111 111 327 324
Londonderry& Coleraine
Week ending August 17
North Eastern 1229 29,019 64,419 83.455 77.505
Week ending August 18
Belfast and County Down 441 687 238 835 751
Bristol and Exeter 1.34 6,156 3,130 9,285 8,474
Great Western 1311 47.186 36,909 84.064 81,24
North British

1,201 &id

THE AORICULTUR•L LABOURER IX /ENGLAND.—
The following paragraph, which we find in • recent num-
ber of an English paper, recals something of the rigour of
the treatment of the labourer in this country under the
system of slavery. But this, be it remembered, is the to-
day of free England, and the characters are all white men,
nominally the masters of their own movements and the
owners of their labour:—" Two agricultural labourers,
named Ephraim Beetle and Thomas Hennah, were on
Friday summoned before Mr. Gully, county magistrate at
St. Austell, Cornwall, for unlawfully absenting themselves
from their master's service. The defendants were com-
mitted to gaol for one month with hard labour, and in de-
fault of paying the costs of the prosecution, to fourteen
days' further imprisonment." Under such laws trades
unions may perhaps be so:minted for, and their 132091111011
partially excused. No wonder that reform cries aloud
for a remedy, and the people demand power to free them-
selves from the remaining influence of feudalism,which
punishes so slight an offence—if offence it may be alled—
with so extreme a penalty.—Boston Adrerliaer, August 7.
THE HUMBER IRONWORILB.-021 Thursday, Mr.
Horsey, of the firm of Fuller and Horsey, auctioneers,
London, offered for sale by auction, at the Station Hotel,
Hull, thiilbuildinp and land belonging to the Humber Iron-
works Company. There was • numerous company present,
but none of the tie large lota offered were or even bid
for. Lot 1, containing 28,M0 square yards, was finally
put up at 30,0001.; lot 2, 14,000 yards, offered at about
U. per yard ; lot 3. 4,386 yards ; lot 4, 1,003 yards ; and
lot 5, the freehold engiueenng works in floottatreet, were
put up in succession, but the auctioneer failed to elicit •
single bid The sixth lot, a leasehold stable loft in Green-
lane. lease 21 years to run, was sold to Mr. Scott for 104
Lot 7, a wharf end boiler-yard fronting the river Hull, INS
the last lot, but it attracted no buyer.
Steam fishing boats are being introduced into
some of the Scotch fisheries. The object of the promoters
of the innovation is to send deep-sea fish to the markets
on the day during which they are taken. Should the spe
tem become general, • vast occupation will be completely
revolutionised. The inventors do not as yet propose to
cast the nets or bait the hooks by steam power, but con.
fine their auxiliary aid to propelling the boat.
FALL FROM A Dona.—A shocking accident hap-
pened on Tuesday evening to a young man employed in
Compion-house, Liverpool. On the top of the building
is a fiat roof, along which, running east and west, is •
walk enclosed on each aide by iron railings. About half-
past seven o'clock a youth named Charles Stewart, em-
ployed in the establishment, and • companion were para-
ding aloag the walk. Stewart wore a straw hat, which
the wind blew off and carried over the railing near to •
glass dome that gives light to • shop beneath. In hie
hurry to recover his hat the young man struck against the
dome, broke the glass, and 'ell through to the shop be-
neath, alighting face downwards upon • glass cue upon
one of the counter'. He was taken up in a state of in-
sensibility, much lacerated and bleeding profusely. He
ass at once conveyed to the Northern Hospital. There it
was found that one of his elbows was broken, and that,
besides the other bruises and cutting be had received, be
was very seriously injured internally. He lies in • preca-
rious state.

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John Jones, an agricultural labourer, 53 years
of age, was engaged harvesting in • field, end in the even•
leg partook with the other men of a meat miner, bat
suddenly whilst eating fell to the ground and died. The
surgeon found wedged in his throat • piece of meat two
inches by two and • halt, and in the stomach Prow a
pound and • half to two pounds weight of meat in an
unftested state, some of the pieces being but very little
smaller than that which caused his death.
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