The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-05 00:00:00

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Yesterday morning theukinities of St. Katharine'.
Decks and the London Docks were paraded by large gene
of dock labourers, who were In a state of utter destitution to
monmgoesee of the want of employment through the non-
arrival of shipping in the Pool, detained by the late contrary
which has thrown about 6,000 labouring men into a
of starvation sod distress. Many of them have
large fIUIIO/111 totally without the means of support, and
alms some measures are at once adopted for their temporary
relief the most serious results may be anticipated.
It appears that at fit. Katharine's Doe. nearly 1,800
labouring men have been temporarily discharged from their
usual employment for nearly a fortnight, which fact has
thrown them upon their own resources. Hundreds
have subsisted for several days on • small allowance
of food, and the cravings of their children have
driven many to the workhouse. The general demeanour of
the men has been quiet, but the conduct of others has been
disorderly and disreputable. On the night of Tuesday, about
20 sturdy fellows entered the shop of Mr. J. Alford, bah. ism.
No. 10, Rosemary-lane, Aldgate-without, and deniended
breed, se they were starving with hunger. The spokesmen
said, said, "We have been to the workhouse for relief, and wars
refused." Mr. Alford gave them a few loaves, when they
left the 'bop quietly. They then visited the shop of Mr.
Hinman swear baker, maddingbaker, in the Mincries, who gave
them bread. They subsequently went Into the shops of
other tindemen, whom in some Instances, they were
when the ringleaders matched brad from the windroir; gad
counters, leaving the places without say interruption.
The number of labourers and others discharged at the
London Docks far exceeds those dismialed from St. Katha-
rine's Darks. _ .

• Yesterdayarnaratag deputations from the labouring men
recentiy employed at the wharves and other waterside
premier beloW bridge waited upon Messrs. Baker and
Son the extensive rope manufacturers, of Upper East
Smithfield, and other large firms in the vicinity of the
docks, for oontributions in aid of the families of the desti-
tute mm when some ass stance ems kindly granted them.
of labourers also applied to Mr. W. Perry, the
(;mksof Bt Botolph Without, who referred them to the
relieving officers of their respective pariehes.
At 9 o'clock yesterday forenoon the front gates of the
workhouse of the Whitechapel Union, Whiterbapel-road,
were again surrounded by several hundred labourers, anxi-
ously waiting for relief. A great number from the dis-
tricts of Clehurch, Spitaffields, Mile-end New-town,
the Liberty of the Tower, the Liberty of Norton Folgate,
2 Trinity, Mutoriaa, the Old Ardllery-ground, St. Bo-
tol , Aldgate Without, it. Katherine's, sad St. Meg,
techapel, were relieved with braid sad other food by Mr.
Brooks, the relieving siker at the Union, by order of the
Board of Guardians. This kisd of sesistance will be ren-
dered to the men until they pt moment
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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 6.

THIZZ members of the new Administration have
already taken the occasion presented by their re-
election of addressing themselves to the country. It
would have been unreasonable to expect any great
novelty in the speeches thus delivered. The sub-
stance of all that could be said by Lord STANLEY,
Sir JOHN PAILINOTON, and Mr. Leman (the new
Lord Advocate) had long since been anticipated, nor
did the manner of @eying it rise much above or
sink much below the level of the occasion and the
reputation of the speakers. Of the three addressee
Lord Sits LET% an might have been expected, is
the highest in tone end the widest in range ; clear
and forcible, well conceived and well expressed. Sir
10821 PARIMITOri is candid and sensible; Mr. Ixous
smart but unsatisfactory. The topics, of coarse, ars
the same in all—the Wittersiu Despatch, the Con.
'piracy Sill, and the Pteech Alliance; Legislation
for India ; and Reform in Parliament

The lime itadiseted by Lord DEIST on Monday
lest was of wane followed out without much
deriatioo. Lord STANLEY, indeed, went so tar
beyond the parental progrunme se strongly to
advocate religious neutrality in dealing with India,
and to declare that our great dependency would be
best governed with se little intelligence as possible
from home. He also intimated that the new Govern-
ment would not pewees any Conspiracy Bill until
they had ascertained, from the results of pending
proceedings, that the existing law was intraffitioat.
Oa this point &riots PrinnerroN, though hempole
has decidedly as t. the intentions of the Dwy
Cabinet, adopted the sues tone, declaring that "it
" would be time enough to determine whether lees-
" lotion was wanted," after the actual state of the
law had been authoritatively settled by the solemn
decision of the highest tribunals in the country. It
is needless to say that in the line thus taken we en-
tirely concur. It is the only obvious and rational
coon. There is a doubt in the highest quarters as
to the actual state of the law. It is doubtful, in the
first place, whetter aliens and natural-bon
subjects are, or we sot, equally liable under
the Statute Low, to the penalties imposed on
those who are " aceeinariee before the fact" to a
murder committed abroad ; it is doubtful, in the
second place, how far, at Common Low, either
aliens or natives are liable to any punishment what-
ever for conspiracy to commit murder abroad; it is
doubtful, in the third place, whether, if they be so
liable, the punishment that can be legally awarded
is or is not adequate to the offence. It is not our in-
tention to represent, what is assuredly not the moss,
that all these doubts are of equally difficult solution :
it is sufficient, that as long u they remain doubts—
until by solemn judicial decision they have been
converted into certainties--no man can mums
authoritatively to declare what the state of the law
really is, nor, consequently, to pronounce whether
it does or does not call for amendment- It is im-
portant, moreover, to remark that a delay in
legislating, until the defect to be legislated for is
clearly pointed out, cannot possibly, under existing
circumstances, be reasonably objected to by the
French Government. The speediest legislation could
not possibly alter the legal position of a single alien
in this country who has already been or may here-
after be charged with complicity in the atrocious
attempt of the Rae Lepelletier. Even the Legisla-
ture of our great Ally has not yet gone the length of
sanctioning an sr post facto law. If a Conspiracy
Bill were to become law to-morrow, BERNARD and
his accomplices in this country (if such there be)
must be tried by the law that existed when the
crime of the 14th of January was perpetrated,
not by any law subsequently enacted. Thera
is, therefore, no plea for haste ; there is every
reason for delay. The new Administration will
be supported by the country in firmly adhering
to the determination not to legislate on this vexed
=ties., if they legislate at all. till the precise limits
of the existing law, and the real extent of the present
mesa, of punishment, are made known, by an
authority at which none can cavil, and which
none can question.

With regard to legislation for India, the recently
re-elected Ministers had obviously no alternative.
Lord I/East's programme in this respect had been
too explicit, and the new Administration, like the
former, is pledged to revolutionise the government
of an empire, of which it has not yet com-
pleted the re-conquest, or effected the settle-
ment. None of the reasons adduced for
this step by Sir JOHN PAIIINGTON and Lord
STANLEY add one iota to the cogency of those argn-
ments, of which we have repeatedly shown the
that no case what-
legislation; but if
legislating, there is
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fallacy. We are as clear ea ever that no cue what-
ever is made out for immediate legislation; bat if
Parliament has determined upon legislating, there is
at leant a chasms, that the Bill now understood to be
engaging the attention of Lord ELtesnottorou
may be a somewhat more respectable and less
dangerous measure than that joint result of the
imbecility of SMITH ILACIthiC rashness of PA LIE nwrom,
which boo now finally pared into the limbo of
legislative abortions.
111!I The week point of these addresses is of mune the
question of Parliamentary Reform--or, as one of the
speakers prefers to phrase it, " A coosidtratiou of
• the laws regulating the representation of the
l 'people with a view to ascertaining whether they
" cannot be improved so as to effect the great ends
" they were intended to serve." If this happy peei.
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