The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-08 00:00:00

TEE STAIKB I.V THII BUILDIAO TRADE.

There is little sew in reference to this long-protracted
struggle. The Conference yesterday declared s dividend of
es. 6d. for skilled workmen, and 30.6 d. for unskilled. It
sp-
pesra, from the return of the dividend which wee yesterday
nude, for the twelfth week of the lock-out and the four-
teenth of the strike, that 2,922 skilled artisans and 2,113
labourers ware relieved—the total amount paid being
1,1631. le. 6d.
Subscriptions mine in yesterday, and Friday and Satur-
day, so freely that it enabled the Culthitlioll to illereule the
dividend —vM., 6d. to the skilled and Is. to the unikkiled
workmen. . . . .

loformation was received M the Parlors' Arms that ons
employer —Mr. Tarrant, of the Old Hent-road—had stared
work without the declaration.

TIM OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE MISSION TO
CENTRAL RFRICA.—Since the meeting in the Senate-house
of the Univernty of Cambridge for promoting the mission to
Central Africa, the members of the Oxford, Cambridge, and
London committees have held a conference, sad it opposes
that the enterpriee Is to be prosecuted, it possible, on • more
extended wale than was at first proposed. It ix now con-
templated to send out six clergymen. with a bishop at their
hew, to be consecrated either to this country or by the three
bishops of Southern Africa; and also to despatch at the same
time a medical practitioner and a number of artificers and
labourers, with a view especially to the cultivation of cotton.
The cost of establishing such a mission is estimated at
20,0001., and it is also calculated that subscriptions to the
*mount of 2,0001. per annum will be required for five years,
after which time It Is calculated that the work will become
self-supporting. Communications are to be opened at once
with the clergy and the friends of missions generally, and
also with the great centres of manufactures and commerce,
for the purpose of raising the required lands. The Bishop
of Oxford has requested the Venerable Archdeacon Mac-
kenzie (of Pieter-Marimburg, in the colony of Natal) to head
the mimics ; and the rev. gentientan will probably do se, se
he has for sonic time been carrying on the missionary work
in Natal without fee or reward. The fonds raised whin the
meeting of Wednesday took place amounted only to a prin-
cipal of 1,6101. and 1761. in annual subscription., but pro-
misee of considerable additional support have since been
moeitred.
REFORM OF THE GAME LAWS.—On Thursday
twain a crowded public meeting wee held at Newcastle•
upee•Tyce to protest keine a continuance of the present
Owns Lows. The meeting was convened under the auspioes
of the Northern Reform Union. Mr. H. A. Burnell pre-
sided. The following mooted= was moved by Mr. R. B.
Reed, seconded by Mr. Hay, end supported by Mr. Joseph
Cowan, junior, and carried unkimonsly : " That In the
opinion of this meeting the continuance upon the statute book
of the laws relating to primogeniture and entail, and the
manifest indisposition of the House of Commons to repeal the
iniquitous Game Laws, which have been clearly shows to be
detrimental to the best interests of the nation. afford scow
wincing proof of the urgent necessity for en immediate re-
form in the constitution of the Howe of Commons, in order
that the desires, not of a class, or • section, but of the whole
people, should be embodied in the acts of the legislature;
also that the petitions based on this resolution be signed by
the chairman on behalf of this meeting, and forwarded to both
houses of parliament uphn their re assembling.'
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following are the
names of gentlemen who permed their examination In the
science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to
practise, on Thursday loot .—Thomas Palmer Daniel, Bea-
minster, Dorset; William 'iceman White, Frans. Somerset;
Adolphus James Hughes, Dartford, Kent ; David Ruck,
Cirencester ; and Samuel Booth, jun., Hudderefield. The
following gentlemen also. on the same day, peseed their first
examination :—Stephen Duke, Chichester; John Williams,
Brecon, South Wales ; and Joseph Rocking, St. Ives,
Cornwall.
VALUE OF BUILDING LAND IN LIVERPOOL.—.
Recently, some promises immediately opposite the Town.
hall, in Liverpool, containing about 1,600 square yards, were
sold by public auction on behalf of the corporation, for a
term of 76 years. The metres bid was 60,010.; but it was
run up to 60,1601., at which price Mr. newts bought them.
The buyer has made over the site to Mr. William Brown,
late M.P. for South Lancashire, the donor of the Public
Library building, and is preparing plans to cover it with
rommerciel buildings. The site of Mr. CockerelPs building
(the Liverpool and London Insurance), which is the counter
' part of that now *token of, on the opposite side of the Town-
hall, cost 661. 10s. per equate yard. The Keeton pur-
' chase cost 371. bin. the 'more yard ; but there are
dielculties in the site which did not exist in the other case.
—The Builder.
FIRE AT CASTLE HOWARD REFORMATORY.— On
Thursday overlies a firs woe d souwered atomic the stacks of
the Coeds Howard Reformatory Farm, and nose to the
building. A telegraphic message was forthwith sent for the
Halton thweegiers, which were on the opot so speedily as
stacks to
but, on on ii:riavefil.mthethe.reibost
trfoLnilwthwillawri:iw.her.
portable. Providentially for the safe,' of the remaining
stacks and the buildings of the institenon, there was a total
absence of wind, or all must have become ignited. The
I labours of the firemen were exiessive, the water having to he
supplied from the glen of the Crambe Beck, a nearly perpen-
dicular descent of upwards of thirty feet. The stockyard is
t situate near the wood*, in which liebta were placed to guide
the firemen to the water, the effect produced being moat
picturesque. The maperietaideot of the iretitution, the Rev.
J. Fish, wee at the time abeset in search of lads who had
previously absconded. This circumstance, together with the
stillness of the night, the distance of the burning sleeks
(*vend yards, which seems to indicate separate, though
• simultaneow tiring), and tbe feet of lads having been seen
among the shocks just before the discovery of the fire, lead to
a suspicion of inceodissiem.
LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—AC the
monthly meeting of the council of *hie body yesterday (Moe-
da)), it ka resolved to Inemorialisethe government in favour
of the abolition of the Elbe tolls. A letter was read from
the Board of Trade, to the effect that the abolition of the
6 Runde Company is occupying the Winks of government.