The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-17 00:00:00

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About • thousand oftlerhippers of *a port of
London Irmo
_hotted to take tea last evening at the St.
lierfs Beim( Basso, Whitashepel-road, when as eater-
Pleinsa had lams pesdial kr them by the lamella et Kr.
thossi Gaiter, the Hev. Canon Chaispasys, and other gea-
wbtale bast la the marare now before par-
fer the mike a that Mee el labourers km the
gortheiressarts.aseezahn.somplzposatin The
hhee t;b4
=ef sob& ease, Oro. witch te whole bade
ir Lth la the port of Loden dial es
U,.
ileseneart. she eel prod fa at the instance of
Giseisteo, Grimensmenollsat of the Baird of Tads,
mph en office wee costa. The poets
eV that ad expbed,hewevar, in 1846, and One
Mkt sesewed.- Thu mulatto of the How of
pawoggibled so the althea d Led Klesold to iseeed.
vie this cis** *lad to W wise sepamielins
sear id Die ail folks sod swab swath the seslimmoe
et
everiVitirlike rthnbertir=raitslol:=
sod ire. were reedy to fovea themegess lab • vols.
tea megeladoa which the malwlemple, Warm would
is aripiesi is • manner mtishdaq tialtmeassed, and •
• seal Or^ would be athildieed, eseepei
afiret the
11.41.1.11IMPIIMpitlis of vast& tee al heseakerhs'
gelid open each occasion through one era or
igen idiots the cdawhippees Ithemeolos me
. This 'yam Lee bean hod to holm
the noel HMO evils. The WNW= have usually
bun paiKaSallt VIM tratimmamoiseellaeseila crimps and
d 41b, swsw aim, Who beres talots care to
rmaß * se
I the oreges"thtkSis vieleselMi,"Z,
▪ ile pgrases, at as
lib, *Me greet profit of the em,
111=bsaidst-
Rums, but to the hopeless ratory sal degnithiss of the
poor ma end their tamitier.-as raw mos of mtheassi-
oat*, with the ship" pen, or et mils, eseleymesilbed
wag isemo awtee, sad Si* livelihood heist wit* the
cWw*,
of wads, wlims they watt.
into Kase of thew=
tr amerriall Imes, seem get debt to their
woo no wipe w woodly pad at the peddialsome, sad
ilhe herwever sober he may be sielisseios, fen sot
eased Nape without drinking for the lamilomi's
v4.24,o„easesiroas may sally be
••dm isialTeee
elle% emes sir thfiniTirig=zderldol tb`":en
"
by the crass of thetrade from making artyaort,
isdividually, or is combination, to deliver themselves.
TLY destription, it is in* does not at potent apply to the
whets of the trade. Am • partial and unsatisfactory fulfil.
meat el the pledge given to the committee of the Home of
Lost* what is celled a "model office" has boo establi.hed,
width now includes about half the number of the Thames
coalwhippers,. Ws were last night famed that there are
67 "gangs ' inscribed In the "model officio ;" sod each
gang consists of aloe persons. One of three le each gang
to too " baskstmaa," whose beidame it is to stand ups deck
and empty the %whet into the shoot which seamy* the col
over the side of the vessel. Most of our readers who ham
watched the operatirn, in our river or in the dock., mutt be
swam that the coal la raised from the oseefs hold is a
basket, containing two or Wee cwt., which to slog over the
hatchwa , between the oasis • sad this basket is aired and
lowered by the strengthof misi working at the ropes cos either
eide. Forms work the bight upend down, whiht four men
weak below in filing the basket as It &woods; these eight
ma, with the beaketar, comprise the . gasp." Their
Imam ere fluid by the model office" at sigh,psnolb • tau,
divided loom the nine men. The ordinary rate at which
they work le shout 12 tons an hour, but in osaes of ewer-
=• pad of ocialettippre may deer 14 or 15 tons ea
The asps are divided squally, and the basketessa,
idessilt he is • sort of foremen or superintendent of the gang,
oreVes nothing extra unless it be that he sometimes gels
his Naar given to him en Ward. The very civil and Inn:l-
-ip* Mho by whom these perticulare were mentioned to
our segenter last soda stated that the had Do fault to
lied with the manner In which she model offlw was managed,
list •they aloud to ham the whole trade brought under the
mom tryelem, became them who employ the gangs outside
the soda dike, page belonging to the lightermen and agents
who weinet epos • Imre era* for unloading the costs of
the gag companies and whir great importers, are enabled at
tercet to underbid the regular gangs of the model once,
lee this without say benefit to the coalwhippers themeelves,
—duce the profit goo to the soots or the lightermen's fore-
mia, end the labours.. are oblige! to put up wi•la 7d., or
Out fa, a ton. At the game tiros, the other gangs of cool-
witippirs, belonging to the model office, are kept in ontatual
imeedebty about gallop employment, and see often cbilged
Is psi many days without work or wages. It is true that
they are um heavily taxed, as the men 'employed by ges
cospola factors mad noblemen frequently ere, see an
they subject to be fleeced by the publicans and middlemea,
lite their fellow-workmen who are not inecribed on the model
office lists ; each man pp a contribution of 4d. • week for
• slob end burial society. the benefits of stick are justly
I &Misdated. The "model oaths," however, is s Leaches eon-
cern that a men can only be appointed on one calls gang" when
a Toomey moors ; he hold. his place rotjeot to the approved
of those in authority, and is liable to immediate and make
dismissal If, 'hone it lee from Maser or spy suck maw, be
fail to mower the summons when called upon. TM ma are
anxious to base a mole liberal administration, end better re-
gulations le the "model office," but they are sepodelly desi-
rous that it should receive • constitution guaranteed by set
of parliament, and that the whole trade should be organised
to Otoenazion with it, that the office should be the ago
. feed spay for the hiring of coathhippers, at on asthma
prim. The following resolutions were Fettered for lest
• That this meeting deplores the pont way in which a
large member of coalwhippers ere employed, timely, through
public house and other disreputabie middlemen spay;
whiny from the non-reuswal d Yr. Gledatone's mosso,
which secured to them the fruits of thee labour, and ree-
lected them from compulsory drunkenness end vice, hom
1448 to 1866.
"That the evils which the ocialohippers are laboring
under at post are caused by the inability of a number of
pathos. to perform the pledge given by them to the Board
of Trade is 1866, timely, that the whole of the coal mode
Said establish as office, at which all c ialwhippers should be
Mmid that nose should be hired trout, or paid *gas
houses.
le. pledge giro has sot been fulfilled, Mama* as
theist t nary one-belf of the °oat whippets are an-
' Pepsi or indirectly through public-home soma. This
mideg, dastom, cooly,' to do ail in its power to urge on.
deg berele by tril=t,th. ebr:orb=t'Ll...
kr mil on of codwhippers."
*Jews of this meefog, thin, *ft as shove serrated.
Several most respectable oual nierchints, coal meters, sad
bghternben. gav
el it their countenance, and the fee*, width
fr:wirelm7:te..!..folldecisTingetrotbeprz..l4,".rdiabne":""iaathalm-tadirehdleprers,lol7i,""c:nomiyriiewbasiner.taserneribels...!
plaited the stamised that you have a right t Ity the
•" mt of your brow, fres from ell middleman hatindsesee
Amongst the groplossa who mums wars the Heal
Shaftesbury, Mr. Gurnee, mad the Hon. Arthur lifighski,
N.P., who ors obliged, however, to leam the reens Mime
the prooesdiags cononeseed ; Lord Hinneird, the Rm.
Coon Closporys, Mr. Thomas Thompos, d Bath ;
Meeen. S. ctigqi, Walter, Furuival, Cempiteit, R.
c Denolas, now Fiddles, Garbed, rya% Bar-
sheep, Gress, Davis, ad B. Scott, were mop the
oompay.
Letter wen reed by per. GOWLIXD, flu more-
tory of As emaridites, dram the Woof Doefl,°=D
the Earl et Dips, the Areideboibri4teargu Lord
Ihary, the Bishop el Lobo, the , tho
Nebo a Chichester, the Ho. Colossi Brno. M.P.. Lord
ides Mr. J Stage, Mr. Henry Pores, D.P.,
• lisp ocialowsar at Dausgtea, and others, eireselog their

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The Bev. Care Carthirrn this espord hie great
=et arse • brge • boiV et him mat :::
Ore oso aril red tees 0 eo
dimmer thebrotrele repel 010 be thug, ygogy
II *Ma to 0 drier, or Wet Isle Or
of their wen aisle. He Wined le lir errilthe el the wide,
M &dor It we adesoreg the boson of Ws terry,
larroblor with lb srlisiweloas to Its Wrests
—*ere et Iligrart ead of am arrant • Digt,:
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ttlaversterade thr wee •
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rbirosrlii e eeeerartammui,eg so Chq
my ea any ter, WS
10 a whole tiers
M11411101"41mulaellosbi blatibsals tuba tali ta
dr as Pet .es they wore
the
4.4:oo4bsted
totbt sasoistesw
104.116
&Is ran their children, sid cove the
le dr err (Cheers
Lord thositten, who he bed onljogreechod London •
haw home does, begin bevelled all is orer to ho
=lthere tbd trim wee served with perobsoriog.
I he bed ithoth wiry mese ti reify the otareante
moat or the ged id the terwhipper led be bail throd
thst wither rethfirs the sithropes we is rearre•
rthileteurreradte lle lidesdlir.Cham
110111-0.1611 P seier ire* 40 ober the niasPir.
✓ibs I= erritheeneditiek he wee /encore
et any is the Meer at leirth,eat
lad reed ir sy arum* at greverketbs, .4 attempts to
cionhie the slatsmale of ths am. 110 he ere air with
the thgartion to Leed Ded7 the who Nth be bed hard
other rerreis cattheethed Me lesik d what ire thent
peter& ; in hot, the elelsweet sok by ase4reirimeel-
wilippos is the rim Wirer erolei teeth
el is 0 Orr there who triod to berbeet sad rateriat
the an Ilia Allied to lave fir room, oasfoodthrtheieby
the troth of his otairert. It was 'Talkies le observe
that the =amber of these who took can* showing their re-
solution Sommers in thle came, wee rill threader 0
that try 11010 assideg theinedra rett inereseed era sad
earseether for riot he brined to be their rights, er kg
the recovery of se aM which bed for 13 years cooferred mese
beneete open them. He referred to a statement lately made
to S6B Boer of Trade by the seal heroes which contained
ray fares Or robe statement was that they led
tiellemettred to perm& the men to take 6d. a ton, because,
r they add, thr wis the may way theyeeeld :compete with
sierisisery. Suppeafas that to be tem ft wetdd he MAW to
lit redder" drhe all tho men oat ot the traltrado, las= it
had bra Load that at gd. aro the men were physeregylmite
amble le prices the soak, and the 'Athens skated that
they were ohNIW to give It .up half-finiebsd from ober az-
learea. (" Thet's trio,' of one of the teal-
-4r )) Tea, it was true, and he rear to rate
chore sr therm bat what he bed actually verilltbli
wor ressarkabb, lowever, that, when to the model 'thee the
prom woo 110 err, , the throes or pablie.hoserma at
0 serail le it, tad where wee the torportios drool&
wry Ws ? They got that tee leveri Id. sr Mt.
of it We War ow* rig weft
rocs es 1M wee war rah kb row forroy, bat he
looked ter room slaw We minor roger le the pee
sost Mete Oral parr er prate of the gorersorp
ern they el
saw whet the reek wadi to, it was 011selt ft
sr whin to lideg the preen to bear ; but they oberldi
era erwedsg sordere of perlienesat and explainer
sem. deer 0 rood of the commiece of the Muse
Loeb, It we drier by him against the then
C=4re pat to names of their own &day=
11. eadowser ef tir Northers on that commdttee.
They riposted that they did net think it advisable le resew
the aossare ; bet thesSuovidisee wri to bear set to •
wonderful eater the el Or wird
re, Tirereree 0 agqpnis la= Is the
IMMO lad el this dos et warring ma.
her. hoax IT, oodrippers, wee thes called
ea to meek from the pitillorm. Hi raid he bed been
thoroughly acquainted with the work for twenty mem, end
knew what the former 'while -house eye.= was, who the
children were goim through the streets barefooted end
almost leaked to pia ego tags, home, or anytbiog hem the
sewers, to sell for a hers living—tor a living could not be got
from the public •houses. That continued till 1843, and after
the office opened every me get a &Waken of work, and he
end his children wen well clothed and fed, while the ease-
alarm supported the sick, the superannuated, the lame, the
bent, sad the infirm. (these.) This remained fora long
time, till the beton thought they were gaining to. es
amount of the at and then they stole the
hooks, and got it iota their own hands. There were muse
men who got sheath= given them by the f.ctors for
them do so. AB was so reek err whoa the fro=
Irk will. Is on, 1111111 they Olellid
_their toodelwelte, at
the hest eoramiseteseett they
_heitarged Ulf er earthed et
the was 0 raft the plakel ars whew they kept to the
=say coriblet was ore, if say tar did set de
to theloqtro, he was diecturged, Om se
emwoe assasos atter altundrad sad edit lessor melle, some
1111111111116 Mlle MR ; and another for gang So tee lb
alibi bieveL Thee the prim was reduced down to Sd. •
Met. end hew elessined le • elate of 'Wyatt" unable te
he ilhe Veil. MI the decks for want of hod and
Mar lIIMIMINML threw tramline on the teeters.
see, Mime NIL they creek for more wager. Then the
orate re weirdly slat spirt them, and after fear or ova
days, areigg all the roar grog to the public•hourer, it quite
broke the heart of him. Hi got some min and went on board
the FM*, tendered a blank piper and &ashamed the ship,
and than sent and tenderei the money at the aloe ; but no,
they would not let it be settled there—it must go to the
Polk-home. Than in the taproom, after a hard day's
work, a man as obliged to sit perhaps till twelve
o'clock at night before Do could get • shilling
paid him. He had known • poor woman come there
to ask her beaband for • halfpenny to take home to
her children, bat be could not get • farthing till the home
was shuttle,/ up, though the landlord would let him drink,
and be might return home to hoe drunk, with only half his
wages In his pocket. The poor wife might well my out,
" For God's sake let mu have the office again, by Lori Kin-
naird'e help. and do atm with thew infernal paigio-hoottes.'•
(Crom) Bat the poor worms mud not let the publicises
wife hear her say that, or elm her Jack would not get any
room work there. (Chess and laughter.) He hoped God
would stmegthes all them right boa. mod benevolent geode-
sist' to take up the ore of the coalwhippse, and free the poor
damsel the rlvr Thsmee. (Chery)
The Rev. C. lirovahh Irving errand the meeting for
ems time,
Mr. 8. Furor, another andel:tipper, who had given hie
evidence Wore lb. War committee of the Hones of Lorde,
✓ated that he received notice from the foramen of the lighter-
men on bit return, that his services were not required any
bailer. His basket-man, Species. behaved I.ke a man to
hint and would have taken his part, but he (Simon Finn)
would not let Spooner get !dowel( late trouble for him.
and so he went away for nine menthe, potting a
day's work here and thee ea be could, with the
help of acme friends. He went to the model
aim twkw when there woo &vacancy, awl made application"
but was told that there was ao room for hen because he hoe
given evidence for Lord Kintushd. He thought there was
no remedy for the evils they bad to endure except se eat of
parliament (Hear.)
Several other fel/owed, and Mr. Prom stated
that the vestry rrlresend Old-town lied that evening
unaninweey adopted a petition is favour of the object the
seal whippers sought to attain.

Misslorimines is IsDIA.—It is noquestionabis
that the awls of learned inkeioneries, well vac= in the
native languages, acquainted with the dialects of the Hindoo
sad Maltoinedes, mama pious, end patient, would mee4
whit the people aro be this Mete of mind, with an amount of
sumo= which would be ea surprising as It would be gratify-
ing. And hem let me obaerve that these much reviled
natives show • temper sad 'moderation which we do not Sod
snow self-styled Christian and civilised nations nearer
, hems. Ho keg so a Christian minister can argue with a
mourns et wan with patience and ingenuity; ha will be
liskord to with inter= and respect ; he will be permitted to
expound the flerlanues, end to warn his hearses =abet the
arose of their fish, povldei that he reran' from meaning,
costemptuam, sad irritating language; but if be be
• mate Igarmant illiterate sealot, without any (valid-
anion (•emperally speaking) except a knowledge of Hindus-
tan/ea= good intentions, be may be exposed to the laughter.
seers, sad even abate of the or (meted hamar, in consequence
of kis menifeet inatillty to meet the subtle objections of his
keen and practised oppooents. From what I trove heard I
regret to stab my couviotioc Is that no mood/rake samosa.
so be as Inman mare are concetned, Cali be expected from
the efforts of noes who ors tits the sncient apostles Is ell
thing, but their iespirsion and heavenly help. The differ-
ences between Christian mlasionaries—the Roman catholic.
who tells the natives that the coomissice= the sollsdos,
the Judge, and the chaplaio are not Christians at all, end thee
be to the only true tember—and the clergyman of the =Mole
soicfroragagies&F....tmitsaverybodi.nd
and the
Putivarespittyt.ters..n,tduntatmf thiwutim . mAtumerioaa
salmis wonld-he neophyte. Corampaudeat of Tim=
LONDON OZNILSAL OMNIBUS COM PAWS' (LIMIT:107).
—Trade naives lee ths wesii ssdissi Xarsh 13,10, 4
181.