The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-31 00:00:00

LICHFIELD ELECTION.

The election of a representative in parliament for
Liet field, in the reom of Lord Wsterpark, resigned, took
place in the Guildhall of that city yesterday. The proceed.
Inge excited very little interest, although on Monday it was
confidently ref orted that an oppoeition candidate tc.eld be
proposed on the day of nomination, and this report gm
c inflicted by subsequent credit:wane, s. Mr. Cardeo, a
member of the Oatord Circuit accompanied by Mr. Keaealy,
the barrister, arrived in the coarse of the evening, hat et,'
consulting the besets of the cinsereative party, Mr. C.
found that he bed no chorea of success, and he declined
offering himself as a candidate. The hon. caadi late was
in court during the ni.minstion, but ha t o.k no part in the
proceedings.
The Rev. T. B. FLOUR (the anal formalities having
been gone through) proposed the Ron. Fraud, Dudle
Stuart Ryder, commonly called Lord Bandon, as a fit and
proper person to repr. sent the city of Licl.field in puha-
mint. The noble viscount's views, as stated in his address,
were in accordance with his own, end he doubted nut that
he would justify the choice of the electors.
Mr. HIWITT seconded the commit:on ; and, no othee
candidate being pvpreed, Lord Bandon was declared duly
sleeted.

Lerd SANDON, in acknowledging the hoarse conferred
upon hitia professed himself to be of no party—fcr all parties
be ler liev;d were now extinct ; but, in the proem circuit-
stances, be at ould give an independent ant port to the go-
vernment of Lord Palmerston. He w,tilit support all mea-
sures which in his opinion would promote the happ nem and
prosperity of the country. c.reless • hat happened to its
institutions if such blessings would be secured. (Cheers.)
Dr. RoWLIT requested the noble lore to lemur the elec-
tors with his opinion with reap. ct to the ballot.
Lord SANDON ca:d be was cot in fay.ii.r t f the ballot,
which he thought would rather promote than discourage
corruption. . .

A vote of thanks was thee patvd to the Minting offiotr,
and the court was dissolvd.

SHIPWRIGHTS IN THE PORT OF LONDON.

An unfortunate dispute between Meow. Young,
Son, and Msgnay, of Litarbouse Dockyard, sod the ship.
weights in their employ, has led to a eviler, which, welter,
will cause more distress, and certainly more unpleassat
feeling, than the matter in dispute seems to be worth. The
occasion of the quarrel, as we understand from the primed
addresses en either side, was a resolotion which Mean.
Young, Bon, and Magnay t. ad taken to alter the hour. of
duly labour in the r ettabli.hrnent. cy and nut prcfose
to lengthen the tiny 'e no It, but, on the contr.ry, to abridge
ft by ten minute.. The ciotom hipi been with them, uit
is with the other shirwrigiite of Lond-n, to work on the
whole nine hmrs and firiy minutes in the day; the altera-
tion announced by ties urea would have u.aue the working
time nine hours and a half. But they hue found ccnsider-
able Luis and inconvenience is the elist.ng system, of allow-
ing tour different intervals for rest arid refreshment—
namely, half an h or at e IVA o'clock for breakfast;
twenty minutes more at eleven ck, an hoar at one
o'clock for dinner, and half an hour at tour o'clock for
tea; the work beginning at sin in the morning, and ending
st six in the evening. 'I hey said, in their address to the
werkoren, dated the 30th of April :—" We have long beet
sensible of the great evil. resulting him ;the 'unnecessarily
frequent interruptions of work, under the existing division
of the blare of labour. While it it a source of continual
dissatisfaction and complaint on the f art of shipowners, it
is certain that the greatest real injury falls on the work-
men themselves, most of whom ate employed by the job,
and any waste of time is consequently a deduction
from the amount of t se,r walrus. That Iraqis does
not result from tco many hours being devoted to trot
and refreshment, but from the t o frequent cessation
from work, whin► c indirectly hut inevitably a melons
loss of time, without neaten ng any benefit whatever on
the workman. Toe 'yeti m doss not prevail in any port in
Grist Britain except that of London and even there it is
enclusively confined to tt e private crocks arus on the river
Thames, and cannot therefore be allegeo to be neceerary foe
health er comfort." The charge proAsed by Messrs.
Young and Magney, then, was to give two leisure intervals
of one hour each, namely, breakt..,t at nine sad
dinner at one, and as they abolished the tea-time altogether,
they made the day's stork is terminate at hell-past five,
instead of sir, in enamel ; and in winter, the men would
leave work at dark, maker gap for it by restricting the break-
fast end dinner time to Mille quarters of en tour each.
In retommeding this Van, they further observed: "Thu
intension of breakfast time to ore hour win enable very
many who reside at a dietsnce from the premises to enjoy
that meal at their homes inateam of being compelled to
meant to the publx•house. They will also, we dcebt not,
duly estimate the great sdvanta.re of leaving work at ass
earlier hour, by which opportunities for improvement,
comfort, and recreation will be puetly extended. And on
the whose we hint their good arose will prove to them
that the change we due announce, while primotiog that
order and regutarity •hicb inirloyers and employed in
every establishment ought equally to desire, is calculated in
ea especial manner to advance the interests' physical
and moral, of the workiog clime', whose social improve•
meet we axe tut anzioody desirous to promote."
• •

It appears that the i. tended alteration was unfavourably
received by the workmen, and M. am. Young and Helm
putpotied the date at whit hit was to be carried into effect,
to a they might hsve more time fa consideration. A
melting of the i b irerigb..,;how. Ter, held at the Edinburgh
Castle, litepn. y. on the 6:h of May, resolved that the pro.
pose! of that brm was "an ii.fringernent of t, e r ehtt sha
privileges "of tLe work torn. The adder. s. as put fished by
the men, date not state ..rot ,he ohjec ions are to %be boon
of labour filed by their on:layers ; sod we err Unable,
therefore, to give ttif argumen.s of one vile as of the other.
M . Young and Magna) have offer. el to submit the mat-
t. r to erbitr..ti n, yr..: we tract it will not much longer hi
lett iu 23 uniutisfac.ory a iodtion.

The following are the meetings of the literary and
scientific socii ties for tae eisateng weal: :—Mondsy—Britiell
Arc` itszts, 8; Eircurilogical, 8; H yal lostitu, ion, 2
General monthly meeting. Tue.d sy ones', 8—•
loin' Institution, 3—" On Photozrlpbe," by Mr.
Malone. Wedoe•d iv—Society of Art,. On the Ms-
sufacture of Br cat 1 y Mt chinery," by Mr Chamberlain;
Geologies', 8—" On the limper i..detone, and ir s FoNW
at Leicester," by Mr. Pistt—" On the Keuper of War.
wick and Fossil.," by Mr. Brodie—. One New Genus
of Fossil Cep' al.ipoi*, Diploma," by Mr Selby—
. On a new Orth fares from China," by Mr. Woodward.
Thursday—Z•olagicat, 3—General; Royel, 4—Election of
Fellows; Photographic. 8; Society of,Ant'quarirs, 8 ; Royal
Isstitut on, 3—" On Light," by Protean! Tyndall. Frl-
day—Aret m ilrgicel li.rtitute, 4 ; 13atanicel. 8 ; Raid Usti-
tution,l3i —" Comparative View of the Cl avi.ge of Crystabi
and Slate Rocks." by Profess-4 Tyndall. Samaiy—lnsti-
tato of Actuaries, 3—Anttual general meeting; Asiatic, 8i—
"On the Organisation of the Armies of India under the
Native Prince.," by L'cutenant General Brigs; Royal
Institution, 3—" On the Non-Metallic Elements, theft
Meant...auto and Applicagoc," by Dr. Ilofeis inn.

The state of the Decimal Coinage question is no,
as flames :—After the strong recommensm•ion of one per-
limier plan by two scientific comoilbsioes. by a committee
of the Rouse of Comuirns, and by a vMI of the house
ite.lf, followed by the organisation of en asteciation coo.
Mining hundreds of parliamentary and hundreds et' com-
mercial 110171e1., and supported be the Beek of England,—
Lord Palmersten appointed a Royal Commission, cocsistiNg
of Lord Monte's'', Lord °undone, end Mr. Hubbard, to
consider the wh le question. Tile cunai son has now
been at veldt some months; bat none of its proceedings
have been published.
The Weekly Register and Cath,bie Standard of
this day announces that two clergymen of the establish-
ment have been received into the it' en church.
The one is the Rev. F. Tempe, M.A , Frll ew of Baliol
College, Oiled, sad late principal of the Government
Training College at ; and the otht r is a ton of
the celebrated Rev. Dr. Arnold, of Rugby.
The Limerick Observer mentions as a tnmour that
Mr. Smith O'Brien's return to Ireland will be delayed for
some time byte rose on the continent with his shut son,
and it is farther said that his arrival at C.hirmoyle, his seat
la the county of Limerick, will be strictly private.