The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-12 00:00:00

TO THE IRISH PORTION OP OUR MOVED FLOCK IN THE TOWN

OP LITINPOOL AND IT VICIN/ST.

Dear Children in Jesus Christ,—We have read with pain and
sorrow en advertisement in the public prints, calling upon you
to assemble In thousands on Sunday next, In the outskirts of this
town, and thence to walk In funeral procession through its prin.
al thoroughfares. For many years the mayor and magistrates
of this borough have most wisely ordained that no party proces-
sion or demonstration should take place within the limits of their
jurisdiction. We have always considered this a most wise and
salutary regulation and have given our aid and assistance to
enable the authorities to carry It into effect. The result is that
there has been no Arlie or contention, no straggle for the mastery,
no rivalahip and that in place of such sad evils there has been
peace and good fellowshipamongst all who are content to work
side by side with one another for their daily bread, without dis-
tinction of creed or country. To disturb this peace, to call Into
existence party distinctions, which ere well [kis forgotten, to
light up the embers of civil discord, which had almost
burnt themselves out, to excite and arouse feelings
of rancour and hatred, which are only remembered that
they may be deplored, would not only be foolish and Impolitic,
but very sinful and displeasing to Him whose children we all
are, who has made the sun to shine on the good and the ban, and
who would have as dwell together in mutual charity and for-
bearance. We earnestly and affectionately exhort you, and If
need be, we command you by that authority which we hold from
God, and in virtue of our sacred office, that you abstain from
joining any procession, and that you cheerfully obey the com-
mands of the chief magistrate of this town. Listen not to those
who unhappily may not heed our counsels, but rather to us,
whose voice has been ever heard to console you, and whose
hands have been ever raised to bless you. When you shall have
returned from church remain within your own homes, and go not
out, lest you be lest by misguided men into harm and wrong
doing. May God in His awrey bless you, Slay He give you
abundance and plenty. May He give happiness to your fair but
afflicted country, and may He give you that mice which our
Lord bequeathed to his disciples as the last of lila love.
Given at St. Edward's College, Station, Dec. 11, itier;.—ALEXAN.
DER Goss, Bishop of Liverpool.
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Twenty thousand copies of thin proclamation will be
printed sad distributed to-day.
To-day the chief of of police will meet, to consult
as to the best measures to be taken to preserve public
order, and the mayor will also have conference with the
military and naval authorities now stationed in the town
and port.

FOUNDLINGS IN PADDINGTON. —At the weekly
meeting of the guardians of Paddington held yesterday
(Wednesday), • singular case of child desertion was
brought to the notice of the beard by Mr. Cormack, the
master of the workhouse. He said that a male child was
found wrapped up on a door step in Chester-place, Hyde-
park, and brought to the workhouse by a policeman. A
letter was found attached to the child's clothing of which
the following are extracts :—" HoraceStraeey, bona Nov.
17. Pray take pity on my poor little one ; don't think I
sin an unkind mother to thus cast him off, but I cannot
bear to see him want. There are homes and institutions
supported by the benevolent where he can be well oared
foe, I know, but I have not the power to get him in. You
can, good friends, do something for him, and God will
reward you, but oh, don't send him to the union."
" Be sure it is hard for me to do this, but who would
see her babe want? God has blessed so many
with plenty. May I beg of you again to do something
'foe him, and God will bless you. I cannot tell you bow
it will gladden the heart of a fellow-creature." The
writer asks • further favour of the finder, "to ease the
mind of an anxious and broken-hearted mother " by ad-
vertising in one of the London daily papers " on the 24th
instant—first, to let me know if my little one is safe, as
to hear that would make a happy Christmas for me
indeed." The letter is signed, " One who will be ever
thankfuL" It is • singular circumstance that a child was
found a short time since in the same neighbourhood, to
which was also attached a letter couched in similar terms
to the above. On a recent occasion a child was found
(also in Paddington) with • sovereign and • letter fastened
to its clothes. The note informed the finder that the so-
vereign was for the purpose of paying for the burial, " in
case the child should be dead when found," which was
the case. The child first referred to is alive and well.
THE FACTORY AND WORKBROP ACTS IN SOUTH
STAPPORDSHIRE.—In an address delivered on Tuesday
night in the Willenhall Literary Institute, Mr. P. Baler,
one of her Majesty's inspectors of factories, said he had
been met by the masters who would be affected by the
Factory Act in the most admirable spirit, and if the work-
men would meet him in the same spirit they should go on
as smoothly as possible. He wanted to bring about a new
race of children altogether, such a race as should be ashamed
of the park generation. Fathers who were masters were
equally responsible with masters who were not parents ;
and if a boy was working for • master with his father he
could proceed against either the master or the father.
The 2d. a. week for the child's education would be de-
ducted from the child's wages. It would remain with
the local authorities to determine who should carry
out the act in enforcing the observance of its terms to
prevent apprentices and other young persons, children
and women, from working more time than the act allowed ;
but if he found any glaring cases in which the act was
being infringed they might be quite sure that he would
soon be down upon the people who were offending. There
was one district in England in which children wore being
worked at three years of age. They might be convinced
that if he lived till the first week in January he would
stop such proceedings. If the act should not work
smoothly, and a better way should be found of inspecting
certain small shops than by the police upon authority
from magistrates, as well as by the inspectors without
such authorisation, then he should recommend such a way
to the Home Secretary. He should also, if it should
prove necessary that the present margin between the
number of persons employed in factories and work-
shops respectively should be more closely assimilated,
recommend that the number of fifty, at which factories
now became workshop., should be reduced to ten, or to
some other number, so as to bring all the workplaces as
much as possible under the operation of the act. With
reference to the means of educating the large number of
children, he was so very much gratified with the great
interest which that meeting showed was taken in the act
in Willenhall, that he would promise one-third, up to 701.
• year, of any amount of money that might be spent by
the people of the town in furnishing further school ac-
commodation. All the money that ever he had obtained
as penalties for infringements of the former acts had been
paid, to the extent of some thousands of pounds, into
the bank in his name, and all of it he intended to de-
vote to assisting schools which had been started to meet
the requirements of the act, and which needed such help.
THE BURNING OF HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—.
A number of men were busily engaged all yesterday in
searching the ruins for the jewels, dresses, ko., known
to be there ; but whatever was recovered was so damaged
by the fire as to be nearly, if not altogether, valueless. A
curious story is current in reference to the origin of the
fire, It Is said that before the alarm was given in the
street a larp retriever dog was seen to come rapidly nut
of the with its coat in • blaze. It dashed at
lightning speed across the Haymarket into Suffolk-street,
and was there lost sight of. Many of the employee of the
establishment are therefore of opinion that the dog bad
gone to warm itself at the fire-plate, and finding its coat
on fire, bad wildly rushed into the theatre, and ignited
some of the scenery either on or under the fluor
of the stage. The firemen, however, do not attach much
importance to the occurrence. They say that there are a
number of dogs who when they smell a fire, would rush to
the spot, as was the case with the celebrated one named
" Chance."

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