The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-27 00:00:00

TO THI XDITOR OP Till ZIPYLIBg.

WilltegratifYinFto the many friends
of the working classes who bars given their sanction and
encouragement, and aiso, in some instances, their time and
elf Griot to the movement for organising excursions to the
Paris kshibition, to learn that their good wishes have been
hilly realised, and that frequent expressions of satisfac-
tion are elicited by the arrangements made for the con-
venience and enjoyment of those who go under our
auspices.
The choice of route is now to some extent given to our
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excursionists. Certain numbers are sent by th;Newhaven
and Dieppe and the Dover and Calais routes. The former
peewees the advantage of rich scenery, traversing on the
other side the Channel the garden of France. The latter
gives to timorous landsmen the benefit of a short sea pas.
sage. When we cannot ourselves bane tickets for the
latter route, we enable workmen to obtain them at the
same con as they are furnished to us.
The committee are now enabled to extend their opera-
tions, so as to meet the cams of workmen in the pro-
vince*, and in Scotland and Ireland, who take through
tickets under the system in which all the great railway
companies, excepting the South Western and the Great
Fastens, have joined, and therefore simply desire to get
housed in Paris ; much additional accommodation being
provided for them at the logesenste we rent from the agent
of the Imperial Ocaunission. Doubtless the great attrac-
tion, offered during the pester part of September by the
Mee of St. Cloud, will cause a further expansion of our
already large excursion parties.
Your readers hare probably beard of the establishment
by this committee of a fund for awards to workmen send.
ing in the best reports on French manufacture, and
industry. The response of the workmen excursionists has
been somewhat encouraging, and we may fairly anticipate
the production of some most valuable papers. Mr.
William Mader, whose fitness for this special work cannot
be questioned, has been commissioned to assist the indus-
trial studies of our artisans ; and his stay at the British
Workmen's-hall in the Exhibition, where he is placed in
immediate and constant communication with both the
French and the English authorities, as well as with the
leaders of French co-operative sad industrial enterprise,
cannot fail to be of immures service.

I would gladly close this letter without one word of
regret, were not the regulations of the railway managers
too restrictive. Every applicant for an artieen's ticket
must obtain hie employers certificate. Tkia rule is not •
hard one for wage-men, but it shuts out from all benefit a
numerous body of men as truly artisans and working men
as any in the pay of masters —I mean the men with very
little (if any) capital, and no subordinates, labouring for
and receiving their pay from the public, who are at once
their customers and their employers. All great popula-
tion centres contain thousands such—provident, indusr
trious, deserving men ; and I should be glad to find that,
having due regard to the claims of this large clam, all the
companies expressed themselves as willing ea. the Oreat
Northern to put to the fore " tha most liberal construc-
tion " of their arrangements with the companies command-
ing the way to Paris.—l am, k.c.,
J. T. DEXTER, Corresponding Secretary.
Paris Excursion Committee, 266, Strand, W.C.,
August 26.

RITUALISM IN NORTIIUMBRRLAND. The Feast
of St. Bertholonmer was celebrated at • Kirkleaton by the
re-opening of the sheath there. A proceanon was
formed oa the village grim in the following order :
Cross bearer, Sunday school children (on each side of whom
walked a stave bearer), visitors, parishioners, women's
committee, men's committee, Sunday•scheol teachers,
religious horister, in cassocks and surplices, Kirkieston
choir,deaccos, mibenegoed priests, perpetual curatea,vicars,
rectors, rural deans, prebendanes, canons, the incumbent,
the Bishop of Dunedin (on each side of whom walked a
stave bearer). The clergy wore cassocks, surplices,
hoods, and square caps or bientas. Wrious ban-
ners were carried, and at the head of the procession a
massive processional brass cross, set with crystals, wss
borne, and during the progressto,the church the following
hymns (from the Knkleaton Appendix) were sting :
" Onward, Christian soldiers, marching aa to war," and
" Brightly gleams our banner." On arriving at the church
the laity formed themselves into two rows along the sides
of the walk, between which the clew marched, and,
heeded by the c• oss, entered the church and took their
llaces in the chanceL A service three hours long fol.
owed. The Itiehop of Dunedin was one of the speakers
at a dinner held in the afternoon. In defending high
church practices he said the revival now going forward
was to revive the church from the apathy of the last three
luedred years. He did not consider there bad been any
real worship during these years, and he dare not trust
himself to utter his sentiments regarding the manner in
which the holy sacrifice was treated, and the dishonour
thereby done to the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ therein
meat. Now, however, • strong undercurrent of feeling
was flowing into the true faith of Christ present in His
church and in His sacraments, which was the only true
foundation of • genuine catholic revival, and that day's
proceedings_ were • substantial sign of it.
Tait MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICUL-
TURAL Scorer.—Tine Manchester and Liverpool Agricul-
tural Society holds its hundredth or centenary meeting
for the exhibition of live stock, implements of husbandry,
and machinery, at Manchester during the present week.
The site of the exhibition is that on which the famed Art
Treasures Exhibition was held, at Old Trafford, and it
err" in its complete state to-day,. closing on Thurs.:Liz
Leviela.y,Asinrdeligeine:rYwaashowa ;tar implemen wu ts
from the
ing machine shops of the kingdom, but it was not
complete, and there were continuous arrival, during the
day. The collection is so extensive that it corers some
acres of ground, and it includes every description of
machine, from a steam engine down to the simplest form
of agricultural instrument. The society proposes this year
to give away 2,00 W. In prises, of which LOOK has been
sahricribed locally. It will include horned cattle, horses,
pies,
sheep,i distributed aloesl ad dogs,p.as wfeulfl
haso man. hinery.
There
is to be in connexion with it • grand show of plants Red
flowers at the Botanical Gardens, and this evening the
Agricultural Society's annual dinner is to take place in •
building emoted en the ground, for which Messrs. Jenni-
son mad Boss of Belle Vs. Oardena, are to bathe caterers.
The Essi et berby is invited.