The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-30 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THZ EX PRZ.m.

SlR,—Before the clouds arising between the gas
stokers and their employers gather into a storm. I would
beg to suggest to both parties that the came is one which
is eminently lit in its present stage for arbitr..tioa.
It is evident from Mr. °swell Phillips's letter that the
company do all they consider right for the wants and
comfort of their workmen, and there is so danger of
peace-makers being told superciliously that there is no
ease for arbitration. On the other hand, It is viirdly
evi-
dent that some of the men consider that they have griev-
ances i and there is always a very great risk of their
throwing themselves into the arms of pr01ix...jun..1144;440ra.
I beg respectfully to urge, that both sides should agree
to refer their *sae to a joint committee of workmen and
employers. Such committee sits every Monday at S p.m.
at the below-mentioned chambers. There will Ie no
expense to either party. Each aides sure of a fair
and patient bearing.
Full reports of the proczedinzs are made, and when of
sufficient public interest are published.
Some of our nobles have sgreel to 'Aside l,v s 7 le with
artisans ' and the latter are equally ready mid grtteful to
meet such of the upper class who show such confidence in
them.
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If snyone doubts their ability to handle, temperatelyand
tersely, the great question of the day, let him mime and
judge for himeelf.—l am, &c., F. C. 111d1'1W.,
Hon. Secrtory Free Labour l•smier.y.
9, Vietoria-chembere, Westminster, S.W., Atigi.A. C.. 1.

Tics AUSTRIAN STAIN Dear.—The A mar
National has the subleined :—" Our letters from Hol-
land inform us that the Austriam Empire ban again bean
obliged to have recourse to the financiers of ....oactry
for assistance in the solution of the ditricuir. emblem
respecting the regulation of the state debt. We have
already mentioned, as may be reir.eraben.d, tt the
former Finance Minister of Holland, H. Vur Ilmar, re-
peatedly received offers of the portfolio of Finance in
Austria. In spite of the inducements of every ,:sod laid
before him, N. Van Boise, more inee tilde than 11.,r0n de
Benet, declined to become Austrian. Siam thrn,tl.eranee%
of Vienna, despairing of persuading any uotAi!i•e of the
Low Countries to transfer his services to Austria. ta,..ome-
what lowered its pretensioes ; it centime itself •o setting
from another Netherlands ammeter. N. Werering,
plan for the regulation of the Austrian debt. The •cianto
demanded is, at the present moment, in the band. of the
Minister of Finance at Vienna, Baron de Betke. Ctedes
have been forwarded to the Hungarian Al.
Looyay, and to the two deputations chargel with :a taping
the relations respecting the comma* affairs of the empire,
sad delegated by the Austrian Beicharath and ti,e lunge-
nen Diet. We can add that M. Wevering in his report
expounds the opinion that the present con,7iii.m of the
Austrian finances is no longer tenable, and that en solu-
tion whatever is possible without Micro. iug iu borne
manner the rights of the public creditor. TU. 14'm:tide
laid down, he endeavours to find a means to oon,niete. Kr
far as feasible, the interests of the letter with cios., of the
state. Only very gradually does be propose to ha prove the
finances ; • rise in the public funds and the eirilibriuni of
the budget are the object of his combinations, the accom-
plishment of which will demand much time."
SOUTHANr7OI4, A Ctil:ST 29.—The !Limburg
American Company's steamship Teutonia, efiptairi Liar.
due, from New York, arrived this anemia u with tic
passengers for this pert, Havre, and Hamburg, lii,ol/0
dollars for England, 14,115 dollars for France. end uW
dollen' and 11 sacks of mails for Hamburg. The Teti °Ma
left New York on the 17th inst.; the ante day she spoke
the English barque Nary Campbell ; Pith, ',teenier New
York to Southampton ; 19th, Bremen barque S.:hillier.
hound west ; tith, Danish barque Kronniberg, bound east;
English ship Eleanor, bound west; 'Leith, Legiieh barque
lihrenrhan, of Newcastle, hound east; and no the 27th,
English league Queen of tho South, from Velparairo,
bound to Liverpool.
A SOSINANIDULIST.—Yesterday Rinming, a little
before 7 o'clock, • young woman apparently aboet IC years
of age was seen standing on the parapet of the lame. of •
i*on:wheedler in the Borough, evidently in a stele of
somnambulism. The passers-hy shouted to her, and be-
fore assistance could be rendered she fell (ran an. altitude
of shout 60 feet into the street. I gentlemen 'neatly
broke the fall. Strange to say, she was not killed by the
accident, but she was conveyed to Guy's Hoepiral insen-
sible. Abe was partly dressed, and was • servant at the
house from the top of which she fell.
We are informed that the paragraph in yester-
day's paper respecting '• • Welsh Patriarch." quoted from
a Scotch paper was part of as article that originally al.
peered in the Christian World,

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