The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-04 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

Knee las. ller- Total. Total,
RAILWAY& open. wagers. anodise. 1867. 1806
Week ending August 18 lt A A A
apron and Cassaba Bl 40 881 1,490 800
Week ending Miguel 3L
Olaneno & Bnuth Weetern. LW .-- 12,553 11,552
Week aidlog WO. 1.
Cllll24Alati

Great Luxembourg In IMO 1.;1011 oos kiss
Metropolitan
North London...

Riga-Danabarg Railway for =milk orJuly:lB67:4.lalit;
correspondlag month, 1860, 8.8,310.

A Nice Pozwr or Oirxinus Law.—At the Liver-
pool police-court, yesterday, Mr. S. W. Worship, •
solicitor, applied for a summons against the conductor of
an omnibus running between Liverpool and Wevertree.
Mr. Worship said that on the previous evening
he was desirous of proceeding home as an outside pas-
senger, but there was no room, there being upon the out-
side the number of people the vehicle was constructed to
carry. One of these, however, was a " checker" —• man
employed to prevent fraud on the part of the conductors.
He refused to quit his seat; and Mr. Worship, con-
tending that the "checker" is not • passenger within
the meaning of the act, asked for a summons against the
conductor for refusing to take him to Wavertree. The
summons was granted.
INTERESTINti GATHERING OF NON-UNIONISTS.
The miners and ironworkers of Staveley (Derbyshire) have
earned for themselves a wide reputation by the attitude
they have taken in trade union matters. It is scarcely
twelvemonths ago since • contest arose among them as to
whether trades' unionism or the principle of free labour
should prevail, and the result has been that the non-
unionists have snoceeded in conquering their opponents.
This new state of things was brought about in •
groat measure by the firmness and straightforward cm,
duet of Mr. Markham, managing director of the Staveley
Coal and Iron Company. The workmen, to mark their
sense of the benefits, both pecuniary end social, which
they have received through the effort, of Mr. Markham,
have subscribed together and purchased a handsome
testimonial, which was presen'ed to him on
Monday evening in the presence of a very large and
influential gathering of miners and employers of labour.
The Duke of Devonshire, who was one of the speakers,
said if he had thought the meeting would be considered as
the celebration of a victory after • struggle between em-
ployers and employed, he should have thought it his duty
to absent himself. The distinguishing feature of these
proceedings was that they were met to celebrate the victory
of good sense and good judgment on the part of the men
in spite of bad advice liberally given them. He did not
know enough of those who came into the district to pro-
duce change and discontent to impute bad motives to
them ; but he referred to the fact that certain advice was
given which, in his opinion, was bad. They (the workmen)
found that it was to their interests to have no fetters upon
their labour, and to work as they thought best for them-
selves. The result was that ;non-unionism prevailed sad
acquired the preponderance. This was en event which de-
served to be known throughout the country. It was a
proof that the workmen felt that there was no real an-
tagonism in the interests of capital and labour, and that
where there was • will there was certainly • way for •
good understanding between employer and employed. He
trusted that this good understanding would loog continue,
and that that day would be long remembered as one of the
brightest and most remarkable that had ever occurred in
the history of Staveley.
EAST LONDON RAILWAY.—Mr. W. Hawes' chair-
man of this company, has just issued a circular to the pro-
prietors, in which he states that the importance of the new
Railway Companies Act, 1867. could not well be overrated,
for it removed restrictions which had hitherto embarrassed
the arrangementa of railway companies that had not dis-
posed of all the shares authorised by their acts of incorpo.
ration. Previously to applying the provisions of the act,
the directors had forfeited all unregistered scrip upon
which instalments were unpaid, and resolutions with a
view to the disposal of them would be submitted to the
forthcoming extraordinary general meeting. He also
stated that no debentures or bonds had been issued, and
that the contractors had been paid in full to the 10th of
August last, which was the date of the engineer's last certi-
ficate. The works were so far advanced that, if the shares
not taken up were subscribed for, the line might be opened
from the Wapping station adjoining the London Docks
through the Thames Tunnel to New-cross, and to the
Wunction with the South London Railway, by June, 1868.
hile those works were being carried on vigorously, those
from Wapping to Whitechapel would be proceeded with,
and there was every reason to ho for the successful pro-
gress of every part of the line. The cost per mile would
not exceed 300,00 M., a sum very much below any other
metropolitan railway.
HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OE THE CHEST, VICTORIA-
PARK.—The number of patients relieved at this institution
during last week was 1,143, of which 727 were new came.