The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-25 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1858.

LONGFELLOW'S NEW POEMS•.

The published writings of Mr. Longfellow are
among the best of the possessions which his nation
and ours have in common, and no addition to their
number can take place without
.exciting a warm
and pleasing interest in this country. Snob an event
is now to be reported. Messrs. Kent have published
within these few days a little volume of new poems
from his pen. The hero of the principal poem,
Miles Standish, is an historical character, and the
descendant of a valiant race of Lancashire men.
Like many of his countrymen in the age of
Elizabeth, he sought a career in the Low Countries,
where the great question of religious liberty was
being settled on field and scaffold. After a:elating
the Dutch with his sword in their grand struggle
for independence, he left Leyden for America,
and was the staunch defender of the little band
of men and women who landed from the Mayflower
in New England in 1620. His military skill and his
linguistic acquirements enabled him either to treat
with or to vanquish the Indians, and in this way he
rendered great service to the Pilgrims, on one occa-
sion saving the colony of New Weym9uth from de-
struction. The tradition is handed down that ke
employed the friendly services of one John Aldo.
to pay court in his name to a fair lady, who however
fell in love with his ambassador. The proms: and
ism of this negotiation form the subject of the
poem.
The smaller poems, three-and-twenty in number,
are of unequal merit. The following renal' some of
the best of Longfellow's earlier efforts:

CRILDIIIN.
Come to me, 0 ye °Widest!
For I hear you at yew gine,
And the question that purplened as
Hare modeled pile emir.
Ye opts Ms Melon whet:nen
TIM ink Womb the sow,
Whim Lad the limb ei weentag Wenglis see **fag swims
ran.
In your Warts are the birds and the maims,
is yoursiumghts the brachias low,
But is mine to the wind of autumn,
And the Bret fall of the snow.
Ah ! what would the world be to as
If the childreci ears so mors
We should dread the desert behind as
Worse this the dark brims.
Whet the lessee are to the twee,
With light Ind Wr tweed,
In Moir west end tender juices
Esse base Wiedsred tato wood—
That to the world s ohildnnt ;
Through them it fuels the glow
Of a brighter end sunnier climate
Than reecho the trunks below.
Come to me, 0 ye obildsea I
And whimper in say ear
What the birds sad as winds are singing
La your mu, etmospbers.
For what are ell our oontrivlngs,
And the wisdom of oar books,
When compered with your osmosis,
And the gladness of your looks?
Ye are better thea all the ballads
That ever woes sung or said;
For ye are living poems,
And all the rest as deed.
B 7 the aid of an expedient which is becoming
fami 'liar, the protection of the British law of copy-
right has been secured for this volume. A notice
opposite the title-page informs us that to guard
against its instant appropriation by an unlimited
number of publishers, " a small, but sufficient, por-
tion of its eontents, has been contributed by an Eng-
lish writer."

•"no C v &pet Milos Stoodfolu ad other Poem•,"
by Ewa, Adnrtl LosS!•llow. W. Bat sad Co.

THE DEFALCATIONS AT IVEZDON.

The commissioners appointed to inquire into the
army contract /imam resumed their dtthip at No. 11 axe-
mitres-room of the HOll/0 of Commons yesterday ; Mr. Bells
in the chair; the other oomodasionere preamt hang Mr.
Aspinall Turner, M.P., and Colonel Freeoh.
Mr. H. Waltham, re-examined—When I first went to
Weed= there was • man employed a the .tare-rooms named
Grovel. He bad been snapendsd for • few weeks, but he told
me that by the intereessime of his wife with Mr. Pugh, and
torough him with Mr. Elliott, he was reinstated es
viewer. This was in July, 1866, and it was notoriotie
throughout the establishment that Holmes had said
he had been bribed. Groves told me himself. Holmes
was discharged two or three nicatha afterwards; he
was a drunken, incompetent man. Groves was chief
viewer before Mr. Watson came. He told me be had
received bribe', and more than once. He told me be bad re-
ceived two sovereigns in London on one ocreelea end a
sovereign in Weedon. I was not aware that Elliott denied
that he had heard this from Holmes till I saw it Ia the Blue-
book. I sot prepared to face Groves, and repeat what he
stated to me. If I were at Weldon I should be prepared to
Ind oorroborative evidence. Groves said to me Holmes had
split upon him to Mr. Elliott. Groves was a short-righted
man. I never heard that oomplalate were made of hie
passing thing. too eerily, and that his &fusee was that ha
was 11A0114012011. I can't say whether Walton Sr Pol-
kaed ever heard anything of this. Ido not believe that
Groves won rpeaaotes at Me work. Mr. Elliott had
act power to discharge a man without giving • reams
at headquarters, and I suppose the loam that
be wrote to headquarters ooncerning Groves will la
in existence. Groves told me that he had been celled
before Mr. Elliott. That ts the only teas of direct bribery
I ever heard of. I have heard that the boot viewers were
employed by the oontractora to make boots in over hours ;
but that was put an end to as .son as it was dammed.
Charles MansUidge and two men named Costes sad
Thwaites were so employed by convectors. They were
shoemakers. It CAM/ out in this way that some of the
boots that these men had made were sent to Woodcut, and
they were rejected by the other viewers.
B Mr. Turner—l do not know that the viewerswho were
employed to make boots by the matrectors had higher wages.
1 believe that, taking the viewers altogether they anprattl-
es!, Intelligent bootouikere. The viewers reject or par boots
subject to the opinion of the inspectors, and the
viewers ham frequently estepleined to as. that one inspector
has pseud boots which the viewer has rejected, and rejected
those that he had passed ; and that mother inspector would
do just the °mammy. The two 11117/04/4. win Folkard and
Watson. Groves, Mansbridge, Cows, Matta, and Thwaites
have complaised of thlstoros.

Can yoit say whieh of the two inepseases le the wore rigid
or the wore balsas P—l cannot. The impactors have their
Jor aegis among the viewers.
What do you wish to say r to the isspectfon pursued with
regard to dlothP—l madder thet the inspeotore we In-
ridded. The inepeoton ars Doyle, Kellett, and Retake.
They have only ans test—muriatio acid—for dye of woollen
cloths, which le see a fair test. I know of an instanos
of the insaidsaey of it. The Wyse for Mews
Henry, of Hadderedeld, seat in some goods. Halt
of them bad tor dyed improperly, but he thought
he would try Knot tad be net theta is. The half
that had been dyerdo=os weepeeved,while the half
which had ben Ina rjrad. I know that
trona Kr. Prime I wasted a teet whether goods
had beau weeded I should use pristis sold. Five-sixths
_ _

of the cloth seat to Weedon is not wooded. If touristic acid
is applied So a pion of cloth not required to be wooded it to
so test at ell.

^lr. TUser—lf mulatto acid will lake out all the colour,
how is it they pus any cloth at all f —They ought to have •
diluted test, mad test the cloth up to a certain point. I have
peeked thoimands of yards of cloth that were not aufllctudy
dyed. I have told Mr. Mall*, of it,
Have you anything to say se to the seflldeney or feemill-
decry ot the Inopeetors as to the Wave of the cloth f—Yes,
I think that Hebden's machine is iesuMcieat. There le a
proms now of arealgamattner cotton with wool by scribbling,
which was not known before. The maelise will test the
streogth of the cloth, bat the manufacturer out defeat that
by making the goods harder, but that would mum the cloth
to break. I have pecked gooda to be mat beak which have
been rejected which were boner then those which have been
pascal. Some sloth of Mr. Pollard's woo *gated white
wee hotter than cloth which ins pseud. I have packed
cloths In 1866 which I have no beellehles ha saying had from
40 to 60 per out shoddy la it. Ids not know whet con-
tractor it cams from. It came from the Tower. It was Oaford
grey cloth, and there ears about 10,000 yards of in II a
••condor were to seed cloth lo Weeks which bed not
daddy or sew in it it would not per. They weld not
get the kens upon It which is required.
The Ckeirman—Do you toms to say that ell the woollen
vainufsettuners In Yorkshire or Otoscestankire who have
contracted with the government have been otiftg the go-
'unmet f—l my that to my opinion there is no cloth sent
intn the government that haa not shoddy to it.
Do you wish to say saythimg more ?Tie. With regard
to packing ; I have packad cloths which were ao damp that
they would Inevitably be spoiled. I have &Applaud at thia
to Daly. They could not be damped at Windom, and most
have come damp from the contractor.
What was the object of the connector In moan' the
goods In wet ?--I should any, to gen the proper weight, and
in some urea the colour look. beater. If cloth be wood it
becomes thicker and narrower.

Was sot that a peat rlak to esa on behalf of the as-
tractor I—lt err.

whose goods they wrist—l do net.
When I was at Weldon I have be.. for teary weeks and
have bad no new canvass, and have bad to peck without
paper, to the detriment of the goods. I have pecked clothes
to bales which we packed in eisdie tampers sad single
paper. We could not get anything dee. That wee toot
sufficient to protect the goods from rain or from the injury
likely to be sustained In the hold of a ship. We have hem
six weeks at a time without a supply of new morass, and
have had to use rotten canvass that bad come from lb.
Crimea. With that rotten morass only one strapper was
mad. lam not epeskang of chipping bales, but some ship-
piag bike wart pocked up in that maser for China. AU
the do s there moss no oiled canvass or torpaiding used at
Weida' for packing. Goods pecked ia that masa for
China would certainly be spoiled. No inmrenee company
would Moue goals nut in such • suite. I member on
one ocoodon we had swam which we oaloulated would last
three weeks. We sent in a requisition for more, but It wee
de weeks before we got it.
You fetid you would net tab. another governess& Wm-
' lion ; when did that fesliag come over yea!—Aber I had
seen Mr. Ramsey.
Mr. William Hebdon—l was fcemorly one of the is-
monetary of sores at Weldon. I mat thole et the and of
1865, and stayed till Anted in thk yaw. Imo sow k-
Spector to govertneat, employed at Haynie and Newell's, is
klarit•lene. lam ES yews of age. The teak oieth oink
principally under my department. Mr. Malkin took the
other part. I had preatioally the chief inspeetanhip. My
salary vas 1001. a year, and Is Old. lam menisd. I have
no private means except what I derive from the ask of my
machines. I inastad a machine, about two pore two,
rolled the shoddy master. These,venge pries le 301.
Nave sold • gnat mmy of and I dim sty I
have milord more them 1,0001. by dom. They oast me about
161. each. I have aloe a marranng sad weighing machine.
The governamit we me a gratuity of 2001. 1 employ en
agent for doe sets of dos machines. Many weakliness/we
have boned than, both those who have osanexion
with Weeder!, sad those who have not. Provisos to my
"Idat'eert2 ;stases hi Cloth-fair, =Yea& la AMLl:galt
street. I knew a good many Yeeiteldre messfeetterere be-
fore I went into the sinks. Ido not balks, any parson ma
detect shoddy in cloth, utilew It be put in to a greet extent.
Anything over ten per cent. the machine will demo, bat not
under that. filiaddy is an improvemod in the appease, of
cloth. My agoat ma tell you bider than I tea the number of
my maohkes thee I have disposed of is Yorkshire. He is •
general agent The orders caw to me at Weldon. I pro-
cured 'admonish from my evertors, sad the only oppor-
tunity I bead of disposing of the madam was when the ma-
ondeeterers elms to Wisdom, and I showed the wahine to
them. I her hem to Leeds to try to dispose of my machines.
I did sot gee any orders.
The Chairmen reqesami the whoops to produce on •
future day a lid ed the contractors and other who had put- I
aimed his reacideee.
Examination remand—Did you sell tho machine to the
contractors at the lams price as to alias r—Yea, unless they
gibbed to have SOW alienable,.
Wee It in general use at Weldon f— Yea, it was need daily,
and is need at the present time.
As yea are aware, there have been certain vogue momma
la to at Weldon, and we propose to out this gela-
tion. wbiok we skill pat to every whims Have you, di-
rectly or %directly received any consideration trout any ems
to kw yon in your dative se aviator f—Nevw • Mum. do
I believethere kw bees any WWI shown to us; move then
smother. _ _

?hat would lee as to motives ; but uto fic de you mesa
to say that you bave sever received say deseaser at promise
at reward ?—Never.
Have youever uadentood the purchase dense atembinee
to to aa y of paylog a couulbseat to you ?
Never.

you bad hospitality Awn to you by the Yorksbin
easeurecturen P—Nos parkahiely.
Rave you never dined with these l'—Not since I lays been
at Itreedon . _ _

—/la—wit-;; ever drank Chatopqrs M their export I—l
bow berm raked, but I retooled.
Wll7 did •ou reform ?—heounwe thee was so we talk
shear bulbar-7
that I tboasitt I would sot give say mom
for it.

Whet did you trot bear rumour strut bribery t—T her
frequendy here rouri of it. Red Mr. Elliott bes rolled roe
down to the Art end required as to sake nerersodume
rto whether say drift bed bra Arm to lasses sad
Compaq..
YOU rid then was mouse f—Yeti and I babas thin