The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-13 00:00:00

THE TAILORP' 81101E2.-Inm *entrel committee
of the workmen's union have increased the amoant of the
seekly levy upon all the members at work, and a consider-
able number of men who have never joined the union, it
is mid, pay the 3.. weekly levy with the same promptitude
and willingness as the union members themselves, and
the men in several shops voluntarily levied themselves on
Saturday :is. in addition to the 3s. ordered by the committee.
At the request of the Tailors' Central Committee, the Lon-
don Working Men's .Issociation have convened an aggregate
meeting of the trade. unionists of London, to enable depu-
tations from the committee to lay the exact nature fled
position of the dispute before them and the public. It is
to be held on Wednesday evening, in Trafalgar-square.
At 7 o'clock the operative tailors, same thousands in num-
ber, will assemble in Ranover.square, and march thence in
prueexsion, preceded by their trade banners, to Trafalgar-
square, where they will form three or four deep into three
sales of a military square, keeping clear in the rear of the
Nelson Monument a lame space, to serve as an extempore
hall for the use of the public, who will peas in through an
opening in the ranks.

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ARBITRATION V. STRIKER.—During the past
week the manufacturers of hosiery in the town and county
of Leicester have resolved upon following the example of
the hosiers of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, and have
arranged with the working men for the establishment of •
boanl of arbitration for that district. In the lace trade of
Nottingham and Notts, which has suffered so severely, and
which has been partially driven from the country by long-
continued struggles between masters and workmen, the
operatives, attracted by the excellent working of the
hosiery board, are contemplating the formation of • simi-
les board for all the branches of their own trade. Mr.
Mundella, the President of the Nottingham Chamber of
Commeree. and the originator of the scheme of arbitration
in Nottingliam' has had protracted interviews with the
council of theLacenrakers' Society on the subject, and
they have decided to invite their employers to forum a
I board. Should this effort prove successful, the staple
trades of three counties (Notts, Derby, and Leicester) will
be free from the ruinous effects of strikes, and the men at
the same time preserving their unions intact.
THE UNION BANK Of SCOTLAND FORGERY
CARL—The trial of Greatrex and the Brothers Grimshaw
for the forgery and uttering of upwards of 1,:t00 one-
pound notes of the Union Bank was concluded on Satur-
day before the High Court of Justiciary. It appeared
from the evidence that the prisoners had forged the notes
in Glasgow, and passed them in different Marta of the
country ; that Greatrex, on hearing, while in Aberdeen,
that the forgery was discovered fled to New York ; that
Inspector M'Coll, of the Glasgow police, traced him
thither and brought him back ; sod that the Grimshaws
were apprehended at Dalkeith, with notes in their pos-
session. One of the Woo; important wit•easoi Rebut the
prisoners was a Miss Weir, who had been assistant to
Greatrex in his photographic business, and who had
followed him to New York, where they were living as Mr.
and Mee. Parker when Greatrex was apprehended. The
trial lasted three days. The jury haring returned a
verdict of guilty on ten of the seventeen charges labelled,
the Lord Justice Clerk sentenced Greatrex to twenty
years' and the Brothers Grimshaw to fifteen years' penal
servitude.

OUTBREAK OF THE CATTLE PLAGUE tic NOTTING-
BANARIEII.—The cattle plague has just broken out on the
fans of Mr. Wilson, at Blyth Ronny, near RetfonL
One beast has been destroyed by order of the inspector,
but Mr. Wilson's other cattle have not yet evinced any
symptom of the disease. The cattle market has been
stopped at Worksop for besets, but no orders have yet
been nulled respecting sheep.
THE TINTHEN ABBEY ESTATEB.—An estate which
has something of historic interest attached to it is now in
the Landed Estates Court for sale, on the petition of the
owner. The property is known as the " Tintern Abbey
Estates," and is situated in the county of Wexford.
Tintern Abbey was founded by William Earl of Pembroke
and Earl Marshal of ErigLind, in fulfilment of a pro-
mise made by him, when in distress at sea, that
he would build a 'monast,ry in immediate contiguity
to the place where refuge was afforded him. He found
• haven in Benno.. Ray, on the coast of Wexford,
and built Tintern Abbey— which name he gave it after
the abbey of Tintern in Monmouthshire—for the
Cistercian monks. The founder married Elizabeth de
Clare, daughter of Earl Strongbow, by his second wife,
the Princes Eva MatiMurrough, in whose right he claimed
the lordship of Leimiter. After the dissolution of monas-
teries, Tintern Abbey was granted by Queen Elizabeth to
Anthony (afterwards Sir Anthony, knight) Colclough, to
hold in rnpite at an annual payment to the crown of
24a. Q. English money. The Colclough family converted
the chancel of the abbey church into a mansion. The
rental of the property as set down in the petition for sale
is 7,. 1. 121. lld.

A BTRANGZ STORY. /ne of the most extraor-
dinary stories of married life we ever beard of has just
been made public, The incidents are more improbable than
• novelist or dramatist, with a strict regard for his repu-
tation, would dare to use. The story, as it originally ap-
peared, was that • Mr. Wight had married a Miss Cham-
berlain, having just obtained a divorce from his first wife
on the sole evidence of his second. The first wife then
acted as bridesmaid at Miss Chamberlain's marriage,
standing there, as we are told, " like a living comae."
The " curse and blight of the Almighty" were
invoked by the agonized reporter upon the
newly married couple. These are not pleasant things to
hear, and Mr. Wight has come forward with a long state-
ment, in which the assertions of the reporter are contra-
dicted, but a narrative in every way more strange and
remarkable is substituted for them. Tue husband tells his
own uteri, and it far transcends the wildest dreams of
Defoe or Sue. In ls(4 Mr. Wight returned to this coun-
try from Europe in order to marry a lady to whom he
was engaged. He carne sooner than he intended,
because the lady's parents and all her family
had died and left her unprotected. She was rs years old,
and afflicted with a nervous disease, which her mother
described as hysteria. The pair went to England, and
while at Keswick one night, • month after their marriage,
the husband was horrified to see his wife fall at his fret
in • tat of epilepsy. She had 17 tits before the morning.
Shocked at the discovery that his wife was altiicted with
this most awful disease, knowing that it wan incurable,
and despairing of escape from his terrible position, he
that night, as he states, " adopted her as his child."
From that time to this he has nursed her and taken care of
her, but he has never resumed the relationship of their
marriage tie. He calls her in his narrative'' his patient"
and " his ward." Once, when she thought he proposed to
treat her as his wife, she was ieudered " extremely un-
happy." Her disease grew worse—the very servants and
nurse* fled from the house in horror. Six years ago Miss
Chamberlain came as nurse, and, as Mr. Wight
says, his " patient " herself proposed that he
should marry this lady. "She (the first wife)
had come to regard it as religiously wrong to think
of fulfilling the relations of wife in her condition." She
pressed him to marry Miss Chamberlain. Let us imagine
what she must have suffered ere she could bring herself to
this. They tried to get a divorce in Indiana, but faded,
for reasons which Mr. Wight, • little inconsistently, de-
clines to mention. At lust they succeeded—for the wife
helped—and Miss Chamberlai❑ was the solitary witness on
whose evidence the compact was dissolved. Oi what
nature that evidence was we are not informed. The
disorced wife was present at the marriage ceremony,
and she is to live with the couple for the future. Was
there ever such is story? One scarcely knows which to
pity moat, the man chained to a sanely living woman for
thirteen years, appalled night and day by the terrible visi-
tations to which she was subject, or tne woman doomed to
witness the misery which she had caused, loss of his 'flee-
stone end his marriage with another, and to bear in adtli-
t:on the remorse which her own deception and sin must
' necessarily occasion her. Verily, the tragedies of real life
I are more ghastly than those which the imagination conjures
up--Acre York Tian, May 1.