The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-19 00:00:00

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valuable atehttat to the outer against badly conducted sad
uaskllled artisans.

With regard to the remarks in connexion with my name,
made by Mr. Wales in hie letter, I beg to state that it is not
my intention to reply to them In the tone he hu adopted. So
long as the discussion wu canted on with good temper, and
avoided personalltiet, I should hare been ready to render soy
assistssce in my power to promote a settlement of the die.
pates. Iwu not, however, totally unprepared for the loss of
tamper in Mr. Wales'. letter, after the personal encounters
reported to have taken plus between some of the master
builders.

Nothing lieeMll to me more injudicious than the 11110011-
conduct that the muter builders h►ve adopted from
the beginning. Their refuel to receive a deputation from the
united trades (which even most prime ministers would have
granted); their rodent", to any mediators, and even to the
press; the un-English seutay of their meetings, and their
adherence to the obnoxious "document," have arrayed against
thus almost every artisan in the United Kingdom.

All eyes were anxiously tamed to their meeting of the
day before yesterday. One stroke of the pen through the
solver ally condemned " document," end 20,000 men would
have returned t.) their employment. They have neglected
this opportunity. The " document" (as their colours) has
been nailed to the "mast," and by it they must stand
or fall.

Deeply le It to be lamented that they did not follow the
ma& of thoDshilw wester builders, who have noted.' to

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the general desire of their workmen tot so increase of wages,
sad the report in yesterday's paper concludes by saying
that the negotiations were conducted in a spirit of modera-
tion on both sides which speedily led to an amicable
result." _ .

It was the mas'er builders themselves who first asked
my co-operation in a letter from that very Mr. Walls who
now (quibbling about the substituted term of Central Aro-
dation fee Mister Builders' Society) repudiates the notion
of my ever having been applied to.
As my motives have evidently been misjudged by the
muter builders as a body (some amongst them I ass happy
to consider as personal friends), I shall refrain from all
farther interference, only hoping that these unhappy differ-
atom may have a speedy termination, and that the master
builders may not want a mediator when it 4 t' too late."—
I am, &c., T. MARSH NELSON, Architect
6, Whitehall, Angela 17.

DRAMA.

ADELPHI.
In judo, to the author, Mr. Backatone, and to
sumul clever actors, whose property swords ere now rue',
whose beau are dust, and whose souls are with the
saints we trust, It is to be hoped that the rising generation of
playgoers will not maks up their minds as to the worth or
woetlikeensis of the Wreck Ashore from the representation
which they saw last night. Twenty-alai year. ego the Oem
was written professedly to fit the various mambos of the
best melodramatic Corp., perhaps, ever gathered together—it
did fit, however, and the success was tremendous. That was
lug see the spirit of burlesque kindly opened the eyes of the
audience to all that wee passing behind the ocemee, to the
tricks and shifts of the prairies, how it is " slow" and
ridierdose to allow *muff to be carried along by the interests
represented, and accordingly those who have to represset
them are lees ettentivs and hes competent. It would be
manifestly unjust to leonine* a comparison between the
original cast and that of last night; moreover, the perform-
ance was for a benefit, when if we get even the author's
longue we are lucky; and in one instance we were diesp-
Wend even In that, being regaled with the performer's wall
known British vernacular. However, the hones was fairly
attended, and the people seemed amused, so that after all the
berofigiaire's purpose wea answered,