The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-06 00:00:00

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WAITING FOR THE UNDERGROUND.—The Latest Edition
of KENILWORTH.—And JACK'S DELIGHT.

BRITANNIA.

nas zmirso. MARY EDMONSTONE; OR, THE VICTIM OF
CIRCIIIISTANCER—The Woodmua Brother VletoreUl on the
Treble Trwse ; The Great Vaulting Troupe The Delarantl H.
Wafts! ; The Louisville Mhudrela.—And THE FALSE MOTHER.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8.

" success to the undertakin as;lio irschssue
" than diminish the ditiftend:46s—Aits aM

" holders."

This is the groundwork of the

acheme, which will be misunderstood if con-
founded with the case of a benevolent master
gtirixt Ms servants from time to time an
addition to their wages in the form of a
gratuity. Such concessions, resting on no basis of
right and measured by no known standard, too
often create expectations which cannot be fulfilled,
and lead to disappoir Went and mutual dissatis-
faction. All the people about the Methley Col-
liery understand that they are partners in the con-
cern, know the principle on which profits are cal-
culated and distributed, and have free accede to
the accounts, which are kept in the simplest form.
The assembly of working men which met at Leeds
on Tuesday had come to learn the result of an ex-
periment so interesting to their order. Mr. Bamos
was in the chair, and stated that " the dividend
" which he, u a partner in that colliery, bad re-
" ceived during last year, notwitbatanding the
" 1,8001. they had paid as a bonus, was larger
" than he had ever received from the colliery even
" in the moat prosperous years previously."
If it is asked how it can be possible for the
return to capital to be increased while increased
payments are made to the workmen, the answer is
that when those workmen are partners, more in-
telligence, more care, and more energy are brought
to every operation. The people at Methley
regard the arrangement according to which
their labour is now rewarded, not as something
unavoidable to be acquiesced in, but as one
which is advantageous to them, and therefore
to be gladly accepted and improved. The work
of the colliery is uninterrupted, and is certain
to remain uninterrupted, by strikes, which is itself
an economy. Each man works in an atmosphere
of public interest and public feeling. If capital
seems to him to be getting too large a share, it is
open to him to acquire a stake in the pro-
perty. There is thus no room for the old spirit
of antagonism between labour and capital.
Perhaps as much is to be gained from the
increased care likely to be taken of the common
property under such a system as from the greater
efficiency imparted to the labour. It was stated last
year at the Sheffield Congress of the Association
for the Promotion of Social Science, that the
working colliers at Whitwood and Methley could,
by simply taking the trouble to get the coal in
large lumps and reducing the proportions of slack,
add to the colliery profits 1,5001. a year. If they
would, further, take a little extra care below ground
in keeping the best coal separate from the inferior,
they could add another 1,5001. to the profits.
This 3,ooa—which it has been well said represents
the difference, not between good will and bad will,
but good will and no will—gives at once a fund
capable of yielding 1,5001. to capital, after an
equal sum has been given to the labourer in addi-
tion to his wages.

We are not inclined to go so far as some of the
speakers at the Leeds meeting, who appeared dis-
posed to accept the results of a year's trial as de-
cisive of the permanent success of a scheme of
this kind. It is not necessary to do so. The
wiser course will be to follow the experiment
with friendly interest and report the facts.
Many eyes are on the Methloy partnership,
and if it succeeds, proprietors will introduce
it among their men. It is an advantage that
i:, can be tried without assuming any peculiar theory
about the nature or rights of labour, and that it
does not therefore discredit the accustomed rela-
tions of employer and employed. Most persona
wao have reflected seriously on the matter have
come to the conclusion that we are still far from
that form of the association of labour and capital
in which production will ultimately take place in I
civilized countries. The existence of trades unions
and the multiplication of strikes are signs that an
old era is closing, but they do not show the way
to anything better. They are simply the appa-
ratus and processes of war ; they are evidence of
a certain amount of destructive power. Any one
who can reconstruct the elements of industrial
prosperity and restore social peace deserves weh
of his country. This is what proprietors like
Messrs. BRIGGS appear to be doing, and we wish
them complete success.

A mgrrixo was held on Tuesday at Leeds to
celebrate the first year's experience of a new sys-
tem of combining labour and capital for indus-
trial enterprise. The familiar system of associating
these two great factors of production, after having
worked tolerably well for centuries, is breaking
down at so many points, and its interruption is
causing so much loss to the employing and so
much suffering to the employed class, besides
exciting ill-feeling between the two, and striking
heavy blows at the material interests of the
country, that any plan which promises to relieve
us of these evils deserves attention. The scheme
which in Yorkshire has successfully passed through
its first year of trial is a peculiar form of co-opera-
tion. The public are tolerably well acquainted
with the applicatioa t;f tl:2 co-operative system to
the distribution of commodities. A co-operative
store is a kind of club, by means of welch
its. members supply themselves with food
and other articles of trade at a cheap
rate by economising many of the ordinal/
expenses of trade. Such stores are very numerous,
especially in the north of England, and greatly in-
crease the purchasing power of wages. But the
association of labourers for production has been
found a much more difficult matter, and instances
of failure have been more common than those of
success. As Mr. THOMAS HUGHES observed at
Leeds, men who have been accustomed to the
mere work of production all their lies have not
sufficient talent necessary for carrying on a great
productive industry. Nor have they always the
moral qualities necessary to success. As the
same speaker observed—" They had been in the
" habit of distrusting those at the head of the
" house in which they were employed ; when
" they entered on the new order of things they
" were unable to give up that distrust, and very
" many associations had broken down from want
" of confidence in those who had the manage-
" rnent." It may be remarked, by the way,
that perhaps one of the most valualde
incidental advantages attending these co-
operative experiments will be that of dis-
abusing the minds of the working class of the
exaggerated estimate which many of them form of
the part played in production by mere manual
labour. A little more than a year ago, Mears.
Ramos, of the Whitwood and Methley Col-
lieries, near Normant in, in Yorkshire, issued
a proposal to work their mines by a Company,
two-thirds of the capltal of which they intended
to hold themselves, while in the allotment of the
remaining third they promised to give a preference
to the officials and operat'ves employed in the
concern. So far their plan resembled that on
which the Messrs. Cno.s.n.Ev, of Halifax, about
the same time, reconstituted their great carpet
manufactory. But the Messrs. BRIGGS went
further. They undertook to propose to the share-
holders that whenever the annual profit should
exceed 10 per cent.—the rate at which they con-
sidered a return for capital invested in collieries
ought to be made—one half of the excess should
be divided among the workpeople and employds,
whether shareholders or not, in proportion to
their earnings during the year.
It may be asked why Messrs. BRIGGS proposed

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

The Times treats this morning of the military
excesses in Spain ; of Mr. Newdegate's late speech in
favour of reform ; of the coming change at Rome ; and of
a demonstration of sympathy of which Colonel Crawley
has been the object, on the occasion of the death of his
wife.

In the article upon Spain the Times sketches the rise to
power of the military bands and shows how fickle and
faithless even these are to the men whom they
thrust into power. The present rule of Gonzales Bravo
is described as a reign of terror unparalleled even in Spain.
The Spaniard is as eager for the show of the scaffold as
for that of the bull-ring. Still, with all the callousness of
the nation to deeds of bloodshed, it could hardly be proof
against the horrors that have been perpetrated in the
country for the last two months ; and the foreign press,
especially the French, has raised acry of execration that has
been but too successfully smothered in the Peninsular it-
self. Commenting upon reform, the Times, without com-
mitting itself to any details, expresses its sense of the
danger of allowing an estrangement of the working
classes from the governing class, and the gradual transfer
of their interests and aspirations to countries in which
political and social equality prevails. We hear much, it
says, of the peril attending the admission of men who
belong to trades' unions within the pale of representation,
but is there no danger in keeping them outside it, and can
we afford in times like these, and with recent events on
the continent to warn us, to dispense with anything that
may tend to make us a more united nation ?
From the questions which have occupied the attention I
of the Social Science Congress, the Daily News selects that
of the treatment of crime, dwelling more particularly upon '
the recommendations of Mr. Commissioner Hill and Sir ,
Walter Crofton. The former, it will be remembered, pro-
poses that life sentences shall he so inflexibly carried out
that in future liberation shall he the exception and not
the rule. This project the Daily News questions on vari.
ons grounds. Juries would rarely convict of crimes which
necessarily carried such sentences with them, and judges
would seldom impose such sentences when they had the
option of inflicting a lighter penalty. In this way, and by
the indirect operation of his own plan, the class of men
whom Mr. Hill wishes to exclude from the ordinary prisons
would be thrown into them. Mr. Hill has opened a pro-
fitable and necessary discussion, but he has not said the
last word in it.
Anther topic discussed by the Doily News is the late
trial in India, of Captain Jen .s. Sir William Mansfield
is charged with acting in a vindictive and ungenerous
spirit, andwith throwing sway an opportunityat the last of
retiring with some appearance of dignity from a false
position. It is impassible, the Daily News thinks, to be-
lieve that a man who could so stultify himself and dis-
grace hie high office and his English blood can be allowed
to retain the all but moat responsible post in India.
The Past says the composition of the American Senate
will be unaffected by the approaching elections, a- '
hitherto the President has been enabled to rely on the sup •
port of one-third of its members. With such support he
will be in a position to maintain any vetoes which he may
deem it expedient to pronounce. The Past in other articles
deals with law reform and international copyright.
The Herald thinks it en auspicious circumstanoe that
the two great prizes of Italy have been won by foreign
force, as it prevents that martial exultation which might
otherwise have led it into difficulties. The state of our

this innovation. Perhaps it might be suffi-
cient to answer that they believed the relations
between the employer and employed to be capable
of improvement. Perhaps they felt that the
Legislature had invited employers to do something
in this direction by passing in 1865 the Partner-
ship Law Amendment Bill. But, further, it is
well known that in the coal districts of Yorkshire
the disputes between masters and men have been
as fierce as in any part of England. It may not
be so well known that in these disputes Mr.
BRIGGS, the head of his firm, stood in the front of
the battle to defend the rights of capital. While
occupying this position, he bad opportunities of
perceiving how many of these conflicts might be
prevented by modifying the relations between the
two classes without the least sacrifice of the rights
of either. After mature consideration, he re-
solved to form an industrial partnership. In
the prospectus which ho drew, after describing his
plan of distributing profits, he expressed his confi-
dence in its principle in these words :—" The adop-
" tion of the mode of appropriation thy:l:recommended
" will, it is believed, add so great an element of

CRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1866.

Eft, Court. .

BALMORAL, Ocr. 4.

Princess Christian called on the blare and
d'Anmale, who have arrived at Abergeldie Castle.
• Princess Christian drove in the afternoon, attended by
the Hon. Emily Cathcart.
Prince Christian went ont deer•stalking.

A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honor-
able Privy Council mat yesterday at the Council chamber
Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords
present were the Lord President, the Right Hon. S. H•
Walpole, and the Right Hon. H. Corry. Mr. Helps and
Colonel Harness attended the committee.

The Mayor of Oxford, introduced by the Right Hon.
Edward Cardwell, had an interview with the Lord Presi-
dent of the Council and the Right Hon. H. Corry, at
the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, yesterday, on the sub-
ject of the cattle plague.
Mr. Saul Isaac had an interview with Lord Stanley, at
the Foreign-office yesterday.
Mr. John Holly, of Blackwell, yesterday exhibited, at
the office of the Board of Trade, Whitehall, his model
of a new brake for railways, giving the power to the
driver as well as the guard.

The Earl and Countess of Roue, Lord Oxman-
tows, and Hon. Randal Parsons have left Claridge's Hotel
for Bin Castle, Parsonstown, Ireland.
The Earl and Countess Delawares party this
week at Buckhurst Park has included the Marehionese of
Salisbury, Sir Thomas and Lady Cochrane, Sir Thomas and
Hon. Lady Biddulph, and Mr. and Mrs. Baillie Cochrane
and Miss Cochrane. _ _ _

The Earl Brownlow and Lady Marian Alford
have been entertaining company at Aahridge Park, Berk-
hampstead, during the week, including Viscount and Via-
countess Stratford de Radcliffe and Hon. Misses Canning,
Lord and Lady Proby, Lord and Lady William Compton
and Miss Compton, Lord and Lady Alwyne Compton, Hon.
Adalbert Cust, Lord and Lady Cheaharn, Sir John and
Lady Sebright, Mr. and Lady Sophia. Macnamara, Colonel
and Mrs. Elliot, Mr. Cheney, Miss Boyle, &c. The Earl
and Lady Marian Alford came to tows on Thursday after
their friends had separated. The noble earl shortly leaves
for Mentome for the winter.

Sir Fitzroy Kelly has arrived at Paris, at the
Hotel Bristol, from England. _ . .

Sir John Pakington is expected at the Admi-
ralty next week, but will not remain in London, it is sup-
posed (says the Army and Nary Gazette) more than a
couple of days. Sir John will doubtless visit Deptford
Dockyard during his stay in London, and will then have
completed his official inspection of the different home naval
establishinenta under his control.

A marriage is arranged to take place between
the Hon. and Rev. Rev. Reginald W. Sackr:lle West,
second son of the Earl Delavarr, and heir to Ms mother's
barony of Buckhurst, and Bliss Constance Cochrane,
daughter of Mr. Baillie Cochrane, M.P., and grand-
daughter of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Cochrane,
C.C. B.

The members of the Royal Commission on Re-
cruiting will reassemble on the 15th instant, in order to
frame their report. It is understood that the president,
Lord Dalhousie, wi'l be prepared to Bohm% for the
adoption of his colleagues, a series of recommendations.
The Loan Exhibition at Southampton will be
closed on the 2Sth inst., after being opened for about four
months. Nearly 100,000 persons have visited it. Story's
statue of Medea still continues to draw crowds of persons.
The statue is life size, and represents the famous sorceress

meditating the murder of her children, according to Hurl-
pedes. Mr. Chamber Layne, one of the tidiest landowners in
Hants, and a clever mechanician, has sent to the exhibi-
tion a model of an invention of his for preventing acci-
dents from the breaking down of a wheel of a railway
carriage while in motion. This is effected by the buffers
of one can:age forming sockets into which the poles of
buffers of adjoining carriages enter, so that one carriage
effectually supports another. _

Mrs. Dallas, better known to the general public
as Miss Glyn, a :11, in the course of November, give six
Shakspearian readings at the Hanover-square Rooms.

Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, with Mr. John
Pany, will reopen the Royal Gallery of Illustration on
Monday evening, the 15th inst., with the old entertain-
ment, the Yachting Cruise and the Wedding Breakfast.
Notices of action in the Court of Common Pleas
were served yesterday upon each of the directors of Over-
end, Gut oey, and Co. in the name of Mr. Frederick Dundee,
a shareholder and member of the defence committee, to re-
...over damages, on the ground that he was induced to be-
come a shareholder from misrepresentations in the pros-
pectus.
Owing to the excessive wet season the trees in
the New Forest are being prematurely stripped of their
leaves.

During last month 759 sheep, 479 pigs, and 2
goats were imported into Poole, in Dorsetshire, from Cher-
bourg• . .. _ _

-- —.-
By a decree issued by the pontifical authorities
two days since, and transmitted by her Majesty's vice-
consul at Civita Vecchia by telegraph, it is announced that
" Travellers enterlng the Papal States by Otte (Le., by
the railway from Ancona and Perugia to Rome), and by
Montalto (or that from Leghorn to Cis its Vecchia) must
produce certificates of 15 days' residence in uninfected
localities, and undergo d'ainfeetion of person and baggage.'
The same rule had been already applied between Naple■
and Rome, by railway, and at Ceprano.
The Areuir _Natl./usl of to-day publishes the
greater part of a brochure, 611,ng six of its columns, in
which Admiral Persano enters into a defence of his con-
duct at Lissa.
A few days ago the steeple of a Roman catholic
cathedral at Stockholm fell in while the men were at work
upon it, dreadfully injuring some 20 of the labourers.
Much sympathy has been shown for the unfortu-
nate men. The Lutheran pastor placed his church
at the disposal of the Roman catholic', and on the
following Sunday the Roman catholic bishop officiated
within the walls of the protestant church. _

The new constitution of Denmark, granting full

libel ty of worship, prwiides that no one is to be compelled
to contribute to the rapport of a church of which he disap-

proves, but that every individual who does not show
that he is the member of some religions community
in the country, must pay towards public education the
personal contributions imposed by the law in favour of
the national church.

A correspondent writing from Berlin to the
A renir National, states that a great meeting has been held
in that city, in the office of the Stern Z,ifung, to decide
what title of distinction should be awarded to the King of
Prussia on the occasion of his recent victories. The sur-
name of " Great " was proposed, but rejected,
because already applied to Frederick 11. " Magnani-
mons" was suggested, but objected to because It did not
sufficiently designate William L A member then re-
quested a vote upon the words "Indomptable," "For-
midable," "Invulnerable," or "unswerving,' Another
proposed the expression " King Cavalier." This title re-
ceived at first a good number of votes, but was abandoned
on the observation of a member that it had already been
used by two Kings of France—Francis I. of the House of
Valois, and Charles X. of the race of Bourbon. The
desire appears to have been to get a surname having the
merit of novelty. On a division, " Indomptable" and
" Unswerving," obtained an equal number of votes. A
final ballot has now become necessary, but the writer does
not say when it will take place.
THE YORKSHIRE FINE ART AND INDUSTRIAL
Exinsirlos.—The days of the Yorkshire Fine Art and
Industrial Exhibition are now fast drawing to a alarm On
Wednesday, the 31st of October, in accordance with the
original arrangement, its doors will be finally closed, and
the splendid collection of pictures and the many articles of
vertu which it contains will onoe more he scattered over the
country, and again adorn the mansions of their various
owners. Up to Wt Wednesday evening nearly a quarter of
a million of people had visited the building, the actual re-
turns being only a few hundreds short of thMnumber. The
receipts from all sources up to that time were 9,333/.
3e. 51, the sale of season tickets amounting to a little over
2,0001. Single admissions Lave realised more than
5,0001., and the remainder is made up from various items.
The total estimate of expenses, allowing a considerable
manadrgritigrouritliintri7rsr:ern cla
her rieidnus, doe
ced t7lnetemuceh
iepeed 84001
fixtures, which cannot realise less than 3001. The Retrial
surplus up to Wednesday evening may therefore be taken
at 1,.5001., and to this must be added the receipts of than
month which yet remains before the close. The final
surplus will therefore be very considerable, probably be-
tween three and four thousand pounds.— York Herald.