The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-09 00:00:00

RETIVRD WORIING MIR'S ASSOCIA77OII.

The second annual festival of thin institution wan
MO on Thursday evening. Mite to Visconnt OALWLT
took the chair, sad addreoies were delivered by Mr. R. 111.
Milne., M.P., Mr. F. J. 8. Foljambe, M.P., the Mayor of
Retard the Ea,. W. A.T.:4lstre,o and other gent6mea.
Mr. R. H. Manes, who the toast of the evening,
"linemen to the Working en's Affectation," nriteludad
an earnest end eloquent rprech as follows Throe are
times In which every man is called upon to work. We see
every day some brays work that Englishmen have dome—
whether they are sent over the sea, where they have met the
grist power of Europe, and arrested Its invading arms;
or whether under the most mysterious dispeemselen of Pro-
vidence, moldy, the outbreak and mutiny of one of the
largest &more that has hitherto been the pi ids and glory of
this country—which hex turned its parricidal sword upon a
nadirs which supported, which inatructed, and which
sustained it. Never perhaps Mee England shown boreolf
more powerful than at this prevent moment—more powerful
in the synipathy which hes been shown to her brethren in
the East from every man at home— from the resistance
offered by a handful of Englishmen against a tyrant and
barbarian. Even now the stronghold of rebellion has fella
before a single Englishman has landed from England upon
' the ahem of Indi,. This has been done solely by the energy
and courage cia small hand of English heroes. I think we
have tIONII to my that there wee never a time in which
we could be prowler of our country—in which we
hal mere strongly the duty sustained bimal phiL
doel energise, and by all intellactaal
credit of oar country. We thew what, on the owe
band, as be done by civilisation against hertierism •, on the
ether ear credit is secured. We any Indeed be
peed that we have sent out from Ragland shiest
every man he arms. Here we stand, nessapporeed, undo-
bladed, not afraid of any intestine difficulties, while we have
met thouruade of miles away the whole of our army. This
we have done, I think, mainly on account of the spread of
knowledge and information among the people. It is because
the middle clam of the country have learned more truly their
ditty to thee, they employ that we have no longer anything
to bar from the employed—it Is because the upper dame of
society her blunt that their own true security is la the ad-
venoms* and dffirelopment of the people, not is any math-
ethe pemession of any privileges of then own. The mete we
goon bnproving our lam itutiona the greater our freedom,
while at the same time we are seeding out, with a
ens, thousands of brave men. whether it to to the rocks
the Crimes or to the walls of Delhi, erase iota of one thing—
May will eery with them cartel, vinery."

Tad 8117111FIILD CLUB CATTLE Snow. —no
maul ankh slow of the Smithfield Clot, for 1867 is find to
6pale en Tnesley, the lia, Wednesday, the 9th, Them
lb. 10th, sad Priday, lb. Ilth of De/ember, et the
Bear. The stab haw haeressed their mossy
plea this yea has the semi name el shoat 6601. to
1.0611. The samba dares adeartdch the show is to be
eviisil this yew he Issea lammed has fill to 42, sepereas
ohms heels, bons ridaard,assar to ardadoar wad
at the lasi swag pared of the Smithfield Clisb, to
die ism Sad of raids, If or %AS penal tsar,
ISMS paid bred, Irith !teed, and Willa Illevil. The
lends Is the males show en .—For bests mad
wooled shore, ire, Yr. Joao Role, Mr. Wm. Sway end Mr.
Ws. Ten ; Ilsr slat-walled sheep, entsahred Jon ..d
int. Masi Tour. lb. Bowy nobs, sad Mr. oar

THP ITITORE BUPPLY OP COP TON IRON
471104.

The importance to the manufacturing districts of
a large and regular supply of cotton Is so great that the first
chaptersin Dr. Litingeone's new work,to which teeny
trailers will tarn are those which treat of that product.
Apparently (observes the lirerpsol dials.) all that is wanted
to assure the great desideratum a demand; when once the
African chide know the commercial value of raw totally
there will be no dearth in the supply. At Trombete,
Angola, Dr. Livingstone found it dropping, tomared for,
from %epode; it had no value, because there was no local
demand for it; the natives, at the mine time, importing the
calicoes of &rah Lancashire I The Commandant at Cameo
informed the traveller that the supply exceeded the demand,
and that cotton tress am cut down as a nuisance, to make
way for beans, potatoes, and manioc. The Portuguese est-
lien at Oolong° Alto, however are in the transition state
hem unkwful to loyal trade, and torn eagerly to cotton,
collie, and sager, se new sources of wealth. The American
coitus-seed sent out by Lord Clarendon never reached its
destination, and Dr. Livingstone accuses the clays-traders of
having east it into the sea off !mbar, Ile was much
with this part of Birk!, and asserts that, had it been
an English poessaion, it would now have been yielding as
much or more of the raw material for our staple snanufao-
tin of
en amid thing of territory in the growlar
sake of Anark• • railway from Losoda too
th valley
ot the Quaid° would, he mays, wars ihe trade of most of
the interior at Saadi Central Mks. Some statklice which
be °berthed hum the Portuguese authoriths show that,
these the essible of the elm trade, the maw al ths
.paintport lawful a has gruthelly sugmlueld. The
lathe at dr swore' *me Lomita ihr -the yew thud
Jun. 30, 1849, was 103,7781., nearly half of which consisted
of ivory, and the remainder of otebilla, palm oil, beeswax,
gum, coffee, sad hides. There are no later returns, but the
g=tyof legitimate trade is stated to have suffered no
It is a favourable point in Dr. Livingstose's sohe
lite of the cotton question, that all the Central Ablest
tribes have • predilection for agricultural pursuits, and
appear, moreover, to appreciate the advantages of exthangiug
limas peodeeta for English manufactures, when placed be-
fits them. Two Mskololo chiefs concocted the project of a
new village on the hanks of the Leda, as an approach to the
white man's market, and the traveller observes that the idea
of such an establishment commended Wall to his own judg-
ment se • geographically suitable point fur the introduction
oldvilieaticn sod commerce. The Labs Bows through a
halls and well peopled country, and numerous tribu
navigable for canoes, communicate with the adjoining dis-
tricts. On the opposite aide of the African continent, a spot
on the Kafue, a feeder of the Zambesi, was pointed out to
Dr. Livingstone by the natives a. meted fur each a purpose,
and he spin cenourred with them. The soil is remarkably
fertile, end supports a numerous population, who raise
vast quantities of grain, sweet putatom, ground-
nuts, &c. "if they wars artain of marlist," says he,
▪ I believe they would not be unwilling to cultivate cot-
ton b,o, but they have not been sectutomed to the peace.
ful pursuita of commerce. They are fond of trade, but they
have been taught none, save that in ivory and slaves." All
along the Zambesi he found English and American cotton
goods in the possession of the natives, though the country is
as well adapted for the growth of the raw material as any
part of the United State. Some of the independent tribes
cultivate a little cotton, but it is not equal either in quality
or quantity to the pr dose of Angola. The pile is short,
and It clings to the seed m much that they use an iron cella
to detach it. The natives have no encouragement to raise
cotton for sale, end no new variety has, therefore, been In-
troduced. Dr. Livingstone is sanguine as to the results of
attempts to establish commercial retakes with the tribes of
the interior, by means of the Zambesi, and as land is cheap,
labour plentiful, and the distance considerably less than that
of India, the plan he proposes may be realised era long, to
the great advantage of the natives as well as our own.