The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-17 00:00:00

.LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1881.

MRS. hIONRY WIGRAM and SONS' (of
illorkwall, dd. ledsbat IJNE al PACIIT an In Is
aVaInALIS.—Y-r WEEK. tI k\E. Pun PYUtlp DINOS WM
M. Duets tai W1.10'.1.•1/.VV. :.th Notemher, coning M
nrsith the mots. • . .-Iteise ship al'artlLK. Mato tam
ronovr. J. tit 11%, (-estimative; Was is the East
tells Utica.. 11, r ..• ••• • ha all claws of passel Ims
are ~,,, •!... will ever On es t rrfence•l
See [nicht Et apply to •LasilE A I/101(T. aal/i MOl-
- slab reds %our) t 1 Meant and Sous. 15.. Leadeithall-
str,..t.-11.anstager. I.y this liar of packets are estitmed ism
PsEllast.... 1.. Plynt•noth arm elan. for amonti-clast Rana, sad
for tistr.l-klars farm.

WATHERSTON and BROGDEN'S GOLD
CHAINS oy troy weight, at realisable value, aoJ ths
workmanship at wholesale manufacturers' prime ma gold
a the chains gitaranteed, awl n.punehased at the price charged.
Here's the note,
How much your chain welghs, to the utmost carat
The fineness of the gold, and charge for fashion."
Manufact —Silage/WARE.
ory, No. le, ilenriettaetreet, Covelst-garden, W.C.,
Isedon.

~EEKLY STEAM COMMENICATION to
Ys IRK Inrret.—The LIVERPOOL, NEW Ti IRK, sad
rill 1. t !PELVIC! A COLIPAN Y intend despatching
thc:r fullpowerwl It...screw elteutnuthaps, calling at Queenstown
to Lininrk inswingers end despatches, ns lotions :
WhEK LI IV ltl LIVF.tPIIIIL Mt NEW YOIIIC.
i I M NEU 10 Mk. W.lnemlay, elehher td.
1.1,1 \ to Al. Wedneoluy, lietnlnr
t I IV 4.1 V W.I.IIINIiT/0%. W.dneola). NI., G.
And scary seseetedind Wednesday.
Catlin Pasoan.. I:. and SI gun. as. according loth. seem-
Inslatdoes. roman! 'maw. Y Iptlncas, lucludinu all pr. vidoed
tented. Newnan,. for Canada sus.l lins Western mat," hnoli.l
esrough oft vo' wivAntsitnons Wen—Yoe further 'Athenians
to wi ILIA MA N, Nalarimet. uto
aa.l klaa William Min * City.

Asszos made of chains and jeereller7 for ta. Neb.
NA& This ratabliatuagat awes at a In the oreolft. and on
Ilitordhys at 1 etioft.

nvEßmATB._Goitiomen about to corder their
•,%erventt• for the ....Tome ete.et are Invited to ace the
NKW NIAIERIAL.4 and LA IL A select stock always
011 hand, at HAMILTON end 108, Wand, oppo•
Ate Huta' HAIL

R.YrTEILDAM autl the RHlNZ.—sett Pamage
Jae !lutes out) —The Netherlands Stehmhoott rnln•
6 01.61-Wilirrisl. and fw.nrttlr p—atter pe.l.llc steAnor
AVIEtt. W coninn.tolre. null le despatch..l froin
the British mot Yon s!.. 'train Vt hart et cry sundae moring. al
making the 16.66., In t 1 boon. and Ow
tannest fnau ..try Tuesday throushoot ths. stoson.
The Ithine stennn./. IwAnlntlinc to 111, tnnsioilly the !Osier-
soseds.ol I.tssler,) leave the Qua) WniioNl.6.6 owe,
eeondpa at I.• Isle The hoe arena strann r /kb
Will h., daspairlw.l iron Thor. Ley innrinel tarty tn.m 101 the
Tower. retontbat loan Itoetsrslasn crrre S lay neardw.: —lane
feriktlet p owastr. apply at 17haplitt it 1 toversal I mike, kettott-
elnus. N.. or to 111111.1.11•Ps. tilt.llllS, sad ruiLurrs, It,
Au4.l-boor. rebehtu, li.etrryt. EX.

MIL MILES, (ALFRED WZBB MILES)
innt AUCINN AND WINTER Mlle[
kr the Workl•tamol !ketch
ANGOLA Pin TROUStitA,
Is saw replete and read; for thrttectlow•
These Trousers were onsrlnsted by Mr. Mlles,
Innatel./address le TA If OC-eTILILT, II ANOV BILAQUARK,
sod who I. sot couesetol with nny person Imitating and &dyer.
Using lu bie mow
lIITABLIBMSD Idlb YKDAUAItr. till.

REDUCTION in PRICE of the ATBEN4EUM.
The Proprietors, tahlnsi advantage of the Abolition of the
Pacer Inlay, have 1,11.1VC11 that from this day the moos shall ho
111.111:CED to IVIIKISPENCI.

QINGING Fit:HOOL. under the direction of
)Ir JI MN 111 LLA H. musk Ilan, Storeritmt, Ikdkwl•
Wpm* —IIV Y. TV FIN+ r sr:AmoN
1.1.1:11E9 TAXI' CL.1.+4:11.
N... 1% for Liarc bar.% ►'rWy, Oct. ift, at a Quarter

EVERY SATURDAY.
THE PENNY ILLUSTRATED PAPER,
with all the news of the week. contents of No. 2, Oct. Pi:
-TopiLa of the W.Aik -111 MM Ness-Volunteers-Lae and
retire -54 wird Progress- Invent kin; Re.-Poreign Seem-Bet re•
niii: Gipey Experienitu-The Fatally Column. En-
Pa, Ines beerfoot. the Indian Runner-Mexican tinerilltu-
MI RiCILII Gentkinall Mai Metkan Read Muleteer and Man-
/N.lldt Insurgents - View of the lily of Posen. Poland-Volunteer
and the con intindounaire- A 'Lady Guarding her Luggage at a
Rsltrny $1.111,,ti -A :vanish bull Pled: 7nklug swat the Min-
nie Mad hull in cheinia-Piongiting. Pulillitheil by E. Parriiig.
ton. bike. Yerrheados4reet. Lusa" R.C.

for Genii men. Iln4 Imatm, Yddtp, oge. at
I'.,i:for the rout.- of flirty Lemam. I.adlee. lb. ; Gentle-
men. 1.1..

snit forth. r partitsulara nay he obtained of Tlve.
Headland, ...liras:, N••. Ileallteote.strert. W.C. or at the
Moak Hall, Store Hiatt on the evenings of meoting.

LONDON PAVILION MUSIC HALL,
yIt•IIImiItNEPTIIKET, top or the Haymarket.
A NEVI tIALLLItts sad PROMENADE
OMEN EVEItY r:VENINU at Berea o'clock. Adialmloo 0.1.

THE REGISTRATION&
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JUDDLEIFJL

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LONDON PAVILION MUSIC HALL
11011 C TALENT.
J. 0. /0110 r. n. MANCHA/W.BAM COILINfI, Mos 111,711
HTAXLEV. Aod )lro. LAWItANCIL

The prolonged examination of John Anthony
Coates, at the Belvidere. Islington, on Saturday, and the trou-
blesome discussions having occupied so much time ea to
prevent the barrister*, though sitting in two eourta up to
Es o'clock. from completing the real work of revision. a
supplementary court was held at the same place yesterday
before the mime barristers as then presided, Mr. Maine and
Mr. Beale& in order to thspou of the remaining work in the
lists fur the district of the King's-cross polling place.
The revision of the day was entirely confined to formal
matters.

LONDON PAVILION MUSIC HALL
T lIKNDF.SwioN IM nrimo MUM
Th. WO:ATI-AT MoNIAIt M Chi DAY
ALL UL$ tAr eIIiINKAZ JUGULAR.
Dues.
C. P. Mt •ath MUNDILLYULLY-TILUXID

LONDON PAVILION MUSIC HALL
NI ANKILWAN BOWLING ALLEM

The Barristers meet this morning at the Priam of Wales.
Bon orm 40. Victor ia pnrk, for the revision of the electoral
lists of the parishes and places wit►in the polling district of
lietboallirean.

THOMAS'S ROYAL OPERA COLONNADE
awss-rnet, HI. Jabort's.—C.
TIPIONIA• 1•1•••••• In• tricots OM he Ms 1s whilthat t•
Ih* 1161 h 1.. ire It.•••••• tbe Room.- ..be Of the
itu•k•••••r•I Lai.. to 1,11.1.0. where can he &err.'
with alum r• at a tw .1 pr•... ham fa ii oreanle, ur k la earl*
SA • MOM DI • moll. r•

THE REPRESENTATION 01 LINCOLN.

There le al., a PRI% %It: DlNlXo.llofillt for YAMILIC4.
To the ournotle, nt Mimed Kowa, fitted both •Ith Lfiltlish
MINI Yrverts Leta... there le Won • separate entewoot tows the
opera Arnole. .11111111 ft from the hotel. The eonfeetkeery and
eetrealutaeht .lepartfiteut the reecetakefids to the to-
wourahlo moor ..1 11.. w .re motto,, chops. stoolts, and
lea an.l WI Ikt ti as wises, .pint., ligetrius, aSr, Le., an
armed witte•fit delay.

In coo.tiience of the death of Major Sibthorp,
a vasocy has occurred in the representation of Lincoln. As
soon as the news reached the city, meetings of the lewliog
liberals mid conservatives were held, and the former decided
to invite Mr. J. Hinds Palmer, 4.c., of Loudon, who has
twice uainsecoolully eciatested the city. The conservatives
telegraphed to Lieutesant-Colonel Sibthorp, brother of the
late member, offering to support him, but we uoderstand that
he iliclined to come forward. The Lord Mayor of
Landau was then spoken of, sad we believe
be wee ermniunicated with, but it would appear he was
net amanitas fur the honour they wished to corder upon him.
At Inglis a deputation waited upon Mr. J. Bramley.Moore,
serrelniet, of Liverpool, and chairman of the Liverpol
Decks, who some years ago represented Lades, and he
soweated to coolest the election in the comeervative
latenet. Yesterday evening hie address wee isacid, sod
he will °powwows a vigorous canvass this rooming. to his
address he states that be is • liberal cooservative ; that he
will out pledge himself to • Wad support
al party mowers+ ; sod that be approves gessrally
et the policy of lb. late ooeservative goverusneed. He also
@wove. of the course taken by the ipromoariat in
Its relationswith foreign powers, aaa will net to to it .
factious oppositam. %vie respect to lams patsy. is in
hvour of moderate and gradual drag% sail limpssed to
the ballot as no•Englisk Mr. Pilaw los it yet Wood
Ids addreLe, but be is mil knows as as dement_ of broad
priatiples.

VARMOUTII BLOATERS, 25 for 91. ed. ;
J.h : I. 13.: 400. U.. /Me.: aft isa ;
"mt. 110irkottro 10.10.4.1. lorwapled to wq plet rf the
Mal 1.1.00 ..M Mkt' or
=1;1 ma XlO Alrettkors M riumanicc=stn
Ow. Oreet Irrnauele.

GILT NORTHERN LONDON CRIER-
MT. ell (wars Hatch. olthitt alma Wan ef larbei
hy wavy la 15 othlotee. as well so br revel
retitiledmo he the coosecrated pettol. sad helimseals ow
=IA moolty sod woman& wit feefelmiler topologia
So emotsoy of tore.
lilao loSerfolou. S 410. I SA 13
.1111. So 2 4
DO
DOW with Orange Leib i sites.
log rm. on Woe provided I. .. • Nteentezi.lls. (IL
hi the 1'....p0ny .) • "
Ontimd kw ... It 1.4 woes. £7 7 0 u‘ltally cheeped al If
Pee ea each I nt...,... ot thereto 2 5 0 ditto 41145 5 I
Tull of chew. sal free raltwey tickets, to eta the dor
Wry. my be 04.11.0 all the (likes. 121, Itlgh /2•110 m. W.C.

THI ST. PANCRAS IRON WORK
COMPANY, OLD IT. PANCIAO-NOAD,
M. taboaaa I limariaran
!Mat Vfmea Iran Melia lOploap.
Pabst 1••••ola Das Lat.
VannOa Sagas.
Palma Oak. Dar IsitTam
OatOnsowatedas.
boa Week
awerunp CATALODI7III DM.

coußr or ALDERMEN.

Titistorday a apocial Court of Aldermen was
holden at Guildhall, the Loan 31srlia in the chair, for the
purpose of receiving from the Lent Mayor a communicatiou,
with a letter of reeignatioa of Lieut.• Colonel Hicks of his
appoietmeat a Goverour of the Debtors Prison, Whit*.
craw-street, and to take such proceedings therein as the
court might consider necessary.
Tbdgmeates of the proceedings of the previous court
Inv* boss Ned,
Aklownea SIDNEY raid be wished to remind the court
of as mimics which we. made at their hist meeting. ft
wee reel to give a rote of thanks to the chaplain who
peesched t►e sermon on kfichaelmas-dav, and he therefore
wowed that the thanks of that court be presented to the
Row. lots Davis for the admirable sermon be preached on
Hat day.

COALS by &raw ilissawrs sad Railway.
EIONSI BY and EINGSLA ND COAL DEPOTS.
NO MANAOEJLi. SECUTAILIIDL CoNSIGNEEA. ar AMINES
131 PLOY ED.
LEA and Co.'s prior Oar Memo and Lambkin Watleamd. WI
bs ammo Coale, Orme fro tha miliaria by maw elesmors,
M lea par toe. Hartlepool. Ma.; beat malt 110. Inland—by
tie&
y . aliketorte, Mi. vat las.. Clay Cram Oa and lea ;
Ma . IlarEay. 17a. 41.1.—act cash. Delivro,d,
an part el Lorakm. AU orders direct to LILA and C76=
ftilb Lamina Sanwa/ Statomm, Eighbury, lalleatori, art

GISTOVIS, OAS BATHS, GAS COOK-
NO APPAILVI'Vh, inerrsategi the best be Ragland. at
ituhrs. the erightel kiernwr sad manufacturer awl
ms, easetter, rte., Skiseser street. eneerhilL London, KC.
rATIJIT SANITY ATl..te cIiANDELIKSII, use end filar
ikeense. uugskfie lamp% retent Reflecting Leaps, Portal&
Own kr either see of tort True Tabs mit Ilikugs, bast
%vats, kr ass, dam, or lee seta. le.. to

SPECTACLES im royal by HARRIS and
BON, tnil nog coital the sight. Batter dimwit
be mad*. RUA with we pobbies, tht.. steel, with
Ns. with mil Mh ko, tacitio sail lye-Glare.
Hemel
3a. to
Met,. oh erg,
iiismir tir
)r4s • Proepet 1 Glam,
fr:isaCtily. oppTotite • the *NMI liewe'lliaptit'se, isnto
NM (*NUM. —XII tiswallers Nuptuyod.
____ _

11°LADIES.—ROWLABDS' KALYDOR, an
orlesta Botanical Preparation tor Iniprorina and &natl.
bine. Cenate atom and Tin radiant bloom it imparts
Se amok. and the withers and delkaey ohkb It induces of
Os boob awl arms, Its capability of soothing irritation and
Inismintai all nail. tan. pimples, sputa, heckles. dlaculorw
aims, sod other cuutuons ehliationc render It indispensable to
toilet. It obviates all the effects of ennuie un the skis,
with reference to cold and Inclemency. or intense
NW beat. Price U. ed. and na Gd per bottle.—Suld YPA
Nattoranarden ; end by cheralsta and perineum • Ask for
Gowlambr Kalyanr." awl beware of spurious sad vendettas
articles nuke the rune of Kander."

ritrININE.—It all awe et widows and ague
log re WATER,' QVININI WINN. neenrionled W
Hama ad the Mulled Peellrelea. —hewed we* by I.
WATsafgaLliatztles rime, limagaraaresk Lair Sold by all
aad vine merebesk 7R• dom. Wbeissele
= Lewis. Webb, mad fek, Werweler.

PROMPT CURE fur COUGHS, Chest Dis-
arra Ram Throats. (Ninny; Lang Complaints, Re...
Ise PICTORAL PAsTILLEN of the mwpara by Pito
Ora bereardinl, chrmili from Serbs meant opium.
and warreuted by imalyels —W Weans BAR-
CLAY and WINS, !IS. Y.,rnnstdomelsest, sad retail
Ty all chemists amt isseall,lies yummier& thus Is. ed. per boa,
wills instructisms.

DR. RICoRD'S ESSENCE of LIFE
teeters' ninnheod to the mai eletteered etaellesileat la
has twits Vieh•rs ls Wettable. Ile semis are permatist
Ito tessellation 'wt.. isery.--13shi la me% math full lumeruolicas,
at or font .14antlIfee kr Sib., kW r
emas
prefer se 'testiest readttlaster shimpa—Mft
sod Co.. tis. Maw' Tariplwirr.

DitBRIGHT'S A PHRODISION. —The Phoo-
ibor,ml N Lltv I Nit TONIC.—The raw dosakal Coesbb
ram Pbilimir .nits.'Melee, ask &a, Misted for boa
woo. oomordos all the eses sI eseeliamele of thea=
bark asi serve substance —urea philmeadea and
elefeedikes led to tbe ilesevery of thas lamoiskle said/ sis Me
pales 'tate sere. able to tkepelmilia and lefiesed•
preserving Ita peeperplia elessilm
brridisni Mier. and permenently swing all wits seer Mara
=duLi.witfirfine et the nervous end spreeler Ilreeti
dierfall if the kidneys. Idrider, ad selaria
Mat. eed *sup other trzhattatlee deminnnane of the swim.
Me relnyliparation aU the limperlana deesseas et
=eir a nod
Meek IL busk, se tow mamas inerkgr.
esda mien embelanetires Salm IM mass& ifis
elf
NM/ perked. arm obervalom IS My pad Stie
gelikes receipt of paeldellee mdse.—hewed am obi say se
Laborogory. 44a. Nabiosowol.
ft Ida el at. Seeer's amen) Innis, kf Welt!
11.0.. am bee r the Um"
8...1 whop id 4c..
4111ki Meat " Mom= flabefeetkm Me ems moi ow% ol
IN mow se ibpoomothosphy. drying Ike sr vibes ewa,nourm
'oem el Me newlya•corese4 eel misdate' resea. Mows
'ate es tke aptimdleas .Aa plisseeries a • Sae id
Mime issiter tfis darkens. se Me stlimeted tame vase"
ebbs horsoossed ilh eiseateel peederelea- eskes et.
gapes hal abraleeii Isii=l:=4"l.
eauMefes mass OM. ke
ke deity comultrd. trem le k Mr_ Me an of Me
Mere dieseem to which ke fed • kiellessed Paled dm
bow Ye asoirivo eitestam

—Titeimstion was speed to.
Reports were read from the visiting magistrates to the
prisms, stating that the number of
_prisoner' in Newgate
was ¶ti, and 1 in the iufirmary ; in Whitecressatreet, 218,
aad 7 iu the infirmary ; and in the City Prison at Holloway,
343, and 7 in the intirrmuy. In ounforwity with an order
of the court, this number for the NUM time last year ia
Holloway was given, being 252 males and 68 females,
Pak* a total of no.
This .Lono Mato said that the court was aware that they
ewe summoned foe the special purpose of considering the
leellsoatio• of O•orp Montague Hicks, governor of the
Whitecroseerlaset Prison. He then handed the resignation
to the Tows Clerk who read it, and which ran as follows

" Brussels, Sept. 26, 11461.
" Gentlemen,—l beg leave to resign into your hands the
governorship of the Debtors Prism for Leaden and Mid-
dlesex, which I have held since the beginning of 1666, and
during that period I have been frequently honoured by the
approbanos of the visiting magistrates and the government
inspector of prisons. The books in which the magistrates
enter their opinion bear testimony to the fact to the lest
day of visitation in the orient week. I take this step, as
I feel that toy impaired health will not permit me
to resume my office before the end of October,
being aware that the leave of absence accorded
to me, end of which I have availed myself, has been
so extended, that I cannot encroach upon your kindness
by making for its prolongation. It having come to my
knowledge that my position as governor of the Debtors
Prises and commanding officer of the London Ride Brigade
are egissidered incompatible, I have an additional moon
for taking a coarse which involves • painful sacrifice. I
have resolved and I trust with justifiable pride) to stand
by that body which hes already attained the proudest dis-
tinction, and attached me to it by every tie of gratitude
and affection. I indulge in the hope that I leave behind a
&erecter foc consistently striving to do my duty, and trust
that I may ever enjoy the kindness sod consideration
which I hove experienced from so mousy of your homair.
able court during n.y occupancy of the important office I
now respectfully resign.— I have the honour to be, gentle-
men, your obedient servant,
ISigoed) "Genitor MONTAGUI
" To the Bight Hoe. Worshipful Court of Aldermen.'

Mr. Alderman CHALLIM moved that the resignation be
sccepk-d, and it he referred to the Gaol Committee to
report upon the duties and emoluments of the appointment.
air J. MCISGROVIL seconded the motion, and raid he
thought that while the of was veo►ot the court should
take Into consideration what should be dorm with rispird to
the remommeties. The New Bankruptcy Act, which is
coming Mt* operation, he thought would -materially affect
the weber of prisoners in the Debtors Prison, and is two
or three years he thought there would be Do uocesaity foe a
debtors prison at all.
The =otitis was then put and carried, and the court
eitiouresd.

Minrirrezur Btnriorr.—We understand that the
We Lady Mushy, widow of Lord Murray, with the
thouglithil TOUDifiCe•oll so characteristic of bee ladyship,
hes bequeathed to the Royal institution for Promote)a of
the Fine Arlie to Elesdrad tweedy Sae pictures from Lord
Murray's sulleetien. We hope soon to lay this BA in es-
teem before oar modem but motion in the imantime that
it includes three exquisite specimens of Grease, and a dui
example of Sir Joshua Reyaolds. This bequest will form a
most important addition to oar Natissal Oallery.—We also
asidenteed that Mrs. Uwe, She widow of ab• late la.
.crated Mr. William Liars, bas prorated to the Royal
esottisb Academy two pictures, executed by bar late hus-
band is early life, entitled "The Reeding of the Will" and
The Penny Wedding." Besides no...eosin coesiderable
Wallis merit. them pictures ars intermitting from bacilli
?ow executed be a fellow pupil of Wilkie's is the Academy

MRwows, tlPtitA 41LA/SISEK. Re. rex BUILDING TRADE AND THE HOUR
. J. C. STEVENS will SELL by AUCTION, SYSTEM.
at Ws greet inns, Kt. King street. essentit•Tilba. Tel 110KRIIIN Oct. lb . at balf.past 12 preilmelF, • snail LIBItAIt
of !WIEN TIFIC Lb mita. microscopes, sic pump. cameras,
stereoscopic nail Saga lantarn tli.les, opera-glasses, gums it,
—Sly he viewed, sad catalogues tad.

A public meeting of the utetropolitau trades was
held at St. James's-hell, Piccadilly, last evening, to take
into consideration the positioo of the moons now on strike.
resisting the hoer system. The meeting was pretty
numerously attended, but the hell was not quite full, owing
probably to there being a charge of twopence for admission
to the body of the room, and foorpence to the platform.
Mr. ROGER GRAY (mum) was called to the chair, and io
opening the proceedings he expressed his sorrow that the
benches were so empty. He expected to have seen them
spate filled. The master builders said they were satisfied
with the hour system ; but the question was whether the
men were satisfied. At present they were working till
4 o'clock on the datnnlays, so that they might see what the
system would lead to.
Mr. UoNoLLy, the secretary of the masons' strike corn-
Illve an account of the proceedings sine the com-
mencement of the struggle. In 1a59 the building trades
of the metropolis considered it highly essential fur their
physical and mental welfare that their hours of labour
should be reduced from ten to nice hours a day. They
considered that nine hours was sufficient for • day's work,
and ss. fd. little enough for a day's pay. When they
made this demand the master builders resolved therm/Ives
into an sumuciation. They knew the result. A strike took
place at Messrs. Trollops s, and there was a general lock-out
on the part of the masters. Then there was the introduc-
ties of the document, and after • resistance of six months
the masters were compelled to withdraw it, and
the workmen were allowed to resume work on
the same terms as previous to IWO. At the
commencement of this semen it appeared to the ope-
ratives in the building trade that nine hours was as requi.
cite then as it was before. From the experience of the past
they were not prepared to enter into • strike, and therefore
they respectfully memorialised their employers, soliciting
this boon. The answer the masters returned was • notice
that after the sth April following skilled labourers should
be paid Td. an hour, and the labourer* at • lower rate. The
operatives saw that that would reduce them to the condi-
tion of the casual labourer working at the docks. They be-
hewed that the masters would make them work over-hours
in the summer time, and in the winter time, when they re-
quires! more food sod clothing, they would be reduced to the
lowe,t standard. Did they think that the masters would go
to the expense of lighting gas io the winter time when they
could get them to work long hours in the summer? Four of
the employers introduced the hour system. Their ob-
ject was to take the workmen io detail. The Time,
the organ of the employers, threatened the workmen with '
competition by men brought from France and Germany,
but they dreaded these foreigners as competitors no more
thau they would dread them as invaders. By taking the
offecouring of the labour market the touters filled, or par-
' tially tilled. four workshops. The nouns called a meetmg,
and seeing that a strike for nine hours was so distasteful to
the public, they came to a compromise, and said they would
take ten hours, and leave on Saturday at 12, being paid la.
• day and 3s on Saturdays. Seeing that there was only the
difference of an hour between them they thought the
masters would come to an agreement with them, and they
*pounded a deputation to wait upon them, and they offered
them a guarantee that no further change should take place
for a reasonable period of time. The masters, however,
were determined to have the hour system. and the masons
had so alternative but to strike. Accordingly, on the
10th of June 1100 masons suspended labour, and declared
they would never resume work till the object they had in
striking was obtained. The moment they 'impended labour
50 were taken on at Westminster-bridge works. and up to
this time 56 Anna, large and small, seeing the justice of their
denial:ode, had conceded then), and Sit) men were employed
by those sti firms. To show that they were anxious to bring
this dispute to a close, and that they were not professional
agitators, it being euggested by an architect that this was a
struggle that might be settled by arbitistiou, two of their
body were selected to eater into • negotiation, rod they
proposed that the Royal Institute of Architects should
appoint • fair and impartial tribunal if the masters
would consent. The maiden, however, refused.
Matters went on till the beginning of August,
and the general society throughout the country,
seeing that the masons in Lmlon were suffering much pri-
vatiou, determined by • triumphant majority that the men
working at the country jobs of the roasters who supported
the hour system should cease work. Their secretary issued
an edict setting forth the resolution the society had come
to, sod in shiest every instance it was obeyed with the
greatest alacrity. Rut they would never have been able to
continue the straggle had it not been for the assistance they
had derived from other trades, and amongst others who had
assisted them he might mention the iron shipbuilders, who
had sent them the munificent sum of 154)1. The
mamas' society had up to the present time paid
upwards of 1,0001 to the men on strike He
hoped that the other trades would continue their support.
Fur six months they struggled against the "document,
and only 33 men belonging to their society sigoesl it. In
the same way they were prepaid to do battle against the
hoar system. The masters said the men were 4mi:inbred
over by their societies, but he said that the masters were
tyrannised over by one soother and not the men, using
that one single individual, Mr. Lucas, who proposed the
hour system, could force a men like Mr. Myers to part
with the men who had pieced him in the high position
he occupied, and to take in exchange the offscourings of the
quarries of Scotland. He believed that the game was is
the hark of the men ; they were in possession of the whole
of the workshops in London, except those of the big firms,
and they were in possession, too, of the workshops in the
country. He thought he might pledge himself on the pert
of the men who were out that they would continue the
struggle until victory crowned their efforta. (Cheers.)
Mr. Geoeng Forme mooed We first resolution. "That it li
Is the opinion of this meeting, that the system of payment
by the hour, ea introduced by the Master Builders' Society,
is destructive to the best interests of the working classes ;
that the mamas of London are perfectly justified in resisting
that system ; and that the shortening of the hours of labour
being a recognised necessity, their demand for a Saturday
half holiday, at twelve o'clock, is just and eqtutable." He
said, if time bad permitted, it would have been easy to
have reviewed the history of former movements of
• similar character, in order to have shown that
where • reduction of the hours of lalour had
taken place, it had invariably followed that wealth
and economic production had increased, that wages
had risen, life had been lengthened, intelligence and mo-
rality advanced, and order and happiness greatly promoted.
When the legislature began to interfere with labour in the
cotton manufactunog districts, the opponents of the mea-
sure declared that no beneficial results could accrue to the
working classes, and that the measure would be the ruin of
the commercial greatness of Ragland. But if they looked I
at the reports of the factory impeders, to the testimony of
medical men, to police statistics, and to the registry of
deaths, they would find that they were unanimous ins de-
claring that, instead of the diseased bodies, of the stunted
statures, of the sickly complexions, sad of the early
deaths which were the characteristics of the factory
operatives before the passing of the Ten Hours Bill, they
had now a generation of factory workers who, in the attri-
butes of buddy health, moral purity, and social wellbeing,
were in no respect inferior to any other class of operatives.
(Hear. bear.) Neither had the financial ruin depicted by
the opponeuts of the measure come upon the master manu-
facturers. On the contrary, the cotton lords were es pros-
perous and as powerful as ever, and their productions had in-
ereued surly 50 per cent. within the lest fifteen years. is
advocating • reduction of the hours of labour they neither
asked for the interference of parliament to accouiplish their
object, nor did they Eased the &IMO urgency es that
which existed in the case of the factory operatives.
Neither did they maintain that the over-toil which masons,
phisterers, bricklayers', and carpenters, enraged in the
building trade, had to undergo was so destructive to health
sad life as that which the factory operatives had to undergo
Wore the passing of the Ten Hours Bill. But it did not
follow that if the factory operatives were robbed of one-
fourth of their natural lives, that the building operatives
should be deprived of one-tenth of their natural period of
existence. Those persons who blamed them for seeking a
reduction in their hours of labour, because there were
other workmeu who worked more hours than they did,
must endune the proposition that no men had
• right to ask or agitate for any amelioration
while there were in the world human beings whose °oath-
tion was more sleplonthle. This was not the logic of the
operatives. They denied that they were bound to submit
to their condition, because unhappily there were others of I
their fellow-creatures more oppressed and more jammed
into misery Rod degradation than they were. On the coo-
kery, they believed aod maintained that it was the sacred
sod bounden duty of every man and of every class to strive
for an improvement in their condition, and not to rest con-
tented while a single removable grievance remained to be
appealed against. He contended that a reduction in
their hours of labour was essential to their physical
and mental improvement, and one section of society was
sot to throw upon another the whole of the maanal
labour, depriving that section which had to perform that
labour of the opportunity of intellectual development,
without which human beings were as brutal as the beasts
that perished. Let those who said that ten hours' labour •
day ems not too much try it for twelvemonth+ ; let them
knock the mallet, or thihammer, or the chisel about for
tea hours every day for a year, and they would admit the
truth of the proposition that nine hours a day was labour
enough. The object of the hour system was to get the men
to work longer hours, as in the shops where it prevailed
it was a condition that they should !copra for not leas than
ten hours • day. It was said a man had a right to work se
long as lie pleased ; but he would reply that oo man
had • right to Injure his fellow-creatures. The masters
talked of istimidatMe towards the men, but he believed
that there was intimidation on the pert of the masters
towards other marten. There were Mu masons out who
would not go in under the hour system, and it would be a
Wrto trades of Loudoelf they did not supply these
it with 11. a week each. Hs exhorted thew to main-

tads the straggle, and be believed they would 'noosed. In
the words of the poet :

" The lives of great men will remind us
We can make use life sublime,
And departing leave behind us
Footprints in the sand of time." (Chest.)
Mr. Witionr, a painter, seconded the resolution, and Mr.
Hannon, corresponding secretary of the Minions' Amocia-
lion, also spoke in its support. It was carried unanimously.
Mr. Munictr, boot-closer, moved- "That this meeting
views with regret the obstinacy of the master builders of
London in trying to enforce a system so obnoxious to their
workmen, and is of opinion that the determination with
which the masons have opposed the same for the last seven
mouths entitles them to the sympathy and support of the
whole of the trades of the metropolis, and we hereby pledge
ourselves to support them until they bring the present
struggle to a successful terminatios.
Mr. Oix:ots, shoemaker, seconded, and this resolution
was also unanimously agreed to.
A vote of thanks was given to the chairman, and throe
cheers for Mr. Potter, and the meeting separated,

CHARGE OP THEFT AGAINST TWO YOUNG
LADIEs.

Two young women, who bad given the assumed
names of Long and Murray, were placed before Mr. Henry
at itow-street yesterday on remand, charged with stealing
books.

Humphries, on the part of the prisoners, said be
Wended that morning before his worship on behalf of the
'two young ladies at the bar, and he felt he had never before
been engaged is a more painful case. They were the
daughters of a gentleman of great affluence and the highest
respectability, and no motive whatever could be given for
their acting in the manner they had done. The names and
addresses they bad given were fictitious ones, and as the
name of the father had not transpired, he did not think
there was any necessity for him to add to that gentleman's
distress by making it public. The young ladies had been
resident and educated in India, and that might in some
degree account for their looking much older than they really
were. Their ages were respectively 18 and 16.
Mr. Henry—They said they were older than that when
the charge was entered.
Mr. Humphries assured his worship the ages he bad given
were correct. The young ladies had, up to the present un-
fortunate circumstance, occupied a superior station in so-
ciety. They were not in want of funds or anything that
would induce them to commit a theft, and he could only
attribute what bad taken place to that unfortunate malady
which, unhappily for the persons attacked, rendered it im-
, possible for them to abstain from stealing articles placed
within their reach. It was altogether a most distressing
sass, and he hoped that it might be dealt with as leniently
as partible.
Ni. Henry—Have you heard the evidence upon which the
prim:men were remanded?
Mr Humphries—No, your worship. I have read the
clerk's notes, and I bops you will take a compassionate view
of the can.

Mr. Henry—Then, Mr. Bass had better give his evidence
in your presence.
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Mr. Bass said am foreman to Mr. Carter, bookseller,

of the Strand.On the 10th of October the prisoner Loog
entered our shop, sod said she wanted some prize books
for girls about thiteen years of age. A number were
shown to her, and she finally selected about 3/. worth,
and gave directions that they were to be meet
to Southamptou-row. After she bad left the shop
I mined • book, and I immediately went out after
her. I went up the Strand, and saw her in another book-
seller's shop. While I was outside watching, the prisoner
Murray came and looked into the shop where Long was,
joined
her, ▪ waited until she came out, when she
her, and they
to both walked away together. I waztetti9:
and told them they must come back Mr.
• as • book had been missed. Long then took •
book out of the black leather bag she had is her hand and
gave it to me, but I discovered it was sot the one I bad
missed. I searched the beg, and found in it five books
which had been taken from the shop. A policeman was
sent for, and they were given into custody.
Mr. Heory-s-That is one inn, Mr. Humphries. There are
vileness Dow to prove other robberies.
Mr. Edwarl Ley. of 431, Strand, bookseller, said—About
dusk on the 30th of September the prisoner, Susan Long,
arms to my shop and selected two books, saying they were
for school prink and directing them to be sent to No. 4,
Southampton-row. They came to a guinea, and were to be
paid for on delivery. The young man who took the parcel
said he could fled oo such noon at the address given.
On the 11th of October the other prisoner, Murray, came to
say shop—
Mr. Henry—That amid sot be, as they were that day at
this court.

--/ir.ifticepluiee—They were apprehended on the evening
of the 10th.
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Mr. lacy—Then it was the 10th. She selected • book,
and, giving the name of Harris, she ordered the book to be
sent to No. ti, Southampton-row. I asked her if she knew
• lady who had given an address at No. 4, as a person likely
to bare books sent to her, but she said she did not koow.
The name result followed as in the preceding case. The
book was brought back, and shortly after she had left the
shop • volume of Sir Walter Scott's Poems, valued at
is, 6d., was missed.
Mr. Henry—Did you notice whether they carried a bleck
leather bag?
Witness—No, I did not.
Police-oonstale, A 581, said—l took the pnsoners into
custody on the night of the 10th, in the Strand. They ware
charged by Mr. Bass, foreman to Mr. Carter, with stealing
books from the shop of his employer.
Mr. Henry—Did they say anything ?
Witness—They begged to be let go. They said, " Oh,
sir, let us go, and we will not do soapy more.
Mr. Thomas Hopkins said—l maids at Camberwell. The
prisoner Long came into my shop, and gave the name of
Dslatour, on the 12th of September. She said she wanted
as album and a purse. I mold her both, and then went to
i the ad.treas she gave, 10, Vera-road. I could not find
any person of the name she stave. On the following morning
I mimed a book of the description she asked for, when I was
looking over the property in the shop.
Mr. Henry—Several persons no doubt' entered your shop
between the day on which you saw the prisoner and that
lea which you mimed your property.
1 Waimea—Oh, yes.
Mr. Henry—Then I don't think it will be necessary to
take your case, m it is not so clear as the other two that
have bean taken against them.
Mr. Humphries—l can't depute the evidence in the cases
that have already been clearly proved. I have to ask you
whether, if the prosecutors do not press the charge, you
could—

Mr. Henry—Oh, no, I cannot listen towything of that
description. There are several CAMS brought against the
primmer', and they appear to have been very artfully con-
trived.

Mr. Humphries—l am afraid I must also admit that. But
then, your worehip, it appears to be an act of monomania.
It might happen to any family. lam prepared to say, on
the part of the father of the unfortunate young ladies, that,
if you could deal leniently with them, such a watch would
be kept over their actions that a repetition of the offence
could never take place.
Mr. Henry—l don't exactly understand what it is you
want.

Mr. Humphries—Well, your worship. In the event of the
promoutory Dot pressing the charge, that—
Mr. Henry—Ob. no, I cannot listen to anything of that
sort It is exceedingly painful for me to hear ouch a charge,
but I cannot listen to an application of that sort.
Mr. Humphries—lt is one of thews cases which unfortu-
nately show that persons, however respectably placed,
when afflicted with the peculiar nialady to which f attribute
the offence, moan withstand the temptation to steal.
Mr. Lacy—As far as I am concerned I Mire no wish to
press the charge after what Mr. Humphries has said.
Mr. Henry—l cannot deal with this case myself.
Mr. Humphries—The father in afraid that in the event of
the young ladies going to prison a bread will be intlictod on
them which can never be effaced.
Mr. Henry—The cam is one that must go to the sessions.
Mr. Humphries—l hops your worship will Dot adhere to
that decision.

Yr. Henry—Yes, I mug ; my duty compels me. It hi
Do doubt a very afflicting cane. i feel it so; but I canuot
allow my feelings to interfere on such an occasion. The
primers mast be committed to the Middlesex Sessions fur
trial.

An the .iteerm then signed the depositions, and the
gatemen were removal crying from the dock.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN
RAlLHAT.—lstormation was received last eversiog at the
King's mose terminus of the Great Northern Railway, that
a fatal accident had occurred at the Ashton station, on the
arrival of the 2.20 p.m. train. A lady named Skirt's. who
resided at Huddersfield, was journeying from Salford to
Ashton for the purpose of visiting a niece, and oo reaching
the station. before the tale was brought to a standstill.
she attempted to leave the carriage. In stepping down her
feet slipped, sod was so severely crushed between the
carriage and the platform that death resulted shortly after-
wards. This is another warming to imprudent travellers by
rail.

Tng NEw Pons-OPTICII BLVINCin BA NICK —Yes-
tirday morning the first of the Poet-office Savings Banks
established under the new act la the metropWis, were
opened in the following please :—Grest Tower-street ;
Green-street, Bethnal-great ; Isle of Doge ; Knightsbridge ;
Malden-rood, Kentish-town Blackfruimrood ;
ernes ; Chancery-hum ; Chichester street and Conduit-
street, Paddington ; Connaught-terrace- Hyde-pork Euston-
square ; Millwall ; Miuories ; Kens. 11-green ; Kingsland-
road ; Kilburn ; 13attlebridge. In the Chancery-lane office
the deposits revolved during the day amounted to upwards
d 1001.