The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-06 00:00:00

IdiSTIIV2IIB.

T 71,113 T LANOASHINE UNION 07 MECHANIC,

bn Wednesday arming the Lord Bishop of Man-
.:Amu preolddi at "a first oneoM distribution of prized and
xwarded by the council of the East Lancsehire
71. tfelto hanks' and other Institutes. The distribution
reek plane in the asezzibly room of the Burnley Mechanize
litstitulion, in tLe presence of upwards of a thousand per-
pop,. On the tiladne= were the Right lion. Sir John
Palington, M.P., the Right Hon. W. Cowper Sir J. P.
Hag-Shutii,dorth, Bart., Colonel W. Patten, Lord
modish, M.P., and Colonel Townley, High Sheriff of
1.14 many other influential persons.
,After an introductory address from the right rev. chair-
men, prizes of money, varying from 16e. to 41., were given
to M etzulentv, and certificates of merit wore awardtd to four
.
others
. _ _

.in the emir* of the proceedings,
, he Right lion. Sir J. PAKINOTON, M.P., moved the
fo owing :
" That tc meeting, young persons who give proof of a
sober and thoughtful life by attending evening classes, and es-
pecially each of them so may by ability and perseverance
On prizes and certificates, it is important that employers of
labour ahoold pay great respect to each certificates in select-
ing young persons for employment and promotion, and the/
each deserving men have a strong claim to be nominated to
otimpete for offices in the excise, custom', inland revenue,
toffice, and other derartmeints, irrespective of selection,
means el parlounentary patronage." Ido hope (said ha)
the adoption of ;Lis resolution in the presence of my
right hon. fricad Rill draw the attention of her Ma-
jesty's government to this most important object,
that it may at no distant day be broadly and
distinctly laid down, that those who gain thew prises
end hold these certificates shall thereby have the right to
mores for places to tbo civil service—(cheers)—not as
matter of favour or patronage, or as the result of coming cap
in hand to the Meallh3T for the county or the borough. and
toying in humble true, " Will you be kind enough, sir, to
recommend me as a preen wbo may compete Y "—(laughter)
--but that three Irm hereaft• r rball come armed with their
honest price or certificate, and say, as a matter of right, " I
have tnneopt cd in' toy tint competition, and now I claim to
be hdmitted to the c...h,pei pion wbere I may be held romps-
tent to verve my cour.try co a member of tho civll service."
(Cheers.)
Mr. G. STANSTIELD seconded the resolution, which Wall
carried unanimously, and the proceedings concluded with a
vote of thank" to the lien rev. chairman.

IHB MAIN DRAINAGE OF TSB METROPOLIS.

DEPUTATION TO SIR BENJAMIN HALL.

Yesterday, at c.7ce aliee, chair-
man; Mr. llaaalgerle, chief engineer; and Mr. Wuolrych,
clerk, of the Metlrtel.Ji.,ll Board of Works, waited upon thr
Benjamin nethe °Rim of Works, Whitehall-place, to
present a etaterneut of .he reasons why the Metivpolitan
Board of works could sanction the plan cent to them and

recommended bv the referair to whom gad been rt.:forced their
own plan (Be) to the main drainage of the metropolis. Cap-
tain Gahm and Mr. Simpson (two of the referees) were pre-
sent during the pros tidings.
Mr. TN WAITEB at great length entered into the objection
of the board to tSo plan
_twootemended by tho referee". The
Jurisdiction of the Board of Works extended ever an neon
of 117 i Emery mita', but the plan of the rllPrees pro-
: posed to deal with an tree of 311 *query miles.
This would require them to increase their sewer* to three we
four times thir sire: are? the +bele of that area. Then for
355 days in the year there would be only a driblet in the in-
seri, and too malt ef that would bee deposit in the sewers
end an hiellickmay In their ,scion. Then the Weed objected
to the rimers proposed tL..t they were open, and beside.being
of too great gee, had only a fell of six inches to the mile.
Mr. Thwaitcs then gave numerous details to thew the Mad-
miasibility of the prepared plan. Be next referred toe reso-
lution come to by the heard, that they were wllliug to carry
the outfall to Sea Beach, prodded the oat of the extension
was provided by than who wear benefited by it. He had
understood from Sir B. Hall that if they carried the outfall
beyond B° fer purposes other than metropolitan, the extra
coat would be met Lye sra..t from parliament.
Sir BENJAMIN Hann denied that he had ever intended to
convey such au imp-reset:or. They must wry out the object
ot the act, and that was W cleaner the Thames of its im-
purities. Ho it was the duty of the board to in-
tercept impurities which It wed into the Thames, even from
an arm not under °tar on rirvision. The sewers, however,
he agreed with the board, rush, to be closed. Though the
outf4t at Be might meet alto requirements of the metropolis,
yet he was Dam quieten woe gone into the
stronger would ha the feetog that the discharge should be
lower down. As to the financial part of the question, and
taking the ramble vast„ of the metropolis at 12 millions
sterling, which he beloved would in a kw years be
increased, and that tney had to expend five millions,
what amount would Iv required to be levied on
the retepevers to carry out the works delegated
to there ? If they require. five million' to be repaid in fifty
years, at 6 per cent., it roll require a rate to be levied
which would erteltice L 73,1183/. per annum, and that dis-
tributed over 12 millions sterling, it would require a rate of
ler than 61d. in the pot:ad. 11. on the other hand, they
get the money et 4' per .it., they would require an annual
tam of 263,0101., and ar: re of Les than 60, in the pound ;
but if they could get the money at 4 per cent. they would
require an =Duel rum d 232,7611.. or a rate of 41d.
In the pound. Under any circumstances they could not
make out a greater cost to the rate payers than hid, in
the pound.
Mr. Tftwatets said n' hough it might be only hid. in
the pound, that would be hat one of a number of expense',
for theca of the district boa."l, formed a large item. As they
were now looming to time quertere, in the event of the go•
"vestment making no grant from the Consolidated Fund, he
wished to know if th° gtvernment would lend them their
credit to raise the funds, taking the security of the rates,
and, by raising the money in the market, lend it to the
bolted. _ .

711;D. HALL raid that was rather a question for the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer th .n himself, and he should be happy
to accornpeuty him ou any lay he might select. lie should
be glad to have a confirenee want any two members of their
board, with their engineer nod the referees., so that they
might agree upon some plan which they could adopt. They
were net wedded to the plan they had proposed, and if there
were soy errors or fallacies in it—though they did not
acknowledge noty were pointed out they would
readily admit them, tow their only &lire wee to submit a
comprehensive plan. lie tie ught the best mores would be
for them to nominate two gentlemen of tho board to be ANY.
dated with their engineer, tc meet their referee:a, to go into
the thing in a good spirit; also he believed that these gentle-
men would be able to carne to eerie conclusion that would be
eatiatietory to all north*.
Mr. THWAITEA thanked the right hon. baronet for his
courtesy, and ILr, internee terminated, hating lasted
upwards of two hours.

IDOL MAKING AND BEEAKING.—For people who
enjoy the character of matter-of- fact sobriety of judgment,
the gentle Eugiish public is given to the excitentekt of hero.
enrahip to en s strata din try degice. Every wawa produces
"the most remarkable" man in the country as artist or
orator, preacher or roe!. Mr. Alexander Smith may be
termed, without offence, Itta very Spurgeon of pets. Not
without daya of intense Lbour and thought; not without
"ticklers' from " oral Christopher." and "slashers" from
" tle Quarterly,
84 savage and Tariarly,
Whkh kill'd John Keats,"

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did Alfred Temp...amen an.: wear the laurel which to worth-
ily enceaspasses his brow. His hi Memoriam is white sad
firm as marble, and beautifol as a gallery of sculptures; but
a Iwo ete can see, as it woro, stains froze the artist's sweat
of anguish, dropped doter. upon the atone. A comparison of
his earlier volumes in their pnwent state with the fleet edition
will show how the minutest stroke of the chisel has been
retraced ; how, to vary the figure, the honey has been
strained end restrained, until it has lost all its coarser par-
ticks., The blue ribbons of the elegant eeholarship of Tri-
nity College. Cambridge ; the English medal for " Timbue-
too," and the Greek medal for some wonderful ode, we dare
say of ahylean wsjirty and darkness., hung about
tits poet, and gave him at the outset the right to be heard
among hie contempearics. Such a man could not sing
unnoticed by "tits resat silent crowd of thorough-bred
Grecians" who wind through every path of Engird' society.
But the young drawer of muslin patterns began his Moiety
career from n. fine melee; in of academic bowers. We sae-
pwt that his quick youth hal hale Latin and less Greek.
From the midst of a won house he flung out his Lie Drama
like a coati t, end found himself ghatfitd in its blaze. But if
the English public he the readiest of id.d makers, they are
also, we apprehend in many c...es, the sternest of iconoclasts.
They first spoil their tivinrite, and then disinherit him. The
tint nt of their contempt is proportionate to tho exorbitance of
their earlier admiration. It faros with them ca in Juvenal'.
terrific repreeentatinn of the fall of &Anus. The head and
fare of the statue of the popular hero ore made into vessels of
inodorous name. Thu couutozasze, once all but adored by
tle.pzgle, to dragged along Lys hook, with abundance of
obsetritin on the blubber lip end the unhandsome
Fe7tutes. Mr. Alexander Rtnith teem, to be devoted to a
similar fate.—Lublin Unirereity Magazine, for November.
CANADA AND TIIE HIGHLAND 3 Or SCOTLAND,—
Notwithstanding all that has been geld end written against
the elearssee system, there Is no doubt that emigration to
the Canaries II to greatly bettered the condition of the High-
lander. A friend, wl.ile driving a few days ago through
district of the West Highlands where the reofiesa cabins
told the tale of expettiation, asked the driver if the people
had been sorry at leaving this country. " Ay," he said, "a
few were, but they're writing foe Canada that they are
boner sff there than the lends are et name."—Gruseek
oldrereizer.

CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE STILLING DAY.
YuysaDAY, Nov. 6. Adailadooo as moot, 671;
Mo, by mom mama, 169 ; wed Alton, 1,060.

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LONDON, PRID47, NOVBMBER 6.

l the present cr•ical state of the Money Market
it i. (f the hb.,l-est importance to accwe fall, free,
and calm discussion ; for we can conceive nothing
bet•rr calcalatid to extinguish hlkd alarm. It is
with this view that we hare raised the question as
to the adviansility of a relaxation of the Hank
Charter Aet, similar to that witnessed in the panic
of UHL Probablj- it will be said by the thorough.
going stieklete for that Act that we are premature
in raising the question, and that affairs have not
yct appronebed tho puss at which so vio-
knt a measure RS a license to the Bank
to contravene the law exit be issued by
the Fxecntire. We woalu remind our opponents
that laws are atade for the protection and benefit of
the community at large. Sales popish supreNus kr.
If a :aw be found pernicious, inadequate to a great
emergency, and tending to seriously interfere with
tie due performance of the functions of a nation, the
Minister who takes upon himself the responsibility
of grappling with the difficulties of the situation,
eicn by defying the law, is entitled to the gratitude
of his country, assuming that such action militates
in no degree against the principles of moral right.
It would be impolitic to dwell too strongly
upon disquieting Pawns at the present critical
juncture, when the efforts of every journalist im-
pressed with a dm? sense of the responsibilities of
his office should be .I:meted to allay unreasonable

alarm but it would be equally unwise, and pecu-
liarly un-Engliab, to shrink from faring impending
dander. every confidence in the recupera-
tive energies of the nation, we view with great
anti, ty the position into which it is being forced
through the opeiation of the stringent and in-
elasCe machinery of ear monetary system. Fi-
naneitl affair., we repeat, arc rapidly tending
towards the channel which they pursued
in Int:. There is the same growing indisposition
no the part of people who have money to part with
it, unme at exorbitunt eaten—rates which will con-
stitute a severe trial to even solid commercial houses,
Then• is the 11-11124 dis;sesiriiri on the part of the corn-
muoi!y to rush lur money which they do not actually
Reid. but which they fret they may not be able to
obtain hereafter, unie-ss increased difficulty and
at an increased cost. This means a hoarding of
capitil. Ahwve all, when we look at the
posit:on of the Bank, the directors of which
will. doubtless, eo:,tinue to act upon sound princi-
ples. and to atTcod freely, to the utmost extent of
their means, ciery a-commodation upon eligible

securities, we witness a still cheer approximation to
the type of With .orne millions of Govern-
ment deposits, and with many more methane of
" other" deposits, the latter of which constitute in
part the reser-Le f brekers, the Bank has now
in its till a fund little larger than that held at the
worst period in October, 1847. We pot this ma a feet,
although the tigurcs are not yet officially issued, foe
DO other couclueon can be drawn, considering the
severity of the drain to which, as every one knows,
the establishment has been subjected during the
period that has elapred since the date of the last
balance sheet.
Now, &Bilis being in this position, can it be said
that the time is not yet ripe foe discussing the com-
parative advantages and disadvantages of a measure
the adoption of which ten years ago, under
circumstances very similar, was mainly instru-
mental in restoring credit and confidence? We
maintain that the tine is come not merely for dis-
cussion, hut for action. Were it only announced
that the Bank he empowered, if necessary, to
issue notes beyond the limit fixed by law, even at
so high a charge as ten per cent., we are confident
that the grasp of the bolder of money would
be relaxed, immediate discouragement would be
given to the tendency to lock up capital,
and the pressure upon the Bank would be
proportionately relieved. Nor is it at all probable
that the effilus of gold would thereby be promoted
to any appreciable extent. 'fhe stock of bullion in
the Bank is still very considerable, and surely it
would be " paying too dear for our whistle" were we
to go on tightening the screw to the prostration of ;
the commerce of the country, for the sake of retain-
ing our hold upon a stock of gold beyond
that actually required to ensure the con-
vertibility of the Bank cote. We shall
be glad to ace this discussion carried further, and
shall be greatly grieved if the advocates of our pre-
sent monetary system are so unpatriotic as to prefer
an obstinate adherence to every tittle of their old
creed. Should they act thee, the responsibility will
be theirs if they assist in deferring all remedial
action until teal mischief ensues.

SOME Vrak OLD M rs.—A coatansposary after
drerribiag the mutiny in Brod r " the limier_ rising, in
point of bet, of the .h-le regular arra army Bergel, an
wry earring at the moment of oreatty-feat registers of
infaatry, to regiut. 't.. f eavalsy, are Darras of NM,
and the. brigades of h. Ise arttßeay." goes on to ore : " It
area the rewolutainary outbreak, la pe of hat, of • kr-.
dred thtraad skilled vet Bengal Seger—Me
•r, sly wry wet who, rate Me &WWI of POW, CON-
Mod* sow two thoosard yro.i or, with tit warriors of
At-srust r. It It M. De Vanessa who speaks—. Cs sow Is.
bow at,s,' ha rashes (ia hie lagerare work Les Arra
tw l' p. 98), ' Is. meows hemmer, gni, fetus leo despeaux
du Rot Poems. ceaolattaient it y • dens faille no.. I. gum, en
tAt cradre.— If the maniere aes " the cry men" who
flarlit spier Alexander two reared years age., ta Pon
was • rile to them. Is that ere the travels of then it.ge-
roue Mr. °aim are no leads., for bent we have an
army of kraltere.
DuLsstas Cottinr..—On Tuesday, the Sad inst.,
tilks emery of It. Luke's met at in. Vestry-room wee
kerr. Jam Saunders in the chair, to elect two govirion foe
the resseamarat of the College, • rant term cookst sod
raver brag but. going on kir several months pre. The
:ramew to the determiaat'on, after a loop dissasstaa
y adios, at the rises of which Mr. Robert Faber,
aers chuichwarta chair roof lbe burl of guardians,
air Mr. Mambo Plaill• WWI declared duly sleeted.