The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-04 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1881.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFIBOATINEITI-
TUTION.—The AID if a. pod& rlicassily solicited es
cnsAle tie Isstitalisa b sestiroci lite maishawastes of its lid
Weird listslillehiessisid a stlidoledletecaey. lisakets—ilesies.
Willis sad Co. Coatis sad Co., Berries and Co.-Becretary,
EMI AMU LEM'', 1., ioluidtreet, Adelphi.

Itir.tDAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL
.1.11.1 LI.EIII.—NEW ADDITIO,I.—A CM-length etHITLAIT
1101111, of the murderer. JAW M111.1.‘18, with a Plan of
Emm‘lbou4e and the shed ha which the parcel WU round that LW
[e l& detection ah., a portnit mohair./ Wiles Youngman.. are
how Itol.te4 to the Iliansher of Comparative Phyla:hooray. at the
11.traor, imkeratnet—Admittance. ; extra nroroa, W. Open
frma 11 till dusk, and from 7 till 10.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 1:14h
molhorek n —The most elegat{ establabincut in the world.
The DANCINS: AREA la most ecknostre. The reading arid
mookinsi room on either aide of the spacious cattalos a .c reldete
with ever) comfort. and the refreshment mons attached to the
boll ',win ore unrisalleal even by tMental hearty. The hand,
coniitiete4 11 Mt. P.ri her, *tondo alone for IL* excellence.
Adintsslon, la.

ARGYLL BOOMS, Windraill-street, Mona
dilly. the tiatninuast sad best proportioned 1100111.1 is
Mumps, art OPEN for CON. TAUS sail DANCING. Cosdnctoa
by the well-known mei 4. )loos. Anthony Univac of Palau
erlehaty. 11. lloulcourt. the greatest cornet player is thla
country. plays *dot nightly. Doan open at half-pat 7.
Dancing at a o'clock. AdmisslOS. IL
N.B.—A magulneeut sniottma sad reading-room in sated to
this aetabil•hwcut.

Tai LONDON PAVILION, Tialtborne-street,
Nagraerket.—ltgegi went be mend • pieeinai evening, go
to ibe LONDON PAVII.ION, am{ tome in Leona*. and
Übe beit CONCIIIT. Adoimisei (bg nbreelmine SAM) Id.—
Bowling Allem Das Oalieriee. ay.

nRIDE OAKES, One to Twenty Guineas each—
.l.) a handsaw* Cake for Ave gainer ; Daub's, Madatra, and
School Cakes, trots It to its. each . slams assortaseat of ,Uakond
Cakes for dessert, Is. Bd. per lb.: Soaps, Jenks, Cretans. and
liner Tartlets. Ball Suppers and Wed ft... 110.11 Tided.
—PLSSSELL, Cook and Confectioner, PM

BARLOWI3 HOT WATER DISHES are not
only the best, but the cheapest : the DISH COVERS to suit
in Meek° Plate, Britannia Metal, and Double Bleck Tin, ore
elegant In form and reasonable in price either singly or In seta,.
A` ICE HOT PLATE for your Game, Haunch
of ‘lutteti, de., Is a luxury at the dinner table : all Rot
Water Plates hitherto made have been a complete failure.
BAILLOWS ROT WATER PLATE'S and DISHES, on the con.
trary, will be found all that you can desire. The plates are
china, of elegant registered pattenis, mounted in the best double
block tin, with ebony feet. Price hs, y. M., and 4s. each.
F.neravings and prices gratia.--JAIIIII HARLOW, Inventor and
Patentee, 14, King Williamdtreet, LC. Established 1020.

GOLD CHAINS.—WATHERSTON and
BROODEN beg to call the attention et the public to the
FORM of INVOICE which they deliver with Gold Guard
Chains purchased at their manufactory : L a d.
To workmanship of pattern chain, 54 Inches long
To 'ls carat gold, weighing or. dud. gin., a;
LS U. Bid. per ounce, Mint price

Total.

T'poa Skis system, the QUALITY, WEIGHT, and VALUE of
the gold are certified, and guaranteed to the purchaser:
atop and Broaden looking for a fair remuneration on the work-
manship only, which la charged accenting to the Intricacy or
simplicity of the pattern.
WATHEESTON and BROODIM, Ooklamitha—ltannfactory,
No. 16. Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, Loudon, W.C. Est&
bUshed s D. 1711 i

Assays made of Chains sad Jewellery for Is. each —N.3. Thi.
stablhdunent chemist SU laths evening, and on Saturdays at One.

QIIABONABLE PRESKNTS, for the promotion
el retwonal Attraction.—ROWLANDl7 MACAMAR
• preserver and beautifier of the hair beyond di precedent.
Rowlands' R alpine. for imparting a radiant bloom to the corn.
plea ion. and • I.4tnesa and delicacy to the hands, arms, and
neck. Rowlands' °death, or Pearl for giving *pearl.
like whiteness to the teeth, and fragrance to the breath, The
patronage of Royalty throughout Euy e, their general use by
rank and fashion, and the univenally known efficacy of these
articles give them a celebrity unparalleled, and render them
peculiarly elegant and seasonable pemente.—bold by A. ROW-
IAN b and SONS, Hatton en, and by chemists and per-
fumers. Ask for " Rowlands* ' articlea

ME COVENTRY DISTRASB FUND.

—e--
The Meekly meeting of the relief committee was
held at St. Mary's Hall, Coventry, on Wednesday after-
noon. Them was a large attendance. Lord Li w! pre-
aided, and in opening the meeting observed that he had but
a very few observations to make. Since the last meeting
be had been with Mr. Henry Browett to London, where
they had had an interview with the trustees of the Dis-
tressed Manufacturers' Relief Fund. After some conversa-
tion with these gentlemen they gave them the sum of 5001.
to be added to the Coventry Relief Fund, and pro-
mised • further contribution if it should be required.
He had. also to announce that having received •
letter apt by a lady in Ireland, asking him if he
would motive postage stamps or small contributions; in
aid of the fund, be had pat a small paragraph in the
papers asnouncirg that they would be very happy to do
so. The moult had been that this but week be lisd re-
ceived • Isetuaber of small eubscripticsne, from a shilling to a
sovereigo, amounting altogether to aboilt 500 f. This fact,
he thought, was sufficient evidence oftbe liberality of the
British public. Many of the letters he bad received were
of • most interesting character. Among them was a letter
hemD qememaid, who said she was a native of Coventry,
instanceseSs. Such as these, where the domes
must s er some considerable self.clesial from their lite-
rality, *re, ho thought, much more gratifying than it
lame peteom of wealth contributed their fifties and
his ear, hear.)
The of the last meeting having been reed.
Mr. A. H. Funk the boe secretary et the funds, an.
umnoodthat the sebecriptione up to last night amounted
to 16,5001. La addition W that the fallowing sums had
also oaths to head :-60/. from Messrs. Swam and AM-
wood, Ifiessiegham • 651. Irma the. Rem Mr. Kite, of
Keeilworth, bias additional sabsooptsons received fres
that a;mule* jifl. collected at St. Martin's Church,
Worcester, and W., adlected at St. Georg*, Wonted's,
afterlBe sincoone preached by the Rev. H. Temple, of Covent";
741. . 10d., the amount of • number of small subscrip-
tions resolved by Mr. Temple at Woroarter ; 4401., on ac-
count, received from Masers. Glyn, Mills, and Co., bankers;
2001, additional subscription received by Meese Coatis
and Co., Danker. ; 250/. from the Rev. Mr. Trimmer, bon.
ser to the fund at Cheltenham, making the total sum
reels that place WIN. He (Mr. Pears) had also re-
ceived • letter from the Mayor of Birmingham, stating that
the subscriptions commenced in that town in aid of the
fund were still progressing, and that he was in a position to
forward 5001. on account. There was also a pleasing item
in the list of subscriptions from Coventry ; he tete ;rad to
the contribution of 100 under the signature of
"X. Y. Z." An amount also been opened for receiv-
ing subscriptions at Burtee-on-Trent. Already several
handsome subscriptions had been received front several
brewers there.

The Rev. W. DRAKE, in reading the report of the sub.
committee, expressed his regret that the returns of the
numbers of the distressed were not yet in a complete state.
Re hoped that it would be completed by next week. He
read reports from three of the district", all of which
went to confirm what has already been stated in regard to
the extent and nature of the distress existing. In one of
the three reports it was stated that there would be • de-
creme in the number of recipients next week, in conse-
quence of several families being about to obtain employ-
ment. A report from Nuneaton dwelt particularly on the
intensity and unprecedented nature of the distress which
existed among the operatives there, • most respectable and
industrious class of men, who had no prospect whatever of
obtaining work. The Nuneaton report further expressed
the belief that, unless a pester amount of relief was
afforded to the distressed, as epidemic disease would, in
all probability, make its amongst them. The
report therefore eats that the amount of relief
afforded should be wwwwwarl. The report of the sub-
committee was as follows :

" Coventry, Jan. 2, 1861.
" The subcommittee regret that they had not received,
up to yesterday evening, the returns called for from the
several districts, ►y which they might have been able to re-
port as to the actual state of distress to this meeting. The
rub-committee trust that this omission will be remedied
this week, and that the financial statement' of all the dis-
trict; will have passed through the hands of their auditor
by ➢londay next. The subcommittee have bat few facts
to guide them, but they believe that the destitution is not
yet beginning to diminish, and they have threfore recom-
mended a larger grant than heretofore to each district,
together with extra grants for coals, clothing, and labour,
as before, The total grant asked for this week is
1,2001. 15.. The total sum subscribed or promised up to
this time, including 50W. from the Distressed Manufac-
turers' Fund (1843) Is 16,3211. 10s. Bid."

Mr. Passe said it should be mentioned the subscriptions
received during the week inaluded between 4001. and
amounts collected in various churches and chapels, among
wild* was the sum of 641., collected by the Rev. Mr.
Dineen of London, from his eongreption. There sea also
a subscription from Lausanne, in Switzerland, of ten guineas.
This showed how wide-apse:id was the sympathy felt for
the poor weaver, of Coventry in this their deep distress., ,

The adoption at the report was then moved and seconded,
and unammously carried.
Alderman Baowrri said he believed from information he
had obtained, and from his own observation, that the greatest
point of the distress had been reached. He believed the
prospect before them, though not immediately, was cheer.
urg ; that there would be more work ; and that the people
were d that awash. that as soon as they got work they
would at once go off the funds. (Hear, hear.)

The Rev. Mr. Diu moved the appointment of the Rev.
W. Drake to the vice-chairmanship of the committee. He
suggested that private benevolence should now be directed
to that large portion of the working class in Coventry who
were not connected with the ribbon trade, cud who were
therefore excluded from the fund. He alluded to the small
shopkeepers and other reepectable people who derived their
subsistence mainly from the patronage el the weavers, of
much of which they bad been deprived in consequence of
the distressed condition of the weavers. Many of Om
were equally in need, and equally as deserving of relief, as
the weavers themselves.

Mr. J. S. WHIT= seconded the motion.
Mr. Pr its maid he was requested by Mr. Braimbridge to
give the following notice of motion :—" That a grant of
100 f. be made to assist WOWS(' desirous of emigrating to
the cotton districts of the north, but that it be only laid
oat in agent's expenses, clothing, and railway fares."
The following announcement was circulated at Birming-
ham at the instance of the associated ribbonmannfacturnis

of the city. We coil it with pleasure as indicating a desire
on the part of the manufacturers to prevent the resumes
of atrikee and their concomitant eviis, from which it is
believed the weavers are now to a gnat extent suffering :

" TO THE COVISTIT:V/ZATIER.

" The ribbon roanufaiierTrnOf Coventry having been
asked to meet the weaves', in order to dawn the means
by which • better understanding between them may be
brought about, according to a resointioe, passed at a
weavers meeting, held in St. Mary's Hall, on the 29th of
November lest, have resolved as follows :
" That they have not the least objection to accede to this
request, and to meet a deputation of workpeople disposed
to consider the whole question of supply and demand for
labour fairly and equitably ; but that, in consequence of the
altered state of the trade, and improvement' in it which are
contemplated, in order to suable Coventry to compete in
ribbon manufacture with any other country, it is absolutely
neotesary to declare, in the first instance, that no return to
any system of price lista, directly or indirectly, can be en-
tertained for • moment. Free trade, and • return to any
system of protection whatever, are incompatible. They
believe that the existence of the Coventry trade is entirely
dependent on free labour, just as a cheap loaf is the remit ef
a hes supply of corn ; and that wage!, not only in Co-
ventry but elsewhere, must rise sad fall with the state of
supply and demand for it ; and they further believe, with
the report of the Independent Deputation of Coventry
Workmen, sent to France and Switzerland in the autumn of
the past year, that wages advance as trade develops,'
and will contiaus to do so, wherever labour is free and
unrestricted. Their desire is as much to uphold the
interests of the weavers as their own—to identify the two
Interests and to work in harmony ; to pay for labour
according to its value, which is the only mode of stimulating
and of justly remunerating skill and ability ; and thus and
in sea, way to live and let live. In all good faith, there-
fore, they make the following suggestion :—That a cont.
mittee of twelve shall be selected front amongst the menu.
kennels, to meet • committee of twelve from amongst the
weavers, with some gentleman of independent position as
chairman. That the delegetes from the weavers shall be
elected, one from each warehouse where not less than thirty
bands are usually employed ; and that from amongst these
delegates the twelve weavers to meet the manufacturers
shall be eventually chosen. That no other person shall be
present at such conference than the reporters fur the public
pea"
if these terms are satisfactory to the weavers as a body,
the manufacturers will be glad to meet their delegates as
soon as they have been selected, notice of which, with the
names and addresses of the penons selected, may be given
to Mr. Phillips, who will thereupon summon both parties to
the conference.
"Signed on behalf of a preliminary meeting of manufac-
turers, " Hewer lixorracrr,
i van' Association."

" Pr..a.Et of the

ZooLootcAx. Bomar or LONDON.—At the monthly
general meedng, held yesterday at the Society's house in
Hanover.square, Dr. Oray,V.P., in the chair, Mrs. A. Prehu
and Yuen. L C. Lowndes,W. Dee., jun., and T. B. T.Wil•
lamas, were elected fellows of the soesety. News. J.
Vehement, C. B. Musgrave, and 'Captain H. Blair were
proposed as candidates for the fellowship, and Professor
Brandt, of St. Petersburg, as a foreign member of the
society. The report from the council seated, among other
interesting lode, that the total number of visitors during
the year 1860 had amounted to 379,706, beiag au increase
over the year 1869 of 31,300.