The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-26 00:00:00

?BD MUNI IN !NI BUILDING TRADE.

The h,ll.,wing appears in the Tim :—" The
present position of the mason. of London at this important
poicture renders it tiempary for us to lay before the
public the relations that we stand in with ...a employers.
It bus been a recognised fact between employers
sad employed that the wages of the !amnion masons
are per day fur sir days successively,
with the privilege of the 4 o'clock on Saturdays ;
hut Mr. Kelk, of Pimlico, and Mews. Loom Brothers, of
Pedvakre.nmil, lAmbeth, have, with a few los notice.
Poue.l a proposition introducing a system of working by the
bur, st the rate of 7.1. per hour, which is diametrically
eressied to the rules and regulations which have been the
pude .4 the masons of London, and which have hems recug.
cool by the employers hitherto ; and, although this system
they wish to intis.doce advances our wages at the rate of
21.1. per .lay, still we consider it far from equivalent to the
oils that vial he intoshiced into our branch of the buibliog
trlsk. By accepting the system which they wish to enforce
wayupon wwe shall open the to to be the systematic workingovertime, which we leavea very great evil ;
M fact, oue of the greatest curses to ow branch of the
huilding trade. It would also take away our privilege of
4 ...clock us Saturday. Ureter these eirmundiniess we sent
&deputation to wait on these respective firma, soliciting the
withdrawal of the said proproatmn, which they have re-
fined. stating they are determined to referee the system,
leaving us no alternative hut to cease work as Friday, the
220 d last., with the determination of not resuming it
again till the withdrawal of the peopoeitioo. (In behalf of
the committee, "WILLIAM D. Jogurt, Secretary.
"Sun lan, Mason street, lambs* March 25."

rirrrumeart or tan Brun Sratim—The differ-
Mill between' thraZiffilTO =ISOM and their employers
have bees settled, on 31tio4ay the men resumed work.
During the but few days deputstioes from the employers
and employed have met several times to datum the points
at lose. The result 41 their c4uferences was a recommen-
dation to their respective bodies of the following arrange.
meat, to which both parties have agreed :—The employers
to give their men an immediate edemas of id. per day, and
to allow them to leave work at four o'clock on Saturdays
and the men, os their part, to pron.ise to make no further
demand within twelve months from the present time.
Either party must give six months' notice of as, intention
to make soy alteration in the rate of wages or tLe Lours of
lalietar. Me operatives have thus gained the whole of
their dentaarle, and the only exaction made from them is
that they shall not stnke again within a year, and that they
shall give sic months' roues of any intention to strike. The
advance ..4 wages already made in several branches of the
leaddiag trade hes lettuce.' the *storms and pastes of
this city to form a society, with a view to the improvement
of their nsiditio3.

iiitIFISIIITiOrTII OF ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL
Sow.—At the annual !retire of the minshers ..f the
laser Gouty Show on Tuesday, at Lewes, the Earl of
Chichester, who was in the chair. stated that it had been
seigented that the society shankl wropersho with Kent,
end Mark in estahrhing a greet Mouth of leg.
Lad Mee, Ile be WY emonsilly, and that the fur exhibi-
Ike bille_pleps In !NM the year of the contemplated
Mitred iaYkWo at Kensington. The meeting favour-
ably resolved the seggrtiou, and it is to be further nun.
Nsidedloteno at as yee ield meetios to be held on the ir,th of April.
eso /rie&
MIAMI Coustm —The second ossatership of
Dahlia Cases, rendseed recant by the preferment of the
AMSei Perk, Y.A., to the rectory of St. Olares.
Iferebeek hes lens senkreed apes Mr. Bevy Joke Irby,
N.A., ream and Chtrimil Lorre, of St. Johe'e College,
CoRN AT/RAMP ATT RRITIFA. Monday
Ink a useetur of acriculturire was hold at the Star Hotel.
Moderns, to consider the purest ittefltelent syttsui of
tusking the corn retort. The chair woo taken by
Mr. P. M. Ptutoott, Chart Mutton. The charrmas boring
Welly addressed the everting, the following resolu-
tions was pared'—" That an woocietio• be fornA to pro-
cure caner wetter d the quantity sad vales of all Braid.
core brought into the Meidetowe market, and all formes
that attend that market he requeeed to wool their sines
as members. That is the opium of this rediai it is disi•
nide that returns of all Braids can sold, w by pet.
vote trade ue in public market, should rode by the seller
a. well as by the bum, en that the average parser of Bribe&
n.ro. and tie anted fluctuation.. is the tame of the tithe
oat ernes, ray be truly aseertaiseiL"—Svere Lorre&
Tate Saw ACT us HANK or ENGLAND PATIOITS.
I.Aleoky, the act, which received the oral great an
today, was booed frtrectleß orris. payments to sod from
It. Huth of recland is rehire to the Narcissi I *ht. The
primary olijest of the act ie to triune the vested allover.*
le the Doak for susaiiwiog the public debt as much r
:•koiv. • year. The new alloesoce will minunence has
the "ith of April rdy the commeteement of the Ararat
roc. radio a sew regulation as t.. the Wares en the
krieed acesuot, there is an important alternion with
Ned to the tressfer of stocks ail oesuitise, including
lb. For India reek. The provree recites that
the clomes of the tzarist basks before the half-yearly
Parrot. has eared gent inceernienes " by reason of the
k so traosferred we'll; the right to the curtest halt.
Ire.' It is considered derrable to Memo* the facilities of
%roofer, sad the act provides that the books may be dosed
•.eany .I.y is the month preedisc that on whisk the divi-
dend. an payable, ..oil the proprietor of the dock shall be
mulled to the then current half-yeses dividesd, end the
perms to whose the treader is made after tbeclosia of the
shall not I* cttod to the then current -yeses
an such stock. It is further that the
Proud for which the books are closed shall not exceed Urea
don.

•ECTRarishlNa KY 11 rmAN SSALITON. —As the
',limes employed in sinking a foundation for the esker-
nt. now tieing mote in the pariah chinch of Ifsffilegar.
hilaid, were pursuing their work at the east end el tie
they discovered. amongst the other natal
Ivema beiami, the perfect skeleton of a man maw*
"r •e,Oli feet in lemtth, and which appeared from the un-
"ea•e' •iae of the skull and other mistime—such as the
hoses of the hand•, jawbones, k.•.—to have equalled in its
,thi r dimensions itaextreoediaary height. Its position was
tiorh deeper is mother earth than that at which human
A•litons are generally found. There was barely sufficient
•19•^arance ed a col% to prove that it had received proper
itteinicati, but everything connected with it indicates its
Lwow occupied its lonely tenement for several centuries.