The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-15 00:00:00

THE STRIKE AT LIVERPOOL

TO THE EDITOR OP T* EXPRFAH.

Sin,—l beg to inform you that the strike at
Liverpool against the hour system has terminated in favour
of the men. The following notice from the Masten' Asso-
ciation appeared in the Liverpool Doily Poet of October 2:
"To the operatives in the building trade.—The associated
master builders hereby announce that the cause of the
strike. namely, the payment of wages by the hour, is with-
drawn, sad the workshops of the respective employers are
now open to the men on the same terms an before the
strike. '

The strike committee baring reason to believe that Nee
at least of the masters were intending to introduce the
hour system again in the winter, when the men would he
more at their mercy, required that the masters should sign
as agreement that for the future, before say alteration of
the usual rules and customs of the trade was introduced,
si: months' previous notice should be given on either side.
The masters signed the agreement, and the men returned to
their work.-1 am, he., E. S. BEESLY.
University Hall, Gordon-square, Ott 14.

THE LONDON VOLUNTEER RIFLE BRIOADE.—It
in understood that at the meeting of the committee of the
Court of Aldermen on Saturday list, Colonel Hicks lest in
his resignation as governor of Whitecross prison. The pub-
lic are aware that Colonel Hicks has not performed the
duties of that office for • considerable period, and that a
great many rumours have been mint as to the circumstances
ender which his absence has takes place. It is undentood
that he will also resign—if he has not already done so—his
position in connexion with the London Rifle Brigade.
Care 01, GOOD HOPE NEM LlFEBOAT.—Yester-
day sonic interesting experiments were made in the Re-
gest's Canal Dock, Liniehouse, with • new lifeboat which
bad been built, under the ouperintendanee of the National
Lifeboat Institution, for the government of the Cape of
Good Hope, through Messrs. F. Barnard/Ad P.O. Julyan, the
agents general for crown colonies, by the Messrs. Forrestt.
The boat is 33 feet long and 8 feet 2 inches wide, and rows
ten can. There were present at the trial the Secretary of
the National Lifeboat Institution, Mr. Proms, its build-
ing surveyor, Messrs. Forreett, and a large concourse of
The lifeboat was capsised by moms of erne tack-
risngre. connecting her with • hydraulic crane. She
instantly self-righted and self-ejected the water
thus shipped, through palest valves, in twenty-five
seconds—which appeared to be quite a marvel to
the bystander.. It required thirty-three men to bring
the gunwale of the boat to the water's edge, thus showing
how difficult it woul 1 be for the heaviest seas to tapir
her. Again, when the boat's valves were opened, and the
boat half filled with water, it required twenty-three mem
to bring her gunwale awash, showing still further her
stability. A transporting carriage, built by Mr. Jamie
Rehires, ofCamden-tows, accompanies the boat, which
leaves to-day fur the Cape of Good Hope, whence they will
he sent to the port of East London, at the mouth of the
Buffalo River, British Kaffraria. Messrs. Formatt had
previously built two or three self-righting lifeboats,
oa the same principle, for the Cape Colony. It
was said at the trial that some of the lifeboats
of the Natimial Lifeboat Institution had, within the
last 21 mouths, been the means of rescuing from
different shipwrecks on the curets of the United Kingdom
four hualred and ten persons—a most gratifying fact, and
showing how much has been accomplished by the well-
directed efforts of the institution in this important sal
philanthropic cause. it is =merely hoped the public will
cocaine. to streugtlien the heeds of the committee of the
institution, so as to grist them to carry on vigorously der-
ing the ensuing winter their greet sad national work in the
cause of suffenng humanity. The example of a benevolent
gentleman who has offend to give the society 100/. if nine
other persons could be found to give it a similar amount
before Christmas, has already been followed by a gentleman
who had previously contributed munificently to the Life-
boat Institution.

RELIL —DIT MUMMA Et Ocr. 10.—
About helf•past 3 o'clock this aftentooe • meek from
Waterford, minim in apparently for Dusiarvite Harbour,
was struck by two heavy sees about two sides distant, sear
Helvick Head. Tbe Dorsgarvan lifeboat of the Maimed
Lifeboat Isetituties immediately put off to their help, but
all was over before her arrival, for lbws wee sot • trace
that of the poor men to be semi.
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during the week eading Octo'orr 12 was: Medical,
1,2Y2; surgical. 646—tots4 2,040, of width 606 were sew
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117Ilrana butobile, of Holywell.street, Strand, was in-
dieted for unlawfully selling, publishing, and disposing of
obscene print., pictures, books, and libel.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted, instructed by the Society for the
Suppressioo of Vice.
Mr. Kemp applied for a further postponement of the
trial, oo the ground that the prisoner had not had sufficient
time to prepare his defence.
The application was refused, as the case had been post-
poned from last session, and the evidence was taken. It
was of the same description as has been given almost
times out of number against this notorious individual.
(hi being released from his last term of imprisonment
tiujdals commenced business again in Holyeelbstreet,
selling books and 'Ante of the most obscene character, at
very high pules. His operations came under the notice of
the Society for the Suppression of Vice. and au agent was
employed to make some purchases. Before going into the
shop the agent was searched by Sergeant Thomas, detective
of the A division, and on the agent leaving the shop the
books, &c., he had purchased of the primmer were given to
the officer and marked. Three purchases were proved.
The prisoner, in hie defence, addressed the jury in •
very excited manner and at some length. He complained
that he had been harshly used by the prosecution, io
being taken, on a bill preferred behind his back,
before the grand jury, upon which the bench warrant was
issued instead of being regularly taken before a magistrate,
where he could have heard the evidence, the precise nature
of the charge, and who and what the witnesses against
him were. He contended that the evidence of the agent
was not corroborated, and that in the absence of such
corroboration he could not be convicted ; and that eves if
the jury thought him—the agent—worthy of belief, they
must consider that he, prisoner, was not the tempter, hot
the tempted. He protested that the case was not sufficiently
proved.
The books, he.. having been submitted to the jury,
The learned Judge left two questions to them —lit, were
the publications of a filthy. obscene, and lewd description ;
and 2nd, did the evidence satisfy them that the prisoner
sold them.
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The jury found in the affirmative, and convicted the
prisoner. . . . .

A long account was then given of the prisoner's &aces.
dents. He had been engaged in this infamous traffic nearly
forty years, sod had spent • great number of them in
prison. At various times tons weight of obscene books,
pictures, and plates had been seized upon his premixes. and
he was well known to be the principal instrument for the
dissemination of this sort of pollution all over the country.
His Lordship made a few brief but impressive observa-
tions upon the inconceivable enormity of the prisoner's
offence and the whole course of his life, which, he said,
had been one of vice, wickedness, infamy, and villany,
the real extent of which words would, fail to de-
scribe. From the records of public proceedings for
years past the court had • knowledge of the prisoner's
previous history, and it would be a waste of words
and the public time to say anythieg further to such • per-
son. He was liable to three yeahi" hard labour, but con.
sidering hie age the court would refrain from going to the
extremity; but in the discharge of their duty to society and
the rising generation they felt hotrod to pees upon him •
severe sentence, which was that he be kept to hard labour
for two years.
The prisoner said be had been three weeks in prison, and
he wished to know if that period could not be deducted
from the two years. (A laugh.)
The Assistaat-Judge said the sentence would date in the
regular way, from the commencement of the sesiion at which
he was convicted.

Charles Thomas Price, 21, was convicted of feloniously
embezzling money received by hlm for and on account of
Mom Batebol, of Oxford•strest, feather merchant, his
master.
He was sentenced to six months' hard labour.

Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted ;slr. Way defended.
SECOND COURT.
(Before Mr. Payne.)
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John Turner, 26 a returned convict, was indicted for
having been found by night in the unlawful possesaoo of •
Jemmy, crowbar, chisel, matches, taper, and other imple.
meats, used for the purposes of housebreaking.
Mr. Ribtoe prosecuted ; Mr. Cooper was counsel for the
prisoner.

Yolice.constables Dunnaway, 129 11, Geraghty, 159 H,
and lleeble, 195 H, deposed that they watched the pri-
soner and another man endeavouring to effect an entrance
to the premises of • Mr. Huxley, In Whitechapel-road. The
prieower was taken (the other man got away), and on him
wars found the implements mentioned in the indictment.
He mid Le was a stranger from Yorkshire, and wu in quest
of afiemale. The offence was committed in the dead of

night.
The prisoner was found guilty, and • previous conviction
for burglary and a sentence of four years' peual servitude,
were proved against bun.
The learned judge said society must be protected from
such characters, and sentenced the prisoner to seven years'
penal servitude.
Henry Atka, 23, was found Guilty of steeling a garden
syringe and a thermometer, the property of Messrs. Tim-
mins, and some haroess, the property of James Ackhurst,
at Notting-hill. He had served out a sentence of four
years' penal servitude, and the court now sentenced him to
siars'.
On thelieensiog day an inspector of the V division ap-
plied to Mr. Pownall for an order to see a prisoner in the
'douse of Detention, as he sod another officer, a country one,
had bees refused permission at that prison to see him.
The Chairman gave the order at once, and it was stated
yesterday that the prisoner had been recognised by the
officers as a returned convict.