The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-05 00:00:00

MR. BRIGHT AT LIVERPOOL.

Mr. Bright, in his Liverpool speech. leaves something,
the Time, thinks, out of consideration. He leaves out of
sight the fact that the pspacy for centuries operated
against England by means of her Irish adherents, but this
power on the one hand and oraugsiam on the other are
facts which its impossible to leave out of the question.
There is for the future, as for the past, something mots
than the abstract question of religious equality to be
considered, necessary as it always is to be kept in view,
and made one of the objects of enlightened patriotism.
The Post agrees with Mr. Bright in a remark made by
him in yesterday's speech, that the entire tendency of the
legislation during the past ten years, no matter to what
hands the government of the country was entrusted, has
been liberal. Whilst in opposition the conservatives were
eertainay true to their traditions, but it was only when in
opposition. In power they have been more liberal than
the liberals themselves.

Tim Herold law Mr. Bright with mere than hinting st
sedition, and with affording distinct justification for actii
of treason which might bring an Irish " patriot " into
peril of expatriation or a halter.

108 TOPICB.

A writer in a weekly trade journal, called the Tailor,
has been engaged in an inquiry into the operation of the
Workshops Regulation Act, which is intended to prevent
the excessive labour of women and children. The result
of his investigation is that, at the East•end of London,
the act is systematically violated. The Daily Pews draws
attention to this fact, and observes that, if the state-
ments of the writer are true, then either the parish autho-
rities have not appointed as inspector, as required, or
else the inspector grossly neglects his duty. An expla-
nation is clearly due from those whose duty it is to give
effect to the Act.

Referring to the judgment of the Vice. Chancellor in the
we of Mr. Leonard Edmunds, and to the irregularities
of which that trial was the result, the Tomes expresses a
hope, now that an inquiry into the aystem has been or-
dered, that it will be full and searching enough to render
such cams impossible in future.

A bill has been prepared by Mr. Candlish, Sir
Colman O'Lofhlen, and Mr. Norwood, to enable assignees
of marine pohcies to sue thereon in their own names.
TR! MANCHESTER UNITY OF ODD FELLOWS.
Yesterday the Annual Moveable Committee of this
society, at Cheltenham, completed the preliminary
arrangements for the election of the grand master and
deputy grand master of the order for the ensuing year.
The election will take place to-day. Three candidates
were nominated for the poet of G.M., but all were with-
drawn except the presentdeputy grand muter, Mr. Edwin
Smith, of Bootle, who will consequently be formally
elected. The contest for the office of deputy grand
master is expected to be • spirited one. There are six
candidates—P. Pros.. G. M. James Gerrard, of Chester ;
P. Prov. G.M. John °sores, of Lae& ; P. Pro.. G.M.
Reuben Gino, of St. Ives ; P. Prow, G.M. William Loe-
wy, of Worcester ; P. Pro,. O.M. George Rameden, of
Sheffield ; and P. Prow. G. M. William Waldram, of
Leicester. Yesterday the A.M.C. was occupied
with the consideration of propositions for amend-
ing the general laws of the order. One to allow
members admitted previous to 1884 to subscribe
for increased sick payments up to 20s. per week, and a
corresponding number of pounds at death was rejected;
and another to withold such payments from members who
had become in arrears with their contributions for twelve
weeks after the amain were paid up was withdrawn, the
opposition to it being overpowerins. It was decided to
glee lodges power to dispense with the fines hitherto
indicted on members who failed to attend the meetings of
their lodges, or to send • satisfactory reason for their
absence. Several other minor alterations were made in
some of the rules, and the A. M. C. adjourned until to-
day. There are eleven places nominated for the A. M. C.
of 1868 :—Birmingham, Bury St. Edmund's, Chesterfield,
Dover, Lancaster,Newport (Mon.), Nottingham, Salisbury.
Sunderland, Ulveraton, and Windsor. The selection of
where the meeting shall be held will be made to-day.
WORKMEN'S NICAL EDUCATION Commirran.
—The third limier* of the series is progress in counexion
with the above committee of the Worms Men's Club and
Institute Union was delivered at the Birkbeek Institution,
Southampton-buildings, on Tuesday, by Dr. J. K Glad-
stone, P.B.S. Y.P.C.S., on the subject of "Colour and
Dyes." Mr. Hodgson Pratt presided. The lecture was of
an interest practical character, and was very fully illus-
trated by experiments. Thp next lecture will by Dr. W.
B. Carpenter, F.R.S.on The Principles of Education,"
WRECK OF AN EMIGRANT SHlP.—News of a die-
tressing fortunately, however, naalteended by any
loss of Lie, has just been reoeived from the far north. On
Saturday the 23rd May, the German emigrant ship Leas-
ing ran ashore in a fog on Pair Isle, between the Ork-
neys and Shetlands : and, the violence of her collision
with the lofty rocks breaking the ship's back, the
sea rushed in, and the passengers and crew, num-
bering some 480 in all, were exposed to immi-
nent jeopardy. The islanderellhowever, actively
and bravely set to the work of rescue ; and through
• cavern communicating with the creek in which
the ship lay, the rocks there being too high and preci-
pitous for any attempt to be made immediately at the
wreck, the passengers were all extricated from their
perilous plight and landed on the summit of the Isle—for
the most part is a thoroughly destitute condition. Infor-
mation of the diameter was at once sent to Lerwick, and a
schooner was despatched thence to the Isle with supplies,
and in two trips brought most of the hickless emigrants to
Lerwick; but the unlooked-for increase of the tetra's
population causes much inconvenience, and the distress of
the shipwrecked families is greater than the resources of
the district can fairly or long be taxed to
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