The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-25 00:00:00

(Stamped, ld. Additional.)

and that the extraordinary efforts now making in the EasC
by Franceand Kumla, to strengthen their influence among
the nations, demand the most urgent attention of all who
desire to uphold the indoeno. of British and protestant prin-
ciple. in the East."
The Rev. J. W. Rtsta seconded the resolution, which
was carried.

111 e Itev. Mr. Nolan moved the next resolution, "fann-
ing the importance at theobiects which the society proposed
to effect, which was seconded by Earl DUCIE and carried.
Several other gsationen having addressed the meeting,
a vote of thanks to the .human eland the proceedings.

TYNEJIOUtH SLICTION.

(From the Newthede Chroxick)
On Tuesday morning the town of North Shields
was astir by times, and both parties made the moot active
arrangements for the peat emistitutiooal battle at the poll
at eight o'clock. Before that hour long *burp of ado
came rolling in from the outlying districts filled with
country voters, each carriage haling an agent of the Duke
of Northumberland as one of the pmeasgen ; and as the
clock chimed eight the whole of theme early-risiog gen-
tlemen were ranged is lines in the polling booth—and
singular to say. they all voted for Mr. Hodgeon.
Our skipoinver friel were also moths, and they rushed
to and fro is cabs, giving the free and independent
ideate,. a lift to the poll. Mr. 11 committee also
=end at nine o'clock that gestan was 40 sided.
way's ocitomittee were not idle, however, bat men
ND moo dialcult to lead than drive, more especially at
ideethes, and they came sheet at the feet hour. By bah=
=thee they succeeded In ending Mr. Hodepene's majoritg
ore-ball. it jumped up a little at ten. At a
Insider to eleven Mr. Hodge= was only ll' ahead of
.Xr. Otway, bat at eleven ft was said the betehese bad
come in a body from Newcastle market and voted for
Mr. Hodgson. Be that as it may, hie majority rose and
romois I.2it up until four.
sen+lecto whet ;eit he win zeturbned.a.
cies immense
wamee were
stumbled in front of the Town-halleryrfb
and Mr. Otway's
committee rooms during the whole mum of the day,
every man, woman. and child of this lanomme assemblage
thing apparently ardent friends of Mr. Otway—end it was
almost pathetic to witness the interest they took in the
poll, and the sorrow they expressed as their candidate—
for Mr. Otway wen emphatically the public csodidate—
fell behind in the voting. Between twelve and foes
o'clock, when it wee found that Hodpion most win, the
people appeared to become adipose and longed,
especially when CAM were told that the ' screw " had
been put on and this a number of poor persona who bad
promised Mr. Otway had voted for Mr. liodpon —it
wee alleged their compulsion and the more 1101.11i0011
mirth' ins of Mr. Hodpoo more especially one of the
sub-epnts of the Duke of Northumberland, were i=
The pawn alluded to wee lied a considerable
egNois
with reeds aid Mr. Mips, in wake( to and fro
betweee the . bad the seas wassweery emegiimont
paid Whim. The bringing up Madame's vetoes Wen
also hooted at, and
lisle pelted, thinnidertimeile
drivers deo coming is for' al maim mighe diet Igo
nips. Os sevenif commlege thimbles. et golletandi
we, tendered , rind a km el fawned, methrjs rim&
leaden were teen lodged in Nimenes 4... Mr.
-Otway and his friends, whenever they had a per.
Led ovation. They had just the oppeellealliP4mmets paid
to them by "Meg Mob " that wer4feired Ir.' Node-
ion sad lie hashers. They were em the bock, and
when they locieglit up doctors to kw Mr. Otway, they
were peedend with volleys of chewing end htuvabe. Tb
mow sheathe/ woe the most exciting and extraordinary
ever witnessed In Noah Shields.
At the close el the poll the ambers wire—Hodpon,
42$ ; Otway, 376. Msjonty for Mr. Hodpoe, 49.
Shortly after four o'clock the declaratioe of the poll took
Mee, amid the confusion and uproar which had character
feed the previous proceedings. The hustiege were crowded
as both ides ; end foe the safety of the structure, from the
repeated 'than which were leads ;wen it, some fears were
enteriebsed. To keep the excited crowd at a respectable die-
tame', a ember of policemen were stationed in front ; and to
ionemplhe the desired object recourse was occasionally bad
to estmewhat @kindest mesas. Dethrintmed not to be bathed
Sy Jammed .chide rushed Tidied? forward ; end in the
Wort ter, Wpm them some frightful scenes were whammed.
The coodalibis; ineludieg their worthy superintendent,
_Mr.
Bentith were tossed to and fro like 4 wave; and if 6*
!= esomied, their hate mine is for a liheiel Awe of
Oa, she affaaasmos el the candidates. the soles
e7el;rtheame more Mimes, Mr. Otway being graded with
othemeet cased, while Mr. Hodgson was nest with DB the
=rdensoadrethee. A few stems were athethosel at
at the heeds& memo led by the mud= eked; hot,
fortentitely, a stop was ' put to that dare.... peon
Ifiai mom mod, presided, ' appealed to the MOO of
emehrUsge by freely waving his hand, and
them some otherrations, which, to the nmeldadtk=ere,
wets about inissidibin After a few minuted however, a
partial silence was obtained.
Mr. HODOBOII, on putting himself in a speaking attitude,
was seemßed with a storm of hisses and other disapproving
sounds. Knowing the it wee impossible, even by preenag
his teethe of the mtis day, to make himself heard by
the large einem the honourable gentleman turned
rotted to and Welly reseed the occupants of the hut-
loge. To the femoral body of the reporters present, how-
11141C. his remarks were totally inaudible ; red amid
a con-
tinuance of the uprose., Mr. Halves withdrew.
Mr. Otway, as on previous occasions, was remind with
loud cheers and other enthusiastic demonstrations.
One of the most extraordinary scenes ever witnessed in
Shields mooned after the declaration. Mr. Hodder, some-
time or other after the declaration, with his committee, es-
caped from the busting and got to his rooms in Howard-
drink and a few minutes before five o'clock a body of
some SO North and South Shields policemen were marched
down to the building, and formed into a square, amid
the most fearful shouts from a crowd of at least two
thousand men and lads. Mr. Hodgson and his
Mends then came out of the house and tont their place
is the equate formed by the polioe—Mr. Hodgson having
a penes like a Berwiek freeman em his left bend, and Mr.
Alderman Mavens on hieright—stallislerumen of the church
of Zeeland, unknown in the borough. followed next him,
and his committee made up the rear, and proceeded to the
North Shields Railway Station, by way of Saville-street ;
the mob pelting them with rotten apples, rotten sip,
onions, arid, we regret to my, stone, and shouting end
yelling in the most awful manner. Mr. Alderman Maysos,
in his endeavours to protect the newly elected from vio-
lence, had his hat knocked over his ears several times with
doers. His committee also, more or lees, felt the effects
of those salutes on their heads or ribs. Inspector Pattison
got an ugly rap on the back part of his head, and it is feared
the some of his ribs broken ; and Mr. Hodgson received an
ugly cut on the left side of the temple from a stone. The
police had to charge the mob several times with their
staves before the extraordinary—and it must he admitted,
sadly frightened procession—reached the railway station,
into which Mr. Hodgson and his friends rushed pell-mell,
and amid the meet awful shouts sad yells of derision ever
heard in Shields from a mob, and the cheers of his commit-
tee, Mr. Hodgson left for Tyuemouth by the 4.50 express
train from Newcastle. The police were pelted with stones
on their way to the policostatioo, but no further mischief
occurred.

iiinoliaesien with the election. Mr. Wylem, a most re.
spectabli builder, twinging to the borough, hen at
our North Shields office, with a most frightful wound in his
forehead. He dates that he was standing in the crowd
when the rash wee made before the declaration, and was
driven against the police ; that he was thereupon dragged
into the police.st•tioo, and felled in the station from a blow
by a policeman's staff. The poor man is very seriously in-
jured—and if it be as he states, it appears to be a very
scandalous piece of business to knock a non down like a
hallo* after be has been safely lAN' into custody. No
doubt the subject will be inquired into.
The electoral roll showed 1,094 votes, and, as analysed,
was as follows :—On the register, 1,094 ; error, 1 ; dupli-
cates, 93 ; dead, 20 ; absent, or will not vote. 130-244.
Polbible, 850. About one-half of the Roman catholic voters
on the register polled for Mr. Hodgson, headed, we regret
to say, by their priest, the Rev. J. W. Sawicki. We un-
derstand that the following note was hawked about the
town of North Shields to induce catholic, to go over to the
Tory side :—" To put away any misconception of the opi-
nion I hold, I beg to say that my interests keys been with
the Conservative party iron list to last.—J. W. BZWICIE."

BOOK &MIT cos PROKOTINO RZLIGIOCK KNOW-
LIDGZ AVONCI TEL Poort.—The 111th annual wince and
meeting of this society took plump last evening at the Lon-
don Ceiree•house, Ludgatn4lll; Mr. Sheriff Lusk in the
chair. The 11ev. J. V. Mummery, F.R.A.S., the wow
tarn read the report, which stated that during the past year
a greater number of new subscribers had been added to the
list than in any similar period limos the society was fan
established. Free greats of books and tracts had been made
to institutions akimbo in the United Kingdom, Germany,
and Jamaica. A large number of publications had been
circulated in India among our soldiers. The financial state.
meet showed that the receipts for the past yearamounted to
5.0511., and the expenditure to 5,0164, leaving a laslases of
IN. The report, which also announced the resignation by
Mr. Alderman Challis of the office of treasurer, was adopted
uanninouely.
According to the last accounts from South
Australis. the volunteer force in that colony numbered up-
,p mem. •
A nimber of Politit refugees wished to have a
lima* the
at
of the souls of the victims at Warsaw
11414Xtii:hoii °otife Paris, fr Dame
om Monday
i but
considerations,
did/hied Is consent to what was de&ed.iclln the Church of
the Batigeolles, • low mar was, however, celebrated by a
Pelish priest.
Mr. A. Brough, wine and spirit merchant, of
lit__:iltraeit tea entree his pier le accordance with the further
redaction WO* View doges.' Se Is now selling eicellent J'
rl4 Merry at tea per doom sod s good Round Claret at Ito. pet
Maim bottle* Incladed.—(Atlvertlasmeut. I

[T WO:PENCE.

THE DISPUTE IN THE BUILDING' "ADZ'

Notwithstanding statements made in various
Journals, this unfortunate dispute has not yet ten.iiwted,
Contradictory assertions are daily being made by the reaps•
tive pertains of the employers and the operatives, but As
following is the present state of the question, obtained film
as impartial source.

On Thursday last a special meeting of the Master Branders'
Central Association was convened, for the purpose of toting
the system of payment proposed by Messrs. Belk, Lam.
end Porto, into consideration, this system being 7d. per
hour to skilled artisans, with the Saturday half-holiday. At
this meeting it was proposed that the above mode of pay-
ment should for the future be made compulsory on all mem-
bers of the association. A stormy discussion ensued. It
was contended ,on the one hand that this system of pay-
ment would at once be acceded to by the great
majority of the workmen, and speedily put an end to the
power now exercised by the trade societies. On the other
hard, it was usseted that the proposed mode of payment
was distasteful to the operatives at large, whether society or
non-society men, that it would be strenuously resisted, and
that though one or two firms might obtain their comple-
mented man this would not be the me with the trade
genendly, sod that consequently another lock-out would
arise • sad Omagh the workmen might be ultimately de-
feated Memommosnisse would be dike ftlioooo to a large
properties of die maller firms, who could not afford to
allow their plant and capital to remain idle. After a
lengthatied argument a compromise was effected by a rem-
brim being awrisd by a large majority that the proposed •
payment by the hem Amid he resoomasaded by the Mas-
ten' hasendatica .for adoption by its mambas,, leaving it,
however, to be applied for by the workmen themselves in
the respective firms if tbey wished the system to be carried
out. Up to She present time, however, there is no reason
to believe that this has been the case, though it is rumoured
that the men employed at Messier Trollope's, in whose
yards the strike of last year originated, have so applied.
scald this wove true it must be recolleated that the Inv..,
proportion of the men now employed by that firm watt il.
last year under the "document," and men* thenlem,hn
said to reprint the feelings and opinions of the genrill
body of workmen.
With respect to the workmen it is indisputably the fact
that the greatest repugnance to work under the hour
system, as at present proposed, still exists. They argue
that by ametithig Ibis mode of payment they would pima
themselves, as skilled workmen, is thiamin maiden as the •
casual and enekilled laboirer, reader* themselves liable
le he sails{ to a job for one, two, or three hour, and then
• • Thiry have offered to she masters to accept the
Td. per if engaged by the day, and the masters will de-
em how limy hours is tole a dars work, and have pledged
themselves that no strike shall, this fear at all events, take
Waite for the its hours, tether la/ Work Ms the old terme
until*, nineilisane gaieties issettleh Mr. Loses bow this .
wee visited hie werks at Lowestoft, sal proposed UN PIP
meat by the 2tour to his workmen there, but the
rhea strongly demur to the system. The London
vorics of Mesas. Belk, Lucas, and Porto, have
a Urge number of men employed, but very far short of their
complement, sad as the works of the Exhibition advance,
when several Mildred, mare will be required, the ultimate
imam of their system in the two of the continued °mei-
OM of the men is doubtful.

Numerous &kid •meatinp of the workmen in the
VIII6OIII hewer of the building trade have been held dur.
ing *slant week, at ail of which resolutions hare been
pared condemnatory of the mode of payment by the hour,
and pledging determined opposition to it, and the feeling
against the system seems equally ettong with the non.
society es With Moiety min, many of the former haring •
spoken at these swilage.

An aggeigate nem* et Yen bedding ogisentives is called
to iDlMOnoir, M laorda-laU. when the question will
be elsarl7 pat before altua. sad the decision of that meeting
enersrinlig AIWA the siglement d the question.

A crowded meeting of hawse painters and decorators was
Leal hat sight in the Flirty,-hall, Little PurUsed-street,
Oxford-street, to protest agaiaet the system proposed by the ,
masters of payment by the hour. Mr. Vickery occupied
the chair, and the meeting having been addressed by Messrs.
Wright, Shaw, Quilts", klyerson, and others, resolutions
expressive of stoma disapproval of the system of payment
by the hour proposed by the masters, and pledging those
present to resist it, were adopted.

POPULAR PANATICIRM AGAINST THE JEWS.

Authentic letter front Vilna, which have
reached the metropolis, give a detailed account of an awful
calamity which has befallen the .Tews of e whole district in
the, government of Hewn°. The particulars are then :
List January a little petulant girl, of the village of dlthey.
was missed. Suddenly the report was spread that the chld
bad been kidnapped by the Jews, in order to make use of-
its blood In the Passover ceremonies. A judicial inquiry-
was at mos instituted, the houses of the neighbouring Jew,
were thoroughly *earthed, but no trace of the girl could-
be discovered. A month afterwards her body was tonal
under a mar of snow which lad begun to melt. The •
village priest thee preached in the church that the Jew-
after having drawn the blood from the child, had buried
the amps is the snow. The proprietor of the estate,
Nualling the priest in fanaticism, made the same assertion.
The excitement of the ignorant peasantry against the unfor-
tunate Jews thus spread farther daily, and at last grew to
sash intinsity that it became really furious. All intenoune
with the Jews of the whole district was cut off, and any
Jew that dared to show himself in the street was assailed'
with hatchets. Moreover, the leading Jews of licillawhin,
were at opus thrown into prison, there to await their trial,
as murderers. All is usual at such times of excitement, an
informer, who had witnessed all the proondisip of the
alleged crime, was not wanting. A worthless individual,
a Jew by birth and a thief by profession, who had just been
discharged from gaol, came forward, etating that be was
present when the Jews slaughtered the girl, and caught up
her blood, aid even named all the individuals who pant-
, cipated in the atrocity. When this temble news reached
Wilma, the capital of the province. the Governor—Gann'.
Nasimpw, a truly humane and enlightened gentleman—at
one despatched Count Tolstoi, twomipauied by an intelli-
, gent Hebrew, to the spot, in order to inquire into the
subject, and there can be no doubt but that the Russian
authorities will thoroughly sift the matter. But the course
of justice is naturally slow, the conspiracy against the Jews
widespread, and the rage of the pennants nagovernable.
The saffermas of the Jews at this moment, from popular
fanaticism, are truly awful. Nothing but the prompt and
efficient protection of the government can Pare them from
unending dietreseiaa.--Jesteet Clausiele.