NORTHERN RAILWAY.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 223, 19 July 1848, Page 2

NORTHERN RAILWAY.

I To tho fiihlOT of (he Mottling Chronivlc. Siß.—Thc following extract of a letter I have jnst received is vtv\\ worth the attention of the public : — " The accounts from Pans tins morning speak of the grent uncpitamty that prevails as to what may next take place. Then* ia one point, however, of import* ance mentioned, which is, ' that all the French employed on the Northern Railway had met and determined that no English engineer or stoker should be employed on the line in tuture, and that they would m t allow any train to start till they had all been dismissed,' " AH ilia English employed bad been naturally much excited and exasperated. " It would be well for the English workmen in this c untry to ohecrvo one of the first fruits of political libeity in France. This is not the only instnnce of the ill feeling of the French lower orders towaids people of their own class and our English workmen in France. Nearly 2000 English women have been turned out of the manufactories at Rouen, md these poor creaturea are houseless and penniless. " Two hundicd and forty of them had already arrived at Havre, and the consul, Mr. Featherstonhaugh, was making preparations aud getting steamers ready to send them to England. They weic employed in cotton monufuctinics, and had followed thur husbaiido, wlo were working on the railway. " If gentlemen in Kng'und would j^et up a meetinp: to rai6C funds to assist these poor people, it would be much better than tiy ing to inflame the pussionH of those who have neither time nor opportunity to reflect upon (he results that may be anticipated from the cvcntt of kit week." Yoma, &c, F.