The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-02 00:00:00

SHIPBUILDERS' ASSOCIATION.-IMPOR TANT MEETING. . Yesterday morning, a special general meeting of this body took place in the Regulating Office, Strand-street, to consider theyropriety of Advertising for strangers, and to transact other liusiness connected with the association. Mr. John Green presided, and the following members were present:—Messrs. Clayton, Boyd, Major, W. Pope, J. Pope, I. Evans, Potter, Ladmore, Johnson, Paul, M'Elroy, Dawson, Royle, Bell, Jackson, Brown, Fitzpatrick, W. B. Jones, Clarke, Smith, Garrett, Costain Cato, R. Evans, - hon. secretary, and H. Crosbie, assistant secretary. The CHAIRMAN said before going into the business of the day, he would mention that he attended the meeting at the Concert Hall, on Wednesday last, and a statement was there made by him which 'they might have read in the papers. That meeting had called forth some remarks from the Clironicle, with reference to apprentices, and before going into the subject of the meeting, namely, to advertise for strangers, he wished to hear any remarks which any gen tleman might desire to make with reference to the appren tices. Mr. GRAYSON said : Gentlemen, before making the re marks which I had intended to do, I would merely say it was late yesterday evening when I received the notice res pecting the object of the meeting this day, namely, to take into consideration the necessity of immediately resorting to the alternative of immediately advertising to bring . strange shipwrights into the port. Without giving an opinion. at present, on this point, .I should have been glad had a little more time been allowed for consideration. ft is a very serious and important consideration, and which, if acted on, will probably bring us into direct collision with our workmen, and which, by no means improbable, will end in what is com monly called a strike. Before alluding to the subject, I think we have been called upon by some remarks which were made at a public meeting of the Shipwrights' Association, on Wednesday last, and taken up and commented upon most fully by a portion of the Liverpool press, to offer some observations in reply. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) We have been publicly charged with multiplyi ng th e num ber of apprentices to such an extent as thereby to act un- justly alike towards the operative shipwrights and ship owners. We have also been further charged with directly stimulating the men to demand an advance of wages, and the ground alluded to, and stated for that assertion is that we aught be able to rcaliso a greatpr amount of profit from the employment of our apprentices. Now, gentlemen, it is not for your satisfaction. I intend to make those remarks. We know that this is utterly untrue ; but I think the time is come when we should be doing injustice to ourselves if we did not explain the circumstances at some length for the satisfaction of the shipowners, shipwrights, and the public at large. At that meeting, on Wednesday, one of the most intel ligent of the speakers absolutely admitted and traced the cause of the present scarcity . of shipwrights to the masters them selves, for not employing and raising a greater number of apprentices. (Hear, hear.) These gentlemen, will corrobo rate what I state. Surely this must be a lapses lingu : but it is a pretty fair admission of the state of the case. However, I think, in - dependent of this consideration, the very facts of the case, the figures given by the shipwright's association alone, are still more conclusive. They give in round figures the number of Liverpool shipwrights at 1700, and the num ber of apprentices, if I am rightly informed, is about 750. Now, gentlemen, it is notorious, although there may be an immense amount of work in the port, it is very unequally divided amongst the individual masters; one master may be overstocked with work, whilst his neighbour is actually with out work, and with the bulk of his apprentices unemployed in his yard. Making allowance for such cases, and the great number of apprentices always employed on new work in the yards, I think it will be self-evident that on an average there cannot have been more than 600 or 600 employed on the whole. Now, it is notorious, that every shipwright in Liverpool, unless he wilfully absented himself, has been at work, or might have been at work, during the past twelve months; and, consequently, if you divide 500 in 1700, the relative proportions on the whole average cannot possibly have exceeded the regular proportion of one apprentice to every three men. Undoubt edly there are particular ships, and have been, where a larger number of apprentices have been employed; but every mas ter knows that in the multiplicity of his work he will inva riably have some particular ship which is much more urgently required than others. How is he to get on with his ship? In one of two ways. Either by offering a higher rate of wages, and attracting the men from his neighbours, or, which I consider infinitely p re f era bl e , d ra i n i ng a ll hi s own work and concentrating his force on this individual ship. This accounts for the fact—(l believe it is a fact) — that a very great proportion, three-fourths sometimes of the whole of the hands at a particular ship, have been appren tices—l, for one, do not deny it Mr. W. B. Jorms : I have one ""now ; because I cannot get men. (Hear, hear.) Mr. GRAYSON : So far from extortion being thereby prac ticed upon the ship owners exactly the reverse is the fact. It has frequently been found to be a loss to the master to have his apprentices going from ship to ship, and the gain on the whole has been decidedly in favour of the ship owner. (Hear, hear.) I might, perhaps, menti on one case. I had a ship very recently in N. 1, Queen - hi G-huyin g D..L., for heavy repairs. The ship belonged to one of the oldest, most experienced, and, I may add, one of the most shrewd ship owners in the port of Liverpool. Without mentioning any names, I may state the fact generally, that I believe I never had a larger number of apprentices on any ship. So far from finding fault, although he personally attended the ship very frequently, I can only say that the ship owner not only did not find fault with me for so doing, but on more than one occasion he asked was it not possible for me to get him some more apprentices. I think this makes its own com ment, and we are at least cleared on the ground of any in justice to the shipwrights by this multiplicity of apprentices, and we also see how it affects the owners. Mr. M'Erzoy : That remark from the shipowner would have been in consequence of the men not attending, as well as the apprentices. Mr. diAxsox : That was one reason, I think. So far as my own experience goes, the ship owners are we ll aware o f this fact. I can scarcely call to mind an instance where I have made any secret of it to a shipowner. When _they have found fault with that state of things, they have been per fectly satisfied when it has been fully explained to them. Another charge brought against us by a portion of the press is, how comes it that unlike all . other trades in the port, you not only empl o y a greater number of apprentices, but von charge them as full-blown journeymen. Well, at first sight this certainly requires explanation. It is cer tainly unlike trades, generally ; but our trade is unlike trades generally. In no other trades in our own port, or in any other trade port in the kingdom, or of the world, does such a state of things exist as a master tradesman having no benefit directly or indirectly for the employment of journeymen. I think this is not so generally known as it ought to be. Neither directly or indirectly do we receive any profit from the employment. of journeymen. When we take into ac count that we have to employ foremen (I have myself six whom I never discharge, and who, when unemployed, pro duce no return or profit, and who are not employed more than three quarters of the year), the balance is a very impor tant and serious set off against the profits derived from ap prentices. I would also state, although certainly they have been a source of very great profit during the present year, that we need not go very far back—and I for one turned over a few days ago to a very recent time, where, for three months consecutively, the balance of my yard account, in cluding apprentices, foreman, and all, was a very heavy and continuous loss. (Hear, hear.) I would also take this op portunity of remarking that the apprentices themselves have not been without a portion of the increased profit ; 3d. in the shilling at each advance has been added to their earnings, and the amount including overtime earned by those appren tices has not unfrequently reached, and considerably exceeded £1 per week. Mr. APELROY : Very frequently. _ _ _ Mr. GRAYSON : I think those remarks have been called for, and as I said before I have not made them for our own satisfaction, but in reply to charges, which if allowed to pass uncontradieted in the public papers, would certainly make it appear we were acting in an improper manner. (Hear, hear). This is a fit opportunity to go into other matters connected with the trade. I think we stand in a most anomalous position. The-master shipwrights of Liverpool are unlike any other masters. In fact the term master is a misnomer strictly speaking, (Hear, hear) for our very work shops, the Graving' docks are not under our own control. (Hear, hear). We are as it were, to use a common phrase just now, a species of mediums between the higher spirits and the lower—between the s pi r it e d rapp i ngs f rom a b ove, and the spirituous responses from below. (Hear, hear). I think our present situation as such is no sinecure. (Hear, hear). We have been as it were the butt of the public au thorities of this town. lam n o t yet a very old man, but I can recollect within the last seventeen years, the firm with which I have been connected, having been three times re moved from their yards by the public authorities, without any recompense whatever, (Hear, hear), and that at an es timated expense of something like £9900 or £7OOO. (Shame) Not only so, but next to the provisions of building yards, Graving dock accommodation was the object which af fected us nearest. (Hear, hear). I was for some years secretary to this association, and it frequently devolved upon me to make application from time to time to the dock committee, when the Albert dock wa re h ouses were b e i ng kilt, and be fore the Collingwood dock was completed, that they would increase our Graving dock accommodation, particularly towards the centre ofthe port,--in fact to have a Graving dock attached to nearly every wet dock, or at all events in suitable proportion. But no, anything would do f or th e s hi pwr i g ht s of Liverp oo l. When the new scheme for the north extension commTiced, we again applied that th e G rav i ng d oc k accom modation might be increased to meet the extent of the wet dock accommodation, but again no provision was made for the important matter of Graving docks. (Hear, hear). The consequence has been that their necessity has at last been so forced on the attention of the dock committee, that they were compelled to increase the amount of the Graving dock aceommmodation. B u t as though it were to incommode us in every possible way th ey could imagine, they have created those splendid ranges of Graving docks at the very antipodes, to where the few existing shipbuilding yards are, and where the great body of the workmen have for years resided.—Not only so, but even at the present moment, in what is now before the committee as a new scheme for the . further extension of the docks, i ns t ea d o f M r . Bartley Wag advantage of the present splendid range of the Bandon basin to provide those means for building yards on a convenient site, he is still acting on the very same principles. Somewhere about th e Bootle land-marks I see a new dock is proposed wher e building accommodation is to be, provided for the trade of Liverpool. (Hear, hear). A MEMBER : Does the Earl of Derby's land go that far ? (Hear, hear). Mr. GRA.YSON : I cannot imagine that the authorities are actuated by any ill feeling towards the shipbuilding trade ; but had they been so, no course could have been more cal culated to ruin and drive the trade of shipbuilding from the port than that exercised by the authorities of Liverpool. (Applause). I need not go farther than this very room. Is this miserable and wretched hovel, after paying for years for the graving -docks, a suitable place formeeting theharbour master, and regulating. This is the place applied for our use; lean only accept it as a token of the esteem, or rather the want of it, in which, as a body, we are held and treated by the authorities of the town—the Dock Committee I most particularly refer to. (Hear, hear). Mr. W. B. JONES believed the place was built for Mr. Hartley's shovels and picks. Mr. GRAYSON : I am glad to see the provision which has been made for shipbuilding on the opposite side of the water; it is far better than none at all; but for the sake of the good old town, I would have been still more happy to have it granted on this side of the Mersey. (Hear, hear). I have to apologise to you for occupying what I know to be valuable time ; but it appears to me we are engaged in a very important matter, and if I shall not be intrusive I will go still further into the features of the case. I believe from the information I received in the notice, it is considered necessary, by a number of members of the association, that we should now adopt serious measures to improve the state of our trade by the introduction of strangers. Now, some thing like twelve months ago, when this pressure of business first arose, a deputation from this association attended, and a very unusual circumstance it was, but to show they were desirous of doing everything in their power that rea sonable men could do,— a deputation from this association waited on the journeymen at their club- room in Bond street, and there urged on them the necessity of their adopt ing some measures for providing an increased number of shipwrights to do the work of the port. I believe Mr. M'Elroy specified the number, but at least there was work for 300 or 400 additional men. Mr. M'EraloY : 400 or 500 was named. Mr. GRATsoli: However, the number was absolutely stated that we required for their own interest, for our inte rest, and the interest of the public. Had they acted on the advice given in so friendly a spirit—and I wish the same spirit had animated the men ; but they appear from some injudicious remarks made here, to have got the impres sion that we are taking and acting the part of tyrants towards them. I can only speak the sentiments of the whole body, when I state that no set of masters are actuated by better or kindlier feelings than the master ship wrights of Liverpool towards their operatives. (Applause). I fear it is in a .spirit of retaliation that ever since our meetings were made public, the journeymen have gone greater lengths than they did formerly. It is only within the last few weeks we have had complaints from them on the breach of the rules, in employing more than one appren tice to the proportion of three men. They have tacitly coincided with us in the necessity of this during the whole of the past year, and I repeat, I think it is in a spirit of retaliation at the present moment that they are now endeavouring to throw that in;our faces, and to charge us with a breach of the rule. However, before we take such a s t e p as t o a d ver ti se f or a number f strangers, it is our duty in the present state, not only of the trade of Liverpool, but if we look around and see the state of society, particularly of some of the work ing classes throughout the whole country, to look well to our footing before we take so important a step as that. (Hear, hear.) As Lord John Russell recently said, the best preparation for war, was first to exhaust all me ans o f preserving peace. I think that is the principle upon which we should still act, although I admit that no body of masters in any other port, or in any other town in the kingdom, would so long and so submissively have allowed the present state of things to have gone on as ourselves. (Applause.) There is nothing which will lead more to the removal of the prejudice, for I will call it nothing else, they appear to en tertain against the association, than proving to them that we are ourselves willing to make some sacrifices to remedy the present state of things; that we are not calling upon them to reduce the value of their labour, which undoubtedly an increase in the number of men would naturally do, without, at the same time, being prepared ourselves in some way or other to meet their case. Now the idea that has suggested itself to me will probably, I think, not be approved of by all. It is a matter that will affect seriously the pockets of some of us. I shall be glad, however, to suggest it, after, I can assure you, the most serious consideration on my part, as most likely to meet the present case, and it is this : that the journeymen should be called upon to increase their present number of shipwrights from 1700, to, at all events, 2000, but in consequence of the fact that in most parts of the kingdom the apprenticeship is confined perhaps to five or six years, there certainly does appear some mjusticein bringing men amongst them of that class whereas Liver pool men have all to serve th e f u ll apprenticeship of seven years. This, T think, wnald he cagily rpmcdiod, if it were made a provision betore such men were admitted, for a year or two, as the case might be, these men should pay th e jour neymen's society a per ten t age of five or ten per cent., or any other amount they might fix upon, towards the support of the society, for when all is said and done, I believe the operatives' society has kept to its legitimate object, to assist the poor, sick, aged, a n d f or the burial of the dead, and is a most praiseworthy one. (Hear, Hear.) It is the abuse and not the use of this society we find fault with, and in order to meet that on our parts, I should propose that every master in this association should give up the whole of his apprentices who are now in the seventh year, that is to say that all from six years upwards, should be at once made journeymen, (hear, hear,) they on th e i r own p ar t , a l so paying a contribution, which. I would leave entirely to the journeymen themselves to settle, but paying a contribution towards the support of the society. (Hear, hear.) Mr. PAUL: That is to be in addition to the 300 men. Mr. GRAYSON: It appoars to me we are standing alone on seven years apprenticeship. It is a remnant of barbarism, that any young man should be called upon to devote seven years of the best of his life, to the service of any . master. This has been seen in most other pro fessions, and they have gradually reduced it to five or six years. This is a matter for the consideration of the journeymen than for us, but it is to show them that the masters, with a view to produce a more satisfactory state of things, are prepared to bear their part of the loss that may accrue from the regulation, and at the same time we are convinced it is the only step that can be taken to prevent the collision that must eventually end in the greatest misery to themselves, and the greatest loss to us, the ship owners, and the general trade of the port. (Hear, hear. In order to carry this out the first suggestion I would make is this : that on a given day in the course of the ensuing week our own secretary and the secretary of th e shipwrights' association, and a third, and perfectly independent party selected by them both, should commence at one end of the town, and ask each individual master distinctly how many men he was then in want of; and that there may be no exag geration, a list should be prodnced by each master, with the name of the ship for which they were required. By pur suing this course it would at once show us the facts of the case; it would put an end to grumbling, and denying the Tact that we are in want of men, which is boldly denied occasionally. This would put us on a fair basis to commence with. After having done so, I would suggest, as the next step, that the men having prejudices against some of the masters of the association, the masters should name six or eight persons, or any other number whom they thought they could repose confidence in as acting in a fair and ' impartial manne r and, on the oth er h an d t h a t the men, on their part, should select , an equal number of their asso ciation, who had not committed themselves in any de cided manner, as some of them have done, that they never will agree to men coming to work from other ports ; but select a number of intelligent and sensible men to meet an equal number of masters , and discuss this question. I Should further suggest that a chairman or arbitrator be Selected • from amongst independent shipowners. If some step of this kind were taken, it would put us in such a position of fairness before the whole world, th e y cou ld not resist acceding to ou r proposition. (Hear, hear). There is no force so strong as that of justice, and particularly when it is supported . by public ?pinion ; (Hear hear). As I said I think some injudiciou s a ll us i ons about breaking up the chili and-so-forth, have' done no good but the contrary. I never knew a body of Englishmen whom a threat ever in fluenced. I believe they are most accessable to reason, argument and justice ; but of all classes in the world, they are the most uninfluenced, if not, positively prejudiced, by anything approaching to the th rea t. I b e li eve those men were it not for the sufferings of their families and children, many of them would die rather than submit if we once came to an open rupture or strike. And when we find it is 'only through the sufferings of the innocent partners of their homes, that we could expect to gain a victory, it ought to make us more cautious how we produce a collision which would place us in this position. For myself, I recoil from such a thought. At the same time, do not let it be supposed we must not take such steps if the present state of thi ngs aro allowed to continue. I b ow most implicitly to the authority which states, "if possible, live peaceably with all men. But the very mention of the " if' shows there are cases which prove an exception, when it is not possible to live peaceably with all men; and, gentlemen, if we are forced into the position, although no man would make greater sa crifices to avoid it, few would be found to adhere more rigidly to any resolution that might be adopted by this asso ciation, than myself. (Hear, hear.) I have thought it right to go thus into detail before the important resolution is put, because, if once adopted, it would have to be carried out, and I think this is the proper time, before we are committed, either by irritating language or a c t s , to give one clear, open, candid invitation to all concerned, to settle this unhappy difference on legitimate and just grounds. (Hear, hear.) I think we can appeal on the very strongest grounds to our workmen, we can appeal in justice to the shipowner, who now, since the re p ea l o f th e nav i ga ti on laws, has to compete on free trade principl es , w ith the whole world,— who has to run the gauntlet unarmed with every rival commercial nation on the face of the globe, and who alone, when he finds his ship returned to her native port is there to be made the victim of monopoly, THE NORTHERN DAILY TES• (Hear, hear.) I think we can appeal to them on the grounds of justice to ourselves. Where is there another body of men who so freely admit every man without let or hindrance to come in amongst us. (Hear, hear.) We have among the members here a very large proportion who have been working men in Liverpool themselves. We have natives of England, Ireland, and Scotland. We have gentlemen from the continent, and the colonies, and I believe we have a gentleman who has recently arrived from the United States. We offer no oppo sition to any man. We can go further and appeal to their patriotism. Any man deserving the name of a patriot, ought to be ashamed to think, whilst his fellow countryman is perhaps actually in a state of strvation, or beggary at all events, and he has not only enough, but to spare, not able actually to eat the meat that is set before him,—that under such circumstances he would not admit him to a share of his good things. (Hear, .hear.) I think no man can stand up and call himself an Englishman, who can boldly acknow ledge himself a participator in such a sentiment as this. (Hear, hear.) And, gentlemen, finally I think there is a higher and a nobler call yet, an irresistablc call, if indeed we are not mis-named Christians, and indifferent to the commands of our Divine Master. We ought at least to be prepared to meet here on something like __grounds of concession, '1 • ell men -- - _ - Aing unto all men as we would all - men should do unto us, it is one of the greatest, and yet one of the simplest of the Divine commands. (Hear, hear.) I would, therefore. appeal to these men, in justice to the shipowners, in justice to ourselves, as patriots, as Englishmen, and above all, under the sacred name they bear as Christians, to abandon the false position in which they have- now placed themselves, to come forward as honest men, and to meet us on the plat form of fairness and liberality on which we now challenge them to meet us, and if they do not do so, if they accept not those propositions, if they go on in the same course which, I am sorry to say, they are at this moment pursuing, why, then, gentlemen, we can only go forth to the fight with the conviction in our hearts, that we have done everything we could—that our course is justified by God and man, and fight the good battle of justice, reason, and religion. (Applause.) I. would now propose that the resolution, which was to have been submitted, should - not be proposed until the pror position which I have made is fairly and calmly tried. Ile would, therefore, move that Friday should be the day to take the average. Mr. W. B. JONES seconded the proposition of Mr. Gray son A dioeunsion followed as to which day the number of extra men required by the masters should be taken, many of the men being generally absent on the Monday and Tuesday ; but ultimately Saturday was fixed upon for taking the number, the secretary to report the result of his enquiry to the association on the Monday morning following. The CHAIRMAN begged to remind the meeting that the question was then introduction of strangers. It was not so much apprentices or wages as it was the introduction of strangers. The apprentices were part and parcel of the men themselves. Mr.CLAYTON cordially agreed with what had fallen from Mr. Grayson. The question before them was the employment of strangers. The men passed a resolution at their meeting that they would work with whom they pleased, and he was only surprised they had not gone a little farther, and said they would work for whom they pleased. Now he (Mr. Clayton) thought he had a right to come to a similar reso lution. He had a very good feeling towards the Liverpool men and to their club, but if those men would not use him as he wished to use them, they should become two, and if they made a split it would be hard to get them together again. He (Mr. Clayton) was not very easily provoked, but when he saw men whom he had had to work for him on one ship for months together, in fact since last April, leave him it was too bad. Three linen, named Dunphy, Wade, and Mitchell, left him to go to the north-end of the town, to go to a ship of Mr. Royle's, at 10s. per day. He did not believe that Mr. Royle or Mr. Glover knew anything about it, neither did he wish to have those men back, for any man who left his employ never came back. But there was a moral wrong in a man leaving his work before a job was finished upon which he was engaged. He could not, under those circumstances. geta fair day's work for a fair day's pay. The system which the men appeared to be carrying . out by going from one ship to another, was to create disunion amongst the masters. (Hear, hear.) He was inclined to beli e v e thi s f r om the way i n which his men left him. Mr. Neal, in his speech in the Concert Hall, offered to build a new ship in the port of Liverpool, for £2 10s. per ton. He took that on the state ment of ss. per day. Now, he maintained, if a man did a fair day's work for a fair day's pay, surely they could repair a ship for the same amount they could build one. In April last he put a ship, the great bulk of which belonged to himself, into the graving dock to lengthen her 32 feet in the middle. The centre part of a ship could be put in as easily and as cheaply, as a new ship could be built, for there were the dead flats, &c. Now the ship had not beams in her, -no ceiling, no breast hooks in the deck. She was planked up to the gunwale, and he had paid for wages on that ship over £2los. per ton. He now made them an offer to give them £1 per ton more to finish her, which would make £3 10s. per ton, in repairs for labour alone. Perhaps 111 might give them a little more if they came to make a bar gain. They said there was enough of men in Liverpool to worlt. _ 41 there was not—(rear, hedr) —but he thought if they would take the work, as piece work, that would add 500 or 600 to their number, and they might get through ;he work of the port. But the question had been raised not only between themselves and the men, but also between themselves and the public at large, as to who were the rias ters. The men seemed to think the ship-owners wen the masters. He (Mr. Clayton) maintained they the master shipwrights were ; they paid the wages and were liable for it, and they got no value out of those wages. In all other ports this was not the case. In Cumberland the masters clarged I 0 per cent. for paying the wages, and in London tley got 6d. per day on the men. In his own firm, during tle year, they had paid in wages from £15,000 to £20,00), if he had 10 per cent. on it, it would be more than he coal realise from apprentices. They had the same in all other ports. With regard to apprentices he had one thing to atm. Three of his apprentices were, yesterday, sent out of a dip where they exceeded the propOition of Woys allowed to be number of men, and the men would have left the ship if those boys had not gone back to_the yard, although he haC five other ships on which there was not a single apprentee at Work ; in fact he did not keep a large stock of those - oung gentle men, having no building yard, and not feelivg it just to have a large number of apprentices without giving them a fair chance to learn their trade. (Hear, Ivan) He sug gested that piece-work should be connected with Mr. Gray son's motion, and this would relieve them wry much. Mr. Torrps agreed with Mr. Clayton that piece work would go a great way to remedy the evil. He had himself proposed this before, seeing it was the system carried out in the United States and the Colonies. He rather thought, th e men would accede to this and he was still of opinion that there were good men enough in Liverpwl without the help of strangers, to do the work if they could try a book of prices. If they would not do so it vas indispensable they should have a stand-up fight. Mr. CLAYTON remarked that in Loidon all work was done by piece work, according to a book of prices. The London rate of wages was 6s. per day, ani as wages in Liverpool ranged at 7s. per day, he proposed that 10 per cent be added to the London prices. Mr. GRAYSON remarked that ;his would form a part of the consideration of the committee appointed. After a brief discussion the notion of Mr. Grayson was carried, and the consideration of the propriety of adver ising for strangers deferred. In the course of the conversation a doubt was expressed as to whether there were 1,700 ship wrights in Liverpool, and it was suggested that not only the number of men required by each master should be ascer tained, but also the number of men in each master's employ. Mr. FITZPATRICK complained that what he had said at a previous meeting was entirely misrepresented in the ilio•cury's report. His observations applied only to apprentices, and he never said a single syllable about journeymen. In vferenee to-the lads going to Thiblin and other places, lie Aid they would "tire them out," but he never used the worts "starve them out,", attributed to him in the Mercury. The CHAIRMAN confirmed Mr. Fitzpatrick's statement. Mr, FITZPATRICK remarked with reference to -un away apprentices he was sorry Mr. M'Clean was not present. Mr. JONES hoped personalities would be ovoidal. The CHAIRMAN read the following applicati'n from the ship joiners for an increase of wages "Club Room of tie L. S. J. A. 20th Oct&er, 1853. "Sir—We, the Liverpool ship joiners tak, the liberty of submitting to your notice the following Jequest. In con sequence of the advanced rate of prices generally on articles of consumption, &c., we find our present rate of wages inadequate to 'meet the demand; therepre we have come to the conclusion that a request be reavectfully made to the employers for an advance of one shillag per day, commencing on the Ist of November. We true that on giving this due consideration, you will acknowledge it as a reasonable request. "Signed on behalf of the Association, gewd. BROWNE. President. WINTOX, Vice-President. 4 titEECE NANNERZ, Secretary. 'Wm. ASHTON Treasurer." A converation follower', in which it was stated that the ship joiners, had been raid one shilling per day less than the shipwrights. and 41e wages of the latter, were now 7s. per day, they were eititled to the increase. A motion for an increase of 6d. per day was carried. In reply to questions from the Chairman, Mr. M'ELROY stated that Bs. per day was being paid by Mr. Milligan. on a ship in the Sandon Dock; and that a Dutch master was paying at the same rate. Mr. Sotherbury was also piing the same wages. Mr. JolEs suggested that the latter gentleman should be written Jo, and if he did not give a satisfactory answer, that he should be fined £5. Mr. CROSBY reported that Mr. Sotherbury also carted mer down to his ship. A discussion then followed as to a larger allowance rate for appprentices, but eventually the subject was re ferred for the consideration of the committee. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman, and e proceedings terminated. On Monday, a woman named Ellen O'Brien, was found in the canal by the Bushington bridge, floating on the water, and quite dead, EMPORIUM for FOREIGN and BRITISH SHAWLS AND MANTLES, BOLD- STREET J. MACLENNAN begs to intimate that he is. now SHOWING his new STOCK of WINTER SHAWLS and MANTLES, and would draw especial attention to the MANTLE Department, which is unusually large and well assorted, both in Styles and Materials, having made arrange ments with a first-class Paris House to send. all Novelties as soon as they appear in Paris. N.-X.—An inspection is invited, and on no account will any lady be importuned to purchase, but will meet with the greatest civility. POLICE v COURTS. ---E STE RDAY. LIVERPOOL, CHARGE OF RAPE AGAINST. A POLICEMAN.—The magis trates were engaged for a considerable time in investigating a charge of rape made against Thomas Davis, police-officer 37. Officer 43, deposed that, at a quarter-past three o'clock, yesterday morning, Mrs.. Catherine Gregg gave prisoner in charge to him at George's pier. (Prisoner's beat is No. 1, Prince's dock.) The person charging said, that prisoner had committed an indecent assault upon her sister, at her dwelling. house, 15, Coburgh-street, Park. Mary Horsefield, the prosecutrix, deposed that she had been staying with her sister, Mrs. Gregg, at Toxteth-park, for the last:fortnight ; she had known the prisoner for the last three or four months, who lodged in the" same house, which is kept by her brother-in-law, who is also in the police. On Monday evening, her mother and sister went out; leaving her alone at home to get prisoner his dinner. There was no one left in the house but a sick man, named John Simpson, who was in bed in a back room on the second floor, and who is also a police-officer, (No. 183.) Prisoner came home to his dinner, which he had in the kitchen, on the cellar floor of the house. Whilst witness was removing the table after the prisoner had taken this meal, he suddenly caught hold of her, and threw her with violence on a sofa in the room. The witness then detailed the circumstances of a rape. She made all the resistance in her power, but prisoner stifled her screaming by placing his face over her mouth. Immediately after he had effected his purpose, there was a knock at the street door, and the pri soner left the room and openedlt, when prosecutrix's mother and sister came in, and the moment they entered the house, she complained of the ill-treatment she had received from the prisoner. _ In cross-examination by Mr. Owen for the defence, it was elicited that, on two former 'occasions, prisoner had attempted liberties with the prosecutrix, but she had resisted them; they had not been carried to the extent of indecency. After the girl had given her evidence, she fainted, and was removed from the court. Catherine Gregg deposed that on Monday evening, she and her mother were out. They returned at a quarter to 7 o'clock, and the prisoner opened the street door for them. Witness asked him where her sister was, because she ex pected that the latter would have opened the door. He made some evasivereply. On going intothe kitchen she found her sister with her hair hanging about her neck, standing against the dining table, apparently in a most exhausted state. The first words she said were, "Oh ! you must never leave me alone with Davis again." Witness then asked the prisoner what he had been doing to her sister, and his reply was, " Nothing." One of the surgeons of the Southern Hospital gave evidence as to the medical features of the case, but although his tes timony was very far from conclusive, it did not in any way refute the testimony of the. prosecutrix. Mr. Owens said that he could not avoid admitting that an assault had taken place, but he was sure the magistrates would hesitate' in dealing with the case as one of the graver offence. The future prospects of his client, who was a pub lic officer, depended on their decision, which if unfavourable, would render him a marked man for ever. He hoped the circumstances were such as would justify him in request ing a remand. The magistrates said they would willingly comply with this request, and give the prisoner every facility for his defence. The case was accordingly remanded CHARGE OF FELONIOUSLY ENTERING} A DWELLING' HOUSE. —Frank M'Cullagh was charged by Mrs. Luff, Dub lin Vaults, Regent-road, with having, on Tuesday morning, come into her shop and passing into the bedroom where she was sitting, sliding cautiously on all fours. She gave the alarm, but prisoner escaped by a private stair and door-way. Mr. Luff, went in pursuit, with two officers and never lost sight of the prisoner until they succeeded in arresting him in Carlow-street. There was no property missed. He was remanded to this day, that enquiries might be made about him. LARCENIES.—John Browne was convicted of stealing a quantity of butter on Monday evening, out of the London derry shed, in the north west corner of the Clarence dock. He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. Mary Smith was remanded, charged with stealing a shawl from the pawn-office of Mr. Kehoe, of Vauxhall-road, and attempting to pawn it at Rawlins, in Scotland-road. As her till this day, to make enquiries. Thomas Ambrose was remanded, charged with stealing bacon from a shop in Vauxhall-ro a d. Th e b acon was f oun d on his person by constable 199, and identified. EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES BY FEMALE SERVANTS— Catherine Bryan was sent for trial to the sessions, charged with steal ing a large quantity of wearing apparel, from the house of Walter Hart, Porter-street, the property of that person and Margaret M'Analty. The prisoner had only been two days a domestic servant in the employ, when she made off with this booty, which she pledged at four different places, and raised four pounds upon them. There were gowns, coats, sheets, boots, shawls, &c., &c. She had scarcely gone away, when the property was missed, and her badly treated em ployers found her in the hands of the police, on the charge of a distinct robbery, committed in a lodging-house the night after absconding. Harriet Davis and Mary Mooney, were sent for trial upon a charge of stealing wearing apparel and shop goods, from the house of Mr. Jones, druggist, in Paradise-street, where the first prisoner lived as servant. The second prisoner was a washerwoman, whom Mr. Jones occasionally employed. and she had received the stolen property into her house in Bolton-street. PICKING PocKETs.--.Miehael _Kilmartin, and Mary Kil martin, his wife, were charged by detective officer Bovey, with attempting to pick pockets on Monday. He had watched them going up Ranelagh-street, from thence to Church-street. Here the woman went into the Liver House, whilst the man stood at the door. He saw the fe male attempt to pick a lady's pocket in the shop, but without success. They then proceeded down Whitechapel, and the woman went into a grocer's shop, and there made an at tempt at an old lady's pocket, when the officer arrested both prisoners, on whom he found £4 12s. 71d. The male pri soner was sentenced to be imprisoned for three months; his wife was discharged. ROBBING A PARENT.—A DISTRESSING CASE.—John Mon- caster, was charged by his father with stealing a watch and other property from his house, 17, Sawney Pope-street. The father, who seemed a respectable man, said that the prisoner was always sent to school, and everything had been done for him ; but now, at fourteen years of age, he was afraid he was getting into confirmed bad habits. The magistrates remanded the prisoner for a week, in order ,that something might be done for him. ROBBERY IN THE SHIP " AVON." - Enoell Green, a dock plumber, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for breaking open two chests in the ship " Avon," bound for Australia, and stealing a pair of flannel drawers. DARING STREET ROBBERY. = William Campbell, was charged by Mr. Richard Houghton, with robbing him of his watch, at the corner of Whitechapel, on Monday night, about nine o'clock. The prosecutor stated that two persons -came up to him and asked him what time it was, and as -as ho took out his watch to compare it with that of the church, one of the men snatched it dexterously from him, cutting the ribbon to which it was attached. In a moment both the fellows made of, the prisoner shouting " stop thief," much more lustily than the prosecutor. When arrested, the prisoner accused a gentleman who had helped 'to stop him of being the thief. The watch not being found, the prisoner was remanded for a week to permit of search being made for it, and the other thief is to be looked after. Michael Dunn, . marine store-dealer, Sprainger-street, was summoned by police officer 317, charged with dealing in marine stores without h av i ng a license. He was fined in a penalty of £lO. THROWING STONES.—John Anderson was charged with throwing stones and breaking a pane of glass. It apyeared from the evidence, that the prisoner had been in the workhouse, and came out last Thursday. He made appli cation on the following day . (Friday,) to go in again, and upon the prosecutor refusing to give him an order, he broke a pane of glass in prosecutor's window. He was ordered to pay six-pence, (the value of the pane of glass,) and costs ; in default, to be imprisoned for one month in the house of correction, with hard labour. FURIOUS DRIVING—SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—Edward Lou,- cock was charged with driving over a lady, in Anson-street, It appeared that the prisoner was a little intoxicated, and was driving very furiously through Anson-street, when the horse ran upon the parapet and knocked a lady dowri, when the cart rolled over her, thereby fracturing her arm, and also inuring her leg. She is at present lying in a very precarious condition. He was fined 40s. and costs, or be imprisoned for one month. BREAKING WINDOWS.—Mary A. Johnson was dharged by Mr. Godfrey, with breaking a large pane of glass, valued at 10s. She was ordered to pay the damage and costs ; in default of payment to be imprisoned for one month. SMITGGLING.—Tames Kilton and John Collins, seamen, on board the ship "Astrologer," were each charged with smuggling a pound of foreign manufactured tobacco, which was found concealed on their persons. They were ordered to pay 10s. each, the single value of the tobacco. A man named Yates, for being drunk, and fighting in Great Homer-street, with a knife in his hand, was fined 10s. or to be imprisoned for twenty-one days. MANCHESTER CAUTION TO ►SPIRIT MEacH.arrrs.— . Yesterday, at the City Police Court, Manchester, an information was preferred against Mr. Charles Coburn, wholesale spirit merchant, Old Millgate, for having, on the 6th of August, sold a bottle of rum by retail, not having a license to do so. Mr. Francis Robinson, solicitor, was for the complainant, and Mr. R. B. Cobbett, solicitor, for the defendant. Ephraim Anderson, an excise officer,,stated that he went ,to the place of business of Mr. Coburn on Saturday, the 6th of August. His place of busines s was a t 17 , Old Millgate, where he carried - on the business of a wholesale spirit merchant. When he went into the defendant's place of business he asked for a bottle of rum. He was supplied with the bottle produced, for which he paid half-a-crown, and brought it away. Mr. Coburn was not authorised to sell less than two gallons at that place, for he had no, retail license. Mr. Cobbett, on the part of the defendant, explained that the latter kept a retail establishment adjoining :his wholesale place of business, and that no offence against the law was intended. He complained that the excise officer's evidence proved that he had gone to the defendant's place of business for the purpose of entrapping him. The bench convicted the defendant, and fined him in a penalty of £5O. Sir Joseph Paxton, is at present on a visit to Manchester, the guest of William Fairbairn Esq., F.R.S. Jenny Lind (Mad ame Goldschmidt) intends to come to London next year, to resume her professional occu pation as a concert singer. Her vocal powers are said to be in no way impaired by her change of condition. The North British Railway Company have applied to the Court of Sessions for an interdict to prevent the Caledonian and Edinburgh and Glasgow Companies making use of the station . at Waverley Bridge Under their arrangement. The court has declined to grant interdict in a summary form, and the whole matter will be discussed and decided on the merits, which will of course cause some delay. DECAPITATION BY A LOCOMOTIVE.—A shocking ac cident occurred on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire Railway, on Friday night, to a man named Anthony Oldham, a servant in the locomotive department of the com pany at Sheffield. The men employed at the depot, are allowed to traverse a tunnel 120 yards long, about a mile west of the Sheffield station,-in proceeding to and from their work. About-nine o'clock on Friday evening, the driver of an engine, which was proceeding slowly up the tunnel, dis covered, by the light of the fire, the body of a man lying partially across the down line. It was a pitiable object to behold. The upper part of the head was completely cut away bolo* the oyes, and his cap, which lay close by, was filled with bone, bramS, and blood. The conjecture is . ,.that he loitered on the way, and when the trains approached was unable to escape. He appears to have been first thrown for ward by the buffers of the engine, of the down train, and, falling in an oblique direction, was afterwards struck by the " plough" in front of the engine, which decapitated the upper part of the head as completely as though it had been sawn off. 13irtbg, Hartiago, anti tatb%. On the 31st ultimo, a t No. 3, BIRTH Ons Slow-square, Brompton, the wife of Henry Brinsley Sheridan, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. - On the 30th ultimo, at St. Bride's, by the Rev. W. M. FaMon, Mr. Stephen Roberts, Chester, to Miss E. Simondson, Egypt-street. On the 31st ultimo, by license, at St. John's Paddington, George Britton, Esq., of the Cape of Good Hope, to Ellen, youngest daughter of(the late John Smith, Esq., of the courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer. DEATHS On the 29th ultimo, at his house, South Bedford-street, aged 72, William Ramsden, Esq. He was many years resident in Man chester, and will be long remembered there and here by sorrowing relatives and friends, for his kind, generous, and charitable dis position. . . Ki led in action, at Aurungabad, on the 22nd of September last, in an engagement between a detachment under the command of Brigadier Mayne, which he joined as a volunteer, and an Arab force, in the Nizam's territories, Horace de Berckem Bosworth, Ensign in the 26th itegiment Bombay N. 1., third son of Thomas Holmes Bosworth, Esq., of Westerham, Kent, in the 22nd year of his age. On the 3 , th ultimo, at his residence, Town-row, West Derby, aged 27, Thomas Ree ves Powell, Esq. On the 30th ultimo, at her residence, 31, Argyll-street, Dorothy, relict of A. R. Dottin, Esq., for many years M.P. for Southampton, in her 75th year. On the 29th ultimo, at 18, Sussex-place, Regent's park, in the 23rd year of his age, Charles A. H. Calder, Esq., the youngest son of Sir Henry and Lady Frances Calder. At Bermuda, of yellow fever, Frederiek Wodehouse, Esq. ' Captain Royal Artillery, third son of the Hon. a n d R ev . William Wodehouse. 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