The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-10-06 00:00:00

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convened as to the "state of their souls." remarking
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THE SEIZURE Or A BRITISH "
STEEiIikER Yr/ SPAIN.
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' goal deal of attention ban liven excited within
the laid few days by the report in • French jonr•
nal of the seizure, by a Spanish naval officer, of •
the -ltritiah steamer Tornado, and the imprison-
imnt of her crew (remarks the Mall Is'azettc).
.• are enabled to slate that the matter has now
assumed a very serious aspect, as it turns snit that the
commander of the Spanish frigate Ocrossist lay in wait
for the Tornado, and seized her in pursuance of
positive erdere from Madrid. The facts of the car,
which we have abstained from publishing until we
should be in a position to verify theist, are briefly
these -Tim seizure took place cti Madeira on. the
2211 d of Angat last, and the captures! vessel wan
taken, as a i.rize of war, to Cadiz, where slu, io still
detained and strietly guarded, her captain and crew
being in close confinement and treated as " urieoners of
Tar." The seizure of the naiado is justified by her
captors by the allegation that she was a Chilian
eftvetrer, tbe fact being,that she is an English vessel,
le propOrty of Mean. Isaac Campbell and Co., of
London, and that at the time of her capture she irks
on a laitinutte voyage from Leith to Rio de Janeiro.
The Spanish authorities have unloaded her whole •
cargo, hat they have discovered nothing contraband
of war which can justify the seizure and detention of
the vowel The captain and crew are all British
subject.. Some of the crew have been put in irons,
and all have beeminquieitorially examined by a court-
martial in the summary Spanish fashion, without
their being allowed legal or consular advice. More-
over, they have been kept in close confinement for
upwards of a• month, and been treated with brutal
severity.

THREATENED STRIKE ,OF ENGINE-
'. ' 'DRIVERS AND FIREMEN.
The engine-drivers on the North-Eastern and Stock-
ton and Dirltigton Rsilways, which combined present
the greatest mileage, the London and North• Western
excepted,Aany link in the kingdom, have threatened,
unless certain demands are conceded, to strike. Six
of the engine-men ard firemen have lately received
notice to leave on the Stockton and Darlington Rail-
ways, for the reason, the men allege, that they were
prominent members of their trades' union— the En-
ginemen and Firemen's United Society, the head
offices of which are in London, and which includes
among its members the most of that clam of workmen
employed on the chief lines of the kingdom. The
terms demanded included the re-engagement of the
six men tinder notice to leave, and a new regulation
as to remuneration for labour. The men have hereto-
fore been paid a sum per mile according to the distance
their engines ran, but they require the eubstitution of
Payment by time, thus insuring a fixed rate of wages.
The directors are considering the latter proposal, hay-
ing, meanwhile, reinstated four out of the six men be-
fore discharged. The other proposition will doubtless
be likewise favourably considered, for should the men
strike, as they threaten to do In case of their terms
not being conceded, the whole of the railway traffic of
the north-eastern part of England would be stopped,
as from the peculiar character and responsibility of
their work the men's places could not be supplied.