The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-07 00:00:00

COURT NEWS.

WIII3SOTCCASTVE, April 5.
'The Queen, with Princess Alice, drove-out in an open
carriage yesterday afternoon, attended by -the Mar.
c biomes! of Ely and Colonel the'llon. A. N. good.
• The Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prince of
A a Wales, rode out on horseback, attended by Captain Du
Platt and Captain Grey.
The Dueheis of Canibridge, the Princess Mary, and
- the Duke of-Cambridge, attended by Lady' Geraldine
Somerset, Lieut.-Colonel Home Purves, and Colonel the
' Hon. J. Macdonald, arrived yesterday at the Castle upon
• a visit to the Queen.

Prince Edward of ,Saxe Weimar, the Archbishop of
Canterbsuy, the Dowager Ductless of Norfolli, Viscount
Palmerston, and Captain Tarleton, R.N., arrived in the
afternoon.

Her Majesty's dinner party also comprised th©

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Ot Wales, Princess Alice, and Princess Leinewi, since
Lady
• Caroline Barrington, the Dean of Win
--6.10 r, ; Ken,
James
-
-,-- Clarke, and Captain Grey.
i t ' The Queen and Prince Cor,s,x,
, .vliole of the Royal family a- rt,, aetclinpaioo by the
ad Royal tiaftors' staying at
Castle, went to St. C-I:eorgQ 'OB."pCl this morning.

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THE .pr
..;LITICAL ECONOMY AND
EI{TIC NC Y OF STRIKES.
l'aWnett, Fel-NW of Trinity
del"nred an. address. upon this subject, 'on thursday
4 :ot yelling' LI St. Me- • , ' s-hall, att ntrfliance composed
r 1),
C°B4 Plat of members 'of the working classes.
3 e the
Bhitiowas it-Atro a ced 'to the 'meeting by Sir J. Kaye
in r.
a .orth, who fpresiddlcon the occasion, and having
ad, iew prehminary 'remarks disclaimed being the
ecteate of any particular 'party in -the 'disputes helthen
aavital. and labour which had arisen, Obret•ved that he
ad been encouraged to lay before the public his views
'en the important question with which he Was about
tn deal, by the fact that they have been deemed
ae high as authority as Mr. J. Stewart Mill
mot m.nworthy of consideration. Proceeding then
to the . development of those: views, he expressed
bia dissent from the opinion that strikes ought
.*6 'be regarded as producing effects entirely bad, and
• kis belief that their tendency was to bring about social
valatiOns between the employer and the employed very
•• "efferent from *those which at the present day existed.
the tekms "capital" and " wages" he brieflylerilainod,
remarking that it was impossible to tete the general
average rate of the latter throughout the country
Itnless the former were 'increased, or the number of
'those competing for employment was by emigration
n- 'or some other means diminished. Touching then upon
the question whether the number of hours which'
"the recipients of wages should work' were simply regu-
lated by r ustom, or the will of the' capitalist, or
by laws which could not be arbitrarily set aside, he
-skated it to be his opinion that, although it might be
quite possible for a number of labonrers. entering
into a sudden combination to procure for a short period
~ the same amount of wages for nine hours' work as they
jled previously done for ten, yet, inasmuch as the accu-
/Mutated fund from which the remuneration for their
labour was drawn would in consequence be diminished,
; . they must not hope to succeed in obtaining permanently
lila same amount of wages for less work. One manifest
-- tendency of strikes, he then went on to say, was to
-bring the rates of wages in different employments to
•"le conimOn level, while they also tended to procure
ler the labourer a share of that extra profit which
'the capitalist happened to derive from the improve-
Inent of his trade. But while a strike might with
advantage be had recourse to at a time when
item that or other causes the profits of the capitalist
had increased, it was,. he contended, an ill-advised
' • Peeeeding to adopt when trade was depressed, and when
both the employer and the employed were suffering from
That circumstance. The question, therefore, as to which
Party was in the right in the recent dispute which had taken
race in the metropolis, between the masters and their
roan, he regarded as depending for its solution upon the
answer which could be returned upon those points. Ad-
.' verting to the assertion so frequently made that strikes
never produced any good to the labourer, he denied its
, justice, and, passing over several instances in which, he
laid, the very objects for which strikes had been entered
into had been secured, maintained that even in the case
of the Preston strike, which had inflicted on the working
classes a loss of 1250,000, labour had not combined in
‘- vain, inasmuch as the masters had upon that occasion
been made aware of the strength which union conferred
, upon those whom they employed, and would be induced
inn future, by making the workman a participator in his
increased profits, to avoid the repetition of a similar
movement. Capital and labour were no doubt opposed
to one another as things at present stood, but identity
of interest between them might, he thought, be
effected by making the labourer a participator in
the improvement in his master's trade a result
which the power to combine, he thought, irresistably
_ _ tended to bring about. The lecturer then proceeded to
dilate 'nu *the advantages which the existence of
elteollerative establishments such as those at Leeds and
ciajale Was calculated to confer on the labouring-
and the great benefit which giving• them increased
inter s,
in .
he bad their employer's success by the means which
.4);. Indicated would be likely to produce. He, in eon-
's's:ln, expressed a hope that the teachings of experience
"otild not be lost on the working man, for
ci
There was some soul of goodness in things evil,
Could man observingly distil it out."
A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Fawcett at the
Clone of his address.

WAYS & RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.

The following facts with regard to the railways of the
united Kingdom, founded on official returns, are curious
• and interesting :—At the close of the year 1858 the
• 'Whole capital invested in railways in the United King-
dom amounted. to the- enormous sum of £325,375,507,
,''whole' of that sum having been invested in about
Years'. The aggregate length of all the railways
• lu the kingdom amounted at the' same time to 9,542
• ret The number of passengers conveyed du railways
,T 1868 Was 139,193,699, of whom 18,302,384 were
• first class, 41,693,289 second class, and 79,145,464
•.. !hitt/ class, or parliamentary passengers. The num-
ber` of . private carriages conveyed by rail was
64,433 ; of horses, 234,918 ; and of dogs, 304,497. The
,_quantity of general merchandise carried was 25,654,620
`'?!lit and of minerals, 47,459,576 tons. The,live stock
flllctiveYed was as follows:--Cattle, 2,323,305 ; sheep,
-"3.8,1.80; pigs, 2,048,619 ; total, 11,326,006. The
' -svgs fare per mile for first class passengers was
• 2.09&
; for second class passengers, 1.46 d. ; and for
third tlass'passengers, .88d., or 1-12th less than a
penny The receipts of the whole of the railwar
for
from carrying passengers. in 1858 were--
, 'first' class passengers, £3,002,838 ; from second
'444 Passengers; £1,527,377 ; and from third class
• 11,141518.&er5, £3,615,195; and from periodical tickets,
41490; making `the total amount of revenue from
Eger traffic in 1858, £10,376,309. 'The rec tipts
3111 the carriage ofpassengers' luggage were £646 ,737 ;
'DIA the conveying of carriages, £60,217; fro) n the
e'atriage of horses, £136,458; dogs,. £16,143; from
Pnat-ofllee mails, £441,827 ; from other ; ;eneral
' merchandise, £7,711,386; 'making a total from, goods
X 12,258 ,846; and' the • revenue fi'om all sources
t• 23 r„,
"1°0749. The aggregate expenditure of all the rail-
,paYli!tes of the United Kingdom was as follows i.n 1868 :
-tota • l working expenditure,including compensations,
:',11;668,225 ; interest on loans, £3,837,708; making
ne total expenditure £16,605,933. The average work-
-41g expenditum per mile was £95,331 ; the per centage-
Pr°Portion of working expenses to total receipts, 49 ;'
• the
• 'nett receipts after deducting experiditUre. were
48,350,816. The mileage travelled by all the Passengers.
h.° travelled by railway in that year was 1,85,000,000
In.lles; the mileage of all the trains was 86,789,665
miles the
the number of trains which started was.
'
- • '1,817
''•im 379 ; the number of persons employed on lines at.
t';'Pewlo9,B`.l9, and those on dines in course of con-
_ ;;;42440•4 aim: The number of persons killed by
• u:1913' aceidents in 1858 was 276, and the number of
• irttellinna injured was 566, in the whole number carried,
°lilting, as atready stated, to 139,193,699 persons.

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.1147„....111.11 REVIVAL! 'MOVEMENT IN BELFAST. —The,
e.,„- &eon 'Whig eays,—" We have a table before. !is,
111iled with careful exactness,' from the Belfast Poll ce
),-""°u• of the number of parties charged with: drunke n-
.lseticsti-e's during the years 1-868 and 1859,- (the revival yeas) ,
. Th. vely ; and what do we find there? Why, tb et
Wylie farmer year, in which, .be it remembered, thi ire
a good deal of popular riot and disturbance, the
111111115er of drunkards conveyed to the Belfast Police-off ice ,
:" ~,,, less by five hundred rind seventy-three cases than in
69, when .4 revivalism was in full swing." , XiXTRA.ORDINARY ACCUMI7LAT/ON OF WEALTH .= -An
id
nosy' 82 years .of age, Miss Mary Weary;, of
near Wadebridger has just died. Sh e was
w to
Possess a considerable amount of property f, part
f 5, which came to her as the survivor of two sisters,
lie,l,ll2.,Lie_r_bro_their,.the old Squire John Weary, w ho was
1 After7lli:
,„1.,,0.r his eccentricity throughout Ci )rnwall.
.
be Ituoi,,'vearrd death ber room, which no , one had
and
found ab a
out vsto
°0 enter for 10 years before, was eearche
.„ :
Cornwa
'• iu eao - was found in the room. ..£BB5 - .
aull glint and some rolls of notes of the ws
if. not in circulat'4lillith had been out of the East
htmdredg of p0,14:11,. for thirty-six years. bank,
and a utensil was flalvere found wrapped up ' Several
ri cotton,
.. notes,.' 'Vera Pound ~,,,,i°,,f sovereigns. TWO '
. _ thousands were found '" 41,1?09. in eacl. packets of
found the Was yo dirty that it ha eetlek' an . .1, and some
w J some of the
a eailload of:plcpeta
ere found, led, 1-aer, .
di among them a
date: It is not yet is nianZ, We
Weary has left, but it um," he now . are^ informed oat of
much property Miss
0t.t103 land. will pass to the 1, -ry one Some
other
Cleave, of St. Breock ; but ' sir-at_law, -• Party will :pass, with the • the remitinin_
Mr. Thomas
g landed pro-
' Ifiecei and.grand-nehews a roperty, to sixteen
' make a better use of it 111- nices wh , than ke •-' o will
probably
-_ D 0 $, of Plymouth 1 the only 6eP,.11 it idle. Mrs.
' . teqoe,. of Bt. Breock, ,
'good, share, her moth:,
who is one of. -fei
' , •!,...., 191 come in for P
e chattels. It. iwsupposed
iMrs.t i
a Johnsaid, .
e 14e11Y inheritors,
. 'tig'entittled to
that *there are . ' a'thgircl, of. th
for there are r a greet essay bank notes still secreted,
journea, dtin many old notes missing,—pivolouth