The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-28 00:00:00

THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE COLLIERS

STRIKE.

The offer of arbitration proposed at the meeting
held at Birmingham a few days ago has been declined both
by masters and men. On the part of the former if r. Wil-
liam Mathews writes as follows :—" Corbyns-hall Works,
near Dudley. September 2s..—Dear Sir,—l have to-d►y an
opportunity of conferring with some of the iron and coal
masters who are affected by the colliers' strike,
on the subject of your communication of the 21st
instant. The question at imue between the colliers
and their employers is one in which the trade in
coal forms but a very limited and subordisete part
The great bulk of the coal raised in the district under
strike is consumed in the iron works, and the coal con-
sumed in Birmingham and elsewhere is too unimportant to
influence in any materiel degree the rate of colliers' wages.
Where one collier is employed in retain( coal for this trade
tee probably are employed is the supply of coal to the ire*
works, and the recent depreasion in the price of hoe—par-
ticularly in that of pig iron, in the manufacture of which
coal is so largely consumed—has made a reduction in the
colliers' wages one of vital and inevitable necessity. In
other iron-malcio4 districts, and in the northern portion of
South Staffordshire, this reduction has been cheerfully
submitted to. It is by the thick coal colliers of the Dudley
district only that this neoessary measure is resisted. redar
the severe competition in which South Staffordshire has to
contend with newly-opened and cheaper iron•making locali-
ties, to continue to pay the high rate of colliers' wages would
be simply ruinous. and in ha, in strict justice and follow.
log former precedents, the reduction should be carried
farther than that proposed. Under these circumstances
the masters have, so long as the strike continues, no alter-
native but to procure supplies of coal elsewhere, or to close
their works, which they have done. That this unhappy
strike will involve great inconvenience and distress to all
classes dependent on a local supply of coal, both in Bir-
miegham and elsewhere, there is no doubt So loos as the
colliers are misguided by their present advisers, and per-
severe in an obstinate and unreasoning resistance to •
reduction which circumstances have rendered inevit-
able, there is little hope of any speedy mitigation of this
distress. Under these ,circumstances my colleagues concur
with me in opinion that no beneficial result could arise from
the mediation proposed by your meeting, particularly as the
unressoaable and defiant tone of the colliers at the meeting at
which I had the honour to preside leaves little expectation
that rational advice would be listened to. Permit me to add
that, although much of the discassioa at your meeting pro-
ceeded on a misapprehension of the real state of the pies-
tics, we ere not the lees obliged by the friendly spirit which
dictated your resolutions.—Believe me, dear air, very faith-
fully yours, "
" Richard Peyton, Esq."

Tile MIDDLENBORO' Trax-orr.—Matters (says
the .Newasstk Chronicle of yesterday) do Dot mend in
Kiddlesbire. The real Datum of the grievances
which have led to sock serious results now
begins to ooze out, ad it appears that they
ars not of recent origin. The principal complaint
alleged agidast Beebe), the foreman, is his arbitrary con-
duct with respect to the duty of time-keeping, the men
contending that the method which he pursued was most
unfair and uojust towards them. depriving them, as tbev
maintain it did, of all check of the amount of
their fortnightly earnings. By • deputation, duly
appointed by the workmen, and comprising se-
'nal members of the Tows-couseril, ►hese represen-
tations were submitted to Mr. Vaughan, the senior
member of the firm, who went so far as to uedertake
th►t if any future charge of injustice or misconduct were
established against Bushel, he should ►t once be dis-
charged ; as to the question of the time, he expressed a
desire that is should form the subject of subeequent
discussion with • view to the adoption of remedial measures.
The report of the deputation visa indifferently received,
the entire body of men, numbering upwards of 2,000, being
e►idently determined to be satisfied with nothing short of
the instant iismissal of the obnoxious foreman, sad on any
other terms a termination of the strike—at provost at
lisast—riminis out of the question. The military are still
stationed in the tows, sad the greeteet excitemeet prevails.
LONDON SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF YOCNO
WoliEN.—Yeeterday a gentleman called at the office of this
society, 28, New Broadatreet, 6C., aed left a letter ODD-
taieiog the following : " A donation 501. for the society,'
without mune or address.

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restore grey hair to Ito natural colour. and In all eases of neural-
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bootmaker, Oct 15, at 11.
WILLIAM AlTOCarrn SITTIMI,OId @vandal* druggist,Oet.ll,l4 It
Iriuthmuck VALIWRIM BOOMMIT, Clevelsod-street, Fitzroy.
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Hyde part, dealer in wort of art, Oct 10, at It
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IDRAILD KAM& Laarie-terrsoe, Southwark, and Hull and
Moutaatreet, City, merchant, Oct. 15, at it
losTrz OnorSZ. West-street, Golden-square, woollen draper.
Oct. It at IL
Wittitig Giussrtn, New-creek Kent, cooper*. clerk, Oct 10,111.
Joint DAvi Wawa, New huswell-court, (...Vepetreet, attorney,
Oct it, at 11.
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lIMILDINICE SARUM Joao, Birmingham. builder, Oen 10. at it
WILLIAM AVDTIVI, Baa , Nottingham lava manufactr.,Oet.l4at
JOlOl HOLWWAT, NOStingliani, builder, Oct. 11, at lli.
:mats Lvcas, Wellow.liottingtuunalv,bsickmaker,Oct.ll, at 111.
JOIN MORGAN, Llandovery.Carroarthensh.,lnukeeper,Oct.7, at 11.
Jaml GOCLD Bwm,St.lves,CornwaiLteaCherOilallalc.oot.Lat 12.
smilax naafi and DAVID Jonimoa, !Reda, cloth mainulac-
hirers, Oct. 10, M 11.
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Oct. 10, at 11.
CHILDISH TPRNIA, Leeds, cloth manufacturer. Oct. 10, at IL
Immo' IhOlifat, worsted spinner, Oct. 10, at 11.
JOHN CLAPHAM, Leeds, cloth manufacturer, Oct 10, at 11.
92.1111 NT Plaitet Birkenhead, OM. 1, at 12.

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Oct. 10, at 11.
EDWARD ItntinV, Liverpool, accountant, Oct. 21, at 11.
G lemon liasersa, Manchester, ship broker, Oct. 10, at IL
JoHS APPLETON, Mantas, contractor. Oct. 16, at 10.
GEORGIC LOP D. Halifax, stonemason, Oct. 14, at 10.
SIMARD STRZLLT PORTIR, Spittlegste, Lincolnshire, baker,

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Watusi Coasiutc9,Chard,Somersetsh,confectloner.Oct.lo,at 10.
BOYMMT. see., West Hartlepool, fruiterer, Oct 4 as IL
EDWARD ?RACILY, llookweameostb, grocer, Oct. 11, at IL
Juaz Pax:imam, Manolmater. traveller, Oct. 10, at 91.
Camara eiriz. WAIN, commission agent. Oct. 10, at 11.
Cain's BAWDMI, Owennap. Cornwall. mine broker, Oct 0. at 10.
Batten REMICK, Over, Cheshire, salt proprietor, Oct. 12, at 10.
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EDWARD HILL,WeiILOD•SUDer•SIRIt, beerboue keeper, Oct.4,at it
JOllll Megan.% Weston super.bfare, fialtamger. Oct. 7, at 12.
AgIUSIPPOII.I4III3 SIAROKRVII, York, batter, Oct 12, at 11.
Gamma Wn.eee, Carlton. bona. publican, 0ct.19. at 10.
WILLIAM Dickinson, Nottingham, plumber. Oct. 19, at 10.
Lliutr..W twang, Lowesmour, Wormaterable. grocer, Oct.

10. at 11.
d'rLLIAI GRIFFITHS, Milford, Pembrokaablee, boot maker,
Oct. 11. at 12.
Joel Sheffield, soling knife assouf.,Oet. It, at 1.
CHAIM Wows, Live hear•boaat keeper, Oct. 12, at 11.
_ _ AT101.41._

Nov. 17. T. Hotchinek„ Gienoll-Roes, Old Kest-rent com-
mission agent-Nov. 17. B. Isaacson, St. James's-place. New.
cross, nate, alist-Nov. 17. J. Day. Reigate, Surrey, builder-
Nov. 17. G. Brine, king-street, Lambeth-walk, builder-Nov. 17.
J. W. Carr, New Malden, Surrey, plumber-Nov. 17. T. Ba-
kal, Platt terrace, lit. Paneras-road, Millard-table k.epw-Nov.
17. W. Dratarell. Itowland'orow, Stepney-green, oonamiesion
agent-Nov. 17. F. Frankenheim, Bloomsburyesanare, Middle-
sex, diamond merchant-Nov. 17. A. Lion, Gresham-house, 01.1
Broad-street, commissl.4l agent-Nov. 17. L Millar, Leighton.
road, Kentisn -town, late inercbant-Nov. 17. C. M. Spurgeon,
Great 'lowerstreet, City, wine merchant-Nov. 17. A. St. Cyr,
High Holborn, late wine merchant-Nov. li. T. Lee, am., White
Hart-West, Drury-lane, greengrocer-Nov. 17. 11. A. Binge.
fps. ich, grocer-Nov. 17. T. D. Vickers, Blackman-street.
Southwark, draper-Nov. 17. W. Stein. ShevillAbuildinifei MBe
end, baker-Nov 17. B. B. Howard, High Holborn. dealer In
curiosities, and King's-place. Penman, carver and gilder-Nov.
17. A. Daniel, Br:l:roe.N, Bloomsbury. and Frithotreet, Soho,
water and el.ctre er-Nov. 17. J. B. Hamilton, 11k s,
Hammersmith, licensed victualler-Nov. 17. E. J. H.
Ciunn, Aililison.ren North, Notting hill, clerk to a wipe mer-
chant-Nov. 17. B. L Thomson, Lenlenhalbstreet, CA), and
Normandy-wharf, Deptford-cask, shipbroker-Oct. 18. J. D.
Meads. Old Ford, builder-Oct. 19. I. Sc. S. Vinesli, Scarsdale-
road, Camberwell, potabo dealer-Oct 19 W. H. Kaye. Sutton-
street, 'Soho, builder-Oct 19 11. S. Fisk, Moreton-terrace, Pim-
lico, cabinet maker-Oct-1A P. J. Bedford, Asbley.place, West-
minster, comedian-Nov. IL B. Stevenson, Wednesbury, Staf-
fordshire. builder-Nov. 11. J. Purbrick. Birmingham, builder-
Nov.ll. T. Peters, Birmingham and Derby. tobacco manufacturer
-Nov. I. J. Shelton, Stamford, Lincolnshire, corn merchant
-Noe. 1. J. Cousins, Bastard, Notts, beer-house keeper-
Nov. A J. Wonky, St. Bidwell. Devonshire, manufacturer of
ladle,' underclothing-Oct. 6 G. A. Woodward, Liverpool, com-
mission agent-Oct. W. J. Forrester, Peurith, Cumberland,
fanner-Oct. 23. J. 3. Miller, Witham, Essex. carpenter-Oct.
25. E. Write. blaldou, Kum bootraMer-Oet. lb. G. Better,
Great Cressinghaen. Norfolk, cattle dealer-Oct. la O.
Llanidloes. Montgomeryshire, printer-Nov. 17. W. Davey,
Tiverton, butcher-O.A 11. G. Crane, Batistes. fAcesteralsize-
Oct. 21. H. Jones, Oldham, beer.eller -Oct 21. C. Robinson.
Oldham, desler In roller leather-Oct. 22. H. Evans, I.Jaagunllo,
Badnonbire, beerhnuse keeper-Oct. 20. J. Turner, Stunning.
ton, Northumberland, innkeeper-Oct. 15. B. Parish, Great Bar-
ton, Suffolk. horse dealer-Oct. 21. J. Kerby, Nuneaton, War.
wickahlre, ribbon weaver-Oct. 11. If. Le F. Hughes, SS eston-
super- Mare, gentleman-ocl all T. W. Smith. Bristol, coachman
-Nov. 2. T. Y. Jolley. Sheffield, general dealer-Nov. 2. li. Le-
nick. Sheffield, general dealer-Nov. t. T. Hill sad T. P. °relives,
Sheffield. glass and china dealer-Nov. L 1. Turner, Sheeeld,
rase maker-Nov. 2. F. Dukes, Sheffield and Scarborough,
joiner-Nev. 9. W. Bunker. Northampton, pork bu
If. J. Love, Moulton, Northamptonshire, I.lacicanuth -Oct. IL
H. Brown. Hanky, Staffordshire, sttorsey--Ovt. IL G. Laversage,
Hanle), railway porter- Oct. 14. W. J. Blackahaw, Tunatall,
Staffordshire. plumber-Oct. 22. G. Keeble, Ipswich, plumber-
Oct. 24. W. Halliday, Sktpton, Yorkshire, dzsper-Oet. 10. J.
Collyer, Barton, Lincolnshire, shoemaker-Oct. 17. G. Hughes,
Birchanoota. Kent. late coffee-house keeper-Oct. lb. T. Bones,
clenmeugwyn, Brecosialtire, blacksmith-Oct. .2. J. liarlyn.
Referee, Cornwall, sawyer-Nov. 3. Wiry Also Dayton, Yank-
ton, Pembrokeshire,acer.
TIONB OF DIVIDENDS

dia;tuie7o, .71;eper—ist divi-
dend 01 Sa- 71d.. self Ttleaday. at Morgan's. Mono/tooter.
DUMAS IiILLATRCX, JUELPII WATOS. and JANIS GREATM
Coveutry. ribbon manufacturers -Ist divitleud of 26.1.144..
soy Tbiusday, at Yinneor's Birmingham.
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Oct. 10. J. Harris, Woo;l:stieett, I.7Miapside. envelope mannfac-
turer-Ock 17. J. Boston, Lincolnshire, draper-Oct. 17.
B. R. Perkins, lailbroke-grove. Notting-hill, Ironmonger-Oct
12. B. floady, Staverton, near Ashburton. Devonshire, gentleman
-Oct. 14.8. Knowles, St. Thomas the Apostle, Devonshire,
brewer-Oct. 14. J. Mosey, Hernyock. Devonshire. butcher-
Oct. 14. 0. 0. Palmer, Exeter, printer-Oct. 14. T. Hutchings,
Axminster, Devonshire, fancy statioser -Oct. 14. R.. Tregadm,
Perran-ar•Worthal, Cornwall, accountant-Oct. 10. J. Cardwell
and R. Cardwell, Oakeizahaer, near Am:Andes, and Bnry Lan-
cashire, manufacturer. • Oct. 8. W. Sexton, 4`..4chester, Ramey.
pork dealcr-Oct. 14 B. 0111. Havistaad, Suffolk, Ms. ksmith-
Get. 13 G. H.ppenstall. Sheffield, steel converter-Oct. 13. C.
Wild, I.:cella/dd. near Sheffield, farmee-Oet. 12. Reboots Oe.
borne, hbeffie‘d. beerhonfoe keeper-Oct it& K WOO4l,
se)tbe maker-Oct. 13 A. Hopkins, astaeld, boot dealer-Oct.
18.8. Wall, Sheffield. hat dealer.
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DISSOLVID.
J. B. Palmer and J. Palmer, Birmingham gun mannfacturers
—L. Benham and J. Williams. Pen.y-cosd,, DealAtibsittfc. coal
proprietors—J. Buckley and A. Hoyle, Whitson'. and Little-
b, Lancashire, stonemasons—L. B. Simmons and M. Rob-
• Chutehlane, Whltecbapel, carvers and Oilers—O. Hors-
man and J. Wnlfenden. Bradford. tailors—l. Lee and Mary Ann
Lae. Selby. Yorkshire, grocers—H. Early and J. Karr,. Witney,
Oxfordshire, woollen miusufactoren—J. Shelton and G. Stephen-
son, Manchester, hosiers—fr. Piggott sad T. leones, Manchester,
commission agents—C. B. Deakin and 1. Deakin, Birmingham,
get eral merchants - V. Gilbert Y. W. Gilbert and W. P. Salt,
3b. Meld, cutlery manufacturers. so (arils regards W. P. Salt—T.
Kirkwood. B. Stock, and J. Hall, Penclawdd, Glamorganahlre,
lead smelters, so far as regards J. Ball—G. H. Papayanal. B.
Paptiyannl. sad A. C. Primo, Liverpool, merchants, so far as
regards A. C. Priago—li. H. Penny and F. C. Penny,
Lancashire, public secoantauta—G. Pain sad T. Pain. Salisbury,
brcwcrs—A. S. Owen and C. A. Bowen, liewmanseour.
• shiphrokers—P. Magee, M. Corcoran, and J. Divine, Liver-
1, marine store dealer—W. Joy, W. L Joy. and G. O. Joy,
aced Crushers, so far ssMaVds W. JO7.
SCOTCH SIQUZSTAAnONS.
Pact Cananoir, Glasgow. nautical instrument maker, Oct. 4, at
the Faculty Ball. Glasgow.
ALwitSbits Hanish:soh. King Edward, Aberdeenshire, crofter,
Oct. 4. at the Lemon Tree Hotel, Aberdeen.
ALFILIIVER RtnaPLL sad Jolla keosatc, Glasgow, manufac-
turers, Oct. 11, at the Faculty Hall, Glasgow.

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