The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-11 00:00:00

OPENING OP THE VICTORIA STATION AND

PIMLICO RAILWAY.

This line, which forms a oounection between all
the railways smith of the Thames end the Victoria dtation,
DOW in course of erection at Pimlico, was opened on Satyr-
day by the directors, in the presence of the officials of the
line and their friends. The train started from the Battersea
station of the Brighton Railway, and passed over the Vic-
toria-bridge, amidst the cheers of the assembled workmen,
proceeding up to the Victoria station, which occupies the site
of the old Grosvesnor Basin ; here the company partook of
an elegant dejeuner, provided by the contractors. The line
of railway so opened forms an important feature in the
metropolitan communications, as affording access from all
the railways south of the Thames to the western and
central &striate of London. The chief work on
the line is the bridge over the Thames, which
consist, of four openings of 175 feet each, and is
entirely composed of wrought iron with stone piers and
abutments. The design is exceedingly light and elegant,
and when quite completed will be one of the most beautiful
of the metropolitan Midges. On the north side of the river
the line descends by a steep gradient to the Grosvenor canal,
the course of which it follows up to the terminus, punier
under Ebury-street, Bt. George's-road, Eccleston-road,
where it enters the station, now in course of construction
for the accommodation of the Brighton, the Great Western,
and the London, Chatham, and Dover companies. This
station, when completed, will be of larger area, and afford
more accomanalation than any of the existing metro-
politan station'. This line was commenced in the autumnof
IKSB ; the first stone of the viaduct over the Thames was
laid on the 9th of June, 1859 ; so that the time occupied in
erecting this great work has been exactly twelve months.
The contractor for the whole work was Yr. Kell', of
London. Yr. Fowler is the engineer in chief to the com-
pany, under whine direction, in conjunction with Mr. Wilson,
the works have been carried out.

RIPRERENTATION OP TEI IJNIVERAITY OP LONDON.
—ln anticipatioe of the pining of the Reform Bill, which
will give • representative to the University of London, 732
graduates, have addressed a requisition to &r John Romilly,
Master of the Rolls (the only judge who can sit in the
House of Commons), that he will consent to be put in nomi-
nation as a candidate for the representation of the Univer-
sity in parliament. Sir John Hominy, in his reply, states
that, although he never should have ventured to offer him-
self as a .eate, be should consider it • high hoeour to
selected by such • body as their first representative, and
that he accepts with pride the invitation.
TER TRINITY SUNDAY ORDINATIONS.—On Trinity
Sunday (UN 3rd inst.) 288 gentlemen were ordained by the
bishops, who held ordinations on that day. Of these 130
were from Cambridge, 80 from Oxford, 21 from St. Bees,
17 from Trinity College, Dublin, 12 from King's College._
London, 11 Literates, 6 from St. Aides's, Birkenhead, 5
from the Univendty of Durham, 2 from Queen's Cl
Birmingham, 1 from Queen's College, Belfast, 1 Men
the University of Glasgow, 1 from the Church Mis-
sionary College, faintest, and 1 from the Lichfield Mamma
College.
OITIPTAL PALLOI--BALP-A-CROWX DAT,-
Revswer, Jura 9. WAumovaimal AID (lags'
&mate BAZAAR. —AdMiNdella MI mutest, 7,472 ; ditto by
season 2,910; tend 9,212 ; told vilitors for week
ending_ Tebl *Man sines epenieg.4
the Palos, Jose 10, 1864, 6,498,662. The basaer will be
contimeed ibis day (Monday) and tri-morrow.

Arne, „ .. May last be neu _
meat a number of carpenters and joinery, among whom were
two men who were working under what was blowy in the
teed, as the " declaration."- On the morning of that day
the foreman el the prosecutor took to him a paper, of which
the following ii • copy :—" At a meeting of theloiners in the
employ of Mr. Anley onThesday evening,May 15, 1860, it was
resolved that Mr. A nley be given to understand that milers the
then who are working under the "declaration" in his shop
W111'4114104 and we have • defied' answer by dinner
than to that effect, we cease work immediately." That
paper wss returned to the men because it bad no signatures,
and about two o'clock in the afternoon of the name day the
men went to the prosecutor and said that they went to him
as a deputation from the men, and handed to him a paper,
the Name as that given above; but this time it had upon it
several signatures in pencil. The complainant then said to
the men, "Are throe all your signaturee and they
having answered in the affirmative, be said, "Have you
well considered what von are about l" and they said " Ye.."
He then asked them it theyhadany fault tofind with him, his
clerks, his foramen, ortheurate of wages, andbeing thswered
in the negative, the complainant then said, " What is itthen
you do want!' The deputation then replied, "You must
discharge those two men working under the declaration, and
if you do not, we shall leave your work." The
complainant then said he would not allow himself to be
dictated to. He further rid, " I think you have been too
fast in your dedsion, and I will give you half an hour to re-
consider the matter ; if you then come back to work I shall
think no more about it, but if not I will rather lose my shop
than submit to your dictation." The men then went away,
and in about half an hour all the men came back together,
and went towards the shop, saying they were going to fetch
their tools. The men were paid their wages, took away
their tools, and have not since come back. Sines that day
the complainant's yard has been closed, and has been
picketed by relays of those men who left, in order to pre-
vent other men from entering into his employment. They
loitered about the yard, and the defendant Trimlett, it wee
stated by the complainant, had been there about •
fcetaight.
The complainant's foreman, to a greet extent, proved the
above, and he was the only witness called.
In crews-examination the complainant stated that be be-
longed to the Society of Builders, which is • trade society.
That society was not directing this prosecution, but they
had given ham assistance in consequence of his having placed
his ease in their hands. That society was not • combina-
tion of masters to prosecute their workman. What the
men said they wanted was, that the men working under the
declaration should be dismissed. He did not enter into
any negotiations with them about taking them hack. He
had spoken to his foreman about them, but he did so be-
cause he wanted to find out where the defendants resided.
Mr. Conic discharged Trimlett, and, having taken time
to consider his judgment, said this case was one of the
greatest importance, not only to the defendants, but to the
public at large. He was clearly of opinion that
this was a case which the act was intended to meet.
It was a threat that if the master should continue to employ
that description of workmen who had worked under thedecla-
ration the defendants would strike, and thus endeavour, in the
very woods of the prohibition, "to force the master to
limit the description of his workmen." He was clearly of
opinion that the defendants were guilty of the offenee
charged in the information. Nothing could he more mon-
strous or Hiegel than the conduct of the defendants, who
had combined together and threatened the prosecutor that
they would strike, sod who bud, fact, struck work with a
view to prevent him from on his business unless
he would discharge men whose offence was that at the
request of their employer they had promised not to break
the law. The object which the defendants had in view
was to deprive innocent men of the means of getting their
living, and thus to drive their wives and families into the
workhouse, unless those poor men would also offend against
the law by joining those illegal societies. The threats used
by the defendant. were far worse than in Pereham's ease,
and he should send the defendants with hard labour for
one calendar month.
Notice of appeal was given, and bail having been put in
the defendants left the court with their friends.