The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-24 00:00:00

APPRENTICES ON THE CLTDE.—The action which

for some time appears to have been going on amongst the
apprentice carpenters has at length culminated in a com-
plete strike in one yard, and the incarceration of four
apprentice carpenters for 30 days, without the alternative
of a fine, for intimidation and assault. On Monday, at
breakfast-time, the apprentices in the employment of
Messrs. Charles Connell and Co., Overnewton, appear
to bays put in force a previous threat against two
journeymen carpenters, non-society men, who have
bftn for many years in the employment of the firm,
and never belonged to any union. These men were
assaulted in a most brutal manner by some thirty
or forty of the apprentice carpenters, who thought that,
as the society men had not returned to work, those
men should not be allowed to continue in employment.
The assailants rudely seised the men while sitting quietly
in the works, bustled them out, sometimes causing them
to fall on the road, and striking and kicking them. Four
of the lads, Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Eaglesham.
James M`Garrie, and Mortis Fleming, who appeared to
be the ringleaders, were apprehended and brought yester-
day before Bailie Raeburn, at the Western Police-court,
when they received sentence as has been stated. On the
apprehension of the four ringleaders, all the others, ignor-
ing the existence of their agreements, struck work, and
did not afterwards return. A crowd f them collected in
the vicinity of the police-court; and on the witnesses in
the assault case leaving the buildings, they assailed them
with yelling and sbontmg, and conducted themselves in a
very disorderly, manner. —Nord British Nail.
THE SCOTCH, IRISH, ST. IVES, AND MOUNT'S BAY
PILCHARD Floosain. —The accounts from the North Sea
which have reached Penzance daring the pad week have
been more favourable than on former occasions. We
have heard of one Mount's Bay boat, the Time, which has
caught 80(.'s worth of herrings in one week. The Irish
fishery draws fast to its close. Several arrivals have
taken place since our last, and in manT instances the
boats have not cleared the expenses attending their outfit.
The catches of pilchards for the week may be estimated
as follows :—Wednesday, from a hogshead downwards.
(One boat had two hogsheads, but this was en exception.)
Thursday, from a hogshead down to 200, which sold at
Is. Td. per 120. Friday, from a hogshead to a basket, at
Is. 3d. per 120. Saturthy, fish very scarce, some boats
not having a score. Tuesday, a few boats averaged a hogs-
head, but the majority have smaller catches. The fish
grow larger and fatter. As this is the first occasion for
the season that we have bad to speak of " hogsheads,"
we may as well say that a hogshead is supposed
to consist of eight baskets, and a basket contains about
four hundred ; but this number varies with the size of the
fish. At St. Ives, the seines were put in pay on Monday,
and the boats stemmed at different stations. Vessels and
boats report at St. Ives large quantities of pilchards in
the Bristol Channel, and it is hoped the fishery may be
successful, as the mackerel and Irish fisheries have been
failures as far as St. Ives is concerned. At Scilly some
pilchards have been taken by ordinary hand-nets.—
Cornish Tdegrepli.
A Coutzeriox.—The Northern iflig says :—Mr.
D. S. Bar, M.P., has requested us to state that there is no
authority for the paragraph which lately appeared in our
columns, :—We are informed that Dir. D. S. Ker,
M.P. for Downpatriel, was married yesterday to Miss
Perms, of Galway," and to substitute the following
paragraph :—" D. S. Rer, M.P., has been confined to his
room sines the close of the session, in consequence of the
injuries sustained by the fall from his horse, and is still
under medical treatment."