The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-30 00:00:00

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.

THE TAILORS STRIKE.

The annual dinner of this charity was held last nenure Or Tin CITT OPLIATITI T.ULOWL
evening at Willis's Rooms, Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. A deneely-crowded meeting of the operative
Wood in the chair. The college being aimed the centre tailors, men and women, chiefly compered of the class
of the district of the Inns of Court, there were a large called out-door workers or persons who work at their own
number of legal gentlemen amonpt the guests, including houses, was held yesterday afternoon at the Albion-hall,
Lord Justice Cairns and Vice-Chancellor Melina, Sir T. Leaden-wall. There were hilly 200 women at the meeting.
Phillips, (Ix., Mr. Bacon, Q.C., Mr. Greene, Q.C., Mr. The chair was taken by Mr. Neal, president of the City
Kenya), Q.C.. and Mr. E. F. Smith, Q.C. Sir W. Per. branch of the London Protectire Association. The chair-
gwison, and numerous gentlemen eminent in the medical man said the meeting had been called for the purpose of
profession, were also present. The hospital stands in the simertaining how far the out-workers of the City and East
very heart of London, and the palish of St. Clement end of London were disposed to co-operate in support of
Danes, and the neighbouring parishes with their the men now on strike at the West-end. He then detailed
400,000 inhabitants entirely rely upon King's Col- the causes which had led to the present strike, and went
lege Hospital for medical relief. The institution has on to refute the statements made at the masters' meeting
the advantage of being to all intents and pie- on Saturday last, which he deslared to be a than,e of mi.-
poses free, admitting all urgent cases without the usual representations for the porton of enlisting publicgym.
letter of recommendation. The hospital was instituted in patliy on their side. It had been stated the wee were
1839, and year by year the number of patients has in- endeavouring to force a time log on the marten which
creased, the out-patients four-fold. The yearly cost of would be equivalent to a rise of 25 per cent. in wages. In
management is 8,0001. and as the annual subscription do the name of the men be gave to that statement • flat ren-
nin exceed 2,2001., the deficiency leaves ample room for the tradiction. (Hear.) That log, even if adopted in its
display of public generosity. During the last year there entirety, would not give • nee of li per cent • but they
were 1,914 patients received into the hospital, while the had ad desire to enforce that log ; they only used is as the
outpatients numbered 37,153. In the Nightingale Mater- means to induce the masters tomeet the men and mutually
nity Ward 148 women were confined, and 732 midwifery spree upon a lag which would secure to the men the
oases were attended to at their own homes. The receipts admen of Id. per hour greeted last year by the
for the year were 6,6824, and the total expenses 9,6631. masters, and which, as matters were now managed
During the year a special ward has been opened for the by the masters, was only • nominal advance.
diseases of young children, thanks to the munificent gift (Hear, hear.) The masters had boasted that they had
of 6,0001. from Mr. Peter Pantia Ralli. The chairman of fact workmen on their books to whom they were paying N. and
night's festival, who is an old and liberal supporter of the upwards per week as wages. No doubt they had, but they
charity, laid its exists before his bearers in a most forcible forgot at the same time to state that though this amount
speech, pointing out the advantages which the median was paid to one person, it was for the labour of the work-
=a as well as the general public derived from the man and his wife and family aka. (Hear.) This made
He paid a Wei compliment to the trained all the differing& (Hain) Mena were
wises, repeating an obeerratlen ewe -.aside •by Meg l anther always ling hinny* 4ifia *a
%. Nightingale, that King's Colima Hospital Was the most am time , end let a joint ogromittni seeilidte
homelike of all the London hospitals ; pointed out that and men draw up a from the two which should be
the increased price of commodities of all kinds called for binding on both Surely there was nothing on.
increased contributions, and asked fee special support reasonable in this request. (Hear.) He would repeat that
from the legal profession. The subscriptions during the the strike was not one for wages. Ail that they wanted
evening amounted to 3,0001. One gentleman had sent 200 was a definite time to be agreed upon for making a gar.
guineas in gratitude for the benefits he bad derived from . ment, so that when the job was ished the workman
• nurse trained in the hospital. Some vocal =laic was might know what he wasentitled to receive for his work,
given by • party of amateurs. I and not as under the =tut system, be liable tonere

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OR LONDON.

le., 35., or 4s. deducted
__ his-wogs; at the minim of
his foreman or manager. (Cheers.) Whatever the masters
might say to the contrary the men were quite willing to
__.... submit the whole question to arbitration, and abide by the
The anniversary meeting of the Zoological So- , decision. Mr- Stanley moved." That'll, meeting of vale
in the society.s and female oat-workers pledges, itself not to take work
tasty of London was held yesterday
on. of the eioeine.i. theWeet-end firms getting their work done in the s
Home, in Ha00„..v...„ Th„ii.i. was taken from any of the shops on strike.' He alluded to some of
by Dr. J. E. G MT, F.R.S.,
dents of the society. After some preliminary ho., ' establishments about Whitechapel, from which fever
Mr. disease were never absent from the homes or the persons of
einem, the report of the council was read by
P. L. &Later, Ph.D., F.H.B. the secretary. It stated the wretched workpeople. Mr. Barrett, es an out-door
that the number of members Of the society on the 31st of werkee,.***o_,nded the resolution. He had that morning
December, 1866, had been 2,439, showing an in- been 'mere. a east-tam of work, but he had refused it.
He would never work against the interests of
crease of 316 over the corresponding number on
the 31st December, 1865. 405 fellows had been , his fellow workmen. (Hear, bear.) Mr. Rosenberg, a
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elected or readmitted during the year 1866, while the ew, said he bad spent some time in viaiiing the
number of vacancies caused by deaths, resignations and , sweater*" in the East,
work from the shops on strike. and he was happy to lay that few
otherwise bad only amounted to 89. so that a net addition of them had accepted
of 316 members to the ranks of the society had taken (Hear.) The resolution was carried with great cheering.
place during the year. The total income of the society Mr. Adamson moved, "That this meeting declares the
received during the year 1866 was stated to have been atomicity for a uniform time log, and pledges itself to
previous: assist the men now on strike to obtain that log."
24,378/. 19s. M., exceeding the income of the
fiziltB6s, by the sum of 921). 17• Bsl., and being the' He repudiated the; assertion of the masters that the
sum ever received by the society in any one year,
strike was one for wages, or that it bad been got up
except in the two Exhibition years. The balsam brough
by any committee. It was the unbiassed action of the men
forward from the year 1865 was 1,4291. 11.. 6d., which at large. The strike would at once cease if the masters
added to the income received during the year, pre a total would consent to magi 'vile mm iiiii frame a log, all
of 25,808/. 10s. 11d. available for the expenditure of the disputed„,.,,r", Fein. .! *9 he settled by arbitration. (Cheers.)
year 1866. The scientific meetings of the moiety, which Mr. .asett seconded the resolution. He thought it bad
had, in accordance with the arrangements mentioned in , te'ete on the part of the masters to abuse the men who had
the last annual report, been held since the comment.... been chosen to act as the committee for the trade. They
meat of the session at Burlington-house, had been wen et. were men who well knew the evil of strikes, and only con-
tended,
e scientific suss, cgs of the society
tended, and • large number of valuable oommunire:riase t. seated to such a course being taken when all other means
every branch of had been brought he'» d, them. had failed- lot the matters, Instead of abusly3 the leaders
1 The " proceeding
I of the men, meet them in harmony and discus:, their dif.
for the put Tax TM' statue t 2 be complete, the third ferences with a view to an amimMe settlement. (Hew.
'masters refusing, they were prepared to fight the questiod'
part, completing the volume, being upon the table ready I hear.) The men were prepared for such a course, brat
which had out in the way they were doing. (Hear, hear.) The reso-
for issue. Besides the proceedings, in order to illustrate
hake was carried unanimously. The names and addresses
with due effect several important mcwoirs
recently formed the subject of commuaications to the
of the out-workers present were then taken, in order that
society's scientific meetings, it bad been found necessary 1
to issue no fewer than four parts of the society's Tromso-the committee might visit them at stated periods to see i
lion, since the last anniversary. Several other communi. that they were keeping faith by not executing work for
cations of great interest from Professor Owen, Professor the shops on strike. The meeting concluded with a vote
form time log.
Huxley, Mr. Busk, and Mr. Flower were stated to have , of thanks to the chairman, and three cheers for the mil-
been received, and would occupy the succeeding part of
the society's Transactions. The collection of water-coloured 1 The men are making active preparations for a struggle
drawings by Wolf, illustrating the rarer animals ealai- lof some weeks' duration. A meeting of the executive com-
bited from time to time in the society's menagerie, have ' mittee was held last night, when it was resolved to issue
,
been definitely removed from the society's library in an appeal for pecuniary assistance to the trades through.
Hanover-square to the gallery above the old museum, out the United Kingdom, and delegates were appointed to
which bad been fitted up to receive them. The gallery , visit the large manufacturing towns. The trades councils
was stated to be open to ell visitors to the society's gar- of Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham,
dens after 12 o'clock without extra charge, except on Mon- Preston,n. Wolverhampton,lre, here been specially slim-
days, and appeared to form a very attractive exhibition. 'mend for various evenings this week to receive the dole-
The expenditure upon repairs of the numerous buildings
gates from London, and the large trades in these towns
will also hold special meetings for the same purpose. It
in the gardens during the year 1866, and upon keeping the
, fences, and walks in order, had amounted to 1,342/. • was also decided that an aggregate meeting of the home-
10s. Besides this, the sum of 2,728/. 17e. 3d. had' workers of the West-end should be held during the present
been spent upon permanent additions and improvements , week to secure their 00-oPeratiOn- Mr. Lawrence, the
. ,delegate sent off last week by the committee to follow the
to the garden establishment, amongst which were enume
masters' deputation to the north, returned yesterday, and
rated • new vultures' and eagles' aviary, and various other
reports that the deputation did not meet with the success
buildings and minor improvements. The total number of
Tear ito take any part in the spate; arid at Mmchester, where
visitors to the society's gardens in the year 1866 was stated they expected. The masters at Leeds and Sheffielddeclined
to have been 127,349, being 2,173 more than in the
1865. The number of animals belonging to the three first . the deputation reported the masters had agreed to lock out
classes of vertebrate living in the society's menagerie at their men, they also failed.
the close of 1865 was Rated to have been 1,966. I In our report of the meeting of master tailors on Satur.
The number at the corresponding period of 1866 was day. Conduit-street was given as the address of Messrs.
plan Smalpage ; it should have been Maddox-street.
2,013, showing that an increase of 57 had taken
during the year 1866. Amongst the most noticeable addi- I _
tions to the collection of animals in the society's mena-
gerie during the year 1866 were enumerated—a
young male sea bear or eared seal (storm Hookers),
from Cape Horn South America • a male gayal boa
frontons), shipped at Calcutta for the society by
the Baba Rajendra Mullick in the autumn of 1865 ; a
female Formosan deer (eerrus tairaner.), and other
animals. The total sum expended on additions to the
society's menagerie in the year 1866 had amounted to
1,782/. 12s. 7d. The report then gave a list of animals
exhibited for the first time during the year 1866, in which
were enumerated 13 mammals, 48 bird', and 5 reptiles ;
also a list of animal, which bed bred in the gardens of the
society between the let of January, 1866, and the Ist of
January, 1867, and which comprehended 21 mammals, Zi
birds, and one reptile. Amongst the donors were men-
tioned her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the
Duke of Edinburgh, and many other distinguished person-
ages in all parts of the world. In concluding their report,
the council renewed to the Fellows the congratulations
expressed at the close of several preceding reports upon
the very favourable state and prospects- of the society's
affairs. The income of the society was stated to be
increasing year by year, and by its excess over
the ordinary expenditure, the council were enabled to
make yearly additions of a permanent nature to the
garden establishment. The natural result of this was an
increase in the number of persons desirous of becoming
fellows of the society and of sharing in the privileges
attached to membership. A large augmentation of the
roll of members had been effected during the last few
years, and there seemed to be every prospect of a further
increase of the same nature. The report having been
received and adopted, the ballot for the council and officers
of the society for the ensuing year was taken. The meet-
ing closed with the usual vote of thanks to the council for
their report, and to the chairman for his services in taking
the chair.

THE ENCHNI-DEITSET STRIKE.

Lortn's DAY OBSERVANCE SuerErv.—The annual
meeting of this society was held yesterday in St. James's-
hall, after a breakfast at which numerous friends of the
society sat down ; Mr. R. C. L. Bevan occupied the chair.
The Rev. J. Gritton (secretary) read the annual report,
which stated that the various efforts which had been made
to restrain the directors of the Crystal Palace from pro-
ceeding in their downward course of Sabbath desecration
bad not been fruitless. Nothing would satisfy the
Christian conviction of the oountry but the entire closing
of the Palace on the Lord's Day. The committee heartily
wished that the law which the Sunday League had disre-
garded might be sufficient to bring their proceedings to •
close. The Parcels Delivery Company had liberated
between three and four hundred men from Sunday labour.
Good ground was afforded for the hope that the Sunday
excursion work of the South Eastern Railway would soon
be considerably diminished, or perhaps even terminated.
The six-day cabs movement had gone hopefully forward
during the past year. The report spoke hmcfully of the
Sunday cloning of public-houses movement. The whole
income of the society for the year, including a Wanes,
had been 1,417 f. The report was adopted.
HONE AND COLONIAL SCHOOLS EloclggY.—The
anniversary meeting of this society was held yesterday at
the schools, Gray's.mn-roe.d, the Earl of Chichester in the
chair. The report of the committee stated that they felt ,
grateful for all they had been permitted to accomplish re-,
garding the education of the labouring classes, in spite of
the difficulties which the revised code had thrown in their !
way, difficulties which they could not but hope were in a
fair way of attracting public attention, and thus obtaining
an effectual remedy. They also rejoiced in the success
which had attended their feeble efforts to aid the educa-
tion of the middle classes. Much, however, remained to
be done, and much that had been accomplished might
have been done better, yet they thankfully acknowledged, I
upon a review of the past year, that God had been with
them of a troth, and they desired to stir up themselves and
their friends to greater works. The total income of the'
society during the past year was 5,4934, and the expendi-
tare 5,44 W., as regarded the training schools. 138 teachers
had been trained during the year under the government
minutes. The results of the examinations in all the ,
schools were highly satisfactory. The report was lineal-
monaly adopted.

The past week has made very little difference in
the relative positions of the North Eastern Company and
their late staff of workmen, excepting that the company
are getting their working arrangements with the new
hands consolidated. All the mineral and good, trains are
now stated to be in full work, and the embargo laid on re.
ceiving certain heavy goods for certain stations has within
the last few days been removed. Two passenger
one up and one down, from York and Newcastle respee-
I lively. are still kept off. The railway company have ap-
, peered throughout to carry matters with rather a high
hand, and, it is generally thought in the district, have
made a mistake by refusing to receive back many of the
oldhands who have applied. Although the strike haste all
appearance terminated in a decision adverse to the men,
the latter state that this is really not so as regards the
ultimate result of the contest. A large meeting of engine-
, drivers, to the number of above a thousand, it is stated,
from various lines in the north of England, was held at
Derby on Sunday afternoon, where the question of united ac-
tion in support of the North-Eastern men was discussed. Ac-
cording to the reports which have been sent out from
this meeting to the different local associations, the
decision that the men should be called out on other lines
seemed to be almost unanimously supported, but the ques-
tion turned upon whether the idea originally entertained
should be acted upon, of confining the contemplated strike
to six lines, including the great Northern, Midland. Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, and London and North Western,
and two others, or whether all the lines throughout the
country should be included. It was decided that the
larger scheme should be recommended for consideration
and decision by the delegates of the Engine-drivers' and
Firemen's Association, which bolds its meeting in London
j to-day. It is the unanimous opinion of the North-
' Eastern drivers that the union will adopt one of the two
' coulees mentioned, either of calling out on the six or the
whole of the lines. This it is thought will put such a
pressure on the North-Eastern directors as to compel them
to receive back their old bands. Whether this desperate
expedient as a last resource will be adopted will probably
be known in a day or two.

RETURN OF A LOST HVSBAND.—A singular and
romantic incident has occurred at Sunderland, on the
return of a man who for four years had been given up,
I and in the meantime his wife had again married. It ap-
pm.rs that upwards of four years ago • steanian sinned
Fife sailed in a Sunderland ship named the Sardis, for
Australia. Fife left behind him • wife, to whom he had
been married three years, and a child. On the vessel's
arrival in Australia she was sold, and after that all trace
was lost of Fife by his wife in Sunderland. After three
years' silence, during which die mourned her husband an
dead, Mn. Fife was induced to listen to another suitor,
and at the Whitsuntide of I$G6 she married a sailor,
with whom she has lived happily since, little dream-
ing that her first husband was alive, and would
return to claim her. But so it was. Fife, on his
arrival in Australia, had gone to the diaings, where
he remained, and, for some reason best known to him-
self, be bad never communicated with his wife and child.
From the diggings he returned to one of the seaport., and
had the command of • vessel which sailed from Australia
to other ports. In this trade be continued for nearly
three years, until he began to think of returning to Eng-
land, and landed at Bristol last week. Still keeping his
arrival secret, he proceeded to Sunderland. intending to
surprise his wife, and before visiting her he made 801111 V
inquiries of the police to ascertain if she WAS still living.
At one o'clock on Sunday morning last lie knocked at the
door of his fatherdn-law, a bill-poster, named Scott,
where his wife was staying, and the surprise of his sudden
appearance and unexpected return may easily be con-
owed. His wife at first doubted the reality of the return,
but soon was convinced that he was in the dear, and a
scene of rejoicing followed. The long separated couple
have again become united, but the difficulty will be to meet
the claims of the second husband. Fortunately he is from
home, having sailed only a few days previously on a voyage
b New York.