The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-26 00:00:00

THE NORTH EASTERN DRIVERS' STRIKE.

Inquiries made erierasy among tilt loftily;
enene-driven thew that they are mo, bent on re-
m"' Lino,. They have received letters from colleagues
in the movement at Gateshead, Middlesborough, and
other sections, which describe the men, with very
trifling exceptions, air being still determined to stand
out. At Gateshead, where 360 men left their work,
it is said that only four or five have gone beck into the
company's service. At Leeds only three have applied
for re-engagements. The offers of but two of them
have been wanted. The rejected man was John Eines,
who, a fortnight ago, was convicted by the Leeds magis-
trats for leaving the company's service without notice.
The letters before mentioned also assure their Leeds
brethren that the men in those districts are resolved to
gain the victory. Yesterday morning a communication
was received, showing that at the head-quarters of the
union it was considered expedient to resort to the
"united action" movement, by which the drivers on the
Midland and Great Northern Railways will be pledged
not to work on those portions of their lines which are used
by North }intern trams. A document to this effect is
now circulating among the men, and they are signing it.
If its intention is earned out the men will give the usual
notice to leave their situations. One of the grounds on
which the men on strike refuse to compromise is, that
they believe the newly engaged drivers have accepted lower
wages than were formerly paid.
At the Carlisle City Pal.-court yesterday (Wednesday)
six engine drivers—namely, George Scott, Isaac Pegg,
Robert Cockburn, Joseph Smith, John Haney, and John
Mason, appeared, under summons, to answer a charge of
leaving their work as engine-drivers on the Newcastle and
Carlisle section of the North-Eastern Railway, without
giving a month's notice, according to the agreement the
had entered into and signed. The magistrates on the bench
were the Mayor and Mr. Thomas Nelson. Messrs.
Neilson and Clutterbuck, solicitors, appeared for the com-
pany; the men were defended by Mr. Roberta, the "Colliers'
Attorney-General." Mr. Hanson said the men were sum-
moned for leaving their employment without notice—some
of them, indeed, while they had their engines with steam
up and ready to go out. This was part of a concerted
action which took place over the whole of the North-
Eastern system, and engine-drivers in other parts of the
sentry had been summoned and prosecuted, and it was
a matter of public notoriety that in many cases they had
been convicted. In these cases now before the beach,
however, he had last night received a letter with the fol-
lowing instructions from the North Eastern Company :
" If necessary, you should kindly explain to the magis-
trate, that as the illegality of the men's proceedings has
been fully established by the decision of the niamstrates
in other places, and as the railway is now nearly at full
work again, the directors have no wish to act in any other
than the most lenient manner towards the men in fault ;
mote especially as the most of them will be severe suf-
ferers through the loss of their employment, and that no
doubt many of those who acted as they did wore insti-
gated to take so unwarrantable a course by the
leaders of the unfortunate combination." 1 hider
these circumstances the company did not wish to
press for convictions, and, indeed, he believed that in two
of the cases the men had made application to be restored
to their employment, and one or both of them lad been
re-engaged. If the bench thought proper, therefore, he
should allow the proceedings to drop. Mr. Roberts dis-
puted the accuracy of the statement contained in the letter
read by Mr. Mason that " the illegality of the men's pro-
ceedings had been fully establised." All the magistrates
had granted cases to be carried before men of superior
position, higher intellect, and more legal knowledge, and
until thew' cases were fully decided by the judges' of the
land the legality of the proceedings could not be con-
sidered as decided. He was there to defend the men, but
was ready to withdraw if the railway company withdrew,
or to goon if they went on. He caressed a hope that by
the manifestation of an amicable spirit a settlement of tha
dispute would be brought about. The summonses were
then withdrawn.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF RCROEONS OF ENGLAND,
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examinations for the diploma were admitted members of
the college at a meeting of the Court of Examiners an the
25th lasi. viz.:—Mears. James Wood Cooke, Barnstaple;
Joshua William Morison, Pembroke; William Calvert
Totilmin, Lower Clapton ; Arthur Bowes Elliott, Rich-
mond, Yorkshire; Benjamin Duke, Kennington-park.
road; Charles Munden, Ilminster; Edward Sunderland,
Thornton, Yorkshire; William Jebson Stothanl, Mill.
cheater, and Charles John Watford Meadows, LS.A.,
Otley, near Ipswich, students of Guy's hospital ; Alfred H.
Newth, Albert-street, Newington •, Nelson Congreve Dob-
son, LS.A., Holbeach ; Alfred Pero, Winchester, and
William Anderson, L.S.A., Stockwell, of St. Thomas's
Hospital ; Frederick A. A. Smith, Cheltenhion ; William
Henry Common, Woodbridge, Suffon. and Richard Cam-
ino Saunders, LS.A., Moulton, Northampton, of the
London Hospital ; George Percival Hadley, Birmingham;
Henry ramank Marshall, Birmingham ; and John Orion,
Foleahl , near Coventry, of the Birmingham School;
Walter Smith, Hampton Court ; and Detrains Twine
Moleoey, Stamford, of King's College ; Richard Augmtus
Rouse, Great Torrington, North De eon, of University Col-
lege; Christopher William Calthrop, Withern Alton'.
Lincolnshire, of the Charing-cross -Hospital ; Frederiok
William Newcombe, Neweastle-omTyne ; John George
Hewitt, Leeds ; and Thomas Bartholomew Tracey, M.D.
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