The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1867.

can account for their preferring no pay to
wages ; for otherwise they would he aware that
employers in Belfast must be suffering, hie all other
manufacturers, from the state of the commercial
\weld ; and that they have really no option as to
the wages they pay.
Far worse is the ease of the Welsh colliers and
iremmen in the Aberdare mineral district. Not only
are the men on strike there, without a shadow of
exams, but they are tyrannising over men of another
malt, the engineers, so as to stop the pumps, and
destroy all chance of the works being resumed for a
king time to come. The case is plainly this. The
ova now out on strike have been earning
(such of them as are good workmen) from 28e.
to 30s. per week. If they had paid their
way when thus receiving en income which
many a poor clergyman, clerk, or retired officer
would be glad of, they might now be able to live in
comfort on the wages offered,—that is, at a reduction
of from 10 to 15 per cent. at the collieries, and 20 per
ant. at the ironworks. But they did not pay their
way when prosperous. On the contrary, they are
la debt to the shops ; and one shopkeeper in Aber-
dare says that his customers paid nothing during the
whole month of November. In this position—while
In debt to the shops on the one hand and stopping
the works on the other, what are these fellows
doing ? They meet, and pass three resolutions
i which most intercept the sympathy of every man
. who hears of their came. They resolve, lint, not to
swept reduced wages; secondly, not to allow the
engineers to work at the clearing and ventilation of
the pits; and thirDy, not to pay the shopkeepers
and tradesmen for provisions obtained during
November. They go further still. While the
water is flooding the works, and the engi-
neers are kept idle under intimidation, these
ruffians are threatening the tradesmen with
violence if provisions are not supplied to them
as usual. They do sot explain how they expect the
shopkeepers to supply goods without money to buy
them with, or employers to pay wages when their
storks will not Nihon the one hand, and their worts
gias te Thin, on the other. It is needless to
sped Ewa INA on such a case. We all know too
well whet beppas when the law and the military
hays to be masa in to repress such tyranny, and
when a amnia ruin overtakes the works, the
workmen, thisbadeemen, and the order and com-
fort of the emeanity. In some pits work cannot,

at best, be resumed for months ; in several iron-
works the furnaces are blown out, the forges which

are not yet stopped being dependent on coal pro-
cured from other quarters. At Merthyr, we are
glad to sea the colliers have resolved to accept, for
the present, wages at a reduction of 20 per cent, ;
but over a very wide area the insane perversity of
the coal and iron workers has not only stopped in-
dustry, but destroyed its very conditions. It is in-
structive to us all, from the humblest to the wised,
to observe the contrast between such a ease and
these of Lancashire and Nottingham, and all ether
places where the nature of the present difficulty is
understood, so that all the suffering parties can sup-
port one another, thus !educing the suffering at the
moment, and being ready to make use at once of the
better times which are apparently near at band.

DESPATCH FROM BOMBAY.

SIR COLIN CAMPBELL'S ADVANCE
TO LIICKNOW.

COLONEL GREATHED'S COLUMN AT
ALUM BAGH.

GENERAL WINDHAM IN COM NAND
AT CAWNPORE,

TAW ACCIDEN TAN FAMINE, OP
THE NOR MILITIA.

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PLTI&OUTH, FIIDAT.

The Northampton Militia, Lient.-Colonel Lord
Berghley, mired yerterday, by railway, from Caked ; when
between Tolima sad the Kininbriar-red iltatioesa
C. Watkina pat his lied oat of ths wrier window, it came
In =tact with the battier of a wail, and he Ins killed on
tho spot.
An inquest ea the May tales plum this hallows.

THE LEVIATHAIf.

-
Since the efforts to move this vessel were brought
to abrupt dose by the fog of Tuesday, the whole of the
hydraulic machined employed have been moved up elm to
the ship's cradles, sou to exert their force through • very
shod interval and lava the loss of power ocossionsd by their
being at • distance from the ship. Early yesterday mars-
ing they were all set to work again, and, after • considera-
ble delay, and after their pr !rare had been exerted
to the very utmost, a short slip of 14 inches
aft and 13 inches forward was eructed, but be-
yond this trilling distance it wee found Impossible
to mows the ship. In the subsequent effort• which
were made the mooring tackle which hauls the stern towards
the river, and which (with simiLsr tackle at the stem) is now
mainly depended on for keeping bar in motion when ono,
the rams have started her, gave way without breaking, and
the anchors which held ft began to " come home." This
defection of so important a part of the apparatus woe final,
and after • short consultation Mr. Brunel determined to give
tap further efforts until to-morrow (ffaturday) morning, or
mill such time as a arm, unyielding holdfsat an be ob-
tained for the mootinp In the river. The total distance the
maid bee already accomplished is 104 feet els Inches for-
went sad 96 fast 1 Ina eft.