The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-18 00:00:00

THE SHIPWRIGHTS' STRIKE.

The trial of the President, Treasurer, and eight other men,
belonging to the Shipwrights' Union, for assaulting men in
the employ of Young, Son, and Magnay, and for conspiracy,
and endeavouring by threats, bribes, and intimidation to
prevent other shipwrights working for the firm, is especially
appointed to take place this day at the Central Criminal Court,
The indictment is a very long one, and contains
the
fifteenpoint
points.
The counsel engaged for the prosecution a
Attorney-
General, Mr. Scrjeant Ballantine, and Mr. Hall ; attorney,
Mr. George Wells. For the defence, Mr. Edwin James,
Q.C., Mr. Sleigh, Mr. Metcalf, and Mr. Ribton have been
retained ; attorneys, Mr. Pelham, and Mr. Charles Young,
both of Arbotir-sguare, Stepney. Twenty-five witnesses have
been subpoenaed on the part of the prosecution.
The Shipwrights' Union have not been guilty of any vio-
lence or intimidation towards the new hands from the Channel
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defendants at the July sessions. The strike has ended as was
anticipated it always would cud, its the utter discomforture of
the Shipwrights' Union; all the old hands who refused to
comply with the new regulations of the hours of labour
promulgated by Young, Son, and Magnay, having been re-
pt iced by new and willing hands, who are still in the employ
of the firm, and ate likely to remain so. The strike has cost
the Union not less than £4,000. The expenses incurred by
Messrs. Young, Son, and Magnay, in maintaining the
freedom of labour, has also been very large, but not one half
the amount expended by the Union.

Fr,,m a pae,iarnentary return just issued, it appears that
the annual value of the entire area of Scotland (excluding
towns and burgh-,), 20,047,462 acres, was stated at
£319,281 in 1674, and that it has increased in 1356 to
£8,155,972, or about twenty-five times its va'ue in the
seventeenth c3ntury.
The Legislative Council of Ceylon was opened by his
Excellency Sir Henry Ward, K.G.C., on the 30th of July.
The governor congratulated the colony upon the satisfactory
state of the revenue, the healthy condition of the producing
interests, the steady increase of trade, and the active prose-
cation of works intended to develop this growing prosperity.
Oa the subject of the railways the governor said—" Gentle-
men of the Legislative Council—l shall lay upon your table
to-lay copies of a despatch from her Majesty's Secretary of
State, and of an agreement entered into by him with the
Ceylon Railway Company, for the formation of a railway
betwten Colombo and Kandy, This agreement is a pro-
visional one, but it becomes a contract, legally binding upon
both parties, it confirmed by ordinance within six months
from the date of its signature."
THE WESTAHNSTETICL^CE. BELL.—The above bell (lately
cast at Norton, near Stockton, which weighs the enormous
weight of 15 tons 18 cwt. 1 qr. and 22 lb., was brought
during the past week to West Hartlepool, for shipment to
its destination. On Saturday last, whilst it was being
lifted from the truck on which it had been brought from
Norton, in order to be put into the vessel which was to
convey it to London, the horizontal part of the timber
shears gave way, and the bell was precipitated into the hold
of the vessel, carrying away the foremast, and otherwise
doing considerable damage to the ship, but happily
without any accident to the workmen and numerous
spectators. As soon as the debris could be removed from the
deck of the vessel, she was towed by a steamer out of the
dock, and laid upon the sand of the outer harbour, in order
to save her from sinking in the dock with her valuable cargo,
as the fall of the bell into her hold bad caused the vessel to
make a great deal of water. The bell is expected to be
uninjured.
THE NEW POLICE Acr.—At the quarter sessions about
to be holden in the several counties, application will be made
to adopt the act of last session on police in counties and
boroughs. The object of the new law is to make the estab-
lishment of a county police compulsory. On a certificate
of the Secretary of State that an efficient police has been
established in any county or borough, one-fourth of the
cl'arge for pay and clothing is to be paid by the Treasury.
LADY HEWLEY'S CHARITY.—Mr. Christopher Rawdon,
of Liverpool, having suggested to his family connections
and friends the raising of a fund in lieu of that of which the
poorer Unitarian congregations in the north of England
were deprived by the newley suit, the suggestion has met
with the following munificent response :—Christopher
Rawdon, Esq., Liverpool, £2,020 ; Mrs. Matilda Rawdon,
do, £2,000 ; R. V. Yates, Easwq
Dawson,
Esq.,o,£l Bradford,,OOO z,O
;Geor gelloloolt :
MissEsci" MdoB,£
s; C. H.
do, £l,OOO ; Miss Rachel Dawson,
do, £1,000; 10
boaoDwaniel Gaskell, Esq., Wakefield, £1,000;
John Pemberton Heywood, Esq , Liverpool, £l,OOO ; Misses
Yates, do, £l,OOO ; Richard Kershaw Lamb, Esq.. Chelten-
ham, £l,OOO ; John Mather, Esq , Liverpool, £350 ; Daniel
Mather, Esq., do, £250 ; Miss rsabella Mather, do, £350 ;
Miss Jane Mather, do, £350; William Rathbone, Esq., do,
£500; John Strutt, Esq., Belper, £1,000; Ivie Mackie,
Esq., Manchester, £5OO ; T. H. M.Cortnel, Esq., do, £lOO ;
J,uicalq•Cuutiell, E'q., do, £450, Henry M'Connel, Esq.,
do, £450 ; Arthur Lupton, Esq., Leeds, £5OO ; Martin
Schunck, Esq., Manchester, £1,000: total, £18,820.
These sums, with the interest since they were paid into the
bank, amounting to £l,lBl, make the entire sum now
available for the fund above £20,000. The interest of the
fund (the Newcarle Chronicle states) will be annually
applied in assistance of " poor and godly ministers of
Christ's holy gospel," non--subscribers to articles and creeds.
—Gateshead Obseiver.

RESCUE FROM DROWNING AT LEEDS.—A girl, of the
unfortunate class, who was so physically reduced by her
rash and wicked attempt at suicide as to be incapable of
stinding upright in the dock, was charged at the -Leeds
Court House, on Tuesday, with having attempted to drown
herself early the same morning. Her nams was Ellen
Conroy. Her countenance and bust were purely classical
and statuesque, and as she reclined in a doubled up position
on her chair, her long and beautiful black hair fell in
tangled and irregular masses over her shoulders, or was
fancifully matted by the moisture about her forehead. The
girl had been living in Olstreet, and was au unfortunate
female of the town. About three o'clock that morning, a
young man, named William Benson, of Back Zion-street,
w proceeding to his work when he observed the prisoner
runas swiftly and excitedly down Low Fold, towards the
river Aire. Ile immediately followed, suspecting her pur-
pose was self-destruction. As soon as the girl reached the
river, which in this place flows deeply past the large factory
of Mr. _Hammond,
she tossed her arms wildly aloft, and
plunged into the stream. Benson hastily divested himself
of his garnaent4, and jumped into the water after her. By
this time she bad floated out into mid-stream ; but Benson,
!icing an excedent swimmer, soon succeeded in reaching
her, and brought her to shore, from whence she wasim-
mediately removed to the police-office When examined by
Mrs. Johnson, the matron, she was found to be suffering
from extreme physical exhaustion, from which she had
not recovered when brought before the magistrates. She
was also suffering from disease, Upon being interrogated
by the bench as to her motive in attempting to commit so
,
rashan act, the unfortunate creature appeared incapable of
making any reply ; and the court, without further enquiry,
committed her for three months to Armley gaol, where that
attention will be rendered her which her recent immersion
and other causes appear to require. Benson was warmly
complimented by the magistrates on his gallent behaviour ;
and, upon its appearing that this was not an isolated
instance of his courage in rescuing people from drowning,
they awarded him ten shillings as a mark of their satisfac-
tion.