Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-07 00:00:00

THE MASTER BUILDERS AND THEIR
WORKiIEg,

We are happy to ohserve that steps are beiig tdm to settle the
unfottunate &sputa now pending between the master builders of
Manchester an.i their workmen. The history of strikes praies their
total inadequacy to determine any misunderstandisg arising between
master d man. Arbitration is the only mional process, if both
parties are willing to abide by it. Of course the most thorough
confidence must be reposed is the impartially and competent know-
ladr of the parties who undertake this delicate task. 'I ha competence
of the gentlemen who, as will be seea from our corresp >ndence, have
velanteered their services, cannot re Ttestioned, and we presume
their impartiality 13 equally beyond diubt. If Sir James Watts, or
the gentleman who it is presumed will Le his successor, consent to
co-operate with the gentlemen named, an ddditional guarantee will
be-afforded of entire fairness. We trust the propase will succeed in
gettin; rid of the presort unhappy differences, the sombre hue of
which is not alienated by the approach cf winter.--Illaschtsfer
Examiskr.

ROYAL lIIBERNIiN ACIDENY.—NIrMarI E q.,
has arrived i i D iblin t e 'titian the inq ii.ry o:dered
by goverment into the affairs of the R,y,l fliberuian
Actdemy.

DOUB ITIIL Aus.—fram old are you B !get ? sairi a
cz en 11 uo4u to his s,rv.irit girl. Ab ait 50, sir, she repr
You are niiitaken, B Liget : y u are nut ov r 20. Y
sir, that is it. lam .bo it 20 or 50, siwewhere along
there.

TIIE FATE OF A VOLUNTEER. —SOM,3 malicious sprite.
envying my gml fortu- e, iinhued me with a feeliag of
patriotism, if I may term it e', and when an o, p otunir
of .tervin4 inc calltinry ii the Bist was t ff -red me, I gl sly
accepted h. I e:tered one of the foreign legions, under a
verbal agreement tha, my servic.:s would be r-qui;ed for
three years, and so much ionizer as the war might last.
outfit cost me, in round nurabers, one hundrrd and fif. y
pound—.:ne hund ed end twenty to my tailor, alti twenty
od i to my baotrn tker—thesa items re; re g the
equipment I was three eel to -,core by m 7 commaudi g
officer. I served in the Ciimea j .8' s x months, Unt.l the
dogs at wa- were muzzier', and duri•g that period paid
off ninety pounds et the amount; and, considering that
my enure ply was under a pound a day. and I had a wife
and chid to support, I do not think 1 can be accused e f
extravagance. I received two months' gratu'ty iu Pare,
as a final acknowledgmeut of my s-rvic s, and had to await
the paymaster's g .04 ple,sure for three weeks, at the
'dote' cie I'Europe, which made a considerpll hole in the
sum tonal. Whoa I artiyA at home, I was worse than
p nniless, f r I h.id s'xly pounds of debt hang:fig or.r, me.
I naturally applied to the War 011;'3e to carry out the
arrangement under which I entered, and was 1 ughel at
for my pains. My agre went was verta', so I hid no
appe .1 ; wh 1, a por•ion of the men who had setv d under
me, having s cured a written agreement, were bought off
with six nio ths' gratui y. Mind, Ido no, desire to rise
say contipaseonate capital by com,,tailing of GrJsre. onset ;
j
ex s',
I know that Govtrument, to est, must be n. o,t, and
that individual hardsh'ps weigh but little against the com-
mon weal. I therefore determined to work off any incubus
of debt by my own labours, and fortunately succeeded is
r cove-int. a pornim of my literary engrtgements.
I worked hard at a novel, and was so fortunate as to ssll
it; and this, with per'odleal co tibitOons, kept the wolf
from the door till the d y before yesterday. I was arr, steel
without a moment's warning by my bootmaker, and carried
off to L-wworth gaol, with just five shillings in my e ,
my wife and child being left to stare, or go to the work.
htdise.—Zhaens's Bous.hold Words.