The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-23 00:00:00

THE ENGINEERS' STRIKE

During the controversy that has now been so
many vreeks pending between the machine manufac-
turers and their employes, the interests of one class
of mere though terribly implicated in the result of
the struggle, appear to have been totally overlooked.
Nothing has been said, and little seems to have
been thought, ,by either party of the " non-society
men." Yet the fate that was to overtake these work-
men ought surely to have found place in the discus-
sion. In number they were greater—it is said in the
proportion of more than two to one—than the mem-
bers of the Amalgamated Society ; in skill they were
not inferior ; and their destinies were equally bound
up with the general prosperity and continuance of
employment, or rather, indeed, far more so, since they
could not in time of destitution fall back upon the
supplies contained in that military chest, whose stored
treasure so much encouraged the pertinacity of Mr.
Newton's disciples.
The Amalgamated Society having personal objects
to gain ; having vanity and consistency_at stake ; and
having, who knows ? some dazzling prospect in view
of securing to themselves the masters' share of profit
in addition to their own, by some to-be-invented
device for newly " organising labour,"—naturally
enough ignored the claim and looked very un-
feelingly on the sufferings of their fellow-workmen.
There has, in fact, for a long time been something
more than coldness, between the two classes. The
members of the society were piqued at the refusal of
their companions to cast in their lot with them ; and
the " unattached" workmen viewed the proceedings
of the society with the natural fear and dislike which
all must feel when men in all respects their equals
assume the possession of exclusive rights and inter.
ests. We were consequently in no way surprised to
find that neither Mr. Newton in his speeches, nor the
Amalgamated Society by their sots testified the
slightest regard for the companions Aose very sub-
sistence they were compromising.
We were, however, :both surprised and grieved to
find that the employers testified an equal unconcern.
The non-society men were void of offence towards
them. Nay, by declining to become members, by ab-
senting themselves from the meetings, and with-
holding their signatures from the manifestoes of
the executive council, they bad decidedly deserved
well of the master manufacturers. Yet, though
not associated with the crime of the Amalga-
mated Society, they have borne more than their
share of its
friends. Who,
visited with the same measure of retribution the
guilty
withagainst,
tb e 1. r
and the innocent, their enemies and their
punishment. The employers have
, their interest
at last shown some degree of resentment at the then, can wonder that the latter have
in-
justice to which they have been subjected ? Against
secretAt
common cause;
sympathies, we find them now beginning to make
a meeting numerously attended, recently held in
Lambeth, a resolution enjoining the non-society
men to use every effort in their power absrewtherebnelaitevt: society. At
amicable settlement of the favour an
their power toand
an amendment, piedgin_ question was rejected,
less than the Amalgamated in
~e to accept "nothing
Society, do," was carried
unanimously.
Prudence as well as kindness • '
might have impelled
the employers to make some
distraction between

members and non-members when they found the
controversy with the Amalgamated Society coming
to extremities. The fact that a good two-thirds of
the hands had given no adhesion to the prcnuncia-
mento against piece-work and overtime, was at once
mo;st gratifying in itself, and afforded the masters a
ready means of keeping all their manufacturing
operations fully going, or nearly so, while proving
their perfect independence of all dictation from the
men. Misled, as we fear, by harsh feelings, the
principals have forgone this wise and still available
course. Closing their workshops inexorably and
indefinitely, they have involved in suffering vast
multitudes who have never deserved it, and have,
besides, afforded to the Amalgamated Society an
immediate triumph in the consciousness of having
caused all the mischief they threatened and hoped to

inflict.
Even now, we hope, it is not too late for the em-
ployers to rescind their determination. Why should
not the firms whose vast forges in London and Man-
chester are now cold and silent, re-open their doors
to the hands who have never belonged to, or will
abjure,
the Amalgamated Society? I'Vork is to re-
commence, they promise, ai soon as the " notices"
are withdrawn by the men. What is to prevent
their beginning at once with such men as have not
signed the notices or sworn allegiance to the Executive
Council on whose authority they were issued ? Prac-
tical difficulties may perhaps stand somewhat in the
Way. It may not be easy, or even possible, to work
succe9sfully with a skeleton corps of men. But the
experiment is at all events worth trying. The
damage
will probably be less; and the chances of a
speedy and satisfactory termination to the dispute
will be much enhanced by such a proceeding. Not
only will the masters thereby perform an act of
justice to thousands of innocent men, but they will
deprive the Amalgamated Society of its great stimulus
in obstinacy, by showing that its power to stop
production is not so great as it expected. With
the workshops once more open, moreover a locus
penitentite will be
offered to all members of the so-
ciety whom want, dissatisfaction, or a returning sense
of propriety may inspire with a wish to resume their
labours. Before the " strike" has lasted long we think
it matter of certain
ty that such desertions will be
numerous. If the masters are wise, they will take
care to keep places open where the deserters may find
refuge ; nor, under the circumstances, does it seem
that the terms upon which they are to be allowed
to resume their duties need be made too severe.
Daily News.
ENC

FR -a ASPECT OF THE "STRIKE."
The Debats publishes the following letter from
M. J. De Coninck, an eminent llavre merchant, and
recommends it to the serious attention of the Govern-
ment :—" Havre, Jan. 17, 1852.—Y0u have already
informed your readers of the serious conflict that
has arisen in England between the operative
engineers, founders, and boiler-makers, and ma-
chine manufacturers. It is very probable that
the important branch of industry in England
whi▪
ch consists in the construction of machines
is about to undergo extensive perturbations. Why
should not France endeavour to succeed to a large
slice of this rich inheritance ? Nothing would be
easi▪
er. It only requires a simple decree authorising
our manufacturers to make use of brass, iron, and pit
coal in bond, that is to say free of duty, for all machi-
nery destined for exportation. We should at once see
all those countries which now send their orders for
machines to England come to France for them, for
they have had an opportunity of seeing in the London
Exhibition what our makers are capable of doing.
The former Government authorised the use of cast
metal in bond for the construction of machinery des-
tined for exportation ; but this timid concession was
altogether insufficient. Boilers, which play so large
a part in machinery, are not made with cast metal,
but with thin plates, and iron to rivet them, and
this causes a waste, which must be taken in consi-
deration in the duty. Now that we have a Govern-
ment which has only to will to be able to perform,
to call its attention to the fact that I have pointed
out, will doubtless be all that can be necessary to
turn the circumstances to the profit of France. The
subject is urgent, and very urgent ; for if our fac-
tories do not at once resume all the activity which it
would be so easy to bring back to them, it is evi-
dent that the English manufacturers, tired of lying
idle, will take away our workmen, i
and thus bring
our industry to a lower state than it s at present."

SOCIETY OF. ARTS.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUP7'CY, Jan. 22.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Ey-ANs.)
IN RE J. BARTLETT.
This was the last examination meeting. The bank-
rupt was a wine and cor❑ merchant of Upper
Thames street. His unsecured debts were 11,5751.;
debts secured, 8181. ; liabilities, 9741. The assets
were, good debts, 22/. ; property. 1911. ; property in
the hands of creditors, 1,4551. The profits (in two
years) had been 690/. ; deficiency at the commence-
ment of the account, 9201. ; losses, 4,319/. ; interest,
365/. ; law costs, 865/. ; trade expenses, 3,0271. ; per-
sonal expenses, 1,9441.

. .
Mr. Linklater, for the assignees, objected to the
accuracy of the accounts ; Mr. Lowrance supported.
An adjournment for two months was agreed upon.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan, 22.
(Before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS.)
IN THE MATTER OF HENRY COHEN.
This insolvent, an iron-merchant at Cow-cross and
Saffron-hill, was further examined on his application
to be discharged.

Mr. Dowse opposed for nearly a dozen creditors ;
Mr. Cooke (Mr. Sargood with him) supported.
The case was somewhat remarkable. The insol-
vent owed 1,6391., at.' had some debts owing to him,
but no available property for his creditors. The
complaint was that he had made away with property
and given preferences. At the end of July last he
was in a state of insolvency, and since then had ob-
tained goods from his creditors, which had either been
swept away under an execution for money borrowed
from a friend, or paid away to persons for similar
loans. In July, Mr. Lee, a tobacconist, at the corner
of Fetter-lane, Holborn, had sued him, but did not
levy his execution until September, when the property
was purchased by a Mr. Emanual. In addition he
had paid 3201. to persons for money borrowed.
Abraham Goodman, who said he was on the "turf,"
was paid in August 1201.; and a Mr. Scott was paid
a sum of 70/. without asking for it. The insolvent
had offered his creditors 4s. in the pound, and in this
court 2s. 6d. in the pound was offered and refused.
Some of the debts of the creditors had been incurred
in August and September last.
Mr. Dowse complained that there had been a
making away with property, and that the creditors
had been despoiled of their goods to pay the friends
of the insolvent to a large amount. The case was, if
not the worst, certainly one of the worst that had ever
come before tLe Court.

Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS said the observation
reminded him of an anecdote of a Learned Judge.
When he addressed a prisoner, he told him his was
the worst case he had heard, and in one day he told
five different prisoners the same thing.
Mr. DOWSE recapitulated the evidence which had
occupied a portion of two days, and asked on the part
of the creditors an exemplary judgment.
Mr. COOKE, on the part of the insolvent, contended
that there had been no making away with property
to Lee, as it had been taken in the due course of law.
Evidence had been given of the payments the insol-
vent had made, and it► was for the Court to say
whether he was justified in making such payments.
Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS said he would consider
the case and give his judgment next week.
Judgment deferred.
APPLICATION TO DISMISS A PETITION.

At the rising of the Court,
Mr. Dowse applied to dismiss a petition, the insol-
vent having gone out of prison before adjudication.
It wss stated that the Court of Queen's Bench had
held that a vesting order was annulled by operation
of law where a man was discharged before adju-
dication.

Mr. Commissioner PEIILLIPS sail be would consult
Mr. Commissioner Law on the point; he had given
an opinion on the subject.
It transpired that an order for hearing had been
granted to the sth of February, and the application
stood over until after that day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
GUILDHALL.

Yesterday John Vaughan, of 16, Nelson-square,
Blackfriars-road, was charged before Alderman
Sidney with having embezzled various sums of money,
the property of his employer.
Norman Garston, a provision merchant and
leather. dresser, stated that in March, 1850, he was
induced to enter into the leather-dressing business by
the prisoner, and engaged him to manage it at a salary
of 2/. a week. The business commenced in Ber-
mondsey, and was afterwards removed to No. 2,
Oxford Arms-passage. The prisoner was entrusted
to buy, sell, and receive money for him. He received
for petty sales the sum of 81. 16a., out of which he
had paid only 51. Is. 6d., leaving a balance of 31 14i.
6d. yet unaccounted for. He had also received 4/.
ss. 6d. from a person in Cork-street, Bermondsey,
which he bad not accounted for. On the 19th of
September, 1850, prisoner sold goods to a Mr. T.
Haine, 27, Jewry-street, Aldgate, to the amount of
16/., and told witness on the 2d of October that he
had received only 151., and that the other pound
would be paid next time he called. From that time
to the present he had not accounted for it. There
was a mistake in the account, and on Monday last it
was settled, when Mr. Haine paid the prisoner Gs.,
which he had not accounted for.

Professor Edward Solly delivered on Wednesday
evening one of the series of lectures in connexion with
the Great Exhibition, at the Society of Arts, John-
street, Adeiphi, on the vegetable substances used in
the arts and manufactures in relation to commerce
generally. In his prefatory remarks he defined raw
produce as the state in which the substance is employed
by the manufacturer ; for this state it was
the raw matter on which he worked, although it
might have undergone many processes to bring it to
that condition. In the different classes of raw produc-
tions the best substances were not always used, nor
were the best means for preparing them followed. He
referred this to many causes-to the tenacitywith
which we hold received ideas, to combination in the
trade, to the ignorance of the manufacturer, to the
want of practical application in the man of science,
the want of direct communication between the first
producer and the manufacturer, instead of the present
system of middlemen, by whom every new thing was
in consequence, many a
looked on with distrust, and,
new substance was sent back as useless to the pro-
ducer,as not being of any
value in the market.
Mr. Solly then drew attentionl lto the various
species of gums and resins, particularly ar y one from New
used as a substitute
fBourusthhellVallaecs,' kwnhoiwchn ulasighbtlack boy gum and the
Zealand.
tHhe men' tioned the
cowdrie resin from New
aonidtchasou cllouc sent home,
bad quality of shell lac
through the carelessness
find substitutes
and the
necessity there might be to for MARYLEBON.E.
Th.:
spowalloimaul dbe surprised at the Joseph Kaceborshi, a shabbily attired young man,
velg'heetlble oilsa sad cocoanut
among some a Pole, was brought before Mr. Long, for re-exami-
athmeasel and
amobtehrerasf.
hundred varieties.
cocoanut oils were nation, on the charge of having, on the 2d inst , com-
much used in the manufacture ofn candles, and he eau-n mitted a robbery at the mansion of Lord Dudley
merated a great many solid
Stuart, No. 6, Stratford-place,
wax, of which specimens
valuable. The
instan.cwda;
wereveetable tallowy
.a
hdt
shown, which
specimenmtgom Some particulars connected with the case have
he mostalready appeared, and it will be remembered that on
China, and others, were
on to the fluid fixed oils and thea
volatile
He e then
passedthose the day above named the prisoner presented a letter
oils, at his Lordship's residence, and that for a short • d
fr
period
obtained from the destructive e
distillation of barks of he was lef in t t he hall, he took the o • of
opportunity
ii trees, of which the birch oil .•
used in the preparation decamping with
a hat, a scarf and a pair of gloves
of Russian leather was a well-k- The
we11-known example.
different substances for dyeingthatwere next reviewed,.htbe dining with Lord Dudley Stuart at the time, and he
and in this he considered
made greatly available in chemistrydmeisg
from wasat length taken into custody in the Strand, by
those substances where it
was concentrating .
dues
much toßotsford,whom he
chief officer of the Mendicity Society,
accompanied l
woody fibre, and thereby bringingbyluable '
now
‘‘, many valuable Sold d the property,
ones into use which were not available, from Additional
evidence was now gone into, and it was
the expense of freight, ece.
The shay root was shown that the prisoner was an old offender. He
The a very important dye root. Th e class con- hadbeen
sidered was fibrous materials . .
1n g
cotton,
b punished upon a former occasion for a rob
at his Lordship's, and ho had long been known as
hemp, &c. lie praised Mr, Mercer'sincluding
which
consisted of soaking the cotton process, material in caustic a begging-letter impostor.
The prisoner, who had no answer to make to the
soda. The action of this was the fibre,
to strengthen , charge, was committed for trial.
for it changed its form from a flat tube to a ce lin_ WESTMINSTER,
drical one. It diminished it in much
size, but it took A respectable-looking young countrywoman, who
more colour in dying, A specimen shown of the appeared completely brokenhearted, implored Mr.
same dye applied to a ofpiece waspart of Norton's
in h cotton. fabric,.
which hail been soakedti which
t o solution , circumstances :-
the difference of colour i
that it
veas so perceptible Applicant, a native of Newark, Nottinghamshire,
could distinctly be seen With acrossre-. the room.
,stated that a female neighbour there having re r
gard to flax and hemp, he
instanced Schenk 's process seated to her, some time ago, that she had P e-
come into
of steeping the plant in hot water improvement ,
property
of
on the rotting system, butan
in still only a step the that f she would afford her the means coming to
right way, and mentioned
the many valuable fibres, London to see the solicit or engaged in the matter,
the cocoanut, China grass, R i 1 bowstring hemp, and would
jute, plantain and others, thata-matorl
largely em-
her accompany her, she would amply
pos-
yrecom-
loyed. Of woodand timber) might e alrgoeoy pense for the kindness when she came into oeooo
there were 0, , session of her fortune. Applicant, who is the wife
cubic feet imported
k annually, and out of the
.nu.he of a labouring man, was so deluded by her rofess
merous description,
shipbuilding, the nown only eight wereused
lsions and promises that she obtained the consentP of
English, live, and Africanoaks, her husband to apply their little stock of cash, cots-
ironwood, morning
Indian teak. The
caul, greenheart, Morab, and East sisting of a few pounds saved from his hard earn-
list within the laetAlorah had only been added to the ings, to the neighbour's benefit, and on Friday
six months. He mentioned. that last applicant came to town with her, where,
in the Exhibition 8
Were two sections of the ironwood having been induced to part with all the money
(Eucalyptus), 0
Ile 6 feet, and the
_other 3 feet in she possessed, excepting 3s. or 45., her neighbour
diameter, the
one cut at 14 feet, and the then abandoned her. Complainant too late discovered
other at 135
feet above the ground, just above that she had been made her neighbour's dupe, and, in
the first branch.ln his concluding remarks the midst of the great metropolis, without a friend to
he showed thats . the want of progress in tee apply to. She spent three or four days fruitlessly, as
knowledge of
()win the
and their application to the may be imagined, in search of her quawlam friend,
arts was
to people being employed in dis- found her last shilling exhausted, and, having in vain
covering what had back home upon credit,
had been already found out ; but applied at the railway to get
which, ()win t
not o the want of a good system of informa- was recommended by some strangers to whom she
bin, wasknown, As an instance of this, he men- narrated her misfortunes to apply to a magistrate, and
tioned that by the records of the society many fibres had come to this court. To add to her distress, she
and oils were mentioned as receiving attention .5 0 years had left two young children in the country, and knew
ago, which no '
7,_ es they were only just again bearing of, not how she should ever reach there again.
and that years ago, by the same records, it was Downing, one of the warrant officers of the court,
proved that 'I,
ady Aloira used precisely the same method was directed to make some inquiries into the case, and
as that employed now in Claussen's preparation of having reported favourably upon it, he yesterday, b
flax-cotton. With
regardrail
tO a Museum of Industry, Mr. Arnold's direction, paid the poor woman's
he said the idea was ea was not a new one. For thirty years way fare, and saw her off by the train to her native
the Commi •
ssioners of Factories in Austria had este- home, her thanks at the prospect of regaining which
blished on
having,
already e, and he suggested that the Society of Arts, were unbounded.
good collection, should undertake WORSHIP-STREET.
the formation aa
trade museum, which would be of Thomas Burn, a middle-aged man of respectable
the greatest nb
of
benefit to the world. appearance, was placed at the bar before Mr, Ham-
THE T
..-.IVERPO ------
TRADE :LAVe are indebted mill, charged with the following fraud na"
upon Mr,
James Clarke, a general
to Mr. Hamilton oL COAL e
~ollow•ing
co mparative ac-dealer, in North-street,
Laird for th I Bethnal- teen.
count of the coal Liverpool, in the years 1850 and
trade of
185 l :-Countriesthe north and Baltic Seas The prosecutor stated that in the monthof 1850, 3559; 185 bordering on
180
1_
0‘).
1851' last October
1, 24se. France,. a , 1,2 -, . , I
.the prisoner, with whom he had
1h,666. Cou •
ntries and islands bordering on the Mediterra- ,
i previous acquaintance, called u had some slight
neap Sea, 1850, q
-9 184 . 18)1, 44,823. Countries border- I upon him at his own
ing on the Black ' ' 1 098 West Indies. 1850, house and informed him that he h
Sea, 1850, , • ad some excellent
to tell him affecting h"
12,642; 1851, 159
Portugal, the Azores, and Madeira, news himself as he had • just re-
-1850, 6,822; 185.1 57' . • and the Canaries, 1850, ce.
~51 we an intimation from his solicit
ors
6,152. ; 1851, 5,4,4 8,810. Spain.
1850, 83,537 ; 1
___ itors (mentioning
73,198. South ) . North
_Am6etrji4ca, , the names of an eminent firm i
8-1 3,4 .11)7
07 ;1 a , -, • East
which
h. n Chancery lane) that
America, 18a0,a Chancery suit in
Indies and Chin' 1851, • 8 617
China, 50 4 • • Channel ,
Is hunily had been for a
Islands, 1850, 65i .1 ' , , 1851,time engaged had
1851, 19,603;0
Africa, 1850, I 493 • -long - •
length been decided in
6,971. Australia ' B6
.
1850, 2 161 ; 1851, 400. Total, 1850, their favour, and that he,
254,601; 1851, ~ ' , as their representative, bad
445,903. fallen into a large of amolla,
' property, the greater
Tne late gales have caused some damage to the sea • of which
portion was situated in North He
Devon.
wall, and inundatedabout 150 acres of the rich '
pastures near then proceeded toproperty
state that a part of the
the Circular Redoubt betweenthis place and Hythe; The - d
stcck IN OrtuilAt i' 1 Ajakl to 0 tt e y ogye .... 0 ii/ age G consisted of a stone
quarry and engine-house, with ,
___

A long cross-examination ensued, with a view to
show that Vaughan was a partner to the prosecutor,
which entirely failed. A letter from the prisoner was
put in, where he admitted having received money from
petty sales to the extent of 3/. 14s. 6d., for which he
had not accounted. The agreement was put in, and
it proved that Vaughan was the servant of Garston,
at a salary of 21. per week.

Some important witnesses having refused to attend
unless summoned,

Alderman SIDNEY remanded the prisoner, but ad-
mitted him to bail, himself in 80/ and two sureties in
401, each.