The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-02 00:00:00

THE ENGINEERS' STRIKE.

Nothing definite, so far as we have learned, has yet
transpired publicly with regard to the reopening of shops
for the return of labourers, and, conditionally, of the
skilled workmen; although it is anticipated by the latter
that such a step will shortly be adopted, at least par-
tially, by the employers. It is rumoured that this will,
in some cases, be done to-day, but with no sufficient
authority to warrant implicit reliance upon the accuracy
of the assertion. _ _

It has been before stated that an intimation had been
conveyed to the engineers employed in the works con-
nected with the Eastern Counties Railway, that they
would be dismissed if they continued to contribute
to the support of the men discharged from
the various factories, and that the men replied to
this intimation by a formal resolution,
passed at
a full meeting of workmen, pledging themselves to con-
tribute each a day's pay per week until the end of the
strike. This resolution was adopted on Thursday night
and it was thought by many that on Saturday the threat
of discharge would be acted upon by Mr. Gooch, an ex-
pectation which was only realised in the case of the two
men who, by Mr. Gooch's desire, communicated his de-
termination to their fellow-workmen. These men re-
ceived notice of discharge on Saturday, but beyond this,
nothing, we understand, has resulted of a similar nature
from the expressed determination of the workmen to
coatings their contributions.
At the works of the South-Western Railway at Nine
Elms, it is stated that police consta%les keep watch in
plain clothes, to prevent the attendance at the gates of
the agents of the Amalgamated Society for the purpose
of receiving subscriptions.
THE ENGINEERS' STRIKE.—The Mayor of Liverpool
(Mr. T. Littledale) end two influential members of the
town council (Mr. J. B. Lloyd and . Mr. Hugh Hornby)
have consented to wait upon the employers, Messrs.
Fawcett and Messrs. Forrester, in order to bring about
some understanding between them and the men whom
they have discharged from their employment on account
of their connexion with the Amalgamated Society. The
men are unwilling to accept the terms of the masters—
namely, that they may resume work on condition of re-
nouncing the society; and they contend that it would
be harsh and unjust to expect them to forfeit their
claims to the benefits of " the club," into which many
have paid money for a considerable time, merely for the
sake of obtaining employment. There is no doubt, how-
ever, that, from the position and influence of the gentle-
men who have been chosen to act as mediators, some
arrangement, satisfactory to both parties, will be effected.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND THE REV. MR.

GL ADSTONE.

Reply of the Lord Bishop of London to the address of
the parochial clergy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, in the
matter of the Rev. J. E. Gladstone:—

" London House' Jan. 31, 1852.
" Reverend and dear Brethren,—l have received with
much satisfaction the address you have presented to me.
" It expresses sentiments in which I fully concur, and
should Mr. Gladstone be willing to act in the way you
indicate, I should be perfectly ready to pass over his
previous indiscretions, and to withdraw my inhibition,
which was not issued till every method of inducing him
to acknowledge the impropriety of his having attacked
his ecclesiastical superiors from the pulpit had been tried
in vain. It was the place and time of that attack which
made it my duty to call him to account.
" You justly observe that ' conduct like his, if unre-
strained, would be subversive of all discipline in the
Church.' Without, therefore, some guarantee for his
future orderly conduct, the ecclesiastical law must neces-
sarily take its
(Signed)course.---“
I am your affectionate
J. id ObNroptohNe.r4

The Bishop of Ely has appointed the Rev. Samuel
Silver, M.A.., to the vicarage of Fulbourne, near Cam-
bridge, and the new incumbent has issued an appeal on
behalf of his parish. It appeared that on Trinity Sun-
day, 1766, the parish church fell down, and has never
been rebuilt, chiefly owing to the poverty of the people.
As a natural consequence the living became almost a
sinecure, the vicar non-resident, and the people de-
generated. Mr. Silver will reside in the parish, and by
the authority'of the Bishop of Ely intends setting about
the erection of a new church and schools.

The rectory of Chiddingstone, near Edenbridge, which
is in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury, has be-
come vacant by the death of the Rev. Anthony Charles
Payler, M.A. It is worth 6501. per annum.
The Rev. James Chadwick, M.A., has been licensed
to the parish church of Chesterfield by the Lord Bishop
of .lichfield, on the nomination of the Rev. George Butt,
M.A., Vicar of Chesterfield.
The Queen has presented the Rev. W. Hayward Cos,
8.D., of St. Mary Hull, Oxford, to the living of Tenby,
Pembrokeshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr.
Humphreys.

BELLS CAST AT WHITECHAPEL. -- Amongst the
largest bells of the present time is the great bell at Montreal,
which was cast in 1847, by Messrs. Mears, of Whitechapel.
This is 8 feet 7 inches in diameter at the mouth, 8 feet 1 inch
high to the top of the crown, and weighs 30,800 lbs. This
same firm cast " Great Peter of York," which weighs 26,800
lbs.; also the new " Tom o' Lincoln," and such a startling
list of ordinary church bells, that we have been led to ana-
lyse it, and find it to embrace 11 peals of 12 bells, 27 of
10 bells. 172 of S bells, 260 of 6 bells, 73 of 5 bells, and
about 190,000 single tintinnabula ! A tolerable evidence,
in itself, of the extent of modern church-budding.—The
,Builder.