The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-12 00:00:00

EVENING,

NDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST

RAIL WAY,

' No railway company can leave itself in a position to
have unreasonable conditions enforced at any moment,
even against the better judgment of its own men, by the
threat of a strike, in obedience to the order of a com-
mittee who have openly announced their determination
to rule the destinies of the trade,' and who have already
commenced by issuing
a regulation respecting overtime
and piecework, which every man in the company's em-
ployment must feel to be, in our case, altogether un-
called for and unwarranted.
" Accordingly, the directors now appeal to the good
sense of the men, and to their experience of the treat-
ment which, for many years past, they havo received
from the company, wlactlaer they are satisfied to go on
amicably, under the existing system, remaining neutral
in the present contest, or whether they are determined,
at all hazards, to support the principle of combi-
nation?'

" Ia the former case, the directors are quite prepared
to remain neutral a!so, and to make no ch:,nge in the
sykte in, which his hitherto been found to give satisfac
thin. In the latter case, the men :rust hold thertuvives
fairly warned that the directors will consider them-
selves at liberty to take whateiver steps may appear
necesshry to make the company independent of ioteign
dictation.

By order of the Board of Directors,
" FRED. ELIOUT, Secretary.
" London Termins, 911 February, 1152."

THE LONDON INS7'ITUTION.
• Yest:rday evening Prokeor Miller delivered a lecture
at this institution on she subject of the cater supply of
Loudon, to a very numerous nuiience. After enumeratirg
the various sources—natural Finings, well, rivers, and
others—from which water was to be dniveni, he we-it on
to contrast the advantages and disadvantages which
different kinds exhibit. lie showed the uniiorm cool-
ness, and the freedom from sewerage impurities, which
recommend spring water, but at the same time remarked
upon its liability to fluctuation in quantity, as against it.
The artesian well water, he saie, was by means sopure as
it at first sight appeared. As to. that; from rivers, lie
noticed, first, the facility of procuring it, but, as an ob-
jection, mentioned the frequency of its fluctuations in j
temperature, and its want, in warm weather, of any
grateful coolness to make it palatable. The Thames
and Lea afforded a very uniform quality of water;
but the Thames had a peculiar liability to contamination
which, unfortunately, increased with the increase of the
population, and which, moreover, filtration—powerless
for the removal of either saline or organic matter, when
dissolved—could not prevent. Coming next to the sta-
tistics of the question, the lecturer said that the daily
supply of water brought into town by the nine metropo-
litan companies was between 50 and 60 million of gal-
lons. Of this the Thames afforded about half, the New
River giving perhaps 16 million gallons. Of the 60 mil-
lions thus introduced into London, about the one-hun-
dreth part be took to be used for dietetic purposes—in
other words, allowing each person to consume a quart in
twenty-four hours, it would require 600,000 gallons
daily to supply them all. The lecturer, after making
some allusion to the influence of lead upon the water
which passed through it, entered into seine scientific de-
tails, which be illustrated by exp,riments and charts.
He was much applauded at the conclusion of his lecture.

THE LONDON AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY.--
THE DirtEcrioN.—The directors who retire are Mr. G. C.
Glyn, DI.P. (the chairman), Mr. Thomas Smith (the de-
puty chairman), Mr. Rotherham, Captain Carnegie, Mr.
Benson, and Mr. Rathbone. The two last-named gentlemen
do not offer themselves for re-election. We understand that
the directors will recommend Mr. Gill (the deputy chair-
man of the Yorkshire and Lancashire Railway) and Mr.
Creed (the late secretary of the old London and Birming-
ham Railway) to fill up the vacancies occasioned by the
permanent retirement of Mr. Rathbone and Captain Carne-
gie. The appointment of Mr. Gill will more closely cement
the friendly relations between the London and North-
Western and Yorkshire and Lancashire Companies, and
in to
tend
to neutralise the effect which any approaches' on the part
e art
of the Great Northern Company towards the Yorkshire and
Lancashire Company might otherwise have; and the re-
commendation to elect Mr. Creed must gratify th
and North-Western shareholders, while it
cannot fe Lo
ail ndon
strengthen their well-merited confidencethe board of di-
will We have no d
be unanimously electedoubt that Mr. Gill and Mr. Creed
le Shrewsbury and
A agreedI, to do what the Lon-
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the agreement which the former
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will lead to an early Company It is probable that this
Railway—that is, if the Shreopening tf the Stour Valley
pany consent, as they most
likely will, not to force their way
SUDDEN DEATH decision of the Court.—Herald.
Early yesterday OP A LIVERPOOL MERCHANT.—
Exchange, _morning an announcement was made on the
that Mr. James Brancker, brother to Sir Thomas
hall, Maghull, near en y expired at his country seat, Manor-
death was awfully Liverpool. It appears that Mr. l3rancker's
Liverpool, a sudden. On Tuesday the deceased was in
health. apparently in the enjoyment of his accustomed
In the course of the afternoon he returned home,
where
where he had '-'
invited a dinner party of gentlemen. Shortly
after his arrival
at home, however, the deceased, as we are
informed, was seized with a fit of apoplexy, and expired in a
few minutes, medical aid, which wps almost immediately at
and, being entirely unavailing. The deceased was a guest
at an of dinner given by the mayor, at the town-hall,
ou Thursday evening last. Mr. Brancker was for many
3-oars a partner in the firm of• Messrs. T. and J. Braucher,
West India merchants. The house was always well known
as one of the most respectable and influential hi the town.
Some years ago the deceased retired from business, and
since that period up to the time of his death had resided at
Maghull and at another seat in Westmoreland. Mr. liranclzer,
who was about sixty years of age, was a gentleman highly
respected.
MunnEn or A GAMEKEEPER.--Iniortration has
been received of a most barbarous murder having been com-
mitted on the estate of Mr. B. 1.v.• N a
ynne, in the neigh-
bourhood of Garthewin and Llanfairlathaiarn, Denbighshire,
in the course of Thursday night or Friday morning. The
unfortunate creature who perished was a game-watcher,
named William Davies. It appeared that he went on duty
at the usual period on Thursday night,
and nothing more I
was seen of him by his friends until th following morning, i
when his dead body was found in a field adjacent to a wood 1
on Mr. Wynne's propertr. His skull was found to be 1
ears was completely cut off, ,
frightfully fractured, one of his .
and his body was generally shockingly bruised. It was evi-
dent that the poor fellow had been assailed by some murder-
ous
gang, and killed. The result of the coroner's inquest
has not trauppiretl,

Secretary's Office London, Feb. 11, 1852.
The secreta-y preßenis 'hiL c nal.)i.ments to toe Editor
of The Sun, and begs to forward a copy of a circular
which has been izsueLt this day to the men in the cora-
psa) 's workshops:—
"London, Brigh'on, and South Coast Railway,
" The present state of things, arising out of the con-
test between the Amalgamated Societyut Afechanics and
the employers, appears to the directors to make it ad-
visable for them to address cs few words of friendly
warning and advice to the men employed in the caul-
pany's workshops.
" They are very unwilling that anything should occur
to disturb the good understanding which has hitherto
existed, and they consider that in the present crisis a
frank statement of the views entertained by the directors
is due to the workmen, before any steps are taken which
may lead to unpleasant consequences.
" The directors are on principle opposed to ' com-
bination' of any description for the purpose of in-
terfering with the natural course of trade. They
think that masters and men should be left in
every establishment to settle their own terms,
and arrange their own differences, without foreign in-
terference or dictation. They have always endeavoured
to deal fairly and liberally with the workmen in their
employment, and a reference to the books will show that
no attempt has ever been made to beat down wages,
to work unnecessary overtime, or to enforce any stringent
and unusual regulations. Indeed, it is admitted by the
men themselves, that they have not a complaint to make
with the system of work as carried on in the company's
workshops, and that it would be unreasonable to at-
tempt to enforce a rale requiring in every C4BO double
pay for such a limited amount of overtime as is occa-
sionally required to meet the necessities of the traffic.
" This system the directors have no wish to alter.
They have no intention of making any change, or of
enforcing any new regulations, unless compelled' to do
so in self-defence. On the contrary, their wish is to
stand strictly neutral, to make no change in their pre-
sent system, and to leave other parties to fight their
own battles, if the workmen in their employment are
content to take the same course. But if the men, who
admit that they have no complaint to make in regard to
their even establishment, insist upon taking an active
part in the contest whioh is going on, by subscribing
to support those who are thrown out of em-
ployment by disputes with which this company has no-
thing to do, they must be prepared to take the conse-
quences of such a course.
"If it is the settled determination of some of their
workmen to support a system of combination,' by which
the conditions of labour are to be settled, not by fair
and amicable arrangements in each case, but by the die-
tation of a council of sewn men, sitting in London, it
must be evident to the plain understanding of every one
that it is the duty of the directors, acting as trustees for
the interests of others, to take such' step] as may be ne-
cessary to render themselves independent of such a
system.