The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-26 00:00:00

SECIN. I EDITi

The South Yorkshire Colliers,

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SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

The locksout of the South Yorkshire colliers,
which has lasted exactly 18 weeks, has maw tertali-
Elated. At a meeting of the Coalowners' As sedation
held at the King's Head Hotel, Barnsley, o n Satur
day afternoon it was agreed that the lock-ou t should
he removed, and the pits opened to the old hands.
Birch Broom ......
For the last two or three weeks the time for resu 11,-
ing work depended on the Oaks and High Roy d Anglo. Saxon
colleries, which were to have their full complement
.......
of hands before the others were opened. The Oaks yairwater .......
has been supplied with a good number of men from Eight ran.
Nottinghamshire and other places ; and although STEWARDS' CUP—Balornock reported scratched.
Claxton
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there may not at present be so large a staff as there LATEST BETTING.
was previous to the strike, yet, considering the
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season, the managing partner appears satisfied. At 100 to 12 ngst 0
High Royd they are said to be underhanded, but
:he proprietors, with their machinery and in ether niPERILL PARLIiTIENT
ways, have advantages which will counterbalance a
deficiency. There was great excitement in Barns-
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rumoured that work was to be resumed at all the
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collieries locked out. The feeling was one of intense attendance
gratification, which could be read in the feces of t pas
the numerous knots of miners which were to be met
with in the principal thoroughfares in the town,
anxiously discussing the probability of the rumour
being correct, and which to them was of such vital
importance. The determination of the masters was
not officially announced to the public, but it is ex-
pected that by Thursday the greater part of the men
will be employed. The lock-out has caused a vast
amount of suffering, which has been borne with
great patience, and it will take a consi-
derable time for the men to replace what they have
been forced to dispose of to keep life in them-
selves and their families. The loss in wages alone
during the time the strike and lock-out have lasted
considerably exceeds £60,000. Singularly enough,
the lock-out terminated by agreement on the day
when the first coat-cutting machine was introduced
and tried in the Barnsley coalfield, and which is to
be followed by a number of others as fast as they can
be turned out. The one alluded to was tried at
Messrs. Hall and Stones, High Royd Colliery, on
Saturday, and was in every way satisfactory. If as
successful in cutting the coal as is expected, they
must work a revolution in the coal trade, and, while
altering the position of our colliery population, will
diminish the chance of turn-outs for the future. The
machines, it is said, will cut as much as 30 tops per
hour, equivalent to the labour of 25 men, and in
connexion with them ponies, it is said, will be intro.
duced into the thick seam for hurrying purposes.
The men who struck at the Oaks and High hoyd
Collieries continue out, and show no disposition to
resume work on the old terms, and are tolerably
well supported. How the termination of the lock-
out will affect them is not apparent, but the fact of
the great body of the men resuming work will be
received with satisfaction by the public, and by none
with more pleasure than the colliers themselves. At
the Barnsley Court-house yesterday eight colliers,
named Wright, Carr, Hammerton, Simmons, Doran,
Macarthy, Dundas, and Winter were charged with
conspiracy. On the 16th lost., at Barnsley, they
had attacked men at the Oaks Colliery on their
return from work, there being at the time a mob of
5,000 persons present. They were committed to the
assizes on three charges.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.--This Day,

GOODWOOD RACES-THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGBAP
CRAVEN STAKES.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendments to the following bills were con-
sidered and agreed to :—Metropolitan and Saint John's
Wood Railway—Alton, Airesford, and Winchester Rail-
way—Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway (New
Lines)—Dublin Improvement—North Staffordshire Rail.
way (New Works)—North Staffordshire Railway (Silver-
dale, Madeley, and Drayton)—Great Western Eailway—
North Devon and Somerset Railway—Petersfield and
Bishops Waltham Railway—South Eastern Rallway (No.
4).

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Kilkenny Junction Railway—Much. Wenlock and Severn
Junction and Wenlock Railway Companies—Aldborough
Pier and Railway—Earl of Abergavenny's Estates—Far-
sontown and Portumna Bridge Railway,
NAVAL DISCIPLINE BILL.
This bill, containing 95 clauses, passed through com-
mittee without a single remark.

POOR RELIEF (METROPOLIS) BILL.
The amendments to this bill were considered and agreed
to, and on the motion that the bill be read a third time,
Mr T. V. MILLER expressed a hope that the President
of the Poor Law Board would not allow the principle of
this bill to be drawn into a precedent for future

tion.
After a few words from Mr VILLIEns the motion was
read a third time and agreed to, and the bill passed.
SALMON FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
BLEACHING AND DYEING WORKS ACT
AMENDMENT' BILL.
The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered and
agreed to.

The Crops in Yorkshire,

The hay harvest in this county is now nearly come
pleted, and on the whole has been remarkably well
won, in many cases the grass having been mown
one day and gathered off the ground the neat. The
produce varies widely in different quarters of the
county. In the dales of the North Aiding the
unusual heat of May caused an early spring vegeta-
tion, which the frosts and succeeding cold of June
cut down. The hill sides are not yet quite brown
from the effects of frost. The absence of rain in
June, followed by a very long drought, has ren-
dered the meadows very short of grass, and the con-
sequence is that the hay crop is only about half the
average per acre. Pastures are very poor for want
of rain, and, on the whole, present prospects for
grazing and for winter fodder are anything but sa-
tisfectory upon the dairy farms. Further south,
and in the East Riding, the drought has been less
felt, but crops are below the average yield. This is
causing buyers of hay to look after old stacks,
where they are to be found, and prices are on the
rise, with a prospect of higher figures as winter
approaches. The shortness of the crop, how-
ever, is in some measure compensated by the splen-
did condition in which all the hay has been won,
no rain having fallen worth mention for several
weeks. The corn crops, on the whole, are looking
well, but are much below the standard of last har-
vest, although farmers mostly admit there is about
an average of promise. The want of rain has caused
the straw, especially of spring corn, to be short,
tending to give the crops a lighter appearance on
the land than is really the case. Should the present
hot weather continue there will be a rapid ripening,
and harvest may be looked for in about three weeks
in the forwardest parts. The pea, bean, and other
crops are generally good. The turnip crop varies
very much. In many places the fly did great injury
to the first sowing, and there are very few early
sown flats really good. The second crops got away,
pretty well, but the cold of June and the small rain-
fall of July have kept them back, and the crops as
a whole will be late, but, with a flue autumn, pretty
good. The June frost caused a general destruction
of the potato foliage, and as the succeeding weather
has been trying, the produce is yet small in size.
The crops, however, look healthy, and so far no
complaint of disease has been heard. The old crop
was never sold off, and many hundreds of bushels
have been pulped for the cattle and pigs, and have
helped out the shortness of grass in places. It is
the opinion that this year's crop will prove sound
but not heavy, and prices have mended considerably
—2s 6d per bushel being given by dealers in the
field, and the retail price being 3s to 4s. The gene.
ral desire is for rain, which has been much under
the average—indeed, in some of the wold districts
very little rain has fallen this year.

DYEING FEATUERS.—An important branch of
the tinctorial art, that which comprises the dyeing
of feathers intended for dress, has just been considerably
improved in consequence of the discovery of the colours
made with aniline. Feathers, before being dyed, are sub-
jected to a process of ablution and bleaching, in order to
carry off all tatty or colouring matter. Fur this purpose,
after the feathers have been properly sorted, they are
treated with a lukewarm solution of about llb of soap in
two of water. The feathers are left in this solution
until the soap has produced its effect, and they are then
put into a second bath similar to the former. They
are then carefully raised several times, and after-
wards bleached by exposing them to the action of sulphurous
acid, obtained by the combustion of sulphur ; after which
they are washed once more and dried. The dyeing process
now begins : they are dyed black by boiling them in a solu-
tion of alum and Campeachy wood, to which the sulphates of
iron and copper are added ; lilac is obtained by herb-archel
or chinney. weed, carmine extracted from indigo and alum ;
yellow of various shades by acetate of lead and chromate of
potash, or else by annotto and a solution of potash ; green,
by a solution of indigo and picric acid ; blue, by a solution of
indigo and alum, or else by nitrate of iron and the yellow
prussiate of potash ; and lastly, red by cochineal of Brazil
wood. But much finer results are obtained in red, violet,
or blue by employing the colours obtained from aniline,
which adhere to feathers with as much tenacity as they do
to cotton or wool, and give them a peculiar brilliancy. The
only precaution to be observed is, to clean the feathers well
before dipping them into the warm bath containing colours of
the
colours and to leave them in long enough to allow
colours to penetrate. As the colours of anilino are now
water,
into in a dry form, the bath may consist o
into which an alcholic solution of the, colosuttebnegramoadtetrearteis:
poured. The temperature of the bah mu
otherwise the feathers would be spuft.
with the yetw
rod,e
SALMON FISHING IN TOE NEM Elle salmon
improving,
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hfiasvheiangot heardin the
of Naessis single fish b
The river is very low, and anglers know that, under these
circumstances, the rod and line are out of the question.
The high tides of the past week have brought up an
im-
mense of grilse. On Tuesdey, about mid-day, we
observed a larg° shoal pass..ng under the Suspension
milg e numberheacid
as usual, by one of the, largest of their
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n.umber. Grilse now weigh as high as 8 lb., and salmon
from 20 to 26 lb. Dochfour Station is yielding very little
now, but on the whole there is no reason to complain. Sea
trout are fast making their appearance, and in many in-
stances they have exceeded the grilse in size,----inrerness
Colo ier.

SALE OF GAS (SCOTLAND) BILL
The Lon& amendments to this bill were considered and
agreed to.

The Lords' amendments to the following bills were alto
considered and agreed to :—Burials Registration, Accidents
Compensation Act Amendment, Poisoned Flesh Prohibi-
tion, and Justices Proceeding. Confirmation (Sussex).
The sitting was then suspended until six o'clock.