The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-29 00:00:00

JANUARY 29, 1852.
N°.18,519.] LONDON, THURSDAY eir
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LOSS OF THE AMAZON.
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen £l5O 0 0
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester 20 0 0
The Duke of Somerset . . . .30 0 0
The Du 'boss of Somerset . . . . '2O 0 0
The Alliance. Marine Insurance Office ( by Cap
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'I he Mayor of Southampton . . . .25 0 0
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ciety (ley J. Wiblin, Esq.) . • •
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Charles Sawyer, Esq., East Cowes Castle
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Mr. Adam Schoales . . . .
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Mr. H. Brett, Holborn
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Anonymous
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THE ENGINEERS' STRIKE.
MEETING OF LABOURERS.
Last night an aggregate meeting of the labourers
thrown out of employment through the strike in the
iron trades was held at the National Hall, High Hol-
born, to take into consideration their present position,
and to adopt such measures for their future support as
might be deemed necessary. The meeting was con-
vened by the labourers' own committee, but the ex-
penses attendant upon it were defrayed, we under-
stood, by the executive council of the Amalgamated
Society of Engineers, &c. No skilled workmen,
whether society or non-society men, were allowed to
take part in the proceedings ; but the attendance of
necessity
of peaceable conduct.
ARSTERS, on taking the chair, briefly en-
labourers was less numerous than had been
pasl
ga werem a t
efid r
Societyst close closed, an-
ticipated.formcerd.
ti‘hle
Mr. LLOYD, in moving the first resolution, stated
tehoantnewilheonf sAhmoadthper
oeixneicseudtivtoe
aid in procuring subscriptions from the public, and
had with that view issued a circular, but apparently
without producing any satisfactory results, as the
labourers had only received 35. as an allowance for
the first week, while the non-society men were paid
7.1. A great deal of dissatisfaction consequently arose,
and a deputation of labourers was appointed to wait
upon the executive council, to represent the
condition in which they were placed. The
answer of the council
was very peremptory—it
was, that only the subscriptions derived from the
public could be applied to their relief, as the sub-
scriptions coming from organized bodies, such as the
compositors and other trade 41111:-aties, must go to the
support of the non-secietYiret-_Amither- deputation
had subEquently called at the office of the Employers
Association, where they met with a most courteous
reception. Without even or knowing or asking their
object, Mr. Sidney Smith, accompanied by three of
the largest employers in London, came out to
speak to them. They would not acknowledge the
deputation as such ; but advised that two labourers
from each shop should wait upon the employers to re-
present the condition in which the labourers were
placed; and they further promised to pay due atten-
tion to any written communication which might be
sent from the labourers' central committee‘ Yester-
day the executive council had handed over is. 6d. per
man, but the committee, by judicious management,
paid each man 2s. Upon the merits of the dispute he
would say nothing ; but one thing was quite clear,
they were thrown out of work by no fault of their
own, and were in a destitute condition. How could
it be otherwise ? When in work they earned only
from 16s. to 20!. per week, and they found great dif-
ficulty out of that sum to pay as much to a friendly
society as would secure them 10s. per week when
sick. However the question in dispute might be
settled; it could make no material difference to them,
and while he gave the executive council credit for all
that they had done for the labourers, with a pure
motive, there were some things which he thought
they had not done in a pure spirit, and for which he
could give them no credit.—(Hear, hear.) In con-
clusion he moved the following resolution :
" That this meeting views with extreme regret the
unfortunate dispute between the Amalgamated Society
of Engineers and their employers, and it will therefore
exert its utmost energies to impress upon the mind of
the benevolent public the immediate necessity of contri-
buting towards the support of that large and unorganised
body of men, the labourers, who have hitherto been,
and still intend to continue, neutral upon the subject of
the strike, but who have, nevertheless, by it been entirely
deprived of the means of support. And it would further
recommend all persons favourably disposed to the pro-
posed philanthropic object particularly to state that their
subscriptions are for the labourers' list,' so that the
labourers may derive the immediate and unconditional
benefit."
Mr. ALRIDGE, on seconding the resolution, said it
was unjust to pay the non-society men 7s. per week,
while the labourers bad received only 3s. The la-
bourers had expected to be placed on the same footing
as the others.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Newton had jus-
tified the difference in these two sums by saying that
the non-society men paid higher rents than the
labourers, and having been used to a superior mode
of living, required more nourishment.—(Shame,
shame.) Mr. Newton, at public meetings, had stated
his own side of the ease, but not the side of the
labourers. It was the aggression 'committed upon
the masters by the demand of double overtime which
had caused the dispute, a demand with which, he be-
lieved, the masters would never comply—(Hear)—and
if it had not been made, eyay man might have been
in work at that mornentt--('Hear, hear.)" The mas-
ters, whatever the Atnaltid*ted Society might say
to the contrary, had receit;telpe deputation courte-
ously, but the Ainalgatuatee Society were treating
the labourers most unfairly—they were, in fact, first
taking the crumb from the loaf for themselves, and
then handing to the labourers the crust, when it was
quite dry.—(Hear, hear.)
The resolution was then put, and unanimously
adopted.

Air. EVANS,
in moving the second resolution, said
the executive council of the Amalgamated Society
had shown their sympathy
for the labourer by allow-
ing him 41. a day—(Hear, hear)—although it had
through the acts of the society that the labourers
been thrown out.—(Hear, hear.) The movement of
engineers was not for the good of the labourers.
lt had been said that the council did not wish to put
away the labourers from the machines, but be much
doubted the truth of this denial.—(Hear,
hear.) The
object of the movement was in fact to crush the, rising
intellect of the labourers.—(Hear, hear.) The Amal-
gamated Society, in their future documents, might
omit all reference to their less-skilled brethren, who
would endeavour to look after subscriptions for them-
selves, and had perhaps good sense enough to divide
them when collected.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.)
lie recommended an entire withdrawal from the
Amalgamated Society.--
upon the fair spirit i -11 (Cheers.) After remarking
Which the matter had been
treated by the press, the speaker concluded by moving
the following resolution :
That this meeting cannot but express its firm con-
viction that the Employers' Association have no desire
to see any of their labourers reduced to destitution, but
that the masters, both in their collective and individual
capacity, should most willingly assist the labourers whom
the pending dispute has thrown out of employment, and
it would, therefore, suggest that a petition be presented
to the Employers' Association, for the purpose of laying
before it the position and prospects of the labourers, and
also to receive any stun the association may think fit to
advance, while at the same time it would recommend
that one labourer from each firm should wait upon their
respective employers fora like purpose."
Mr. CuazoN seconded the resolution, expressing a
decided opinion that the labourers would meet with
increased sympathy from the public when their posi-
tion and prospects were fairly stated .
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Several other labourers addressed the meeting, and
a central committee was appointed to collect subscrip-
tions solely for the relief of labourers.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman terminated the
proceedings.

Yesterday Mr. Gooch
department ofsuperintendent of the loco-
motive the Eastern Counties Railway,
visited the company's works
at Stratford, and sending
for the engineering workmen into his office, stated
that information had reached the directors that the
workmen were contributing a day's pay per week to-
wards the support of the engineers' strike, and that,
in consequence, he had been instructed to intimate
that any
man so contributing in future, would be dis-
charged.

THE LOSS OF T$,--'
AMAZ ON.
At the adjourned inquiry 4yesterday into the loss of
the Amazon, by the Commissioners of the Board of
Trade, the following evidence was heard after our
report left :
George Webb, able seaman was next called and
recapitulated his former statement,
one of the men who were at the This witness was
wheel at the time of
the accident, and he underwent
mination respecting his deserting
ha at i severe cross-exa-
mination post
without orders. His defence was that he saw every-
body crowding into the boats' and he thought he
would be left alone in the burning ship,
no officers were near him. Besides this, somebody
especially as
had lashed the tiller so that the wheel
would not work,
and his remaining there longer was useless.
James Berryman, the next witness admitted that
he had lathed the tiller without orders while two
men were at the wheel ; his reason being that he
feared the fire would catch the
wheel or the tiller
ropes. He was also severely handled respecting his
making no attempts to assist the captain and officers
in preserving order and.
endeavouring to save the
passengers. He admitted that if the boats had been
properly handled by the crew all might have been saved.
William Stone, fourth engineer) and John Lamont,
stoker, were then called, but their evidence elicited
nothing that was not before known.
Henry Passinore was next examined—He con-
firmed the evidence of Mr.
whilelscn on Monday, to
the effect that the barque ch passed them altered
her course, and passed to leeward of the burning
vessel, not very close, but at the distance cf about half
a mile. Ile did not see her after that, and he thought
that if she had again aitered her course. and stood to
windward, he would have seen her: He doubted,
however, whether she had stopped to save any one, for

if she had he thought she would have lain to all
night, and picked up the other boats He saw the
barque about an hour after the fire broke'out—half an
hour before that he saw the vessel in flames from stem
to stern, when no living man could have stayed upon
the deck. Before leaving the ship he heard some of
the sailors go to Mr. Roberts, the chief officer, and
say to him, " Give us orders, and we'll obey them."
He heard no answer given to thi..

Mr. Jacob Allen, who was sent out by Messrs.
Seaward and Capel, the engine-makers, was next
called—He denied that any danger had arisen from
the shortness of the boiler flues—the fact was that
they were what were called double flues, with sepa-
rate flues to each boiler, so that the flame had three
times the distance to travel which it would have in a
funnel of ordinary construction. He then described
the way in which the space between the boiler and
the bulk head was protected; and added that it was
impossible, in his opinion, that the prickers of the
stokers should have set fire to any loose canvas, and
so caused the conflagration.
John Rogers, able seaman, said he had first got
into the captain's gig, but she was stove in four dif-
ferent places. He jumped out of her into another
boat that was then passing; and when he got into her
he could see the flames of the vessel through the gig.
He did not think such a boat, so stove, could ]ive in
the sea for a minute.
Daniel Brown confirmed the evidence of the pre-
ceding witness respecting the stoving in of the gig.
When he left the ship, the captain, Mr. Treweeke,
and about fifteen others, were standing near the
wheel. The boat in which he left would have held
them all; bat they made no attempt to come, and ap-
peared to have given themselves up as lost men, and
seemed resolved to share the fate of the ship.
George Harding confirmed the other witnesses
that the gig, the only remaining boat when be left,
was staved.

The Court then adjourned till Tuesday nee, at
eleven o'clock.

BRIDPORT, JAN. 27.—1 write to tell you of a mail
bag having been washed ashore to-day at or near
Burton, within a mile or two of Bridport Harbour,
which, from having a brass label attached to it, in-
scribed " Closed mail for San Francisco, via Pa-
nama," there can be no doubt belonged to the mails
of the unfortunate Amazon. The bag contained
simply newspapers of recent date. Being much torn,
the papers were of course saturated with wet, but are
still in a very tolerable state of preservation. The
whole have been taken charge of by the postmaster
here.
CnaisTcuunca, JAN. 27.—One of the life-boats
belonging to the late unfortunate Amazon came on
shore near Christchurch Head during last night or
early this morningyand is now in our harbour. She
has a large hole right through her, about half-way
between the keel and thwarts, and had something
stuffed in to keep the water out. I believe there were
a mast and two oars with her.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The new Governor and Commander-in-Chief for
the Cape will leave in the Hydra, 6, steam-sloop,
Commander Belgrave, about the 6th of February.
It is rumoured that a portion of the new steam-
yard at Morrice Town, Devonport, will shortly be
opened to the uses of the service. The foundation of
the entrance has been laid, and the building is being

proceeded with.
Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, is taking on
board, at Spithead, her quarter-deck guns, shot, &c.
A number of lighters were alongside yesterday.
THE ANCHOR TRIALS AT SHEERNESS.—The fol-
lowing gentlemen, appointed by the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty, proceeded on the 27th inst.
to Sheerness Dockyard in a steamer furnished for
their accommodation by Vice-Admiral the Honourable
Jocelyn Percy, Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's
ships and vessels in rivers Thames and Medway :
Duncan Dunbar, Esq., chairman of the local marine
board ; Anthony Ridley, Esq., deputy chairman of
the local marine board; William Drew, Esq., mem-
ber of the local marine board ; W. S. Lindsay, Esq.,
member of the local marine board; George Marshall,
E.g.,' shipowner ; William Phillips, Esq., shipowner;
and met Captain Superintendent Hope, of the Royal
Navy, Sheerness Dockyard ; Captain Stopford, of
her Majesty's ship London, 92 ; the master attendant
of the dockyard, and the master of the flag-ship, and
after a consultation and conference of about two
hours, resolutions were passed, subject to the ap-
proval of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,
'as to the, mode of tests to be applied to the anchors of
all nations. After the meeting the gentlemen from
London returned to town.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. A court-martial,
comprising Rear-Admiral H. Presscott, C. 8., Presi-
dent ; Captain Chads, C. 8., of the Excellent ; Cap-
tain G. B. Martin, C. 8., of the Victory ; Captain
Yates, of the Neptune ; Captain Graham, C. 8., of the
Rodney ; Captain Goldsmith, of the Britannia ; Cap-
tain Warden, of the Retribution; and Mr. G. L.
Greetham, Deputy Judge-Advocate of the Fleet,
assembled this morning on board the Victory, to try
Charles Wright, a private marine, for deserting from
her Majesty's ship Asia, at Valparaiso, on the 24th of
December, 1850. The desertion having been proved,
the prisoner, in defence, pleaded in mitigation of
punishment that he had delivered himself up to Ser-
geant Jones at Valparaiso, when he was sent on board
the Portland (the present flag-ship), and put upon a
diet of two-thirds the usual rations, of which he after-
wards complained to the captain, and wished him to
allow his proper rations, when he was placed in irons
as a prisoner, and had been so confined for six months
and ten days. The Court, after due deliberation,
declared the charge proved, and sentenced the pri-
soner to receive 50 lashes on his bare back, to be im-
prisoned for twelve months in Winchester Gaol, and
to be mulcted of all pay and allowances due to him,
and, finally, to be dismissed from her Majesty's
service.
The same Court then proceeded to try James Can-
non, also a private marine, for desertion from her
Majesty's ship Asia, at Valparaiso, on the 12th of
December last. Captain A. Henderson, R.M., stated
that the prisoner was his attendant, and on the day
named in the charge, when the Asia was at Valpa-
raiso, he was sent ashore for some necessaries previ-
ous to the ship sailing, since which time he (the
witness) had not seen the prisoner till the present
day. It was in the prisoner's power when he left to
have taken a considerable amount of money in a bag,
and a horse from the stable, but he had not done so.
In defence the prisoner said that he had acquaint-
ances at Valparaiso, and they persuaded him to stop
till the next morning He did so, and when be went
to go on board he found the ship had sailed. He de-
livered himself up to an officer on the 17th of the
next month, when he was conveyed on board the
Portland, and placed on two-thirds provisions and
in irons, and slept on the gratings. The Court was
of opinion that the charge had not been proved, and
therefore acquitted the prisoner.
The Gorgon, 6, steam•sloop, Commander Paynter,
removed her powder and shells at Spithead this
morning, and came into harbour this afternoon to be
dismantled and paid off. Her crew was inpected at
3 r.ar., by Captain G. B. Martin, C. 8., of the Vic-
tory, for the Commander-in-Chief.
The Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Warden,
took on board her powder at Spithead to-day. She
is now ready for sea.
The Adder steam-vessel came into harbour to-day
from Sheerness, with seamen paid off from the
Ganges, 84,, and volunteers for the Britannic, 120, at
Spithead.
The Sprightly steam-vessel, Acting-Master-Com-
mander G. Allen, to-day, with sup
at
De-
and and marine artillery for the Magicienne,
vonport.
room for
The Hydra steam-sloop, Commander Belgrave,
hauled off from the jetty to-day, to makete.
the Gorgon to come alongside to disman 1
The Heola steam-sloop, Commander 13eauchamPt
will be paid off at this port on Satutr_!_davyan.
American
The Independence and Margare
far
New
York.
line-of-packet ships, sailed to-day f
APPOINTMENT3t.ain
Cospatrick B.
WOOLWICH, JAN. 28.—CaP
Hamilton (1847), to study steam at the factory at
'Woolwich Dockyard.
re-
Commander Frederaiick L. Barnard (1851),
cently promoted from r st Lieutenant of the Prince
First Martin, at Lis
Regent, d the Vesuvius, 6,
bon, is 90, flag-ship oi
appointed to comnsan Jowl paddle
wheel steam-sloop, atDevonpio,rotu.
ttid
(1846) to the
Master—Duncan Joseph
Parser—Jon G. Whiffin (1851)
Vesuvius.
Paymaster and
C. A. Wilkinson (1849)
to the Vesuvius.
Second Masters—Henry
to the Vesuvius ; Graham 11. Hills (1848), from the
vessel, on the coast of Ireland,
Sparrow surveying
to the Neptune, 120, guard-ship of ordinary at Ports-
mouth.
Masters Assistant—William Pearce to the Ve-
suvius.
Clerk—Jonathan Colliver (1850) to the Vesuvius
The Intrepid screw steam-ship, fitting for the Arc
tic expedition, is now so far advanced towards col
Pletion that she has had her steam up in the basin to
try her engines.
The Pioneer screw steam-vessel is also in a for ha
w
state for a further searching expedition, but she has

uri experi-
enced n
required more work to be done to her than was re-
qu
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some on v
these Intrepid,erephtheeinesfrom
form
theer
ice
having g
her
last voyage.