The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-04 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

The market continues to be well supplied with English
and foreign hops. Good and fine parcels move off slowly,
at late rates ; otherwise the trade is dull, at drooping prices.

WHITECHAPEL.

The supply of meat is moderate, and the trade is firm.
Beef, from 2s Gd to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s Gd ; veal,
3s 8d to 4s 4d, and pork, 3s 63 to 4s 4d per Sibs by the
carcase,

THE PITMEN'S STRIK3.

(From the elccastle Journal.)

Monday was such a day of wind and rain as is
seldom encountered even in the month of November,
and in consequence of the inclemency of the wea-
ther very little was doing at Willington and in the
colliery villages on strike. It was known that the
offer made by the masters to the men was to be ex-
hibited upon the various pit heaps in the morning,
but this fact appeared to excite no interest amongst
the colliers, the terms of the offer having been pre-
viously pretty generally known amongst them.
The evictions still remained suspended for the time,
and though the police were on the spot they were
not even required to turn out into the rain. In the
afternoon, however, Mr. Gott, the viewer at Sunny-
brow Colliery, expressed his wish to receive a depu-
tation from the men employed at that pit. Mr. Gott
read over to the men the terms offered by Messrs.
Straker and Love, and a conversation then ensued
between them respecting those terms. The men
were firm in refusing to accept them, and they were
given to understand that no farther concessions
would be made to them. The reason of their un-
willingness to accept the proffered terms was that
they did not believe the tubs would hold the
standard weight fixed by the owners. To deter-
mine this question they proposed that six tubs
should be filled on the pit heap and weighed, and
an average struck and taken as the standard weight.
To this Mr. Gott, on behalf of Messrs. Straker and
Love, refused to assent, and the deputation they
left without any satisfactory arrangement being
made. Tne general feeling amongst the miners is
the same as that evinced by the deputation to Mr.
GAL They one and all express their determina-
tion not to accept the offer of the masters, or to
resume work, until they have obtained all that
they originally demanded, and as yet we have been
unable to discover that they are at all willing to
separate their own cause from that of the " sacri-
ficed" men. It had been generally hoped that a
settlement of the dispute would have followed the
offer of Mr. Love ; such, however, does not appear
likely to be the case at present, for the miners are
unwilling to follow the example of the masters by
making any concession whatever. It is quite oli-
dent that an unusual state of excitement exists
amongst the miners employed in the neighbourhood,
and, in many instances, they are resorting to tdheerto
re-
prehensible plan of working short time, in 73r,
cads.
At their masters and carry their Tvvvity
aansd
At the pits of the West Hartlepool
Dock Company, at Byer's Green andds:lll:cea-eligoef 13:angkes'
the same method of obtaining
an
ita has, vge are in-
has of late been resorted to; and on Saturday
formed, so far been so thatsuccessfi
ld. per ton.
the wages of the men were advanced
d any further, we need
Should the strike
extend
- a very serious matter
scarcely say that it will prove
well as masters and men,
which we can ill
for the general public,
the
year at
for this is a season
companieswhilst
still
r
the traffic and the business of the
supplied,f
unless standstill. Already
q affordujremt
eo boo
of
o u r withoutr
a oi
coals,wt a
ate; ear n Railway Company
we believe the
embarrassed by the strike Lt Messrs.
has so far been eniand the abort-time
lie Love s,
Straker a be
sh
or
ro
tuhg.hEt
system at
other collier
fuef c
d for a portion
of their suPPIY that, ast depenweek they were
ies o
on whih they
compelled to burn coke to make up for their defi-
cient supply o f coal.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 3.—With reference to a para-
graph in the Colombo Observer of the steamer from Bombay
haying been chased by the Alabama in September, the last
mail steamer from the Cape of Good Hope reported the
Alabama's arrival at Simon's Bay on September 16, and
that she was to leave on the 23d.
MRS. WILRINS (widow of the late Sergeant
Wilkins), recently of the Haymarket, has left this country
for America.

THE GREAT EASTERN.—At the Admiralty Court
yesterday it was announced that the Great Eastern was
shit in t'ae custody of the marshal of the court (Mr. Jones),
having, it appears, been " arrested on a claim of £6,000
for damage by a collision to a vessel named Jane on the
last homeward voyage." Until bail is put in to the action
nothing can be done %yid' the Great Ship.
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBUBGII.-011
Mone_
afternoon the winter session of this university was !Pcydia
with an address by the Principal, Sir David Bre
the Music Hall. The Principal and members
nee
of th
were accompanied to the platform 1)37
Prince Louis of Hems, who were loudly i'
cheered,
e Senatus
Alfred and
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