The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-14 00:00:00

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work. T e Monnek
turn have finished -44.41iiii-'--t,4*,Y
and then she will in hn
now nearly all knoc4o;44cic,,). :.! tiV-P1
target ship, her sides beirk
if-battle ships ha. 1 iat N 4
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target ships at Portsmouth. and probably
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close the list, it being intenda
the Excellent, a 1,4i-afiri"- • ---01
Island, a short distance from
the manner of Sh.-ury.'+ S
plates in future on shore, after •
ness.
The following appointments wer.*, made on Thursday at
the Admiralty :--Commander Edwin . Hay to the Harrier,
hander J. Mo resby
vice Sullivan, promoted to Captain ; Coeu.
'taint Liettt. Ed-
to the Argus, vice Moore, promoted to Col
,
ward Barkley to the Havoc, vice Poole, prA noted to
.Com-
mander ; Lieutenant Thomas S. Gooch to the .Flamer, vice
. Baas.
Bosanquet, promoted to Commander; Henry S.. l'en , ,
tar, to the Cumberland, for the Caledonia; Job. Ds- 1,1"
paymaster, to the Shannon ; Arthur 11. Kelly, assist- em 'g"
additional, to the Victory; Denis 111‘Carthy, assist-51.Zr%
additional, to the Royal Adelaide; Charles Icely, chief en.
gineer, to the Cumberland, for the Caledonia; James Roa,
assist-engineer, to the Satellite ; James Caspall, assist,.
engineer, to the Stroniboli ; Thomas M'lntosh, assist .en-
gineer, to the Alecto ; James Grant, assist-engineer, to the
Triton; R. G. Foster, assist-engineer, to the Doterel; W.
E. Shingleton, assist-engineer, to the Doterel; and A M.
13rumage, assist-engineer, to the victory, for the Sprightly.
;;The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—Captain George 0. Wines to the Royal Ade-
-I,„;cie, for service in the Prince Consort; Capt. W. Bowden
Wasp, commissioned ; Captain D. Spain to be trans-
ti: t 6
artl(sfacer at Auckland, New Zealand ; Commander J.
to the Barracouta, vice Malcolm, allowed to resign.
eAarpcypein
F. Re $. O'Brien,l. midshipman, to the Victory;
faLent ; Lieutenant William H. Hall to the Ex-
il)th'
ipm atn,o o_deaLiverpool ; Robert D.
13. Bruce, midshipman, to
and
A.
g r2LI-11. G. Archer, E.
citel.l;.n.t.6rden,
taus.
etigneer toto the
H. Arden, G. O'Connor,4odd A. 3or, naval cadets,
master's-assistant,assist-
to the Nile ; Henry E.
James
fGo.moU'athli7e, date of his ar'rival in
Asift:piaa:lnd
E r gland.
supernumerary r
Strike in the North.
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The Pitmen'

The result of a conference between Mr. Love and a de-
putation of his own workmen was stated in 211 c Sind of
Saturday last, and an opinion was expressed that as the
members of the deputation were fully satisfied with the
terms proposed the strike would in all probability imme-
diately cease. When the question, however, came to ho
referred to the Union delegates, to whom Mr. Love has a.
great aversion, and with whom he will hold no corresPell-
dence, a further complication of matters ensued, and the.
termination of the strike seems now to be as distant as ever
One of the paid delegates, an Irishman named Peter Doyle,
has has accused the members of the deputation of have
accepted a bribe from Mr, Love—the fact being that thLY
merely partook of refreshments at his expense-and, from
the warmth of language which has been used by some of
the paid agitators, it is more than suspected that they have
no very cordial desire to bring these unfortunate dif-
ferences between masters and men to a close. The masters
have acceded -to the demand to substitute weight for
measure, to allow the pitmen to have a man of their own
upon the pit heap to check the weighman in the employ of
the colliery owners, to pay for all over-weight, and not
to confiscate any tub which is within 561 b. of what may
be
agreed upon as the standard weight. The, masters
while agreeing. to substitute weight for measurer insist
bess would
eldsabms
upon having a standard tub, because, as the uttergf the
on-setters, the banksmen, and' all the expenseslp of horses
haneadvymoaenhesin, ear
yserwioausaldlo eenfatarilleclght
the weight of the tubs should fallupon tnl) szsm f. oiur
f
of a certai
recognised standard. What that standard short
now to be the main point in dispute Thae amylll :
seems'
that before the strike their tubs wore entirely confiscated if
they fell short of a fixed standard, a standard so high that
the required quantity of coals could not be got into thorn
without reeking and jolting the tubs, in order to solidify the
mass, and then filling them up again. The masters are now
willing to accept as the standard the average of six tubs,
filled in the workings without rocking, and the men demand
as the standard the weight of a tub filled "wood-full " on
the pit heap. This the masters decline to accede to, inas-
much as they allege it would practically amount to an in-
crease of wages to the extent of 9d per score tulyS, and this
is an advance which, in the present state of the cotil trade,
they do not feel themselves justified in giving. At the, begin-
ping of the week the men belonging to the Brandon Colliery
expressed their willingness to go to work on the terms: pro-
posed by the masters, but as the men of the other pits des ire
them to hold out and assist them in securing their demairiLs„
they still remain on strike. The men connected with t.lact
Bitchburn and Houghall collieries,also belonging to Messrs.
Straker and Love, have this week struck work. They have
not yet issued any manifesto of their grievances, but it it 3
understood that they are similar in character to those which
have been announced by the men belonging to the Sunny-
brow, Brancepeth, and Brandon collieries. For some time
past the men at Bitchburn Colliery have been on what is
termed the restrictive system"—a system dictated by the
agents of the Union with the avowed objectof raising wages
by limiting the supply of coal. Though able to earn fcoux
from 4s to 5s per day of eight hours, the men have for some
time past been voluntarily restricting their labours. Re-
cently they restricted their labours to 2s Gd per day, then to
is 3d per day each, afterwards to one tub per day each, and
on Wednesday morning they ceased work altogether. In
other collieries the same species of restriction is being carried
on to a greater or less extent, and at nearly the whole of
the pits in this neighbourhood there is an under current of
disaffection at work, produced by the machinations of the
paid agents of the Union. On Thursday a procession of
from 600 to 700 of the miners on strike visited Houghull
and Shincliffe collieries, near the city of Durham. They
held an open-air meeting and numerous harangues were
delivered, but the Shincliffo men declined to fraternise
with them or acknowledge them in any way. 'Yester-
day and the day before a number of the families of the pit-
men on strike at Spennymoor Colliery, in the county of
Durham, belonging to the West Hartlepool Railway Com-
pany, were evicted from their cottages. Down to Thursday
night 58 families had been evicted. The strike at this col-
liery has been going on some weeks. It is directed mainly
against an obnoxious overman, named Ralph Parker, whoa
the masters will not discharge.

ST. DOMINGO.

SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday.
The La Plata brings the following latest intelli•
gence from St. Domingo to the 25th October.
Puerto Plata was burnt by the Dominicans on.
the 4th October. The town was entirely destroyed,
excepting the warehouses of Messrs. Gincbra.
Brothers. All the merchants left were ruined.
The fort was held by 1,400 Spanish troops, under
Brigadier Rivera, who was anxiously awaiting
orders from the Spanish Government, and expecting
reinforcements from Havannah and Porto Rico.
The Spanish were unable to fetch water for the
troops from Rio San Marco in consequence of the
losses experienced from attacks of the enemy.
They, however, obtained water from Samana, but
with difficulty.
The sanitary state of the Spanish army was very
satisfactory.
It was stated that General Vargas was pushing
his way to the capital of San Domingo, held
.by
the insurgents. General Santana remained in the
same position unable to proceed, and waiting for
troops and ammunition from the Government.
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The insurgents were gaining ground, and i
,it as
°e
generally thought that the Spaniards would
compelled to abandon the country.
most with-
Porto Rico and Havannah were left a
, rise
there
outt
also.roop Thomas'ss, and it was feared the blacks would
• ted at St'
An unpleasant feeling
was suffering
hended. Trade at St. Thomas Domingo insur.
respecting the negroes, buetxnlos
f the San
' greatly in consequence
Os are great losers.
eut,shreak was appre.
rection, and many mere a

A TRIU3IPH as poet
BERLIOZ HAS AcrtitEhVe both
production of his five-act
and composer, by in
opera, i t thes
ol the first timeYr Lyrique,
the coin
on the'4‘tliheinsi.t7Tenhcßio's'mbined capacity. In his setting of
poser has shown,,a(aa a
cantata), in his choral symphony
Goethe's
"F4udst Juliet," in his opera of " Beatrice and
of "Romeo and
Ado,About Nothing"), in his oratorio
Benedict" ("d-u Christ,,, the accomplished critic of the
oljurEnan lfarinccseDe”bawt
as
swr
originallyot the words a
intendeds
to wellbe barsoutlighetmouusticat.
gi Les Troye"
the
Imperial Grand Opera, but Berlioz is not a favourite
with the silly directors of that national establishment. lie
owes the mounting of "Lea Troyens" at the Lyrique to the
of the Emperor, who defrayed the expenses
thenereerOfsoit uYt of his own pocket, as a ruark of his admiration
for the rare ability of Berlioz. In his libretto he has closely
adhered to the iEueid of Virgil, Mme. Charton-Derneur
was the Queen of Carthage, the imperious Dido and M.
Monjauze was the 2-Eneas. The original poem contained
the last days of the siege of Troy, but this has been excised.
Even with the curtailments of Berlioz the great length of
his work is still complained of, although it is studded with
beauties of the highest order. A septa )r excited unbounded
admiration, and was rapturously encored ; it has a most in-
genious and effective orchestral accoropaniment, and is
beautifully voiced, although it abounds with unexpected
and bold modulations. A duo between Dido and X:ritit
eaes
the two airs of Dido, the tong of the sailor Hylas,
the
the
between Dido and her sister, the chorus of the
prologue,
finale of the first act, the funeral dirge of the priests
if
ngenuity,
originality, other pieces, are all referred to as evincing
_u
originality, and power. The instrumentasl effectsa
mwder of
pro-
nounceduch
to be in every respect worthy of
orchestration as Berlioz, A long
rue
i,, expected for 1-,e4
Troyens."