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

THE PITMEN'S STRIKE.

(Fr
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iunridial. )
was Monday
and
rain as is
seldom encountered even in the month of November,
and in consequence of the inclemency
wea-
ther very little was doing
It i atWilling ton and in the
colliery villages on strikew as known that the
offer made by the masters to the men was to be ex-
hibited upon the various pit heapsa a
in the morning,
but this fact appeared to exciteinterest 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 the
not even required to turn out into the r were
ain. 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 further 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 then
left without any satisfactory arrangement being
made. The general feeling amongst the miners i 5
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 causa 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 evi-
dent that an unusual state of excitement exists
amongst the miners employed in the neighbourhood,
and, in many instances, they are resorting to the re-
prehensible plan of working short time, in order to
embarrass their masters and carry their own ends.
At the pits of the West Hartlepool Railway and
Dock Company, at Byer's Green and Paige Bank,
the same method of obtaining an advance of wages
has of late been resorted to; and it has, we are in-
formed, so far. been so successful that on Saturday
the wages of the men were advanced ld. per ton.
Should the strike extend any further, we need
scarcely say that it will prove a very serious matter
for the general public, as well as masters and men,
for this is a season of the year at which we can ill
afford to be without coals, whilst the enormous re-
quirements of our railway companies must still be
supplied, unless the traffic and the business of the
country is to be brought to a standstill. Already
we believe the North-Eastern Railway Company
has so far been embarrassed by the strike at Messrs.
Straker and Love's, and the short-time
system
other collieries on which they at
depend for a portion
of their supply of fuel, that last week they were
compelled to burn coke to ;.Hake
up for their defi-
cient supply of coal.

LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 3d day of
November, 1836, present, the Lord President, Earl de
Grey and Ripon, and Mr, Milner Gibson. Her NejegY
having been pleased to appoint the Right Honourable
Robert Montgomery Lord Belhaven and Hamilton, KA..
to be Lord Lieutenant of the county of Lanark, his lord-
ship this day took and subscribed the oath appointed to 1,0
taken thereupon instead of the oaths of allegiance, supre-
macy, and abjuration.

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in succession to Gunningaca
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14th Native Infantry, . late
Medical Officers—Surgeon Hugh Martin Macpherson
be Surgeon Major.

Course of the Exchange---Yesterday.
,Short. 11 16 11 161
Month!, l' 181 11 19i
RoAntwerp tterdam
Ampsittetordam
• • -- 25 50 2.5 60
Brussels ............ 25 50 25 60
llamburgh .......... 13 Si 13 81
Faris .............. Short. 25 20 25 25
Ditto ...........
M Months, 25 52.:, 25 60
arseilles .......... 25 55 25 60
Frankfort on Maine.. -119 k iwg
57 Vienna ............ 52
11 67
36
Trieste
.. ........ 11 52
Petershurgh ........ 35i
Berlin ..............
Madrid
....... ,•••
CP.diz ..............
Leghorn
Mliau
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina ..
Lisbon
Oporto

43; 481
48 49
25 65 25 70
25 65 25 70
25 65 25 70
25 65 25 70
25 65 25 70
25 66 25 70
52
52/-
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