The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-27 00:00:00

coming."

Those who have entertained hopes that the seri-
ous differences between masters and men which
caused the lock-out would be speedily adjusted
must have found out their mistake by this time. It
is sad indeed to contemplate the prospect that lies
before the infatuated individuals whose perversity
prolongs and sustains the conflict. From the re-
ports of the various meetings, it would seem as if
much had yet to be gone through before any settle-
ment is definitively made. It augurs ill for a speedy
termination, that in some quarters the men are pre-
paring to act as if there was no prospect of the
lock-out being soon terminated. Liberal offers of
help have been made from many quarters to the
men, so that it is idle to expect that want of re-
sources will drive them to surrender in a hurry,
before their wishes have been complied with. The
Earl of LICHFIELD has taken great pains to com-
promise matters as far as possible, and it is earnestly
to be trusted that the praiseworthy efforts of his
lordship may eventually be crowned with success,
but at present not much has resulted. There is no
task more arduous or thankless than the endeavour
to Make a neutral groundupon which adverse parties
may meet, and therefore it is the more creditable to
any one who makes the essay. Lord LICHFIELD
has met the masters and men separately, and it is
in contemplation that the men should meet their
own masters in the presence of his lordship, and,
further on, meet other masters if such a step be
deemed desirable. A better proof of the suicidal
nature of this dispute cannot be found than
in the fact that many are emigrating, and
this week some of the most skilful hands will
depart to America. Emigration agents are busy at
work to induce the men to seek employment in other
lands, so that, however the matter be settled, there
can be no doubt that the services of many valuable
workers will be lost to the manufacturers of Eng-
land. Among those men who do not belong to the
Union, there is great distress, and this is shown by
the circumstance that nearly two hundred applicants
appeared at the workhouse to break stones, and
others are waiting for their cases to be considered
for relief. It is satisfactory to find that active and
able agents are not wanting to lend their aid in
settling the dispute, and Mr. DOYLE, the Inspector
for the district to the Poor-law Board, is using
every exertion to bring the affair to a settlement,
and is endeavouring to introduce the practice long
successfully tried upon the Continent. One good
sign is, that a severance is contemplated between
the Gateshead Executive and the Brierley-hill
Council in consequence of the refusal of the former
to attend the meeting at York. A check has been
put to American emigration from Newcastle by the
timely arrival of a letter, from a Durham miner,
sent from Ohio, where the writer has been eight
years. In this he says that it is fallacious to sup-
pose there are so many advantages across the
Atlantic ; there is no medical attendance gratis ;
rent is very dear, and so are coals, with several
other drawbacks. It is said that the effects of the
lock-out are beginning to tell heavily upon the pud-
dlers and mill-men at Middleborough, and doubtless
these are but the forerunners of other cases.

The Belfast Riots.
The report of the Belfast Inquiry Commission to
the Lo rd Lieutenant of Ireland, with voluminous
minutes of evidence and appendix, has been pub-
lished. The report is dated March 8, 1865, and the
commissioners, besides remarking on the evidence
and various matters connected with their proceed-
ings, make the following recommendations. They
suggest that the Orange anniversaries should not be
celebrated on account of the liability to periodic
disturbance thereby produced. They say :
Can neither the discouragement of the powerful and in-
fluential, nor the adverse opinion of the wise and good, in-
duce those who indulge in such vain and mischievous dis-
plays to remember the claims of citizenship, of charity, or
of civilisation ? Till they shall, we greatly fear that Belfast
will continue subject, in some degree, to a recurrence of
such evils as have heretofore afflicted it, and that the police
of such a town will, at intervals more or less remote than
each other, be insufficient to entirely suppress internal
disorder.

The commissioners add :
Earnestly hoping that a bettor spirit may soon prevail in
this flourishing town, it now remains for us to lay briefly
before your excellency the recommendations which we have
to offer. They are as follows :-
1. That Belfast be placed in the same category, and dealt
with on the same principle as regards the number of con-
stabulary allocated to it by the Go-vernmene as the cities
and towns specified in 11 and 12 Vic., c. 72, schedule A.
This will certainly give Belfast the 100 men suggested by
some witnesses, and, area and population considered, per-
haps 130 men.
2. That an additional force of constabulary be main-
tained, sufficient to raise the entire force in the borough to
450 men, and that the expense of the extra force be de-
frayed (save as to any special remuneration) one-half by the
Government, and one-half by the borough, on the scale and
in the manner provided for such cases by 11 and 12 Vic., c.
72, s. 4.

3. That the rules and regulations of the constabulary
should (if necessary) be modified sb as to enable and per-
mit the members of the force stationed in Belfast to per-
form all the duties, as well by night as by day, now dis-
charged by the existing local force which is to be abolished.
4. That the constabulary force of Belfast should be placed
under the management and control of a commissioner who
should have magisterial power, but should not preside at
sessions or discharge any of the ordinary judicial duties of
a magistrate.

5. That the expense consequent on giving the men extra
pay for night duty, the salary of the commissioner, and
any other extra cost necessarily incurred by the adapta-
tion of the constabulary to the special service, as also any
retiring allowance to officers or men of the existing local
force, should be borne by tho borough.
6. That two resident magistrates should be stationed in
Belfast, and should act jointly in the performance of the
judicial duties there.

Power should be reserved to the Lord Lieutenant forth
time being, upon the recommendation of the conunissioner
or the town council, to reduce the additional force of con-
stabulary by 50 men, in case his Excellency should be sa-
iisfied that by reason of an improved state of feeling be-
tween the antagonistic parties and other circumstances
such a reduction would be expedient.
We may remark that many of the local police would,
doubtless, be found eligible for the constabulary, and
should, if they desire it, be allowed to enter that force,"

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endowments were as many as 1,369 in the year 1864. In
the course of that year the Commissioners made 291
orders appointing and removing trustees and establishing
schemes; 257 authorising sales of charity estates ; 150
authorising building, mining, or other special leases ; 44
authorising improvements of charity estates and tho
raising or appropriation of the necessary funds ; 20
authorising the compromise of disputed claims ; and 671
authorising transfers of stock or money to the official
trustees of charitable funds, who at the close of the year
held stock amounting to £2,085,281 upon 3,686 accounts
for charities. The compilation of the general digest of
endowed charities is now complete (to the full extent of
the information which the Commissioners have been able
to procure) for 15 counties, and as to the parochial cha-
rities of the cities of London and Westminster, and con-
siderable progress has been made in relation to other
counties. The information collected is described as of
general utility and interest. It is for Parliament to Oeter-
mine whether it shall he printed.

memory, great heirs of fame, than that their monu-
ments should be placed in the cities of their birth,
or the places where they have been best known, and
hence it may be considered that this inaugurative
ceremony at Edinburgh was a happy event, worthily
designed and successfully accomplished; and it is to
be trusted that the liberality will long be remem-
bered with gratitude which has presented those
statues to the magistrates and Town Council of
Edinburgh, as the Lord Justice-General truly ob-
served, "in trust, for preservation 'in all time