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

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, March 20.—Prince Arthur arrived on
Friday in the Royal Enchantress, having visited
Naples, Messina, Catania, Syracuse, Tunis, and
Girgenti. As his Royal Highness is travelling
incognito, there were none of the usual salutes. He,
however, witnessed a review of the troops in garri-
son on the Floriana parade-ground, and also the
spectacle of all the batteries opening fire to resist a
feint naval attack. He was entertained at dinner
by Sir Henry Storks, who invited the principal civil
naval, and military authorities to meet him. The
Enchantress left on the following day with Prince
Arthur for Jaffa. Her Majesty's ship Magicienne,
16, Capt. W. Armytage, arrived on Monday evening

'rom Corfu, where she left the Cossack, 20, Lieut

Borlase (in charge), on the 11th inst. She visited
Antivari to communicate with the British cont3ul

there. She brings no news of interest of irnportanbe.
The Psyche, 2, despatch-vessel, Lieut. Commander
R. Sterne, returned on Tuesday night from Naples

with the Bishop of Gibraltar andArcildeacon Cleugh.
The Revenge, 93 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral
H. R. Yelverton, C. 8.), Captain the Hon. F. A.
C. Foley, arrived on Saturday from
.Naples,

having remained there a day or two later than was
intended to do honour to the birthday of the Sovereign
and Crown Prince of Italy on the 14th inst. She
had on board as passengers Sub-Lieut. Sherbrook,
R.N., and Mr. W. C. P. Medlycott. The ship is
to proceed in a few days to England to be put out
of commission, and it is generally understood that
Rear-Admiral Yelverton will shift his flag to the
Caledonia, ironclad frigate, for the Mediterranean.
Here the birthday of Victor Emmanuel and Prince
Humbert were observed by the ships of war in port
dressing with flags (the Italian flag at the main),
and, together with the garrison, firing a royal salute
at noon. The Italian ship Eurydice, 18, and Vala-
roso, 8, fired royal salutes at 8 o'clock, at noon, and
at sunset, in accordance with the Italian custom.

These vessels have since left for Corfu. The Liffey,

35, Capt. G. Parker, was to leave Gibraltar on the
13th inst., for Colon, in the Isthmus of Panama, to
transfer supernumeraries to the Pacific station, to a
ship which would await them on the other side of
the isthmus. The Phoebe, 35, Capt. T. D. A. For-
tescue, came in to-day, 19 days from Alexandretta,

and 7 from Candia. The Chanticleer, 17, Com-
mander J. E. F. Risk, was at Alexandretta byithe
last accounts, when the Orlando, 46, Capt. G. G.
Randolph, had not arrived. IThe Meeanee, 60, Capt.
G. Wodehouse, and the Assurance, 4, Commander
M. C. Seymour, left for that port on Saturday.
Owing to alarming news having been received yes-
terday from Athens, her Majesty's ship Gibraltar,
81, Capt. R. Coote, has been order to proceed im-
mediately to the Piraeus, and left this afternoon.
She will be followed, should affairs become more
threatening, by other ships of the squadron. The
Enterprise, 4, Commander Rowley, is under orders
to leave on Tuesday, to take back to Tripoli Capt.
Herman, the British Consul-General, who together
with Mrs. Herman, is returning from England.
Lieut. H. H. Washington, RN., arrived on Tues-
day night from leave to rejoin the Cossack. Surg.

J.-Dunwoodie, R.N., lately of the Royal Naval

Hospital, Malta, left on Monday to join the Eury-
alus, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief in China
The 4th Battalion Rifle Brigade, now at Gibraltar,
have received their orders for Canada, and are to
embark about the end of May. The 2d Battalion
7th Royal Fusiliers will leave Malta for Canada
about the same time, and be relieved by the 84th
Regiment from England.
On her passage from Holyhead to Plymouth last
week the ironcased cupola ship Scorpion, 4, was
under the command of Captain Paynter, of the
Coastguard ship Donegal, 81, at Liverpool. The
Scorpion averaged 9} knots under steam only, and
10 knots under steam and canvas. In her present
trim she is considered well adapted for sea purposes.
When her guns, ammunition, and additional fuel
are on board, she will draw, it is calculated a foot
more, and that will probably lessen her speed. She
left Holyhead on Wednesday at noon, and arrived
in the Sound on Thursday at 9 p.m. At
3.40 a.m. on that day,- when about 37 miles
south of the Smalls, the night being very dark, she
came into a collision with a merchan ship, name un-
known. The vessel was on the port tack and exhi-
bited one red light ; she struck the Scorpion's fore-
bow, and stove it in to the extent of considerable
tonnage, pursued her course. The Scorpion stoped
her enyines, furled sails, and burnt alarm lights to
no purpose. She was going at a rate of more than
10 knots. It is supposed that the other vessel is not
much injured.
The Himalaya, screw troopship, Capt. E. Lacy, sails
this morning from Portsmouth for Dover, to embark
the 24th Regiment from Shorncliffe Camp for con-
veyance to Dublin. From Dublin the Himalaya
conveys the 84th Regiment from the Curragh to
Malta, next conveying a regiment from Malta to
Canada, and returning thence to Spithead with the
17th Regt. of Infantry. We regret to hear that the
Admiralty are again sending the Himalaya to sea
without the very necessary and really inexpensive
application of a " governor" to her engines, to con-
trol their racing propensities when the long and
famously efficient trooper is running before a heavy
sea. The destruction of her crank-shaft, and the
ship's consequent forced inaction of four months in
Portsmouth harbour since her last voyage, were
simply owing to the want of a " governor" to regu-
late the admission of steam to her engines when

running before a sea.
The Industry, screw storeship, Master-Comman-
der Edward C. T. Youell, arrived at Spithead yes-
terday morning, with naval stores and a few super-
numeraries, from Rio de Janeiro. She will proceed
round to Woolwich.
Col. Thackwell,Deputy-Assist.-Adjt.-Gen. of the
West Military District, will be succeeded in the
duties of his office on the expiry of his term of ser-
vice by Col. Alison.
The head-quarters of the 52d regiment (Oxford-
shire Light Infantry), under the command of the
Hon. Major E. G. Curzon, consisting of 10 officers,
254 men, 12 women, and 29 children, disembarked
from the sailing transport Alumbagh, on return
from service in India, at Dover, on Saturday, and
arrived at Portsmouth the same evening. The regi-
ment will be quartered in Portsmouth garrison for
the present; and the left wing on their arrival from
India in the Nile sailing transport, will join head-
quarters from the Alumbagh in the Cambridge
barracks. The regimental depot was inspected at
Portsmouth on Friday last by Major-Gen. Lord
W. Paulet, C. 8., Lieut.-Governor of Portsmouth,
and Commander-in-Chief of the South-West Mili-
tary District.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :---William H. Drysdale, master, to
the Duke of Wellington ; William D. Morish, mid-
shipman, to the Geyser ; William Redmond,
assist.-surgeon, to the Asia ; W. H. Stewart,
acting assist.-surgeon, to the Royal Adelaide; John
M'Kie, chief engineer, to the Achilles ; and J. J.
Greathead, chief engineer, to the Cumberland, for
the Hood.

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The Lock-out in the Iron Trade.

WOLVERHAMPTON, Saturday.
Late last night a preliminary meeting of the Com-
mittee of the Trades Unions and others, of Birming-

ham was held in that town. Mr. George Potter, of
London, attended the meeting, accompanied by the

President of the Brierly-hill Executive, who had just

returned from attending the Trades Union meetings
in London. They report that liberal promises of

help were made to them, and that the £lOO promised
by the glassmakers of Stourbridge was to be increased
by another £lOO from the funds of the Birmingham
Society, and the whole handed over in instalments of
£lO weekly. The President also states that such isthe

sympathy displayed in London towards the North

Staffordshire men that a union of one of the branches

of the building trades promised them £5OO. But
the Executive entertain hopes that no portion of
these moneys may be required. They make especial

reference to the fact that, so soon as the letter of
Mr. Roden, the chairman of the masters in North
Staffordshire, appeared in the Times, offering to
piece before the Association to which he belonged
any offer from the North Staffordshire workmen,
in the spirit of the remarks of the North Staffcrd-
shire delegate at the London meeting on Wednes-
day, Mr. Potter sent the following telegram from
London :

"To W. H. Roden, Esq., Etruria-hall, Hanley, Stafford-
shire. From George Potter, London.—As chairman of the
London Trades' meeting, held on Wednesday evening last,
I am instructed by Mr. Baker (one of the North Stafford-

shire delegates) to inform you that the men of North Staf-
fordshire are prepared to carry out the statement which he

made at the meeting, which is reported in your letter in the
Times of to-day. Mr. Baker will be at Tunstall early to-

morrow (Saturday) morning."

Mr. Baker's offer, it will be remembered, was that
if the masterswould open theirworks the men would
consent to leave the question of wages to arbitration.
It will also be remembered that, about the time
that this offer was being made, the Committee of the

South Staffordshire Ironmasters Association were

also arranging a plan of arbitration, suggesting that

the North Staffordshire men should meet a deputa•

ion of their own masters from South Stafford

shire and the North of England, and with the Earl
of Lichfield presiding.
This afternoon the opinions of the representative
men in North Staffordshire have been taken upon the
masters' proposal ; and the men have expressed a
wish to meet their own masters only, in their own
district, and not at Stafford. Their wishes will of
course be complied with, and the meeting will pro-
bably take place on Tuesday. The preference which
the men show for meeting their own employers
only may well be regarded as a favourable omen ;
and it removes much of the suspicion which had
been previously expressed to the effect that such was
their feeling towards their masters that it would be
necessary for masters at a distance to be present in
order that the two might be brought together. Such
a course may yet, however, have to be pursued.
The Earl of Lichfield met the men and the mas-
ters at Newcastle, both separately. His lordship
was accompanied by Mr. Jones, of the Trindle,
Dudley, the business secretary of the Ironmasters'
Association of South Staffordshire. Before his lord-

ship's arrival in North Staffordshire the men held a
meeting at Tunstall, where theremarks of Mr. Peter
Baker, one of their representatives at the London
meetings, were fully discussed.
The men denied that he had any authority
to make the offer that if the masters would open
their works then that the North Staffordshire
men would go in and submit the question
of wages to arbitration. They do not express
themselves prepared to take this step, and said that
Mr. Baker had mistaken their wishes. These, they
said, were that the masters should allow them to
resume work on this occasion, and then they would

submit all future disputes to arbitration. When,
afterwards, a deputation of the men met Lord Lich-
field, they informed his lordship of what had taken
place at the meeting in the morning ; but, never-
theless, expressed their readiness to meet their own
masters in their own district in the presence of the
Lord-Lieutenant ; and they consented to meet mas-
ters from other districts with their own, also in the
presence of his lordship, if after the interview with
their own alone such a further meeting should be
found necessary.
Lord Lichfield afterwards saw the North Stafford-
shire masters, who consented to meet their men in
his lordship'sresence, and they hoped something
amicable might be brought about ; but it was feared
that the prospect looked scarcely so favourable as it
appeared by the light of Mr. Baker's remarks in
London.

Meanwhile the South Staffordshire men are pre
paring to act as if the lock-out had every prospec
of being continued over a lengthened period.
On Wednesday next ten men, who are described
as among the most skilful and the most thrifty of
the puddlers in the Gold's-green district, will leave
this country for Toronto, via New York, in the
steamship Edinburgh. Their passage to New York
will cost £5 103. per man ; but each emigrant will
receive £7, with which to defray that and other
expenses. There is only one ironwork at Toronto,
and it is thought that the emigrants may, on
arriving in the States, remain there ; but they must
go out as emigrants to British America, in order to
comply with the spirit of the delegate meeting, by
which an emigrant scheme was authorised. From all
the districts applications to be sent out are still
being received by the Executive ; most of the
applicants desire to be sent to the State. From
Bilston there are 12 applications. The Executive
having discovered how strong the feeling of the
members who desire to be sent out is in
favour of the States contemplate suggesting
to the various districts that they should recon-
sider the decision of the delegate meeting, and de-
termine whether or not it would not be well to send
out a member to the States by whom applications
should be sent home for men as often as vacancies
are found for them.
To-day the Council has been occupied several
hours in discussing a plan of emigration to Auck-
land and other parts of New Zealand, submitted to
them by an emigration agent who had come down
from London for the purpose. The agent brought
with him large maps of the country, and offered to
send out members on reduced terms. But it is
thought, now that the views of the districts have
been obtained, that only a small proportion of men
are prepared to leave their own avocation, and they
are tempted to go to the States by the representa-
tions of men who have been there, and say they are
waiting only the termination of the war to return.
By these it is announced that 61 dollars is paid in
America for puddling the same description of iron
for which 9s. 6d. is paid in this country ; and that
while provisions and other expenses may be dearer
than here, yet at the end of the year the steady
puddler is much better off in America than in Eng-
land—at the same time that he enjoys political pri-
vileges which he cannot secure with so much free-
dom at home. These representations are proving
of great weight with the men who wish to leave this
country. It is designed to keep up the emigration
movement even after the lock-out is over.
Much distress continues to be apparent among
men who are out of the union. To-day 169 men
were in the stone-yard of the workhouse ready to
break stones for relief, and, although accommoda-
tion could not be found for them, yet they were
paid in proportion to their children, who numbered
in all 535. Other men were applying for relief, but
their cases had to be deferred till they could be in-
vestigated by the relieving officers.
Additional men are being thrown out of work
daily. Messrs. Grazebrook and Aston, blast furnace
and colliery proprietors, have given their workpeo-
ple notice that they will blow out both their blast
furnaces at Netherton next Saturday ; and Mr.
Grazebrook informs us that already his firm has 800
colliers unemployed in consequence of the lock-out.
Mr. Doyle, inspector for this district to the roor
Law Board; is very kindly using all his influence to
bring about a settlement of the dispute, and he is
now visiting both divisions of Staffordshire for that
purpose, and is obtaining ipterviews with both mas-
ters and men. Mr. Doyle is familiar with the Con-
tinental practice in such cases, and he hopes to be
able to . make such suggestions as will ultimately
lead to a somewhat similar course being pursued in