The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-10 00:00:00

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.

At the last meeting of the society, Mr. James Mea-
dows Rendel, president, in the chair,
The business of the evening was commenced by the
announcement of the dates of the ordinary meetings of
the session ; of the appointment of December 20th for
the annual general meeting, for the election of the pre-
sident, council, and officers ; and of the 30th of May
for the president's conversazione. The paper read was,
" On the Speed and other properties of Ocean Steamers,
and on the Measurement of Ships for Tonnage,"
by Mr. A. Henderson, Assoc. Inst. C.E. The
two subjects were combined for the purpose of afford-
ing facility for their discussion. After alluding to
a paper brought before the institution, in 1847, by
the same author, in which the fallacy of using registered
tonnage and nominal horse-power, as the inex of the
capabilities of speed of steamers, was shown, by a com-
parison of their relative proportions and elements of
resistance with the steam power employed, the present
paper referred to a tabular form, containing copious de-
tails of dimensions and of general information, as to the
form, proportions, and speed, realised by ocean steamers,
compiled from documents emanating from the depart-
ment of the Surveyor of the Navy, and from returns
.
made to Parliament by the Post-office and Admiraltyn,
showing that between the years 1845 and 1851, an
aggregate mail service of 1,271,000 miles,thin
realised only averaged 7.945 knots per hour, which
to wbe far short of the speed generally supposed
d being 8.1
main-
tained by mail steamers ; the highest p
sAleeexandria, by
knots per hour, between Marseilles and hichuslplvicaeds
steamers.knots per
tabularn
her Majesty's mail packets, and the lowest
hour, between Ceylon and China, by
statement, pub-
lishedby
Reference was then made to a
acommunication with
India, showing the station of
veachteamer, including
of 8.08- 2 knots per hour, and
swonetsrtac7l
running upwards of
by the committee on steam
six packets of the Indian na 3,
325,000 miles, at a speed
eleven contract steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental
Company, running above 533 r, 0 miles,_ and averaging
l
7.972 knots per hour. By the same table the speed of
the iron steamer Pekin was shown to be 7'733 knots per
hour ; the older timber steamers, Lady Mary Wood and
Braganza, realising only 7'3'79 knots and 7'249 knots per
hour respectively. Some observations were offered on the
various proportions, forms, and resistance of ocean steam-
ers, and the difficulty of obtaining a fair criterion of rela-
tive efficiency ; with suggestions, that the information
might be obtained by recording the particulars required
in the columns of a table, similar to one which was exhi-
bited, from which it appeared that the proportions of
ves-
sels varied from five and a quarter to eight times their
breadth to their length. That the length of the five
steamers realising 81 knots per hour averaged less than
six times their breadth, while that of those which
realised less than 71 knots averaged upwards of 71 times
their breadth. Reference was made to the Orinoco, one
of the largest new steamers, the particulars of which
afforded much useful information, and which, if similarly
collected from other sources and deposited in the archives
of the institution, would be most valuable, as the sub-
ject was daily becoming of greater interest and import-
ance. The second part of the paper was On the Mea-

Yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock, a fatal ac-
cident happened to a man named James Bright, and his
child, a little girl, at the New Coal Exchange, opposite
Billingsgate-market, which terminated in the instanta-
neous death of the former. It appears that after the
Lord Mayor's show had gone through the ward, and his
lordship had embarked on board the City barges from
the market, numbers of the public were allowed to go
over the Exchange and inspect the interesting paintings
which adorn the galleries. The unfortunate man and
his child were amongst the many who were admitted,
and upon reaching the uppermost gallery, he, by some
means not as yet correctly ascertained, got outside upon
the glazed roofnearest to St. Mary-at-Hill. Curiosity then
prompted him it is thought to attempt to reach the balus-
trades athe side of the building for the purpose of viewing
the bustitiand excitement in the street below. Leading
his child, he was in the act of walking over a long slab of 1, •
glass, more than half an inch thick, when it broke away
from under him, and the unhappy man dropped
through, dragging his little girl, whom he had hold of by
the hand, after him, and fell with a fearful crash upon
the ornamental pavement beneath, a depth of more than
seventy feet. The Exchange being full of visitors at
the time, the greatest alarm instantly arose, and a rush
was made for the doors, a belief being 'ehtertained at
the moment that the whole splendid glqes dome of
the building was falling. On the unfortunate father
and child being approached, the latter was found, by
some merciful interposition of Providence, to have
escaped death, although her thigh was fractured and
she was much bruised about the body. The man, how-
ever, was most frightfully mutilated, his skull was
shattered in, and most of his limbs were broken. Ap-
parently
of somelyhewas aid yet being afforded it
quite dead, but asthere might bea
chance was
deemed prudent to convey him, with the child, to St.
Thomas's Hospital ; but on reaching that institution the
life of the unfortunate man, as anticipated, was pro-
nounced to be quite extinct. The little girl was taken
into the Dorcas Ward, when Mr. South, the surgeon,
reduced the fracture, and there is every chance of her re-
covering. Fortunately the market was just over, and
the open area under the dome clear of merchants and
factors when the accident happened ; had it been on, it
is scarcely possible to conceive what might have been
the consequences, the spot where the deceased and a
quantity of heavy broken glass fell being right in the
entrance to the captains' room, which is always crowded
during market hours. It is thought that the unfortu-
nate man must have gained access to the roof by a win-
dow on an upper staircase. He was a kind of jobbing
porter at Billingsgate, about 30 years of age. The body
awaits an inquest.
Another accident occurred during the day, which it
is feared will be attended with deplorable consequences.
While the procession was passing the open space be-
tween the Mansion-house and the Globe Insurance-
office, a stand, which was erected by some costermonger,
broke down while crowded with people, and one of
them, a gentlemanly-dressed man, sustained a double
compound fracture of the leg, besides other injuries. •
He was removed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where be
lies in a sad way. It is feared the limb will have to be
amputated.

THE ARMY.

MORE DESERTIONS. A court-martial (Major J.
Clark Kennedy, 18th Royal Irish Regiment, president)
assembled on Monday at Chatham barracks for the trial
of the following prisoners :—Richard James Brown, of
the East India Company's Service, was tried for deser-
tion and making away with his regimental necessaries.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he was sorry for what
he had done, it was. the effect of drink. Serjeant Major
Robert Sullivan said the prisoner had been in the ser-
vice 197 days, and his character had been good. The
next prisoner was John William Norman, 38th Regi-
mimt, who deserted at Winchester on the 14th of Sep-
tember, 1851, and made away with regimental (neces-
saries. The prisoner surrendered himself to the corps
on the 31st of October last at Brompton barracks.
Lieut. and Adjutant Beswick stated that the prisoner
had only been in the regiment six months, during that
time his general character had been good. Private
William Snell, 93rd company of the Royal !Marines,
was next arraigned for having deserted from the Chat-
ham division on the 3rd of December, 1852. The pri-
soner was apprehended at Deptford, working as a
labourer. The adjutant of the Marines said the general
character of the prisoner was bad. The prisoner had
issue
of eight years and 26 days in the service. The
of these trials will not be known until the proceedings
have been confirmed at the Horse Guards.

Captain I)isbrowe's company of the 62d Regiment
marched from Kilkenny on Saturday to Carlow, to re-
place Captain Rynd's company of the same regiment,
which proceeded on Monday to D uncanncon Fort for
Minie rifle target practice. Captain Hopkinson's (the
light) company, having completed its Minie rifle prac-
tice, will return to Kilkenny on Thursday, on being re-
lived by Captain Rynd's company at Duncannon Fort.
On Friday a private soldier of the 62nd, in the con-
valescent ward of the garrison licuocstnephdeiedetarwlitnoahuhtenilisedffiinnlekcoteettsnaptnoriyfoo,vnliconuowetf
puttingfl i
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existence,su
dangerous.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY IN -------MANCHESTER --A robbery
• and at a dye-house in the I:ame street,yr.Milesimpsßcin,
Morris. The robbery must hav heea occupied
effected by
betweern.
3thpe.m. on Saturday, when the premises were closed for
week, and 9 a.m. yesterday morning; but it is sup-
posed it was committed after midnight. It appears that
the entrance to the premises must have been effected by
the river side. The thieves must then have crossed a
well, and got up a plank which rests against the yard
wall, by which an entrance was effected into the outer
swtraesect,omiimuithteehdesotenr,Seateueurdaiedy at
h the
m silk-mill in in. Albert-
crossing the River Irwell, and ata small embankment on
. yard of the mill. A portion of the window frame
of the dye-house adjoining was then destroyed, from
which the thieves got through a door into the inner
yard. A portion of the store-room was then de-
stroyed, after which the robbers obtained access to the
interior of the mill. The property they succeeded in
taking away was—from 501 b. to 601 b. weight of dull flock
warp silk, about 301 b. of bright flock warp silk, 141 b, of
dark blue warp silk, of two shades, and 41b. of a light
shade of warp silk. The above property was taken
from the silk-mill, and from the dye-house adjoining
there was removed 101 b. of China boiled-off silk, in a
wet state. The value of the property stolen from the
mill is estimated at 1001., and that from the dye-house
' at 13/. It is supposed the robbers, who must have been
two or three in number, returned the same way by
which they entered. As yet there is no clue to their
discovery.
EXTRAORDINARY DECISIONS.—TWO cases were de-
cided by Mr. Sheriff Bell in the Small Debt Court, on
from the provisions of the law. Mr. Balfour, Thursday,
sggwrfground extraordinary
rrli:adlis ttarhm.that
tp
immunitytroher cerei caseslsi aPotn
furniture-
dealer, Maxwell street, summoned Mr. John Morrison,
auctioneer,
afioir
arceccoouvnetryfoorf penny,
goonoeds
o purchased
fwo
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sale,
hh
the
thd
ae
Public defen-
dersinaleeeh:ailnli insisted
the
set ecl
latteront objected,he
pursuer
olnpnatyhai enn
declared that the receiver of the money should in alefrleenedeelprw.t
the
instancean d
otfhaant
3 Balfour should be held as co
by the buyer a condition
TheslP'tilrael:ma. vdslp.eededeo that
nt idle casesht
ae
stamp
sd a receipt.
n' made
aa cdteio n raised
condi-
tion, His lordship gave judgmnen that
auctioneer against a gentleman in town for payment of an
fee as too high •
pacrocopuerntty.fo r lat
appeared valuation
valuation had been made by h, atdh made of the defenders
who was unlicensed ; and thataned
de-
murred to the gentlemen t e
objecteden
paymentcun.n g o
inf the •
hadthat
-
e the auctioneer's clerk,
valuation was
on
he unstamped
produced paper. In support of these pleas,
a letter from
the Solicitor of Stamm stating that on both these points the auctioneer had
acted illegally, and was liable to the
favour of the statutorylt'
The Sheriff decided in
Penales.
pursuer, remit-
ting the account to a member of the trade to be taxed,--.
Glasgow Constitutional.
BLANKET HIINTING.—I started off one day by myself,
after a large herd of buffalo, about three miles westward
of the fort, adopting the novel expedient of carrying
with me a white blanket in order to stalk them: I took
such a course as not to give the herd my wind, and,
with the cover afforded by the timber on the point, sue•
ceeded in getting within a couple of hundred yards of
them. I crept forward on my hands and knees, covered
by the blanket, which prevented them from distinguishing
me amidst the surrounding snow, and enabled me to
approach until I came within shot. I continued creep-
ing about and aronnd them, singling out the best and
fattest of the cows, for upwards. of an hour, and it was
not until I had laid five of their number low, that they
smelt a rat, and bolted off unanimously, tossing their
shaggy heads and ploughing up the snow.—Palliser's
Solitary Rambles of a Hunter.
SHERIDAN =KNOWLES.—The friends of the Irish Mill..
sion will be glad to learn that Mr. Sheridan Knowles
has handed over to G. C. Bruce, Esq., treasurer, the
whole proceeds of his late lectures on Popery, and of
his sermon in the Tabernacle, Edinburgh, which amount
to a considerable sum. This, act of generosity is
greatly enhanced by the fact that Mr. Knowles did not
only offer his services without any application to that
effect, but rendered them without even charging his
travelling expenses upon the mission.

ONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN " the Cossacks, Bessarabia had fallen under the
RAILWAY.
36, Coleman-street, London, 10th Nov., 1853. evil fate of an Islamite occupation. Y,Be it
Sla,—Mr. Snell having failed to comply with the request I , .
made to him in the concluding paragraph of the annexed letter, still iurther remE rked the CZAR intimates
I feel it to be dae to myself to lose no further time in trans- •
mitting a copy of the same to you, which yon are at liberty 111 his Imperial Manifesto that no alterna-
te make public. I should, on my own part, have been
glad to have been spayed the necessity of taking this step, and tive remains to him but "to obtain (as he
have endeavoured in a subsequent correspondence to Induce Mr. Snell
to candidly correct the misstatements that he had made in the cir-
cular of the 31st ultimo, concerning such misstatements had, to some says in so many words) reparation for the insults
with, which the latter [Turkey] has replied to our
extent, influenced shareholders in arriving at erroneous conclusions;
but he not having accedel:to my wishes, I have no alternative but to [the CZAR'S] most moderate demands." The " in-
pursue this course.—l am, Sir,
Your most obedient servant, sults" being in reality every conceivable -token of
moderation and longanimity ! The " moderate
demands" being the requirement from the Sun-
TAN of the instant resignation of the most sacred
rights of his Sovereignty ! Assuredly, we repeat,
never was there more astonishing arrogance, or
more insolent disregard for the common sense of
the nations of Christendom.
The Imperial Manifesto of the CZAR NICHOLAS
would, in fact, be altogether inexplicable did we
not read it by the light of another document—a
document of a yet more astounding character—
emanating from one of the most daring and gifted
of his imperial predecessors.
A considerable interval has elapsed since we took
occasion to publish in the columns of The Sun the
marvellous State Paper, in which can alone be dis-
covered the key to the mystery of tha t audacious and
pertinacious ambition which is continually impelling
the Russian AUTOCRAT to direct the wiles of his
lawless intrigue and the might of his irresponsible
authority to the subjugation of Turkey and the
seizure of Constantinople. During that interval
events have afforded the statements then put for-
ward the force and value of an almost miraculous,
and by many a wholly unexpected, authentication.
Allusion is here, of course, made to the " Will of
PETER the Great"—the last Will and Testament of
that extraordinary man, who therein sketched out
the policy to be pursued ever after by his succes-
sors, with a view to the aggrandisement of their
dominions, and to the ultimate subjugation of the
eastern hemisphere. Besides publishing that sin-
gular document in exte nso, we took occasion at
the time above-intimated to accompany it with a
few simple running commentaries. Occurrences
appear to us at this moment to demand for the
Will of PETER the Great the advantage of a
prompt and timely republication. Elsewhere in
our impression of this evening therefore, that
curious State Paper will be found—a State
Paper first brought to Europe in 1757, and now
reprinted in 1853, when the haughtiest of
the successors of PETER the Great, the poten-
tate who aspired to the kindred dignity of
being hailed by the title of NICHOLAS the
Great, is thundering with his gigantic armaments
upon the patriotic forces of Turkey, drawn up
against him in battle array in defence of what
CZAR and SULTAN alike regard as the Holy City
of Constantinople. It must be especially observed
that the document referred to is no mere fable—
no idle or fantastic fabrication. It is veritably
and actually the last Will and Testament of PETER
the Great—the original being at this moment pre-
served among the archives in the palace of Peter-
hof', not far from St. Petersburg.
Observe, moreover, that while PETER I. urges
upon his successors the advisability—firstly, of
" keeping the Russian nation in a constant state
of warlike readiness "—secondly, of " gathering
together by every possible means skilful generals
during war, and learned men during peace "
thirdly, of " mixing themselves upon all occasions
in the negotiations and disagreements of the peo-
ple of Europe "—fourthly, of " sowing dis-
sensions in Poland fifthly, of " pitting
Denmark and Sweden against each other"--sixthly,
of " cultivating alliances with the German Prin-
cesses"—seventhly, of " propitiating England, with
, an eye to the securing of commercial advantages ;"
and eighthly, of "extending their territories along
the shored of the Black Sea and of the Baltic,"—
he earnestly enjoins them in the ninth clause, in
so many words, to "encroach as far as possible in
the direction of the Indies AND CONSTANTINOPLE."
Five other recommendations follow—one (the
tenth) to " cherish with care Austrian alliance ;"
another (the eleventh), to " attach and unite
around you all the scattered and schismatic
Greeks ;" another (the twelfth), to establish " a
universal dominion by a sort of sacerdotal king-
ship, or supremacy ;" another (the thirteenth), to
" offer temptations to France and Austria ;" an-
other (the fourteenth), to " enter boldly upon the
crowning labour of universal subjugation"—and
the " Will of PETER" then terminates with this
arrogant and sententious avowal, " Thus may,
and should, Europe be conquered." Wonderful
and startling as are all the thirteen other clauses,
the ninth is, however, what more immediately con-
cerns us at this juncture—the clause in which
PETER the Great said to all his successors in per-
spective—"ENCßOACH AS FAR AS POSSIBLE IN THE
DIRECTION OF THE INDIES AND CONSTANTINOPLE."
Holding in our hand this last Will and Testament of
PETER the Great, as preserved up to the present
moment in the archives of the Palace of Peterhoff,
we can understand the otherwise inexplicable in-
solence of the Imperial Manifesto, dated by the
Czar NICHOLAS on the 21st October, and pub-
lished by his mandate in the official Journal de
St. Petersburg.

J. E. COLEMAN.

To the Hon. Francis Scott, M.P.,
Chairman of the
London and South-Western Railway Company,
York-road.

(Copy.)
36, Coleman-street, London, 4th Nov., 1853.
Sir,—l have just now received from Mr. E. Wright one of
the printed circulars of the shareholders in the South-Western
Railway Company, dated 31st October, 1853, and bearing your
signature.
I regret to find it stated in the second paragraph of that letter,
first, that I have given an opinion on the accounts, which confirm
Mr. Mortimer's statements; and, secondly, that a tinae is stated as
necessary in my opinion to perfect an investigation of the accounts.
In reference to the first statement, I said to Mr. Wright that
before I could give an opinion upon the accounts, it would be
necessary that I should see the books from which the accounts
had been prepared or extracted ; which observation I repeated to
you at an interview here on the Ist inst. In respect to tke second
statement, not having seen the books. it was impossible that I could
offer an opinion as to the time which the investigation would
occupy,
Under these circumstances, I cannot bat think that my name
has'been coupled most unwarrantably with statements that I
never made ; and as my professional reputation is involved in this
matter, I shall feel it my duty to give publicity to this letter, unless
the statements I have referred to are set right; and, under the cir-
cumstances, I feel called upon to return'your papers.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
(Signed) J. E. COLEMAN.
W. P. Snell, Esq., Morley's Hotel.

THEATRE ROYAL DRITRY-LA.NE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 10.
The GREAT AMERICAN EQUESTRIANS will exhibit their
astonishing Feats, unmatched in the history of such Performances,
assisted by the most renowned Gymnastic Artistes, 0. Dale and
Barnes. the European and American champions.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 10,

Will be performed A CURE, FOB LOVE. Characters by Messrs.
Chippendale, Villiers, and Buckstone ; Mrs. Stanley, Miss Vining,

To be followed by MIDAS, Characters by Messrs. Compton and
Chippendale ; Misses Featherstone and Ormonde, and Mrs. Poynter.
To concinde with MAKE YOUR WILLS.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CiLittLEs KEAN.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 10,
Will be performed THE LANCERS; or, The Gentleman's Son.
Principal characters by Messrs. Meadows, Ryder, Everett, H. Mellon,
ands
C. D.
Lis
eclercq her ; Mrs. Winstanley, Mrs. W. Lacy, Mrs. Daly,
and
Mis.
Lacy To be
Chesterfollowed by MAO SPADA. Supported by Messrs. W.
, J. , RyderßC
, Raymond, and Everett; Miss Heath and
Miss C. Leclercq.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestris.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 10,
Will be presented A CURIOUS CASE. Principal character by
Mr. C. Mathews.
After which, VIE COMMENCEMENT OF A BAD FARCE
which, however (it Is hoped), will. in the end, show HOW TO
MAKE HOME HAPPY. Priacipal character by Mr. Wright.
To be followed PATTER v. CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr.
Charles Mathews.
To conclude with WRIGHT AT LAST.

The dispute between the masters and operatives
is assuming a far more serious aspect. It is no
longer a mere question as to the amount of wages
payable to the different hands, nor would it be
permanently or satisfactorily arranged if every
demand that was put forward were uncondition-
ally conceded, and the masters yielded at discre-
tion. There is, in fact, but too much reason to
believe, that the present movement is but the
first of a series of aggressions already arranged, in
which one victory was intended to be but the
precursor of fresh claims, until every particle of
discretion had been taken away from the so-called
masters, and "the destinies of trade" were placed
under the control and management of the idle and
heartless agitators whose sinister advice has already
been productive of such untoward results, occa-
sioning pinching privations, and fearful sufferings,
to the reckless dupes and theirunfortunate fami-
lies.

The matter had been well planned—but it
ias been virtually defeated through the impa-
ience of the managers, and the insolent arrogance
of those, who, already exulting in their anticipated
triumph, could not refrain from vaunting their
own prowess, and intimating what they would do
in the way of "astonishing the millowners "
whenever the present question was satisfactorily
disposed of. In the intoxication of the moment
they cast off all disguise, flinging away the flimsy
masks under which they had previously veiled
the true features of the monster idol they
were setting up for popular worship, and permit-
ting it to stand revealed in all its hideous linea-
ments. Like the Northern Despot, however,
they have " plucked the pear before it
was quite ripe." They selected a time
of all others the most favourable for their in-
tendedananecni t; boonhteene
victims, when the closing of the mills and
factories would be not only no loss, but an enor-
mousa
assistancen
p ward pricesw tendency,ou
toil the masters. They fixed on a mo-
u
w.ten provisions were unusually dear,
had an
defbeall the necessaries of life
so that greater pecu-
berequired by th© ,c turn-
outs," and less could
: ewtn; who, in obedience
spared by the confede-
ratesto the dictates of the seeneighbouring in the neighbouring towns,
committee,
pr. those who
rt
still re
mained at work, in order tosi
were living in:idleness, or only
ex oto
contributions and forced benevolenicnegs f omltllo
shopkeepers and tradesmen of the vicinity.
The masters were thus better able to resist,
the operatives less capable of susta. •
Ming

a protracted contest. The over-production oc-
casioned by a laudable anxiety on the part
of the employers to avert the sufferings that
would necessarily follow a closing of any large
proportion of the factories, or even a working of
short time, was thus avoided--a matter which
would have occasioned as serious lcsses to the mill-
owners as the present forced cessation from
operations. While, on the other side, the con-
tributions to the funds of the Union would flow
in less rapidly, and the sums accumulated in anti-
cipation of the present contest, while everything
was prosperous and tranquil, would not go by
any means so far in supporting the " turn.outs".
as had been anticipated. Matters have, however,
gone too far for the conclave to abandon the pre-
. tensions deliberately put forward. There is
nothing but defeat and discomfiture before them,
if the masters be only true to themselves. With
reckless desperation, however, they carry on the
contest, trusting that "a chapter of accidents"
will produce something in their favour, and con-
soling themselves with the idea that, if eventually
defeated, they will only suffer by proxy in the
persons of the misguided individuals who will•
expiate the folly, and worse than folly, of which
they have been guilty at the instigation of their
heartless tempters.
We have already stated that the associated em-
ployers must eventually triumph if they are only
true to themselves, and if they receive that sup-
port from capitalists to which the magnitude of
the emergency and the nature of the question at
issue so eminently entitles them. To any
person considering that question calmly and
dispassionately, without prejudice or bias, it
must be obvious that the so-called " rights of
labour" may be regarded as neither more nor
less than an invasion on property of every descrip-
tion—not merely on -that of Millowners and
Factory Proprietors, but of every description.
• Those who are now bearing the brunt of the en-
counter are but the vanguard. Should they be
driven back and defeated; the main army must
inevitably be engaged, and that at very serious
disadvantage. Far better to sustain and assist
those engaged in the struggle, and to prevent
the opponents from effecting a footing within
their lines, than to purchase a temporary exemp-
tion at the expense of far more serious efforts on
a future occasion. The cause of the Millowners is
unquestionably that of the propertied classes in gene-
ral, and even of those to whom they are nominally
opposed, but who, as a body, would suffer far more
severely from the most unequivocal victory than
the most decided defeat. It would, indeed, be
difficult to calcidate the full extent of the evil
that would result from the triumph of what is
now termed " The Trades' Committee."

If the question were merely one of wages the
parties might be suffered to " fight it out among
theniselves." But such is not the case, and we
therefore conceive it to be an imperative duty on
every man capable of rendering assistance to do
so during the pressure of the crisis—a slight indul-
gence from bankers, the display of a liberal spirit
by every person having dealings with masters. A
disposition to postpone the performance or en-
forcement of contracts to a more convenient sea-
son may render far greater sacrifices unnecessary
on a future occasion, and prevdnt a convulsion of
which it would be impossible to foresee the ter-
mination.