The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-08 00:00:00

" TO THE MASTER MANUFACTURERS OF PRESTON.

" Gentlemen,—A crisis has arrived in the condition of
the town which impels us to address you in the language
of respectful but earnest entreaty. Disastrous as the con-
sequences of the long suspension of factory labour have
already proved, we feel persuaded that a longer suspension
of that labour will prove infinitely more disastrous, if not,
in many respects, permanently ruinous. Our observation
leads us to believe that the losses and sufferings necessarily
attendant upon the cessation of industrial activity to so
great an extent have become so aggravated and intolerable
as to produce a general, sincere, and strong desire for the
resumption of work. We believe that a large proportion
of your people are most anxious for the opportunity which
you alone can afford them to resume their work ; not those
only who were forced against their will into the bondage
of a union, but many also who now see their error in
forming or encouraging such a union. On the grounds
therefore alike of policy and of humanity, we entreat you
to take the first step in what wo trust will be a return to
peace and prosperity, by opening your mills for actual
work without further delay, and without previous formal
conditions. And we entertain a sanguine hope that such
a step on your part will be found prudent as well &air com-
passionate, and issue, under the Divine blessingt_ie
athre
mutual benefit of yourselves and your people. w
gentlemen, &c.
At the meeting of the board of guardians to-day, M
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Ashworth asked what course was to be pursued by
relief committees in the event of the mills being opened?
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The Chairman replied that they
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If the people had work g-t
give them relief. The number of families in receipt of
year the reliefonoaninlygampeoruinnateodi
out-door relief during the past week wa 1,836 the cost
being 2801. This time last
to 125/. The number now in the workhouses of this
union is 892, against 660 at the corresp
last year.
The income this week from the various districts sub-
scribing to the power-loom weavers is 2,1841., and in-
cludes the following sums :—Blackburn, 6401, to the
relief fund, and 301. to the emigration fund ; Stockport,
262/. ; Hyde, 2001. ; Ashton under-Lyne, 1401. ; Preston
1271. ; Over-Darws., 1251, to the relief fund, and 51. to
tfie emilyr.t,on fund ; Oldham, 95/. ; Staleybridge, 631.;
Church Parish, 50/. ; ikccrington, 411. Droylsden,
28/. ; Bolton, 251. ; Clitheroe, 251.

EARLY SLEEP.--Maidens who will sit up or lie Awake I
chattering, and young men
who will stay eat late at
night, are often admonished by their elders that one
hour's sleep before midnight is worth any two after the
witching time of night : while the fair sex are tempted
to the early roost because it is so beneficial to the com-
plexion. If this repose just before midnight is so whole-
some, what must it be after dinner?
[A.DvEnTisEmENT.j—Holloway's Pills a safe and cer-
tain cure for Coughs, Colds, and Asthmatical Corn-
plaints.—The autumnal quarter is the season when
coughs, colds, and wheezings on the chest are most pre-
valent ; such are the properties of Holloway's Pills, that
if taken at the commencement of the attack, the viru-
lence of the disease is very much abated, and the patient
thereby suffers little or no inconvenience, but if neg-•
lected, it frequently occurs that the foundation of in-
curable disorders is laid.; therefore let those who are
liable to attacks of this nature try these invaluable pills,
and they are also particularly recommended to those
who are afflicted with asthmas and diseases of the chest.
—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's
establishment, 22.4, Strand, Loudon.

The noble veteran, Admiral the Earl of Dundonald,
G.C.E., Jiad. an iuterview yesterday with the First Lord
of tITo Admiralty and the hydrographer of the navy, Rear .
Ad it l , Six F. Beaufort, and, we believe, the Baltic
charts'fte overhauled and the experience of his lordship
iiraF3'COll.-•• +''s
The Dt: e.iif Wellington, 131, screw, Commodore Martin,
CB., is' °Herod from Lisbon to Devonport, to be refitted
for the'Baltic.. She, it is said, is to be the flag-ship of the
commander-in-chief. She requires docking.

The Royal George, 121, screw, Captain Codrington, C. 8.,
is also ordered at Devonpor.t, to be got ready for sea with
all despatch ; as also the St. George, 121, ordinary flag-ship
there ; James. Watt, 91, screw, Captain Elliot ' • Nile, 91,
screw;
and Pique; 40, Captain Sir F. Nicolson, Bart.
These Devonport ships are to be in the Downs by the 6th
of March next.
The Desperate, El, screw, Captain Chambers, at Lisbon,
is also ordered to Davenport to be docked, and to form one
of the Baltic fleet.
• Our Portsmouth correspondent says :—"Rumour is busy
with her hundred tongues as to who shall be the comman-
der-in-chief of the Baltic fleet. The name most generally
received is that of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, and
that he will hoist his flag in the Duke of Wellington,
supprted ;iy Roar-Admirals Corry and Chads. Certain
it is that 15 sail of the lino, with a corresponding number
of frigates and corvettes, will be in the Baltic by the 6th
of March—or, at all events, ready to enter. We also hear
that 10 sail of the line (French) will co-operate with the
British fleet."—Herald.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenants—J. A. Pritchard (1842) from the Coast
Guard to the Edinburgh, 58, screw steam flag ship of Rear
Admiral Henr D. Chads, C. 8., at Devonport ; Wm. N.
Come wall (1853) recently promoted from mate of the Are-
thusa, 50, on the Mediterranean station, to the Bulldog
paddle-wheel steam-sloop at Portsmouth; G. B. Williams
(1840) from the Wellington to the Monarch, 81, at Sheer-
ness; Geo. N. Hogge (1841), recently serving in the Bos-
cawen, 70, when guard ship of ordinary at Chatham, to
the Monarch; Fred. A. Boyce (1845) recently serving in the
Excellent, gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, to the Monarch ;
Charles G. Fegan
Portsmouth. (1853), to the Princess Royal, 91, at

Masters—C. j. Parker (1841), recently serving in the
Dauntless screw steam-frigate, when on the West Indies
station, to the Monarch ; James T. Davis (1841),• recently
serving in the Cleopatfa, 26, on the East Indies station, to
the Nile, 91, screw steam-ship at Devonport ; Benjamin B.
Stuart, (1851), who left Woolwich as acting master in the
Tyne, store-ship, for Ascension and Rio, is promoted to the
rank of master and confirmed in the Tyne.
Surgeon—David Thomas (1843), to the Nile.
Paymasters—H. R. Cole (1812), to the Edinburgh, 58,
screw steam flag-ship, at Devonport ; It. T. Crispin (1840),
from the Excellent, gunnery ship, at Portsmouth, to the
Nile ; Wildarn H. Dutton (1840), from the Ajax. 58,
screw steam flag-ship, at Cork, to the Monarch, 84, at
Sheerness ; Walter D. Bateman (1842), to the Ajax, vice
Dutton.

Assistant-Surgeon—Archibald R. Archer, M.D. (1849),
recently serving in the Thetis, 38, when on the Pacific
station, to the Nile.
Clerks—E. J. Giles (1850), recently serving in the Excel-
lent gunnery-ship, at Portsthouth, to the Edinburgh, 58,
screw steam flag-ship, at Devonport ; George B. Eeles
(paymaster of 1851), recently serving in the Polyphemus
steam-sloop on the west coast o 1 Africa station, to the
Monarch, 84, at Sheerness ; H. J. West (1854), to the
Dragon, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, at Portsmouth.
Clarks-Assistant—F. Parker, to the Edinburgh.
Midshipmen- Richard B. Creagh, J. F. Prowse, A. G.
Wooton, A. T. Denham, A. G. R. Roe, and R. H. Coulson,
to the Nile ; John Coles, to the Euryalus, 50, screw steam-
frigate, at Chatham ; G. D. Fitzroy, H. A. Wilmot, and
Frederick Greer, to the Cassar, 91, screw steam-ship, at
Portsmouth ; H. C. Lloyd and Sholto Douglas, to the
Bulldug ; L. Chichester, to the Pique, 40, at Devonport ;
R. P. Denniston, to the James Watt, 91, at Devonport ;
Honourable Richard Hare, to the Princess Royal, 91, at
Portsmouth ; W. B. Stubbs and C. H. Murphy, to the
Dragon, paddlewheel steam-frigate, at Portsmouth.

WOOLWICH, FEB. 7.

Owing to the great activity which has been exhibited in
appointing all the officers, with the exception of the
captain, to the Nile, 91, screw steam-ship, at Devon -
port, it is expected that that fine ship will be selected
as the flag ship of Vico-Admiral Sir Charles Napier,
K.C.8., on his being appointed commander-in-chief of the
North Sea Fleet, and the gallant admiral will have the se-
lection of his own flag-captain, which would account for
the delay in appointing an offiter of that rank to the Nile.
We stated ten weeks ago that in the event of a North Sea
Fleet being required, Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier
would have the command of it; and the seamen in her
Majesty's service are delighted at the prospect of again
serving under him. _ _ .

An order was received here to-day, from the Admiralty to
make a return immediately of every pensioner serving in
the dockyard, distinguishing those who have served as sea-
men
and marines, and it is supposed they will be called
upon to serve afloat, as they would be found highly useful,
in instructing and bringing forward, by their good exam-
ple, the numerous landsmen now daily entering the ser-
vice.

Some idea may be formed of the number of recruits en-
tering the Royal Marine branch of the service when it is
stated that during the month of January 130 fine young
men passed their medical inspection for the Woolwich
division, and they are now instructed daily in their drills
and a knowledge of the ship gun exercises under Capt.
Payne.
The Archer screw steam-sloop has been taken into dock
to have new copper on her bottom, and be again made
ready for sea. 4. ,

PORTSMOUTH, FRB. 7.

Rear-Admiral Chads, C. 8., late Captain of the Excel-
lent, has, as we announced yesterday, been commissioned
to hoist his flag in the Edinburgh, 58, for service in the
North Sea. The Edinburgh not having arrived yet from
Plymouth, the Princess Royal, 91, Captain Lord Clarence
Paget, temporarily carries the new Admiral's flag.
The Neptune, 120, Captain E. H. Scott, flag of Rear-
Admiral Martin, Superintendent of this dockyard, has re-
ceived orders to fit for sea service with all possible despatch,
and to complete her complement of men to 950. This is
unquestionably the finest sailing three-decker at present in
commission.

The Cwsar, 91, Captain Robb, embarked her Marines to-
day, consisting of one captain, one first•lieutenant, two
second - lieutenants, two serjeants, two corporals, two
drummers, and. 87 privates of the divisional companies ;
and one second-lieutenant, one serjeant, one corporal, and
25 gunners of the artillery companies. The officers
draughted for these detachments are Captain Charles C.F.
Menzies, First Lieutenant. E. T. T. Jones, Second Lieu-
tenant E. Gladstone, of the artillery companies. The masts
for this ship are ready, and the utmost exertions are made
to get her out of hand.
Volunteers continue to come in very briskly. Four
large vanloads were delivered at the dockyard this after-
noon containing about 60 men. Much enthusiasm seems
to prevail.
The ships of the Baltic fleet are ordered to assemble at
Spithead for the Downs before the 6th proximo.
The Cyclops, steam transport, Master-Commander R. W.
Roberts, loft Spithead for the Mediterranean with artil-
lery and stores for the Black Sea fleet this evening.
The Talbot, 26, ordered to be fitted at Deptford as a
ship, for the conveyance of supplies to the Arctic Regions,
has been jury-rigged, bent sails, and received her tem-
porary crew ready for railing.
The Drogou, 6 paddle-frigate, Captain J. Willcox, will
be docked on Thursday, to have her copper, &c., examined.
Captain Willcox has visited the ports on the Dorsetshire
coast since Saturday with the vie v of picking up hands,
and has succeeded in finding a few. Several of his old.
crew, of the Fury, on hearing of his commission, volun-
teered their services.
The Avon, steam-tender, Master-Commander Veitch,
came in to-day from Plymouth, with supernumeraries,
whom having discharged, she took in others and returned
to Devonport.
The Saracen sailed. this evening for the China station.
The St. George, 121, Captain Kingeorne, received orders
to-day to prepare for sea with all dispatch. Artificers
have already commenced stripping off her jury gear. The
St. George was built at this dockyard in 1840, and has not
yet put to sea.

HEN RY RUSSELL, the celebrated composer,
is engaged by a committee of gentlemen to give his inimi-
table ENTERTAINMENT, the EMIGRANT'S PROGRESS, THIS
DAY, Wednesday, at the Institution, Poplar; and Thursday and
Friday, Music
gall,— Store-street, Bedford-square. Admission, Is.,
25., and 3s.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smth.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 8
Will be presented THE HUNCHBACK. Characters by G. V.
Brooke, T. Mead, Belton, and Younge; Miss Fanny Cathcart, and
Miss Featherstone.
To conclude w,th KING HUMMINGTOP ; or,
Harlequin and the
Land of Toys.

• THE tTRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET
Under the amazement of Mr. Bnckstone.
THIS EVENING. FIB. S.
Will be performed GUY MANNERING. Characters by Messrs.
Elliott Galer, W. Farren, Compton, lt,gers, Howe, Clark, Cord, and
Cullenford ; Miss Cushman, Miss Julia barlan ~ and Mrs. L. s.
Buckingham.
After which, the Grand CHRI4TMAS PANTOMIME, called
HARLEQUIN AND THE THREE BEAR-; or, Little Silverhair
and the F dries. Columbine, Miss M. Brown; Harlequin, Mr. J.
Marshall; Pantaloon, Mr. W. A. Barnes; Clown, Mr, H. Marshall.

ROY_VL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the. Management of Mr. CaARLES KEA%
TUB KVENING. FEB. 8,
Will be peabrmed the Tragedy of HAMLE c.Principal charac-
ter by Mr. C Kean.
After which wilt be presented the new Grand CHRISTMAS PAN-
TOMIME, entitled HARQUIN AN ) THE MILLER AND
HIS MEN; or, Kind Salainandar and the Fairy of the Azure
Lake. Harlequin, Mr. Corinac:r. ; Clown, 3,fr. Haune;
pantaloon,
31r. Pau'o ; and Columbine, Miss Desborough.

LYCEIINi THEATRE.
tuder the Management of Madame Vestris.
THIS EVENLNG, FEB. 8,

will be perfprmeA A BACHELOR OF ARTS. Characters by
mathewe, F. Matthews, gager; and
Messrs. C.Miss F. Hughes.
After which, the original Fairy Extravaganza, called ONCE
upoig A TIM.E THERE WERE TWO KINGS. Principal cha-
racters by Mr. Wright and Yadarne Vestris.
To conclude with PATTER VERSUS CLATTER.

THEATRE ROYAL'ADELPHI.

Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Direetre3s, Malame Celeste.

THIS EVENING, FEB. 8,

Will be presented the highly Popular New -Nautical MeloArama
in Ave taoleaux, with new scenery, the Sea, of Ice, &c., new
dresses and appointments, called THETrIIRSC OF GOLD; or,
TEE LOST SHIP AND THE wo-,D FLOWER OF MEXICO.
Principal characters by Messrs. B. Webster, Lesley. Pant Bedford,
0. Selby, Parsoße, Marsden, &c. ; Madame Celeste, Mrs. Leigh
Murray, Miss F. Maskell, Sec.

To be followed by the popular and entirely New Grand Specta-
eular•lvendary Chrivinas piece, in two act 4, with new scenery,
dresses, machinery, and aopoiot!nent4, called NtIVIBErr. NIP, or
THE APIRIT Paucipal characters by M Want?. Celeste,
Hrs. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, -Miss NI. M:ss Cuth bert, Miss
C. Harding; Messrs. Pant Bedford, J. Rogers, Romer, G. Lee, &c.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THE ATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING. Fan. 8,
Will be performed VIE FIRS C NIGIIT. Characters by Messrs.
Alfred Wigan, L rlfe, Linton; Harwood Cooper, and Vincent ; Mies
P. Horton, and Was Wyoldham.
After which, THE BE TIGER. Principal characters by
Mesers. Alfred Wigan, Lesils, and F. Robson ; and Airs A. Wigan.
Followed by THE WANDERING MINSTREL.

STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lemee, Mr. F. W. Alter ,fc.—Directress, M 153 Rebecca Isaacs.

TIM EVENING, Fix: 8,

Wiil be performed 'T \YAi I. Principal character by IrS3 Fanny
Reeves.

Atte' which, the new grand Comis Christmas Pantonsims entitled
HARLEQUIN AND KIN 4 Nu ; or, The World of
Toys. Clown, by he Inimitable Flearnore; ELurlegnin, dir. Bologna ;
Pantaloon, Sir. Griffiths ; Colum;,ine, Cloward.
Followed by TIUNTING A TURTLE.
To conclude with "I LIE OSINIBUS.
Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 1.. 6d; Gallery, Cd.; Private• Boxes,
IL tin. 6d., m be had of Mr. Alicruft, 15, New Bond-street.

A3T LEY'S E [TROPE'S NATIONAL A NIP lIIT EAT RE.

Lessee and Manager,

Mr. William Cooke.

In answer to numerous apelteations both in town and country, Mr.
William Cooke has arranged one more GRAND MORNING
RFORII XNCE. to take place on 'THURSDAY NEXT, FEB. 9,
commencing at 2 o'clock.

Extraordinary co nbinadon oF attraction—me Performing Ele-
pvi ants, whose wondrous feats and hitherto unhea d of incredible
performances now share their nightly triumphs with their ret ,te
rival LE SI ,;(1: SAVANT ; or, Nimble Niarinozet. He is indeep
al other wonder, for his tricks it'd exercises are achieved with sucr
h uman-like action, that the bcaolder can rea lily imagine he is
w etching In a inirrir the red •ctive acc'ons of a mail. In addition to
th cse " Zoalo ,ical Stars," the Grand Chines Spectacle (which has
r cached Its 50th rd ?ht). The inimitable Scenes of the Arena, and
the sate, sstul a 3,1 gor;•eona Pantomime, for nun; the most novel aol
uparalleled entertainment ever utfcred to the public.

THIS EVMNG, FEB 8.
And doll. y the week, I'HE AF, ELEPHANTS OF '"HE EAST,
r THE Ns4k. GO CO, in which ifr. William Cooke's Mat hloss
Peerless of the CIWILE, and the Grand Comic Pantomime o' BILLY
BUT I'o 'PA .;0111tN&Y £0 1:1:ENLF01.:D ; or, Harlequin and—the
Ladies' Favourite.

opea troni Eleven till Four. Stags Manager, lir. W.
West.