The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1853.

making no return—while the dispute lasts. The
men will at the same time lose their wages, or at
the utmost obtain a small proportion from the
contributions of other hands, which they will have
to return, in, due season, with exorbitant interest,
applying the money that might be usefully ex-
pended for their families to the support of mis-
chievous agitators, who care nothing for the
misery endured by their victims so long as they
themselves are enabled to live in luxurious idleness
at the expense of their dupes. When the dispute
is brought to a conclusion both parties will have
their feelings embittered, and a considerable time
must elapse before the restoration of perfectly
, amicable relations.

Such are the results of a strike, where
the men have been foiled, and the victory
remains with the masters. From that they may
recover, but at the expense of much suffering
and distress. But the consequences of a success-
ful strike are fatal. The defeated master sees
that it will be impossible to carry on business
with any reasonable prospect of profit on the
terms imposed on him by his workmen. He
yields for the moment ; but, while doing so, is
making his arrangements for abandoning his
business, and carrying his skill and enterprise, and
his remaining capital, to some place where they
can be applied on better terms ; and the hands,
on the cessation of the works, will have bitter
reason to lament the temporary triumph that
they achieved.
Would that the true state of the case could be
understood, while there is yet time, by the ope-
ratives throughout the country. Already the
masters are taking the necessary steps, not merely
to defeat any strike that may be attempted, but
to take the initiative themselves, and close
their establishments until their men come to
their senses. The course adopted at Preston
will be generally followed, and the masters will
take care that some do not keep open, so that a
portion of the wages which they pay may be
diverted from its legitimate use to the support of
the disaffected workmen. Many of these masters
will doubtless be glad of the excuse thus afforded
of curtailing their expenses during the trying
times that are approaching. Let the workmen,
if they are not hopelessly insane, retrace their
footsteps while there is yet time, and before esta-
blishments are closed, which, if there be a total
cessation of work, may not re-open when their
hands are no longer capable of holding out, and
are willing to make humiliating and unconditional
submission.

ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH
WEST PASSAGE.

RETURN OF COMMANDER INGLEFIELD.

Commander Inglefield, who it will be remem-
bered, was dispatched in her Majesty's steam-ship
Phoenix in the spring of the year with sup-
plies for Sir Edward Belcher's squadron, arrived
at the Admiralty to-day, having left the Phcenix,
at Thurso, N. 8., Commmander Highfield, bringing
no intelligence of Sir John Franklin's expedition.
He has, however, succeeded in depositing supplies
as directed, and we are happy to say is accom-
panied by Lieut. Creswell of the Investigator, with
despatches from Commander M‘Lure, thus
enabling us to satisfy the public and the friends
of those embarked in the Investigator, concerning
which ship considerable anxiety had existed as
to her safety. The Breadalbane transport, which
accompanied the Phoenix, was totally wrecked by
a nip of the ice—crew saved and brought home
in the Phcenix. It is concluded from Sir Ed-
ward Belcher's dispatches that that officer would
endeavour to retrace his steps this season to
Beeehy Island to winter.
It is further to be gathered from these dis-
patches, that Lieutenant Cresswell had completed
the passage between the two oceans, having passed
into the Arctic Sea by Behring's Straits, and re-
turning home by Davis' Straits.
Admiralty, Oct. 7, 1853.

[We are indebted to the kindness of the autho-
rities at the Admiralty for the above important
anouncement.—En. SUN.]

RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.

The 30,000 men, whom it has already been stated
the French Government have decided to hold in
readiness to send to Constantinople, are to be com-
posed of 10,000 men from the troops in Algeria,
and the rest from the home troops, principally
those who were lately at the camp of flelfaut. The
number which England is to furnish in her turn
will not be, it is said, more than 10,000, who are
to be embarked at several of the Channel ports.
No intelligence has as yet been received in Paris
to confirm the fact of Turkey having made a decla-
ration of war on Russia. Some suc step is, how-
ever, considered imminent, and the greatest unea-
siness continues to prevail there. The French
Government appears to look on it as certain that
precautionsry measures must be taken against the
eventualities which may arise in other parts of
Europe, should hostilities break out in Turkey. It
is with this view that a corps of 18,000 men is
being organized in the towns of the south of France
to be embarked at Toulon to reinforce the army of
occupation of Rome should such a course seem
necessary.
The Moniteur says that the report which has
been current for some days, of an approaching
modification of the Ministry, is entirely without
foundation.

" Some foreign journals," says the Pays, "an-
nounce that General de Goyon, aide-de-camp to
the Emperor, had proceeded to Warsaw, on the
invitation of the Emperor of Russia. This is not
true. It may be remembered that the Emperor of
Austria had designated Field-Marshal Prince Ja-
blonowski and some superior officers of his army to
be present at the military manoeuvres of Satory.
Prince Jablonowski was, besides, charged to com-
pliment his Majesty in the name of his Sovereign.
It was in return for this proof of courtesy that
General de Goyon was sent to Olmutz to bear to
the Emperor Francis-Joseph the expression of the
sentiments of friendship of the Emperor Napoleon.
That mission having been terminated, General de
Goyon left the Austrian camp to return to Paris."
It has already been stated that more than 800
Poles have inscribed their names at the Turkish
Embassy, and offered their services to the Porte
in the event of a war with Russia. The Presse
now publishes a letter addressed to Reschid Pacha,
by M. Christian Ostrowski, and written in the
name of his fellow-countrymen, repeating this offer
to the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
At the meeting of the Directors of the Bank of
France yesterday, it was resolved to raise the rate
of discount of commercial bills, and the interest on
advances of money, to 4 per cent. The increased
rate of discount is to take place to-morrow. The
establishment of a branch bank at Nevers was sub-
sequently agreed to.
The Bourse opened with much firmness yester-
day, and the speculators did not appear to be so
panic-stricken as on Wednesday. The Three per
Cents. opened at 72f. 50c., and rose to 73f., but
some heavy sales made at half-past 2 o'clock forced
them down to '72f. 60c., at which they closed for
the end of the month. The Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. closed at 99f. 75c. ; Orleans Railway shares,
1,135 f. ; Rouen, I,ooof. ; Havre, 482 f. 50c. ; Great
Northern, 817 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 890 f. ;
Paris and Lyons, 875 f. ; Lyons to the Mediter-
ranean, 700 f. ; Western of France, 695 f. ; Bor-
deaux and Cette, 580 f. ; Great Central, 505 f. ;
Lyons and Geneva, 490 f. ; Shares of the Bank of
Credit Mobilier, 687 f. 50c.