The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-12 00:00:00

THE PRESTON STRIKE.

PRESTON, May 11.—It appears from the weavers'
balance•sheet, issued today, that the week's income
from the various districts only amounted to 3011. 14s.

The following were the chief contributions :-Preston,
1541. 11s. 94d.; Blackburn, 301.; Over Darwen, 251.;
Bolton, 151.; Staleybridge, 101.; Church Parish, 81.;
Burnley, 71. Os. 74d.; Compstall Bridge, 61.; Glossop,
Si. 10s.; Littleborough weavers, 51.; Derby Ribbon-
weavers' Association, 51.; Chorley, 51.; Enfield, 3/. 18s.
ld.; Heywood, 3/. 10s.; Haslingden 31. Bs. 54d.
The expenditure, including an allowance of is. per
bead to 3,967 weavers, was 2881. 3s. 104 d., leaving a
balance on hand of 131. 10s. 3d.
The annexed report accompanies the balance-sheet :-
" Friends and Fellow Operatives-The amount of eon-
tributions received this week from the whole of the dis-
tricts convinces us that the factory workers of the man-
ufacturing districts have at last fallen headlong into the
snare laid by the employers for their destruction. For
nearly forty weeks have the manufacturers of Preston
and their colleagues throughout the country, aided by
their agents, been trying to destroy the subscriptions, and
at last they have succeeded ; you have ceased to pay
you have destroyed yourselves and the Preston operatives
a thing which the combined employers have long been
trying to do, and for which they have spent thousands
of pounds, and' were prepared to spend still more had
you not succumb to their infernal machinations. Last
week we told you in the reports and through the dele-
gates, that in consequence of the spinners not resuming
work, a large number of the weavers would still be de-
pendent upon you for food ; yet, strange to say, you
have not sent funds to support them in this their hour
of trial and difficulty-for on Sunday last a mere frac-
tion was received towards paying the suffering people of
Preston. How is this ? What have the brave men and
women, lads and lasses of Preston done, that you should
desert them at a time when more than ever they need
your friendly council and assistance to conduct them
with honour to the end, as it has been their companion
from the first hour of their campaign ? A mere trifle
from each weaver would put all things to right ; would
support the operatives until they resume work, and pay
off the 1,0001. which the executive have borrowed of
good friends for the benefit of the movement ; yet this
trifle has not been forthcoming. The persons who
have advanced the money are not independent of the
world, to disclose their names would therefore do
them much harm without conferring any benefit upon
the operatives ; we therefore, at their request, agreed
not to mention to the world the names of our good bene-
factors. They want their money, and if not repaid, and
soon too, the honour and integrity of every power-
loom weaver in this country will be tarnished with
disgrace. The 3,000 weavers who cannot resume work
are many of them in the greatest distress. How can
they be otherwise, when, for more than thirty-six weeks,
a mere trifle has been given them to provide food of the
highest price during the most inclement weather in the
memory of man. To desert the people of Preston now
would be the greatest act of cowardice and cruelty ever
perpetrated even by the employers towards their work-
people. We call upon you to redeem your pledge and
character ' • all along you have sworn to support the
people of Preston to the end, and when you can sup-
port them no longer, it is your duty to give them timely
warning to cease your contributions, so that they may
look out for work. You have given them no notice
of your intentions to withdraw from the contest ; the
Preston operatives therefore justly depended upon you,
and have a right to look to you for support. if you are
weary of paying, act like men and women, make one
or two good subscriptions, send them to Preston, and
say they are the last. This would enable the Preston
people to retire from the contest with hot.our, as it
would enable them to pay off all debts and give some-
thing to each of the starving operatives until work can
be resumed. This week, at any rate, you must do
your duty. All of you must pay, or you will stand in
the eyes of the world a disgraced class of men and wo-
men, for deserting those whom you have encouraged
and taught to depend and rely upon you.
To work, then, and collect enough of money to pay
off all accounts and support the people of Preston until
they are enabled to resume work. We rely upon each
weaver in each district doing his or her duty, and great
will be the responsibility of those who fail at this critical
juncture. In order that no one may do more than his
or her share of this good work, the central committee
carried the following resolution at their last meeting.
Resolved,-That the levy be, for this week, twopence
per loom in every district, and that all weavers do their
duty. Now, weavers, the work is before you. This
week will try your mettle. If you fail, never engage
in another struggle, for the world will not place confi-
dence in you. But we rely upon you, now that you have
time to reflect, and see how cunning the employers have
been in creating dissension amongst you. You will rec-
tify the wrong, and repair the injury, and convince the
world, and let the weavers of Preston feel, that you are
still their friends, and are prepared to standby them to the
last. Remember the amount of subscriptions on Sunday
next will prove the amount of your sympathy. Once
more, before we conclude, we beg and implore every
power-loom weaver in the country to respond to this
appeal. The poor people of Preston are starving.
week.
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90/. ; Friends in Presto', 2961. 10s., 550/.
owing for balance-sheets, including this re -
port, 2101. 2l
Paid to Stockport, 90/. ; do. to Blackburn,
1001. ; do. to Hyde, 631. 10s. ,260 0 0
253 10 0

THIRD COURT.
Thomas Waterman surrendered to take his trial, upon
an indictment under Lord Campbell's Act, for maliciously
cutting and wounding Thomas Winn, upon the 11th of
April.
The case excited the greatest interest, the defendant
having been out upon bail amounting to I,oooi.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Robinson prosecuted, and Mr.
Montague Chambers and Mr. Clarkson defended.
Mr. Ballantine stated the case, and said that the de-
fendant, being a person of some position, made the
Case one of more than usual import. The defendant was
~,,a. marine draughtsman, in the employment of Messrs.
4Lare., the shipbuilders ; and the prosecutor was a mast
and block maker, now in the employ of Messrs. Dunbar.
Some time previously to the 11th of April the prosecutor
had lent to the defendant a book of prices, and upon that
day he went on board the Haddington, which was then FUNERAL OF JAMES MONTGOMERY. —Yesterday the
Bing_ in the East India Dock, to ask him for his book,
Defendant was there, and funeral of the late poet took place. The procession from
the house of the deceased at the Mount passed through
upon his asking him, he told
Sheffield and along the Ecclesall-road to the cemetery,
rerewgaasrdlisttl
Prosecutor in every intempeiate way to leave the vessel. Pro-
or said he would as soon as he got his book. Defendant
and, in addition to the relations and immediate friends
of Mr. Montgomery, consisted of deputations from the
niadeuseof the most filthy and abusive language. Defendant Neve YOBJC.—The adviees from New York to-day are
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aaid that he would not permit himself to be frightened.
Defendant then told a man named Miller to go ashore and
get corporation of the town and from all the public institu- rather maorrkeets,aatistfhaocltogrhythaes
4 a policeman. Defendant then tried to get a mallet tions connected therewith. Every class appearing de. money-m
areal •ces of stocks. Some large arrivals of gold had taken
one of the caulkers, but failing, tried to get one from sirous to testify its respect and regret, a vast concourse prices
California,and the accounts of the produo-
accompanied e 4•roni
another man, also engaged caulking the vessel, but could of people the body to its last resting- plac -.
not
, , and then seized upon an adze and aimed a blow at his place. The burial a ebythe cheap-
'of consumption, ar
cheap-
head and said, " I will cut you down." A man named that building, from its smallness, not bei able to con- ness of all articles e
_e apparently better
k.. 00 Th
service was not read in the church, tion at the mines, which is now facia t d -
mbes, however, seized him round the waist, and for-
tunat 1 ••• rce operations on the 3rd of April. From
tain the mourners, &c.; but it was read inthe cemetery than at any former period. San Francisco mint
_ . e y oiverted the blow, which struck the prosecutor by the Rev, T. Sale, vicar of Sheffield. was to comme .
on the leg, and inflicted a slight wound. Defendant then
faintedNOTTINGHAM TRADE.—ofthe neat harvest -
who had but upon recovering, got away from the per-branch this week that the same undeniable dullness has regarding the prospects
nare all favour-
Bon iva
Such is the state of our hosiery the various agricultural States of the Union the reports
hold of him, and following the prosecutor,
whohad left the vessel, took l hammer ofarticles hitherto supplied by Russia. The
up a arge and .
again made a blow at him, and also at one of the dock offs- not been felt on 'Change for many a
state and on prose- able. The attention of cu t ors g directed to
toting our usual inquiries into the of business the growth
raised in the Wester
cars, but fortunately of hemp at present • n States
• ,transactious, one of our most active merchants begged to amount
harm.ii he was prevented from doing any
blow the e said if he had a pistol, he w; old as soon know to what duce 200,000 tons. In relation to
we alluded—there being no such thing as is estimated at 29,000 tons per annum, and it is alleged
brains out of prosecutor as he would lay down a business for the in existence.
present
days incapable hammer.
Prosector then left the Dock, and was for some have, in fact, at last been obliged to stop half the round the treaty with Mexico for the purchase of the Mesilla
ys incapable of doing any work.
havingbeen called which fully proved the fact, in consequence
frames recently in operation ,of there Valley some un
Evidence
certainty, still prevailed as to the terms
the jury, after bearin the address of Mr. Chambers d really nothing doing. Even in lace business the on which it had been
to be paid to Mexico had
the nd much beyond a retail trade in stood, however, that the sum
summing up, found the • 'an transactions do not exteunexpectedly favourable
him to threeg
..
months' imprisonment. magnitude. Nobody P
being
long been try since, after the original amount
In the New Court th. is morning • • attempted to be cut down to
Tic/cell, convictedyesterday of uttering henry
R"r"
- n 1. s of the season.—Nottingham of 3,000,000/. had been a
nt, for a stagnation which ought to have ago over- result for that country,
,
necessities le f dto ratify it
forged bills of the come by the
tensed 1,2001,, was en,uget I.,ip this morning, and sen- Guardian. 1,400,0001., the Senate had re use even on
to four ears'penal servitudehe entire press had de-
,
The eases tried P * I RISE IN IRE PRIOR OF ....,EE • Tit R —The large brewers met i those conditions, and almost t
fi,4._,at the Old Court were not of a character 1 at Brewers' Hall yesterday, and
g " " Antioned. to any 'satisfactory end.
i price of beer 3e, per barrel. resolved to raise; the i dared that there was no prospect of its being brought

(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday, 10.15 5.81.110
Wind, W.N.W ; tide, quarter flood.
Arrived, 11th—Voorwaarts, from Rotterdam ;
Sea-
Arrived,
Svenborg ; Lena, Wolgast ; Dublin, Trinidad ;
Armais, Whampoa ; Dido, Copenhagen (Russian prize).
Sailed, 11th—Ravensbourne, steamer, for Antwerp.
Sailed, 12th—Tiger, steamer, for Hamburg.
DEAL, Friday, 9.30 a.m.

Wind, N.E., very fine.
Passed—Olive Branch, from Callao for London ; Hot
spur, Calcutta for London; Glowerman, London for Mira.
raichi ; Adeline, Matanzas for Antwerp.

Still owing £1,006 10 0