The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON; WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1853,

SIIARE MARKETS.--(ZEI,IS .Q 4 Y.

RRITISH RAILWAYS.

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RAILWAYS.

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all Charleroi & Erquelin.
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20 5 Australian
1 all Australian Cordillera .
1 all Australian Freehold
1 all Aire Maria —
1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) 4d par
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1 • all British Austria. Gold 1 ' d
20 13.5 British Iron
35 241 Brazilian Imp.(issued
at '.£s pm 4 5 9a
30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 2/ 3
20 15 Do. St. John Dente), 33/ 34/ 344
1 A Carson's Creek
40 all Cobra Copper 42 —44 42
5 1 Colonial - p ig A
... 15 Copiapo
St. all Copper Min. of Eng 55 -- 65
•25 all Do. Pref. 7/ p. cent 5 7pxd
5 all English and Austrin.
CdpperSmeltg.Co. 2/ 3
20 all General
2 all Great Nugget Vein par— p 2
2 all Do. Registered
3 all Great Polgooth
1 all Lake Bathurst — A d
1 all Liberty
3 all Linares
1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold
Quartz Crush. Co. x a
1 all lfariquita -
10 9 Mexinan&S.Almerieu 6
1 all New Granada • • d— par
1 all Nouveau'Zlonde — pl 6
10 5 Noya Scotia Mining
and Copper —•5
1 Port Philip — d
1 all Quartz Rock
50 all Rhymney Iron
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30 10i Santiago de Cuba ~ 3a 4} 3
1 all :.7•'•outh Australian
10 7 Tin Croft 5 7
28,i all United Mexican 34 3i
1 all Waller — dis
1 all West Granada Rd /B
1 all West Mariposa
1 all Yuba
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
40 all Australasia 7O 72 71 70 A
50 all British N. American ...
20 2 Chrtd. Buk. of India,
Australia, & China Id par B
100 25 Colonial —
100 20 ommereial of Loud — •••
20 10 English Scottish and
Australian 2id
20 15 Lond. Chart. Bk. of
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Australia par A p 151
50 20 London and County . .
50 10 London Joint Stock 22 24
100 20 Loud. & Westminster 33 34
20 2 London Bank of Aus-
tralia and India ..• •
50 221 National of Ireland —
25 all. Oriental Bank of
Corporation. 43 —45 id 441 x d
25 5 Do. New • •••
100 25 Provincial of Ireland
10 all Do. New "• •••
5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg
& Gold Imp Co 4' dis— par
25 all South Australia 33 40
25 all Maio' of Australia.- 67 69
21 Do. New 6A 7i
50 10 Union of London l7/ 181
40 all Union of Madrid.. •• •
MISCELLANEOUS
100 35 Australian Agricult. 33 35 34
20 12 Australsn.Pcific•Mail •••
10 8 Australn. Royal Mail ... •••
50 38/ Brit. American Laud 55 —6O xd x d
100 321 Canada. • -
5 5 Crystal Palace — P 5;
4 2 Crystal Pal. of France •• •
20 3 Eastern Steam —
1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir ••• •••
15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat — •••
20 16 General Screw Steam .• •
20 5 Irish Beetroot Sugar •••
1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel •••
10 3 Netherlands Land._ ?,(1
20 10 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam •.•
50 all Peninsular& Oriental ••• •• • •
50 25 Do.
100 60 Royal Mail Steam
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25 25 South Austral. Land 33 35 31
1 all Submar. Telegraph ..•
5 2 Univeral Emigration
and Colonization — ,
100 284iVan Diemen's Land 14A 15; lot

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Oct. 19. Wind this day at Noon, N., and
cloudy.
RAMSGATE, Oct. 18.—The Iris, from Sarpsborg to Har-
flour, ashore at the back of the West Pier, has been
brought into the harbour and laid on the ground.
SOUTHAMPTON' Oct. 18.—sailed--William Hammond,
Adelaide.
PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 18.—Wind, N. to W. Sailed—
Rose Ellis, China.
FALMOUTH, Oct. 18.—Wind, calm. Arrived— Gorzog
Picos, Ernelia, leaky in topsides, and with loss of sails,
&c., and part of cargo thrown overboard. Off Port—
Ellen, Quebec.
DARTMOUTH, Oct. 18.—Arrived—Minta, Silistria, with
loss of bulwarks, sails, &c.—The Solacia, which sailed
hence about five weeks since for Quebec, has put back ta-
day, leaky, and with other damage.
HARTEEPOOL, Oct. 18.—Wind, variable. Sailed—Paul
Johann, Hong Kong ; Johanna Maria, Sing
pore;
Singapore; Tala-
vera, Calcutta ; Carl, Point de Galle ; Margaret, Aden.
LOWESTOFT, Oct. 17. —A laden sehooner, bound south,
grounded on Newcome this morning, and was got off in
half an hour.

YARMOUTH, Oct. 18.—Arrived.—Ebenezer, Shields, for
Teigtunouth, with damage, having been in contact with
the Emma, of Exeter.—The Friends, from Seaham to
London, has been acsisted in with damage, and leaky,
having been in collision.—The Cyrus, of Scarborough, was
the brig reported to have got on shore on the North
Scroby Sand yesterday morning ; she was assisted off last
night, and brought in here, making a little water; she
will proceed-with extra hands.
SHIELDS, Oct. 17. —Sailed—Albert Franklin, New
York.

SwANste, Oct. 18.—Sailed— Herald, Mauritius ; Jessie
and Pursuit, Cape de Verds ; Echo, Madeira.
CLYDE, OCT. 17.—Arrived—Hudson and Victoria, New
York • Active, Newfoundland.; Jason, Paraiba ; A.ugust
Eberhard, Gonaives ; Elizabeth Campbell, Trinidad;
Lulan, Quebec ; Cora Linn, New York. Sailed—Rain-
bow and Bucephalus, Melbourne ; Penelope, Antigua ;
Moses Taylor, Georgiana, and Roderick Dim, NOW York.
An iron boiler, from 16 to 20 feet long, and about 10
feet in diameter, covered with barnacles, was passed 3d
Oct., in lat. 41 N., long. 14 W., by the Adelia Ann,
arrived from* Sines.

THE STRIKE MOVEMENT.

( Fro2n the Times.)

It seems to be the unvarying will of Providence
to mingle in the sweetest cup of our prosperity so
much bitterness as may remind us how transitory
is its enjoyment, and how changeable its ingre-
dients. Be the causes of public well-doing ever
so deeply rooted and so easily traced, there are
never wanting secondary agencies to counteract and
diminish their efficiency. We have, undoubtedly,
passed through a period of great prosperity, and A
there seems no reason to fear that we have exhausted
the benefits derivable from the policy of free trade:
Yet, two circumstances have considerably detracted
from the lustre of our success, and reminded us that
no policy, however wise, far-sighted, and beneficent,
can prevail against the adverse laws of nature, or
the unruly passions or propensities of man. The
.first. of these is the failure of the harvest over this
country and a considerable portion of the con-
tinent of Europe. We are so used to abundance, we
have so long revelled in plenty, that we regard as
a symptom of dearth a price which a few years
ago was held by very competent authorities to be
merely and barely remunerative, aud, in fact, a
necessary condition of the cultivation of our land.
This rise of prices has been sufficient to withdraw a
very considerable sum from the ptirchase of
other commodities, and to occasion a large exporta-
tion of the precious metals to foreign countries.
To this inevitable visitation we have only to ,
submit with patience and thankfulness that we
are so well provided to meet it. But there
is another cause at work, to which it is not
so easy to reconcile our minds, because it arises,
not from the powers of nature, but from the mirulye
waywardness and wilfulness of man. At the very
time when production was most required, when the
capital from which the labourer must derive his
wages, as well as the master his profits, was most
rapidly increasing—the working classes of this
country were seized with the mania of " strikes,"
and, forgetful of former misery, and unschooled by
bitter experience, have been spending in voluntary
idleness months which might have been devoted to
a labour more than ordinarily profitable. It is, of
course, neither unnatural nor reprehensible that the
working classes should desire to have their share in
the. general , prosperity, and that when all milder
means of persuasion fail they should exert the
power they possess of at once arresting the
operations of their masters. This ultimate re-
medy, however, is resorted to with incre-
dible levity. A " strike" partakes largely of the
nature of war, of which it has this essential
characteristic, that the striking party inflicts
certain and immense injury on himself, in order to
cause au equal injury to his antagonist. It is a
game from which both parties generally rise losers.
The workman imagines that he is only destroying
the property of his master, forgetful how large a
portion of that property must, in the course of
business, necessarily become his own. Should
the master yield at once, and should the state
of the trade be able to bear the advance, an
advantage may no doubt be gained ; but a few
weeks of a " strike" necessarily anticipate and
devour beforehand all that can be gained by its
success, without counting the destruction of
capital, which necessarily impairs the permanence
of, the advanced rate of wages.
• But probably the worst effect of a "strike" is
the interruption or rather the annihilation of all
kindly feeling between masters and men. It is,
• after all, impossible to reduce the relation between
master and labourer entirely to pounds, shillings,
and pence. Even the agriculturists of Essex must
eke out wages -under ten shillings a week by the
occasional donation of a pound to some fortu-
nate labourer. So, in the manufacturing districts
one master contents himself with the payment of
the sum agreed on to his hands, and considers
that when they have left his mill he has no
further interest or concern with them till they
return to it ; another employer regards his people
as almost a part of his own family. He builds a
schoolhouse for their children, he establishes a
library, he provides them with decent cottages at a
reasonable rent, he studies their intellectual and
moral improvement. Yet sad experience shows that
if these two men pay the same rate of wages, al-
though the contribution of one towards the well-
being of his labourers is so much larger than that
of th other, both will be equally liable to the in-
fliction of a "strike," and thus the benevolent
master will find that the money spent by him in
promoting the comfort and raising the condition of
his people is entirely overlooked by them, and will
regard it as totally thrown away. This does not
arise so much from unkindness or ingratitude on
the part of the men as from the peculiar manner in
which these "shrikes" are got up. Nothing could
be a greater mistake than to regard this wages
movement, as it is called, as the spontaneous act of
the persons who are ostensibly the movers in it.
The men who must bear the weight of the "strike,"
and whose relations with their masters, perhaps
during the whole of their future lives, will be un-
favourably influenced by it, are the mere instru-
ments of associations of which they are members,
and which act utterly without regard to these con-
siderations. It will generally be found, if the
history of a " strike " be attentively investigated,
that it originated from one or two professional
agitators, who find their account in keeping up
a spirit of animosity, upon which they are sure
to thrive at the expense of the belligerent
parties. These men are implicitly obeyed, as re-
presenting a power which no working man dares
to set at defiance, however well convinced he may
be of the impolicy and injustice of its requisitions.
The enormous faith of many made for one is no-
where better illustrated than in the spectacle, with
which we are unhappily too familiar, of the dis-
turbance and overthrow of a system of industry
elaborated and perfected for the reciprocal advan-
tage of both parties, merely to gratify the selfish-
ness and greediness, the turbulence and self-im-
portance of a few agitators, whose vocation it is to
live on the fears, the passions, or the follies of
their neighbour. Just as the animosities and heart-
burnings created by war survive for many years
the cessation of hostilities, and often influence
the relations of nations after the cause has been
forgotten, so have those blind guides whom the
working inen have shown themselves too ready to
follow laid the foundation of feelings of bitterness,
and checked the advance of improvement and good
feeling to a degree of which they have themselves
no idea.

We commend the case to the consideration of the
Peace Society. Let them try their hand in recon-
ciling those intestine wars which are tearing out
the very vitals of our industry. Let them apply
the doctrine of arbitration to the disputes between
masters and men, and when they have persuaded
individuals and associations of individuals to calm
their heated passions, to lay aside those means of
mutual annoyance which auger suggests, and sub-
mit the rights of their quarrel to the decision of au
impartial tribunal, they may .With the better heart
proceed in their career as the reconcilers of irri-
tated nations and the mediators between contend-
ing monarchs.

ROWING MATCHES.—The race between Rice, of Lime-
house, and T. Coombes, which was expected to have
yelled eastward to witness it, circumstances occurring
been a very close affair, disappointed those who had tra-
which divested it of all interest within three minutes of
the start. George Rice is almost unknown to the aquatic
world, but his opponent is the brother of the celebrated
Robert Coombes, the ex-champion, and has rowed with
him and alone a number of gallant races against the re-
nowned Claspers and others for years past. The stake
was 501., and the distance from Old Barge-house to Lime-
house-hole. At the moment of starting Rice had the
nose of his boat a little more in front than usual, but
Coombes, immediately they got to work, was alongside
of him, with a slight temporary lead. They had scarcely
proceeded three hundred yards when a heavy surf threat-
ened the immersion of Coombes, and while he was guard-
ing against it his opponent went right away and won
easily. Simmet and Curtis contended over a small part
of the same course shortly afterwards. They were said
to be extremely evenly matched ; and although the stakes
only amounted to 101., there was a great deal of specula-
tion upon the result. For a short distance after the
o u
At r owed him,SENSITIVE andiu 1
twDoEnit bz yR .
_15,0t yvaerrdys .
start the race looked like Curtis's, but his opponent fairly
frequently happens
that sentences of death, tardily pronounced by the
Audiencia of Caraccas, cannot be executed for want of
a hangman. In . these cases, the barbarous custom is
observed of pardoning one criminal on condition of his
banging the others. Our guides related to us that, a
short time before our arrival on the•coast of Cumana, a
Zambo, known for the great ferocity of his manners, de-
termined to screen himself from punishment by turning
executioner. The preparations for the execution, how-
ever, shook his resolution--he felt a horror of himself,
and preferring death to the disgrace of thus saving his
life, he called again for his irons, which had been struck
off. He did not long remain in prison, and he
fii under-
wentis his sentence through the baseness of one of
accomplices. This awakening of a sentiment of
in the soul of a murderer is a psychologic phenomenonten
shed
worthy of reflection. The man who (
ofol'eustice in in-
the blood of travellers in the plains, recoiled
of becoming the passive instrument 3_
he felt that he
flicting upon others a punishment which
himself deserved.— llumboldes Travels.
The Official Gazette
TREASURES SUNK AT IsTAVA.Rt,
b llN°t.of Cliamb6ry has just
of Savoy states that an inha
ti, 7at the idea
in concert with a oust
quitted that place to attcmp
pany organised
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three c-odne teeknetrs,
rkinedg,oladn.
mnAbllerthoef
rill ,said,had on
of. theo particularlyv essei'dv'?er the'tljat admiral's ship,
board at the time she went
which,
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sppara
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divers ha
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bOef
essary

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

( From the Registrar-General's Report.)

The weekly return of the Registrar-General shows
that the number of deaths registered in the metropolitan
districts in the week that ended on Saturday was 1,039.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52,
the average number was 949, which, if raised in propor-
tion to increase of population, will give 1,044. A com-
parison of the actual and estimated results shows that
London last week suffered not more than its ordinary
rate of mortality.

Cholera, which has made its appearance felt in vari-
ous parts of the metropolis, and- during the four weeks
that followed 10th September, showed a small but con-
tinuous increase, does not appear latterly to have gained
ground. The deaths from this disease were 66 in the
first week of October ; last week they declined to 45.
It is a somewhat remarkable coincidence that 45 was
the number registered in the corresponding week (viz.
the 42d) of 1848 ; for many weeks thereafter the deaths
rose and fell, dropping so low as one and two in the
spring of 1849, till the epidemic broke out with violence
in summer. The fluctuations which mark its previous
history may attend its course again ; but experience
affords sufficient warning that a te:nporary abatement
should not lull into security those whose business it is
to prepare for the attack. The 45 deaths of last week
(21 of which occurred to males, 24 to females) were thus
distributed over London :—ln the West Districts 6, in
the North 3, in the Central 2, in the East 6, and on the
South side of the Thames 28. The following are the
cases in detail :

-'". WEST DISTRICTS. Population 376,427.
KENSINGTON— Brompton.—At 6, Sloane-place, on
11th October, a footman, aged 44 years, "cholera
Asiatiea, not seen till collapsed ; diarrhoea (3 weeks)."
Mr. Stone, the registrar, says—" Sloane-place has been
repeatedly reported by me as being unhealthy ; the me-
dical attendant attendant says—' This man has been
suffering from diarrhoea for three weeks, and was not
seen by me till collapsed. There is a decomposing
vegetable matter at the back of the house and a most
offensive smell in front, most probably from the yard of
a cowkeeper opposite, pigs and cows being both kept
there."

KENSINGTON—St. Paul, Hammersmith.—At 27,
Brook-green-place, on the 13th October, the daughter
ofla labourer, aged 4 months, "exhaustion from cho-
leraic diarrhoea (6 days)."
KENSINGTON—FuIham.—At Sand's-end, on 10th
October, the wife of a gas-labourer, aged 26 years,
"cholera Asiatica (15 hours)." Mr. Godrich, the me-
dical attendant, remarks—" The house is in a very dirty
state, and not fit for human habitation. Witl.in a few
yards of the back door a hole has been formed, where
all the refuse seems to have been poured. The privies
of both this and the adjoining house are quite full, and
the soil running over the yard, and this has been the
case, I am told, for 3 weeks. Behind the privy is a
large open drain, which is very offensive- The 2 chil-
dren of deceased are now sufferingfrom diarrhoea ; there
is also diarrhoea in the neighbourhood."
CHELSEA ; North-east.—At 3, Cadogan-row, Kine's-
road, on 11th October, the wife of a labourer, aged 36
years, " diarrhoea (5 hours), cholera (13 hours.)"
WESTMINSTER ; St. Margaret.—At 35, Palace-street,
on 9th October, a steam-engine driver at a brewery,
aged 23 years, " diarrhce (7 hours), Asiatic cholera (11
hours)." Mr. Driver, the medical attendant, says :
" The diarrhoea was not attended to until collapse had
taken place."
In the same sub-district, at 24, Smith's-rents, on 12th
October, the daughter of a servant, aged 8 months,
" cholera (14 days), phthisis from birth."
NORTH DISTRICTS. Population, 490,39 G.

MARYLEBONE ; All Souls.—At 19, Carburton-street,
on Bth October, a coach-painter, aged 43 years, " diar-
rhoea (5 days), English cholera (2 days)."
MARYLEBONE ; St. John.—At 22, Upper Carlisle-
street, on 14th October, the daughter of a labourer, aged
14 years, " cholera (4 days)."
ISLINGTON ; West.—At 2, Grove•street, on 9th Oc-
tober, the daughter of a carman, aged 7 weeks, " cho-
lera infantum."