The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-07 00:00:00

the short passages, and e.
"The gods do so to
Novell° sang the opening airiA
oratorio, "Hear, ye Israel,"
modulation for which -sheds so Aq,
ravishing angel trio, " Lift u o ti,inot
Clra-Novello, Dolby, and GArcia;
beautiful; and an almost-irrcprev•siolp
tion ran thionmli the cathedra; It waeoPt,,,
RS also was Miss Dolby's "4J in the'-itid,
chorusses—and there are many di4leult to es in the -0..%,
torso—were given with great accurar, and showed
they had been well studied and practls, ! The ore
was concluded shortly after three o'elock.

Only a few places are left for the last concert on
Thursday night, and the Messiah on Friday is a certain
card. All the reserved places have long ago been tiken.
There is a miscellaneous concert at the College Hall to-
night.
The collection at the dOors of the cathedral this morn-
ing amounted to 330/.

ILLEGALLY ENTERING MEN O 2 BOARD

MERCHANT SHIPS.

PORTSMOUTH, Sept-. 6.—A case of some importance to
cloi ernamrda
nbier.tihne.
Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, was present
borough
erough commercialmag
traatnesd here today. -dnaayv.iesTwheas
during its hearing, as was also Captain Hay, of H.M.S.
Victory. The circumstances of the case were as follows.
James Clark, a waterman, belonging to Gosport, ap=
peered to answer to an information, laid under the 8 and
9 Vic., chapter 116, intitnled an. "Act for the protection
or-seamen entering on board merchant ships," in having
flprovided and supplied a seaman named John Oram to-
a mei-eh:tot shin," he not having a license to do so.
John Oram, ordinary seaman, belonging to the Sea-
lark, tender to the Illuitrious, deposei to having had
I leave of absence from Friday night, the 25th ult., to the
. following day. On the following Saturday, about three
in the afternoon, George Gardiner, another seaman of
the samei ship, and himself met defendant, who said, •
"I could make a good day's work out of you two, if I
c°Withniegssetryepoulied' that he didn't cslaiciidn''t"kpnoo‘yvotuhav't-anliteadidh—iphle"
belont;ed to the Sealark." 'He then replied, "There's a
1
nice East Indiaman wants .18 men ;
invitedshe's just goingt
Public-house, where they had aquart of h
ant then induced them to go out to S
;away to ailciitta." Defendant then
jurßuhlsetennhsceuiillitair.
13;cosBila.ei,,fio, r
To, ,
ialteherecyea
iga,toraetint outw:los
smart theyed i met
young. peietrh. themelteiofne
tnohdea.
etiit thef,ecialoptil,
seamen.
yamweere able
seamen. They replied .they were ordinary
captain replied that be had plenty of ordinary seamen,nThe
Clark bad some private conversation with the captain,
after which he took them on shore to the Quebec
Hotel, where they met the captain of the Blenheim and
the owner. Witness and his companion then put down
their names. They shortly afterwards parted with de-
fendant, who said, "Be sure you are down in the morn-
ing, as I want you to see the owner." Clark also told
them to look out for some more chaps. 'They did so,
and found out another man, named Mason. The three
went,together on Sunday morning with Clark to the
Quebec, when the owner told them they must call again
on the Monday morning, as he could give them no
answer then. On Monday morning Clark, who was
always looking out for them, again took °them to the
Quebec Hotel, two more men having by this time joined
them. The owner was - not, however, at -the Quebec
;Hotel, and they went over to a beer-house, where they
.stopped two hours. They then met with the owner in
.the street; -when Clark asked him if he had heard from
'London ; the owner said be had not ' • on which Clark
said, "Do you mean to take these three chaps ?" The
owner replied "He did, but he could say nothing about
the other two." Clark afterwards borrowed 15.,• to
give them something to eat, which they had opposite
Victoria pier. They stopped there till late at night, and
before leaving arranged with Clark to be at the Victoria
pier on the following morning at 7 o'clock, the latter
telling them to be sure to be there, or he should be
money out of pocket. Witness did meet him, and went
with him to the Custom-house ; the other seamen were
with them. They there signed there names to go on
board the Blenheim Indiaman. A person gave them an
advance note for 1/. 15s. each. They took the note to
Messrs. Pierce, in High-street, the agents of the owner,
who gave the full amount for their notes. They then
bought some' blankets and clothes, and went to two
beer-houses, after which they went straight on board the
Blenheim.
This being the case for the prosecution, Mr. Low, for
the defendant, said he could not gainsay the evidence or
the charge ; but he thought the Government might be
satisfied with a conviction on this information, without
pressing the other five informations that had been taken
out against his client. The Admiralty did not, he pre-
sumed, wish to inflict a vindictive punishment.
On the suggestion of Mr. Swainson, the Admiralty
solicitor, defendant pleaded guilty to the other five in-
formations. Two of these were the same as the above
stated case, viz., for having illegally provided and sup-
plied two other men, Mason and Gardiner, to the Blen-
heim, the penalty in each c Ise being 201., or six months'
hard labour. The three other informations charged de-
fendant with having received 15s. for shipping from
Mason and Gardiner, the penalty for each of these of-
fences being 51.

The bench fined defendant 151. with costs on the first
information, or four months' hard labour ; and is., or
one day's hard labour, on the others. He went below.
The proceedings then terminated.

ALARMING RIOTS AT KIDDERMINSTER.
THE MILITARY CALLED OUT.

(From the Wolverhampton Chronicle.)
On Friday evening last a number of turn-outs made an
attack on the factory of Messrs. Pardoe, Hoonan, and
Pardoe, at Kidderminster, demeliihing about two hun-
dred panes of glass, and were only prevented from doing
further mischief by the activity of the police. On the
ensuing evening the congregations of malcontents in the
streets were so numerous and threatening that the Riot
Act was read, and it was with great difficulty that the
peace of the town could be preserved. The magistrates
having .communicated with Lord Lyttleton, the Lord
Lieutenant of the county, portions of six troops of the
Worcestershire Yeomanry entered the town on Sunday.
This display of power in support of law and order had
the desired effect, the men came to an arrangement with
their masters, agreed on Monday night to return to their
work, and so relieved the town from all peril and anxiety,
Six weeks ago a new " fabric," called 5-Bths, was put on
the looms, for which the masters would only pay a price
proportionate, as to size, to that for which they paid for
the 3-4ths. Against this the workmen in the employ of
Messrs. Pardee, Hoonan, and Pardoe struck, on Mon-
day, the 21st ramie, alleging that though the s.Btha was
less in size than the 3-4ths, it was more troublesome, and. required more time to work, and demanding that the
same price, 2d. per yard, should be paid for the 5-Btha
as for the 3-4ths. The 'Messrs. Pardoe and Hoonan,
after some consideration, admitted the claim, but the
men, emboldened by the inch conceded to them, refused
to go to work until the half of the halfpenny had
Si
been taken off was restored, and they received d. a yard
both for 3-4ths and 5-Bthe. Matters went on till Wed-
nesday last, when a number of men were brought from
Halifax by Messrs. Pardoe and Hoonan, and, to
prevent their being interfered with, were lodged in
the factory. This brought matters to a crisis, and '
about nine o'clock on Friday evening, after an excited
meeting of the turn-outs, at the George Inn, they
went down to a place called " The Slings," adjoining
Messrs. Pardoe and Hoonan's factory, broke two hun-
dred panes of glass, and had nearly succeeded in forcing
the door, when the borough police were brought in a
body to the spot, and, after great trouble and exertion,
they succeeded in inducing the mob to disperse. The
next morning, at a meeting of the magistrates, it was
resolved to send for a reinforcement of the county police
which arrived in the course of the day—and to send.
to the lord-lieutenant of the county. On Saturday
evening about a dozen more men from Halifax arrived,
and were escorted from the railway station by the police
to the factory. This was the signal for fresh disturb-
ances ; the riot act was read, and two of the more active
rioters were apprehended ; but beyond the terror which
the disturbances excited they did no mischief. The em-
ployers decided they would pay Crossly's prices--those
paid by Mr. Crossly, who is, we understand, the paten-
, evcov
‘reenr,
shrdaoaalmny
teahtbith:euayuntt
itawntt heoei
deputations
atwny- eort:.reenete somevi
neo
back
when
tchhkeenumntedhneer whoabneya
tee of the tapestry 'processes at which the men work--
o
ld
wtawi
toe o
oc o'clock, ck,
the but
employersdid no
hadrung
dcruksni
nsuotc:tki other,
during the day to endeavour to induce them to re eiv
all the men back, but in vain ; and at a meeting ofc thee
turn-outs at Parkgate Inn, in the evening, the " marked
men" consented to their fellow-workmen
resuming work,
in the hope that by doing so their employers might ex-
tend mercy to all. With these Sixteen exceptions, the
whole of the tapestry weavers resumed work yesterday
(Tuesday) morning at Crossly's prices, viz., one penny
and seven-eighths of a penny per yard, instead of two-
pence farthing, for which they had struck, or of two-
pence, which the masters at first agreed to give. The
two men arrested on Saturday were brought before the
magistrates on Monday, and dismissed with a repri-
mand. On Monday evening there were only about 60
of the yeomanry remaining in the town,
which had been
almost entirely restored to its wonted quietude.

GAMBLING ON RAILWAYS.—A London solicitor was
travelling the other day between Edinburgh and Glas-
gow', when he was joined at or about the Falkirk station
by three gentlemanly-looking men, who, by and by, pro-
duced three cards, and induced the solicitor to take part
in the game. In a very short period he had lost, or was
done out of, 121. As they were about to leave at the
aC mpsie Junction, he gave information to the guard,
when they were brought back to the train, and handed
over to the police on their arrival in Glasgow, to whom
waheorenta+c„coademand
thy were perfectly well known as fellows who freqnen t
the railways for gambling purposes, if not somethitig
worse. The fiscal, after investigating the case, wa, of
lopinion that there was not sufficient legal proof te, con-
th
Weree y
nWolifenswthinedgiantbaleardsJingly
the 121. ,which had been lost by the,,.1,,- •,-
and which,• me,;auwhilc,_ had beer. 4
eta.
It.,icon solicitor,
Glas-
gow police, they found that the
LivtiZstrritshgeedn. ie
Re. i: ed by the
minister of Iralkirk, had raised v. Mr. Begg, the
sheriff, contenuijo-,
g under an old an action before the
Parlia-
ment, for the half of the money Scotch act of
for behoof of the thus won by gambling
floor of hi;
on is, we believe, tJuat of I.parish. The act founded
explicit, and was OP.Orati 6-1, ch. 14,and it is quite
speaking, as 1774 and
.r. 7v!:..) 's..o recently, coniiparatively
well provided with legal These fellows are always
chances are decidedly i • :,-,,-^tance ; but in this case the
the half of the stakes, and a
n favour ,of the minister getting
with him. ssuredly he has public feeling

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