The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-12 00:00:00

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)

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THE DISCHARGED DOCKYARD MEN.
The Western Morning News of to-day comments upon the
correspondence which has just passed between the First
Lord of the Admiralty and Mr. Lewis, member for Devon-
P°ll, on dockyard discharges. The Morning News poinfs
out that in this, as in previous similar cases, Mr. Childers
has
,-- been misinformed as to facts, and specifies particulars in
'which discharged dockyards men have been subject to injus-
!leo and haidship. Our contemporary concludes by saying,
The reductions at Devonport are now proceeding with
heater
rapidity than ever ; the necessity for reducing the
'l°liYard staffs has never been denied by ourselves or by
anyee; °no acquainted with the internal adruinis-
b°n of those establishments, but should have
a done gradually, judiciously, and with the most scru-
pulous fairness towards the workmen. It is because the
reductions are being carried out in a manner the very re-
verse of this, that even staunch Liberals end Ultra-Econo-
In tS in Devonport feel indignant and disappointed. At
tk Xi next election for the borough Mr. Childers will be better
de,:t° a pre ciate this fact, and we fear that Mr. Lewis
aespl
his earnest remonstrances with his frieu6s in the,
Ministry, may
feel its effect "

The Duke of Manchester's Light Horse Volunteers
!)111Pleted their annual drill at Cambridge yesterday, under
tethe command of the Duke, and were inspected by Lieu-
hn Elliot, who complimented them on being
s, mutest Volunteers he knew. He also complimented
iTla on the wonderful improvement they evidenced con-
:e aring the shortness of their drill. The prizes for proficiency
1. word exercise were distributed
at At, luxisoheon at the
Hotel by Lady Mary Montague,the eldest daughter
GI the Duke
of
IVianchester. The health of the Duke

and Colonel Elliott were drank with all the honours
possible.
Great preparations had been made for holding a Fancy
Fair to-day, at the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe's villa at
Plymouth, but the rain considerably marred the effect.
After three months of almost unbroken drought, which
latterly had become very serious, the Western counties
were visited yesterday with steady rain.
A serious accident occurred at Chesterfield yesterday
to four men engaged in pulling down some houses to
make room for a new siding at the railway station. The
men were putting the floor of a house through a window
opening, when the gable end of another house fell upon
them and so severely hurt two of them, named Degges
and Birch, that they were taken to the hospital and are
not expected to recover. Another, named Bloomer, was
very much hurt, but was taken home. The fourth named
Bower, escaped.

At a meeting of the Manchester shareholders of the
Albert Insurance Society held yesterday, the scheme of
reconstruction, proposed by the committee, was adopted.
Mr. Morris, solicitor, made a long statement, shewing
that the plan was the only one which could save the
shareholders from ruinous loss. A resolution was
also passed, that premiums due should be paid into the
Agra Bank, and returned if the company should not be
resuscitated.

The directors of the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce have appointed Mr. John Slagg, jun., and Mr.
Benjamin Armitage directors, and Mr. Henry Afhwortb,
formerly President of the Chamber, to give evidence before
the French committee of inquiry into the operation of the
treaty of IWO on behalf of the cotton trade of Lanca-
shire.

Inquests were held yesterday at Wroughton near
Swindon, on the bodies of Miss Emily Kate Selling Farmer,
daughter of a yeoman living at Wroughton, and her illegiti-
mate child. Miss Farmer, it will be remembered left her
father's home at night on Sunday, and was confined near
Swindon reservoir She threw the child which was born
into the water, and died by the roadside, where her body
was found the next morning. The jury returned a verdict
in Miss Farmer's case that she died from her confinement
and want of proper attention. In the case of the child the
verdict was " Found drowned."

Last night Mr. George Odger addressed a meeting
of the Birmingham Land and Labour League. He urged
the necessity of working men members being returned to
Parliament. They were not properly represented at the
present time, and never would be till some of their own class
were in Parliament. He denounced those Liberals who,
while professing to be their friends, were ever ready to op--
pose a working man candidate. A resoluticn thanking the
Government for the Parliamentary Election Procedure Bill,
but regretting that Mr. Fawcett's proposal to throw the legi-
timate expenses of elections on voters had not been adopted,
was carried unanimously.