The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1870.

or maintaining a formidable strike than the Anglo-
Saxon, he frequently tries the experiment. Every-
where the spirit is the same, though the
form may be differen*. The prospect
is undoubtedly gloomy. The ignorance of
the average Englishman may, and does, lead him
to laugh at these manifestations; but the thoughtful
mind will recognise the gravity of the question, and
seek for some means of conducting it to a successful
issue. There appears to be but one hope. In
Switzerland very good relations exist between man
and master; the employers do much for the comfort
and happiness of the employed, and the latter, in
return, look up to the former; but this is
not a state of things to be hoped for
elsewhere, for working men in other countries
reject " patronage "; and even in Switzerland such a
good understanding is not universal, for the Inter-
national Working Men's Association has its head-
quarters in that country. There are no
signs of the struggle abating so long as tae
interests of the two parties are opposed;
and accordingly their union, by means of co-
operation, is at present the only resource put
forth. This system of uniting the master and the
workman in one person has gained ground, though
only to a small extent,in severalcountries. Co-operative
productive organisations—we do not speak of co-
operative stores—exist in England, France, and
America. The best specimen is, needless to say, to
be found in the United States. The co-operatic
iron-foundry at Troy, in New York State, is a model
establishment of the kind. It was started in 18E0,
with a capital of £2,700, in shares of £2O, of which
no member can hold more than fifty—one vote being
alloted to each man, irrespective of the number of
shares he possesses. From all profits a dividend not
exceeding 10 per cent. is declared upon capital, and
the residue goes to labour, it being distributed in pre-
cisely equal shares, no matter what may be the
skill of the workman. The man who moulds,
the man who stokes, and the stockholder who- per-
forms no work whatever, get an equal sum. The
regulations are strict, and the discipline very severe.
stockholder, even if he hold fifty shares, can be
paid off at any moment; he receives the value of
his investment, and the stock is sold to other mecha-
nics. The individual interest of every man
prompts him to avoid waste: Every scrap of iron,
which in private establishments would be thrown
away, is carefully picked up and utilised.
it is remarkable that when the associa-
tion was first started the majority of its
members were Irish, and our representative at
Washington says that persons of that nationality
are above all other mechanics in America the most
eager to engage in co-operative enterprises.
Great importance is attached to the limita-
tion in number of the members, for it is
held as a principle that the fewer the proprietors
the greater the chance of success. And in this case
the success has been remarkable. In the first year
the dividends on stock and labour amounted to
40 per cent; in the second they were 89 per cent;
and in 1869 they were estimated to reach 90 or 100
per cent. Space forbids further detail. All
that can be said is that this new idea
deserves the most careful attention. It presents
some difficulties, but it possesses the overpowering
merit of being the only solution yet offered to the
gravest problem of the day.

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COnri

To-day is the anniversary of the Princess Alice,
who was born on the 25th of April, 1843. She was married
on the Ist of July, 1862, to H.R.H. Prince Louis of Hesse.

Earl Russell, who is now staying in Paris, is
slightly indisposed.

The Dowager Countess of Bandon died at the
family seat, Castle Barnard, Bandon, County Cork, on
Friday last.

Cardinal Cullen will shortly return to Romo.
Mr. G. G. Glyn has issued a circular to the sup-
porters of the Government in the House of Commons.
requesting an early attendance of members, as divioions
of very great importance are expected within the next
few days.

The death is announced this morning of Sir Chas.
Gillies Payne, Bart., of Blunham House, Bedfordshire. He
was the eldest son of Sir Peter Payne, third baronet, for-
merly M.P. for Bedfordshire, and was born in 1793. He
succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1843.

Preparations are being made by the working
classes of the metropolis for a large open air meeting, to
Rlmnort amendnapro. 4- 'l •*-- Bill propoß.,l L., The
i,uucation League.

The Royal London Militia assembled this morning
at the Artillery Ground, Finsbury, for the usual period of
training. The general gathering is fixed for the 9th of
May.

During the seven days following the announcement
of Mr. Lowe's arrangements for the new financial year7no
less than £200,000 was received at the London Custom-
house as duty on tea. This large amount was collected at
45,000 entries.

We have authority for stating that there is no
truth whatever in the report recently published in several
newspapers to the effect that the Queen and the Princess of
Wales were last week placed in danger of meeting with an
accident, from the circumstance of a waggon being run away
with on the road near Osborne.

Mr. Loch, when the Lord Advocate moves the
second reading of the Game Law (Scotland) Bill, is to move
that it be read a second time that day six months.

The hoped-for settlement of the Thorncliffe dispute
comes not. First one attempt is made and then another,
to bring the contending parties to terms, but the in-
evitable answer is non possumus.

We are informed that the Rev. John Hannah,
D.C.L., has not accepted the rectory of Middleton, to
which he was nominated in succession to the Bishop-elect
of Chichester.—Manchester Examiner.

A number of the Queen's Westminster Volunteers
performed the journey from London to Brighton en route
for the review on bicycles. A " charge" on the same
vehicle would have added to the novelty.

The Prince and the Princess of Wales will at the
close of the London season pay a visit of a month to the
Emperor of Russia at St. Petersburg, where there will be
a grand family reunion to meet the Prince and the Prin.
cess.—Court Journal.

The Government of the United States has ordered
tests to be applied to all drugs which are imported and
pass through the Custom House. This step has become
indispensable in consequence of the monstrous frauds coin.
witted in the drug market.

The Times states—what many persons had already
conjectured—that it was Lord Denbigh, and not Lord
Derby, who, by drinking the health of the Prince of the
Asturias at Rome in a somewhat ostentatious manner,
offended the Spanish newspapers.

Mr. Neat Coop Harding, of Warminster, North
Wiltshire, committed suicide on Thursday by jumping
into a reservoir at Swindon. The deceased, who was a
comparatively young man is said to have become de-
ranged through excessive study. •

A. letter is published, written by the Archbishop
ol Dublin to a lay member of the Church, in which his
Grace says :—" I consider it altogether wrong for members
of the Church-to be present at, or to take part in, either
Roman Catholic or Dissenting services."

It is said to be the intention of his lordship the
Commander of the Forces in Ireland to move the troops
into the Curragh Camp by the Ist of June next, and com-
mence the drill season, as his lordship's command in Ire-
land will terminate on the let of July next.

An association (according to the Mining Journal)
has been organised in Paris for the suppression of strikes
throughout the French empire. The efforts of the associa-
tion will be directed to relieving the workmen from the
tyranny of professional delegates.
The John Bull hears that the Rev. H. P. Liddon
is to be publicly installed Canon of St. Paul's next
Wednesday at the evening service. It believes that this
will be the first publicinstallation of a Canon Residentiary
of St. Paul's for a very long period.

Mr. T. L. Todd, of Leith, has invented a passenger
road steamer, or steamcycle, to hold two, four, or six
passengers. The machine is similar in aypearance to the
ordinary-bycicle, excepting that It is supplied with an
engine and boiler, and is driven by steam.
It has been currently reported at the clubs during
the week that the Speaker of the House of Commons
contemplates an early retirement, and that the right hon.
gentleman will not improbably be succeeded by the pre-
sent Minister for Wan—United Service Gazette.
The Coercion Bill has had a remarkable effect
upon the Irish newspapers. 4. loyal dulness prevails in
the columns of the weekly national prints. Search i 3 in
vain made for even a sentence or two with the old anti-
Saxon ring in it; not one can be found from title-page to
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THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL.

ROME, Sunday Night.

The third public sitting of the Council was held
to-day. The Papal Bishops assembled at eight o'clock,
six hundred and sixty-four fathers being pre-
sent. 'he Pope entered the Great Hall at
❑ine o'clock. The Mass of the Holy Spirit con-
cluded at ttn. After the Lite.nies there was a
pause, in gemral expeetafon of a Papal harangue;
in this, however, all were disappointed. The
" Veni Creator " having been intoned, non-
voting Prelates were then invited to withdraw. A
movable pulpit was then wheeled into the centre of
the hail. By way of preamble, the four first chap-
ters and the relative canons of the first scheme—
defide—condemning rational philosophy and hetero-
doxy, were read aloud by a Bishop. The votes of
the Fathers were then collected—placet and non-
placet—by scrutators. The Fathers voted the
propositions in a complete form, not in detail—
moral unanimity obtained. There was a crowded
and orderly assemblage; magnificent weather
outside.

SPAIN.

MADRID, April 24 (Evening).

The impartial states that Marshal Prim and
Senores Mordella. and Sagasta held a confereuce on
Thursday last, when a solution of the present crisis,
as proposed by Senor Sagasta, was rejected by
Marshal Prim.

The same paper announces that the Regent will
send a message to the Cortes towards the end of
May.
The partisans of the Duke of Montpensier regard
Marshal Prim as the Duke's most determined
enemy, and attack the former with great vivacity.
The Impartial is of the opinion that a rupture is
imminent between the Federalists and the Unionists,
and that the latter are gaining ground.
A rumour is current that the partisans of the
Prince of the Asturias, Alphonsistos, are preparing a
rising in bis favour.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT NEAR BOMBAY.
BOMBAY, April 24.

A dreadful accident occurred last night Co a party,
including Sir Charles Sergent, General Stock, Jus-
tice Warden, Major Werden, and other officers.
They were returning home in a large omnibus after
a pic-nic, when the omnibus upset against the
parapet of a deep well at the foot of a steep hill.
Madame Ninay, her daughter, and Miss Phillips
were killed on the spot, and sank to the bottom of
the well. All the others were injured—some se-
riously.

AMERICA.
(By Cable).
NEW YORK, April 23.
The National Steamship Company's steamer
England arrived out at 11 p.m. yesterday.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 1131; the highest quotation during the day
was 1131; the lowest, 1131.
Sterling Exchange on London
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882
17 1885
7, 1867
10-40 „
Illinois
Erie
Cotton—Mid. upland 23lc
Petroleum—Standard White
Flour—Extra State, $4 50c. to $5 10c. Corn—Old
mixed, $1 "13c. •

NEW YORK, April 24.
The North German Lloyd steamer America ar-
rived here at midnight on Saturday.
BOSTON, April 24.
The Inman steamer Etna has arrived out.

THE GREEK BRIGANDS AND THEIR

PRISONERS.

The Pall Mall Gazette publishes through the courtesy of
Mr. J. M. Cook, the following particularS of the capture
of Lord Muncaster and his party, written by Mr. Thomas
Cook :—On the day of our arrival here (Monday, April
11), an exciting and distressing illustration of this " reign
of terror" was realized. The three next chairs to that which
the writer occupied at the table d'Mte were turned down
for an absent party, who did not arrive to take possession
of them. In the early morning they had gone, in the
company of others, to see the famed battle-field of Mara-
thon. The party consisted of Lord and Lady Muncaster,
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, and their little daughter, Mr.
Vyner, a travelling friend of his loriship, Mr. Herbert,
Secretary to the Britishiezation, and Mr. Boyl, Seore
tary to the 1 +Allan T--.6“,41011. .ane tf the gil;dc-s of the
...,companied them, and an escort of four policemen.
We are told that on the previous night, at the dinner
table of our hotel, they laughed and joked•about their
anticipated excursion, and their exvosures to the possi-
bilities of an attack of brigands. Their jokes were turned
into sad realities, and soon rfter dinner, on Monday
evening, the two ladies, the little lassie, and two
of the policemen returned to tell the story of
the capture of the nobleman and gentlemen of
the party, their guide also being detained. It is
reported that as the party were returning from
Marathon, through a narrow pass between the
hills, the four policemen were fired at, and two of them
received mortal wounds, one dying immediately, and the
other lingering till this morning. A posse of about thirty
heavily-armed brigands rushed from behind the bushes
which lined the sides of the road, and captured the whole
of the gentlemen. The ladies were also required to dis-
mount from their places in the carriages. The ladies,
after enduring the menaces and curious examinations of
the highwaymen, were liberated, and, accompanied by two
of the policemen, returned to Athens. The policemen
were empowered to offer terms of ransom, on the double
condition of an amnesty, and a sum of 1,000,000 drachmas,
amounting to about 32,000 livres. This morning (Wed-
nesday, the 13th) it is positively stated that it is part
of a political movement for embarrassing and effecting
a change of Government. But the haul is considered
to be so valuable, that the captors will not reduce their
demands, and the grave question is where the money is
to come from. On receipt of the news a troop of cavalry
was dispatched, and also a number of foot soldiers;
but, with the view of saving the lives of the captives, they
have been recalled.

Thursday Morning, April 14.—At the moment that
the closing paragraph of the above was written, yesterday,
Lord Muncaster arrived at the hotel, being brought here
in a little waggon, in charge of a peasant of the moun-
tains, on parole, for the purposes of negotiating with the
Government, and to get supplies of food and clothing for
his lordship's friends in the brigand camp. The Minis-
ter of War and our Minister, the Hon. Mr. Erskine, had
a conference at the hotel with his lordship, after which
the noble captive, true to the word and honour of an
Englishman, was reported to have sustained the integrity
of his parole, and allowed himself to be taken back
in the same ignominious manner in which he had been
brought hither, in charge of large supplies of food, fur-
nished by our host. It was reported that the terms
proposed by the brigands for the liberarion of the captives
had been raised from 32,000 livres to 40800 livres, the
amount to be paid in English gold, and a free pardon
assured to the thieves and, murderers. That the last
appellation is strictly corrsct was affirmed by the funeral
of one of the policemen, which we witnessed immediately
after the reported departure of his lordship. This sad
event drew together an immense concourse of spectators
of all classes in the cathedral and at the grave. About a
score of. our party being recognised in the cathedral, we
were invited to places closes to the chair of the officiating
archbishop, and to each of us was presented a candle to be
held in accordance with the custom of the Greek church.
The Birmingham Post publishes a letter from Athens, of
which the following is an extract :—"Lord Muncaster, after
being kept for two days on dry bread, was sent back for the
purpose of hastening negotiations. He still remains with his
wife, and not being on parole, it will not be necessary for
him to return ; he was brought covered in a peasant's
wagon, and put down behind the palace whence
he walked into the hotel alone. Provision
and clothing have been sent by means of peasants to the
captives—turkeys, eggs, bread, tobacco, &c. Is it not
astonishing the coolness with which the affair is done ? It
is supposed, and is most probable, the Government will
pay the money. There is great dissatisfaction towards
them on account of their allowing such a state of things to
exist. All the journals lay the responsibility upon them
as signing in justification, the reply of the Minister of
War, and especially the continued assertions of the
papers in their interest, that the country was quite safe,
and that they had succeeded in putting a stop to all bri-
gandage. The first questions for debate in the next
meeting of the Parliament are to be the best means of
clearing out these rascally banditti, and to discuss the
administration of the present Government. The
Ministry has received severe letters from the
English and Italian Embassies on the above subject.
The matter is, of course, made a political question, and
will, no doubt, result in a change (nothing uncommon here)
the Ministry.

Sleigh bells are attached to the points of the car-
riages on the Liverpool tramways to warn vehicles to get
out of the way, which they are said to do very easily even
in the narrowest streets. The whole of the rails in the
streets of Liverpool were laid in the-night time, under the
superintendence of an officer of the corporation, and the
traffic was not interrupted for a single hour. Could not
this be done in London ? '