The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-13 00:00:00

A MASTER AND HIS CREW.

Captain G. W. Spurring, of the barque Eglantine
(which arrived at Greenock on Tuesday), gives an account
of the conduct of the crew he shipped at Greenock last
December. He has never seen " such a gang of ruffians"
on board a ship. At starting two of the crew refused
to go to sea, and were sent for ten weeks
to Paisley prison. When the ship arrived at
Demarara, Alexander, one of the sailors, got drunk
and threatened to kill or crucify some of the negro
labourers who were at work on board. A conflict ensued
between him and the captain. Alexander endeavoured
to strike Captain Spurring with a belaying pin 61b. in
weight, which he took out of the rail. Two other
seamen, M`Glinchy and Shearer, were in his rear.
The captain having retreated to his cabin, they fol-
lowed, Alexander having the 6 lb. iron pin -in his
hand. The captain presented a small revolver, and said,
Stand back or I will shoot you." The intention
of Captain Spurring was merely to wound Alexan-
der in the wrist, so as to disable him? but owing to a
change in his position the ball entered his windpipe. The
police had been sent for half an hour before the shot was
fired. The master told the pilot to take the ship out into
the strpant and, after Livme instructions to the mate,
surrendered himself to the authorities. After the case
had been tried, the magistrate at Demerara said Captain
Spurring was perfectly justified in the course of action he
had taken. Alexander soon recovered and wanted to go on
board the bark again, but was discharged by the magis-
trate's order.

The terms of the Cartel Convention for the extra-
dition of deserters, concluded between Austria and Russia
in 1815, and of the supplementary convention of 1822,
will expire next month, and (according to the Eastern.
Bnclget) the treaty will not be renewed.

Interviews took place last night at Blackburn,
between representatives of the cotton operatives and their
employers, on the subject of the restoration of the five
per cent. taken off the wages of the employes fourteen
months ago. It was urged, on behalf of the operatives,
that the trade had improved, but the employers stated
that during the past four months the trade had been
worse, and that they could not advise an advance of wages
at the present time. A conciliatory and respectful spirit,
it is said, pervaded the interviews.
HARBOURS OF REFUGE.—A cony of the quarterly
report of the engineers at the Harbours of Refuge at
Dover, Alderney, Portland, and Holyhead for the past
year has been printed, by order of the House of Com-
mons. From the papers we learn that the estimates for
Dover Harbour of R.' efuge amounted to £725,000, of
which, at the end of March last, £651,649 had, been
pent. In the past year alone the works cost about
£21,316. The improvements at the Harbour of Refuge,
Alderney, cost about £l9BOO. The estimates were.£l,3oo,ooo,
of which sum £1,245,713 has already been spent.
The estimates for the Breakwater at Portland
amounted to £1,035,000, and of this sum £1,029,920 has
been paid away. In the past year the works cost £4,672.
A sum of £4,593 has been expended during the past
twelve months upon the harbour of refuge at Holyhead,
the estimates for which amounted to £1,536,000, of which
sum £1,414,408 has beeifipent.
THE DISCHARGED DOCKYARDMEN.—The TreStern
Morning News comments upon the correspondence which
has just passed between the First Lord of the Admiralty.
and Mr. Lewis, member for Devonport, on dock-
yard discharges. The Morning News points 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 in.
justice and hardship. Our contemporary concludes by
saying, " The reductions at Devonport are now proceeding
with greater rapidity than ever - the necessity for reducing
the dockyard staffs has never been denied by ourselves
or by any one acquainted with the internal adminis-
tration of those establishments, but it should have
been done gradually, judiciously, and with the most
scrupulous fairness towards the workmen. It is because
the reductions are being carried out in a manner the very
reverse of this, that even staunch Liberals and Ultra-
Economists in Devonport feel indignant and disappointed.
At the next election for the borough Mr. Childers will be
better able to appreciate this fact, and we fear that Mr.
Lewis, despite his earnest remonstrances with his friends
in the Ministry, may feel its effect."
THE THREE SciwoLs OF ART.—At the College
of Preceptors, on Wednesday, a paper on " The
Three Schools or the Distinctive Aim of Classic,
Mediieval, and Modern Art " was read by Mr.
Wyke Bayliss, whose lectures on previous occasions have
been of the highest class. Nor was this lecture an excep-
tion, It was listened to throughout with attention, and
exhibited a thorough grasp of a deeply interesting subject.
Mr. Bayliss said that while to all other workers the great
things accomplished in the past are encouragements for
the future, the painter alone is trained in the idea
that the past only for him is glorious ; while
to all other thinkers liberty of religious thought is
the very breath of life, the painter only is taught to look
with a lingering regret on the time when the gods or the
saints reigned supreme in the studio. It is a great thing
to lopk back and revere and learn, but not thus did the
great masters gain their inspiration; it a greater thing to look forward, and thin p
be the Battitude of the
modern school. Aiming at the beautiful as earnestly as
did the Greek, striving for emotional expression
as honestly as did the Mediwvalist, working from a
world of beauty and passion that neither Greek nor
Medievalist recognised, surely the modern school has yet
a glorious future, and great as was Greek art in its eclec-
ticism, and the Renaissance in devotional fervour, the
difference of their excellence and that of the modern
schools is of kind rather than of degree, and in the broad
human sympathies of the religion with which it is allied
modern art has everything to hope for and nothing to
fear.

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