The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-14 00:00:00

TRANSATLANTIC PACKET STATION.

The Weekly Fieernun ut tilts day autrunuces, on the
authority of a letter from ',undue, (he format:on there of
tin influential body of c pi alists to promote the long• de-
sired object of Transatlantic communication beim, eo
Galway and Halifax, and the subscription of no less
sum than 50.0004 as the first step towards the attain-
ment of that eni. Arrangements, it seems, have been
already entered into, and orders absolutely given to the•
two most eminent engineering firms in Eugiand for toe
construction of two steamers of pow'r and epeed supe-
rior to anything hitherto known on the Atlantic, to run
thsi " ferry" between the Ir►sh and American ports.
The Messrs. Miller, of Black wall, and Mesas. J((hn
Fenn and Son, of Greenwich, are the p.rsons engaged
to build the vessels. A prospectus for the issue of shares
Will shortly appear, " under such auspices as must com•
gland support.'

COLLIERS' STRIKE AT BEDMINSTER.
During the past week consitieraole excitement has
been occasioned in Bedminster and the neighbourhood
by the assemblage, in a tumultuous manner, of large
numbers of colliers belonging to the old company's
works, who have been for some time on strike, and who
have, it appears, gone about intimidating those who
were willing to work at 0.12.? r collieries, and have sue-
ceeded in presenting the urea :row working at any to
'lie neignnouring coat pus, exeept the Mulago, where
the workmen are paid by the ton. The strike was tni•
gtually continal to the men at the out company's col•
tier les, arising trom some tuft relict• as to the reututiera-
lion to be paid for a c-rtain quantity of work, the men
alleging that the employers nail made such an alteration
that the quanril of work required of them was beyond
endurauc.; the masters am stoutly denying the allega-
tions of the worktne", and declaring that they now re•
qa,re no more work to be done by the men than has
Dern required fur the lest seventt en years. However this
may be, them n of other collieries have now joined the
men on strike, having been. as they say, compelled to do
so. Bedminster has, coast quentl; , during the past we. k,
been the scene hfconsidersule disorder, not unmixed with
violence. Unto of the boys who persisted in working was
waylaid, be,.tee, an thrown into a stream up to his neck,
and narrowly t-seqed drowning. The men einployed at
tne Northal •ecoiln-ry, the scene or the recent accident,
have since t,-tat period and during the t.ecessary repairs been
worki,g b) au arrangement between the proprietors, at
kir. Knight's pit, and after the persons working there
bad tn eu induced to sulk's, five or six of them exprt ss. d
ti,n,lr intention to re• Mlle work in the course or the week.
The men tin sir ike, hearit, of this intention, and fear •
nig that it would cause awl more of them to du the
same, a mob of about three hundred colliers proe, cited to
the house of one of the nit n about to g i to war k, at d
beat the doer in; they then lashed into th hawse and
commenced a savage assault upon the men, which, hut
fur the int, rference of other parties, might have hi en
attended with fatal results. The next day the whole 01
the colliers on strike proceeded in a buoy to the BA-
minster Union and demanded relief, but the chairman
of the board stt,rnly re'9ulted theft', and said that as
long as there remain, d any
and r ground, ears
was offered them, not one tart hill of relief should
be given. Ds, disturbances it.was at length
.
&trued necessary for the magistrates to interfere, stud
two of the ringleaders being taken tutu custody, they
were convicted and sentenced to two ixt"llth'"P
went each, with hard labour, for threats and intrin,rda-
don towards James Smith, one of the BechnoisteroA
Company's workmen, and another man named ood-
bridge was committed for trial at the es,t
gistrates have also issued warrants z •.. Tne 11a.
.3
for the appreln noon
of several others, and are determined to take the most
energetic measures tor the preshrvattou of the public
peace.

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RAILWAY SH.ttlt E, MARKETS.
12
was very flat ery
STOCK ExCHANot.—The share JULY
market
to-
day. The only transaction reported was - Great Western,
New 171. Shares, 14.
;Ict,tiAl'sioVe,.E—The jstualje ol2f.our share market
BR'
611)E
&roc&
can scarcely be exceeded There is little or no business
• doing, and prices in the few sales effected are all lower. The
sactions were as follow :—East Lancashire, 14Y8—Lan-
Quarters, 3t/i, P.—Midland, 43
tcraAsnhire and Yorkshire, 50—London and North-Western, 121 .ti
Ditto, Halves,
20 dis.— South- Eastern and Dover, 22 t4'4—York, Newcastle,
.and Berwick, 181-‘l Ditto, unpaid up, 3 dis.— York and
North Pilidland, 18 11-16.
—Ditto, New
51ANCHESTER. JULY 12
SToots ExcHArtitia.—Very little business was transacted
to-day, and prices closed a shade I wer. The sales were—
Chesuire Junction, 1214—East Lancashire, 14 7 16 Great
Northern, 5 per cent. Preference. 13 , —l...ificashire and York-
shire, 5nA Star Chester. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 27
South-Eastern and Dover, 2214.
131101INGHAM. JULY 12.
STocH I.lXoiiiidaro,. The share market remains steady,
' but there is very little b siness doir g. The only transactions
reported to-day were—South StaiLrdshire, 31. 33. Pd. ens.—
Shropshire Union, 31 6s. 3d. dis.

FATAL Accini.nT T A, CTK. ss.—Durinz the.
representation of Jack Sheppard at the St. Louis Theatre
on the 14th of Juoe, Mrs. ilea, an esteemed actress, was
ki led on the stage by t he tailor's iron goose, u-ed as a counter
weight t, the t•om whence it fell on her head, crushing
. the skull and causing her death in a few minutes.