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

TRANSATLANTIC PACKET STATION.

The Weekly ,heeitiot or tuts thy announces, on the
authority ut n leiter tr,,m Lnt d W, the formation there of
an influnntial ht,dy of c pt Mists to promote the long. d.-
sired obkoz. of flanstittantic c,,mtuunication betw<eu
Gilway and El.,litax, and the butiscripinqi of 110 less tr
suet tbau 50 0004 as Ihe fir.t step tow,rds the att,in•
m,.nt ut that en'. Arrangements, it seems, have beet
already enter, d into, and orders unsolu ey given to the-
two most e,uinent engin, erwg firms in Engiand fur tte
construction of two steamer, ut pow,:r anti -peed sup• -
riot to anything hitherto known on the Atlantic, to ruts
th, " ferry" between the linsh and Atu-ricari port:.
The M,,tnirs. Mider, of Black., all. and ,riessrs. J lue
Penn and S ,n, of Greenwich, are the p rsons engsg*d
to build the ve.s, Is. A prospectus fur the issue ut titian
will shortly appear, " under such auvices as must corn
wand support."

COLLIERS' STRIKE AT BEDZIIINSTER.
During the past week consit.ereele excitement has
beer. occasioned in Beditdoseer and the Deighnourhood
by the assemblage, tu a tumultuous manner, of large
numbers of colliers belinging to the old cetnpaey's
'yolks, who have been for some time on MI ike. and who
have, it appears, gone ebttut intimidating those who
were willing to work at olve. collieries, and have suc-
ceeded in preventing the area from working at arty of
the neighbouring coal pits, except the ',deluge svnere
the workmen are paid by the ton. The strike was or i•
finally unlined to the men at the old company's
arisieg from some ranee as to the releuriera-
lion to be paid forfora certain quantity of work, the men
alleging that the employers nee made such an alteration
that the quantity of work required (1 them was beyoud
enduranc.; the masters as stoutly denying the allega-
tions of the workmen, and declsring that they now re-
quire no more wog kto be dune by the men than has
been required for the last seventeen years. However this
may be, the rn- n of other collieries have now joined the
men on strike, having been. as the) say, compelled to do
so. Bedminster has, consequently, during the past we k,
been the scene s-f considerable disorder, not unmixed with
violence. Ouw of the bays who persisted in working was
virulent, beaten, an-i thrown into a stream up to his neck,
and narrowly esesped drowning. The men employed at
the Northsi te colliery, the scene of the recent accident,
have since that period and during the necessary repairs been
working by an arrangement between the proprietors, at
Mr. il.uight's pit, and atter the persons working there
bad beau induc.d to strike, five or six of them expresaid
their intention to resume work in the course of the week.
The men on strike, hearing of this intention, and fear
ing that it would cause many more of them to do the
same, a mob of about three hundred colliers proceeded to
the house of one of die men about to go to work, and
beat the door in; they then rushed into the house and
commenced a savage assault upon the teen, which, but
for the intt-rference of other parties, might have Bien
attended with fatal results. '1 he next day the whole of
the colliers on strike proceeded in a buoy to the Bed-
minster Union and demanded relief, but the chairmen
of the board sternly reeuked them, and said that us
long as there remained any coal • under ground, anti
work was offered them, not one farthing of relief eheuld
be given. Tee disturbances contireuing, It was at length
dee mired necessary for the magistrates to interfere,
and
two of the ringleaders being taken into custody, they
were convicted and sentenced to two months' imprisou-
fluent each, with herd labour, for threats ettd
atop towards James Smith, one of the Bedminster Cee..l
Company's workmen, and another men named Wood-
bridge was commuted for trial at the assizes. The ma-
gistrates have also issued warrants for the apprehension
of several others, and are deterintned to take the most
euergetic me asures tor the pre,erva,tion of the public
peace.
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MARKETS.
RAILWAY sat% R
The share market was very fiiit to-
STOCK EiCISANGZ.
BR ,;411.PL,
re
The only transaction reported was Great Western, Jumr 12.
New 17/. Shares, 14.
LIVERPOOL, JuLT 12
Stock KXCHAMII4,_I'he r 1 ,t state of our share market
can scarcely be exceeded 'Phase is little or no business
doing, and price, (in the few -al' eseffected are all lower. The
transactions were 113 follow:—Last Lancashire, 141 Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 50 ---1 London and North- Western, 121
—Ditto, N,tw Quarters, 3A,P. Mut lauu. 43 Ditto, Halves,
.
"40 South- Eastern and Dover, 2215—York, Newcastle,
MAN( ,HESTEIt. Jinx P
srToo 8 11-10.
X' 1
astiE.—Very liffle business was transacted
aNnodthße hlhrwi Edielxkaen' 18;4 - Ditto, unpaid up, 3 dia.— York and
to-day, and prices closed a shade 1 wer. The sales were—
Cheshire Junction, IVll,—East Lancashire, 14 7 16 Gre.t
Northern, 5 per cent. Praterence.l3 —Lancashire and York-
shire, 50N,-6lisucheater, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 27
South-Eastern and Dover, 'a Vt.
BIRMINUtiAIYI, JULY 12.
STOCK. EX.cliamo,K.- The share market remains steady,
but there is very little b siness don g. The only transactions
reported to-day were—Swath Staffirdshire, -J/. 3s. 9d. uis.—
Shropshire Union, 3/ 6s. 3d. dts.

FATAL ACCIDENT T.' AN A CTarBs.—DUring the
representation of Jack Sheppard at the St. Louis Theatre
on the 14th of Julie, Mrs. • tied. an elevmed .dress, was
killed on thestage by the tailor's iron goose, ti,ed as a counter
weight to the flies, from whence it fell on her head, crushing
the :kull and caugpg her death in a few minutes.