The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-04 00:00:00

' asked if he would have any objection to separate
the society and non-society men.
In answer to Mr. Lewis, witness said he con-
sidered Monday was hasty and intemperate in hi
expression to the other men, and understood ti
when charged he admitted it. Witness told him
that it would be discreet Of him to work comfort-
ably with the unionists. Munday refused to go to
other work where he would be the only plasterer
employed. Sonic of the non-unionists thought
Munday in the wrong.
Mr. Paynter wished to know whether there was
anything offensive in a man saying he would not
belong to a society of operatives ?
Mr. Myers replied that it might be used offen-
sively, and explained that it was accompanied on
this occasion by a prefix of a sanguinary character.
Mr. Pavnter inquired whether the men had re-
turned to their employment, and how things were
going on at present at the hotel ?
Mr. Myers said he believel that all the men who
struck were at work again, and there were about
equal numbers of society and non-society men.
Mr. Paynter thought that after what he had
heard there was an end to the case, for although
there might be in the strict letter of the law a con-
spiracy to procure the discharge of Munday, the
other men had reasonable ground of objection
against him, and were so justified in the opinion of
Mr. Myers himself that he had discharged him, as
he would have done any other man who miscon-
ducted himself. In the case of requesting the dis-
charge of twenty other men, the matter was
different. That was clearly a conspiracy ; but that
was not the complaint before him. The men, it
seemed, had returned to their work ; they had re-
pented of their conduct ; had seen, perhaps, that
it was open to censure, and, such being the case, it
was as well that the matter rested where it did, and
that the men peacefully and honestly followed their
daily calling. It appeared to have been considered
by something that transpired in the previous hear-
ing of the case, that one class of men were right in
requesting that the other should be removed to
work at another part of the building ; but he must
assure the working mu, unionists or non-unionists,
that they were in erfer in that respect, for a mas-
ter had a right to employ his men where or in what
part he pleased, and any interference with that
right might put the master to serious inconvenience;
and he hoped that workmen would not go away
from that court with a notion that they had a right
to impose any such conditions upon their employers.
He was quite sure that if they were properly ad-
vised, they would, not continue dissensions which
not only must affect their masters but seriously
affect themselves ; but if men were insulted in their
employment, their feelings ought to be duly con-
sidered, and care should be taken by the removal of
the offending party that nothing should impede the
progress of peace, comfort, and order. He must
repeat that he was glad to hear the matter spoken
of in this inquiry was at an end, and he sincerely
hoped it would never be renewed; and he conjured
union and non-union men alike to abstain from any
remarks calculated to excite or inflame the other's
temper, but rather to use every means in their power
to restore that good feeling which should ever exist
amongst working men.
Mr. Myers assured the magistrate that he never
made any distinction between society and non-
society men.
The solicitor for the prosecution declared that
Munday denied having used the offensive expression
imputed. Bellamy complained that he had been
again and again brought from his work without
anything being proved against him, and the wit-
nesses for the prosecution urged that they ought to
be paid for their loss of time.
Mr. Paynter said he could not help any of them,
and defendants were then discharged.

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short illness, of -Field-Marshal the Ea&of saaf- S
ford, Colonel of the 2d or Coldstream Regiment
of Foot Guards. The venerable and gallant
nobleman expired at his residence in Lower
Grosvenor-street last evening at a quarter past
eight o'clock. In stating above that his lordship's
illness was short, it need only be said that up to a
late hoar on Saturday there was no indication of
illness. The deceased Field-Marshal, who was the
tl,' ' son of Mr. George Byng, of Wrotham•park,,
''. lesex, and grandson of the Hon. Robt. Byng,'
third son of the first Viscount Torrington, had
reached the advanced age of 88 years, and, with the
exception of Lord Sinclair, was the oldest member
of the House of Peers. The gallant earl had'
achieved an honourable reputation in the army.
He entered the 33d Regiment in 1793, and served
is that regiment in Flanders and in Holland in
1794 and 1795, and was wounded at Geldermalsen,
and subsequently in Ireland. In the expedition to
Hanover in 1805 he served in the 3d Guards ; he
took part in the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807, .
and was also in the Walcheren expedition in 1809,
when he was with the reserve under General Sir J.
Hope, and commanded his advance, composed of the
Grenadier battalion of the Guards and a detachment
of the 95th Rifles. In that command he charged a
detachment of the Dutch troops, taking some offi-
cers and upwards of 100 men prisoners. In 1811
he proceeded to the Peninsula to join the
brigade of Guards in Portugal, and in September of
that year he was appointed to the command of a
brigade in the second division of the army under
Lord Hill. He was present with it in all the move-
ments and affairs with the enemy in the south of
Spain, and during the period of the siege of Ciudad
Rodrigo was detached in command to Idanha Nova
with his own brigade and some cavalry to observe
the movements of a corps of the enemy commanded
by General Foy at Coria. Upon his gallant chief,
Lord Hill, joining the main body of the army at
the commencement of the campaign of 1813 he was
engaged in the several actions of Vittoria, of the
Pyrenees, of Pampeluna (in which action he was
wounded), in the crossing of the Nivelle, and the
attack of the fortified camp, when he was wounded.
and had two horses shot under him ; at Cambe, in
driving the enemy's outposts and reconnoitring the
tete•de pont ; in the passage of the Nive and the
affair before Bayonne on Dec. 13, 1813, when the
2d Division was attacked by six divisions of the
French army, commanded by Marshal Soult.
In that action a horse was shot under him. On
the 14th of February, at the commencement of the
campaign of 1814, he was engaged with the rear-
guard of the enemy at Espellette, and on the suc-
ceeding day was employed in the attack of the
heights above Garris. He was in the subsequent
actions of Orthes and Aire, and he repulsed the
enemy at Garlin, and was also engaged with his
brigade at the battle of Toulouse. In the campaign
of 1815 he eminently distinguished himself, more
particularly at Waterloo, having the command of
the 2d brigade of the Ist division. He was after
that victory appointed to the command of the first
corps of the British army which marched from Wa-
terloo to Paris, and on the march took the fortified.
city of Peronne,:and subsequently took posses-
sion of Paris by occupying the heights of
Belle Ville and Montmartre. In 1812 he was
appointed Governor of Londonderry and Culmore,
and was made a Privy Councillor in 1827. In
1831 he was nominated a Grand Cross of the
Order of the Bath, having in 1828 been made a
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian
Order of Knighthood. From 1831 up to 1835
he represented the borough of Poole in the House
of Commons. In 1837 he was elevated to the
House of Lords by the creation of Baron Strafford,

and was ultimately created an earl in 1847. The
gallant deceased was appointed Colonel of the 2d.
West India Regiment in July, 1822 ; in January,
1828, he was removed to the 29th Regiment, and
in August, 1850, he was made Colonel of the Cold-
stream Guards, in the room of his late Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge. His. lordship,
who had frequently received the thanks of Parlia-
ment for his military services, had received the
Gold Cross and one clasp for Vittoria, Pyrenees,
Nivelle, Nive, and Orthes; and the silver war
medal, with one clasp, for Toulouse; he was also
Knight of the Order of Maria Theresa of Austria
and of St. George of Russia. In addition to other
staff appointments, he had commanded the forces
in Ireland. The commissions of the venerable de-
ceased bore date as follows :—Ensign, Septem-
ber 30, 1793 ; Lieutenant, December 1, 1793 ;
Captain, May 24, 1794 ; Lieutenant-Colonel
March 14, 1800; Colonel, July 25, 1810; Major-
General,. June 4, 1813; Lieutenant-General, May 27,
1825; General, November 23, 1841 ; and Field-
Marshal, October 2, 1855. His Lordship is suc-
ceeded in the earldom by his eldest son, George
Stevens, Viscount Enfield, born June 8, 1806, who,
after sitting in the House of Commons successively
from 1831 for Milbourne Port, Poole, and Chatham,
to 1852, was in 1853 summoned to the House of
Lords by the title of Baron Strafford of Harmonds-
worth. He married first, in 1829, Lady Agnes
Paget, fifth daughter of the late Field-Marshal the
Marquis of Anglesey, who: died in 1845 ; and,
secondly, in March, 1848, Harriet Elizabeth, second
daughter of Lord Chesham. The present peer has
held several appointments during the Whig Ad-
ministrations, having been a Lord of the Treasury
in 1834, Controller of the Queen's Household, and
afterwards Treasurer of her Majesty's Household ;
and in July, 1816, Secretary to the Board of Control.

A Git WEFUL GIFT.

The following interesting communication from.
the clerks and workmen in the employ of Messrs.
Ransomes and Sims, of Ipswich, transmitting a
spontaneous gift to the Royal National Life-boat
Institution, is a gratifying evidence of the social
kindness of heart that is so frequently found among
our British workmen :
" Orwell Works, Ipswich, May 31, 1860.
" Gentlemen,—We respectfully request you to
hand over to the Royal National Life-boat Institu-
tion the sum of twenty guineas, collected from the
clerks, foremen, and men of these works, and
their friends. We desire to express our sym-
pathy with those who have exerted themselves
•n behalf of this noble institution. The affecting
statement contained in the institution's report,
that 1,600 persons perished on our coast during
the last year, a considerable proportion of whom
might have been saved had the means which this
institution provides been at hand ; the number
of widows and orphans left destitute and the
fact that the institution has incurred liabilitiesto the
amount of £3,834, constitutes a claim (which can-
not be waived)on the benevolence of the general
public. We do not, therefore, place any emphasis
on the amount we contribute, there being several
urgent cases of local charity which claim our sup-
port and prevent us from doing more, but we wish
our example may be placed before our fell Ti -work-
men of the United Kingdom by their prncipals,
feeling assured that the appeal of the institution
might thereby awaken a response so general and
so hearty as to relieve it from present liabilities, and
enable it to extend its humane operations. We
ought to reflect that, as no one can be exempt from
common
neitheroo d.
import
a
the common laws of humanity, so no one can claim
exemption from a common duty to those who spend
their sea
navythere
for the g
couldbe
nor export trade, on which depend
mercantile
rlciavnetsie at
depends so much of the
employment of labour ; and if not left destitute of
the bare necessities of life,
we should be without
many of the comforts and articles
of every-day
consumption. Neither tea, sugar, nor coffee, can
be had. till some have perilled their lives on the
mighty deep to procure them, We believe, there-
fore, that if the claims of this truly excellent insti-
tution were taken up by the principals of similar
establishments throughout the kingdom, in the
same spirit which we are happy to recogu iz in you,
the result would be such as we should all truly re-
joice at. We remain, gentlemen, Bze. (On behalf
of the clerks, foremen, and workmen of this estab-
lishment.) Arthur Thos. Cole (manager of com-
mercial offices): William Balk (engineering mana-
ger's assistant); Thomas Marshal, (superintendent
of stores); 'Howarth Farrar (foreign correspondent);
W. E. Dorby (general manager):; W. Bateman
Byng (cashier); James Sewell (senior clerk).
" To Messrs. Ransomes and Sims."

,
THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The mackerel fishery
is being prosecuted with tolerable success off the east coast.
The quality of the fish taken is fine, and prices Wm ranged
from Ms, to 4513. per 100.