The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVE:, NG AUGUST 19, Fsel

for 5101. with intent to defraud Charles Joachim Ham-
bro. The prisoner also pleaded guilty to another in-
dictment for a similar charge preferred rgainst him by
his employer.

Tho prosecutors recommended the prisoner to mercy.
He had been in the service of his employer for three
years and had borne a good character. By the candid
statements of the prisoner when apprehended the prose-
cutors had not suffered any loss.
The Common Sergeant sentenced the prisoner to 12
months' imprisonment with hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day,

SOUTHWARK.

CHALLENGING THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH.—James
Grub, an elderly man of rather respectable appearance,
was brought before Mr. Combo charged with being
drunk and creating a disturbance in the pit of the Surrey.
Theatre.

Henry Peckham, the constable of the theatre, said
that while Mr. Anderson was going through his per-
formance on the previous evening the prisoner suddenly
jumped up in the pit, and, climbing on the platform used
by Mr. Anderson, called him a humbug, and said that
he had detected him in his tricks, which he could do as
well as himself. Mr. Anderson treated him very goad
humouredly, thinking it the best way to pacify him, and
at the same time showed him his tricks ; but it, was evi-
dent to him that was useless as the person was drunk.
His conduct then became so uproarious that witness
was compelled to remove him and lock him up in the
station-house. However, it was not Mr. Anderson's
wish that he should be punished, as he had been locked up.
Mr. Combo asked him whether he knew anything of
him?

Peckham replied that he had known him for many
years as a respectable tradesman, and he was sure he
would not have so committed himself had he not been
under the influence of liquor,

The prisoner expressed his regret at having annoyed
Mr. Anderson or his audience, and he promised not to
repeat it.

Mr. Combe hoped he would keep his promise, and
not get drunk again.
He was discharged.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Yesterday being the anniversary of the birthday of his
Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and the Aus-
trian frigate Radetzky being at Portsmouth, a general
Royal salute was fired at noon by her Majesty's and the
Sardinian and Dutch ships at Spithead, and the flagships
Victory and St. Vincent, in Portsmouth harbour, hoisted
the Austrian Royal standard at the main during the
ceremony ; the Garrison Battery also fired. The Royal
Victoria Pier was dressed out in flags, and a grand ban-
quet took place on board the Rade zky in honour of the
occasion. I❑ the evening the Austrian, Sardinian, and
Dutch officers attended a ball in their honour at the
King's Rooms, which was brilliantly attended by the
naval and military authorities, the foreign consuls, and
tee best society of the neighbourhood. This evening
the Sardinian officers will be entertained at the Govern-
ment-house by Major-General Breton, the governor of
the garrison. The Captain and the staff of the Dutch
frigate De Ruyter and Mr. A. L. Vandenbergh were
entertained by the Port-Admiral, Sir George Seymour,
last evening.

The Albatross steam transport, No. 69, from Constan-
tinople, Malta, and Cadiz, arrived at Spithead yesterday
from Cadiz, which she left on the 11th inst., having on
board 60 officers' horses from the Clarendon, which was
grounded in Cadiz Bay, and the following officers :
Lieut. Kildahl, 724 Highlanders ; Capt. Smith, Land
Transport Corps; Assistant Commissary. General Gard-
ner, Deputy Assistant Commissary-General Green, Cor-
net Craig, Land Transport Corps; Messrs. Usher and
Burton, Commissary's Clerks; Dr. Hamilton, in medi-
cal charge, and 103 non-commissioned officers and men
of the Land Transport Corps.
The Vigilant, 4, screw steam gun-vessel, Commander
Wm. Armytage, is under telegraph orders from the Ad-
miralty to proceed to Portsmouth immediately her com-
passes are adjusted, and to wait there fur final orders as
to her future destination.
The Retribution, 23 guns, paddle-wheel steam-frigate,
Capt. T. Fisher, is ordered to be paid of at Sheerness on
the 23d inn. Several officers have joined her under her
r.ew commission.

The Scylla, 21 guns, screw steam-corvette, was taken
into No. 1 dry dock Sheerness yesterday, to be brought
forward for immediate active service.
The Hawke, 60, screw steam-;hip, chief engineer
John M'Kie, has been taken into 1 'to muting basin and
dismasted, preparatory to her being placed iu the steam
squadron of reserve at Sheerness, under charge of Capt.
Ha'stead, in omannand of the EdiubUrgh.
New boilers, weighing over E 1 tons each, were landed
yesterday at Sheerness for the new screw steam-ship
Renown, of 91 guns and 800-horse power, now building
at Chatham yard.
In consequence of the constant filling np of the middle
discharging basin and camber at Sheerness, which now
prevents vessels of moderate draught of water entering
to be discharged, the Lords of the Admiralty have en-
tered into a contract with Mr. T. Stutely, merchant, of
Sheerness, for the removal of not less than 13,000 tons
of mud from the basin and camber. A powerful mu l
engine was yesterday set to work, by which 360 tons of
mun per hour can be put into b ages. The work will
be complet:l in 10 weeks, and when done ships drawing
from 15 to 16 feet of water will be ablc to be taken in
for the discharge of their cargoes.
The paddle-wheel steam-troopship Dee was yesterday
hauled out of Woolwich basin, and, it being the desire
of the anti: orities to put Mr. Wethered's superheating
steam apparatus to some additional experimental trials,
she proceeded down the river for that purpose.
The Zebra steamer. wrecked at the Lizard Point, broke
in two at 5 p.m. on the 16th inst., about the forward en-
gine-room, owing to the strong east wind and heavy
ground swell which had set in, and to which she wan eons•
pletely exposed. Had the weather continued moderate
there was great expectation of saving her, all machinery
and necessary appliances being on tfse spot for use after
the blowing up of the rocks under the starboard bilge
had been accompllshed.

Assistant-Surgeon J. Irvine, M.D., 37th Ilfgt., has
received orders to embark at Southampton t)-morrow on
hoard the mail steamer for Ceylon, fur the purpose of
joining the head-quarters of his carps.
Dr. J. R. Taylor, C. 8., Deputy-Inspector General of
Hospitals', medi, ally inspected 90 convalescent invalids
yesterday at Fort Pitt, Chatham, the whole of whom
had been invalided home from the Crimea and India, and
were found unfit for further service.
The following is the number of non-commissioned offi-
cers and men belonging to the Indian depots at the Pro-
viiiiontt Battalion, Chatham, who will embark to-morrow
morning for Bombay to jArt the heal-quarters of their
respective regiments, viz , 64th R-gt., 35 non•c,orornis •
sinned officers and men ; 74th Highlanders, 45 men ;
78th Highlanders, 65 men of all ranks ; 83d Itegt., 68
men ; 86th Regt., 52 noncommissioned officers and
men ; total, 275 noncommissioned officers and men.

SPORTING NOTES.

It is curious to observe in the several epochs of a na-
tion's history the recurrence of the came passions under
different guises, and the same attractions or• repulsions
under different denominations. At one period the recol-
lection of a victorious aggression pits the representatives
of the conquerors and conquered against each other in
the constant antagonism of race. The names of the ori-
ginal distinction remain long after both nations have
been subjected to one essay and blended under one law;
and when, at last, the distinctive appellation has become
obsolete or unmeaning the division is still kept up by
the intrusion of other jealousies and the substitution of
other names. In the 11th century the usual and popu-
lar cry of the Saxon-English was "Down with the Nor-
mans." I❑ the 14th century that cry is heard no longer;
i❑ its stead resounds the shout, " No gentleman !" and
three centuries later it was "No more proud Lords
and rotten-hearted Bishops !" A century later heard
anathemas against "Hanoverian rats " and " German
cormorants ;" while the present century at different
periods hart listened to outcries against Lards,
Bishops, and powers in general, and among these
powers the capitalists, the miliowners, and the class
of employers as a body. Thus, by right of descent,
the master manufacturer has come to fill in the
,popular mind, so far as a great change of circum-
stances will permit, nearly the same obnoxious place
that the Norman Baron, the Plantagenet Lord, or, the
Stuart Peer filled in the minds of the commonalty cen-
turies ago.
The contemp'ation is a curious one. It suggests not
only commonplace reflections on the identity of hunaa
nature, but a!so others not less striking on the muta-
bility of classes and the progress of individuals. The
outcry against capitalists and employers is a variation
of the same strain that has been sung since there were
great and little, rich and poor, in the world. It is
the consolaion a'ike of oppressed poverty and queru-
lous envy. But the accidents which provoke it and
the accompaniments which co'our it are peculiar to our
age, and almost peculiar to this country. The object
of the bitter complaint, the stern remonstrance, the
cynical depreciation, or. the arbitrary combination is
neither invested with the exclusive privileges of a feudal
caste nor raised on the pinnacle of courtly grandeur.
He is neither armed with the prestige of a dominant
race nor decorated with the splendours of regal favour.
He is just a man of the same origin, the same pedi•
gree, the same name, and, in some cases, the same
education, early habits, and training, as the men who
judge him, or dislike him, or envy him. He is just
a Smith or a Thompson, a Brown or a Jones, a
Wilson or a Pattison, like the men who work at
his forge or his jenny, in his pottery or his
foundry. The only difference between them is, that he
is the employer and they are the employed. And what
has caused this difference ? In some cases, indeed, the
accident of inheritance or bequest ; but in the majority
of cases it is labour. The master has begun life in the
same condition as that of his labourers, or in a condition
but s ightly elevated above it. His position is due to his
industry, his economy, his common sense, and perhaps,
some degree to that good luck, a share of which inva-
riably attends every person whose antecedent conduct
and character enable him to turn favourable opportuni-
ties to advantage. From a workman he has become a
middleman ; from a middleman a small capitalist ; from
a small capitalist a large one; and, finally, an employer
of hundreds of his countrymen.

THE ENCOUNTERS ON EBOR.
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by the sun of York.
Whether the sun of York, will shine out cheerily on
the Ktinvesmire seems somewhat doubtful, for at my
present writing the rain drizzles down heavily, and the
atmosphere is as raw and as cold as it is in black No-
vember. Still the heavy wet, accompanied with its cold
without, has produced a most softening and beneficial
effect on the running ground, which a correspondent
described to me last week as being as hard as brick-bats
Mr. North, the ever-vigilant and cautious C.C., has
been actively employed in superintending the arrange-
ments for conducting efficiently the business of the
meeting, and under his direction everything appears to
go on swimmingly. The programme really presents
quite a formidable array of Plate and Stakes, and it is a
matter of time and patience to wade through the
long lists of nominations which aro appended to the
principal events. All persons agree on one point,
viz., that, however limited speculation may be, it
is impossible to overrate the interest and importance
which attach to the leading encounters. The three-
years-old races may afford a. deep insight into the
St. Leger mysteries, and I shall not be surprised if
they introduce some new and formidable favourites
into the market for the great Doncaster event.
I am running a race with time, being desirous of
leaving London for York by the 11 o'clock train,
and am therefore compelled to make use of that most
convenient kind of wit which an eminent authority
calls brevity.

Neither Ellington nor Fazzoletto is likely to be
brought out for the North and South Biennial Stakes,
and the race therefore is in certain quarters deemed a
" certainty" for Rogerthorpe. Still, should West
Langton and Brother to Bird on the Wing enter tLc
lists against him, his partisans will do well to reserve
their shouting until the race is over.

The Yorkshire Oaks lies between Victoria and Man-
ganese, who may pass the winning chair in an in-
verse order to that in which I have set down their

names.

Blink Bonny will, of course, win the Convivial Stakes,
albeit, it is said, she will meet a clipper in the dark
Lady Hawthorne, who will have 51b3. the best of the
weights.

If Fandango be not a cripple he will lead his oppo-
nents a pretty dance for the Burgundy Stakes.
Vindex, Assayer, and Maid of Derwent shall represent
my interest for the Chesterfidid Handicap.
The only "feature" in the betting on the Ebor Handi•
cap has been the introduction of Courtenay to a promi-
nent position, and the " finessing" with regard to Mr.
Howard's horses, Coroner and Yellow Jack. I shall
not attempt to " calculate the chances," but shall
merely state my deliberate conclusion, founded on
a careful examination of the public performances, that
either CORONER or LADY TATTON will be the winner.
Courtenay stands next in my estimation, albeit I have
well-founded doubts as to his staying ability.
Unless there be something very good amongst the
" dark lot" either Sprig of Shillelagh or Saunterer will
win the Prince of Wales' Stakes.

Zuyder Zee ought to win the Biennial Stakes for two-
year-olds to justify the expectations which have been
entertained of him.

Artillery may win the Ebor St. Leger.

The Eglinton Stakes I assign to Theodora or Double
Glo'ster.

The Great Yorkshire Stakes is the only event which
I shall touch upon in Friday's list, and shall give my
unconditional adherence to Fazzoletto.

Aug. 19.

RET A L EFFECTS OF " STRIKES.'

A FRESH MAN.

A man who has so risen cannot have effected his sue.
cess without severe struggles and frequent risks. Of
these his workmen, of course, know nothing. Of the
difficulty with which he has amassed his capital, or
of the anxiety which besets its investment, they are
ignorant. They only see the outward and visible
signs of attained prospqkity—the working engine, the
crowded factory, and tie abundant productions. Of
the variations in the market—of gluts—of falling prics
or failing credit—of the harassing cares which they
cause—the men have only an imperfect notion. They
see a man " no better than they are themselves"
enj .ying, as they suppose, luxury and wealth earned by
their toil, and unembittered by solicitude ' • and, without
reflection, they demand a larger share in the products of
their own industry, or they threaten that which to an
employer is almost ruin—" a strike."

This is one class of "strikes." Were it the only one, it
would amply justify the re-enactment of the repealed
laws against combinations. It, would be intolerable that
men should combine to extort from their masters an
amount of wages which the current prices or the average
of profits prevented them from giving. A systematic
appeal would crush all enterprise and destroy all capital
throughout the country. It would, in a very short time,

raise up foreign and rival competition on the ruins of
English industry. But this i 3 not the only kind of
" strike." As far as the evidence given before the
Committee of the Commons on Operatives and Masters

goes, that class of " strikes" which is begun and con-
tinued by ignorant and envious workmen against just
employers is exceptional. We are glad to enc )urage
this belief ; we are glad to believe that English workmen
do not bring'the fearful alternative of a " strike" to
bear against their masters merely under a false impres-
.

:don or an ignoble envy of the tn-eani possessed by the
latter.

Holding this belief, we cannot But regret that too
many employers give cause for the discontent of their
workman by their false economy and false pride,—false
economy wtich degeueratts into meanness, and false
. _

pride which hardens into obstinacy. The rate of wages
should nevi r seem to depend upon the ro ser of combina-
tions, whether on the side of the men or their employers.
It is, in fact, sooner or later, determined by other laws
which are more fair, and therefore mere favourable to

both parties, tbal any combinations, howcvcr strong,

. .
can be. When trade-is brisk all craft.; feel the geni-a:1
influence, and t 123 expaAing Eld of employment opens
for the mechanic a surer proTect of augmented wages
than any union could effect ; ;hen trade slackens the

competition of unemployed workmen and the fall of
profits force a reduction of wages which no union can
resist. In the former oase it is foolish parsimony or
foolish obstinacy whin!) makes a master delay a change
that circumstances are bringing about independently of
his volition ; in the latter it is au unreasoning injustice,
which seeks to effect by numbers and menace that which
the state of the lab mir-market does not permit. But the

fernier is the worse case of the two, because the master is

supposed to be better. educated and to understand the
signs of the market I etter than his men ; and any niggard
parsimony on hls part provokes a retributive combination
o.i the part of the men. And when obstinacy in the mattei
of wages is generally complicated with petty acts of despot
ism, small meannesses, an'i questionable cripplings, the

On Saturday morning the Admiralty steam yacht Os-
borne and the mortar frigate Furth, 12 guns, arrived in
Kingstown harbour from Cn k. The Osborne conveys
Sir C. Wood and Admiral R-rkeley, who are at present
engaged in the annual inspection of harbours. O❑ Sun-
day a telegraphic message was sent to Cork by the Lords
of the Admiralty, ordering the four gun-boats which are
at present stationed at Give and a gun-brig to depart
for Kingstown. They were to arrive on Monday, when
there is to be shell practice outside the harbour.
Sunday morning, at 12 o'clock, the steam-transport
Istamboul, No. 90, Capt. Cole, arrived in Kingstown bar.
bour from Portsmouth, with the 33d (Duke of Welling-
ton's) Regiment, and a portion of the 50th. The 50th
Regiment, the first of the army which left Ireland for the
Crimea, has returned to do duty in Dublin. The follow-
ing is the force disembarked from the Istamboul :
Belonging to the 331 :—Lieut. Colonel Johnstone,
C. 8., Lient.-Colonel Mundy ; Capts. Barrett, ►Wallis,
and Carr ; Lieuts. Rogers, Montmorency, Johnstone,
Ball, Campbell, Tooming, Forbca, Graham, Benwell,
Balby, Hotham, Roberts, and Cross ; Ensign Aylmer,
Adjutant Toseland, Paymaster Thompson, Quartermas-
ter Vyde, Assistant-Surgeons Ogilvie and Clarke, 612
men, and 11 women an'd eight children.
Belonging to the 50th—Capt. Blackall, Lieuts. Clarke
and the Hon. E. Chetwynde, Ensign King, and 253
non-cemmlssioned officers and privates.
Liere were also 5 officers sad 30 men of the 47th, 2
officers and 22 men of the 62d, and 20 men belonging to
tbe Coast-guard. The steam-transport Pacific left the
North Wall on Sunday morning for Liverpool, having
on board the depots of the 15th and 96th Regiments,
consisting respectively of 10 officers, 22 serjeants, and
289 men, and 7 officers, 20 serjeants, and 185 men. On
Tuesday (this day) the depots of the 82d and 90th will
leave Kingstown by the Istamboul for England.
Colonel Tinley, a field-officer, has been ordered to
Nenagh with 400 men, on the promu'gation of the find-
ing of the recent court-martial.
The official notification declaring that Limerick shall
he no longer a military district was received on Satur-
day evening from the Horse Guards.
The following appointmentss were made yesterday at
the Admiralty

disposition to clmbine evinced by illiterate workmen,
whose toil is their capital, is palliated, if not justified

The worst of it these combinations provoke counter
combinations. If workmen may unite to forc:.. up th

rate of wages when they think times are prosperous.
what is to prevent misters from combining to lowet.
wages when profits sic tending to zero ? There is
nothing more ut just or impossible in the latter than is
the former hypothesis.

To be sure, each course is, on grounds of public
policy, dangerous and to be deprecated. Anything
that would prevent its occurrence or its frequency i 3 de-

eirable. Bit what will have thii effect ? \The witnesses

before the committee say that the men generally have a
horror t.f appealing to magisterial tribunals. It implies
di.grace, and we are glad to record even a prejudice
which denotes self-respect on the part of the English
workman. Again—and this is a more material objec.

tion—in the districts where these disputes occur too
many of the magistrates are master manufacturers, and,
eren with the best intentions, side with their own
class. What is to be done ? Many witnesses suggest
local Boards, compsed equally of workmen and stn•
ployers. But it requires very little knowledge ^al
human nature to predict the division of opinion where
the appellants are employers and employed. And to
whom is the ultimate appeal ? Two suggestions are
made; one gives a professional and stipendiary co:air-
man, with a casting vote, to the court of appeal ; another
creates a second court of appeal, consisting of operatives
and masters of every craft. Both these suggestions
seem to us impricticable. How is a legal or lay chair-
man to understand all the details relating to the crafts of

Coln. C. S. S. Stanhope to the Royal Albert ; Lieut.
J. C. D. Odevaine, to the Victory; W. C. Bunk, mas-
ter, to the Medusa ; H. C. Davy, paymaster, to the
Medusa ; H. Loney, surgeon, to the Medusa ; NV. Kel-
lett, mate, to the Camilla ; F. W. Prosser, midshipman,
to the Centurion ; IL W. Skene, midshipman, to the
Centurion ; W. H. C. Selby, naval cadet, to the Con-
queror ; F. R. H. Yorke, naval cadet, to the Impreg-
nable ; E. R. Foster, naval cadet, to the Amethyst.
The following appointment were made on Saturday at
the Admiralty :

C. D. Macdouall, midshipman, to the Camilla, ; J. A.
Fisher, midshipman, to the Highflyer ; F. H. H.
Hutchinson, midshipman, to the High flyer.
The officers of the South Devon Militia, recently dis-
banded at Plymouth, have presented to the garrison
chaplain, the Rev. G. Langtuaid, a silver salver in ac-
knowledgment of his kindness to the sick is hospital, to
the children and adults of the school, and for his con-
stant attention to his duties while the South Devon hzs
been stationed in the district.

engineers, machinists, turners, brass-founders, wire-
workers, cutlers, calenderers, calico printers, cloth
manufacturers, - paper manufacturers, weavers, lace
workers, glass workers, alkali workers, alum workers,
wheelwrights, carpenterF, and joiners, &c. ? And yet be

might ha'je to give a casting vote in disputes arising
from vexed questions on the details of these employments.
As for a court containing one representative of each of
these trades it would Le simply useless. We can sea
only one solution of this difficult problem The lessons
of education, of bitter experience, and of a sound on
science must teach masters and men to trust mere to the

genial sympathies of mutual confidence and common
interest than to the resources of combination and the
artillery of "strikes." Till this happy change be effected
we shall have sad repetitions of the Preston " strike,"
teas of thousands of pounds misspent by the workmen,
hundreds of thousands lost to them as wages, and mil-
lions of profits foregone by employer?, all for want of
mutual confidence and timely conference l—Tiines.

EXTENSIVE SEIZURE of UNWHOLESOME •GRAIN.—
A. gentleman passing by the wharf of Mr. England,
corn merchant, Warehouse-hill, Leeds, on Thursday,
observed a number of men engaged in unloading a pecu-
liar-looking wheat from a boat moored to the wharf.
Ire curiously teak a handful of the wheat and inspected
it ; and he then found that tha peculiarity of the grain,
by which he had been struck, was owing to its advanced
stage of decomposition and corruption. It had evidently
been at one time a superior class of Egyptian wheat ;
but from having been warehoused in a damp place, pro-
bably for years, it had become a dense mass of animated
corruption. Information was given at the police-office,
and the attention of Mr. Sands, Inspector of Nuisances,
directed to the grain, which he subsequently seized and
conveyed in sacks to the Courthouse-yard, where it is
at present deposited. Altogether there are 42 sacks of
the wheat. An information under the Nuisances Re-
moval Act has been preferred against Mr. England for
having the grain in his possession, and the case was to
come on for bearing yesterday -
at the Leeds Com t-
house.---Manchester

MIR LATE FIRE AT MESSRS. ;51BROADWOOD.S.—Not-
withstanding the heavy loss sustained by the above firm,
in consequence of the late calamitous fire, Mr. Broad-
in sympathising with those em-
wood, on Saturday,
pkyed in his establishment, very liberally presented
each of his workmen with a sovereign, and every boy
with les, We are gratifiedin being enabled to state that
committee has been formed for the purpose of raising a
thud to romunerato the workmen-for their-groat loom.

M. Verdi has arrived in Paris, one of his ohj2cts
being, it is said, to arrange with :IT, C..lzano for the
performance of those of his operas which have not Set
been heard here,