The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-20 00:00:00

The Engine-Drivers' Strike.

The interest which the present unfortunate
struggle between the engine-drivers and firemen
and North-Eastern Railway Company has created
has by no means abated, and fears are beginning to
be entertained that, if an arrangement is not come
to within a short period, the engine-drivers and
others employed on the lines between London and
Edinburgh will also strike. The ten whose cases
were adjourned on Monday last again appeared at
the Guildhall, York, on Thursday afternoon, to
answer the charge which had been preferred against
them, of having left the service of the company
without giving a month's notice. The first case
selected was that of George Preston, and the only
magistrate on the bench was Mr. J. Chadwick ; Mr.
\V. B. Richardson appeared on behalf of the com-
pany, and Mr. Roberts, of Manchester, for the de-
fendant. Mr. Richardson, in stating the case for
the prosecution, said that the time for arbitration
had gone by. If the men had given a legitimate
and proper notice, which the rules required, the
sympathies of the public might have been with them
—but if men take the law into their own hands
they must abide by the consequences. He would,
therefore, say, that there was no hope of a reconci-
liation ; the men had chosen their own course, and,
whatever theconsequences might be, they,had them-
: selves to blame. Mr. H. Tuff, locomotive foreman
at York, was called to prove the engagement of the
defendant, who, he said, along with four others,
came to him on the night of the 10th inst., and they
said that the whole of the work would be stopped
the next day, by which he understood that the
trains were to be stopped, and they said this was
done on account of a general dissatisfaction that was
prevailing. He told them he hoped they were not
going to be so rash, that it was unlawful to leave
in that way, and asked them whether they were
aware that punishment might be inflicted upon
them. They replied that they had weighed all
this carefnlly over, and they were prepared to
stand by the consequences. He asked them if
the Darlington dispute was the cause of their
turning out, and they said it was not.
The defendant had not since been to work. Mr.
Roberts addressed the Bench at great length, and
took several objections upon which he asked to have
a case reserved for the consideration of the Queen's
Bench, if necessary. He animadverted upon the
steps which the company had taken. Mr. Chadwick,
having taken half an hour to consider the questions
which had been brought before him, said he felt
himself bound to convict the defendant, and he
thought that the matter was so clear that he declined
to grant a case. He was prepared to give judgment
then, but, as other magistrates had postponed judg-
ment, he was willing to defer his decision for a few
weeks. The defendant was then bound in his own
recognisance of £5O, and one surety in the sum of
£25 to appear again on the 25th of May, and the
other defendants were bound over in their own re-
cognisance of £25 to appear again on the same day

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HER MAJESTY, &c•

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 19•
The Queen took a drive yesterday afternoon, at•
tended by Lady Churchill.

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Their Royal Higlinu ses Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, walked in the golly
Park.

The Queen, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and._
Prince Christian, and the Ladies and Gentlemen 11'
Waiting, attended Divine service this morning 111
the private chapel.
The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Winds°l;
assisted by the Rev. R. Duckworth, adrainistero
the Sacrament of the Holy Communion.
Sir James Clark left the Castle yesterday after'
noon.

" WINDSOR CASTLE, April 19.
" Her Royal Highness the Princess Christian
passed a very good night.
" Her Royal Highness and the infant Prince are
doing exceedingly well.

(Signed) - " THOS. FAIRBANK, Dl.D•''

The Earl of Leitrim has arrived as Killadonol
Cel'bridge, his seat in county Kildare, from Dublin.
The Earl of Charlemont arrived at his residence!
in Dublin, on Monday last, to join the countess, for the
Easter recess.

Lord John Brown, M.P., has arrived at West'
port House, Ireland, from town.
LORD WARKwonni.—At the latter end of pelt,
month, the 29th Lord Warkworth, the eldest son °'
the Earl and Countess Percy, attains his majority, and i° „f
consequence the Earl and Countess Percy, at the desire `'s
the Duke of Northumberland, whose great age preclud!
him taking an active part on the joyous occasion, will cele-
brate the young lord's majority at Alnwick Castle with ex-
traordinary hospitality. It is some years since the fine
castle of the Peroys has been the scene of such hospitality
as is promised. The magnificent Royal tent at Sion, e°°-
structed by Mr. B. Edgington, of Duke-street, Lond°l3-
bridge, calculated to accommodate upwards of 1,000
Per-
sons, which was made at the express desire of the third Duke of Northumberland, for his princely festivities ttt
Sion, is to be removed to Alnwick and erected in Pr°%l-
mity to the castle. It is thought and intended that 1,4',,0
persons shall be regaled on the day of the coming of age
of the young Lord Warkworth. The festivities are t°
last six days.

The " Quarterly Review" and Mr. Dixon O 1

" New America."

Several days since the following communicatio°
appeared in our leading contemporary as Mr. ller
worth Dixon's comment upon his latest critic, the
one who has but just now reviewed his two volumes
on " New America" in the current number of the
Quarterly.

"6, St. James's-Terrace, April 13, 1867'
" Th 3 Quarterly Review, just issued, has an article on
' New America,' in which a passage occurs so false in fact
and so injurious to me, that I may perhaps be allowot
without suspicion of unfairly intruding on public notion, t°
set the matter right. I have never answered, and I 010°1d
never think of answering, any literary criticism. I bnir",,
too much respect for honest conviction ; but the point noif
raised is one of good manners and of fair dealing, such 39
no man valuing the good opinion of society could suffer to
pass in silence.
" The Quarterly says:—' With that spice of affectation
which we hope to see weeded out of future editions of 111°
book, Mr. Dixon volunteers a hint to his friends at Bishops'
thorpe or Wells to go and see in person what the Sian°
are doing in Whitechapel. The advice is good, thon64
the tone of giving it might have been better, if Mr. DiO°
had thought of recent proof of sympathy with the working
classes given by eminent dignitaries of the Church.'
"Now, I bag leave to say that I have never done tliiO

thing. I have nowhere hinted that any particular bishop
had neglected his duty. I am sure that nothing of that
kind could be said of either Lord Auckland or of the Arc'''
bishop of York. These eminent prelates are conspicuous'
even on the English Episcopal bench, for their devotion t°
the various labours of their sacred office.

" What I rosily wrote was general in meaning: '116:
Convocation ever given up a day to the book of blot-mon
Has a bishop ever visited the Saints in Commercial- road ,
Two or three ministers may have fired off pamplildt°
against them; but have any of these reverend fathers bee°
to see them in their London homes ?' These hints ra3/
have been either wise or foolish. That is matter of
meat. The Quarterly says the advice involved in WO
hints is 'good.' But it will be seen that I mention 00
names, I imply no censure of individuals. I confine 05"
self to facts which cannot be disputed. It is the Quarter
not myself, that brings the names of Lord Auckland and
Dr. Thomson into this connexion. How and why it I
done so I cannot guess.—Yours, &c.,
" W. HEPWORTH Dixos."
In answer to the foregoing, the " Quarterly" .11°'
viewer has since then written :

Sir,—Mr. Hepworth Dixon is hard to please. ge
is angry with me for making use of his own phraseo-
logy, and puts upon it a meaning which he disowns,
and which I certainly never intended.
In New America, vol. i., p. 252, Mr. Pilo°
writes :,-- •

" Last Sunday, after service at the Tabernacle, Brigham
Young sent for us to the raised dais on which he and the
dignitaries had been seated, to see a private meeting of the
Bishops, and to hear what kind of work these reverend
fathers had met to do. We rather wondered what o r
friends at Bishopsthorpe and Wells would think of such
scene."

Again, in vol. i., p. 240, he says :
"Has Convocation over given up a day to the Book 0f
Mormon ? Has a Bishop ever visited the Saints in Cool"
mercial-road ?"

In mentioning Mr. Dixon's advice contained in
the latter paragraph I made use of his phraseology
in the former, but clearly in a general sense, since
Lambeth or London or any other see may be sub-
stituted for Bishopsthorpe or Wells. But if there is
any ambiguity in the words, Mr. Dixon is the only
person to blame. He is in this dilemma :—Either
he meant a personal allusion in speaking of "hie
friends at Bishopsthorpe and Wells ;" or, if he di"
not, he has no right to complain of my using hi°,
own words in the same sense, far less to speak 01,
them as "false in fact and injurious to him."---4
am, sir, your obedient servant,
London, April 16.

THE " QUARTERLY" REVIEWER.

And now, in continuation, if not in actual, of
pletion, of this correspondence, we have yel
recently received the following letter from the
author of " New America" :