The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-27 00:00:00

TIl SUN, LONtiON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1867

POLICE INTELLIGELWE.—This Day.

ho And his wife had bought the wood from the prisoners.
Th 3 first load, value £5, was sold for ss. ; the second
load, which was not so good, for 4s. 63.
Kemmins said he had no guilty knowledge when he
bought the wood. He thought they might sell it.
Rowe said ft yard full of timber had been traced to
Kemmins's father.
The prisoners were remanded until Friday.

to the contest with the 7-inch new shrapnel and the
7-inch segthent shell, bursting 'at 50 yards short,
the total effect of the 7-inch new shrapnel nag 533
through, 91 lodged, 28 struck ; the average effect
of the 7-inch segment shell was 10 through, 5
lodged, and 6 s truck.

To enable comprisons of the number of missiles
in the respective shells with the number passed
through, lodged in, and struck against the targets
we give the following particulars : —Boxer shrapnel'
shells, with mixed metal balls, 9-inch for muzzle-
loader, 437 balls of 3 ounces each— total weight
of missile, 2501 b. ; 8-inch for muzzle-loader, 315
balls of 3 ounces each—•total, 181-lb ; 7-inch,
for muzzle-loader, 200 balls of 3 ounces each—
total, 11111 b. ; shell for Gl-pounder, 284 balls,
14 to the pound ; 7-inch, for breech-loader,
360 balls, 14 to the pound—total, 9811 b. Boxer
shrapnel, with iron balls for 9-inch muzzle-loader,
474 balls of 2oz. each—total weight of missile,
2281 b. ; 8-inch, 363 balls of 2oz.—total, 1701 b ;
7-inch, 200 balls of 20z.--total, 1001 b ; shell for
64-pounder, 112 balls of 2oz. ; 7-inch breech-
loader, 140 balls of 2oz. —total, about 901 b.
The segment 7-inch shells contain 112 segments
of 3.360 z. each, the total weight of the missile being
about 971 b.

We may get another view of the far greater de-
structive effects of the new shrapnel shell over the
previous segment by the more minute details of the
target results. Taking the first round of the 9-inch
Boxer shrapnel upon the front row of six -targets,
each of which is 9 feet by 9 feet superficial, and
divided into 81 one-foot squares, we have on the
first target 20 balls through, on the second 22, third
29, fourth 25, fifth 30, and on the sixth 23 through.
In other words, one bullet through in every line of
four feet: From the rounds from the 7-inch gun,
the new shrapnel, bursting at 50 yards shot, sent an
average of 93 balls through each of three targets
that received its contents, or one ball in every square
foot of the surface. To put the work done by the
7-inch segment in comparison, we have only 8 seg-
ments through in four of the targets, or only one
segment through in every 40 squares.
The new 9-inch shrapnel have been tested to
prove the strength of their shells by firing from the
gun with battering charges of 431 b. of powder, in-
stead of 301 b ; the 8-inch with 301bs. instead of 201 b,
and the 7inch with 221 b instead of 141 b. By en-
during this test they have been proved saf3 for
firing over the heads of troops.
There were present at the trials Gen. Lefroy, Lord
Kerr, Col. Wray, and Col. Boxer. The experi-
ments were conducted under the direction of the
Commandant, Col. Eardley Wilmot, by Capt. An-
derson, Mr. Behenna, Quartermaster, R.A., and
Mr. Forest, of the Royal L .boratory.

MA.'313:14.1T5.--This day.

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COVENT GARDEN.

There is a good supply of vegetables on sale, and the
demand is brisk, at fully last week's quotations.
FRUIT—Pine apples, 8s to 108; grapes, 8s Od to 15s Od
per lb; apples, 4s Od to 8s Od per bushel; oranges, 4s Od
to 9s ; lemons, 7s to lls per 100; eobauts, 753 to 80s per
1001bs; strawberries, 9d to is 6d per oz. ; pears, Os to Os
per doz.; melons, Os to Os.

VEGETAIILEB—Cabbages, Is 3d to 2s; cauliflowers, 4s to
8s per dozen heads; beet, is Od to 2s; celery, 2s Od to 2s
6d per dozen heads ; horseradish, 4s to Gs per bundle ;
turnips, 6d to Od ; carrots, 6d to 8d per bunch ; cucum-
bers, 2s tO 4s each; small salad, 2d to 3d; mushrooms,
2s Od to 2s 6d per punnet; onions, 4s to 5s Od per bushel;
endive 2s to 3s, lettuce; 2s to 3s per score; parsley, 6d to
Bd, mint 4d to is per bunch ; potatoes, 75s to 180 s per ton.

THE TAILORS' STRIKE,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,--The Master Tailors' Association are de-
sirous of removing some misapprehensions, and to
give some explanations as to the causes and nature
of the strike among the operative tailors in London,
and I have therefore to ask you to be good enough
to give insertion to the following communication.
In order that the present dispute may be fully
understood, it is necessary to explain the principle
on which tho journeymen tailors in London are paid,
differing as it does from the general rules which
govern most other trades. For upwards of 30 years
past the tailors have been paid upon a scale of re-
muneration based on a calculation of the time that
it would take an ordinary workman to make a par-
ticular garment, not as the time within which the
garment must be made, but merely as the basis for
calculating the wages, and the workman is then paid
so much per hour calculated on that scale.

This is what is now called the " time log." Under
this " time log" every garment has a Certain num-
ber of hours appropriated to it. No change has ever
been made in this " time log." The only change
sought for up to the present time has been an in-
crettse of the rate of payment per hour, thus in fact
giving increased wages. Now, this special principle
of calculating wages recommends itself as a fair and
equitable one both to masters and to men, and 1
venture to think that the trade has reason to feel
that it has so long governed their mutual relations.
The effect is, that according to the degree of skill
and industry, so is the degree of payment. It is in
effect a principle of " piece-work," and the time log
is nothing more than a basis on which to calculate
the money to be paid for each piece of work, and when
an increase of wages has been agreed upon, it has
simply been necessary to increase the rate per hour.
Up to the spring of 1866 the rate per hour was
6d., but an increase having been demanded by the
London operatives an arrangement was .made the
effect of which was to increase the wages about an
average of Gs. per week. Matters so continued
until the early part of the presentyear, when a com-
munication was made to the Master Tailors' Asso-
ciation from the London Operative Association,
who had become in union with the Amalgamated
Society of Operatives. The object of the commu-
nication was to endeavour to obtain a uniform and
universal time log to regulate the trade not only in
London but throughout the United Kingdom. Some
discussions took place between the committees of
the master tailors and of the operatives, but these
led to no result beyond confirming the masters in
the opinion they had before entertained, that it
would be quite impossible to settle any " universal
time log" which would be applicable to London and
to every other part of the United Kingdom.
On Thursday, April 18, a printed circular, dated
April 16, from the London operatives and the
amalgamated societies, was sent to most of the prin-
cipal firms in London, enclosing what was called the
" Amalgamated Society of Journeymen Tailors'
Time Log," for adoption by them, and requiring a
reply by two o'clock on Saturday, the 20th inst.
This circular stated that the operatives " did not
seek an increase in the rate per hour, but simply the
adjustment of the time necessary to realise that which
was but a nominal advance." The time log, which
was enclosed, was a closely printed pamphlet, con-
taining 24 pages of matter, setting forth in great
detail the number of hours to be acknowledged as
the necessary tin: for making the various garments
&e., upon which time wages for the future should be
calculated ; but it also contained a great number of,
items heretofore comprised in the general payment,
but now demanded to be paid for as extras. This
time log seeks to alter for the first time the-gene-
rally adopted time for making garments in Lon-
don, and demanding an increase of so many hours,
involving of course, a corresponding increased
payment for each garment; in fact, the nominal
demand of further time in the time log appears to
the masters to be nothing more nor less than a de-
mand for increased wages to the extent of at least
Bs.- a week (in addition to the increase of last year),
under the cover of settling a " universal time log."
The London masters declined to adopt the proposed
time log, and, in accordance we conclude with orders
from the operatives' committee, the whole of the
men in nearly 90 of the principal establishments in
London are now out upon strike.

This association does not desire to intrude upon
the public the details connected with the demands
of the operatives. The above will give the general
nature of the dispute. 'They abstain from any com-
ment upon the course adopted by the operatives, as
they are anxious not to widen the difference which
has already arisen. Indeed, it is due to great num-
bers of the men in the employ of firms represented
by this association to say that they frankly admit
they do not desire any change, nor do they approve
of the proposed strike, as they are satisfied with the
present rate of wages; and we therefore are led to
the conclusion that this strike is the result of the
views of the leaders of the two operative societies
rather than of the men's uninfluenced judgments.
We do not call in question the zeal of these
leaders ; they may believe that they are best serving
the interests of their fellow-workmen in advising
the course which has been adopted, but we venture
to think they are not wise in this, and that the per-
manent interest of the trade, both as regards mas-
ters and men, will be seriously imperilled by what is
now being done.
I will only add one further observation, viz., that
there are numbers of excellent hands still employed,
but we regret to say that acts of intimidation and
obstruction are daily brought under the notice of

this association.
Apologising for the length of this letter, I am,
Sir, yours obediently,
R. LEWIS,
President of the Master Tailors' Association
of the United Kingdom. .
Master Tailors' Association of the United Kingdom,
25, Old Bond-street, London, W., April 26.

HER MAJESTY " CALLING" A MINISTER TO A
PARISH CHURCH.—At a meeting of the Kincardine
O'Neil Presbytery the other day, a call was laid on the
table from the parish of Crathie to the Rev. Mr. Taylor,
Montrose. Among the signatures to the call was that of
Dr. Robertson, who had been instructed to subscribe the
document on behalf of the Queen. The call was sustained.
—Edinburgh Courcult.
A SECOND LONG INCUMBENCY.—The Rev. J. IL
Bromby, who has just resigned the vicarage of the Holy
Trinity, Hull, was in the 70th year of his incumbency,
having succeeded the Rev. Joseph Milner, the Church his-
torian, in 1797. The rev. gentleman is in the 97th year of
his age ; he is in good health, and in the perfect possession
of his faculties.

THE SCHOOL FRIGATE CONWAY.—The committee
of the Conway School frigate, stationed in the
Mersey, on Thursday last passed a resolution, thanking
Captain Paynter, R.N., for the uniform courtesy and kind-
ness with which he has co-operated with them during his
three years' stay on the station in command of her Ma-
jesty's ship Donegal, and expressing regret that his de-
parture from Liverpool will deprive them of his valued
assistance and advice. Captain Paynter, during the period
he has been on the station, has won the esteem of all
classes of the Liverpool community. He has particularly
identified himself with all matters affecting the improve-
ment of the mercantile marine.

FATAL COLLISION.—The weather underwent a
considerable change off the Northumberland coast
on Wednesday night, the wind getting round to the N.E.,
and blowing a gale. Between 9 and 10 o'clock a screw
hopper, No. 1, belonging to the River Tyne Commissioners
ran into a steamtug, the Vigilant, oil the harbour mouth
and sank her in a few minutes. All hands jumped from
the tug into the hopper, but the master, Wm. Rainshaw,
and the vessel sank with him. He has left a widow and
five children. The rough sea has completely broken the
tug up, and her wreck is scattered along the shore.
THE CONVICT TOOMER.—A deputation, em-
bracing several friends of Miss Partridge, for an assault
upon whom Neville Maskelyno Towner is now undergoing
the sentence of fifteen years' penal servitude, waited upon
the Right lion. S. H. Walpole on Thursday. Several
gentlemen from Reading were also present with the depu-
tation. The Homo Secretary listened attentively to the
representations of the deputation, which, of course, were
adverse to the convict.
A town in Connecticut, which has a standing
reward of $3 per capita for foxes taken within its limits,
recently refused to settle with a hunting party that had
killed 13, because the animals were young. The
question now agitating the town is, "When is a fox a
fox ?"
Fifteen hundred freedmen have applied to tile
American Colonisation Society at Now York to ho sent to
Africa within eight months. Six hundred of them have
already embarked.