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.
W. 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 the consequences 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 carefully 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, et'
tended by Lady Churchill.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, walked in the llcoe
Park.
The Queen, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and
Prince Christian, and the Ladies and Gentlemen
is
Waiting, attended Divine service this morning i°
the private chapel.
The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor,
assisted by the Rev. R. Duckworth, administered
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, M.D."

The Earl of Leitrim has arrived as Killad°°l3'
Cellbridge, his seat in county Kildare, from Dublin.
The Earl of Charlemont arrived at his residence,
in Dublin, on Monday last, to join the counteo, for the
Easter recess.

Lord John Brown, ALP., has arrived at West"
port House, Ireland, from town.
LORD IVA.movonTii.—At the latter end of nest
month, the 29th Lord Warkworth, the eldest son of
the Earl and Countess Percy, attains his majority, And 111
consequence the Earl and Countess Percy; at the desire of
the Duke of Northumberland, whose griat age precludes
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 old
castle of the Peroys has been the scene of such hospitality
as is promised. The magnificent Royal tent at Sion, 0511"
structed by Mr. B. Edgington, of Duke-street, London'
bridge, calculated to accommodate upwards of 1,000 ir
sons, which was made at the express desire of the third
Duke of Northumberland, for his princely festivities at
Sion, is to be removed to Alnwick and erected in proxi-
mity to the castle. It is thought and intended that 1,400
persons shall be regaled on the day of the coming of age
of the young Lord Warkworth. The festivities are to
last six days.

The " Quarterly Review" and Mr. Dixon on

" New Amelica."

Several days since the following communication
appeared in our leading contemporary as Mr. Her
worth Dixon's comment upon his latest critic, the
one who has but just now reviewed his two volume
on " New America" in the current number of the
Quarterly.
"6, St. James's-Terrace, April 13, 1867.
Ths Quarterly Review, just issued, has an article 00
New America,' in which a passage occurs so false in fact
and so injurious to me, that I may perhaps be allowed,
without suspicion of unfairly intruding on public notice, to
sot the matter right. I have never answered, and I should
never think of answering, any literary criticism. I have
too much respect for honest conviction ; but the point nolf
raised is one of good manners and of fair dealing, such ag
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 his
book, Mr. Dixon volunteers a hint to his friends at Bish(Wefr.
thorpe or Wells to go and see in person what the Salo°
are doing in Whitechapel. The advice is good, though
the tone of giving it might have been better, if Mr. Dis°ll
had thought of recent proof of sympathy with the worki
classes given by eminent dignitaries of the Church.'
"Now, I beg leave to say that I have never done this
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 Arob-
bishop of York. These eminent prelates aro conspicuous,
even on the English Episcopal bench, for their devotion to
the various labours of their sacred office.
" What I really wrote was general in meaning : Erg:
Convocation ever given up a day to the book of Mormon
Has a bishop over visited the Saints in Commercial-road?
Two or three ministers may have fired off pamphlets
against them; but have any of these reverend fathers boon
to see them iu their London homes ?' These hints 104
have been either wise or foolish. That is matter of judg'
mcnt. The Quarterly says the advice involved in these
hints is 'good.' But it will be seen that I mention o°
names, I imply no censure of individuals. I confine 'y '
self to facts which cannot be disputed. It is the Quartet
not myself, that brings the names of Lord Auckland no"
Dr. Thomson into this connexion. How and why it 11$ti
done so I cannot guess.—Yours, &c.,
" W. HEPWORTH DIXON."
In answer to the foregoing, the" Quarterly" Re-
viewer has since then written :--
Sir,—Mr. Hepworth Dixon is hard to please. lie
is angry with me for making use of his own phrase°'
logy, and puts upon it a meaning which he disowns,
and which I certainly never intended.
In New America, vol. i., p. 252, Mr. Dixon
writes :

" Last Sunday, after service at the Tabernacle, BrigkO
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 revoreltu
fathers had met to do. We rather wondered what o r
friends at Bishopsthorpe and Wells would think of such
scene."
Again, in vol. 1., p. 240, he says :
" Has Convocation ever given up a day to the Book 0f
Mormon ? Has a Bishop ever visited the Saints in 0°11"
morcial-road ?"
In mentioning Mr. Dixon's advice contained ru
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 therein
any ambiguity in the words, Mr. Dixon is the calf
person to blame. He is in this dilemma :—Either
he meant a personal allusion in speaking of "his,
friends at Bishopsthorpe and Wells ;" or, if he dad
not, he has no right to complain of ray using his
f
own words in the same sense, far less to speak of
them as "false in fact and injurious to him."
am, sir, your obedient servant,
THE " QUARTERLY" REVIEWER.
London, April 16.
And now, in continuation, if not in actual, Ora'
pletion, of this correspondence, we have 'el
recently received the following letter from the
author of " New America" :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Six,—The Quartley Review is hard to understand.
First, it made me say that the Archbishop of York so'
the Bishop of Bath and Wells ought to have seen whet the
Mormons were doing in Commercial-road.
Next, it blamed mo for saying so.
My answer was that I never wrote anything of the
kind ; that I made no allusion to either Dr. Thomson c't
Lord Auckland in respect to what the Saints may 1181
been doing in Whitechapel ; and that it was the Quarter-
Reviewer, not myself, who brought the names of theti°
eminent prelates into this connection.
Met by a prompt denial, the Reviewer says I am bard to
please, and then quotes from a subsequent part of my WI:
—from a chapter on a different topic—a query as to Yilia
these prelates, so renowned for their discharge of episc°l):,
duties might think of the extension of episcopal duty in
the sphere of purely lay affairs.
Is this reference an answer to my complaint that I h°/:
been abused for imputing blame to two eminent prelates
which I have not imputed ? t of
The question is one of fact—not of inference—n°-,
opinion. Yes or no—have I said this thing, implied to'
blame ? —Yours, &c., W. HEPWORTH .1)12coS.
6, St. James's-terrace, April 17.

ARTIFICIAL CULTIVATION OF TRUFFLES.—After:
long and diligent study of the locality and Datur-di
conditions under which this esteemed delicacy is produce;ta'
M. Rousseau, of Carpentras, in France, has sucmeded '-
his attempts to cultivate truffles, and has already ntised
very fair crop. There is no reason why they should On
be grown with equal facility in England, and it might Abu
be worth the serious attention of some of our scieatitilt
agriculturists to devote a few acres of their land to gio
a fair trial, the more so as a plantation of oak trees
importance, both in a national and pecuniary point of Ad".
The truffle grows exclusively under oaks standing orttiln
closely together, and free from underwood, and in a 6°l'
chalk or light clay, with a southerly aspect, and on a 51°Pt;
M. Rousseau had a suitable piece of very inferior Wile.n.
land ploughed up as if for a vineyard, and then planted la
distant rows, running north and south,with acorns gather° r
from oaks under which truffles were known to grow'. .'l,teft
five years he was rewarded for his patience by obtaiui"or
small quantity of truffles, which increased so much evei);
year that the produce of hie plantation, which wag I,g,
fear hectares or ten acres in extent, amounted, in the
'O.O
years from 1862 to 1866 inclusive, to no less than
kilogr., or 2,600 lbs., equal to 2601b5. per acre for the tlQe
years, or 5.21J)5. per acre tyory year.-2'ho Grow.

MONEI MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL IN TELLIGENCR,

T O'CCK. I
In the money market there isWELVE
very littleanima-
tion, consequent upon the small attendance in most
departments, and the rates remain nominally un-
altered.
Gold to the amount of £9,491, and £15,380 in
dollars, have arrived by the Ripon from Alexandria
and Bombay.
b The specie movements during the past week have
cell on a very limited scale. The imports have
amounted to about £1u9,906, including £3,600 from
New York, by the Palmyra ; £66,000 from Aus-
tralia, by the Red Jacket ; £12,670 from Bombay,
Via overland, by the Ripon, from Alexandria ; and
there have been remittances from the Continent,
chiefly in silver, amounting to £26,936. The ex-
Ports have comprised £5,000 to the West Indies,
by the Douro, and'there have been remittances to
the Continent through private sources, estimated at
£116,334, the total amounting to £121,334.
At the Paris Bourse yesterday the closing prices
of the Funds were 65.80 for money, and 65.67 for
the account.
erne directors of the St. John d'El Rey Mining
Company (Limited) have received the following re-
dated Morro Velho, March 1867 :—Produce
for February, 45,891 oitavas; from 4,851 tons
Yield,,s 8,957 oitavas per ton ;
co3t for February,
dl-0,474 ; profit for February, £7,246; produce, 11
ays of March, 15,752 oitavas ; yield, 8,473 oitavaa
per ton.

Mviees from the River Plate, by French mail up
to 12th March, show little improvement in the
stateor trade since the last accounts. On 'Change
at,,,"3"nes Ayres a moderate business had been
transacted in National Bonds at 48 49f. Several
brokers had failed. The Provincial Government
Buenos Ayres had issued a circular inviting the
Public
at to the subscription of a loan of $4,000,000
cent 98 Per cent., with 7 per cent. interest, and 1 per
was • Milking fund, but very little support, however,
tk given to this measure, and it was not expected
tuat it would be carried out. Considering that
79 epos Ayres stock in London can be bought at
at Qo Per cent. it is undoubtedly too high a price
Ch such is offered to the public at Buenos
Ayres.

haPdr°lll the seat of war is Paraguay nothing new
Occurred, though it was said the Brazilians
!ere preparing for a great attack on Curupaity.
le!t yet nothing is known regarding the mediation
the United States, but it was hoped it would
e successful as all are heartily sick of this pro-
tracted war.
111 the interior provinces of the Argentine Confe-
deration the revolution has as yet not been sup-
rees,ed, though the Government troops were daily
ceiving:reinforcements.
Fromm Chili it is stated that an armistice had
been Concluded with Spain. Financial affairs seemed
in sad disor.ler, and a new emission of $5,000,000
t_vl Treasur
mad y Bills, bearing 11 per cent. interest, had
',leen
e.
d reul Brazil news is not cheering. Trade very
14wo 11' Coffee coming in slowly, and cholera had
ken out at Ito.
day, According to Reuter's telegram 'from Paris to-
the French Renter were 65f. 45c. Great un-
easiness.

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for 30 yrs, expire hth April —
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rehoquor Bills, £l,OOO, o and 4 per Ct 22 5
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,°. Account
4-go. 5 per Cont. July, 1880
",,°. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
uo. Certific
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Do' 6 Per Cent., Jan. 1872
ip si. Per Cent.. May 1879
,sii• Deb., 6 per Cent., Aug. 1873
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Uraziliau 5 per bent
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Do. £lOO Bonds Bl 801
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Govr
' -.3INMENT INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES.—An
"eon Recount n issued by the Postmaster-General shows that from
the commencement of business on the 17th April, 1865, to
tu 31st December, 1866, the sums received on account of
Governmento annuity and insurance contracts amounted to
3,938 13s. 11d. Of this £74,963 15s. was paid to the
National Debt Commissioners for investment, £3,607 2s. 3d.
In respect of 312 annuities, and £3,813145. Bd. to the com-
reiBsion
ers on account of premiums received on contra*
for
of "Ins payable at death. The amount paid for charges
butnagetueut was £2,477 14s. 61

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