The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-26 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(By Telegraph.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Mlrch 23—Ballarat, and Mediator, from Mel-
bourne; Louisa, from Bombay ; Morning Star, from Tri-
nidad ; Annie Lisle, from Jamaica ; Kong Mow, from
Borbice ; Justitia, from Messina ; Zingari, from Terceira;
Recompense, and Wild Wave, from Guernsey; Metropo-
litan, steamer, from Hamburg.

CASE OF ACCIDENTAL POISONING AT HUNSLET.—
A rumour of a painful character, since verified, is in cir-
culation in Leeds, to the effect that a sad case of acciden-
tal poisoning had occurred at Hunslet. It appears that
two children, named Greenwood, have died from poison—.
arsenic, it is stated—taken in some gruel. It is also said
that other two of the children iu the family were ill, but
in their case the poison did not prove fatal. How the
deadly mixture came to be administered has not been ex-
plained. The authorities are of course making an in-
vestigation.

By the Chairman—Kingston was the residence
of Gordon.

By Mr. Corbet—Gordon's chief residence was at
Cherry Garden, in the parish of St. Andrew, about
six miles from Kingston. Gordon was a patient of

mine.

Augustus Walter Lake, who was a reporter in
Jamaica, said ho knew the late George William
Gordon, who was hung at Morant Bay on thci 23d
of October, 1865. He (witness) saw him hang till
he died. He was tried by court-martial, the court
consisting of Lieut. Brand, Lieut. Errington, and
Ensign Kelly. Col. Nelson was the military com-
manding officer at Kingston.
Dr. Alexander Fiddes, re-called, said Gordon was
arrested by Governor Eyre at Headquarters House.
The Governor said it was necessary to have him
apprehended. Gordon told Mr. Eyre he had come
to meet any charge there might be against him.
Mr. Eyre said it was necessary to arrest him, and
he must not leave unless accompanied by an escort.
Dr. Bowerbank, the chief magistrate at Kingston,
took charge of Gordon.
By Colonel Hill—That was on the 17th of October.
Gordon went away in Dr. Bowerbank's carriage, and
witness never again saw him alive.
By the Chairman-1 think Mr. Eyre was guilty
of murder as an accessory before the fact, as he per-
sonally apprehended him and took him to Morant
Bay, where he was executed.
The Chairman said the Bench thought it was
necessary to have the prosecutor before them.
Mr. Stephen said that as Mr. John Stuart Mill
was not at Market Drayton, he would cal] Mr.
Shaen, who would take upon himself the responsi-
bility of prosecuting. The learned counsel then
called
Mr. W. Shaen, who said—l am a solicitor, at 8,
Bedford-row. I have good reasons for believing
that Edward John Eyre was an accessory before the
fact to the murder of George William Gordon, at
Morant Bay, on Monday, the 23.1 of October, 1865.
I apply for a warrant to arrest Edward John .Eyre
on that charge.
Caleb King, police-constable, proved that Mr.
Eyre resided at Adierloy Hall, and was at Market
Drayton on Saturday last.
After some consultation as to the mode of proceed-
ing, the Bench decided to grant a warrant, which it
was arranged the chief constable should serve so as
to inconvenience Mr. Eyre as little as possible.
The Court then adjourned till 10 15 a.m. on
Wednesday.

IRELAND.

DuBLIN, March 25.

I ,telegraphed last night the following legal ap,
point►nents consequent upon the resignation of Mr.
Blackburne :—Lord Chancellor, Right Hon. A.
Brewster ; Lord Justice of Appeal, Hon. Justice
Christian ; Justice of the Common Pleas, Right
lion. Michael Morris ; Attorney-General, Hedges
Eyre Chatterton ; Solicitor-General, Robt. Richard
Warren.

The new Solicitor-General has been distinguished
as an advocate of the Church Education Society, and
consequently as an opponent of the system of edu-
cation founded by the present Prime Minister,
against which Mr. Warren has delivered many au
able and elaborate
speech. Mr. Chatterton, who
sneceeds to the Attorney-Generalship, will be re-
turned again by the Dublin University. The Solici-
tor-General will probably have to do without a seat
in Parliament for some time, unless Galway, which
has been so useful to the present Government,
should return him in the room of their distinguished
townsman, whose elevation to the bench the electors
have done so much to facilitate. The Galway Ex-
prese has heard the names of several local gentle-
men mentioned, and intimates that one related to
the senior member will offer himself.

The magistrates, at their first petty sessions held
in Kilmallock since the late Fenian outbreak, passed
resolutions expressing their warm approval of the
conduct of the local constabulary, and of Sub-In-
spector Milling and the ten men of the Kilfinane
police force, who proceeded to the assistance of the
Kihnallock police. They have also initiated a sub-
scription, to which they invite the residents of the
locality to contribute, in order to raise a fund for
the reward of the constables whose courage they so
strongly appreciate.
• On Saturday morning the Tipperary flying column
(48th, 4th Royal Irish, and 6th Carabineers), all
under the command of Colonel of the 48th,
accompanied by some members of the local consta-
bulary as guides, arrived in Kilfeacle, just as the
small hours of the morning were breaking. De-
tachments of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons and 6th
Carabineers were posted on the different roads be-
tween Golden, Kilfeacle, and 13allyhurst. All having
been arranged to prevent the possibility of escape or
attempt at rescue, a general search was instituted
for parties against whom informations had been
lodged, it is said, by an approver. The result of the
search was the capture of four men named Cornelius
Fogarty (brother to O'Neil Fogarty), Thomas and
John Carroll (brothers), and David Farrell. Later
in the day the whole police force was engaged in
escorting them to Cashel, where they were examined
before the Hon. M. J. Ffrench, R M., and remanded
to Cashel Gaol on a charge of high treason. Great
credit is due to the authorities for the capture of
those men.

At Wexford, on Saturday, Patrick W. Keough, a
farmer of Taghtnon, having been remanded for the
third time as a suspected Fenian, was discharged,
there being no sufficient evidence against him.
At the Nenagh Petcy Sessions, on Saturday,
Timothy Gleeson, an elder brother of " General"
Gleeson, was brought up and ordered to be detained
under a warrant from the Lord Lieutenant. Michael
Gleeson, the father of the general, who had been
arrested for boasting that he was the father of seven
rebels, was discharged, the prisoner having urged
in his defence that he was drunk at the time, and did
not know what he said. lie was cautioned by the
chairman, and was ordered to find bail, himself in
£5O, and two sureties in £25 each, to keep the peace
for two years, but on_ his intimating to the court
that he could not find persons in Nenagh to go bail

for him he was let out on his own recognisance in
the sum of £5O.

The Glencullen and Stepaside stations have been
again occupied by the constabulary. The B troop of
the ROyal Engineer train, under the command of
Lieut. J. Gore Booth, consisting of an officer, two
sergeants, six corporals, one trumpeter, 44 men,
with 40 horses, arrived in Dublin from Liver-
pool at three o'clock a.m. yesterday, and
proceeded, on embarkation, to Portobello Bar-
racks, where they remained last night and will
march to the Curragh Camp to-day, there to be sta-
tioned for the present. The troop is fully equipped
with pontoons and all other appliances necessary
for campaigning.

Strike of Engine-Driv3rs on the Brighton

Railway.

We are requested to state that in consequence of
the strike of a large number of the engine-drivers
and firemen on the London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway, the time tables must be considered
as in abeyance. The utmost possible endeavours
will be made to carry passengers to their respective
destinations, but a large number of the trains must
be taken off, and the speed of those run materially
diminished.

The following notice has been issued by the

company :

The directors were not without hope that the reply
which they had given to the memorial presented by
the enginemen and firemen- would have solved the
pending difficulty ; but they must now inform the
public that the majority of the enginemen and fire-
men constituting the staff of this railway have noti-
fied their intention of retiring from the service, un-
less their deinands are satisfied. At a further
interview to-day satisfactory explanations took
place, and au agreement was come to as regards
shed days, Sunday work, the number of miles to be
run as constituting a day's work, amounting in the
aggregate to not more than 750 miles per week—all
beyond that number to be counted, and paid for as
extra. The board also, though deeming the demand
unreasonable, and not for the permanent interest of
the men, conceded that each day should be counted
as ten. hours, instead of as a tenth of 60 hours ;
although, in practice, the day's work on this line is
limited very frequently to less than five hours. The
rate of wages paid by this company is so liberal that
no permanent loss will result in conceding the scale
asked. The directors were therefore willing that the
minimum pay of drivers should be 65., progressing up-
wards to 7s. Gd. per day, and the minimum pay of
firemen 3s. 6d., advancing to 4s. 6d. per day. But the
demand that all engine-drivers and firemen shall be
advanced to the maximum scale of wages, after a
few months' service, without reference to their
ability, is so wrong in principle that the
board cannot reconcile it with their sense of duty to
consent to such a demand. Should the engine-
drivers and firemen act on their notices and retire,
the directors will at once reduce the number of
trains and the present speed, so as not to exceed in
any case a maximum of 20 miles per hour, and they
will make available' all the resources and means at
their disposal for safely working as many trains as
practicable, and will spare no exertion to replace
the staff at the earliest possible period.—By order,
ALLEN SARLE, Acting Secretary.
London-bridge Terminus, March 25.

What took place yesterday on the subject may be
briefly stated. The drivers and firemen waited
upon the Brighton board, at the London-bridge
terminus, an understanding having been come to
on Friday week lnst the notices to leave the service
of the company on the following Tuesday should
not be acted upon, and that the men would con-
tinue to ork their trains until yesterday, in order

to give the board time for considering the whole
question of the dispute. It appears that the scale
of wages which the directors proposed to pay to the
drivers was an increasing one of 6d. per day every

12 months until it reached a maximum of 7s. 6d.
per d:iy ; and that the pay was to commence at Gs.
per day. Tue proposition of the men. was-that the
increase of 6d. per day should take place every six
months, they stating that they would be satisfied to
receive- 7s 61 per day after two years instead of
18 months' service. A very -strong objection was
made by the men that the proposed increase of
wages would take place at the option of the loco-
motive superintendent, and that objection was sup-
ported by statements made by them that such a
system would encourage favouritism, of which
they had complained for a long time past. With
the exception of these two points the require-
ments of the men were acceded to. The depu-
tation, which waited upon the board of directors
yesterday, refused to some to any compromise,
and left the board-room stating that none of
the men would run a single train this morn-
ing. At eleven o'clock last night the men had
left their place of meeting in Tooley-street, and un-
less a special agent should be sent down the line with
an intimation that the men's terms were acceded to,
the probability is that this morning traffic will be in
a great measure, if not wholly, suspended.

On Saturday 968 engine-drivers and firemen of
the Newcastle, Leeds, York, and Malton sections of
the North Eastern Railway—but not including the
Stockton and Darlington section—sent in their
notices to cease work on the 20th April next, unless
in the meantime the demands of the men were con-
ceded by the board. The men have taken this step
in consequence of the non-acceptance by the board
of the "scale" system of wages proposed by the
men, although they yielded 6d. per day in their de-
mands, and were satisfied with the directors' con-
ceaions as to the number of hours' labour being
reduced from 12 to 10. The Stockton and sDarling-
ton men are expected to support their comrades of
the other sections, inasmuch as they supported the
Darlington men during their grievances some time
ago.