The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-13 00:00:00

THE STRIKE IN THE IRON TRADE.

STOCKTON.—The West Stockton Iron Company resumed
work on Tuesday at a reduction of five per cent., and an
agreement that should there be a further reduction at the
other works they will accept it. Messrs. Whitwell, of
South Stockton, have arranged with their puddlers to
resume work on Thursday morning, they having come to
the masters' terms.—Northern Daily Express.
SOUTH WALES.—When the announcement appeared of
a reduction of wages to the extent of ten per cent, in the
North of England, it was generally believed at the time
that the step would only prove a preliminary to what
would follow in the other iron-producing districts of the
kingdom. This expectation has now been realised as far
as the South Wales district is concerned, a month's notice
having been given at the principal establishments of the
district to all hands employed, at the end of which
a reduction will be carried out which will in all rroba-
bility be ten per cent., the same as in the North of
England. The general depression which prevails in the
trade, the stoppage of so many railway undertakings and
other public works where iron formed so large an element
of construction, and the abnormal condition of the money
market, compels the employers to take this step, and
there is no doubt that, even after a reduction is enforced,
a large quantity of iron will be sold at a loss to the manu-
facturer, unless quotations greatly improve. No reliable
opinion can yet be formed as to how the men will act
uneer the circumstances, but it is believed they will offer
no opposition, as any attempt at resistance would inevit-
ably lead to the closing of many establishments and a
anther contraction of employment.

SERIOUS COLLISION BETWEEN WELSH
AND CORNISH COLLIERS.

A serious outbreak occurred at Coedcae Colliery, on
Wednesday. It may be remembered that the Welsh
colliers, having had some. dispute with the proprietors of
the pit, left their work, and their places were filled up by
Cornish men. The men have quarrelled occasionally, but
3n Tuesday night the matter assumed a serious phase.
Near the Coedcae pit is a hamlet called Eirw.
The principal, if not the only public-house there,
is the Vaughan Arms. Here the Cornish and
Welshmen alike met and partook of their beer
Whether the parties were snore than usually bitter does
not yet appear, but the result was a general fight, in which
the Cornishmen, being superior in numbers, succeeded in
very severely beating two men, almost killing them. Their
names are John Edwards and John Loveluck. Between
ten p.m. and midnight it was rumoured through the valley
that two Welshmen had been nearly beaten to death by
an overwhelming number of opponents, 4.nd in a short time
the hamlet of Eirw, where most of the strangers live, was
the centre towards which crowds were wending their way
"on evil thoughts intent." Every house in which a
Cornishman was supposed to reside was attacked, and in
a short time there was not a pane left undemolished—
even the sashes were destroyed. The following morning
the excitement was intense. The men from the upper
end of the valley left their work and hastened to the
scene of the disaster. The chief constable, Colonel
Lindsay, sent up a strong body of armed police constables,
under the command of Superintendent Wrenn, but the
thousands who had cong,regated soon dispersed. Warrants
have been issued against the parties who maltreated the
men Edwards and Loveluck.

THE OAKS COLLIERY COMPENSATION
CLAIMS.

After a deliberation extending, over several months,
during which tithe the sense of the whole of the lodges in
the South Yorkshire district has been taken relative to
the above important question, the following resolutions
I have been passed by the council :-1. "That in the opinion
of this executive it is the bounden duty of the South
Yorkshire Miners' Association to do all in its power to
enforce the law for protection of the miners working in the
Barnsley district, and as this locality has proved to be a
dangerous one from the prevalence of fiery gases, and as
the danger will increase with the depth and extent of
the workings, so will the, responsibility and duty of coal
proprietors to take all practical and possible precautions,
scientific and,mechanical, to ensure safety to life and limb of
the working miners." 2. "That the late disastrous explosion
of the Oaks pit having had the best consideration of the
executive of the association, and considering, after the
best advice, the uncertainty of law and the certainty of
ruinous costs ; considering that Mr. Dymond and the pro-
prietors, by advice of their engineers, appear to have used
such precautions as they believed to be adequate to ensure
safety, and have shewn exemplary attention to future
safety and to the condition of the bereaved, the execu-
tive recommend that no case of compensation be prose-
cuted relative to this explosion ; and while sympathising
with the disastrous losses of the proprietors, the
executive commend the relief of the widows, children,
and relatives of the poor miners deceased to their best
consideration." 3. " That the executive of this asso-
ciation, while rendering their sympathy and support to
such coal proprietors as perform their duty and endea-
vour to protect the lives and limbs of their workmen from
accidents and danger, shall also do their best, in duty bound,
to enforce the laws, and all just penalties, against all care-
lessness, negligence, and unlawful practices in the work-
ing of coal mines, and to endeavour to reduce and prevent
as far as practicable the fearful accidents and explosions
in the Barnsley district —fatal alike to the lives of the
men and the prosperity of the masters."

EXTRAORDINARY TIDES ON THE EAST COAST OF
LINCOLNSIIIIIE.—GREAT DAMAGT.—ADDLMTHORPE, DEC.
12, NOON.—We regret to say that with the full moon, and
a strong north-west wind, the coast of Lincolnshire has
again suffered much damage. No one who is unacquainted
with the character of the shore, banks, and projections
from Chapel down to Ingo!amens can form even a faint
idea of the incalculable damage sustained by the giving
way of the sea bank. Such persons as live in the South
of England, at Hastings or St. Leonards', for instance,
are only accustomed to a retiring tide of about ten
yards, whilst on this coast it runs away from two hun-
dred to three hundred yards. Labourers had been em-
ployed on Tuesd, in making a " cradge-dyke," really an
artificialbank, by which about ten acres of land would be
eventually given back again to the sea. The full moon was
on Tuesrhty, and on that evening the bank was first at-
tackedbthe sea, and on Wednesday morning a great por-
tion of the.new bank was carried away, whilst to-day's
tide has washed holes in the sea bank from 70 to 100
yards in length, and completely carried away, in parts,
the new embankment, and submerged the North Hilcroft
Marsh, belonging to Messrs. Kemp, Martin, and Massing-
herd-Mundy. The person who can the worst afford
it will be the heaviest loser by this calamity. The whole
of the marsh, which was lately so luxuriant, is now covered
with water, and sea-gulls and other aquatic birds aro
disspgrting themselves upon it.