The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-30 00:00:00

rim SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEN

just wa►s a similar demand made to Mr. DIXON, a
plastenT, of Bradford, on Saturday, March 30th,
intimating that unless Mr. DixoN's brothers joined
41e union that day the men would strike on the
:Monday morning. It is fair to add that the request
:had been previously made to ➢lr. DIXON, but
-the opportunity for intimidation was seized when he
had many contracts on hand and was pressed for
time. Ile, therefore, sent back a note intimating
-that his brothers would join as required. Embol-
,dened by their success, the men sent back the mes-
Avnger to say that the note was not satisfactory, and
-unless the entrance fee of half a guinea each was at
once paid the strike would take place. So far is
this system carried that when an employer who bad
been brought up to the trade, and being short of
bands and pressed for time, went to work himself,

lie was struck against by the labourers. The
case of Mr. IlownovD, referred to in the
evidence of the secretaries of the Unions ap-
pears to have been incorrectly stated. It
said that Mr. HOWROYD, on receiving the demand
that his sons should join the union, locked out his
men. The fact was that he refused to compel his
sons to join, and the men therefore struck on the
Monday as threatened. The other masters made
common cause with Mr. HownoYD, and locked out

their shops until the strike was withdrawn from
Mr. Hownovn's. However, they did not hold to-
gether so well as the men. They gave in at the end of
five weeks, and left Mr. HownoTD to fight the So-
ciety alone, which he did. He got other men but they
have been continually interfered with andannoyed,
if not intimidated, as they went about the streets,
and consequently Mr. Hownovn has had to carry on
his work under great disadvantages. Mr. HOWROYD,
it seems, is quite willing to come forward and give
evilimce himself, and we could not do better than '
call him. So serious a height have these unions
grown to that builders are seriously embarassed,
and many large employers will not tender for work
unless protected by a strike clause. The workmen
are so commonly in the habit of striking for an
increase of wages whoa a large contract is on hand
that the contractors, unless they have a strike
clause in the contract, giving them time in case of
a strike among their hands, are often very heavy
losers. It is satisfactory to learn, from the evi-
dence of Mr. MAULT, master builder, and Secre-
tary of the General Builders' Association, that the
number of non•unionists is really very large—far
larger than the unionists ; but the reign. of terror
which these have established prevents the truth from
being known. Mr. MAI'LT declared that the
masters had to give evidence both for themselves and
the non-unionists. " The fact is, that the men
tiv:lnselves are in many cases too frightened to give
evidence, and I am sorry to say that the
same is the case with the masters. I
have received, viva voce, I should think, a
hundred times as much evidence as I have
received in a form that I could bring before this
commission ; and I have received many letters also,
butlo in these cases
wi.4ltomake martyrs
itrtymrasoefrs have
said, '
ourselves,
we do
do
not noto

want our names mentioned, and you must not say
anything abort this before the royal commission." In
one case certain men offered to come forward and
give evidence if they were enabled to emigrate after
doing so. Really we had better not hear much more
of the tyranny of the aristocracy and the selfishnes3
of the masters !

We arc not surprised that Mr. BEALES finds him-
self in a position of some difficulty, so much so
that he has had to confess it. Last night at the
carnival of the Reform League he said that they
had met with a view of considering what the future
course of actioa of the Leage should be. After
oo.aurrod in the lluuao tho u;sl.4
was, he said, difficult to know what to do, for
" really all their friends on the Liberal side were
doing nothing but complimenting the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, and saying they were perfectly
satisfied with the bill, which was as much
as to say that the Reform League might be
shut up." This was the unkindest cut of all, and
evidently revealed the truth of the matter in a great
measure. lie must bear in mind that Mr. BEALES
said not a word himself in "favour'' of the bill now
before Parliament, although he was obliged to
admit that all their friends in the House had agreed
as to its merits in its present amended form. We
think that this is disingenuous on the part of the
League, because right is right in all places,
and if they had been told at the com-
mencement of the session that they would
have even half what has been conceded,
they would have been surprised. Mr. BEALES will
not argue that OTHELLO'S occupation is goae, how-
ever, and though some may believe that the agita-
tion for Reform is at an end he thinks otherwise ;
the League has a great deal to do yet, and he for
one is not prepared to lower the banner of man-
hood suffrage. This is a great mistake in every
point of view. Manhood Suffrage is quite incom-
patible with the state of things in this country,
and will never answer. As for the intimation
made that the League cauld be useful in many
other matters, Mr. BEALES' best friends should ad-
vise him not to attempt too much. What answers
for one purpose seldom if ever answers for another ;
and, allowing that the League had done all that ins
members profess, it would be a suicidal act on their
part to keep up the affair, with a view to carrying
other measures. They would best illustrate their
real lore for the cause they profess to have so much
at heart by frankly acknowledging the services
rendered to it by the Government, and c:ase from
their labours.

SMELLFUNGUS AT THE DERBY.—The Derby of
18G7 will be for ever memorable, says a dyspeptic and
snarling contributor to the Saturday Reriew = first, because
it was snowing hard half an hour before the flag fell ;
secondly, because it was won by a horse who had been
long regarded as good as dead, and who, it was believed
only came to the post in order to save numerous bets that
depended on his starting. There is perhaps nothing, even
under the most favourable circumstances, so wholly and
utterly uncomfortable and unenjoyable as the Derby-day.
From the beginning to the end it is one continuous struggle
to move, to breathe, to see. A succession of rushes requiring
the greatest muscular exertion—a rush to the railway-
station, a rush from the train to a fiy, a rush from the fly
to the Stand, from the Stand to the Paddock, from the
Paddock to the Ring—this is the character of the great
holiday of the year. It is a strange sort of pleasure to be
wedged in for how/ in a dense crowd, to be deafened with
the din of countless voices, to fight with arms and legs to
maintain a footing, in order, at last, after long weary wait-
ing, to get one glimpse over ten thousand heads of a blue
and a red and a yellow jacket flashing by, and to see exhi-'
bited on the telegraph the number of a horse whom for
weeks past you have proved to all your friends, with the
greatest critical and analytical sagacity, to be incapable
of finishing among the first twelve. It is curious
what trouble -and fatigue people will undergo, espe-
cially about matters cf which they are entirely
ignorant. Out of every hundred persons who go to the
Derby it is pretty certain that ninety-nine know nothing
and rare nothing about racing; they go from a dull obe-
dience to custom, they get very much in the way, they
block up all the thoroughfares, they run perpetually tip
and down stairs without aim or object, and they eat and
drink a great deal more than is good for them. There are
thousands no doubt who call this pleasure ; but lovers of
racing, in the prospect of such delights, may be excused
for regretting that the Derby is not run somewhere else
than at Epsom.

In committee on the Representation of the People
(Scotland) Bill, Mr. Dalglish will move that the Universi-
ties of St. Andrew's, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Abordeon
shall return one member • Mr. Dater—That tho counties
of Selkirk and Peebles be united and return ono member.
That thu counties Of Ross and Orowarty and Sutherland be
united and return one metulxbr ; and Mr. Robertson (Ber-
wickshire) —That the possession of a residence wit Lin the
county nkolliorat a necessary part of the county franchiAe.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARTS, Wednesday Evening.
The official journal of Austria, the Abendpost,
states from a certain source that the coronation of

the Emperor of Austria as King of Hungary will
take place 'on the Bth of June, unless any unfore-

seen event should prevent it.

The Moniteur states that by a rescript of the Em-
peror of Austria the Diet of Croatia is dii,solved
with the reserve that there shall be .a new and
speedy convocation of it. The rescript mentions as
the reason for the dissolution, that the retirement
•f the majority of the members of the Diet has
brought to light pretensions which render the realisa-
tion of a coustitational arrangement impossible.
The rescript adds that the desire of the Emperor is
not longer to adjourn the ceremony of the coro-
nation.

It is stated from Berlin that a Conference of the
Plenipotentiaries of the States forming part of the
Zoliverein, and which do not belong to the Confe-
deration of Northern Germany, will meet in the
course of the month of July in that city with a view
to deliberate upon the modifications of the existing
treaties rendered necessary by the new Constitution
of Northern Germany.
The Turin Gazette announces that the definitive
signature of the financial condition between the
Italian Government and several large banking
establishments, represented by the house of Erlanger
and Co., took place on Monday last.
Private telegrams from Bucharest and Vienna
allude to excessive measures which had been adopted
by the Ministry of the united Principalities against
a certain nutnberof Jews. It is added that upon
the representations of France, in which the Austrian
Government bad joined, those measures had been
immediately withdrawn. •
It is stated that King. Victor Emmanuel will come
to Paris about the 10th June, accompanied by the
Duke and Duchess d'Aoste, Princess Clotilde, and
the Queen of Portugal. The illustrious visitors will
embark at Genoa for Marseilles, escorted by a
squadron now almost ready for sea. Several Arabian
Caids have disembarked at Marseilles, on their way
to Paris to visit the exhibition.

A report has prevailed that there is an intention
to close the Session of the Chambers without pro-
ceeding with the important projects of law respect-
ing the press and the right of public meeting. I
believe there is no foundation for the report, and
that the Government is desirous to pass a law
which would relieve the press from restriction, as
far as is compatible with circumstances and the
temper of the times. Upon this subject the Siecle
says :—" We never thought, for our part, that it
would be possible to postpone two questions of such
importance, and to leave the citizens in uncertainty,
who wish every day to consult upon their interests,
and the journalists iu suspens, between the admin-
istrative regime and the jurisdiction of the Tribu-
nals."

The France gives a positive contradiction to the
report, but seems to think it necessary to suspend
the deliberations of the Chamber temporarily. "In
that case, however, there would only be a short
prorogation, and they would meet again imme-
diately after the session of the General Councils."

The Memorial Diplomatique says that " the
evacuation of the fortress of Luxemburg by the
Prussian troops has commenced, and that on Satur-
day morning the greater portion of the artillery in
garrison in that fortress had left for Troves. The
remainder of the troops would leave the fortress
between the Bth and 15th of next month. As to
the war materiel, of which there was a large
accumulation in the fortress, that it can only be
taken away gradually, but there will not be much
delay." _ _ _

A subscription has been opened at Montauban

the native town of Ingres, to raise a statue to the
memory of that eminent painter. The committee
is under the direction of N. Prex-Paris, the Mayor
of Montauban.

The fête of the Rogations was celebrated by th. 2
Church of Paris, on Monday, in a pious and solemn
manner. The Rogations consist of fervent suppli-
cations made by the ancients with the hope of ad-
verting any calamity supposed to be imminent,
clic Ina tit u Ciuu of Clicae
public prayers to Saint Mulled, a bishop who lived
about the middle of the fifth century, but some
writers say that these prayers were made in the
East before the time of St. Basile, a century or two
previously. At that period, however, the prayers
were vague and indefinite, and were only offered up
on occasions of pressing danger. Saint Mamert
made them a regular and periodical institution, and
fixed the time for the three days preceding the
Ascension. Under this reform of Mamert, the
Rogations were adopted throughout the whole
Christian world. In several of the ancient pro-
vinces of France—Brittany and Languedoc, for in-
stance, the Rogations are celebrated with much rustic
pomp. The curate at the head of a procession leaves
the church to the sound of the bells, to bless the
products of the earth, and the peasants conduct
their cattle to the grand square of the village so
that
they
may
have their share in the benediction.
T h e
d.thunder storm of Monday afternoon was of
short iiration, and it was not violent, but accounts
have been received of considerable damage done by
it in several localities. The lightning struck the
northern tower of the church of St. Sulpice, and
several masses of stone were precipitated to the
lowerground' without injuring any one. The
ceilinghappily
was much damaged. The
electric wire by which messages may be conveyed to
the church of St. Germain des Pres, situated at a
distance of about half a mile, was broken, and in of the
tower
falling it struck th..: face of a passer by. To-
day the heat has been very oppressive and
another thunder storm seems imminent.

M The
soldiers M Paris having made a request to
be allowed to visit the Exhibition, the request has
been complied with in a rather curious but effective

is composed of an entire
ItA All the troops of the manner. - A military post has been established
battalionwithigarri-
sonn th eo
of
biunifladni nt
rgy..
form this post. The battalion arrives at to o'clock
in the morning, deposit their arms and accoutre-
ments under the railway gallery, and the soldiers
may then walk freely about the Palace and park.
At 5 o'clock the battalion is again formed in order,
and leaves the Champ de Mars by the gate of hoc-
our.

Great preparations are in progress in the Otto
man section of the park to give appropriate recep-
tion to the Sultan Abdul 'Azis. The pavilion, now
a very modtst looking Wilding, is to be changed
into sumptuous divans, which will be fitted up with
Oriental luxury and magnificence.
It is said that the Chinese theatre will be cer-
taicly opened on Saturday next: A wonderful
conjuror, Ling-Cool will astonish the natives. He
swallows great numbers of eggs without breaking
them, and puts a sword nine-tentbs of a yard long
down his throat. The renowned Chinese juggler
Alexandrini will appear on the same day.
Such is the number of English visitors to the Ex-
hibition that it is often necessary for the railway
company to put on extra trains from Calais to
One frequently
Paris. sees more English than
French at the Palace.
Nearly 80,000 persons paid for admission on
Monday.
spite of some captious cavilling, the
simple fact is that every day there is an increased
desire to witness and appreciate its marvels.
The Opinion Nationale says—" It would seem
that clouds are again arising between France and
Prussia."

One of the Paris papers reports that an autograph
letter of invitation from the Emperor has been sent
to the Emperor of China, and that his Celestial
Majesty is likely to accept it, and show himself at
the Exhibition. This wo}ild be another good card
for it.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A youth named Ed-
wards, in the employment of lir. Lowe, gunsmith,
Chester, was killed under the following circumstances.
It appears that he was engaged in compressing air for the
purpoze of charging an air gun belonging to one of his
master's customers, when the globe employed in the pre-
cess burst. The upper half struck Edwards on the chest
and the jaw with such force that the breastb)no was
Lroken and the lower part of the jawbone was torn away.
The Unfortunate youth died it about hall an hour.

Na, MAY 30, 1867.

LATEST INTELLIGENCF.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ARRIVAL OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA

IN BERLIN.

BERLIN, May 30.

The Czar has arrived here. His 3fajesty was
received at the Frankfort Railway Station by the
King of Prussia and the Princes, and the iilustrious
party continued the journey together to Potsdam.