The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-23 00:00:00

THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.

The first dividend of payment was yesterday
made to the "lock-outs," at the various meeting-
houses of the different trades. So far as we were

able to ascertain, although the relief afforded was
small it was generally accepted with satisfaction.
According to the information afforded, the total
payments from the Conference and the funds of the
several societies averaged conjointly from 5s to 8s
per man, of which the Conference was unable to
contribute more than 2s. ; the difference between
the ss. and Bs. depending on the payments from the
funds of the several societies. It will be seen, there-'
fore, that each separate society engaged in the,
struggle must in the main depend upon its own re-
sources, and that the Conference—qua Con ference—
is even at the commencement not able to add more
than 25 per cent., or one-fourth to. the allowance
made to the men from their own societies. As the
hopes of the men had been raised to a very high
pitch during the last few days, it was to be ex-
pected that some disappointment at the payment
of this first " dividend" should have been evinced ;
but if such a feeling existed it was not openly ex-
pressed. A personal visit to several of the locali-
ties where the payments were made enables us to
state that the same decorum and order which has
heretofore marked the conduct of the men charac-:
terised in every instance their demeanour yesterday.
That the countenances of many wore anything but
a cheerful expression may be easily imagined, but
the absence of anything approaching audible dis-
content may be taken as a proof of their conviction
that the funds, whatever they were, had been
equitably divided.
With respect to the men on strke at Messrs.
Trollope's, as contradistinguished from the " lock
outs," we understand that the number had in-
creased yesterday from that mentioned last week,
viz., 180, to 214, being some 34 more. They had
to submit to a reduction in the amount of their
allowance in consequence, the payments being 12s.
to skilled artisans, and Bs. to labourers, as com-
pared with the lowest previous payments of 15s.
and 108 respectively. In a financial point of view
the struggle may be thus stated :—The strike at
Messrs. Trollope's has lasted four weeks, the "lock
out" two weeks. The men on "strike" have re-
ceived in the first week, 15s. and 12s. ; second
week, £1 and 15s. ; third week, 15s. and 12s. ; and
this week, 12s. and Bs. The " lock outs" declined
to receive any pay the first week, and yesterday,
for the first time, they were paid the small amount
we have just stated. The weight and pressure of
the struggle therefore evidently falls most heavily
on that portion of the men now out of work, who
are so by the combined action of the employers, be-
cause it will be recollected that it is only the com-
paratively small number of workmen in the em-
ployment of the Messrs. Trollope for whose cessa-
tion of work the Operatives' Conference can be
directly held responsible. The Conference paid
yesterday nearly £l,OOO among the following
men :

Labourers .. . • • •
Carpenters and joiners ..
Bricklayers
Plasterers ..
llasenß . •• ••
Painters ..
Smiths, plumbers, &c.
Stone-sawyers
Men at Woolwich (all branches)
Messrs. Trollope's men

Total

.. 3,245
.. 2,816
.. 1,077
.. 662.
.. 547
.. 362

.. 9,618

At the houses where the payments were made
yesterday, the delegates, in their speeches, assured
the men that they were certain of success, that the
masters must yield, and that from the means which
must flow in from the provinces and other quarters,
the next payment would be considerably larger
than that made yesterday.
The delegates who have been sent into the pro-
vinces ale exerting themselves strenuously in the
organisation of local committees, and in the hold-
ing of public meetings. An open air meeting was
held at Reading on Saturday night, which is stated
to have been highly successful as a demonstration
in support of the workmen, and last night there
was a meeting at' Oxford. Committees were ap-
pointed at both meetings for the purpose of taking
every means in their power to substantially pro-
mote the movement.

We have received the following correspondence :
LETTER FROM MR. POTTER TO MR. EDWIN JAMES,M. P.
London, August 20.
Sir,—When we had the honour of an interview
with you, as one of the metropolitan members,
with reference to Alderman Cubitt's notice of mo-
tion in the House of Commons, you expressed a
wish to see the " document" that the masters re-
quired the workmen to agree to. At that time
we had not been able to procure it ; but yesterday
we have, with the stamp or counterfoil complete,
and we have enclosed it for your inspection. You
will observe that the stamp or counterfoil has the
number upon it that the workman is in future to
be known by ; his name is also inserted upon it,
and the foreman or clerk is to witness. It is ex-
actly in the form we represented it to be, and we
need not add that it has'been universally condemned
by nearly every class of workmen in the United
Kingdom.--I am, Sir,

. ,
On behalf of the united trades,
CrEO. POTTER, Secretary.
To Edwin James, Esq., M.P.

ANSWER OF MR. EDWIN JAMES.

Worthing, August 20.
Sir,—l beg to acknowledo the receipt of your
letter enclosing a printed copy of a document in the
form of a " declaration," Ns, hich you inform me is to
he exacted by the master from the workman as the
condition of his re-employment. Upon the diffe-
rences, so detrimental to the capital of the employer,
and so injurious to the best interests of the em-
ployed, which now unhappily exist, I at present
express no opinion, but I am not at all surprised
that any English artisan who has the right to carry
his labour to market unshackled by any restriction
should resist the imposition of terms by his master
which are most arbitrary and most unjust.—l am,
&C., EDWIN JAMES.
To Mr, George Potter, Secretary, &c.

THE WIDOW OF LOUIS PITILIPPE.—A few days
since, Mr. Le Blond, of Budge-row, residing at Kingston,
was strolling in his garden in the evening, when he heard
from the adjoining highway a sound of alarm. A carriage
containing some ladies was brought to a stop, by the falling
of one of the horses. Mr. Lo Blonde assisted in extricating
the postilion, and in starting the ladies on their journey,
offering them, while the carriage was adjusted, the hospi-
talities of his house, altogether in ignorance of the quality
of the ladies. The next morning ho was agreeably sur-
prised at roceiving, as a present to his wife, a handsome
gold cup, accompanied with a letter, expressing the gra-
cious thanks of her Majesty the ex-Queen of the French,
who was one of the occupants of the carriage. The acci-
dent happily was not attended by any serious disaster.—
City Press.
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MANSLAVGIITER.—Yesterday an adjourned inquest took
place before Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster, at the
Princess Royal Tavern, Warwick-street, Pimlico, touching
the death of Mrs. Betsy Poole, aged 28 years, who resided
at 36, Hendon-street, Pimlico, and whose death resulted
from excessive herrnorrhage a few hours after she had given
birth to a male child. Her medical attendant was Mr. Wm.
Rae, a homoeopathic practitioner, of 36, Nest-square,
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Mr. Rae. Substantial bail was tendered and accepted for
the appearance of the accused to take his trial at the Old
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tintanished student at each public examination; and, fur-
ther, the examiners shall Select and certify the names of
three other students who shall have passed the next bee I
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belong may, if desired, dispense with any terms not exceed-
ing two that may remain to be kept by such students pre-
viously to their being called to the Bar; provided that the
examiners shall not be obliged to confer or grant any
studentship or certificate unless they shall be of opinion that
the examination of the students they select has been such
as entitles them thereto.
"At every call to the Bar those students who have passed
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other etudents who shall be called on the same day.
" No student shall be eligible to be called to the Bar who
shall not either have attended during one whole year the
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a public examination."
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FOR HONOURS OR CERTIFICATES, ENTITLING STUDENTS
TO BE CALLED TOTHE BAR.
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be required to state in writing whether his object in offering
himself for examination is to compete fora stndeatsLip or -
other honourable distinction; or whether he is merely
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the Bar.
" The examination will commence on Saturday, the 29th
day of October next, and will be continued on the Monday
and Tuesday following.
"It will take place in the Members' Reading-room of
Lincoln's inn, and the doors will be closed 10 minutes after
the time appointed for the commencement of the examina-
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" The oramination by printed questions will be conducted
in the following order :
"Saturday morning, the 29th of October, at half-past 9,
on Constitutional Law and Legal History; in the afternoon
at half-past 1, on Equity. _

" Monday morning, the 31st of October, at half-past 9,
on Common Law; in the afternoon, at half-past 1, on the
Law of Real Pi °party, &c.
"Tuesday morning, the Ist of November, at half-past 9,
on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law; in the afternoon, at
half-past 1, a paper will be given to the:students, including
questions bearing upon all the foregoing subjeeti of exami-
nation.

" The oral examination will be conducted in the same
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those already marked out for the examination by printed
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no oral examination,

• " The oral examination of each student will be conducted
apart from the other students, and the character of that
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date for honours ora studentship, or desires simply to ob-
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the particular object with a view to which the student pre-
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regard to the general knowledge of law and jurisprudence
which he has displayed.
" A student may present himself at any number of ex-
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the studentship, but only at one of the three examinations
immediately succeeding that at which -he shall have ob
tamed such certificate ; provided that if any student so pre-
senting himself shall not succeed in obtaining the student-
ship his name shall not appear in the list.

"Students who have kept more than eleven terms shall
not be admitted to an examination for the studentship.
"The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal History
will examine on the following subjects
" Ile will expect the candidates for honours to be well
acquainted with the early history of our constitution and
laws as laid down in the chapters_ on that imbject in Hal-
laro's History of the Middle Ages.'

"He will expect them also to be fully acquainted with
the chapters in Hallam's Constitutional History,' which
give an account of the reigns of Elizabeth, the Stuarts,
William 111., and Queen Anne.

" lie will expect all who present themselves for examina-
tion to possess a competent knowledge of the leading events
of English history.
" He will expect candidates for honours to be well
acquainted with the history of the law of real property; the
history of the law of treason, and the history of the laws
relating to the press. •
" The candidates fora pass will be required to possess an
accurate knowledge of the reigns of the Stuart Kings, of
Magna Charts, of the Confirmatio Chartarum, of the Peti-
tion of Rights, Bill of Rights, of the Act of Settlement, and
of the State Trials during the reigns of Charles 11. and
James 11.

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following books :
"1. Ilayne's Outlines of Equity ;" Smith's Manual of
Equity Jurisprudence ;' ' Hunter's Elementary View of the
Proceedings in a Suit in Equity,' part i.
"2. The cases and notes contained in the first volume of
White and Tudor's leading cases, and the following cases
in the second volume :—Howe v. The Earl of Dartmouth ;
Sir John Talbot v. The Earl of Shrewbury ; Chancey's
Case; Blandy v. Widmore; Wilcocks v. Wilcocks; and
Sloraan v. Walter, with the notes on those cases. ' Mitford
on the Pleadings in the Court of Chancery,' introduction ;
cap. 1, secs. 1 and 2 ; cap. 1, sec. 3 (the first six pages) ;
cap. 2, sec. 1; cap. 2, sec. 2, part i. (the first three pages) ;
cap. 2, sec. 2, part ii. (the first two pages) ; cap. 2, sec. 2,
part iii. ; cap. 3.

" Candidates for certificates of having passed a satisfac-
tory examination will be expected to be well acquainted
with the books mentioned in the first of the above classes.

" Candidates for a studentship or honours will be exa-
mined in the books mentioned in the two classes.

"The Reader on the Law of Real Property proposes to
examine in the following books and subjects :
"1. Joshua Williams on the Law of Real Property,'
fifth edition.

" 2. 'Hayes on the Common Law, Uses, and Trusts.'
"3. Sales and Purchases by Persons Holding Fiduciary
Offices; Sugden's Vendors and Purchasers,' cap. 1, sec.
5, 13th edition; Dart's Vendors and Purchasers, cap. 2,
3d edition.
"4. Perpetuities ; Cadell v. Palmer," 1, 'Clark and
Finnelly,' 372; and the notes to that case in Tudor's
Leading Cases in Conveyancing,' p. 321; 'Lewis on Per-
petuities.'

"5. The Law of Fixtures ; ' Amos and Feraed on Fix-
tures, 2d edition.
" Candidates for honours will be examined in all the
foregoing subjects ; candidates for a certificate in those
under heads 1,2, and 3.

"The Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law pro-
poses to examine candidates for honours in the following
books :
" 1. ' The Institutes of Justinian,' books 1 and 2.
"2. The general part of ' Mackeldey's Modern Civil
Law,' pages 132 to 224 of the Latin edition, called ' Sys-
terna Juris Romani Hoodie Usitati.'

" 3. 'Phillimoro's Principles and Maxims of Jurispru-
dence,' pages 162 to 251 (from the Maxim Domicilium re
et facto transfertur' to the Maxim Culpa est immiscere
se rei ad so non pertinenti ')
" Candidates for a pass certificate will bo examined in :
'• 1. The Institutes of Justinian,' books 1 and 2.
"2. Philimore's Principles and Maxima of Jurispru-
dence,' page 162 to page 200 (from the Maxim Domi-
cilium,' &c., to the Maxim Is natura debet,' &c.)
" Tho Reader on Common Law proposes to examine in
the books and subjects specified below :
" Candidates for a pass certificate will be examined as
►„

"1. The ordinary practice and course of pleading in an
action at law.

"2. Stephens's Commentaries,' introduction; book 1,
Of Personal Rights ; book 2, part 2, Of Things Personal.
"3. Smith's Lectures on Contracts' (by Malcolm),
omitting lectures 6 and 7.
"4. The Elements of Criminal Law, which may be read
from Broom's Commentaries,' book 4.
" Candidates for the studentship or honours will be
examined in the above books and subjects, and also as
to—

5. The Principles of Mercantile law, so far as treated
Smith's Comp. Merc. Law,' sixth edition (by Dowdes-
well), book 1, Of Mercantile Persons ; book 3, Of Mercan-
tile Contracts.
"6. Tho undermentioned leadiv g cases contained in Mr.
Smith's Ist vol., with the notes t'aereto :
" Law of Contracts.—' Collirrs v. Blantern,' Larnpleigh
v. Brathwait," Master v. Mal er,' Miller v. Race," Mit-
chel v. Reynolds,' Waugh V. Carver.'

"Law of Torts.--' Armory v. Delamorie,' Ashley v.
White," Chandler v. Lopuss," Scott v. Shepherd,' Se-
mayne's Case,' Six Carper.ters; Case.'
"7. Taylor on Evidenck,' third edition, pelt 1, Nature
and Principles of Evidences,
" By oreier of the Council.
4 4 RICE( ARD BETHELL, Chairman.
"Council-chamber, Linc 97 s-ima, July 24.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, THE WIFE'S SECRET. Mr. and
Mrs. C. Kean.
To (=elude with A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone.
THIS ETENING the performances will commence with
THE CONTESTED ELECTION.
With THE CRITIC. Mr. C. Mathews and Mrs. Fitzwil-
liam.
And HALLOWE'EN.

sour ? As he could not be member for Dover, would
he like to be Lord DoVER, or Lord Somebody-or-
other ? The honourable member must excuse us
for even imagining such a thing ; but when one of
the most popular and amusing speakers in the
House, one whom, as we have intimated, all sides
liked to hear, became suddenly silent, and when
his silence is coincident with his acceptance of
office under a premier, notoriously not a Radical
such as the member for Middlesex was—when
we remember this we may fancy to ourselves the
same spicy orator even preferring the otium cum
dignitate of the Upper House to costly struggles
for a seat in the Lower one.

Be these speculations well or ill-founded, RALPH
BERNAL OSBORNE re-enters the House of Commons
to keep in the good graces of the honest electors of
Liskeard, not in those of any Premier—of any one
having power to ask him into the " Cabinet Par-
lour" or into the " Drawing-room of the Lords."
He can now speak for the Ballot again as well as
vote for it ; can praise Mr. COBDEN for declining
place even under Lord PALMERSTON ; can dilate on
the vast amount of our taxation ; can descant on
the amazing financial ability of Mr. GLADSTONE,
which no one will deny, and also on the necessity
of his readjusting the unrighteous income tax, if he
retain it; can picture Mr. DISRAELI as the really
great, and really liberal Tory statesman, unfortu-
nately compelled, like some animals, to move ac-
cording to the impetus given by his " tail ;" can
of course have a little by-play with his friend Sir
JOHN PAKINGTON ; but can openly declare that
" if he saw the present Government swerving from
the true principle, he would have no hesitation in
voting their condemnation; and that so far from being
a thick and thin supporter of the Government, he
would be a thick and thin supporter of principles."
Let Mr. OSBORNE but adhere to his Liskeard
programme and professions, let him but resume in
the house the style of things which he resumed
outside of it in Cornwall ; and then whether it be
the reviviscence of old Radicalism, or his not being
offered a seat in the " drawing-room" when there
was no Cabinet place for him, or both, we shall all
be heartily glad to see RALPH OSBORNE himself
again.

A compendious history of the rise, progress, and
development of the Serpentine, together with, a
preternaturally lengthy epistle from the pen of Mr.
EDWIN CHADWICK, will serve surely, if not to ex-
haust the argument, at any rate, let us hope, so far
help to convince Mr. FITZROY of the error of his own
judgment as to cause that right hon. gentleman to
hesitate before actually carrying out the extraor-
dinary scheme devised by Mr. HAWKSLEY, and
backed up by the approval of Sir S. M. PETO and
Mr. ROBERT STEPHENSON. Happily, it is not too
late even now for a modification of the plans of the
Chief Commissioner. A square inch of turf has
not yet been turned in Hyde Park with a view to
the laying out of the "blind" of the Cockney
shrubbery. The foundations of the lodge-like cot-
tage are not yet dug out. The wheels and
pistons of the two little stationary engines are
not yet put together at the head of the Serpen-
tine. The particular three-fourths of an acre
have not yet been selected for the odoriferous pur-
pose of a nasty, messing process of perpetual, or
at any rate of periodical, filtration. It is unhappily
too true that, in a moment of weakness, the House
of Commons, while in committee of supply, voted
£17,000, or at least £16,500, for the carrying out
of Mr. HAWKSLEY'S absurd project for what the
Chief Commissioner of Public Works disingenuously
described at the time as a plan for the complete
rapid, and permanent purification of the Serpen-
tine. What is worse, in regard to that unfortu-
nately precipitate vote, is the plain and obvious
fact that, Parliament having been recently dis-
persed, there is no chance before us for the
next five or six months of having that
voted rescinded. Mr. FITZROY has got leave
and licence from the House of Commons to do just
whatever he likes with that £17,000, in the way
of gravel-beds, and stucco vases, and ornamental
specimens of Cockney cottage architecture. The
Right Hon. the Commissioner may, if he pleases,
play at Ducks and Drakes with every penny of
that £17,000 upon the water of the Serpentine.
But—for doing so—he will certainly be held re-
sponsible upon the reassembling of Parliament.
Mr. HAWKSLEY, of course, sticks by his plan as
something as nearly as possible perfect. That he
does, we repeat, quite as a matter of course—
just as he decided, quite dispassionately, in the
preference of his own particular little
device to any and every of the other devices
sagaciously submitted to his scrutiny by her
MAJESTY'S Government. It is undoubtedly true
that Mr. HAWKSLEY, and, for that matter too, of
course Mr. FITZROY also—for the plan of filtration
is his also by adoption—has been fortunate enough
to obtain for that plan the earnest advocacy of Sir
MORTON PETO and Mr. ROBERT STEPHENSON.
Great names unquestionably, the greatest names
each in his own department—Pm among builders
—STEPHENSON among the world's most renowned
engineers. But the question before us is neither a
question simply of building, nor yet is it, for that
matter, a question of simple engineering. It is a
point-blank question as to stench or no stench, as
to drainage or no drainage, as to whether a dirty,
stagnant pool is to be played with or cleansed tho-
roughly. Pre-eminent though the reputations
(each in his own particular metier) of PETO
and STEPHENSON—we hesitate not to assert
with confidence that Sir JOSEPH PAXTON is yet
more qualified than either to decide upon the
fittest plan for the treatment of an ornamental
sheet of water like the Serpentine ! And as to
drainage questions, as to sanitary questions of that
particular description—though we don't, in the
estimate of his genius, quite go the length of Mr.
THOMAS CARLYLE—there is no name second to
that of Mr. EDWIN CHADWICK. Now, both Sir
JOSEPH PAxTON and Mr. EDWIN CHADWICK are
as absolutely and entirely against Mr. HAWKSLEY'S
plan, as Sir MORTON PETO and Mr. ROBERT STE-
PHENSON (from simply following their own noses,
we suppose) are infatuated in favour of it. But
concurring with PETO and STEPHENSON in their
engineering opinion, well there is just exactly
—Nobody. Concurring with PAxTON and
CHADWICK there is the whole of the lead-
ing portion of the Press, and the mass of
the population. It is tolerably proverbial
that there are few such stubborn things as facts.
And the whole weight of the facts go against Mr.
HAWKSLEY'S scheme of filtration. What facts, it
may be asked ? Those furnished, we reply by the
ttohgeetHhoer m
authenticated statistics of the Registrar-General—
Nev ist
ecroetht
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e of-
pentine. What
says Mr. CHADWICK ? "As
far as I remember,"
he observes, " the mere
money score for lives lost, and the vari-
ous expenses attendant on the existing defec-
tive conditions of the I p ace, could not be less on
the average than between £l,OOO
and £2,000 per
annum, which, capitalised at 5 per cent., would oil
that score alone, justify an outlay of from £30,000
to £40,000 for works of permanent prevention ;
and it then appeared also that the works required
for the saving of life were the best for the purifica-
tion of the water—inasmuch tie every cubic yard

rTHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 11359.