The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-04 00:00:00

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appear to have fos.utd work last
500 did so in the 'week previous;
that during the last week the
ingly less signs of flinching than
one. The total number of persons
during the last three weeks to be
fund dispensed at the Paviors' A.
21 dropped off on the first of the three weeks, 501
on the second, and 214 on the third. Subjoined is
the official return, showing the. manner in which
the-money was distributed yesterdaY :
X s. d.
~ 410 82 0 0
• .740 148.0 0
.. 1,923 381' 12 0
• . 138 27 12 0
▪ 649 128 0 0
• • 72 11, 8 0
• • 176
,30 -4 0
• • 320 61 0 0
.. 197 39 8 0
.. 168 33 12 0
26,5 -53 ,0 0
5 81 16 4 0
6 ▪
419 83 16 0
7 150 30 0 0
8 .. 32 6. 8 0
;, 9 319 '63 16 0
„ 10,, .. 150 :30 0 0
„ 117faid with Woolwich men)
12 .. 22 4 8 0
13 .. 9 - 1-16 0
50 0 0

Masons
Bricklayers
Carpenters
Painters

Plasterers ..
Stone sawyers ..
Woolwich men ..
Labourers —J.Jodge 1
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Troliope's men

6,210 £1291 8 0
This dividend is in addition to the weekly allow-
ance which the men on strike receive from their
various trade societies, and which varies froin ss. to
12s.

The operative masons have commenced a stringent
system of surveillance over the members'of their
own craft in the country, with the view to prevent
them coming to London to fill the places of the men
on strike. They have put emissaries on'the track
of agents of the masters who are beatinethe coun-
try for masons in Devonshire and other parts, and
they- have " scouts " at all the railway stations in
the metropolis watching the arrival of every train,
and noting such of the passengers as appear to be-
long to their own order. Men in the country, it is
said, are brought up to London to work under the
erroneous belief, founded on stataments of the agents
of the masters, made verbally and in the local
papers, that the declaration had been withdrawn.
Yesterday and on Sunday a successful attempt
was made by the masons' committee to tamper
with a batch of masons-18 or 20 in number—
brought from Tavistock late on Saturday evening
by MT. Robjohn, an agent of Messrs. Piper, in
Bishopsgate-street. Intelligence of their arrival had
been conveyed to the Sun Tavern, in Lambeth, the
meeting place of the masons, and thereupon alead-
ing member of the body proceeded in quest of them.
Ile met the party, it is said, leaving a place of re-
freshment in Smithfield-market, in company of Mr.
Robjohn, towards midnight, and dogged him to a
private house in Luard-street, Islington, in spite of
the remonstrances of Mr. Itobjohn, and an appeal
by him to a passing policeman, who on hearing the
circumstances, did not think he was justified in in-
terfezing. From the house in Luard-street they
were traced during the night to a coffee-shop in
Maiden-lane, king's-cross, and there on Sunday
morning and yesterday the influence of the society
men was brought to bear on them, the result being
that 16, at least, of them, if not more, refused to
work at Messrs. Piper's.
The meeting of the masters' committee to-day
(Tuesday) is looked to with much interest. It is
supposed that had the masons evinced a disposition
to revise their laws and by-laws, and to expenge
the more obnoxious portions of them, the commit-tee
would probably have forgone the declaration in
their case. But the masons are inflexible on that
point, and the masters equally take their stand
upon it, and insist on the reasonableness of requir-
ing that the masons' trade customs and regulations,
and notably those relating to working overtime and
piecework, shall be made comformable to the spirit
of the law of the land, and in harmony with the
perfect freedom of the workmen themselves.
Money continues to fl iw into the exchequer at
the Pavior's Arms to a cohsiderableamount. Among
the donations received yesterday were £lOO from
the Shipwrights' Society of the port of London,
and £lO from the Liverpool plasterers.
Mr. Ayrton, M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, had
an interview yesterday with Mr. Potter, the Se-
cretary to the Conference, at the Paviors' Arms,
with a view to a mediation, it is understood, be-
tween the masters and men, but the result, if any,
did not transpire.