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 Conference—
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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., 160, 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 lOs 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 los. ; third week, lOs. 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,,kmall 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- ,
lion of work the Operatives' Conference can be
directly held responsible. The Conference paid ,
yesterday nearly £l,OOO among the following
men :

Labourers .. • 4 •• 0 • • 0 3,245
Carpenters and jobers .. .. .. 2,816

Bralayers .. 1,177
Plasterers 662
Masons 517
Painters .. .. 362
Smiths, plumbers, &c. .. 80
Stone-sawyers 61
Men at Woolwich (all branches) .. .. 551
Mess's. Trollope's men .. .. 214

Total ..

.. 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 are exerting themselves strenuously in the
organisation of local committees, and in the hold-
ing of public meetings. An open air meeting was
held at Roading 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.—l am, Sir,
On behalf of the united trades,
GEO. POTTER, Secretary.
To Edwin James, Esq., M.P.

ANSWER OF MR. EDWIN JAMES.
Worthing, August 20.
Sir,—l beg to acknowlede the receipt of your
letter enclosing a printed copy of a document in the
form of a "declaration," which you inform me is to
be 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 employee,
and so injurious to the best interests of the em-
ployed, which now unhappily exist, I at present
express no pninion, 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., a EDIYiN JAMES.
To Mr, George Potter, Secretary, &c.

THE WIDOW OF LOUIS PHILIPPE.—A few days
since, Mr. Lo 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 atop by tho falling
of one of the horses. Mr. Le Blonde assisted in extricating
the postilion, and in starting the ladies on their journey,
offering them while the carriage was adjusted,
the the ilospi-
talities of his house, altogether in ignorance of quality
of the ladies. The next morning he was agreeably sur-
prised at receiving, 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.
COMMITTAL OF A HOMEOPATHIC DOCTOR FOR
MANSLAUGHTER.—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 hermorrhage a few hours after she had given
li birth to a male child. Her medical attendant was Mr. Wm.
Rae, a homoeopathic practitioner, of 36, West-square, St.
George's-road, Southwark, who was charged with incom-
petency as an accoucheur. The result of the investigation
was that., after consulting together for three quarters of an
hour, the jury returned a verdict of "manslaughter" against
Mr. Rae. Substantial bail was tendered and accepted for
the appearance of the accused to take his trial at the Old
Bailey. •
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