The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-04 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstonc.
TFITS EVENING, the performances will commence with
A TURF. IN DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, miss F.
.Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Buckstone,
Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, dc®.
After which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery
and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry
Bishop, the melodram commE MILLER AND HIS MEN.
ence at 7.;

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
Soil/ Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Two New D4th
appearance of ramas.—Reappea
Mriss ancMatildae of Mr. Heron. John Drew, and
THIS EVENING, TILE TWO GREGORIES.

After which, a new original comic drama, written by Saml.
Lover, Esq., entitled MAC CARTHY MORE ' • or, Possession
Nine Points of the Law. John Drew, J. Johnston, Forrester,
J. Rouse, Medlin; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, &c.
To conclude with a new drama, NEW YEAR'S EVE ; or,
The Belle of the Season. Messrs. H. Neville. Villiers, Jas.
Johnstone, J. Rouse ; Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Matilda Heron,
Miss Willard, dm.

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and ManaEer, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore,
Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq.
Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup-
ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Graham, Shore,
Meadows, &G ; Misses Heath, R. Leclercq, and Elsworthy.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Great Attraction for the Easter Holidays.-4th appearance
this season of Mr. B. Webster and Miss Julia Daly.
THIS EVENING, a new drama (2d time) MAGLIORE,
PRESTIDIGITA7 OR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, &c.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss H. Simms, du.
After which, OUR GAL. Miss Julia Daly, Mr. Romer,
Mr. Eburne, and Mr. Warde.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURYHALL CONCERTS!!
Westminster-road.
Proprietor.... • ...C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,
(This opera has never been produced in this or any other
country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
cided success which charactise; the most popular works of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
BrENTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, .Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
The Comic Department oomprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.
John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
nue DAY.—Morning, 9h. 13m.—Afternoon, 9h. 58m.
To-MORROW. -Morning, 10h. 40m.-Afternoon, 11h. 19m.

THE WEATHER.- Sux OFFICE, APRIL 4, 1561,
THERIIIOXETER, IN THE SHAM!.
54—highest since noon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
52—this day at noon.

BARomETza.-29.85.
WlND—Westerly—light; with fine weather.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 186

The dissensions so long subsisting—either latent
or overt—between the Masters and their Workmen
will this day, we hope and trust, be brought at
length to a satisfactory termination.
Arrangements were made some time since for a
meeting of the master contractors upon this very
afternoon—at which meeting they were to have de-
cided upon the day on which they would all of them
close their yards simultaneously : supposing, that is,
that the men were still implacable and unreasonable
enough as to hold out against the generous terms
now offered for their acceptance ; supposing them
still rashly and blindly to persist in this Strike
against the leading firms of Sir MORTON PETO,
of Messrs. KELK and Messrs. LUCAS. Fortunately,
there has now sprung up within the last few hours
between the employers and the employed reasons,
good and sound reasons,why this pre-arranged meet-
ing of the master contractors should be postponed.
It has been postponed. The adjournment of this
projected meeting being fixed now for next Thursday
—so as to allow the men themselves to meet, as
they propose meeting, this day—to consider impar-
tially, for once and for all, whether they will
accept or whether they will refuse the liberal
terms now offered to them by Messrs. KELK and
Messrs. LucAs. What are those terms ? We
explained the nature of them minutely a few days
since; and it will be remembered that the pith and
marrow of the proposition generously volunteered
to the workmen by their employers, consisted in
the fact that, at an increase of a farthing for the
better class of artizans, the men were to be paid
henceforth by the hour, and not as heretofore by
the day. The proposition was in itself so mani-
festly reasonable upon the face of it, that the men
for once began to have doubts as to their own
sanity in further listening only to the delegates,
those domineering demagogues, who, not so much
rule the roast as stir up the stew at the
Trades' Unions Committees. The workmen generally,
or at any rate the more thoughtful amongst them;
began to think over the matter carefully themselves,
They had previously begun to find out at last that
Mr. POTTER and his crew had been leading them
into a bit of a dilemma. In consequence of the
prevailing badness of trade, of the protracted
severity of the late winter, of the exhausting in-
fluence of the last strike, and of the fact that this
new strike was begun, therefore, in a period of
much depression—they woke at length to the recog-
nition of the stern reality that the Unions were
really and truly without funds for their support
during a lock-out of any long continuance. They
recognised, in fact, that if they resolved upon going
for relief to any Union at all, it would infallibly be
to the Union Workhouse. Then came the know-
ledge to them, unwillingly enough, but quite plainly
and unmistakeably, that the masters were this
time at last so entirely driven to bay, were
so determined, at length, to stand no further non-
sense i 7 the war o those periodical strikes, that
they had formerly come to the determination that
no further would they budge before the advance of
the leaders of the nine hours' movement ! But that
on their next meeting they would at once —supposing
the last proposition, the proposition for the pay-
rant by the hour instead of by the day, were
rejected—that they would then, at once, carry ou
a system they have now determined upon in tha

contingency, the system of introducing foreign
workmen (chiefly, we believe, Belgians)—a system
now understood to be fully organised by the master
contractors and in perfect readiness. The men
knew this_thAy knew that the delegates were

Powerless to aid them in this new contest, which
they were, nevertheless, urging them to
enter 'upon with their masters knew,
moreover, that the suggestion of payment by the
hour had obviously
il
its advantages—and knowing,
end seeing all
this by the light of their ow
common sense, they began, we say, for once, to
look into the matter under d.
result has been already dispute themselves. The
that the delegates are to
far lc:ming their malign influenee,that 28 of the
stoni-mason 5 (about the ra,,at
unlikely class of Jl
to break away trent the strike, because among
e lre, among all
are the
Awa dy
tf,,e sections of the workmenthe m
havertos, woll-to-do) 23 of the masons
returned to their ',Turk at Messrs. Lt..re s
-where there is a Probability that by Surd
t:
e
day after to morrow at the latest their
aggregate number wiLl have reached a full half
hundred. Examining :into the plan now
proposed for the- payment Of wage=by the hour,
they have found that actually it was so much of an
improvement to them, when compared with the old,