The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-07 00:00:00

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been employed by Mowlem, Burt, and Freeman, in laying
down a new stone tramway in the Commercial-road. The
wages paid to them were very low indeed, and finding that
they could not earn sufficient to maintain themselves and
families they spoke to the foreman about it last night, and
to one of the principals this morning and requested an
advance. Their demand was refused, and the principal
said they might go about their business and measured up
the work they had done, but refused to pay them
for it. They had been waiting about the locality of
that court since daybreak:, and the masters would
not inform them whether they were to be paid in Lime-
house, at the counting-house, or upon the road.
Mr. Elliott—You have been engaged on piece-work ?
Hilton—Yes, sir, we have.
_ _

Mr. Elliott—Then you must sue your employers in the
County Court.

Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, said ho had already advised the
men that their only remedy was in the County Court.
ROBBERY IN LIMETIOUSE DOCKYARD.—WiIIiam Wil-
liams, a shipwright in the employ of Messrs. Young, Son,
and Magnay, the extensive shipbuilders, of Limehouse
Dockyard, was brought before Mr. Elliott, charged with
stealing BVbs. of composition nails.

The prisoner was seen to enter a marine store shop yes-
terday evening, by Moses Nicholls, a polce-constable, 97 K,
who saw him put into a scale a handkerchief containing,
8f lbs. of composition nails.

The prisoner said he was selling them for another man.
Mr. Charles Taylor, time-keeper, and Samuel Cole, store•
keeper, said that their employers, Young, Son, and Mag-
nay, had contracted to copper a ship, and there were 14 or
15 cwt. of composition nails used in the process. The nails
were lying about the dockyard in all directionp, and a great
many had been stolen.

A marine store dealer, named Stewart, of Broad-street,
Rateliff, received 27 lbs. of Messrs. Young, Son, and Mag-
nay's nails, and was sentenced to two months' imprison-
ment on Monday last. The prisoner was in the employ of
Messrs. Young, Son, and Magnay up to yesterday evening.
The prisoner, in defence, said a man gave him a glass of
gin to sell the nails.

Mr. Elliott sentenced the prisoner to one month's im-
prisonment and hard labour.

The appointment of Mr. Peapock to the Chief-
Justiceship of Bengal, announced in the letter of our
Bombay correspondent, vacates a seat in the Council of
Calcutta.

SOUTHAMPTON, April 6.—The United States'
mail steamship Fulton, Captain J. A. Wotton, left COWS
this afternoon for New York with the French and English
mails, passengers, and freight. The Royal Mail Company's
screw steamer Wve, Captain Longden, arrived this morn-
ing from Marseilles, between which port and Malta she has
been employed in conveying the Australian mails under
the late contract. The screw steamer Genva, from Liver-
pool, called in this afternoon to land cargo.
FALL OF A CHURCH TOWER.—On Sunday
morning, at eight o'clock, the tower of the parish church of
Basford, near Nottingham. fell with a fearful crash, bury-
ing with it a portion of the edifice. The church had for the
past two years been undergoing restoration, and was so far
completed as to warrant the committee in announcing its
completion by May next. The tower was of a very ancient
date and much decayed. The damage is great, being esti-
mated at £2,000. The parish is large and by no means
wealthy, and considerable difficulty had been experienced in
raising the funds for the restoration of the church.
LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. A return of the
names and localities of all the literary, scientific, and artistic
institutions which have obtained from the certifying bar-
rister, or from the Lord-Advocate, certificates of exemp-
tion from local rates, under the Act 6 and 7 Victoria, cap.
36, has been printed on the motion of Mr. Cowper, M.P.
The list of the institutions fills a space of nine pages.
IRISH CONSTITUENCIES.—A return has been
made of the number of electors in every county and
borough of Ireland, according to the present registers.
The East and West Ridings of the county of Cork, when
taken together, would occupy the first place on the list as
far as numerical strength is considered, the number of
electors being 15,716. Down county is the next largest
constituency, the number of electors being 11,367. Dublin
city comes next with 10,367 electors, then Antrim county
with 9,882, Tipperary county with 9,526, Tyrone county
with 7,592, Limerick county 6,481, Wexford county 6,406,
Dublin county 6,251, Cavan county with 5,989, and so on.
The largest borough constituency is Belfast, with 3,303
electors the next Londonderry with 825. The smallest of
all is Portarlington, with 99 electors.
IRISH BOROUGIIS.—Before the news of a disso-
lution of Parliament was 12 hours old the Irish papers were
bristling wi. h paragraphs—some speculative, some bona file
announcements—respecting gentlemen who are prepared to
enter the lists when the new House of Commons is to be
called into existence. Of the realitiess it may be men-
tioned that Mr. John Rea, a fiery Belfast attorney, has
addressed the electors of the borough of New Ross, in
opposition to Mr. Tottenham, the sitting member and pro-
prietor of the town. Mr. Rae is a Presbyterian and a
Radical of the deepest dye. Among the speculations it is
reported that Mr. George Bowyer, having giVen offence to
his Dundalk friends, is to be supplanted in the representa-
tion by Sir John M'Neill,
the eminent engineer, and a
general favourite in the locality,