The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-12 00:00:00

TRADESMEN'S FOUR-OARED RACE.

The members of the Arundel Unity Aquatic Club
opened their season yesterday with one of the most
spirited four-oared races that has taken place among
tradesmen for some time. The course was from the Put-
ney New Bridge to Chiswick-pier, and with the follow-
ing result :

Messrs. W. Pullen, C. G. Rogers, G. Butler, G.
Tumble, and C. Gardner, coxswain (Yellow) 1
Messrs. W. Scott, J. Smith, R. Hart, F. Dyer, and
F. Mahon, coxswain (White) 2
Messrs. F. Patterson, J. Lyall, J. Troupe, W. Law-
rence, rud W. Morris' coxswain (Green) 3
Messrs. T. Mason, J. W. Smith, W. Weal, J. C.
Waller, and J. Chapman, coxswain (Blue) 4
Messrs. R. /Weal', A. Edge, W. Jones, J. Male, and
J. Isaacs, coxswain (Red) 5
The start was a capital one, and they were all away
together. At the Star and Garter, Yellow, White, and
Green pulled out from the others, Blue cioiely following
them, Red soon falling astern. The three leading boats
were so close that no difference could Us seen between
them for some time, then Yellow had a lead of about a
quarter of a length, and in this position they remained
to within 200 yards of Hammersmith-bridge, at which
point the winners drew themselves clear. The struggle
between Green and White was very severe to the finisb,
where Yellow won by a lengtl3,lWhite being half a length
ahead of Green.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY OF CANADA.

The second reading of the bill to dispense with go-
vernmett directors in the Grand Trunk Railway, and
facilitate the completion of the company's, works from
Riviera du Loup to Sarnia, was moved in the Legislative
Assembly of Canada, on the 24th uit., by the Hon. Mr.
Cayley.
Mr. BROWN said that a pamphlet containing certain
information as to the affairs of the company had just
been circulated. It it was important that the members
should possess themselves of the fasts in that pamphlet
be hoped the debate would not be forced on now, when
time had not been allowed for looking into it.
The Hon. Mr. CAYLRY said that, in accordance with
his promise given at the first reading of the bill he bad
thrown all the information he could obtain into the
form of a pamphlet, to be laid befora the house. It was
usual to produce such facts in the course of debate, but,
that they might be clearly understood, he bad put them
in the form of a printed memorandum, but certainly not
with the view of having the discussion postponed for
four or five days.
_ _ _

After a brief discussion the Government forbore to
press the second reading, which was adjourned to the
28th of April. There is little doubt that the bill will
pass : we find several organs of the opposition 'admitting
that the Government is much stronger than it was last
session. The Toronto Globe says that Governor Head
will visit England at the close of the Parliamentary
session.

WEST FLANDERS.,
Yesterday, at one o'clock the twenty-third yearly
general meeting of the above company was held at the
offices of the company, 61, Moorgate-street. There
was a numerous attendance of shareholders. The
President, Mr. William,P. Richards, occupied the chair.
The chairman read the report, which exhibited an in-
crease of receipts over the corresponding half year on
the old line of 8651. 13s. lid. ; and on the guaranteed
line, which during that period had been extended nine
miles, of 1,1211. ss. 2d. It was necessary to bear in
mind that on the latter, especially on the Thielt branch,
little time had as yet been allowed for the development
of its traffic. The receipts of all the lines from let July
to 31st December amounted to 20,2741. 19s. 4d., and
the total expenditure to 14,416/. 3s. 10J., which left a
balance of 5, 358/. 15s. 6d, This balance, being added
to that of the last year, as well as to other sums, and
deductions being made for the first charges on
the undertaking, in addition to other items, left an
available balance of 5,0241. ls. 7d., and would al-
low a dividend of 3s. 6d. per share, carrying forward
a balance of 2411. 12s. 2d. to the next account. That
dividend it was proposed to declare at the meeting of the
company at Bruges, on the 16th of May, and the pay-
ment would be made at the offices of the company in
London and Bruges, on and after the 26th May, upon the
return of the directors and secretary from B&lgium. It
was further stated, that in pursuance of the resolution of
the general meeting of the 17th May, 1855, the directors
had continued to apply the interest on 540 preference
shares, bought in by them on behalf of the company, in
the purchase and redemption of the company's original
shares, of which they possessed 235, in addition to 40
shares that bad been purchased in anticipation of the
payments to be received during the present month. The
expenditure still continued below 2001. per mile for the
half-year. The report was unanimously adopted, and a
dividend of 3s. 6d. per share declared.

Madame Enderssohn's Musicale Matines takes place
on the 20th instant, on which occasion Madame Clara
Schumann makes her second appearance this season.
We have no doubt that a fashionable attendance will
prove their appreciation of Madame Enderssohn's high
position as an artiste.
A. letter from Berlin states that Prince Napoleon is to
leave that city on the 13th, and return by way of Dres-
den and Munich. The Prince prop uses to be in Paris
by the time of the arrival of the King of Bavaria.
THE TELEGRAPH IN AllSTRALlA.—Arrangements are
making in Australia for establishing a telegraphic com-
munication between Melbourne and Adelaide. When
this communication is extended to King George's Sound,
and the telegraph is established between England and
Aden, news will reach Australia in 22 days.
THE LUNDHILL COLLIERY ComasioN.—The number
of bodies recovered up to the present time is 89, or
nearly ope-half of those known to be in the pit at the
time of the explosion.

FINE ARTS.—The select gallery of English pictures
of Messrs. Lloyd Brothers, late of Ludgate-hill, is to
be brought to the hammer on Thursday next, at Messrs.
Foster's sale rooms, in Pall-mall. It is almost a pity
to find a collection which boasts of one work at least of
most of the first masters thus dispersed under the ruth-
less hand of the auctioneer, but a dissolution of partner-
ship which will give London two firms in art of the
came name instead of one, renders the sale imperative.
The sale is looked forward to with some interest, as the
enormous prices which the works of the English masters
are now fetching has created quite a furor amongst col-
lectors; and the spirit of competition was fortunately
for English painters, never more rife. A splendid
assortment of water colour drawings will share a similar
fate on the same day, and from the crowded state of the
rooms, when we left them, this morning, this favourite
class of pictorial art will share its meed of patrurage
from the loyera of pictorial excellence.

STRIKE OF O.3INIBUS SERVANTS.

Some excitelient was created yesterday in the
north-western and western districts of the metro-
polis by the parading to and fro during the day of
from 200 to 300 rough-looking men—half-ostler and
half-cad—who declared themselves to be the ser-
vants of the London General Omnibus Company
"on strike," and have been going about to the
stables of the company in the different district
establishments, calling upon their brethren to join
with them in throwing themselves out of work.
The omnibuses of the company are 600 in number,
and, every omnibus having 10 horses, each vehicle
is placed separately under the care of a horsekeeper.
whose business it is to deliver them over in good
order every morning to the driver and conductor.
The class of men employed as horsekeepera are of
course rough and uneducated, and the company
found on purchasing the various "yards" and
establishments that also, as a matter of course,
they were receiving low wages, averaging from 16s.
to 18s. weekly, while those wages were male up
by a mutual agreement, which generally led to the
extra sum paid by coachman and conductor to the
horsekeeper being levied on the employer. Thus,
as a bribe for " turning out the horses and omni-
buses smart" every morning, it had become a cus-
tom for the conductor or coachman to pay 6d. a day
to the horsekeeper as gratuity. This sum, by
mutual understanding, was too often "made up"
from the earnings of the omnibus. In "yards"
consisting of half-a-dozen men this custom might
go on; but when the large system of the London
General Omnibus Company, with 600 vehicles and
6,000 horses, comprehended also 2,000 persons con-
nected with them, order and discipline were neces-
sary ; and these were at once introduced, on the
railway system, by Mr. Church, the secretary.
Hence the " strike" of Sunday, which, though ex-
pected a fortnight since, nevertheless took the &s-
-trict surveyors and officers of the company by sur-
prise. Fortunately, the coachmen and conductors,
whose livelihood and interests were perilled, took
the matter into their own hands, and got out their
own "busses" and harnessed their own cattle. Im-
mediate measures have been taken by the company
to furnish themselves with new korsekeepers.
The "strike," such as it is, has been hitherto
confined to the St. John's-wood and Paddington
districts) where nearly 2,000 horses were suddenly
left without attendants on Sunday morning. At
an early hour yesterday morning the men assembled
together and proceeded to other stables and yards,
to those of Hammersmith especially, where, how-
ever, most of the men retused to join them, I
Hitherto these men have conducted themselves
peaceably, but the directors of the London General
Omnibus Company have passed a resolution not to
receive any of them into their employment again,
it being necessary at once to put down a system of
combination which might end some day, if encou-
raged, in leaving the metropolis totally without
vehicle accommodation, as it will be remembered
was the case during the recent strike of the cabs.

THE FALL OF HOUSES IN TOTTENHAM-

COURT-ROAD.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

The excitement in Tottenham-court-road, on ac-
count of the melancholy and fatal catastrophe that
took place on Saturday, continued unabated during
the whole of yesterday morning. Thousands
visited the spot. The body of the unfortunate G.
Kevill, labourer, who was at work at the bottom
of the walls, owing to the immense weight of debris
with which he was covered, was not extricated
until two o'clock on Sunday. The poor fellow was
sadly mutilated and crushed, -and death must have
been instantaneous. The body was conveyed to the
dead-room of the University College Hospital,
making the fifth body now waiting an inquest, viz.,
Frederick Byng (suffocated whilst in bed), Ann
Driscoll (cook), Richard Turner (carpenter), George
Garnett (carpenter), George Kevin. (labourer).
Of the persons seriously injured there are only two
now remaining in the hospital—Mr. Taylor, jun.,
deep lacerated contused wound on the inner and
lower p'rt of the left groin, and contusion of the
head. (At two o'clock yesterday hopes were enter-
tained of his ultimate recovery). George Eaton
very much bruised, and contused wounds—going on
favourably, and expected soon to recover.
The other sufferers were able to leave the hospi-
tal on Saturday for their respective homes, although
severely bruised. Wm. Ayrton, collar-bone out,
reset ; James Beam, much shaken and bruised ;
Reginald Rudd, extensive injuries, but not seri-
ous ' • and Horace Regnert, feet and legs injured
and bruised ; George Bayley, various bruises and
contusions ; William Beauchamp, bruised, and
slightly cut ; Mrs. Christma., injury to legs ;
Mary Daly, egs injured, and very much bruised
about the back and loins.

On Saturday Mr. Brent, the deputy-coroner,
who was holding an inquest at the hospital, desired
the jury to view the bodies, so that they might be
empannelled and the bodies removed ; but it has
' since been considered necessary that the jury should
be discharged, and, owing to the importance of the
case, that a special jury should be summoned for
Wednesday next, at 11 o'clock, in the board-room
of the hospital. Mr. Wakley will preside.
Mr. Maple's premises extend some distance down.
to Tottenham-place, by adding to his establish-
ment the houses 1,2, and 3. By this means egress
was obtained by those persons who were so fortu-
nate as to make their escape from the premises.
The sufferers are attended constantly by Mr.
Trevan, the house-surgeon, and Mr. W. Price
Jones, the resident medical officer of the hospital.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Mey 11.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS BILL.

Order for Second Reading read; Motion made, and Ques-
tion put, " That the Bill be now read a second time :"
—The house divided ; Ayes 177, Noes 18.

AYES-177.

Akroyd, E. Garnett, William Palmerston, Viscount
Althorp, Lord Gifford, Earl of Paull, Henry
Annesley, Hon. Hugh Glyn, G. Peel, Sir It.
Ayrton, A. Goderich, Viscount Pennant, Col. E.
Bail, E. Greenall, Gilbert Pevensey, Viscount
Baring, Sir F. Greer, Samuel , Pilkington, J.
Baring, T. Gray, Captain Powell, Francis'
Barnard, T. Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir G . Puller, Christopher
Beale, S. Grey, It. Ramsay, Sir A.
Bentinck, G. Gurney, Samuel Raynham, Viscount
Bernard, H. Il ackblock, William' Rebow, J.
Blandford, Marquis of Banbury, Robert Repton, G.
Boldero, Col. H. G. Ilankey, T. Ricardo, J.
Bovill, W. Hardeastie, Joseph Ridley, George
Bramston, T. W Harris, J. D. Roebuck, J.
Brand, lion. H. Hay, Lord John Roupell, W.
Brocklehurst, J. Hay tcr, W. Russell, F. W.
Bruce, C. L. C. Herbert, 11. Salisbury, Enoch
Buchanan, Walter Hindtey, C. Schneider, Henry
Bury, Viscount Ilodgson, , illiam Sctater, George,
Caird, J. Hope, Alexander Seymour, H.
Campbell, R. J. R. Hopwood, John Shelley, Sir J.
Cavendish, Lord Horsfall, T. Sheridan, It.
Charlesworth, J. C.D. Hudson, G. Smith, A.
Christy, Samuel Hume, W. Smith, Sir F.
Clifford, C. C. Ingestre, Viscount Spooner, R.
Give, George Ingham, R. Stafford, Marquis:
Codrington, Gen. Kershaw, J. Stanhope, J.
Collins, T. Ring, Edward Stanley, Lord
Colvile, C. R. Kinglake, J. Steel, John
Cowper, W. F. Kinnaird, A. Stirling, W.
Conyngham, W. Knightley, R. Steuart, A.
Conyngham, Lord F. Lewis, Sir G. C. Stuart, Colonel
Cotterell, Sir li. G. Liddell, H. G. . Sykes, Col.
Cox, W. Lincoln, Earl of ` Taylor, Colonel
Cross, R. A. Locke, J. 'Tempest, Lord A. V.
Crossley, F. Lockhart, A. E. Thompson, General
Hamer, L. D. Lovaine, Lord Thornely, T.
Davies, D. Lygon, Hon. F. Townshend, J.
Dillwyn, L. L. Macartney, G. Trefusis, C.
Dobbs, W. C. M acaulay, Kenneth Trelawney, Sir John
Duncan, Viscount Mainwarin sr, r . Vance, John
Duncombe, A. Malins, Richard Vivian, J. H.
Dunlop, A. Mangles, R. Warren, S.
Dutton, Hon. R. H. Manners, Lord J. Weguelin, T.
Egerton, Edw. C March, Earl of Western, Thomas
Ellis, Hon. L. A. Marsh, M. Whatman, J.
Elphinstone, Sir J. Massey, W. Whitbread, S.
Elton, Sir A. H. Mu er, Taverner White, James
Evans, T. W. Miller, Stearns Whiteside, J.
Ewart, W. Morgan, 0. Williams. W.
Ewart, J. Morris, D. Willoughby, Sir IL
Fenwick, 11. Mowbray, J. R. Wilson, J.
Ferguson, Sir R. Mulgrava, Earl of Winnington, Sir T.
Foley, J. H. Muntz, G. Woodd, B.
Foljambe, Francis Napier, J. Woods, Henry
Forde, Colonel Neate, Charles Wyld, James
Fortescue, Hon. F. Niooll, Donald i TELLERS.
Frazer, Sir W. Ogilvy, S r J. Adderley, C. B.
Gard, R. Pakenham,lColonel Cecil, Lord

Barrow, W.
Brady, J.
Cogan, W. A. F.
Devereux, J.
Ennis, Joan
Fagan, W.
Greene, John

NOES-18.
Hatchell, John
endall, N.
M'Cann, J.
MacEvoy, E.
M'Cuillagh, W.
O'Connell, D.
O'Donoghoe, Daniel

O'Fiaherty, A.
Pease, Henry
War Wren, Laurence
Watkin, Edward
TELLES.%
Bowyer, G.
O'Brien, P.

CLANDESTINE ERECTION OF A POLISa NATIONAL
says :—" Certain per-
MONUMENT.—The Posen Gazette
sons had the idea seven years ago of erecting at Schrimm,
in Prussian Poland, a monument to the Polish insur-
gents who fell in the combat of Kens on the 29th April,
1848. Having raised subscriptions they purchased a
block of granite, caused it to be fashioned into an obe-
lisk, and conveyed it to the cemetery of Schrimm. But
the Government refused to allow it to be erected, and it
remained lying on the ground in the cemetery. A few
days ago it was found to have been set np, but the pre-
fect
immediately caused it to be demolished, and a judi-
cial iuvestigatioa has been commenced to discover by
whom it was raised."
THE WAR AGAINST BUTTONS.-1:10w readily the needle
has been surrendered by our fair relatives to the iron
grasp of science may be instanced by the fact, that a
home-made shirt is now as much a curiosity as was for-
merly that of one being made out of doors. The acknow-
ledged superiority, even by " the sisterhood of seam-
stresses," of those which, by the aid of machinery and
inventive talent, now take the place of the old and gusset
style, is universal ; but we can well anticipate their sur-
prise when they not only hear of, but actually see, a
perfect shirt which has no buttons whatever, either in
front or at the back, but which acquires an immediate
set, and retains it by a simple fastening on the shoulder.
Yet this has been done by Messrs. Welch and Marget-
son, who call their invention "The Approved," under
tke patent law.