The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-03 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Her Majesty's steam storeship Adventure was on
Saturday hauled under the shears in the fitting
basin at Woolwich, and was dismaste3, prior to her
being docked for the removal of her engines and
machinery.
The Rinaldo, 17, screw, Commander Hewett,
V.C., steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday.
She is expected to sail immediately for the North
American and West India station.

Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert,
Captain the Hon. J. Denman, arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday at noon, on her return from con-
veying her Majesty the Empress of Austria from
Madeira to Trieste. Off the north coast of Spain the
yacht fell in with a heavy gale from the north, ac-
companied by a very heavy sea. The yacht's pas-
sage home from Trieste has been accomplished in
nine days 19 hours, under steam.
According to present arrangements, the star-
board division of the Channel Squadron will pro-
ceed into the Channel towards the close of the pre-
sent week.

The paddlewheel steam sloop Desperate, 6, Com-
mander Nelson, left Plymouth on Saturday
afternoon for the West Indies.

The engines of the screw steam frigate Phoebe, 51,
having been completed, a trial took place in Key-
ham basin on Friday. This vessel was lengthened'
60 feet in Devonport Dockyard in three different
places—forward, aft, and amid-ships. She is now
240 feet long between the perpendiculars, 206 feet
for tonnage, 51 feet 6 inches extreme breadth, 51
feet for tonnage, and 50 feet moulded; depth of
hold, 17 feet 2 inches, and burden 2,848 tons. She
will be full-ship rigged, and will spread as much
canvass as if dependant only on her sails. There is
a good height on her maindeck ; the lower deck is
not so high, and the space in the hold for steam
machinery not being designed for its reception, is
scarcely adequate for the purpose. The engines,by
Messrs. R. Napier and Son, of Glasgow, are of 500-
horse power nominal, but capable of working up to
2,100 horses, as evidenced in a preliminary experi-
ment about three months since. The engines are
seated just before the mainmast ; between them
and the boilers (tubular) forward there is about six
feet of coal-box. The bunkers on the wings run
27 feet astern of the after side of the engines, and
forward they are flush with the boilers ; they can
stow about 400 tons of coal, equal to eight or ten
days' consumption. The boiler-room, like that of
the Orlando, is fitted with an upper double tram-
way to receive a pair of wheels from which the coal
buckets are suspended—an arrangement which
economises the labour of the stokers. The engine-
room is furnished with Suffield's telegraph for ready
communication with the quarter deck. The length
of the screw shaft is 96 feet, diameter 12 inches ;
diameter of the screw, 18 feet ; pitch of the screw
(Griffith's) 23 feet. The engines of the Phoebe are
what are termed trunk air-pump engines, similar
to those on board the Royal William, Orestes, and
several gunboats.
The following appointments were made on
Saturday at the Admiralty :—Lieut George Morice,
to the Donegal ; Lieutenant Richard Evans, to the
Flying Fish ; W. R. Cronin, master, to the Asia,
for the Pelican ; Michael S. Grey, second master, to
the Pelorus, for surveying duties ; A. B. C. Booth,
naval cadet, to the Hero; Robert Bacon, first-class
assistant-engineer, to the Asa, as supernumerary ;
James M'Glasham, promoted to the rank of first-
class assistant-engineer in the Weazel ; James Stir-
ling, acting second-class assistant-engineer, to the
Indus, as supernumerary ; Messrs. Thomas H. Simp-
kins, 0. H. H. Bentley, and John S. Long have been
nominated to naval cadetships,

The Rutland and Northampton Militia assembled
on May 28 for the annual training—Lord Burghly,
M.P., in command. Major Lord B. Cecil, Captains
Clark, Christie, D'Arey, Robinson, Kerr, Powell,
Andrew, Finch, Hatton, and the Hon. E. Freke ;
Lieutenants Bowman, De Capon Brooke, Whit-
worth, Jennings, Pares, Platt, Lawrance, Luanne,
and Orme; Captain and Adjutant Rose, Dr. Barr,
and Quartermaster Manful!, were the officers
present.
PORTSMOUTH, June 2.—A fire broke out this
evening in the valve and fitting building at the gasworks at
Landport, which at first threatened to be serious. By the
prompt arrival, however, of the fire.engines, with detach-
ments of police, the 11th Regiment, and a large number of
seamen, it was fortunately suppressed before extending
beyond the buildfng where it broke out. The result was
that the fitting store in the upper story of the building was
destroyed, but the lower floor, which contains the governor
and valves, esoPscl) it is 'Miffed, mime) itajury.

During the last few days 12 of the leading build-
ing arms in the metropolis, after mature considera-
tion and watching how the system worked with
other large employers, have decided to adopt the
plan of hour payment and Saturdayhalf-holiday for
their men. These firms are in addition to those who
have already adopted it, and as there is now no
doubt that in the course of another month this
hour payment will become the rule of all engage-
ments with labourers, the masons, seeing that the
masters are determined, have held a meeting to en-
deavour to compromise matters. With this view the
following letter, which, it is to be presumed, con-
tains the ultimatum of the Unions, has been for-
warded to Messrs. Holland and Hann en, and through
them in effect to all the great contractors. It is dated
from the Sun Inn, Mason-street, Lambeth, May 27,
and is as follows :
" Sir,—l am instructed by the masons of London to for-
ward to you the following re-:olution (as a proposition to
settle this long agitation, thinking, as we do, it is an hon-
ourable compromise both to masters and workmen of this
vexed question), at a general meeting of operative masons,
held May 1, at Hawkstone-hall, Waterloo-road :
" Resolved,—That seeing the determination of the mas-
ter builders to enforce the half-holiday, we the masons,
accept 6s. for the first five days of ten hours, and 3s. for
Saturday, but to leave work at 12 o'clock on Saturdays.'
" Hoping the above will meet your kind consideration
and approval, and that your answer may be in the affirma-
tive, on behalf of the masons,—l am, sir, &e.,
" CHARLES HEWITT, Secretary."

In consequence of this letter it is already stated
that the labourers are anxious to compromise the
dispute honourably, but that the masters refuse.
The masters have unquestionably refused this offer,
on the grounds that they have already lost thou-
sands upon thousands in consequence of there being
no definite meaning attached to the term ".p. day's
labour" and the efforts of the uniotvl to teduceit to
nine hours. They state that if they acC4ted-thlis.
compromise of payment by the day, the question
would be just as it was last year and at the begin-
ning of this, and that before six months elapsed
there would be repetitions of the old strikes in favour
of the nine hours movement. They also call atten-
tion to the fact that they do not enforce a half-
holiday, as the resolutions of the masons themselves
proves by their wishing them to enforce it from 12
o'clock instead of one. They decline to be parties to
enforcing anything on the men as to hours of labour
as it was the sole reason for their adopting hour
payment that each man might be leit at liberty to
work as long as he pleased. The masters state that
they guarantee that their yards shall be open to all
workmen for 10 hours daily, and not less. But by
the hour system any one is free to quit his work
after seven, eight, or nine hours, if he so pleases ;
but on no account shall there be an extension of
work beyond 10 hours a day, unless demanded by
a majority of the men in their employ. Even taking
the Saturday half-holiday itself is left to the deci-
sion of the workmen. For these reasons the masters
decline to depart from the system so many have
adopted, and which the workmen in their employ
now most heartily approve. With this last final re-
solution of the masons and its refusal definitely, it
is confidently believed that the controversy will
cease, and the public hear the end of these most ill-
judged disputes on the part of the men. The rule
applied in future to labourers will be the same as
that under which almost every other class has to
live and get their bread—viz., that in proportion
to their work will be their pay.—Times.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.

The Northumberland Plate of 200 sovs, added to a handicap
of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared on or before
to-morrow (Tuesday) ; winners of a handicap or other
stake of 200 sovs or xpwards, after May 27, 61b extra; of
two of that value, 91b extra. Two miles. 60 subs.
Yrs at lb Yrs st lb
Ben Webster 4 9 3 Charles Fox
Underhand
Adam Bede
Bivouac 4 7 12 Seven Dials .. 3 6 5
Wildman
Dilkoosh
Stockade
The Brewer

Prologue
Predictor
Volatile
Jeddah
Prince of Orange a 6 13
Danae
Makeless filly 4 6 12
Ivanhoff .. 8 6 12
Donner-und-Blitz.. 4 6 11
Syringe
Desmond
Rosomond 4 6 11
Conscript
Von Stroom
Russley 3 6 8
East Stanley 3 6 8
Upperhand
York Minster 3 6 6
The Squire
Neighbour 3 6 6
Doefoot
Herne
• This horse, being entere,
its owner, will be struck out.
otherwise ordered.

Ettrick Vale 4 6 0
Starbeck
Peggy Taft
The Bushman
Vancouver
Oldminster
Vicount Brignall 3 6 0
Kildrum 3 5 12
Wombat 3 5 12
Atropia
Bayonet 3 5 9
Squire Peirse
Lamblande
Dora
Joey Jones
Trapcage
Johnnie Bright 3 5 7
Rapparee
Termagent filly
*Jacintha
First Lord

A without the knowledge of
at the:time prescribed, unless

ASCOT HEATH.
The Ascot Handicap of 25 sovs each, 15 ft, and only 5 if
declared by to-morrow (Tuesday), with 200 added ; win •
ners of any handicap after May 31st, 71b extra. Two
miles and a half. 44 subs.

Yrs st lb
Moorcock
Lady Trespass
Parmesan
Pretendant
Surprise
Optimist
Horror
Gibraltar
Petra .. 5 7 7
Frederick
Predictor
Dilkoosh
Lysicote 5 7 3
Danae
Royal Sovereign 6 7 1
Remunerator 5 7 1
Plumper 4 7 1
Heiress
Viscount Brignall 3 6 13
East Stanley 3 6 10
Paul Clifford 3 6 7
Calpe 3 6 6
Conscript

Yrs st lb
Cashio
Isabella
Guilder
Don C3ssack 5 6 3
Professor
Anthem' 3 6 0
Bandsman 3 6 0
Rapture 3 6 0
Knightsbridge 3 6 0
Juno
c by Wild Dayrell,
out of Intimida-
tion .. 3 5 13
Jackall
Atropia
Zingara
Prince Imperial
Volition 3 6 7
Shipwreck 3 5 7
Waterproof
Canary
3 5 7
Rapparee
Sister to St. Albans 3 5 7

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-SATURDAY.

This may be fairly reckoned an off day. Those of the
subscribers who had been to Epsom not having returned,
there could be very little done with the settling upon the
past week; and the little that was done in speculation is
scarcely worth noticing, Closing prices :

NORTRITMEERLAND PLATE.
100 to 9 agst Viscount Brignall (taken)
100 to 6 agst Yorkminster (taken)
100 to 6 agst Ivanhoff (taken)

The late Duke of Bedford's racing stud, together with
the training establishment at Newmarket, will be brought
to the hammer on Wednesday, in the Newmarket July
meeting. By his Grace's will, Admiral Bons, who has
managed the stud so successfully for the last twenty-one
years, has power to select any horse of the lot for himself,
and we need scarcely add that his choice has fallen on
Asteroid.

Mr. Parr has sold Lupus to Lord Lincoln.
Mr. W. Bevill has sold Parapet to Mr. Starkie.
Woodford and Loughton races are flied for Friday,
July 5.

Monastry has been sold to go to Italy.
Captain King has named his filly by lon, out of Calliope,
2 yrs, Gazelle.
The Manchester and Salford Regatta has been post-
poned until the 10th, 12th, and 13th of August.

It is said that Mr. Hall has received a commission to
paint Kettledrum for Colonel Towneley.
The Hampton Court sale of yearlings will take place on
Saturday, when 13 colts and 12 fillies will be brought to
the hammer.

It is said that Kinnersley, 6 years, has arrived at 11.
way out
appearsoo on
Sopp's stables, Westbury.
Bombardier has gone into W. Day's stable to be trained
for the St. Leger.
re-
mains at Woodyates.
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Lord Coventry has sold the Ammon
Lord Westmoreland has purchased Schism, but she
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A meeting has been held of the creditors of
Messrs. Geo. Moorhouse and Co., of Manchester. It ap-
peared that there are only about £7,500 of realizable assets
to meet debti of £30,000, and that the firm must have been
insolvent for a long period, A composition of Ss, in the )
poutz was accepted.

connected with next year's exhibition to cider and
system. The arrangements connected Blotters are fast reducing the huge trli3
with the ors
ganisation of Trade, Committees for English exhi-
of
bitors are fast progressing towards completion, and.
the Commission appointed by the French Emperor
is equally diligent and forward in its results. On
the Continent, however, there is a certain amount
of apathy as' s the intended display. That this is
due to po,,..ssi causes alone is known from the fact
that only in those parts of Europe which either have
been in a state of disturbance, or apprehend it for
next year, is this feeling, or rather absence of feel-
ing for the Exhibition discoverable. To make up
for it, however, English manufacturers are throw-
ing themselves into it with redoubled ardour. As
in the last exhibition, one•half the entire space of
the building will be allotted to England and
the colonies, and the remainder among the various
foreign countries. All the applications for space
from England have been sent in, and some ides
may be formed of their extent when we state that,
if all were. granted that is asked, England alone
would require a building nearly three times larger
than the entire structure for next year. It follows,
therefore, as only half this is allotted to Great
Britain, that the demands for space will all have to
be reduced to one-sixth of what is now asked.
Some exhibitors' demands are most preposterously
exorbitant. A visit to the site of the proposed
building is the best way to get a fair idea of the
immense extent of the intended structure, and also
of the rapidity with which it is being raised. A.
fortnight ago, and the surveyors were only mark-
ing out the ground, and a line of little sticks of
different colours was the sole aid to tracing the plan.
of the building. Now all the concrete foundations
have been laid and hardened, and the walls of the
picture gallery are already some 15 feet high. me
first impression on entering the works is that you
are in a hopground of colossal proportions, so bare
looks the flat enclosure, with its hundreds of scaf-
fold poles, set in lines of such length that the
furthest off seems a mere twig. Stray men are at
work here and there removing gravel, or setting
broad slabs of stone on little cubes of brickwork.
There are really some 800 employed in all, but
they are lost, and look as nothing in the wide
enclosure. When all is in full operation,
from 3,000 to 3,500 labourers mill be required.
The site of the domes is as yet only marked by
stick, with here and there solid square columns
of brickwork and masonry let into the ground to
carry the cast-iron columns. The brickwork and
masonry, also, on which the columns for the nave
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our readers who have contemplated building im-
provements in some form or other, if only in the
way of a little greenhouse, or an additional stall to
the stable, and who can, therefore, understand what
the builder's " bill of quantities" means, and recol-
lect how they have shrunk in alarm from the esti-
mate of so many thousand bricks, two tons of mor-
tar, 5 cwt of timber, so many hundred Queen slates,
and so on. All bills of quantities, however, fall into
utter insignificance when we come to look at the
amount of materials required to complete the build-
ing for 1862. The foundations have already con-
sumed 5,000 tons of concrete, which, as the first
item, is pretty fair. On these foundations will be
laid nearly 60,000 tons, or 1,400,000 cubic feet, of
brickwork, requiring:upwards of 18,000,000 bricks
to build it. To 18,000,000 bricks no less than
22,000 tons of mortar will be requisite. 10,000 tons
of ironwork—viz, about 7,000 tons of cast and 3,000
tons of wrought iron—will be used in the entire
structure. As there are nearly 1,200,000 superficial
feet of flooring, the slime amount of timber as of iron
is required—namely, 10,000 tons. The flooring
alone consumes 360 miles of planking, seven inches
wide, and 270 miles' length, nine inches wide, or
upwards of GOO miles' length of planking in
all.
The actual quantities are 1,200,000 and 2,000,000
lineal feet of each kind. For the windows
no less than 108 miles' length, or 600,000 feet, of
sashing will be required, to fill in which are re-
iwired 500 tons of sheet glass and upwards of 50
ons of putty. The roofs will need 600,000 square
feet of felt ; and among the minor items are be-
tween 200 and 300 tons of nails, 600 tons of paint,
300 tons of piping, and so on. The cubical con
tents of the whole structure will be no less than 73
million cubic feet. The public have recently been
rather astounded to see that the district surveyor
summoned Messrs.Kelk and Lucas, the contractors,
for commencing a building not in accordance with
the provisions of the Building Act. Now, when
this act was passed such a gigantic structure as that
intended for next year's Exhibition was never con-
templated. The act provides that no building for
trade purposes shall exceed in contents 216,000
cubic feet ; but from this are exempted all railway
stations and buildings, also all buildings for the
service of the Crown. As all the articles to be ex-
hibited next year will have the prices affixed, and
as all, or nearly all, will be sold before the Exhibi-
tion is over, the building necessarily comes within
the provisions of the act as one for trade purposes,
and, though built under royal charter, is neither a
Crown nor railway building. Consequently, under
the act its contents would be limited to 216,000
cubic feet, instead of 73 million, as intended. For-
tunately, the Board of Works overruled the legal
interference of the district surveyor, and sanc-
tioned the erection of the building. But for this
sensible solution of the difficulty, Lord Gran-
ville would have had to pass a short bill exempt-
ing the proposed building from the provisions of
the act, and not a nail could have been driven
or a brick laid until such bill had passed both
houses. The magistrate was obliged to inflict a
nominal fine of ls. on Mr. Kelk for his contem-
plated infraction of the law, and with this the
affair has dropped. As yet the arrangements for
the refreshment department have not been settled.
In this department—which will exercise such an
important influence on the feelings of satisfaction
with which the public will visit the building—it is
a matter of almost vital consequence that all the
arrangements should be of the best possible kind,
and that in treating for this contract the Commis-
sioners should make considerations of profit quite
subordinate to the question of efficiency. It is,
perhaps, not advisable that the refreshments should
be a monopoly in the hands of one person, though
it might be even more dangerous to divide it among
too many, as in that case it would be certain to fall
to small firms, and probably result in a system of
" touting" among the rival waiters, which would be
alike annoying and discreditable.

GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN.

Mr. Alcock, the British Envoy in Japan, states
in one of the despatches just published his idea of
the Government of that country. The titular sove-
reigns, the Mikado and the Tycoon, hold only a
phantom sceptre, and have no real power. It is be-
hind these shadows that the true executive and go-
verning power must be sought. There are first the
Ministers, with two of whom alone the representa-
tives of foreign Powers come in contact. Behind,
bat above them, is the Gorogio, or Council of Five—
Daimios in their own right and high officers of State
by election, claiming to exercise a supreme executive
power under certain responsibility and control from
those from whom their powers are derived. Beyond
these, again, and probably the effective source of
any power the Gorogio exercise, is the Great
Council of the Daimios, understood to be 18 in num-
ber, represent ing the 62 principal vassal princes of
the empire, who, lestly, form a part only of the
collective body of some 600 Daimios and privileged
classes, possessed of territorial rights and privileges
more or less considerable in the country, an.d a voice
most
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opfottehnet
great , innovation of
Daimiosinits co councils. The
under-
stood
Tycoon, the nominal head
stood to be opposed to the
establishing foreign
disappeared from the scene ; a
relations. Wit ain a month
from the conclusion of the first treaty (with
oAfmthereiceal
mere boy, not his son, was elected from the Royal
stock to succeed him, and all concerned in the ne•
go
to
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tiation etchoetirveei,g ning
8 were disgraced and removed, even down
the subordinates, and in disgrace to this day
remain, and it is with a hostile party in power
that the foreign representatives have to deal in •
seeing the treaties carried into execution. In this
party there are men who, it is believed, advocate a
decided retrograde policy,
consisting the annoyance
and intimidation of foreigners, and, if that should
fail, decimation or general massacre, and closing
the ports on the l that public opinion will
p ea
not tolerate foreign intrusion. Among the party
driven from power this policy is supposed
to find support in the hope that a col-
lision with foreign Powers may ruin the existing
Government. The governing members seem unable 1
or reluctant to cope with these classes. Mr. Alcock
thought it necessary recently to write plainly to
the Japanese Ministers for Foreign Affairs, that
they must control the violent men -who seek to
drive foreigners out of the country by murder and
terrorism ; and he added, " Europe united would
resist the attempt, render its success impossible,
and punish the authors of such an outr age on the
laws and rights of nations. Could they even tem-
porarily effect their object and murder every
foreigner, Japan would be the most grievous
sufferer. Were such a flagitious policy 'ever to be
carried out, the country would fall back under the
ban of civilised nations, and be dealt with as a
common enemy."