The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-07 00:00:00

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TEE BUE_DERS' STiaal?.

Yesterday the period of two years expired, for
which the master builders had entered into their
bond of association, leaving then f!.ee either to ceeee
or renew their connexion with the association. A
deputation from the mesons' committee nmoralingiy
waited upon the firm of Waller and Sons, the ex-
tensive contractors of King's-road, Chelsea, to ascer-
tain the final decision of the firm.upon the question
of the compromise. The result of this interview
was the unconditional acceptance by the firm of
Messrs. Waller of the compromise, the only stipula-
tion made being that the firm should receive back
their old workmen as far as possible.
As soon as the decision of Messrs. Waller became
known through the trade, Me. Joseph Myers, of
Messrs. Myers' firm, Lambeth, visited the head-
quarters of the masons, in Westminster-road, and
had a long conversation with several of his ell
workmen, and although no positive arrangement
was made a favourable result is anticipated.
An aggregate meeting of the carpenters end
joiners of the metropolis was held Let evening. at
the Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen-street, to take
into consideration the present position of affairs in
the building trades, as it affected their branch—
. Mr. Franklin in the chair. The following resolu-
tions were agreed to :—" That this meeting Views
with concern and regret the inconsistent and partial
conduct of the Government in not immediately
withdrawing the Sappers from the works of the
Chelsea Barracks instead of allowing one month
previous to their withdrawal, they having acknow-
ledged the principle to he wrong under which they
were employed. That the secretary forward a copy
of this resolution to the Secretary of State for
War." " That in the opinion of this meeting the
system of hiring and paving by the hour is objec-
tionable, as it tends to destroy all identity of inte-
rest and sympathy between employers and employed,
reducing the terms of engagement to a period be-
getting in the workmen a constant fear of discharge ;
we therefore pledge ourselves to resist, by ETC] y
legitimate me:ns, such an unjust system, and to
support the branches of the building trade now eit
strike, or any other branch, in obtaining the term,.
of the compromise."

FORDRAIII, T 11P, CELEBRATED

JOCKEY.

In private life Fordham's popularity is as great
as it is in public; and among the jockeys we can
with truth say ho has not a single enemy, for his
kindness of heart always prompts him to make an
excuse for any defect in their riding to which his
attention has been called, adding, he could not
have ridden him better himself." To whist he is
especially partial, when there is, as he calls it, no
" efficing ;" and in the long winter evenings at
Drewett's it is his constant amusement. His habit,
however, of consulting one of those books in which
the cards are printed with directions how to play
them, renders a rubber a rather longer affair than
it is at the Arlington or White's ; but his excuse, if
iie did not pursue this system "he might chuck
away a trick," is readily accepted. Of
shooting he is also very fond ; and the co-
verts of Jenkinstown, the fields of Epsom, and the
uplands of Mamhead, all bear witness to his prowess
with his gun ; still, we think we shall not err in
stating he is more to be feared shooting a favourite
a few strides from home on a race-horse than a hare
when in action. Of Terpsichore he is a decided
votary; and in a three-handed reel at Danebury
can stay longer than that celebrated professor,
Young King, who, a few months back, danced a
friend for a sovereign after dinner for 40 minutes
without his boots, and beat him. Of Paris and the
Parisians he has a great admiration, as, in his
frequent visits across the Channel, he has had
plenty of opportunities of studying their manners
end customs. He has, however, sensibly felt the
inconvenience of not being able to speak the lan-
guage as fluently as he does English, for, about
a twelvemonth back, he went into a haircutter's
shop to have his locks trimmed, and the operator,
having no orders to the contrary, and not under-
standing one syllable of English, went on with his
customer until he had left as much hair on his head
as there is on a cannon ball. In this state he came
to Newmarket the following day, when his old
travelling tutor, Mr. Mellish, inquired of him, if
"he had had a month," to which he indignantly
replied in the negative, adding, "that it was all
very well for him to talk, bathe should liketo
know what he would have done had he been •
Paris, and had his hair cut, and been unable to telt
them when to stop." Those who know Fordham's
style of arguing can well understand the force
of his remonstrance; but he has wisely resolved
never again to place himself in such a peculiar
position, and has since employed none but
native artists on his poll. But, if partial to the
turf, lie is no less fond of the chase, and never
misses a day with the Southdown foxhounds, with
whom, when there is anything to do, he goes right
well, cramming his horse through the rough hedges
and over the doubles of the heavy Weald of Sussex,
without the slightest compunction, and being always
mounted on blood horses, with his light weight and
fine hands, he is invariably in the first flight, at the
finish of a run. On alternate days, he generally
pays a i.yisit r,:,.t0 the neighbouring pack of har-
riers, with whom his great pleasure seems to be to
consider himself to be whipper-in, and to halloa and
crack his whip. His stud of hunters is not a large
one, as they only consist of Levity, Babylon, and a
wonderful pony, but they are all presents, and, in
the language of Mr. Murray, of Manchester, won-
derfully well educated. Besides these he may occa-
sionally be seen at the covert side on an old steeple-
chaser, oe on a cat-legged two-year-old, hardly
up to the weight of a pair cf boots, or on some
half-bred farmer's mire fit to carry 16 stone.
But it is all the same to him, for he " nego-
tiates" their fences so well for them as to escape
with very few falls. A pony race he loves to
distraction ; and he is never so proud as when,
after letting a butcher's boy or farmer's son
pump himself out, he comes and beats him on
some scratch of a pony he has picked up for the
occasion. Steeplechasing he also likes at the end of
the hunting season, and his favourite mare, Levity,
has won one over four miles of very severe country.
During his career on the turf, Fordham must have
amassed a pretty large sum of money; and we be-
lieve we are not wrong in stating that in the invest-
mentr of it he is guided by the advice of his old
master, Mr. J. S. Douglas, the owner of Tourna-
gfelaeft fear of
iitthsoubteinesgources improperly
in the
evening of life. And if rough and unpolished in
employed,men t , so t h
orer
hise
is
benion
ais manner, Fordham, in the relations of life, has
showed himself possessed of more valuable attri-
butes; and his name will ever rank in the
the turf with those of the highest•
artists in the
saddle during the time he ouri fl •
shed.—Bally's
t-agazine of Sports.

US, Z(,OLOGICAL DISCOVERI•.

W hen
interrupted,
some
tiTeago., ihe telegraphic communi-
cation between c
of two
gli
atft
Cagliari Bona, in Algeria, was
years, measures
suddenly
eNrver subsisting for the space
purpose e raecrs°aoiroteda
ht oop fortti
ohne
of getting the cable up
which only succeeded partially. The portioner of
the cable recovered having lain in a submarine
valley of the depth of from 6,000 to 8,000 feet, an
excellent opportunity was thus offered for the study
of the zoological species to be found at that depth.
M. Alphonse Edwards, a French naturalist, who
was on the spot at the time, has now published the
b
results of his observations on that occasion. Among
the extraneous bodies which adhered to the cable,
he mentions several mollusks still living
time they were brought up. One of them was the
Ostrea cochlear, a kind of oyster which is frequent
enough in the editerranms at a depth of from 300
to 400 feet, but which had never been found at any
depth approaching to that of the valley
surface
like completelya p itt er-cast,
the
shape st above_
. There
mentioned. It must have fixed itself to
the at
ca the
le
when very young; for its lower valve, about 6
cen-
timetresof
thine cbarbelaed'sth, had
was also a Pecten opercularis, a sea-shell
the valves of which fits like a lid , one of
at-
tached to the cable, and a much on the other,
pecten testce. To these were add rarer one also, the
the nzonodanta lintbata, and added two gasteropodes,
both extremely rare, and the Jusus lamellosta,
alive within. Of corals containing the animal
speci-
mens belonging to there were fourteen d
three different species of the
family of turbinor
one fossil, that i est two of which are new, and
is, hitherto only found in ancient
geological strata mixed with other palreontologica
fragments. It has thus been ascertained beyond a
doubt that, at a depth of 8,000 feet below the sur-
face of the
sea, there exist living beings of
seden-
tary habits, and mostly belonging to such species
as have been very seldom found at more accessible
depths.
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ANOTHER CHILD MURDER.—AU inquest was
held yesterday by Mr. John Humphreys, at the Rose and
Crown Tavern, Bromley, on the body of a female child un-
known, found under the following cimumstances :—On Sa-
turdaylast, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, as a man
Samuel Prince was at. Work at the rear of a house
eniatumaetde in Archibald-street, Bromley, he saw a fish-basket
lying in the garden, as if it had been thrown over the side
wall. The man had seen two females loitering about shortly
before, one of whom was carrying a brown paper parcel.
The basket was opened, when he found the body of a fine
child, wrapped in a coarse towel. Mr. Garman, surgeon,
said that the deceased had been borne alive. The body was
well formed and fully developed. The umbilical cord had
been severed, and death was the result of suffocation by
pressure on the mouth and nostrils. The jury returned a
verdict of " Wilful murder against some perso; or persons
1 unknown."