The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVE NIN CI, A lIG LIST-- rti 1859,

BItITISII POSSESSIONS.

!Paid 1 Closing i Businsas
Sharel Railways. ' Price. Dona.
I

100 Atlantic &St Lawrence all 79 81
I Leased at 6 per cent
,Bom.,Baroda&Centlnd
18 134 164 17 161
u. 5 percent
18 , Do all
18 Do. Addit. Capital A, 6 1 1I
18 Do. Do. BI 9 n 14dJ
20 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 5 54 5
204 Do. New 164 54 0i
100 I Buffalo,Brant&G odrieh; I®
6 p. ct. bds. I Aug., 1872]
100 Do. do. 1 July, 18;3, 100
190 Do. do. 1 June, 18741'
20 jelcutta.&S.Eastrn.Lim.ll. 3.0. d # p
20 ;Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lim.) 2s.
20 iCapeTown & Dock Scrip 2s. 11 Id
20 Central Oude (Limited),2s. ed.
20 ;Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c , 74 1 d
174 'Demerara
20 Eastern Bengal.gu.sp.c 1 5 11 1 d 3/
S lock 'East Indian, gu. sp. c lOO 98 99 9SI 0
20 Do. C Shares all -
20 Do. F Shares Ext 5
20 Do. Jubbulpore 5 I Id
100 D 0.44 p.c. Bds. pay.'s9 all 99 100
20 Geelong& Mel. gu a. 5 p. c. all 19 20
Geelong Corporation 6 100
Sto. per cent. Bonds
Stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 33 34 3311
100 Do. 6 p.c. Deben.,pay.'7B all 71 73 71
100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref lOO 91 93
20 Gt. IndiaPenin.gua.sp.e all 954 964 96
20 Do. New, gua.s per cent ' 4 1 4 d
20 Do. do 4 --
20 f Gt.S.of Ind.Lim.—Scrip 2s.
( guaranteed 5 per cent. 14 ld
Gt.W. of Canada Shares all 144 15
zoi IDo. New
100 j Do. Bonds pay. '76,with
all 102 104
e ept. till '6O
100 Do. do. '73 till '6O I all 102 104
100 Do. do. '?3 without opt 1 all 101 103
100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77 do
20 Madras, guar., 44 p. c all 84 88
20 Do. do. 5 per cent all -
20 Do. 4f p. c. Extension l5 89 91 904
20 Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c l5 18f 1914
20 Do. Fourth do.
Stock Melb. Corp. 6,p c. Bonds 100 ..-
20 I Newßrunswlck&Canda.
Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc 10 —d
Class ACapitl.Share
Do. do. Land do ..
20 Do. do. B. Capital do lO --d
Do •• . do • Land do. • •
20 I :Northof India Tramroadl 2s
I Limited, Scrip
20 Oude (Limited)
20 Scinde .,• 15 —d d
20 Do.
20 Do. New I 12 14 1 d
20 iDo. Punjaub Via'' 5 1f lld
20 ;Do. Indus. St. Flo. g' 10 1 d
20 ISt. Andrews & Quebec A 18
10 .Trinidad(Limited) Scrip 1
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
10 (Antwerp & Rotterdam) all I 44 4;
20 I Ardennes all p
20 Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c 1 3 14 fd 4
5 ,Belgian East. Junction all I 1
20 ,Beziers to Graissessac all
5 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 2 24
20 Dutch Rhenish
6 Eastern of France
20 Euphrates Valley 2s. I p
20 Great Central of France all
120 Gt. Luxem., Con. shs all 64 64 64
10 Italian Junction
20 Lake Constance & Bale all
20 Lierre and Turnhout all
20 ,Lombardo Venetian.., 8 24 24p
20 'Lucca &Pi stoj a, 5 p.c.pf all
20 Lyons and Geneva all
33l Maria Antonia all
20 Do. do. New
20 Namur and Liege all 8 84
20 Do. do. 6p. c. Pref. _ _ all 184 194
16 Northern of France
20 Do. New Shares
10 Norwegian Trunk Pref all 9 10
20 Ottoman. frua. 6 per cent 7 -
20 Paris,Lyons, and Medit all 344 354
20 Paris and Orleans all 53 55
20 C Recife& S. Fran. (Pern.)
gua. 7p. et. (Lim.) 11 24 11 d
20 ,Riga and Dunaburg 4
10 ;Rome and Frascati
20 !Royal Danish all
5 ;Royal Swedish
4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.. all ;
20 Sambre and Meuse all ; 6 64
10 Do. 54 per cent. Pref all I 84 94
20 Southern of France all 20 21
81 West Flanders
10 Do. 54 p. c. Preference
20 W. & N.W. of France all 21 224
20 Western of Austria ..
20 Western of Switzerland all
6 Wiesbaden
6
Do 8 per cent. Pref all
20 Zealand all

Sharel

BRITISH MINES.

Mines.

Paid. \ Closing Business
price. Done.

2.11.19

5 6
2 3

445 455
172 180
10 10}
13 14
1i 2
ti 11
5 6
7 8
7i 8i
1 12 13

6.11.0
17s
11.18.8
18s 6d
Si
7.9.4
nil.

t
124 250

2} 2!
165 175

18.18.9'

2k 21
4f 41,

12s 6d

!
214 4 2241
1125 130
180 190
90 100

Si
1.7.2

-11 2#
9 10
37 39
20 28

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(This DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Earl of Kintore's Estate Bill and the Bombay,
Baroda, and Central India Railway Bill were read a third
time and passed. The IS-ewcastle-under-Lyme Burgess's
Land Bill was considered.
SALE OF GAS BILL.

Several petitions were presented in favour of this bill.
THE KINGSTON-UPON-HULL ELECTION.—
ARREST OF COL. F. GREVILLE.

The SERGEANT-AT-ARMS announced that, agreeably to
the order of the Speaker, he had given instructions that
Col. Greville, a member of that house, should be arrested,
and he was at present in custody.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND said
that he was auhorised by his hon. and gallant friend, the
member for Longford, to say that he was absent from the
house on what he conceived important public duty, and that
immediately on receiving a notice at his seat, in Ireland,
he came over, and on his way he met the Deputy -Serjeant.
He was also authorised to say that his hon. and gallant
friend had not intended to neglect his duty, or to commit
any disrespect to the house. The hon. and gallant mem-
ber regretted extremely the inconvenience and expense
which the parties interested in the petition had been put to
by his absence.
Sir F. BARING said he hoped, from what the house
had heard, that it would not be considered necessary to
proceed further in this matter. It was not necessary to add to
the painful feelings of the hon. and gallant member, and
therefore he would move that he should be discharged from
custody on the payment of the fees.
The motion was agreed to.
The committee appointed to try the merits of the King-
ston-upon-Hull election petition was then sworn.
SUPPLY.—CLEANSING THE SERPENTINE.
On the report of the Committee of Supply, agreed to
yesterday morning, being brought up,
Sir J. PAXTO said he thought the vote of £17,000
for the purpose of purifying the Serpentine had been agreed
to rather hastily, and he thought it was quite impossible at
present to say what the actual expense of the undertaking
would be. Besides the steam-engines and filtering appa-
ratus that were to be erected would disfigure Kensington-
gardens.
Sir J. SHE I,LEY offered some observations to the
same effect, and drew attention to the state of the bed of the
water, in whicth there were holes to the depth of 24 feet,
which, from the facilities that existed for obtaining rubbish,
might have been easily filled up.
After a few words from Mr. WALTER,
Sir M. FARQUHAR said the proposal agreed to in this
case was merely a half measure, and would prove ineffec-
tual so long as the mud at the bottom of the water was per-
mitted to continue in its present condition, or the Ranelagh
sewer was allowed to empty itself into the Serpentine.
Mr. FITZROY said that he could only repeat the state-
ment he had made yesterday. Wheti he came into office
he found there were two plans to be considered, and one of
them involved an expense which it would have been im-
possible to estimate until the water was cleared off. The
pumping machines would be used for 200 days in the year,
and the expense would be only £1 a-day.
The report was then agreed to, as well as the report of
the votes of last night.
RESERVE VOLUNTEER FREE SEAMEN BILL.

On the motion for going into committee on this bill,
Lord C. PAGET said he took that opportunity of enter-
ing into some explanations relative to the bill. They per-
ceived from an announcement in the ltoniteur that in
France there was to be a partial disarmament of the
forces both on sea and land ; and therefore it
might be considered that the present time was
premature to bring forward this bill, but he was of a con-
trary opinion. By this bill it was not proposed to increase
the naval force, but to have the same means of recruiting
and reserve for the navy that existed for the army. The
principle of a militia for this purpose was established in
other countries, and he could not help feeling surprised at
no such provision being made in a country like this which
owed so much to its navy.
[LEFT SITTING.]

THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—May I ask you to insert the enclosed answer
to my letter addressed to the Chairman of the
United Trades ?

Yours obediently,
33, Grosvenor-street, Aug. 3. KINNAIRD.

"National Association of United Trades,
269, Strand, Aug. 3.
"My Lord,—ln reply to the letter which I had
the honour of receiving from your lordship last
night, I beg in the first place to return the thanks
of the executive committee of this association for
enabling us to remove any erroneous impression
which may exist with reference to our position in
the matter referred to.

" This association has no connexion whatever
with the United Building Trades,' has not partici-
pated in what is called the Nine Hours' Move-
ment,' and has no official communication from the
managing body of the building trades upon the
subject.
" The only part this committee has taken in the
movement was to publish a letter in the London
weekly newspapers on the 4th of February last,
soliciting the building trade to assist us in passing
through the Legislature the bill for establishing
Councils of Conciliation and Arbitration, introduced
by Mr. Mackinnon, and pointing out the supe-
riority of that method of settling disputes to the
irrational, wasteful, and injurious system of strikes.
"Whenever circumstances have brought any of
my colletigues into the company of members of the
building trades, they have uniformly expressed
the opinion that they would fail in a movement
the object of which was opposed to the generally
established custom of other trades, and to the prin-
ciple legally recognised in the Ten Hours' Factory
Act, and they have stated, as your Lordship sug-
gests, that it would be far better for them to ask
for the Satur.lay half-holyday, now so generally
recognised among all classes of employers, as bene-
ficial alike to masters and men.
" That is the full extent of our interference in
the unhappy contest which is likely to lead to so
much suffering, and to create sa much angry
feeling on both sides. Perhaps I may be permitted
to add that this association was founded in 1845
for the express purpose of putting an end to strikes
by substituting impartial and amicable mediation
and arbitration, and the experience of the last 13
years has amply shown the superiority and advan-
tages of that course of procedure.
" We have only failed in some instances because
no legislative powers exist to make agreements
binding, and seeing this our efforts have been
directed for the last five years to amend what we
consider a defect in the law of this country.
" In 1854 we published a pamphlet on the causes
of strikes, and setting forth the state of the law
with respect to arbitration and magisterial juris-
diction in the case of trade disputes.
"In 1856, public opinion having somewhat
ripened upon the subject, we assisted Mr. Mackin-
non in obtaining a select committee of the House of
Commons, which collected a large amount of valu-
able and practical evidence, and reported in favour
of the amendment of the existing law.
" In 1838, and again in the present year, care-
fully prepared bills have been introduced into the
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severe in our efforts to introduce into this country
tribunals for dealing with trade disputes similar to
the Conseds des Prudhomnzes' spoken of so highly
House of Lords, but with such alterations as will
adaptt
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habits and the customs of this
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Lordh
I will Bou
confer a favour upon myself and col-
leagues if your lordship will give the same publicity
to this reply as to the letter which elicited it.
"I have the honour to be, my Lord, your lord-
ship's most obedient servant,
" G. A. FLEMING, President.
" The Right Hon. Lord Kinnaird."

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE'.

DARTMOUTH.

The late member for this borough having been
unseated for bribery, a vacancy in the representa-
tion has been caused. Two candidates solicit the
honour of election--viz. Mr. Dunn, the defeated
candidate at the last election for Totnes, in the
Conservative interest ; and Mr. Stuart Donaldson,
who has filled several responsible offices in the
Government of New South Wales, in the Liberal
interest. No very great excitement prevailt. What
the result will be it would puzzle the most far-
seeing to predict.