The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-26 00:00:00

RAILWAY HOSTILITIES AT MANCHESTER. ! THE LATE

The disruption of the working agreements be-
tween the London and North-Western and Man-
chester and Sheffield Railway Companies threatens
to involve legal and parliamentary proceedings of a
serious and protracted character. lie fact became
publicly known yesterday that the London and
North-Western Company had placed a couple of
city policemen at the junction of the South Junc-
tion and Altrincham line with their own, to pre-
vent passengers from getting out of the trains of
the latter company on to the London-road station,
under pain of prosecution. A lady travelling over
the South Junction line yesterday morning to
London-road station, on alighting to cross the
station and change carriages for Stockport, was
stopped by these policemen, and compelled to
give her name and address before she could ob-
tain egress from the South Junction terminus,
and when she had given her name and address she
was informed that she would be prosecuted for tres-
pass. To understand this strange proceeding to-
wards the public, it is necessary to go into some
few particulars regarding the construction and
management of the South Junction and Altrincham
line. The line was constructed in 1846, and com-
mences at Bowden, Cheshire, 8 miles west of Man-
chester, and forms a junction with the London and
North-Western line at London road station, Man-
chester. The cost was 788,0001. The entire shares
were held by the North-Western and Sheffield
Companies and the Earl of Ellesmere, but the latter
subsequently sold his share, and the capital is now
held in equal portions by the two railway companies
named. It is under their joint management, each
company appointing three of their own directors to
the board, and this board nominate one of the direc-
tors of each company alternately, for a fortnight at a
time, to act as chairman. The line belonging jointly
to the two companies, it will be naturally asked why
one of them should UD dertaketo obstruct the traffic
To understand this it is necessary to explain that a
new line commencing at Garston Docks, near Li-
verpool, and passing through Warrington and
Lymm in Cheshire forms a junction with the Al-
trincham line at Timperley between Bowdon and.
Manchester. The traffic over this line and the Al-
trincham line is worked by the Sheffield Company,
and has been for the last 18 months, and it is to
obstruct thisportion of their trafficthat the proceed-
ings alluded to have been instituted by the North
Western board. About a fortnight ago they set 200
men at workto rip up the platform at London-road
where passengers from Warrington, Altrincham,
and other places west of Manchester were set
down, and they have now formed a siding for empty
carriages where it stood, on crossing which any
passenger is warned that he will be prosecuted for
trespass. Their claim for doing this is founded on
the belief that at the time of the construction of the
South Junction and Altrincham line the latter com-
pany neglected to get a formal transfer of the land at
the point of junction from the London and North-
Western Company. Upon this point application will
be made to Parliament to define the rights of each
company, and in the meantime proceedings are
taking in Chancery to stay the obstruction. An-
other quarrel between the North-Western Com-
pany and the Sheffield Company arise out of
the rights of the latter to a joint occupancy of
the London-road station itself. The London-road
station was originally built by the North-Western
Company for the joint use of the two companies,
and the Sheffield Company have used it for 17 years
under an agreement by which they were made
tenants in perpetuity, the agreement being made
binding by parliamentary powers. In all expenses
since the Sheffieldwere made joint tenants for alter-
ations of the station, the latter have joined. But a
few years back a working agreement was made be-
tween the two companies, by which, for the sake of
economy, the traffic of the station was workod by
the North- Western Co., the latter company appoint-
ing the booking-clerks, porters, and other servants.
This agreement was made only from year to year,
and terminable by either company on three months'
notice. The arrangement was made in 1854, and
in June, 1857, when the rupture occurred between
the two companies, and the Sheffield, in conjunc-
tion with the Great Northern, commenced a com-
petition for the London traffic, notice was given to
tire North-Western for the termination of the joint
working of the station at the end of three month,.
In fact, the Sheffield Company claims to be placed
in their former position as joint tenants of the
station. This the North-Western Company have
hitherto refused ; and on this ground as well as on
the rights of the South Junction line, proceedings
are taking in equity, until Parliament can be
appealed to to define the rights of each company
in the station.—Daily News.

THE MODEL WIFE IN 1857.

(From Punch.)
She dwells in fair Belgravia's halls,
Sweet Fashion's peerless Queen,
An all her soul, in fetes and balls,
Is in her Crinoline.
Her " jupon," like the Nassau globe,
Cremorne did nightly see,
Flaunts its inflated gauzy robe,
Or swirls tempestuously.
And thus expanding more and more,
She fluctuates in her walk,
Sub Cuing Swan and Edgar's corps
With undulating talk.
She names a time, with kindling eye,
When, soaring through the air,
Sweet maids, balloon-like, up shall fly,
To call in Cloud-land-square.
When Pam, in peg-top breeks array'd,
Shall Dizzy take to see
The realm of fogs whose mists pervade
His speech at Aylesbury.
When airy Dowagers shall skim
Upborne on hoops of steel,
Quiring to old-eyed cherubim
In an " Excelsior'' reel
When Hyde Park dames aloft shall glow
In surging skirts and frills,
Leaving poor manhood here below
To cash their little bills.
Her husband's purse is small—but no !
What though her form be slim—
Her japon still expands, -and oh !
The difference to him !

EMBEZ2LEMENT.—A yeung man named Josiah Foot,
18 years of age, ccmipying a situation in the light dues
department of the Customs at Southampton, wa, yester-
day placed at; the bar before the borough magistrates,
charged with embtezling 1701., the moneys of her
Mej -sty. The prisoner was remanded till Saturday.
ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS IN PIEDMONT. The Turin
papers contain au announcement that the Post-ofbee
authorities there have just made arrangements " to afford
the vublic ready means of procuring, by way of subscrip-
tion, and at a moderate cost, the most ii fluential periodi-
cal publications printed in London." A list of the prin-
cipal daily and weekly London newspapers, such as the
Times, Daily News, Sun, and others—with the price at
which they may respectively be obtained by subscription
for three months, six months, or a twelvemonth, in•
'eluding the cost of postage and delivery, is officially
published ; and it is iptimated that subscriptions may be
received at every post-office, in return for which the
newspapers will be supplied free of all other charges.
DEPORTATION O➢' PADPERS.—The Belfast journals
bitterly complain of the number of Irish paupers now
arriving e❑ the quays of that town from England and
Scotland. The Belfast Mercxry says:—"The deportation
of paupers from England and Scotland to Belfast still
continues, and the prebability is, the number of destitute
creatures who are thus transmitted here will be con-
siderably on the increase this winter. It appears that
during the last six or seven weeks, commencing with the
Ist of October, and ending the 19th instant, betwen 200
and 300 people received temporally relief from the hands
of Captain M‘Bride. If these people had not been aided
in their distressed circumstances it is difficult to say how
many of them would have remained a burden on the Bel-
fast Union, but it is exceedingly likely that many of them
would even now be in our workhouse, as the poor law
requires that immediate relief shall be administered in all
cases of destitution. Of the cases relieved by Captain
)f'Bride we shall particularise a few, as the facts regard-
ing them are worthy of notice. One man was sent here
by the parochial authorities of Manchester, after hav-
ing lived in Manchester for a period of 25 years. He
was sent back to Liverpool. Fourteen of the po.ir
people, though belonging to Dublin, were landed at
Belfast, and here abandoned, without a farthing to sup-
port them. Capt. M‘Bride forwarded them to Dublin.
In one day 10 destitute creatures arrived from Glasgow,
having been deported from EdinburA, and four out of
the nuenber were sent back to Glasgow. Of the four
there was one man who had lived 32 years in Scotland ;
and the three others were women, and had lived 24, 46,
and 14 years respectively in that country.
ARREST 07 ♦ SHARPER.—The gendarmes of Angers
received information a few days ago that a stranger to
the town was hawkingjewellery about for sale, at a price
below its real value. They found that he was lodging ie
an hotel under the name of Duprat, and they called WI
him to produoe his passport ; he at once presented one
which purported to have been given by the French Con-
sul-Genera at Barcelona, and which bore numerous
visas. But tho gendarmes saw that it was forged, and
they arrested the man. They afterwards discovered
that hfs real name was Vincent, and that he bad been
condemned by default to ten years' hard labour ,
for a robbery of jewellery, committed at Limoges.
His effects at the hotel were seized, and amongst
them were found a number of false passports in various
languages, books such as hawkers of jewellery are re-
quired to keep, bearing visas and stamps of mayors and
commissaries of police, seals and stamps of several coun-
tries, and one of the Prefecture of Police at Paris ;
about 50,000 f. worth cf jewellery, a large quantity of
male and female attire, and lastly, a collection of tools
for engraving seals and stamps. As the man is au en-
graver by trade, it is considered very probable that he
has himself engraved the stamps and seals, From the
large stock of articles seized, it was thought that he
must have accomplices,—and as the day after his arrest,
two persons, strangers to the town, called to ask for
him, they were arrested, though they pretended that
they had only called because they had heard he had
found a dog which they had 108%

TRANGFORD.

(From the Times.)
This nobleman, who previous to his elevation to
the peerage was better known in public life by his
patronymic of the Hon. George Sydney Smythe,
M.P., died on Monday last at Bradgate-park, near'
Leicester, the seat of the Earl of Stamford and
Warrington, in his 40th year, having been born in
April,lBlB, at Stockholm, during his father's embassy
there. Lord Strangford was educated at Eton and
St. John's College, Cambridge, and filled the office
of Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
from January to July, 1846. He was first elected
to a seat in Parliament for Canterbury in 1840 or
1841, on the retirement of Lord Albert Cor:iyng-
ham, now Lord Londesborough, and continued
with others to represent that city as a Liberal Con-
servative, so-called, down to the general election
of July, 1852, when, with Sir William Somerville
and Colonel Romilly, he was beaten in the contest
which then ensued. The deceased nobleman was
the seventh Viscount Strangford, and only sub-
ceded to the title so recently as the 29th of May,
1855, on the death of his father. With the bulk
of the Peel party he eventually gave in his adhe-
sion to the principle of free-trade, though in Feb.,
1842, he spoke and voted against Mr. Villiers's
motion for a total repeal of the Corn Laws. He
defended the Maynooth Grant, and spoke against
the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Like his father, who
acquired some credit by his English version of the
smaller poems of Camoens, he was an author, and
published "Historic Fancies," and numerous fugi-
tive contributions to the annuals of the day. He
had also some reputation as a political journalist;
but was, perhaps better known to fame in his earlier
Parliamentary career for his connection with what
was called the "Young England" party some 12 or
14 years ago, of which he and Lord John Manners
may be said to have been the principal disciples, if
not the leaders. His style of speaking in the
House was characterised by much smartness and
originality, which always commanded the attention,
if it did not influence the judgment of that assem-
bly ; but he spoke seldom, and at last so rarely did
he take any part in the debates that he came almost
to be forgotten as a public man. After his shwa-
tion to the peerage he took no share in the discus-
sions of the Upper House. It will be recollected that
in May, 1852, the name of the deceased Tiscount,
with that of Col. Romilly, was brought more pro-
minently than perhaps agreeably before the public
in connection with a duel which they fought in the
vicinity of Weybridge, arising out of a speech made
by Lord Strangford a short time previously at
Canterbury, in which he alleged that Colonel
Romilly had entered into a cabal, or made use of
some unfair means, for the purpose of injuring him
in the estimation of the electors of that city.
Colonel Romilly considered that the allegation, the
truth of which he denied, and some other expres-
sions in the speech far exceeded the license of a
political contest, and called on Lord Strangford
(then Mr. Smythe) to retract them, which he re-
fused to do. A hostile meeting followed and an
exchange of shots, in which no harm was done to
either. A few months afterwards Lord Strangford
lost his seat for Canterbury, and with that event
his political life may be sail to have terminated.

(Front the Morning Hintld.)
The Right Hon. George Augustus Frederick
Percy Sydney Smythe, seventh viscount Strang-
ford in the Irish peerage, who died at Bradgate-
park, the seat of the Earl of Stamford, near Lei-
cester, on the 23d inst., in his 40th year, as re-
corded in our columns yesterday, was a nobleman
who formerly gave high promise of celebrity both
in the literary and the political world, in which his
fither, the sixth viscount—the translator of Ca-
moans, and many years our ambassador at the
courts of Constantinople, Lisbon, Stockholm, and
St. Petersburgh—shone so conspicuously.
The peer whose decease we have now to chronicle
was far better known to our readers, and we may
add, to fame also, as the author of " Historic Fan-
cies." He was born at Stockholm during his
father's embassy there, April 16, 1818, and was the
elder of the three sons of the sixth viscount, by
Ellen, youngest daughter of the late Sir Thomas
Burke, Bart., of Marble-hill, county Galway, and
widow of Nicholas Browne, Esq., of Mount Hazel',
in the same county. He was educated at Eton and
St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated
M.A. in 1840. Early in the following year he was
elected M.P. for Canterbury, and during the last
few months of Sir Robert Peel's administration in
1846 held the post of Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs. He succeeded to the title and
estates, as sixth viscount, on his father's death in
May, 1855 ; but since his accessian to the peerage
he had taken no part in public affairs. His lord-
ship was a grandee of Portugal of the first class,
and held a seat in the House of Peers as Lord Pen-
shurst—a title which, as we learn from Hardwicke's
" Annual Biography," was &le en by the sixth lord
in eider to mark his descent from the wife of the
111.4 Lord Sttangford, daughter of Robert Sydney,
Earl of Leices'er, to whom Penshurst Castle be-
longed, and neice of the memorable Philip Sydney.
It was only about a month ago that his lordship
was married to Margaret, daughter of J. K. Len-
nox, Esq. Lord Strangford's only surviving sister
is the wife of H. J. Baillie, Esq., M.P. for Inver-
ness-shire • and the Irish and English peerages
have devolved on his lordship's only surviving
brother, the Hon. Percy Ellen Frederick William
Sydney Smythe, born in 1825, who was educated
at Merton College, Oxford, and has held, we be-
lieve, ono or two diplomatic appointments.

A subscription has been opened in Paris in favour of
the st:ff:rers tiy the dreadful fever whic:i has been for

some time past desolating Lisbon.

WORKING MEN'S CHRISTIAN UNION.—The annual
meet.ng of this association took place last night, is the
Spafields Lecture-hall, Exmouth-el-net, Clerkenwell,
Mr. Hanbury, M.P., in the chair. Addresses were
delivered by the chairman, the Rev. Dr. Weir, and
other gentlemen, and the secretary read a report from
the committee of management. It appears that the
association was established about 12 months ago for the
promotion of religious and mental improvement among
working-men. The means by which the members pro•
pose to effect that object are Bible classes and devo
tienal meetings, classes fcr mutual improvement, lee.
tures, and a readdig-room and library. The operations
of the association also embrace the distribution of tracts.
Or,e grand feature of the movement is that it was begun
and is carried on by working-men, and, although the
Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Chichester, Sir E. N.
Buxton, M.P., and other distinguished personages, were
stated to be patrons of the institution, it did not appear
that they took any part its its management. At present
the association is a purely local one, being confined to
Clerkeneell, but, as was stated by the chairman, hopes
are entertained that in course of time its operations may
extend over the whole metropolis, or at least that it may
lead to the establishment of similar societies in the
different metropolitan districts. Hitherto it has been
attended with marked success. The Bible classes and de-
votional meetings have drawn together a considerable
number of working men ; the lectures have heel exceed-
inely popular, while the class fer instractioa in writing
and arithmetic has proved increasingly attractive. The
funds of the association are in good condition, but the
library is still very small, and perhaps the movement
could not be assisted in a more effective manner than by
donations of books.
ABSCONDING OF THE SECRETARY OP THE BLACKBURN
PHILANTHROPIC BURIAL SOClETT.—Coksiderable excite-
ment was caused in Blackburn on Monday by the
rumour, which proved correct, that Alexander Emmett,
secretary to the Blackburn Philanthropic Burial Society,
had absconded, taking with him a considerable sum of
money belonging to the society. Mr. Townley, the pre.
sident, called a meeting of the board of directors, and
Messrs. Eaves and Whittle (the auditors), and the true.
tees, arranged for the future conduct of the society. Se
far the defalcation has been found to exceed 1001.
Emmett had drawn the money on the previous Wed-
nesday, and had neglected to pay the money ever to
the treasurer. On Thursday he went to Manchester,
and on Friday wrote to an officer of the society saying
that he would be engaged on the society's business in
Manchester up to Saturday night. On Sunday, however,
he did not even make his appearance, but his wife re-
ceived a note from him, dated and posted at Glasgow, in
which he stated that he was about to proceed to Port
Natal, and that should any attempt be made to capture
him he should use his "revolver. ' A. meeting of the
board of directors was held on Monday night, when
Messrs. E. Whittle and W. Eaves were appointed joint
secretaries pro tem, and ordered to investigate the books,
and report thereon at a subsequent early meeting. The
society extends to Darwin, Accrington, Clitheroe, Hae-
lingden' and all the neighbouring towns, and has upwards
of 60,000 members. The funds of the society are
deposited with the Liverpool and Manchester District
Banking Company. The loss will not affect the stability
of the society. A warrant has been issued for the ap•
prehension of the delinquent.
FORGED POST-OFFICE °RMS.—The Courtier du
Gard contains the following :—"
A short time since
a respectably
dressed man presented himself at the
Post-office at Luuel, and asked for the register
of money orders, which he said was charged to carry to
the inspector-general, who had just arrived at the house
of the mayor. The post mistress was deceived by the
plausible address of her visitor, and without hesitation
gave him the book, which was afterwards restored to
her minus about 40 of the leaves. A few days ago, at
Nismes, an individual called at the shop of a watch.
maker, named Nordoff, and said he wanted to buy a
number of watches for a brother, who had just set up in
business in a neighbouring town, and selected a regular
assortment of watches. When the bill was made out,
the purchaser drew from
pocket-book a post•office
order for 1,000 fr., which
said had been drawn out,
hhies
payable to M. Nordoffnd in anticipationalthough a rather of the conclu-
sioner unusual oc-
currence the order was accepted, and the goods de-
livered. M. Nordoff did not present the order for pay
of the bargain, and
ment until the following day, when to his surprise he
was informed that the order was a forgery. 11- Nor-
doff was requested to accompany the clerk before the
procureur-general, but that functionary saw at once that
the watchmaker had been duped