The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-29 00:00:00

Laidler—Why did Burnley dare to reduce our al- ENGLISH AND AMERICAN WORK-
lowance of bread and meat ? It was better to be here, MEN.

in the worst prison, than to be there working under
an African sun under a short allowance. There
was no end to the buckets of beef and bread he sent
ashore, while we were left in a shocking. state. It's
false to say we mutinied.
The LORD MAYOR—Why, you admit that you
were guilty of mutiny by stating that you disobeyed
Captain Burnley when you were bound to obey. It
is quite plain to me that you were one of the principal
leaders in the mutiny, and take care that you are not
called upon to answer to the charge of the person
whom you have come here to calumniate. After all
the captains of the English vessels in the river had
in vain tried to bring you to a proper sense of your
duty, the man who ought to have authority over you
was obliged, as a last resource, to apply to the King.
He had no alternative.

Laidler—l have not stated a word that's false. I
say, that after being slaughtered and wounded, we
were dragged out of the ship and confined in huts,
and two of the crew were killed with poisoned water.
The LORD MAYOR—You were not fired upon until
you fired and killed two of King Eyamba's men, and
I judge from the depositions that you were treated
with forbearance to which you had no claim. There
is no doubt at all that you all acted in the most des-
perate manner, and the probability is that Mr. Sharp
will look after you and make you responsible.

Laidler—l shall take care to look after him and
make him responsible. Depend upon it I shall not
be quiet till I have justice done to me. I say we
were all treated in the most savage manner. My chest
was broken open.
The Loan MAyou—ln the chest of most of the
crew were found property belonging to others. You
have assailed the characters of others, and depend
upon it you will be made to feel that there has not
been the least- excuse for the course you have been
pursuing.
Laidler then left the justice-room, declaring that he
would try elsewhere for satisfaction.
The manner of the seaman was brutal and menacing
in the extreme, presenting an extraordinary contrast
to the gentle and pathetic description of 117 s suffer-
ings and feelings on the occasion of his first appliea-
' tion to Sir John Pirie.

Sir JOHN PIRIE most unequivocally expressed his
opinion as to the mutinous conduct of the crew, and
hoped the statements which had gone abroad had done
no injury to the character of Mr. Burnley.

It is a strange thing, that, all over the world, in
America, and in Europe, there should exist such a
very unfavourable opinion of English labourers, and
that their undeniable skill and industry in their par-
ticular vocations should be unable to remove the uni-
versal impression of their immorality, lawlessness,
ignorance, and brutality. Even where it is found
necessary to employ them this is always done reluct-
antly and fearfully. I was in Austria shortly after
the English labourers had been dismissed from the
railroads making there, because their turbulence,
brutality, and drunkenness, occasioned all kinds of
riots and accidents. I went to Saxony, and found
that there, too, all the English labourers had been
turned away, because their conduct was found quite
insufferable. I went to Frankfort, and met a papier
,anufacti Ir. who told m with rueful

mole mt. a).
shakings of the head, that he was indeed compelled
to employ English labourers in some parts of his
business, because they understood their business so
well, and were so remarkably skilful in it; but that
he lenged to get rid of them because they were the
most troublesome, ignorant, and unmanageable of his
workpeople, I went to Belgium, and read an inte-
resting report of an English Poor-law Commission,
in %%hich the evidence of a great manufacturer, of
Philadelphia, concerning English labourers' was given
at full length. This gentleman testified that one-
fifth of the workpeople in the American factories
were foreigners, most of them Englishmen, whom,
however, the manufacturers employed very unwil-
lingly, on account of their being so " dissipated and
discontented." ' They were, besides, universally (lig'
liked, because they were so given to drunkenness.
The American labourers are always found better
educated, more intelligent, and less given to sensual
indulgeneies. No strikes or combinations of work-
men Pre ever known among the American labourers
as among the English, who are always combining to
force higher wages from their masters. The supe^
riority of the American labourers is chiefly attributed
to their superiority of education. The American
masters are always very particular in having the
children of their labourers sent regularly to school.--
Kohl's England and Wales..

IMPROVEMENTS IN WESTMINSTER.—The Metropo-
litan Improvement Commissioners having decided on
opening a direct communication from the new Houses of
Parliament to the north-west district of London, various
plans and estimates were sent in, the majority of which
were rejected, in consideration of the large amount of
compensation which would be demanded by the owners
of household property in the respective localities. The
line has, at length, been definitively marked out, and
contract concluded for two-thirds of the work. The
new street will commence at the western extremity of
the Houses of Parliament, running in an oblique list?
from Abingdon-street to Eaton-square, from which
point there is already a corresponding continuation to
the Great Western road. By the formation of this
street, two very desirable objects will be attained-
It will afford a nearer and more convenient approach,
to the- Houses of Parliament, the Law Courts, and
the Government offices ; whilst the removal of the on:
merous obscure streets, courts, and alleys, in that Pa:
of Westminster, will serve to abate a nuisance which
has become so intolerable as to call for legislative repro"
hension. A great number of these dilapidated toe-,
ments have for some years been inhabited by persons es
the very worst class ; the property belongs chiefly to th,e
Dean and Chapter, who are naturally anxious to brew'
up this "den of thieves," and as the existing leases sr°
nearly run out, the compensation demanded cannot he
considerable ; it is assumed, at least, that it will be 0°
impediment to the prosecution of a scheme which pre"
mises an ample return for the capital invested, and whiell
is still further commended by utility, convenience, and
decency. The new street is to be of the same width 05.
Regent-street, and will be of nearly equal length. Gres'
part of the line, which passes through Pimlico, fronting
Buckingham Palace stables, has been cleared already:
In those streets which intersect the line through th
other parts of Westminster, the workmen's operatelf
are delayed only until the present occupants are expel
Mr. Rigby Wason, late Member for Ipswich, 07„
contracted for two-thirds of the line, at a rate
much below the Government surveyor's estimate. CO,ll.
netted with the above improvement another project hi"
been revived with some prospect of ultimate adoption
namely, the erection of a bridge across the Thaen
from the Horseferry-road to Lambeth-stairs, at the f°°
of Church-street, close to the Archiepiscopal Palace'
This scheme was mooted nearly twenty years back ;
prospectus was at that time issued, and a Bill brougi,ll:
into Parliament with a view to the issue of shares let
building a bridge by a joint-stock company. It oleo
with so little support that the Bill was rejected, and the
project was consequently abandoned. However, it sell,
'
that it is now regarded with more favour • the Are
bishop of Canterbury and the Marquis of Westmine,teo
having withdrawn their opposition, it is not improbao
that the sanction of Parliament would now be obtain!
should the application be renewed ; more especially as
a bridge at the point indicated would form an apps
..,c"
priate continuation of the new street, and facilitate coe';
munication between the northern and southern district
of the metropolis.
WANTED A COACUMAN.—Yesterday, the after(
noon down-train had duly deposited the passengers OA
the Southend coach on the platform at Brentwood, an
"A
they were busily scrambling for trunk, band-box, an
brown-paper parcel, or occupying inside, roof, and dickey'
when it was suddenly discovered that the box was vacant'
Quick came the inquiries—
" Lost, strayed, or stolen,
Or fall'n through a hole in
The carriage-floor is the coachman goner-- 1,
but no traces of him could be found, till some one rec°
lected they had seen him trotting along the platform 4
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Shoreditch, and crying " Wo, wo" in his most persusisl`r,
style to the starting engine. But steam-engines usueot
stand not the cries of stage coachmen—they have? t
been broken in to them ; so giving another tritunpanfo
snort it only scudded along the faster, leaving bon of
London, to add railway trains to the old proverb_A
" time and tide," &e., and the passengers at BrellttvYcji
bridling up and disputing amongst themselves wub,
should enact the part of a sick member of a benefit clu
and go on the box.—Essex Herald. h rtlf
THE NEW FACTORY ACT.—This will Acts ir
dome into operation. and by one of its provisions an
street of the law is to be hung up on a moveable !v.'',
in every factory. The four Inspectors of Factories
joint report made to the Home Secretary express their
opinion on the importance of having an abstract frotarea
source the weight of whose authority would be dek to ie r
to in questions arising on the interpretation of tuf the
statutes; their own words show the necessity 0' by
guidance they seek:—" The enforcement of the Jaw po.
prosecutions is committed to us and to the sub-insP:re
tors who act under our directions; it is therefore 1-4
desirable that the abstract should show distinctly for
extent to which the Factory Act has been rep!ale 0,1
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altered by the amending Act, for the information •
os
guidance of ourselves and the sub-inspectors as we foil
the mill-occupiers and their workpeople. Upon s re.
and anxious reconsideration of this subject at our Pre.
sent meeting, we have tc9tne to the resolution of
questing respectfully tlitieyou will he pleased to give ,41
rections that such abstract be preparb'd by your .1e _,bon
advisers with as little delay as possible, being of ore+,
that it should be prepared and emanate from a eutio is
the weight of whose authority wopld' be deferred t° s'
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questions arising on the interpreitm of the twoosod
totes. Thus, when prosecutions take place we ju•
be able to refer to the abstract as containing not ouLto
terpretation of the law, but that which proceeds
competent legal authority, whereby much miscued
tion will be avoided, and greater uniformity in the
sions of magistrates secured." to
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THE IIARVEST IN KENT.—We are delighted
state that the wheat harvest is going on most favotto the
and will be completed throughout mid Kent durin°! re'
present week. In our next we shall give a general
view of the crop.—Maidstone Journal of yesterday-
troll
WHOLESALE ARREST OF THIEVES.—The Al's p
police, to clear Vienna of the crowd of vagabondsheo
thieves which infested it, has just arrested 400 of toll-
together, and has had then taken off at once to the r
legs at Venice and Trieste.

BIRTHS. O
On the 22d inst., at Aire, near Geneva, the lady of c; wAr Jsell•
Charles Thorold, Bart., of Syston-park, Lincolnshire, °' ortlif
On the 24th inst., at St. George's-terrace, Hyde-parka
Mrs. Price, of a•son. of
On the 25th inst., at Dover, Mrs. R. Bennett) of a cle?bof T•On the 26th' inst., at Park-hill, Clapham, the wife -
Dunnage, Esq., of a son. the 06
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On the 27th inst., at Lower Tulse-hill, Surrey, -
of Mr. T. Thompso, of a son. Ad, tbe
On the 27th inst., at Cambridge-terrace, Camden-T°
wife of Mr. Edward Doyle, of a daughter. f. tOg.
On the 26th inst., at Highfield, If.xmouth, the latlf
C. Cole, Esq., of a daughter. OW
On the 26th inst., the wife of Alexander Allan, at
wick-terrace, Hackney-road, of a daughter. „,-„„ 10'
On the 27th inst., in Upper Harley-street, the P----*
Petre, of a daughter.
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• MARRIED. ..„. job
On the 14th inst., at St. John's Church, Margate, 'le lst' ;
Scott Holmes, to Elizabeth, the youngest daughter oft
Christopher Atkins, Esq. of Blackwall. ?or
On the 27th inst., at Esq.,
Church, Upper CbeiseA33llr,
sonby Arthur, eldest son of the Rev. Henry Moore, °` bter °''
hale, Kilkenny, to Augusta Sophia, youngest 'lll 04.1°-
Major-General the Hon. William Henry Gardner, 0
tO6
gan-place. , Augns_Dst
On the 27th inst., at St. Pancras Church' tow-
Frederick Hamilton, Esq., of Kentish-town, to Mary-, P; Ascet
daughter of the late G. Richards, Esq., of 13edfor0 r
the
Hampstead-road.
On the 27th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-sVacre;the.
Rev. Edward Baines, Rector of Bluntisharn, Hants,.“6s,' fel•'
rifle Eularia, youngest daughter of the late J. Bain I.
of Shooters-bill, Kent. f IV/4'.
On the 27th inst., at Twickenham, Mr. G. Roll 0' , °. Aft.
cot-place, Lambeth, to Elizabeth, eldest daughte 1,,,

Bowyer, of Twickenham.
DIED. foe late
On the 21st inst., at Margate, Henry, third son o
Samuel Brooke, Esq., aged 34. oidh
On the 22c1 inst., at Chiswick, Middlesex, Dew—
Esq., late of the city of Dublin. tt fscl.
On the 22d inst., in Fenchurch-street, S. Tonirsa-: oido•
On the 22d inst., at Gosport, Elizabeth Margar"
of the late John Lowes, Esq. maye:
On the 25th inst., at the houie of Captain Davisanvicbsru
Lear Shrewsbury, Edward William, third son of
-Lb
Mayne, Esq.
On the 26th inst., at Clapham, Thom Yeupg
son of the Rev. Charles Bradley. -f
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