The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-09 00:00:00

SUPERIOR CANDLES.
DAVIES'S CANDLES, 6(1. per lb.; Wax
Candles, ls. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Composite,
Is. Od. ; Extra Fine Wax Wick Moulds, 7d. ; Transparent
Wax, 2s. 2d. ; Ge twine Sperm, 2s. 21; Genuine Wax,
2s. 3d. ; Yellow Soap, 465., 545., and 60s. per 1121bs. ;
Mottled, 625. and 665. ; Windsor and Pale, Is. 4d. per pac-
ket ; Old Brown Windsor Soap, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 2s. Od.; Cam-
phor, As. ; Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d. per b. ;
Sperm Oil, per Gallon ; Solar Oil, 3s. 6d.
For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old-Established Warehouse, 63,
St. Martin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter s Coffee-House.

THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER.
CATALOGUE, with ENGRAVINGS (Gratis),
POSTAGE FREE.—The celebrity of the rich and silvery
appearance and extreme durability of the material made ex-
clusively by ourselves, has induced many attempts to foist
upon the public the notoriously deleterious German Silver
under the guises of " Albata Plate," " Berlin Silver," Sec.
&c., against which we especially warn them. Aided by an
eminent chemist, we have succeeded in purifying our material
so that acids do not afiect it ; it is now so well known and
appreciated that it is universally superseding silver in all its
uses. The genuine metal, which is more durable than silver,
can only be had at our warehouses. It is the same through-
out, and can be engraved and made in all the various articles
that are in silver, from whicli it can only he told by reference
to the stamp. Fiddle Threaded King's
Pattern. Pattern. Pattern.
'fable Spoons and Forks, full
size, per dozen
Desert ditto and ditto, ditto los. Od. 21s. Od. 255. Od.
Tea ditto and ditto ditto-- ss. Od. Ils. Od. 12s. Od.
Gravy ditto ... 4s. Od. 6s. Od. 7s. Od.
RII•'PON and BURTON, 12, Wells.street, Oxford-street.
Established !MO.—Catalogues gratis.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
Traffic returns for the week ending Sept. 3, 1842 :
Passengers
Merchandise 339 1 7

£1,349 9 1

Corresponding week last year ...£1,352 4 5
Darlington, Sept. 7. W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 4.—Two more Belgian Consu-
lates will be speedily established, one at Guatemala,
the other at New Zealand. We are assured that M.
Cloquet, a clerk in the office of the Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs, is to have the first of these posts.
SEPT. s.—His Majesty gives to-day a private
audience to Colonel de Puydt, who lately returned
from his mission to Central America. M. Marshal, a
mechanician at Brussels, has manufactured blocks of
metal rendered in-oxidable, which are intended to be
used instead of wood in the construction of railroads.
They are said to be in every respect equal to wood,
occupying the same surface, and having the same
flexibility. They are so made that they will last ten
times as long as wood, and the price is nearly the same.
SEPT. 6.—The second vote of the law relative to
the Convention betweon the State and the City took
place in the Chamber of Representatives. The follow-
ing is the result :-75 Members were present-38
voted for, and 33 against it ; 4 declined voting.
A Journal says that General Vandermeere, who is
in the Petits Carmes, is seriously indisposed.
A letter from Grimbinghausen, of the 2d of Sep-
tember, says that the King had received on that day
the 7th Corps of the Army. Among the illustrious
and noble visitors present were the King of Hanover,
in the uniform of the 3d Regiment of Hussars, of
which he is the Colonel ; Prince Charles of Bavaria,
in the uniform of the 11th Hussars ; the Archduke
John of Austria, and many of the Dukes and Princes
who have lately arrived, as well as the Prince of our
family.
thousand
splendidpersons
military
pee fertoame
ea. 11
lq‘.uabruterrsts
to this
of joyful acclamation welcomed the King, when he
was seen to come on horseback with his aides-de-camp
and suite. Thz.., Queen, with the Princesses, and many
noble D ukes fol lowed in carriages. The review in Grim-
binghausenis ended, and the Infantry will leave the
camp to-morrow for the grand manoeuvres at Ens-
k irchiem.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, SEPT. 7.
About forty pockets of hops of the new growth appeared
at market on Saturday, but only sixi:een were sold, the
trade consideriPg the prices demanded by the growers
to be too high ; the few disposed of realised 90s. to 9:35.
per cwt., but it is expected these prices will not be main-
tained with a duty of 19,0001., at which it is freely
backed. A large supply is expected at the fair oa the
19th, when prices will be settled. VI had also twenty.
seven pockets of old hops weighed oil the same day._
Worcester dounia

The fourteenth half-yearly meeting of the Share-
holders in this Company was held yesterday at the
London Tavern, at one o'clock. From the Report it
appears that the total revenue of the Company 'has
been nearly stationary, and. that the balance in hand
is not sufficiently large to warrant its divisicn- among
the Proprietors, therefore no dividend was declared.
The balance in hand amounts only to-1,8971:10s. Old:
The Report states the followirr, as the circumstances
which have contributed to prevent any increase in the
revenues of the Company :
" The tenacity of the Greenwich Company to a toll
almost prohibitory of a short and cheap traffic, which,
whilst it has diminished the revenue of that Company,
has likewise effectually checked the receipts of the
CroydOn line; the slow development of the Brighton
traffic during the early part of the year, and the high
rate of fare maintained by that Company, which has
had the effect of reducing the proportion which the
toll should bear to its gross receipts, by diminishing
the number of passengers from which such receipts
have been obtained."

It appears that the Directors of the Croydon Company
have entered into an arrangement with the South
Eastern Company, the object of which is a division
between the two companies of the fare charged by the
South. Eastern Company, after deducting the ex-
penses of conveyance, In POPortion to the length of
line of each company traversed by the passengersfrom whom such fare is received.

With respect.to the failure of the recent application
to Parliament for a Bill for a common road, and to the
measures proposed to be adopted, the Report contains
the following announcement :
" Your Directors propose to make another arrange-
ment with the South Eastern Company, which was
the subject of a communication to the Proprietors at
the late Special Meeting. The loss of the Bill before
Parliament, for a common road approach, and the
subsequent alteration of the'Standing Orders of the
I louse of Commons regarding railway Bills, have, in
some measure, extended the views of the Directors of
the two Companies relative to this matter ; and it is
now their united opinion, that the public convenience
and the interest of both proprietaries would be better
secured by making not merely an approach to the
Grange-road, but a railway to a station near the
Bricklayers' Arms. The whole of the land necessary
for this purpose is either purchased or under agree-
ment, and your Directors anticipate no difficulty,
therefore, in an Act being obtained in the next session
of Parliament to carry this very desirable object into
effect. To this intent it is proposed that a sum of
money shall be raised upon the security of tolls, de-
rivable from the traffic over the new line—that the in-
terest of this money be further guaranteed by the two
Companies, in the proportion of two-thirds by the
South Eastern Company, and one-third by the Croy-
don Company, and the profits, after paying such in-
terest, to be divided in like proportion. There is also
an understanding that if the project be not carried out,
the expenses hitherto incurred shall be borne equally
by both Companies. Every probability, however,
exists of its being speedily accomplished, and of our
obtaining, by this means, at a comparatively moderate
cost, an efficient `Test-end terminus and goods sta-
tion for all the Southern lines, thereby removing all
pretence for any other terminus independent, of the
Croydon Railway." From the statements of Mr. Cubitt, the engineer,
it appeared that the expense of this railway to the ter-
minus at the Bricklayer's Arms, would amount to about
150,0001., of which 50,000/. would have to be raised
F
by the Croydon Company.rom the following pas-
sage in the Report it appears that a further sum of
65,0001. must be raised to complete the railway
"'this meeting has been :.
made special for the pur •
pose of raising the further capital formerly contem-
plated for the completion of the undertaking, which
has been necessarily increased in consequence of the
b
great earth works, caused by the land slips at New-
crossthe last winter. Your
and -Forest-hill, during
Directors regret to say that these works have ex-
ceeded what they anticipated, when they gave notice
of the expected demand upon the Proprietors at the
last general meeting, and that in addition to the ex-
pense thereby occasioned, it his become expedient,
according to the advice of your Consulting Engi-
f
neer, to purChase a considerable quantity of landor
the purpose of securing the permanent safety of your
railway, and preventing the possibility of the recur-
rence of such a catastrophe as that which lately hap-
lened ; Mr. Cubitt has likewise recommended that
the rails throughout the line should be gradually
taken up and re-laid, in consequence of some defect,
arising from origin
al construction, which has recently
manifested itself. The sum which your Directors con-
iider requisite for these purposes amounts to about
65,0001., and a resolution for raising the same will be
submitted to the meeting."
In answer to questions various Proprietors,
put bs'r
Mr. Cubitt stated that the purchase of the land
was to be made under the provisions of the recent
Railways' Regulation Act, and that it had been re-
commended by the Surveyor-General of Railways ap-
pointed by the Board of Trade. lie also stated that
the necessity for re-laying
the rails had been occasioned
by the use of patent felt in the original construction.
The use of the felt had originally met with his appro-
bation, and had been recommended by several eminent
engineers, but it had been found that the felt worked
out, leaving a hollow' and that, consequently-, the rails
became bent. He had therefore recommended that
the rails should be taken ' up, straightened, and re-laid
flat upon the wood, the expense of doing which would
amount to about proposed by the 4, 000/. It was Chairman, and agreed to by the meeting, that the
Report should be received and adopted, after which
the. Chairman proposed a resolution for raising the
sum required by the issue of loan notes of 2/. each
(which would give one loan note to each existing
share), bearing an interest of Si. per cent. for three
years. "The loan notes to be convertible into shares,
at the rate of 151. Tier of two
years, at the expiration
years, at the option of the holders, the payment of
interest to cease from the day of the conversion ; each
loan note not converted into s hares which should be
outstanding at the en
he of the three years to be paid
off at par. The loan notes to be offered first of all
to the Shareholders, at the rate of one loan note
par share. In the event of any Shareholder refusing
to take his amount of loan notes, such notes to be
offered to the other --u" •
Shareholders, and, in the event
of their refusal, to the lc. The money to be paid
public. 'by two instalments ; one on the 15th Octoberd
, .and
another on the 15th 4, ~
January next. This prosal
was, after some discussion, adopted by the Share-
holders, and thanks having been- voted to the Chair-
man and Directors, the meeting separated. It ap-
pears from the accounts laidtable,
on the that during
the last half-year, 188,582 passengeirs have travelled
by the railway, besides those holdng annual and
quarterly tickets, and that the total receipt, on account
of passenger traffic, has been 1 1 241/. 6s 10,1 while
t
from the carriage of goods h' ••
;have e receipts only
amounted to 4661.95. 2d. The tolls received from
the Brighton Company, from t
'eb. 1 to JUly 31st, on
120,806 passengers, horses, carriages, goods, and
merchandize, amount to 6,4681. 2s. sd. ; and those
received from the South-Eastern Company, from
May 26 to July 31, on 17,536
passengers, horses,
Carriages, goods, and march
1 -
thepaidby Croydon Com-
pany to the Greenwich Company
during the half-
year amount to 2,362/. 18s. bid.

A LUDICROUS
.1, --- -7,,
11 LUDICROUS MISTAR.E.—IV e have been told to
mind our 13's and Q's; but the following will show that
it is quite-as important to mind our A's and O's. An
English gentleman, residing in one
of the West India
Islands, intending to establish a. dairy farm, wrote to his
correspondent in South America,
a Spaniard, to send
him fifty heifers with which to stock it.
The letter was
written in Spanish ; but the writer's acquaintance with
that language was not as accurate as was his knowledge
of cattle. The feminine Spanish word for heifers, " be-
dell-as," only differs in a letter
.f,rom the masculine, sig-
nifying young bulls, " becerros,'
and, unfortunately for
our friend, lie had unwittingly spelled his order with the
0. Accordingly, after a good deal of scouring over the
savannahs, fifty fine young bulls, wild enough it may be
supposed, from their native prairies, were with no little
difficulty and at great expense, captured with the lasso,
and shipped to him. His consternation when the riotous
' animals arrived and were driven to his gate, may be more
.. easily imagined than described : 1,
0 refused to receive
them, averring that he had ordered heifers, and not bulls;
but his letter being procured and exhibited, and his
Spanish bull explained to him, he was forced to agree to
his very bad bargain. The gentleman was afterwards
wonderfully fastidious in his words whenever he wrote
Spanish letters on business.--Literary el
Y Gazette.
EignARKATio.- F CON.VICTS;•''---One. hundred' con-
victs from the con
if
and city of Dublin, the counties of
Tipperary, Cavan, 'ermanagli, and Meath, were em-
barked on board the Navarino convict ship on Saturday
last. Amongst them was Henry Bailey,
convicted of
bigamy at the last Commission, the least concerned of the
gang. One of the TipperaY " boys" was known to have
been concerned in 17 or 18 outrages of all degrees of
atrocity. A rabandingu, from Cavan, was also amongst
the party. The Waverly, with female eons jets, mired
from liinlistnn.barbnar on 611Ada7 for her destination.

STREET PRISON.

Sheriff MAGNAY stated to the Court, that since the
last Report was made to the Sheriffs from White-
cross-street prison, a serious loss had been sustained
in the death of Mr. Barrett, the late keeper, with
whose merits and excellent qualities the members
were well acquainted. The Sheriffs had nominated
Mr. Thomas Burdon to the office, a gentleman
whom he (Sheriff Magnay) had known for twenty-
five years, and whom he considered in every respect
exceedingly well qualified to fill the situation.
Upon the motion of Alderman BROWN it was re-
ferred to the Gaol Committee to inquire into the
qualifications of Mr. Burdon to fill the office, accord-
ing to the usual forms observed in cases of the kind.
The salary of the office was incidentally stated to
be 6001. a year, and it is to undergo no diminution.
The accounts of the late Mr. Barrett were referred
to the same Committee.

TUE LATE PRESENTMENT OF THE GRAND JURY IN
TII E CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

The TOWN CLERK read a presentment made by the
Grand Jury a few days ago in the Central Criminal
Court, complaining that a number of paltry cases had
been submitted to them; that several of those cases
had been. charged against persons not accused before;
and That"thd-Magistrates ought to have dealt sum-
marily in them instead of sending them to such a tri-
bunal ; that the gaol of Newgate was crowded with
female prisoners ; that there was great want of ac-
commodation for witnesses about the Court; that
male and female witnesses were not kept apart from
each other; and that the latter were taken by the
police-officers to the public-houses in the neighbour-
hood, to the serious peril of their moral sense.
Alderman BROWN said there were certainly several
observations in the paper just read, which deserved
serious attention. At the same time many of the evils
could be only remedied by the Legislature, or the
Secretary of State.—(Hear, hear.) Those which it
might be in the power of the City authorities to re-
move or modify could be best ascertained by referring
the prentment to the General Committee, and no
doubt the most effectual means would be adopted to
accomplish the object. The Alderman then moved that
the presentment should be referred to the Committee.
Alderman LUCAS said the presentment of the Grand
Jury did not say whether the trivial cases to which allu-
sion was made in it had been sent for the considera-
tion of the Grand Jury by Middlesex, Kent, Surrey,
or City Magistrates. It would be satisfactory if the
cases had been particularised in such a manner as
would show to what Magistrates they were referable.
Alderman BROWN observed that the 'answer would
probably be that the cases were not committed by the
City Magistrates. ,The Committee, however, would
have an opportunity of reporting fully on the subject,
and thus the attention of the proper authorities might
be drawn to it.—(Hear, hear.)
Alderman T. WOOD said therewere many points in
whiCh the Magistracy could not at all interfere. They
had .no sort of control over the police, either in Mid-
dlesex, or in the City, and of couree could not inter-
fere to prevent what was complained of in the pre-
sentment as to the conduct of the force. As for the
charges against juvenile offenders, the expense attend-
ing those accusations had been over and over again
represented as unnecessary, and still they were not
put a stop to. With respect to the state of Newgate,
the City authorities had 'done all they could to in-
crease the internal accommodation. It had been de-
termined that Newgate should be a gaol for those who
were to undergo sentence. He believed that the Go-
vernment would not hesitate to apply the proper
remedy, and approved of the suggestion of referring
the subject to the Gaol Committee.
Alderman Lucas thought the Grand Jury com-
plained of some matters which it would not be very
easy to remedy. Every one knew that a policeman
was expected to keep his witnesses together, to be
ready when called upon, and
.it could scarcely be
supposed that a person, under such circumstances,
could nicely separate the male from the female wit-
nesses. As for the crowded state of Newgate, the
Sheriff's could satisfactorily account for that. He re.
collected, when he was Sheriff, that he frequently went
to the Secretaryof State to request that functionary to
clear the prison. There were many circumstances
which concurred to render the removal of female con-
victs a matter of difficulty.
Alderman Gians wished that the Grand Jury would
attend the Gaol Committee, and explain some things
in their presentment, which, in his opinion, very much
required explanation.—(Hear, hear.)
The motion was unanimously agreed to.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT, TO SCOTLAND.
The LORD MAYOR presented a Report, detailing the
proceedings adopted by his Lordship (already pub-
lished), upon receiving information of her Majesty's
intention to honour Scotland with a visit.

The Report was ordered to be entered in the Jour-
nals of the Court.
The LORD MAYOR also presented the Report of his
Lordship's survey of the river Thames.
The Report, which was of considerable length, was
read in brief, and 'ordered to be entered in the Jour-
nals of the Court.—Adjourned.

DEATH IN ST. LUKE'S ASYLUM.
An inquest was held yesterday afternoon, at St.
Luke's Lunatic Asylum_ Old-street, before Mr.
liaker, on the body of Nathaniel Currie, aged 34,
formerly a merchant's clerk, and latterly an inmate of
the above Asylum. Mr. Henry Lambert, surgeon of
the Institution, stated that the deceased first came
under his care as a patient on the 12th of August last
Deceased was of a very violent disposition, and once
had an encounter with one of the keepers, when he
(deceased) fell in the struggle. He died at three
o'clock on Sunday
.last, and on the following day a
post mortem examination, to ascertain the cause of
death
was was made by Mr. Luke. Deceased's
was the result of having had four of his ribs fractured,
but witness could not tell in what manner they be-
came so. There were no external marks of violence
on the chest, and he had not heard the deceased com-
plain of pain there. Mr. Jas. Luke said that the in-
juries must have been received long before that period.
Inflammation of the lungs consequent upon the frac.
tured ribs was the cause of death. Ellen Currie, of 12,
Ashfield-street, Hoxton, said that the deceased was her
husband. lie had been out of his mind for the last
six months, but did not enter a lunatic asylum until
the 12th of August. Six months ago he was brought
home in a cab, suffering from an injury to the head
he had sustained by falling down a cellar ashe walked
along the streets. On the day before that accident,
he very foolishly spent 201. in jewellery, for whic!:
he had no use. Witness saw him for the second time
after his admission to the Asylum on Wednesday last,
when he said, as he lay ill in bed, that he was " bro-
ken all over." Witness had no reason to believe that
he had been ill-treated in the asylum. Se was cer-
tain that nine weeks ago, three weeks before he en-
tered the asylum, his ribs were not injured. Mr.
Luke again said that the ribs must have been frac-
tured more than a fortnight ago, but not at so distant
a period as six months, when he fell down the cellar.
Charles Turner, one of the keepers, said that a fort-
night ago, whilst undressing deceased, he (deceased)
caught hold of his thumb, and caused him such pain
by forcing it back that he was compelled to throw him
off. Deceased could not have had his ribs fractured
by that. Verdict—" That the deceased died from the
effects of four fractured ribs, but how they became so
fractured there was no evidence to show.'

STIRLING CASTLE, N.B.—The Master-General of
the Ordnance, the Right Hon. General Sir George Mur-
. ray, arrived at this ancient Palace on Tuesday last, en
route to Edinburgh, and expressed his conviction that her
Majesty and Prince Albert would pay a short visit to the
Castle on their way from Drummond Castle to Dalkeith
Palace to embark for London. The Jatneses always
held their Court at Stirling, which was also the battle
ground of Scottish independence. Her Majesty, it is un-
derstood, on leaving stirling will ,_proceed via Falkirk,
Linlithgow, and Klikliston to Ditikeitlilialice.,
TILE ROYAL SQUADRON.--TAITifROADSi SEPT.
—Her Majesty's frigate Pique . arrived here (Leith
Roads) yesterday, at noon, and having fired a Royal
salute came to an anchor. Her Majesty's sloop-of-war
Daphne also arrived yesterday, about nine, p.m.. with
Le loss of her foreyards. Monday, Sept. s.—Remain in ,
eith Roads, the Pique and Darine, and steam-packets
alamander P
arless, Lightning, , Rhadatnaothes, B Shearwater,
and Monkey, and the revenue cutter
GrefiloUud.

WEST BROMWICH, Wednesday Evening.
This morning a meeting of iron and coal-masters,
called by Mr. Salter, was held at the Dartmouth
Arms, to meet a deputation of men from the various
pits, with a view to an amicable settlement of the dif-
ference between the masters and men. Amongst those
present were Mr. Eaton, Mr. J. Nock, Mr. T. White •
house, Mr. Hood, and Mr. Fisher, coal and iron-
masters : agents were also present from the works of
Messrs. Spittle and Reines, Messrs. Guest, Wood,
and Salter. Several gentlemen anxious to effect a
settlement were also present, and amongst them were
Dr. Booth, W. chance, Esq., Mr. Burgess, Commis-
sioner of the Birmingham police, J. Meredith, Esq.,
Captain Baldwin, and others.
At one o'clock Lord DARTMOUTH was requested to
preside, and on taking the chair his Lordship stated
the object of the meeting, -and in so doing referred to
the meeting held last week at that hotel. His Lordship
said he did not think he had any right whatever to in-
terfere between the masters and men, but having been
requested to use his influence to bring about an
amicable settlement, he had attended for that pur-
pose. He felt more at liberty to afford the men
an opportunity of meeting the masters, because
he knew that ample precautions had • been taken
to secure the peace, and that the power of the autho-
rities was such as to give an ascendancy to the law.
The law-. and authority having been upheld, he for
one would be most willing to go into any grievances
of which the men might have to complain. He
thought the better course to be pursued on that oc-
casion would be to call in the working men and let
them state their case. 'They had also better call in
the butty colliers, and hear both 'sides, and after
hearing all, he would recommend that all those
gentlemen not engaged in the trade should leave the
room, and let the masters and men settle the difference
between them. Before they went into the buSiness,
he thought Mr. Chance arid Dr: Booth might wish to
say a few W-ords • • • -

IN M. CHANCE, Esq., a Magistrate and manufacturer
of Birmingham, then rose and said, that he had met a
highly respectable gentleman belonging to the coal-
trade the day before, who seemed to intimate that he
(Mr. Chance) ought not to take any part in the pro-
ceedings between the
hove
and men, and the
gentleman asked him how The should like it if a similar
interference took place between him (Mr. Chance) and
the persons employed in his glass-works. He (Mr.
Chance) disclaimed most positively any intention or
wish to interfere between master and man, but at the
same time he felt bound to say he considered the pre-
sent strike one of more than ordinary importance,
the effects of which were daily being felt throughout
the country. The question was one which had assumed
a sort of national importance, and in which every
man might be said to be interested. He had
in his manufactory 600 men and 100 women and
boys, to whom not less than 7001. a week was paid in
wages. There were not less than 2,500 individuals
depending upon the above amount of wages, and he
certainly felt that he had a deep interest in their wel-
fare and whatever affected them. He had been three
weeks ago within a very short time of stopping all his
works owing to the want of coal. He had been ob-
liged to get coil from Derby, and every other-place
he could, at a very considerable loss and inconveni-
ence. He did not complain of that loss, but he looked
to the present strike as one deeply affecting the in-
terest of the country generally. They had not much
coal in Birmingham, and the scarcity must be felt
in other places. He and Dr. Booth had received a
deputation from the colliers, consisting of about thirty
men, and he must say he never met a body of men
with better feelings towards their masters, or men
who, if they told the truth, had stronger grounds of
complaint against persons who had the employment
of them. Ile must, however, say that the statements
which he had heard were ex parte—he did not, he
could not, vouch for them; but they were certainly
deserving the consideration of all those interested in
the trade. He only wished that the unfortunate
affair might be amicably settled, and, in saying so, he
was fully convinced that the sooner the strike was
settled the better for all parties.
Dr. BOOTH next addressed the meeting in explana-
tion of the motives which induced him to come for-
ward on that occasion. He and the Magistrates of
Birmingham, in common with those throughout the
county, had had a good deal of anxiety in preserving
the peace, and now that tranquillity was perfectly
restored, they were most anxious to retain it, and they
ilAt that nothing would more effectually tend to re-
store complete order, than the restoration of the col-
liers to the pits. He felt bound to corroborate Mr.
Chance in the character he had given of the .colliers.
Ile met the deputation of miners with a very un-
favourable impression respecting them ; but he was
really bound to say he had been most agreeably sur-
prised at their conduct. He never met a better be-
haved body of working men in his life, and he should
never feel any difficulty in meeting one thousand of
them.

Shelton, Hughes, and other colliers, whose state-
ments made last week relative to the butties, have
already appeared, then came forward, and reiterated
their grievances, consisting of bildasses, over-time, and
the truck system. A great deal of contradictory evi-
dence having been gone through,
Mr. EATON, a master, said he had travelled a good
dear the day before in Bilston and neighbourhood,
and he could say that the masters and butties had
made up their minds not to allow bildasses any more,
nor would the butties press the men in future for the
quarter and half-days. He hoped the men would,
therefore, have reason to rejoice at the result of that
day's meeting ; that a far better understanding would
spring up, and that they would resume work upon
good terms with their masters.
Mr. DAVIS, a butty collier, after cross-examining
the witnesses at great length, said, the great evil of
which they had to complain was the big weight. He
had to send off boats laden with so much coal, for
which he was not allowed the full weight, and he
could not, consequently, afford to give the men all
they required.
SIIELTON said he would ask, was it right to throw
all the burden on the poor men ? Why not go at
once to the pit-owner and get retirees,. in place of
throwing all upon the poor men ?
Mr. SALTER said he had every reason to believe
that all the masters in that part of the county would
remove the abuses of which the men had reason to
complain. He thought they might now safely close
that inquiry.
Some men said they were afraid to complain, be-
cause they would be discharged.
Several agents said the men might rely upon it the
masters would not refuse to listen to any proper com-
plaint, nor would they allow any man to be put away
by the butties for complaining.
Dr. BOOTH then addressed the men, and advised
them to go at once to their masters and avail them-
selves of the present favourable feeling. They had no
right to doubt the sincerity of the masters, who had
expressed their determination not to allow any more
oppression upon their men.
Lord DARTMOUTH said he hoped things would now
take a favourable turn, and that they would soon be
all at work.
During the course of the meeting it was stated that
De vly all the pits had been set on to work during
the last two days at the old prices—the proposed
" having been abandoned by some masters.
reductio.. -inortion, it is hoped, will soon follow.
be honed that the whole district
ITthies,otthheerrepfo
immediately resu:ne.•
labour, so far as consump-
will
'" admitted evils of which
tion will allow, and that U.. -nay never be repeated,
the men have had to complain b.. by such a mass of
nor the peace of society threateneu
discontent being thrown upon it.

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MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM e
_o say uy
pears that three quarters of an hour
mere
eayriea Out
this line to Crewe. If the original plan
to Rugby nearly two hours would have been saved. BLI-t
the spirit of monopoly would not allow it !
• About four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon a young
man of respectable appearance, about 23 years of age,
called at the residence of Mr. Phillips, surgeon, No 44,
Albion-street, Hyde-park, and requested to see 111 r.
Phillips. Ire was immediately show-i into the surgery,
when, on being asked by Mr. Basevi, assistant to Mr.
Phillips, his business with that gentleman, he replied
that he wished to consult bins medically. Mr. Basevi
aci:onlin&ly handed him a chair, arid left him in the sur-
gery, while he went to acquaint Mr. Phillips'of the
cunistanee. On his return in a minute or two afterwards
he found the pretended patient was gone, and on search-
ing the place it was discovered that he had stolen from a
drawer-in
.the surgery two mourning rings, one with
three diamonAS in it, and the other a plain one, two gold
pins set with torquoise, a ditto with a red stone, a tor-
toiseshell-eased watch with a silver—guard chain, and a
quantity of silver moneys, the property of the assistant.
The fellow is described as about 5 feet 10 inches high,
very fair hair, sallim complexion, no whiskers, and
dreswd in a brown Petersham coat. with velvet collar
and, rockets in front, brown:broad-striped trousers,
worn very tight at the bott9it, with straps,
Blucher
becta andandblablackhat.