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      affirms that the employers have widened the breach , and that every moral and constitutional power oi resistance should be used to bring the nine hours movement to a successful termination . The strifce is therefore , inevitable , and it is to be feared thai on both sides hostilities will be waged until the weaker go to the wall by sheer exhaustion . The masters demand that all hands who wort lor them shall sign a document similar to that whicn the gasmen have accepted . No efforts which hare yet been made to prevent the , threatened rupture and the operativehave

      between the master builders s been attended with any success , and it is to be feared that after this daythere ^ wiU be a cessation in the progress of most great buildings at present in the course of erection in the metropolis . The men adhere to their determination not to sign the ¦* ' document , " and the masters are equally firm in their resolution to close their works until Messrs . Trollope ' s yard , where the dispute originally commenced , is full . A modified proposition put forward by the employers , substituting for the signature of the workman his pledged promise not to belong to

      any society , has met with no favour , as the men are fixed in their adherence to the nine hours' movement , " pure and simple . "

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      IRELAND . At the Antrim Assizes , after some discussion , the Belfast Phcenix conspirators were discharged on their own recognizances , judge Christian concurring in the course adopted by the Crown . The traversers all pleaded " Guilty . " They are required to take the oath of allegiance when called upon . A judgeship in the Court of Bankruptcy has become vacant by the death of the Hon . Patrick Pluriket , one of the numerous sons of the late . Iiord Plunket , who expired on Sunday at Kingstown , in the 60 th year of his age . He succeeded his colleague , Mr ; Macan , but a few weeks ^ and wanted but a year of service to entitle him to his full retiring pension .

      T.Aw Tpp And ^Natttp Law, Rulitji, Ajn1) Labualiies

      during the last few months . The singular _ part of the case was the excellent character which the prisoner had enjoyed as a soldier , and which procured for him the post of warden in thQ prison . At the time of his arrest he was on his way toLandpOrt , where , owing to his good conduct , he had been appointed barrack sergeant . He was sentenced to ten years ' penal servitude . Michael Herring , one of three men who attempted to strangle the female servant of Messrs . pevey and Dale , Shoe-lane , was brought up at Guildhall and committed for trial . The prisoner was also committed on the charge of burglary in a house at Holloway . _ ' in the

      A cause of " Patrick v . Drane " was tried Sheriffs' Court yesterday . It was an action to recover compensation in damages by the widow of Patrick , forherself and five children , for the loss of her husband , who was killed by his master , Drane , a person of unsound mind . The damages were laid at 500 ? ., but the jury awarded 300 Z ., to be divided among the widow and children . The Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s steamer-Alma , which recently went on shore in the Red Sea , has been altogethe r lost , having parted " amidships . " She registered 2 , 160 tons , with engines of 450-horse power , and was worth about 70 , 000 Z . The cargo consisted almost entirely of silk , of which 1 , 400 bales , worth about 120 , OO 0 Z ., have been lost .

      At South Shields , on Monday afternoon , the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a chapel , which was partly erected , had collected a number of spectators on a platform . One of the beams suddenly gave way , precipitating 150 persons to the ground , many of whom were seriously injured , though we do not hear of any fatal cases . On £ Mpnday afternoon a serious collision took place at the Fenchurch-street railway terminus , which caused much injury to several passengers . It seems that just as the Tilbury engine was _ passing clear of the station it eameinto violent collision with

      LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . At the Middlesex Sessions on Monday John West , a police-constable , was indicted for stealing a watch , value 2 l ., from the person of John Green , while he was . sitting half asleep at his own door . He was found guilty , and sentenced to 12 months' hard labour . Jones has been acquitted of the murder at Ledbury after a patient investigation . On the delivery of the verdict of " Not guilty " the prisoner , who had been led up in a state of exhaustion , was seized with a fit , and it required the utmost

      • exertion of three strong men to restrain his violence . At length he articulated— "I am innocent—I am—I am innocent ! " He appeared not-to , comprehend the verdict until it was repeated to him by the governor of the goal , whom he clutched by the hand , and said , " God reward you for your kindness . " He was removed from the dock with difficulty , his face wearing an expression of terrible ghastliness , and his whole demeanour presenting the idea of a man whose reason was suddenly lost .

      The fraudulent rate-collectors arc at length to reap the reward of their industry . Alfred Cooper , collector for St . Giles ' s , Camberwell , and William Wellington Turner , collector of . Islington , wore again examined on Saturday , aud committed for trial . A respite was forwarded on Saturday night from the Secretary of State to stay the execution of Henry Benjamin Haynes , who was convicted at the late Winchester Assizes for the murder of a woman at Aldershott . About ten o ' clock on Monday night , James Unley , saw-grinder , was shot -while sitting at the Crown Inn , Scotland-street , Sheffield . The ball entered his left temple , and lodged behind the eye . He is expected to die . Linley has previously been shot at , and attempts have been made to blow up his house , and he has now no doubt been shot for refusing to join the Saw-grinders union .

      A man named . Brown has been apprehended on suspicion . A pistol , supposed to be theone which was used on the occasion , from the peculiarity of the bore and the similarity between the size of the bore and the size of the hole made in the frame of glass by the ball , has been found in his possession . He was in the room in which Linley was sitting , both a few minutes before and a few minutes after the shot < wa « flred . A desperate attempt at murder has been made at Bradford , a master shoemaker , named DuiBeld , having wwUeted several stabs in tho body oft Mb wife , who noa barely escaped with llfo . An extraordinary case of burglary was tried at flwOBtone on Saturday . A man named Woir , who nfta been a -warder in Chatham convict prison , was convioted of having taken part in a number of daring Burglaries which had been perpetrated In that locality

      a North Woolwich train which was coming in . There was an extra number of passengers , and their cries were fearful . The force of the collision threw 4 he Tilbury train off the line , and the carriages were reported to be shattered . Medical assistance was promptly rendered . _ Considerable alarm waa , caused on Wednesday to the passengers of a train on the London and North Western Railway by a quantity of luggage on the top of a carriage taking fire . Fortunately , the engine-driver ' s attention was attracted by the cries of the passengers , and the train brought to a stand near Wigan , when the flames were extinguished without any personal injury having been suffered .

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      into the Hull and Preston contests will now begin , as the committees have been nominated for them . The Bridgwater petition has been withdrawn . On Thursday the committee decided in favour of four hon . members who had been petitioned against—Mr . E ; A . "Leatham , the member for Huddersfield Major Gavin , the member for Limerick , and Lord John Manners and Mr . C . Hartopp , the members for North Leicestershire . Election News . —Both parties are busy preparing to supply the vac ancy created by the unseating of Mr- Leatham for Wakefield . It has been announced that a gentleman would be brought forward on Conservative principles . ' The Liberals have already

      brought put Mr . Childers , the late high sheriff . A writ will also have to be moved for to supply a vacancy for Devonport , in consequence ofSirErsktne Perry ' s acceptance of office in the Indian Council . So will there will have to be a new election for Taunton , Mr . Labouchere having been made a peer the Conservatives prevailed upon Mr . George Cavendish' Bentinck , the unsuccessful Tory candidate for Taunton at the general election in April last , to come forward . Mr . Bentinck issued his address on Tuesday . Mr . Alexander C . Barclay , of London , issued an address the same morning . The candi-Donaldson

      dates for Dartmouth are Mr . Stuart , on the Liberal interest , and Mr . Dunn ( who contested Totness at the general election ) , on the Conservative . The Liberals of Gloucester contemplate soliciting ViscoUnt Monk and Mr . Bernal Osborne to contest the two vacant seats with Mr . Schreiber , the conservative . Sir Michael Seymour has come forward for Devonport as as a supporter of Lord Palmerston Ppblic Health . —The Registrar-General ' s return shows a decrease in the mortality of the metropolis during last week , the total number of deaths being 1 , 419 , a decrease as compared with the number last week , which was 1 , 605 . The births

      during the week were 1 , 803 . . Government Schools in India . — A deputation , having for its object the iiitroductkm of the Bible into these schools , had an interview with Lord Palmerston and Sir Charles Wood on Saturday . Both the Premier and the Secretary for India urged that the adoption of the measure proposed by the deputation would have the effect of exciting the prejudices of the natives against Christianity . Sir Charles , however , stated that voluntary _ Bible classes either before or after school hours were permitted under the present system .

      Eotal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear . — The Annual Meeting of the governor and friends of this Institution was held on Wednesday , at the Dispensary , Dean street , Soho-square . The Kev . J . Davis Lamb in the chair . The secretary read the report from which it appeared that in the long list of diseases to which the human frame is subjected , none are so distressing , none entailing more misery and annoyance to the patient , or requiring greater skill or attention on the part of the medical man , than those which deprive one of the sense of hearing . During the past year the number of patients admitted were 1 , 734 , of whom 354 . were discharged cured and 200 relieved . A large portion of the cases were traced to living in damp localties , to bad , drainage , intense headaches , noises in the head and the throat

      The CotmT . —There is no incident whatever tp relate this week of the sojourn of the royal family at Osborne , where they are all in good health ; and remain in a sort of semi-privacy . The Queen has received as visitors this week , the Comte de Paris and his brother , the Due de Chartres , the Princess Ganromma of Coorg , Lord Palmerston , and the Duke of Newcastle . The stay of the royal family in the Isle of Wight will be prolonged till late in the

      season . Prorogation of Parliament . —The Ministerial Whitebait dinner will take place next Wednesday , the 10 th inst ., at the Trafalgar , Greenwich , and it is anticipated that the business of the session will be brought to a close on the following Saturday , the 13 th . " Council op India . —On Thursday , at a meeting of the Council , Sir Honry Bartle Edward Frere , K . C . B ., was appointed an ordinary member of tho Council of the Governor-iGeneral , ' Election Committees . — The Aylesbury committee appointed to consider the charges against Mr . Bernard and Mr , S . Smith have fully exonerated those gentlemen . The Norwich inquiry has terminated in the unseating of the sitting members , Lord Bury and Mr . Schneider . Two

      now committees commenced to sit on Saturday — those for Cheltenham and Limerick . Tho Cheltenham committee declared that Colonel Berkeley was duly elected . It has been decided that Mr . Lee and Mr . Button were duly eleoted for Maidstono at the last general election , and that Mr . Wontworth was not eleoted for Aylesbury . At Aylesbury , as will be remembered , WCr . Bernard stood at the head of tho poll , while Mr . Smith and Mr . Went worth polled an equality of votes . The committee had thus to go into a scrutiny of the votes , and this ended in striking off the name of one voter on Mr . Wentworth ' s sjide . Tho committee also found that there had been bribery on the part of Mr . Wontworth ' s agents , but without his knowledge , There was also bribery at Maidstone , managed in the same way ; but , as wo have Intimated , tho election of tho two Liberal members otftnds good . Tho inquiries

      ears , dyspepsia , catarrhal affections of , rheumatic deafness ; in childhood , measles , scarlet fever , small pox and dentition which being neglected frequently resulted in deafness . The advantages which this institution holds out ' pxe that it treats these diseases in a constitutional manner , and does not resort to surgicial operation except in cases of the greatest urgency . An appeal was made to the bonovolent and wealthy to place this institution in its proper position amongst tho many which distinguish and adorn this vast metropolis . After a vote of thanks passed to Mr . Harvey , the surgeon , and to the chairman , the meeting separated , i Inpian Pinanob Ministeus . —The Times announces that the Right Hob . James Wilson has consented to go to India as a Member of CouncJJ , ana also as Chancellor of the Indian Exchequer . Mr . Wilson ' s position towards tho Governor-General

      and the Cabinet in tho latter capacity vr »»» " »*« - lar to that which tho Chancellor / of { ho Lxchequer boars at home to tho Government and tho Cabinet . Omw-A deputation from tho £ nti-Opium ESjr ^ rf ^ r ^ KZui derived from the opium trade . Ho was not sure that the evils of tho trade wore so bad as they had been represented , TR » i » Anii oa > PiuviLEOD ,--The Speaker has

      race * vod a telegraphic message , dated Dublin , ft-on * Colonel Gossott , the Deputy Serjoant-at-Arms , informing him that ho has Colonel GronvUle in custody , and the hon . member will be brought up this

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      No . 489 . Apo . 6 . 1859 . 1 THE LEADER . 907

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 6, 1859, page 907, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2306/page/7/