THE HIIILDERS' STRIKE.

A new element has developed itself in the strike. The non-society men have met to protest that they do not share the opinion of the " Conference," and have formed a fund of their own to relieve them- selves and their locked-out brethren. Alderman Cubitt has. accepted the treasurership of the Fund. It is said that there are twenty thousand non-society men locked out.

Some of the operatives waited, on Thursday, on Mr. Dayman, the magistrate at Westminster, to swear to a written statement disclaiming the existence of any rule prohibiting the men from working in any par- ticular way, or any rule sanctioning intimidation. Mr. Dayman, in reply, intimated to the men that their societies were evidently benefit societies, not societies to support strikes, and that it was very doubtful whether even a single member objecting to such use of the funds could not bring the societies into chancery for a misapplication of the moneys held in trust for a different object.

A meeting of the operatives locked out was held in the Surrey Gar- dens on Monday : between 7000 and 8000 persons were present. Mr. Grey, mason, took the chair, and Mr. George Potter, the Secretary of the nine hours' agitation, made a ,speech. He especially denounced the "document."

It was clear that if the document were signed their societies would be broken up, and then their wages would be reduced 6d. per day. The funds up to the present time had not been very considerable, but he was happy to say that special general meetings of trades had been C.alled throughout the country for the purpose of raising subscriptions, which would now flow in rapidly. He was aware that in some quarters the dividend declared last week caused some dissatisfaction, but they might easily imagine that some difficulty would arise when 14,000 or 15,000 men wanted payment. The total income up to last Monday evening had been 1,4011. 58. 2d., so that he had not yet, as had been suggested, been able to run away with 20,0001. The expenditure had been 1,337/. 128. 7d., leaving a balance of about 601.— not a great deal to run away with even if he were so disposed. Committees had been established in Glasgow, Liverpool, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and other places. Glasgow had promised to send 500/. in aid of their fund next week.

Mr. Noble said that up to nine o'clock that morning Messrs. Trollope had only ninety-two men at work. The glass-blowers had determined on making a levy for the men in London, having determined upon raising a sum of money weekly until the struggle closed. He had to inform them also that there was a system going-on between the employers which was an underhand principle ; some of them were getting their work done without producing the document, and yet they were bound by their own clauses to read it over to the men. Not one of the men at work at Messrs. Trollope's had seen the document at all. On Monday the Conference of the Building Trades declared no dividend, but Trollope's men were paid 128. skilled, and 88. unskilled labourers. The National Association of Carpenters and Joiners are anxious to extend their societies throughout the kingdom, and they are taking measures for this purpose, on the principle of the Amalgamated Engineers.

The aurora borealis in August is an unusual phenomenon. It appeared on Sunday night for several hours, and was seen in great brilliancy at one o'clock, extending from the western hemisphere to the north-west, north and north-east, and reaching to the zenith. The appearance in the west was that of a large fire, but in the north and north-east it was of a violet ,colour, and flashes of light of the same colour darted along the heavens with great brilliancy. The pleiades usually somewhat dull and misty, shone through the gorgeous streamers of viofet light with a brilliancy hike that which Arcturus exhibited when seen through the tail of the comet.

On Wednesday night again it appeared in unusual brilliancy, but the cloudy atmosphere prevented more than a portion of its whole expanse being visible.

There was another exciting scene at the parish church of St. George's- in-the-East on Sunday. "In the church of St. George's "—said the Reverend Frederick George Lee, S.C.L., of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, who conducted the morning service in vestments resembling those of a Roman Catholic priest, "there is a form of service which is not generally recognized in the national establishment, but nothing is done here in vio- lation of the law of the land." Very much, however, seemed to be done to awaken discord in the congregation, and to scandalize the Establishment. Thus the Reverend Mr. Lee in the morning, and the Reverend Hugh Allen in the afternoon, so performed their parts, that very anti-Christian demon- strations were feared from the thousand persons present. One of the cus- tomary services was suspended, and amidst hisses and groans the church- warden, with the assistance of the police, "succeeded in clearing the church." On Thursday evening a meeting was held at the Vestry-house to consider this state of things, when the Churchwardens were absolved from any neglect of their duty, and a resolution was unanimously adopted, that "a communication be sent to the Bishop of London in reference to the ex- traordinary dress worn by the Reverend F. G. Lee during the services last Sunday morning."

Richard Hales, a stoker in Woolwich Dockyard, was crushed by an im- mense weight of machinery which he was assisting to move on board the Ariadne, on Saturday morning. When he was extricated from the weight " he was so strongly convulsed that it required six men to place him on the stretcher" which conveyed him to the Hospital. He died soon after his admission.

George Frederic Royal, for whose apprehension Government has offered a hundred pounds reward, was brought before Mr. Selfe at the Thames Police Court on Monday afternoon, and examined on the charge of poisoning Zip- porah Wright, a woman with whom he had cohabited. On the 27th of April last she was delivered of a male infant. About five weeks after her confinement she was seized with violent vomiting, in consequence, as she said, of having drunk some coffee given her by Royal. She also complained of a burning sensation in her throat and stomach, and became worse after drinking some milk, also given her by Royal. She grew worse and worse, and died three days afterwards, expressing her suspicions a few hours before she died that.her paramour had poisoned her, saying at the same time, " God forgive him." An inquest was held, and Dr. Letheby proved that the de- ceased had died from the administration of cantharides. Royal was once in the employ of a practical chemist. Witnesses were called to corroborate this statement, and the prisoner was remanded until Tuesday next.

More game dealers have been prosecuted this week by the Society for the Prevention of the Sale of Game out of Season, for illegally exhibiting and selling black game within the time prohibited Act of Parliament.

Mr. Stephen R. Xaokson coal merchant, was charged on Wednesday at the Westminster Police dourt, on the complaint of the Great Northern Railway Company, with "selling one sort of coals for and as a sort which they really were not." The coals, which had been sold as silkstones, but were said to be rubbish, had been ordered of the prosecutors, but the order had by some mistake or collusion fallen into the hands of the defendant. The defence was that the coals were really silkstones, and had, moreover, been purchased of the prosecutors themselves. Ultimately the case broke down, the prosecutors not being able to prove that the endorsement on the bill delivered with the coals was in the handwriting of the defendant.

Thomas Hawkins, the prosecutor of the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Company, applied on Monday to the Court of Bankruptcy to be discharged from custody. An objection was taken to the validity of the Petitioning Creditor's debt which the commissioner held to be fatal, and as there was no valid bankruptcy, the application for discharge was dismissed.

At Bow Street Police Court, on Wednesday, Edward Thomas Isaacson, of 2, Adelphi Terrace, and 23, Ampthill Square, Hampstead Road, was charged with conspiring to defraud Messrs. Shoolbred and Co., and other tradesmen, of sundry goods. On the 23d of December last Isaacson ordered of Messrs. Shoolbred some Turkey carpets, hearth rugs, curtains, &c., in all worth I30/., for Mrs. Mure; wife of Mr. Mure, Consul at New Orleans. He pur- duced a letter, as his authority for the purchase, purporting to be written by Mrs. Mure in Paris. The goods were supplied, also a secoud lot, which were sent to defendant's chambers in the Adelphi, for—" he could get them to France cheaper by takicg them with him." Part of these goods, how- ever, were found by Inspector Pethers in Isaacson's drawing-room at Ampt- hill Square, whither he was accompanied by Isaacson after he had arrested him in the Adelphi. The bulk of the first goods were pawned in Paris. Mrs. /lure was the wife of the New Orleans Consul, but has been divorced. Whatever Isaacson's relation to that lady may be, if any, was not made clear. The manager of Messrs. Oiler's glass rooms came forward to show that he bad received a visit from Isaacson which resulted in his sending to Paris, for Mrs. Mare' a chandelier worth 931. The defendant was remanded. Two sureties of 3001. each were accepted.

William Gellard, " King of the Smashers," an old man, father of a whole family of smashers—two of whom are now in the Old Bailey—was finally examined at the Southwark Police Court on Monday, on the charge of utter- ing base coin, and committed for trial.

Thomas Carmoody was charged at the Westminster Police Court, on Saturday, with uttering abusive language and, tlireatening Arthur Armett, a carpenter in the employ of Messrs. Trollope. Carmoody had used a very strong epithet, coupled with a threat, and said he hoped Armett would fall from a scaffold and break his neck. For this "insulting language" Car- moody. was adjudged to pay 20s., or fourteen days' imprisonment, and to enter into his recognizances to keep the peace for the next three months. Mr. Arnold said there was no case of intimidation made ouf, hnd he would " do the artisans the credit of saying, that throughout these unhappy differences with the masters, they have generally conducted themselves well."

The Police Courts have had a great deal of work this week. Wednesday was a very heavy day for cases of assault and brutal treatment. Laurence Duckworth Barlow, an organist in Blackfriars, was committed for trial, for attacking the parents of children who had come to remonstrate with him for drenching their little ones with water. The children had annoyed him, and so did the remonstrance of the parents, and in his passion he severely wounded several of them with a life-preserver, and buried the dagger blade on its end in the chest of one poor woman, breaking off the blade in the wound at the depth of six inches. A Holborn innkeeper, Henry William Boynton, had completely disfigured his wife by beating her about the face, because she wanted to visit a sick sister. And Robert Collins, a port- manteau-maker, was charged with brutally treating his wife,—whose face bore witness to the truth of her complaint,—because she wanted money for food. He was sentenced to two months at the House of Correction.