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GLASGOW LOTTERY CONFIRMED BY PARLIAMENT. rI E REPORT of the COMMITTEE ap li, point e d by the HOUSE o f COMMONS to exa - NL l ito the present state of the Glasgow Lottery was (:()- ~'"fed o n 'Thursday, the Bth of May ; IT FULLY PUPIRMS THE DRAWING THAT IS TO TAKE QC -E ON THE 22d of JULY NEXT, and recom t:s that Parliament should not allow any other Lottery drawn under the authority of the Act. to 4E FINAL and ONLY GLASGOW LOTTERY It sized by Parliament contains the following Capital A t -e s , besides others of 8001., 5001., 4001., 3001., 2001., 1 "e• of •••416,0(10... £16,000 1...0f.. £1,600 £1,600 """" • 10,000 ...... 10,000 1 1,500 1,500 .• 3, ° 00 ... ... 3 000 I 2 1,400 2,8001 • ... ... ...... 2,000 1 And 2 ,017 P o f a smaller Value. The p • rips rizt s in this Lottery consist of Freehold Lands Houses, but the fortunate Holders may receive the 4 1 re- stated v a l ue o f t h e i r Prizes in Money, as so l o o n o as toe*ll, deducting only 5 per cent._ on tr e se ro abo r v t e y. /. The holver the risk and expense in selling ')f the Prizes will be drawn in One D p ay, i ld JULY "'T, at Coopers' Hall. `tekets and Shares are selling at all the Lottery O ffi ces, -.4 0y their Agents in the Country. IT TPITS TO INDIA, VAN DIEAIEN'S LAND, AMERICA, &c. CARPENTER invites Captains, Merchants, IN•• and Families wanting large quantities of CLOTH . - tst v e 4 ,(l READY-MADE LINEN, to apply at this ,kti e h lnnient, where every article is charged at the whole i4r:kee for prompt payment. J. C. begs to remind trio 4 I`."eY can be supplied with every article of ready it. e on e , Calico shirts, Is. each ; India long cloth, tliti d , ',to 2s. ; fashionable full fronts, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. ; -4 • :"1 fine linen fronts, linen collars and wrists, 4s. 6d. f 6 ( 1 . shirts from ss. 6d. to 7s. 6d. ; curiously Nt ' ' ojn 6 s• 6d. to ' 10s. 6d. ; boys' shirts of all sizes, d„'"ernises and night gowns ; ladies' chemises, 10s. 64. °g 'Z'n, dies. each • ditto, Is. 6d. and 2s. • real India t el °th ,2s 6d. and 3s. ; long night ditto, from l 'or e ° 3 s• 6(1. ; slips, from 2s. to 3s. 6d. ; ladies' caps, er,, t 9,1 . to Is. G.gentlemen's dress collars, 4s. 6d. er,. ll ° . zeti; cotton half-hose, 4s. per dozen ; cotton hand- N ) , - , 'Os, 4s. per dozen • silk ditto, 9s. per dozen ; night s. 6(1 per doz •' white jean jackets and trousers, to 7 e . waistcoats, en from 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. ; a !40 1 ;: - . 1 suit from ss. 6d. to 7s. 6d.; duck or drill trousers and 4 :: from 2s. 6d. toss . 6d. ; camlet suits, ladies' morn- L 'ati o • W o lPers, ss. 6 { l. to B s . 6d. ; gentlemen's cotton or easing gowns, from Bs. 6d. to 12s. 6d. ; cots, t;birt k nd blankets, hammocks, sheets, ship sofas, and ; at , CARPENTER'S, No. 14, King London -bridge. e n , t O t RIGINAL SYRUP OF DE VELNOS. a t amongst numerous letters recently re kqrigieeived by M rs . C A NH A M, ( so l e propr i etress o f th e bean V EGETABLE SYRUP of DE VELNOS) all th at .g testimony to the extraor di nary cures performe d b y tl%,, lt komparabie medicine, the following case has been tt e ,.vq, as presenting one of the most extraordinary results qes.rd of. Mrs. Canharn begs to observe that although ?e„. ll sitie and residence of the patient are for particular 1 4 : 10 4 not made public, she has permission from his parents P 0 instantaneous instantaneous private reference to them for a cor ih ration of the cure performed upon their son, of which 11:following is a brief account :-In the summer of t 1 829, o, fe toung gentleman, while playing at scho o l o t “ ground, and received a contusion on his Ali violently which r^ t oned considerable pain, and a slight swelling. After tone hi t 14 ,g a littl e w hil e a t h om e, the pain ceased, butupon "ing sent back to school, it returned with greuater I tnly consequence, it is supposed, of his turnin g sud _ tr,iklc o und to open a door ; the ne.xt.monrninnogwhme was 'nlable to leave his bed. The hip net g ordered u si le e , h ' e n, Mr. Abernethy was consulted, Ni l . A be applied. He was su b se quen w tly o e f xa A m ir in A e b d e 'b r x y Iteth stlev Cooper, who left him in the care o sii other professional gentlemen, after been the bone not to be dislocated. He had been under t ktt,'"' of the medical men two years and a half, (the - ; . 1 'ix months not being removed out of bed) when Mrs. oj, hitt via, applied to, and informed that it was the una li,'"us and decided opinion of th m em lc d' al men he could not k 2 the w ee k ou t. A t her reco ro e e nda tion the Vegetable wtlp was inst an tl y administered to the sufferer, who, I . )tever , could only swall ow i t by exceedingly small quan -144 in consequence of the debilitated state to which he R k4 Previously been reduced. Du ring the period which i k! roupied in taking the Syrup, several portions of bone 'ated from the hip, and he was fr equently, even now t tq p , e od t o the necessity o f remaining weeks and months I.to h i sr in bed, without being able to bear lifting out. B • atri ti gq l, 4l and persevering attention to the directions cif vase he was enabled, after taking the Syrup t wc, e w eeks, to rise and walk about, and at the end a a h lhs (, with the exception of a slight contraction of 7: r fcctly "essioned by the surgeon's treatraent), young 1 ; 41.1 hi' k p r i it `i com , ,letely cured-a fact which the y g da rn :' can at any time attest, as he may be seen P t urSuing his usual occupation. It is presumed tip • estimony to the properties of the Vegetable °fit' P,i7,Mtogether unparalleled, and offers the best proof Th 'nes that can be given. The V d e g ise etabl e Syrup of de Velnos (which is SO effica ,,4rbgtiases of the Liver, Scrofula, Leprosy, Scu h ri tc y_, k `r! e fro_ :i•uptions, and those melancholy diseases w h_ „.2 , 1 b, ' , ',. lo lpurity of the blood and juices) is prepared and reet,',;"s• Canham, No. 52, Berners-street, Oxford , 13 '. bottle ; it is also sold by most of the re , ,toedicine venders in town and country. The Atit ed ,~ ntra ,`7l, for warm climates, may be procured from her `l. (i zt. `..ents in the East Indies, viz., Messrs. Storm and ) " 4 1 i t d e Mackintosh and Co. ), Calcutta; Messrs. Forbes 1 44 8 : 1 1343 robay ; and Messrs. Arbuthnot and Co., / 0 / (10 • 'tl = .•• illy „ . A, „.. -;• 3., a .. thoir determination not to take the men but ttatil del haft 93 •eded from the union. Himself and his partner had refused to accede to Mr. Browne's notification ; they sent copies of the declaration to their men, and all of theirs, to the number of 200, had signed it. (Cheers.) Th • foreman also signed it, and all• the clerks, with the exception of one, who had been immediately dismissed. (Hear. ) Mr. SLAVOHTEE regretted that t ivre • . be any discussion on the present• occasion, because the eves no Merely of the nation but of all Europe were watching the proceedings- of the meeting, and he trusted that the gentle- man would, on consideration, withdraw his amendment. Mr. PLAcE said E, had not heard a single word fall from any gentleman who had spoken that could at all in duce him to alter his original opinion, and he should there fore persist in his amendment, and divide upon it. Mt. HonciEs said, that as the seconder of the amend ment, he begged to ask whether any gentleman present ‘ e*, Y would, if he were placed in a similar situation to the journeyman, sign such a iij;laration? ( Loud cries of °‘ Yes.") An individual here asked sv:;ther the minority were to be botind by the decision of the major". 4l ' ? (Cries of‘ yes, of course.") The CHAIRMAN said he hoped the gentletrr-4 present would recollect the great difficulty they would labOui.`zuder by a tiivts,, n. He nad the names. of S ' gentlemei before him, who had agreed either by their presence or by amplification afterwards, to sign the resolutions ; and it was therefore important that they should know the names of those who dissented on this great question ; the declaration appeared to him of the utmost importance, and the utrnGt latitude had been given. It had been stated to day, as they had all heard, that several workmen who were about being employed, had no objection to acknowledge that they were not members of the trade union, but the mo ment the test was put to them, they refused to sign it, and when the question was pressed home, they admitted they had told a deliberate falsehood. Therefore he thought it was extremely proper that every man who entered a shop should be compelled to &ivn a declaration. He hoped that the gentleman would be induced to withdraw his amend mend. . lr. PrAcE said that he had no particular wish to press it to a division, if he, and those who coincided with him, were allowed to enter their protest against that portion of the report which related to the signing of the declaration by the foreman and workmen. The CHAIRMAN said there could be no objection to that, and that of course it would he open for any gentle man who wished to support it to do so. It was ultimately agreed that there should be a division, and the question having been put by the chairman, it ap peared there were, For the original motion For the Amendment Majority in favour of the report 524 The gentlemen who voted for the amendment were Messrs. Place, Blake, Stukey, John Scafe, Wyatt, Bourne, Hodges, and Ellis. The CHAIRMAN then declared the original motion car ried, and stated that he was very glad that the meeting had manifested such patience, however much they might have differed from some of those who had addressed them. Mr. ScAFE denounced the proceedings of the meeting in regard to those who stood up against the resolution as tyrannical. (Loud marks of disapprobation.) The CHAIRMAN said he would not attempt to ;ilfluence the votes of any person by telling the meeting of the very honourable conduct which had been exhibited, but he could say that many tradesmen would rather shut up their' shops than it should be said of them that they had acted contrary to the general body. (Hear.) Ile declared that he had done nothing whatever to influence any per son's vote. Mr. Scafe had said that he had acted ty rannically (A cry of " Only in your mode of dividing the room"); in that respect he did not know how he could have acted better. (Hear.) To show that the committee were extremely anxious to retain the good opinion of all, and to do all they could to promote the ge neral cause, it was desirable that the meeting should, by their own spontaneous act, appoint Mr. Hunter a member of the committee. (Hear, hear.) That gentleman had a proposition to make, which he could bring before the committee first, without now detaining the meeting 2or 3 hours longer in discussion. As to himself. he (the chairman), had unfortunately nothing to do, (a laugh) but as he had been upon this business ever since four o'clock this morning, Mr. Hunter had better bring forward his proposition on another occasion. A GENTLEMAN asked if Mr. Hunter would make his men sign the declaration? (Hear.) CHAIRMAN—We will take care of that. Another GENTLEMAN said Mr. Hunter was well known to many of them, and he trusted that whether the vote was for or against him, he would vote with the great body of the committee. (Hear.) Mr. Hunter's name was then added to the committee. On the motion of Mr. M'ALLAw, the thanks of the meeting were unanimously, and with three cheers, voted to the chairman and the committee. The CHAIRMAN said it was very grateful to the com mittee to receive the approbation of the meeting. That approbation indeed could not have been more marked than by the manner in which the report had been received. The committee were actuated by the same motives which had induced them at first to undertake their very arduous and onerous duties, not only for the best interests of the trade, but for the best interests of society. (Cheers. ) The meeting then broke up. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. THIS DAY, TUESDAY, MAY 27. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock. The Chippenham (Wilts) Lighting Bill, the Stafford shire Roadßill, theMyrthyr Tydvil Small Debts Bill, and the Holditch and Gedney Improvement Bill, were read a third time and passed. Sir C. LEMON presented a petition from Penzance in favour of a clause in the Poor Law Amendment Bill for the suppression of vagrancy. Mr. BLACKBURNE presented a petition from Wal lingford against dissenters' claims. Mr. BROCKLEHURST presented petitions from Bolton and other places for a committee to inquire Into the cause and cure of intemperance ; and one from Sut ton for the better administration of the poor laws. Col. TORRENS supported the petition from Bolton. Colonel WILLIAMS supported that from Sutton. Mr. COBBETT said it was excessively stupid to send up petitions for the suppression of drunkenness. The people always drunk, and formerly much more than they did now, and it was perfect nonsense to bother the house to make laws which they could not pass. (Hear. ) Mr. DUNDAS presented a petition from the Friendly Society of York for an amendment of the Society Act ; and one from the same place for the suppression of drun kenness ; also one, signed by 4,000 persons in York, in favour of the Dorc hester convicts. Mr. LYSTER presented a petition from Bradford I against intemperance. Sir R. WALLACE presented a petition from Leith for a reform in legal courts, so as to facilitate justice and diminish expense ; and another from Annan to the same effect ; one from the Provost of Greenock and authori ties, praying that copies of returns laid before the house may be sent to them free of expense ; and one from Edin burgh in favour of the Dorchester convicts. Mr. B. THOMPSON presented a petition from Market-Whiting (York) against the penal laws affecting property. Mr. G. W. WOOD presented a petition from a place in Lancashire against the Poor Law Amendment Bill, and one against the Receipt Stamp Act from the same county. Mr. J. BULWER presented a petition from Exeter against the proposed bill for the abolition of Church rates. Mr. DIVETT supported the petition. Mr. FIELDEN presented a petition from Oldham, against the poor law amendment bill. Mr. COBBETT said the great objection to this bill was, that the commissioners were to have unlimited powers, and to be independent of all control. The house ought to have another document before it besides the report of the commissioners, before the bill advanced a step further, and that document was the in structions given tp the barrister who drew up the bill. (Hear, hear.) He understood, from authority which he could not doubt, that such a principle as this was introduced into those instructions—" It is necessary by degrees to accustom the labourers of England to coarser food than they at present live upon." The noble lord de nied that such a principle was in the bill, but if it was not 'of drunkenness, and mentioned in the bill, the bill gave the commissioners _ by e petitions were w a e n re d powers to enforce it. He should oppose the bill at every step. I'P :e r n: hi :l the vice of Mr. BUCKINGHAM bad to present eleven petitions from various places, on the subjeOt praying for the appointment of a select committee to in quirefrom Paisley, Dromore, Dungannon, Auchtermuty, Manchester, and other places, and were signed by . bot irh h 6,000 persons. The hon. member cordially concurred in into the causes of its al i w ncr ay ea: drunkenneu, but still he had strong objections to persons coming to that house and calling for further legislative measures to re press it. Ile was satisfied that the laws for the punish ment of drunkenness were already sufficiently severe. e th x e .l%ini p rp r . a le y c: er (d) o ißs f eS tL E e He defied any man to say that he had ever seen him (Mr. Cobbett) drink anything stronger than milk (a laugh), anal he could show letters of thanks from 1,000 families, expressing in the warmest terms their gratitude to him for having by his writings reclaimed so many young men from the pernicious vice of drunkenness. Sir G. STRICKLAND supported the petitions. Mr. BROTHERTON also concurred in the prayer of the petition, and observed that, in his opinion, the vice of drunkenness had been originally the cause of the fall of man. For the last 2 years he had been a water-drinker, and he had felt the greatest benefits from it. The petitions were then ordered to lie on the table. The SPEAKER left the chair at three o'clock. Mr. Charles 'Wesley, the celebrated organ;st, died at a very advanced age on Friday last. (No. 13,014.) MASTER TAILOR S. GREAT MEETING-(THIS I)AY.) A very numerous meeting of master tailors was held this day at 11 o'clock, at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, for the purpose of laying before the meeting the report and proceedings of the committee, since their last general meeting; Mr. LESLIE in the Chair. The minutes of the proceedings since the last general meeting were then read by the Secretary. The CHAIRMAN then read the following Report of the Sub- Committee : " REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF MASTER TAILORS. "Your committee report, that since they have had the honour to be appointed to carry into effect the resolution unanimously agreed to by the public meeting of the trade on the 29th April, they have, with the best of their ability, endeavoured faithfully and diligently to perform the arduous and onerous duties entrusted to them, and they hope their exertions will be approved of by the trade which they represent. " Having already reported from time to time, by public advertisement and by circular letters, they will confine themselves at present to the declaration issued by the committee, and show,— " First—That the declaration is in strict conformity with the resolutions which were unanimously approved of by 700 master tailors, and which they were represented to carry into effect. To do so they need Only call•thO'iltretition of the trade to the following extract from the resolutions of the 29th of April " That in order to encourage those men who are dis satisfied with the imperious mandate of the Trades' Union, the committee be empowered to open houses of call for the reception of all workmen willing to secede from the unionists, and to be employed at theovages hitherto paid, and that this meeting pledge themselves to give exclusive support and encouragement to such men. And that the committee be requested to carry into effect the intent and object of the foregoing resolution." By this resolution the committee feel that their duty was clearly prescribed to them by the unanimous opinion thereby expressed. And they will now show— Secondly, that the declaration they have issued was ab solutely called for by the circumstances which have come to the knowledge of the committee since their appointment. And they call the attention of the trade to a document emanating from the trades' union, being the abstract of the proceedings of a special meeting of the trades' union dele gates held in London on the 13th, 14th, 15th, 17th, 18th, and 19th of February, 1834. It commences in these words : " The Committee of Management of the Grand Lodge of United Operative Tailors of London, having convened this special meeting of the delegates from various trades, unions throughout the kingdom, 6.c. 6.c. But this long document being so important the Com mittee will immediately cause it to be reprinted, and a copy delivered to each Master Tailor. It contains eight propo sitions, a series of resolutions, and the ten preliminary arti cles for establishing the consolidated union. It then de clares that the Executive Council should act as trustees for all funds provided by the consolidated union for the adjustment of strikes. It then levies a shilling from each member of all the lodges in the consolidated union for raising a fund to employ the men of Derby, and other places. It then orders a new universal sign, and the document concludes in these words : " Thanks were severally voted to brother J. M'Donald, the chairman of the meeting, and to other members of the council of the grand lodge of operative tailors, for their zealous services during the meeting - . " By order of the executive council, (Signed) " J. BROWNE." The subject for the deep and serious attention of every master tailor is, that the journeymen tailors in London are, by their owu document, proved to be the great moving power of the trades' unions, they having summoned dele gates from various trades' unions throughout the kingdom to meet them. This same authority, signed " John Browne," ordered the strike on the part of the journeymen tailors. This committee most deeply-lament the sufferings and privations the journeymen have undergone during the strike, as much so as any persons can do ; but, as they have lent their aid to paralize commerce, to throw out of employment thousands who are connected with them, in the privations they are undergoing they only reap the fruits of their own conduct. It is well known to your committee, that the funds to support the strike have signally failed ; that no one induce ment held out to the men to strike has been realiz 'd; and that the funds were doled out to them in the merest pit tance, and under circumstances of the most signal failure of a great combination, founded on injustice to all parties. The masters are in a position to demand if not indemnity for the past at least a security for the future, and in the opinion of your committee they seek this security by the declaration they have issued, and which they have required all those in their employment to sign. On the 17th of May, last Saturday week, an official notice from the Grand National Consolidated Union was agreed upon by " the executive council," which states, " That the best probable mode for the operatives in towns to adopt to improve their immediate condition until the full and perfect plans of united labour can be carried into execution, is— First—" To continue to subscribe a fixed sum weekly, to form a fund to become the foundation of a general bank for the working classes, which fund should be sacred, and not applied to any other purpose whatever." " Sixth—All the operatives should keep in constant employment, upon the best terms they can obtain, until such terms can be made by the consolidated union with the non-producers of wealth and knowledge as shall libe rate all the producing classes from the slavery and degra dation in which they have hitherto been and now are, ------ --- - ------ ----; , " On behalf of the Executive (Signed) " E. C. DOUGLAS." A brief recapitulation of the facts will make the subject more familiar. First—The journeymen tailors are the moving power of the trades' union. Secondly—The executive council of the union ordered the tailors to strike. Thirdly—When the funds fail the executive of the trades' union order the operatives into employment upon the best terms they can obtain, and require them to subscribe a fixed sum weekly to form a fund for future purposes. The committee of the master tailors put forth the fol lowing declaration as a test to try the person who applies for work, whether he has belonged or has seceded from the trades' union or not " We, the undersigned foremen, journeymen tailors, and others, in the employment of —, do declare that we are not members of the Trades' Union—that it is not our intention to become members of any such association, nor do we now, or will we in any way, directly or indi rectly, contribute towards the support of any such associa tions ; in attestation of which, we hereunto subscribe our names this --- day of —, 1834." And in reply to this declaration, the executive of the Trades' Union publish a manifesto in the Weekly True Sun, in which it is said— "Brothers, you must immediately arouse yourselves to understand what you have to do. Reflect well before you resolve ; be calm, but be firm and determined in carrying your resolutions into execution. Let no man or woman, from one end of the kingdom to the other, sign this docu ment. It would be far better to resolve to die, rather than thus be compelled to be the lowest of such slaves to igno rance and presumption." Here, then, your committee have traced and clearly proved from official documents of the trades' union, that the present is not a contest between the master tailors and the Journeymen, but the first contest between the master tradesmen and the " The Grand National Consolidated Trades' Union." The committee, therefore, call upon every master tailor, every well wisher to the best interests of the country, to 1 eo-op!rate with them in an earnest and resolute deter mination to put an en as d se t e o ie t t h i i o s n un is wi f s r t a ., ug im h p ot impolitic, dan gerous combination ; convinced,.. .as they are, tha ' t the t ahned most st con tinuance of such an dangerous c onsequences to the men, their em p l oyers, and to o termination of which associ at i ons, so thet c i vey 1 far as maste rtailors are concerned, they are i ndividually and 1 pledged in the face of the whol e country. I s collectively JOHN LESLIE, Chairman. tha t . • society: l : and to the much as possiblethe whole of th e The CHAIRMAN then statedthe repo r t was in le information that had been obtained by the committee, in resen . These were the order to save th e time of those p facts that had c ome to their knowledge, and any gentleman meetingaddressed the He hoped they would g ive every one who present might make what observations upon it he pleased. not be said that any person who came to the meeting could an impartial hearing, in order that it might not deliver his opinions on an important question of this kind freely, fairly, and without any interruption. Mr. FLExcua it, of Conduit-street, then moved, which was seconded by Mr. Thompson, that the report of the committee be received and adopted. Mr. SHOOLBRIDGE begged to express his high approval of what the committee had done. They sometimes saw that the path of duty was the way of safety, and he thought that the master tailors wt re never more truly doing their duty than by assembling there this morning; for it had now become a great question whether the masters were to be ruled by their men, or whether they were still to main- LONDDN, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 18:34. tain Cie station of head over the men ?—and they all knew there must be a head, in order that there might be feet to go upon. He did not wish to say a word against the m en —men that they could not do without, for there was a material connexion between master and man ; but in order that that connexion should be kept up, good order must be preserved. (Hear.) He thought the time had come when, whatever sacrifice they might make, it was their duty to stand firm upon that which they believed to be a principle founded in justice (Hear, hear), and there fore he hoped every master would insist upon his men signing the declaration which had been issued, stating they did not belong to the unions, before he permitted them to do a single stitch. What the masters opposed was that which was founded in injustice. The men now told them it was unreasonable for the masters to require them to sign it, but his answer was, that they did not consult the masters whether they should sign► the arti cles of the unions, but had departed from that rule of conduct to do as they would wish to be done by, since they had taken the opportunity of striking when they thought the masters could not do without them.. He cordially approved of all that had been done.`by the committee. 1 Mr. MEYERS said, that when first the circular was sent to him for the men to sign, he had taken it into • his consideration whether they should sign it as it was sent to him, or whether any alteration should be made in it ; but, upon comparing it with the resolution passed at the general meeting, he found that not one word of it could be altered without going from that resolution. (Hear, hear.) Ete had statad As his men, en laying it before them, that he had always made it a rule for each man to sign it, or if he did not choose to do so, to leave his shop. (Cheers.) Out of thirty twenty-five had signed. it, and the remaining five he had discharged. They did not complain of it on the ground of tyranny, but they said they could not sign it because they had not seceded from the union. Subsequently, however, those five men came to him and expressed their willingness to sign it, and stated that they would leave the union entirely if he would allow them to come to work, upon which he took them before the other twenty_ five men, and there allowed them to sign it ; there could be no doubt, therefore, that those five men who had come into his employ had entirely withdrawn themselves from the union. He trusted that no master would employ any man that would not sign the declaration, because such as refued to do so, he was convinced, hail not receded from the union. He sincerely concurred in the report. Mr. Joint SCAFE stated that, on Saturday morning last, he had taken into his shop twenty-one men, whom he had employed by the piece, and had asked them to sign the declaration that they did not, individually or col lectively, belong to the union designated the " Na tional 'Trades' Union." They refused to do so, stating that they only belonged to a union to protect their own interests. He was going to discharge them all as soon as they finished the work in hand (Cheers), because they wanted to have it day-work, which he refused. (Cheers.) There was oue thing, however, in which he thought the committee had rather gone too far, and that was in asking the foremen or dents to sign it. (Hear. ) He rather thought that in this respect they had gone too far. (Cries of " No, no," and " Yes, yes.") H e was not able to address the last general meeting, in conse quence of ill health ; but he had stated to two or three pre sent that the grand object would be to sow the seeds of dissension among the men, and to get the good men away from the bad. He did not know much about the trade at the east end of the town, but he believed that 4,000 men could do the regu l ar trade with regard to the west end. The CHAIRMAN informed Mr. Scafe that the question was whether the report should be received and adopted, and he was afraid the speaker was going rather out of the way. Mr. Scarz said he should like to know the number of men that had signed the circular, because they would then be able to form some conclusion as to whether it was likely it would be signed by a majority of the tailors in London. The CHAIRMAN said:the moment the thing was ascer tained the meeting should have the information. The let ters were then coming in, and he hoped they would not think it was intentionally withheld. (No, no.) With re gard to what Mr. Scale had said about the committee ex ceeding their duty in inserting the words " foremen and clerzis" in the circular, he hoped th e mee ti ng wou ld g i ve the committee credit for not doing anything rashly or has tily, and without having good grounds for proceeding upon. He had himself discharged aforeman a hohad been with him for twenty years, because he had refused to sign the decla. : ration, although lie stated he did n o t b e l ong t o the trades union. He (the Chairman) was quite satisfied that it was from the quarter of the foremen much of the present mischief had proceeded. (Hear, hear.) He would state a hundred facts to prove that ; but he would just state how a respectable member of the Committee was to be treated tins morning. He had insisted upon his foreman signing the declaration; his men, to the extent of sixteen or seventeen, having signed it. The foreman refused ;he was discharged; and now the men had just sent in an inti mation that they would all go with the foreman. (Hear. ) Did they want any farthtr facts, therefore, to prove that it was from this source they were stabbed in the dark? (Loud cheers.) Unless the meeting acted firmly and resolutely in a good cause they would make themselves the laughing stock of the whole country. Mr. PLACE said he considered it was very impolitic to ask the foremen or workmen to sign the declaration, and he should therefore move as an amendment that that part of the report be expunged, as, in his opinion, it would only serve to keep alive vindictive feelings. Mr. HUNTER regretted that the communication which had been made by Mr. Leslie, had not been generally known. On Friday morning several of the men came to him from his house of call, and said that they no longer belonged to the trades' union ; but they required that the men then in his employment should be discharged, which he of course refused. (Hear, hear.) The objection the men generally had to sign the declaration was, that it might be made a legal use of against them, and that the master tailors might in future make their own terms with the men. (Hear, hear.) He heard something said about 3s. for making a pair of trowsers. He (Mr. Hunter) thought that would be a most unfair remuneration, and if a regular system was established, all parties would be benefited. (Hear, hear.) if one master paid 4s. a day, and another the full price of six shillings it was said that the man who paid liberally would suffer for the bad prices of his neighbour. He proposed that the men be re quired to sign the declaration, with the understanding that they should be paid six shillings a day, or sixpence an hour by piece work. If some security of that sort be held out to them most of the men would come forward and sign it. — The CHAIRMAN observed that that proposition had been already made to the men. Mr. Cox said most of the gentlemen had mistaken the question before the meeting. The system of the men was combination, that of the masters was free trade, and he trusted they would abide by it. If the declaration was not signed by the foremen, clerks, and all, it would be a complete nullity. (Hear.) It was absurd to say that the men were afraid that declaration would be stamped hereafter and used to their disadvantage. The committee had done themselves honour and credit by proposing it, and he was satisfied the meeting would abide by it. ( Hear.) It was impossible that such a combination for the purpose of factitiously raising the price of wages would succeed, and he begged to give the report his cordial support. Mr. JACKSON said he had been 47 years in the trade, and he could state with truth that he never evinced any disposition to oppress the men, but the contrary. He did not believe that such disposition existed among the masters. It was a matter of humanity to the men, in his opinion, to require of them to sign that declaration, for it was well known that they were robbed and plundered by a set of fellows who were leading them on under the pretence of benefiting them. The protection of the masters would enable the workmen to combat that tyranny. (Cheers. ) When he had first come into the room, he had some doubts as to the propriety of requiring the men to sign the decla ration ; but these doubts had been completely removed by what he had since heard, and he was now decidedly of opinion that all the workmen should be required to sign it. (Cheers.) He would propose that the foremen, clerks, and all, should be included, because, if these were left out, that meeting would be departing from the main principle of the arrangement which they had entered into. He thought that as the masters had come to their present determination they should strictly keep to it. Mr. CHAMBERS said that one thing had struck him particularly, and that was, whether the masters had asked the persons to whom they gave out work, and the females t wbo o th rn th eseo e n y jon employed ear whether :)Fe the ir on h s uisnbatnhdes trade had hbeeehnadmonreeveinr given convenieonoctedanby wytohrk, and allestrike than the a mennhims thatelf,as had come to him (and these within the last seven or eight days) amounted to only four. If the meeting was determined to abide by the resolution, he would propose that they should include all those persons to whom work was given out. (Hear. ) The CHAIRMAN begged to explain that the declaration embraced every person in the employment of the masters, and it was their intention to act not only up to the letter but the spirit of that declaration. (Loud cheering.) Mr. CHAMBERS was glad that explanation had been gi ven, as many of the gentlemen present did not previously Understand the resolution that had been come to. The CHAIRMAN said before any other gentlemen ad dressed the meeting, he wished to appri e them of a most important document that had just been sent to him. It was, that the men in two houses of business connected with them would sign the declaration immediately after the meeting. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") 111 r. RoataTs observed, that no man could be a more decided enemy to the trades' unions than himself. He had attended all the meetings of the masters, and had en deavoured to act up to the letter and the spirit of their resolutions. One of the resolutions recommended by the committee was, that persons who employed but few men, should endeavour to induce the men to secede from the unions and the houses of call at the old prices. (No, no.) The CHAIRMAN said Mr. Roberts was quite right. When it was found that delegates from the trades' unions attended these houses of call for the purposes of tampering with the men, it was then recommended to employ them without going to houses of call. Mr. ROBERTS resumed—Acting upon that suggestion, every one of his old men were now at work. It was true that he did not employ many, but such as he did had constant work, and had been with him for the last seven Years. He had proposed to them to leave the unions and return to their work, and having done so he did not feel himself in a situation to put the question to them of whe ther they would sign the declaration. They had returned to their work upon the old terms, and he did not think, under the circumstances, that he was justified in putting the question to them. Mr. LA NF: stated that he was precisely in the same situation with regard to his men as the last speaker. On Wednesday he sent for his men, and said he was deter mined to have them at work on Monday, to which they agreed ; and upon the suggestion of his foreman they con sented to commence work on the Thursday on the former terms. (Hear, hear.) He always paid his men by the piece ; he employed women to make waistcoats and old men to make trousers. All this he told the men, and they agreed to come to work. He therefore felt that he could not ask his men to sign the declaration ; and indeed he had not yet received any copies of the declaration which it was required of them to sign. It was here explained by one gentleman that some had been sent to Mr. Lane. The CHAIRMAN here requested that no gentleman would leave the meeting before they had come to a deci sion upon the motion, in order that it might be ascertained who supported and who opposed it, as it now became a question of the utmost importance. Mr. LANE then proceeded, and said he had come to the their them. exertions, i gave meeting prep are d to oppose th e propos iti on now b e f ore v ad e n v ery certainlygreat the w cr h e a d t it he to ha,i he c a o r m d committee for much shaken his previous determination ; but before it should have an entire effect upon him, he should wish to be satisfied that the documents, said to have been issued by the trades' union, and signed by John Brown and others, were authentic, and also whether the men generally acknowledged them. If that were the case then he thought the masters ought to adhere to the recommendations of the committee If the documents were not authentic, he for one could not call on his men to sign the declaration. That the men had seceded from the unions and from the strike was evident, from their having been employed on piecework. (Cries of " No, no.") His own men had, because they had consented to work 12 hours a day, and at piecework, which they had previously refused y to do. He was therefore bound to suppose that they had seceded from the union. His men had denied that they belonged to the trades' unions as they were called in general terms, and said that they only be longed to their own union appertaining to their own trade. He was therefore placed in a difficult position after getting his men to work on the usual terms ; all his men received 365. a week, and now all he wanted was to know if the documents to which he alluded were authentic, for he felt that the masters being united were bound to go together. Ile still had some doubts whether it was not an arbitrary act to compel the men to sign the declaration, and unless he were satisfied on the points on which he wished for in formation, he should not think of asking his men to sign it. (Cries of " Question," and " you are ton long.") He felt that he could make an agreement with his own men, but he could not undertake to satisfy eighteen thousand men. (Hear.) The CHAIRMAN said he had paid great attention to 111 1 the observations that had been made. He had felt ex tremely loth to interrupt any gentleman, because he wished that a full, fair, and free discussion of the suVect should take place. The whole of the observations of Mr. Lane resolved itself into this, viz., that he was satistiA his own men had left the trades' unions, because they had told him so. ( Hear, hear.) Now he, the Chairman, could not shut his eyes to that circumstance. He might be as desi rous as any one else to believe what his men told him; but when he found a power at work seeking for assist ance, and, also, delegates from all parts of the kingdom in favour of the trades' unions ( Hear), and that that had been the case for seven days in the month of February ; also that the same individual was then engaged to carry that object into effect, as the one who signed the order for all the men to leave the shops. He must say that he did not believe that the men had left the union. (hear, hear.) As regarded the documents and the manner in which the committee had got possession of them, that was a very unusual question to ask, and it would not not be prudent for the committee to answer it. ( Hear, hear.) There was no doubt they were authentic; if they were not it must be supposed that the committee had coined them. They had been put forward by the unions themselves, and the meeting was now to judge of their merits. (Hear.) Mr. LA NE said he was not quite satisfied with the Chairman's explanations. He had no intention of saying that the committee had coined the documents, nor did he wish to know where the committee got them, but he wanted to know whether the men supported the statements they contained, and sanctioned them. The Cu A I a:MAN said, that by the original document a sort of Pioneer was made the official organ of the Conso lidated Trades' Union, and from that official organ came an order that no man or woman in the united kingdom should sign the declaration. ( Hear, hear.) That order was signed by Douglas. Mr. AreiNsosr, of Regent-street, stated, that when he came to the meeting his feelings were opposed to the com pelling of any of the men to sign the declaration, but he confessed from what he had since heard his mind had been greatly altered. (Cheers.) He now found that no man or woman in the kingdom was to sign the declaration, and therefore he had changed his opinion. (Hear, hear.) He was a friend to liberty ; but such very extraordinary demands had been made by the unions on the master tailors that he would cordially join in carrying the resolutions of the meeting into effect. (Cheers. ) Mr. THOMPSON, of Cork-street, said, on this day month the meeting pledged their honour to support all the men who seceded from the unions, and now there was an amendment proposed, calling on them to withdraw that support. (Hear, hear.) He thought that the ingenuity of man could not have devised any plan that would tend to give more support to their enemies than that. ( Hear, hear.) More than 2,000 men he had understood had come back under that pledge of support, and the meeting could not afford it them in any better way than by sigring the declaration. All the men who chose to return to their work were therefore on an equality, and he saw no reason in the world why the men should object to sign it. The quest i on , in his opinion, did not admit of a single doubt, and if he were to vote against it, he should conceive him self to be a party to the dishonourable course which was ta ken by the trades' unions. (Cheers.) Mr. REID said that, as one of the committee, he was obliged to acknowledge that in taking that situation upon himself he was aware that he took one that was not a light one, but rather of a most onerous character. He had, how ever, been most fully supported in its duties by the kind ness and unanimity of his fellow-committeemen, and by the respect with which they had been treated by the trade generally. He was most happy to see the great attention with which the meeting had heard every former speaker, and he trusted the same favour would be ex tended to him while he addressed himself to the remarks which fell from the worthy gentleman who proposed the amendment. He had said that he was well pleased with all the proceedings of the committee, up to the time they proposed the declaration. He should have wondered if any one could have found fault, because, till that time, they had done nothing but most anxiously watch the signs of the times, and had most studiously avoided doing anything that might, in any possible way, a ggravate the ill feelings that were unhappily so widely spread among the men. The first question thathe wouldput to the meeting, through the chairman, was, Did the men, when they gave symptoms of returning to their work, do so from any apparent conviction on their part that they had acted wrong_or rather had they not merely obeyed that most strong law of nature, stern necessity? ( Cheers, and cries of " Yes, yes.") Yes, he said, it was very convenient for the men to continue to wage war against the masters so long as the supplies lasted, but as soon as those failed then they returned, and said they were willing to serve again ; but was not that easily seen through? could any one doubt that it was for their own convenience and not that of the masters ? The great difference now from former strikes was, that in the present instance the men had returned at the bidding of the council of the Consolidated Trades Union, whereas on former occasions they had come back willingly, and without the intention of merely supplying themselves with means again to strike a more secure blow. (Cries of " No, no. ) The CHAIRMAN said they ought to remember that on the last strike the men did not get their object, namely, (PRICE 7D.) double wages, on the occasion Of the cleat i of the King. Mr. REID resumed, and said the memories of some present appeared to be very short, however, he would pass that. He trusted it would not go forth to the world that the master tailors looked upon the question as one merely of a pecuniary nature ; it was upon principle they had acted, and if they went on as they had begun, they would be the glory of the metropolis. (Immense applause,) The men themselves acknowledged that they did not strike merely for more wages, but that their object was to make every thing subservient to labour ; and taking into consideration the degrading terms in which the men had offered their services, it ought also to be remembered that before the grand council of the grand consolidated union (laughter) ordered the men to go back to work upon the best terms they could make, there was a split, a great dissatisfaction in the camp, a sort of tiring of the slavery to which they had reduced themselves, therefore the matter was merely one of policy; but bearing all these things i n mind, they must see that the men were not sincere ; or, at all events, if they werei where co u ld th ere b e the slightest hesitation in signing the declaration, as well as stating the same fact by word of mouth ? He would even go further, and implore the meeting to continue firm to the test—to persevere in the declaration,—to go on in the course they had already pur sued, and then the grand council would find, that for their own benefit, as well as for that of the misguided men, they must absolve them from all connection with such bodies. It was his firm opinion that the greater part of the men had come back in a spirit of rank hypocrisy, and were acting in that way still, at the dictation of those men who had succeeded in making them so fatally their dupes. It had been asked, why put the men in such a degrading situation as so put the declaration before them after their words have been given ? • In answer, he would ask, Who was it, the masters, or the men, that struck the first blow ? —name that party, and the question was fullyanswered. He was as anxious as any one in the world, and would go as far to elevate the journeyman in the world ; but those were not the means which would have that effect. They owed a duty to themselves, for they had pledged themselves to stand firm and shake not. They also owed a duty to the men, and only by standing firm could they save them from the degrading slavery they were now under. But there was another party to whom they owed a duty,—chat was to the public. (Cheers.) They had received the support of the respectable portion of the press, merely because they had shown themselves ready to uphold the spirit of their first resolutions, and to keep their faith to the public. (Loud cheering.) It was a well known fact that the shoemakers were the next to have struck, and that they had only been prevented by the stand of the mas ter tailors; so that, as other trades were to have followed, they, by their spirited conduct, had done incalculable good. ( Cheers.) After an eulogium on the conduct of the com mittee, he concluded by imploring the meeting to continue firm, or they would lose all the advantages they had already obtained. (Great applause. ) Mr. PEMBER said tests, declarations, and oaths had been abolished in a great measure by the Legislature, and were not in good odour at the present day : therefore he called upon them not to introduce them in their trade without very serious consideration : it might only serve to keep up the dissention a longer time. He thought it would be better to leave the government to put down trades' unions. He would read an extract from the Times of that day, and beg the attention of the meeting to it. It was this : " May you not in one hour, by unwise measures, be con necting all those men into an engine of violence ?" Mr. Bxanow, in order to show the necessity of the declaration, said, that a man applied to him for work in the course of last week. He asked him if he was a unionist, he said no, and work was given him. In about two hours he received the declaration, and laid it before his men, all of whom but that man at once agreed to sign it. He then acknowledged he was a unionist ; he was ready to leave when he (Mr. B.) liked. Then, said he, that must be immediately. (Cheers.) Mr.. HOWELL proposed to alter the declaration so as to insert the word " association" in place of trades' union. It would then run, "an association having for its object to fix the price of labour otherwise than by private con tract." (Loud cries of " That is the same.") He con tended it was not, because neither master or man appeared to know what was meant by trades' unions. Mr. SMITH said the remarks of the last speaker had convinced him of the necessity of the amendment. They knew the feeling was fast dying away on Friday last, and, but for the declaration, it would altogether have disappeared. He had lost all his men, but he had got others ; and he would pause long and anxiously before he would lay such a declaration before them, for he was satisfied with them, and he owed them a debt of gratitude. Mr. G UTIIKIE said the whole merits of the case were now before the meeting ; and as amendments had been suggested, it was the duty of the committee to show upon what grounds they had proceeded. Although much hat been said, he had heard nothing that induced him to alter his opinion. When the declaration had been proposed in the committee, of which they had done him the honour of appointing him a member, he had opposed it as being hurtful to the feelings of the men, and subjecting them to a test and a degradation, which (as they were actuated by no feelings of hostility towards the men), seemed objectionable. The consideration of the subject had been adjourned to another meeting, and in conse quence of the evidence laid before the committee—the same as was laid before that meeting to-day—namely, that Mr. Browne's successor, Mr. Douglas, had given the men leave to go back to their employment, the committee had come to the resolution, that under all the circumstances they were bound to put that test to the men (Cheers), to ascertain whether they were re-lly seceders from the union, or only unionists in disguise. An application had been made to him on Saturday, to know if he wanted hands, and he understood from a very intelligent person that Browne had acted basely towards the men, that they had been deceived, but that there was a deter mination on their part that when next they struck they would have the masters disunited, and the trades' unions united, and that the producers of wealth wouldpropose such laws as would be advantageous to themselves, and make the whole nation glad to accede to them. That was a fair representation of the circumstances in which they stood. If any proof was wanting that the unions were not yet at an end it was this, that last Saturday night they had not a farthing to pay the unionists, and that in consequence of numbers of those who were discharged having again obtained employment and contributed, their funds had again revived. A gentleman had observed that tests were out of fashion, but the meeting was misled by the general allusion to those religious tests which in the political world had excited so much disapprobation. But there could be no objection to the test of a man's honesty, when two men struck their hands to a bargain. There could be no objection to put their signatures and seals to it. He thought when the men only got leave to work for the purpose of contributing funds to the union, the committee had a right to consider that a deception had been practised, and to require them to sign the declaration. The first resolution to which the masters had come was, that no man should be employed who did not secede from the union. All the masters had signed their names to that resolution, and by their firmness one object was obtained. It was the duty of the committee to try and attain the other, and prevent the men from obtaining funds for a future strike. It was plain that though the strike was at an end the union was not, and the committee would have been false to their trust if they had not secured the trade from the imposition attempted to be practised on them. A gentleman had objected to the masters taking up this question, and thought that it should have been left to the Legislature ; but that gentleman took a wrong view of it. It was entirely a question between the employers and employed, with which the Legislature could not interfere. With respect to the amendment which had been proposed, he would beg to remind the meeting, that they had all set their names to a declaration of which the present was little more than a transcript. If the masters had thought it an honour to be allowed to put their names to that declaration, why should they now flinch from following it up? e (Mr. Guthrie) had been at first against putting any test to the men, but he had been convinced by the arguments brought forward, and by the acts of the trades' unionists. He who refused to put that test to his men would betray himself, and would stand in the situation of a beaten party over whom the men had, in fact, triumphed, for the point the men cherished was the maintenance of the union. In conclusion, he would call on the masters, one and all, to insist on all in their employment signing the declaration, without reservation. (Mr. Guthrie sat down amidst very great applause. ) Mr. SPRAGUE, of Bond-street, observed that the mas ters had been charged with tyranny towards the men; but, on the contrary, they had always acted in the most friendly manner. He would ask the gentleman who pro posed the amendment, what situation would they be placed in if the workmen carried their point. What, he would ask, could 1,400 men do against 14,000? He was con vinced that the committee had not one dissentient voice among them as to the propriety of putting that test to the workmen. The CHAIRMAN said the articles alluded to by Mr. Pember in the Times of that morning was a political one, and related to a discussion in the Cabinet. (Laughter.) Mr. WAINWRIGHT said that, least the amendment of Mr. Hunter should fall to the ground for want of a seconder, he would second it. ( Loud cries of " Question.") Mr. STU LTZ said the question was, let the men sign the declaration lie held in his hand, and then they -would ob tain employment. (Cheers and laughter. ) Mr. HOUSLEY trusted the meeting would adhere to 3 3 d• 51 g a" 4 2 0 0 orio_, 3 --- 0 a nd lid. 1 8 )) 41' ste t ' , 1 8 t; 1 I 6 1 6 ....- 5 . d. 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