The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-04 00:00:00

THS DISPUTE IN THE BUILDING TRADE.

The adjourned meeting of the operative oar.
pesters and joiners of Wolverhampton and its locality was
held at the Nosh. Ark lan, Lichfield-street, oa Friday
amnia& aad wee Winded by upwards of 140 inembers.
Several operatives from Birmingham were also present.
Mr. Humphries again presided, and in a tenable addrees
urged upon the meeting the necessity of theorise upon the
queens of the "discharge noes" in a peaceful but doter-
mined man ner. —Me. Davies moved the following I evolution
" That the operative ea/pesters and Johnnie! Wolverhamp-
ton and ler locality cannot view without deep helloes of
regret thereures pursued by the Aseociated Master Beldam
in so aosoarteously and indefinitely replying to their seen.
ontaisallea of the 24th instant, and that this meeting, duly
eansidering the vague mid unsatisfactory tamer of Mr.
Hoary Lovatt's reply on behalf of the before-named
Associated Master Builder, do emphatically repudiate the
same, as laving • teedeucy to irritate and inflame genii-
meats of aetagenism and resistance upon the part of the
operatives, which • more conciliatory style said teaonr epee
the Part of the Amociated Raster Builders may possibly
have prevented." Mr. Bonier mondial the remilutioo,
which was unanimously carried. The next resolution was,
" Thai this meeting, having duly eoesidered the quinine
of the 'discharge rate' in aU its bearing., pledges ilesU
never to acknowledge. directly or {Windily, any snob
document." The meeting was then addressed by several
speakers, who dwelt very forcibly upon the attitude
umlaut by the Associated Master Builders is legume
such a document as the discharge note, and it being
wondered that some definite sours, of action should
be adopted by the operatives relative to commencing
work on the first Monday in the new year without acceptiag
the principle laid down in the discharge note, or of pe-
sooally thsisiedves, the following resolution was
unanimously passed :—" That this meeting having resolved
to diamuntenaneo the discharge note, sad acting upon the
principle laid down at the meeting holden on the 24th
inst., that the notice issued by the Wolverhampthe ems.
ten ie quite illegal, being in vmlatiou of Trade Rule No. 7,
and having, by former resolution, determined never to air
knowledge the mans, is of opinion that the question
at issue, so far IN the Wolverhampton masters (or the
operatives employed by them) is renowned, reunite
In abeyance, and that in consequence of the informality
of the notice invited by the masters no operative can
compromise himself or the cause by annunecing his
empleymeot as usual upon the first Monday in the yew
year. Au animated discussion ensued se to several features
of the discharge note, which ended in its entire and general
coocteeteatioa. A subscription was =Wed into for defray-
ing the committee's expenses, when it was suggested by the
member of the Operative Trade Society, that the amount
naiad should be forwarded to the operatives on strike at
Birmingham, the society undertaking to defray every ex-
panse attending the unicnittee's mutts,. This was agreed
to ; • proposition at the same time being carried, to the
aged that weekly contributions be entered into amain the
operatives of Wolverhampton to aid their brethren on strike
si Birmingham. It eau Cosily agreed that the meeting should
dead further adjourned until this (Wednesday) evening.—
BininagAuni Daily Post.

THE CONDEMNED CRIMINALS IN KIISKDALS GAOL.
—ltieserrs or ELL= Giuttx.—ln the con of Ellis Gamy
who was convicted at the last assize* of the murder d We
sister-in-law, sod who wee seatenced to death, the Secretory
ol Stab for the Home Degarunent has thought fit to ree
command that her Menety's royal prerogative of mercy
should be exercised on hie behalf, and as usual in similar
cane, the capital notate, will be commuted to penal servi-
tude for We. The algid intimation of the reprieve was
forwarded to the governor of Kirkdale Gaol last evening,
from the Homo-Win. With regard to the case of the other
wretched maw Brown, whose companion in guilt, Linden,
has been already respited. Sir Giorgio Grey has not, up to
the present time, exercised his of authority to interfere
with the sentence being carried into offset as appointed by
the Sheriff, and the miserable wretch will, therefore, be
executed so Saturday next, at 12 o'clock.
A DARINO Font:Ex.—A series of the most auda-
cious swindlas are being practised by • man of prepossessing
appearance and gentlemanly addresobwho was last seen in
Rakish:ea on Thursday afternoon. He arrived at the bank
of Messrs. Readmit!, Wigait, Mercer, and Co., in a fiy, and
coolly requested to have as interview with Mr. Headed!,
and introduced himself as Mr. T. R. Aston. Re ropreseuted
himself es having come to reside in Maidstone, and being
about to purchase a large amount of property io the neigh-
bourhood, he was desirous of opening an account with the
firm. He presented and•elnew a cheque on the Mono Dis-
trict Hocking Company for 1,5001., and purchased a bask-
ing book. The cheque was In due course sent off to Bil-
den, and on the following morning Mr. Randall received •
reply that it was forged. Information was given to Mr.
Soperhateadent Barnes, who commuoicated with Captain
Sonny., superintendent of the Wolverhamptoe police
force, who replied that from the description received he had
no doubt that he was the same man who in I$G3 was re-
ported as having obtained the signature of a reverend gentle-
man to a cheque for 2,000/. on the Ralston Bank, by false
representation and representing himself as " Mr. WiCke....
At that time he received 404 from another gentleman on a
forged cheque. Mr. Randall said he, too, thought it was
the same person. It has been ascertained that the sense
day the man °Waited a cheque book at Granseed. Trades-
men an cautioned against this man, who is described as five
feet four or five inches in height, gentlemanly and prepos-
sessing ie appearance, arid having prominent teeth.—.Dead-
done Journal.
TRH LAW or COMPENSATION.—Yesterday, at the
Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion-equare, before Mr. Humphreys,
the coroner, and a special jury, in a auu, " &ekes v.
the Metropolitan Railway Company,' the law of compen-
sation formed a feature in the inquiry which occupied
several hours. Mr. Day, as counsel for the claimant, who
had kept a coffee-hone at 151, Prsed•street, claimed 3501.
for loans sustained through the works of the company.
Seams had bean an omnibus driver, and, having been left a
legacy, be paid 130/. in October, 1 '4lO, to take the coffee-
honor, and he sold it is &year for 701. The road was opened
by the company in Deoember, 1660, and continued open
until the following April. The case on the part of Sachem
was that the busions had fallen off. The house had been
used by omnibus driven and conductor.. The Citizen omni-
buses were removed to the King mad Queen. Mr. Lloyd
(with whom was Mr. Hallway) said the law on
compensation was in such en unsettled state, sod under the
otheffieratioe of the courts, that the Metropolitan Railway
was bound to resiA such applications. It was an extraordi-
nary ease, seeing that it was made more than four years
after the alleged loss, and, me doubt, he had been urgod to
make the claim. It was a cue for a small compensation.
The jury awarded 431.
A PRIZE Ftc.HT PREVENTED.—The contest for
the chiunpionahip of the prize ring and 4001., to which the
patrons of the so-called noble art have been looking for
some weeks past, came to an untimely end yesterday morn-
ing. Difficulties were thrown in the way of the promoters
of the tight at every step, sot the least of them being that
the raiders) companies, to their credit, peremptorily re-
fused them the privilege of a special train. The choice of
a situation under such circumstances was a matter of de-
liberation : but it was agreed that the battle should be
fought on a secluded spot between Cheddington and Ayles-
bury. There is • juDetiou line at heddington, and it wee
thought that by leaving the main line and taking advan-
tage of the junction, the vigilance of tho police might be
thwarted. Late on Monday evening it was arranged that
those wLo desired to attend the fight must avail themselves
of the ordivary train from Euston station, and accordingly
at G. 30 yesterday morning a considerable number of parsons
who took an interest io the contest were at the station, hut
by no means as many s have patronised such fights in the
last three or four yearn. A few additional carriages provided
ample aceommodation for all who proposed to go duvet, the
line. it was nearly seven o'clock when the train started,
sad it eve through to Cheddington without any incident
worthy of especial notice. Proceeding along the juuction
line the party emit in the direction of Aylesbury, and near
to a place called Marston they pitched their tent. The
Buckinghamshire police, as well as a detachment from Bed-
fordshire, into which county it was at first supposed the
fighting party intended to make an incursion, were pre-
pared to receive them, and were upon them before the pre-
liminary arrangements for the contest could be completed.
The police were strong and the fighting party were weak,
and as there was no charms of obtaining another place to
fight the battle that day, it was postponed.
DISTURBING A CONGREc ATION.—At the Wigan
borough polioe-court, on Thursday, a young Irishman named
Francis Gaynor was brought up in custody on the charge of
disturbing the clergyman and congregation assembled for
divine service at the parish church, on Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Mayhew appeared in support of the complaint. Joseph
Turner, verger, said the defendant presented himself at the
church door shortly before the service began, said was shown
to a sett in the Mavor'a gallery. He remained seated quietly
until the Psalms were being read, when he root, walked to
the door, sod thee, turning about, shouted in a von* that
weld be heard all over the edifice, " (lo to— with you all."
He went out, but was followed by the verger, who detained
hire until two policemen arrived and took him off to the
lock-up. He appeared to have been drinking, but was sober
enough to know what he WAS about. In reply to Mr. Mayhew
defendant said he was a Leman catholic. Mr. Mayhew—l
suspected so : anal that makes the matter worse. Calked,
an officer, said that on the way to the lock-up Gaynor re-
marked that it rather touched his feelings to lied himself in
apiece like that (the church).—Deciaion as to the penalty
under "the statute in such cases made and provided
occupied the court a considerable time, the very severe one
in the Act 1 Mary being the only one found to apply,
namely, three months' imprisonment, without bail or main.
prise, sod afterwards appeanuice at the omits of quarter
sessions, there to give one surety of the peace for good be-
haviour during a year. This sentence was passed, but the
beech decided to meet again at three u'elock in the after-
noon, the el.rk io the meantime to "search the statutes."
in order to lee if there were powers of mitigation. Prisoner
declared that he hail not been actuated by any religious
animus, trot was so drunk that be did not know what be
was doing. At three o'clock defendant was again brought
up, when it was reed by the cloak that the statute of Vie.
mitigated the punishment to a penalty not exceeding 5/.,
or two months' imprisonment, and the bench reduced the
term to 21 days.
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