The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-03 00:00:00

THE ABUSES OP TRADES UNION).

THE PROPOSED FOREIGN CATTLE MARKET.

A meeting of landowner*, farmers, graziers,
butchers, and others interested in the home settle trade,
was convened yesterday afternoon by the House Cattle
Defence Association, at the &Rebury Hotel, Salisbury-
square, " to express the satisfaction which those interested
in the home cattle trade have felt in the announcement of
the intention of the government to apply to parliament
for powers to separate the home from the foreign cattle, by
establishing for the latter exclusively • market at the
place of debarkation, by which means alone the public
will be able to purchase in the metropolitan market the
animals required for home consumption." The chair was
taken by lir. JOHN CLAYDEN; and among those present WWI
Mr. Commas, M.P., Mr. C. S. Read, ILP., Mr. &RA*
Ibbetion, ALP., Mr. Surtees, ALP., Mr. More, H.P., Mr.
Harvey, M.P., Mr. J. Waller (secretary), Mr. Ashton,
(Market Harborough), Mr. Weill (Pinner), Mr. Leeds
(West Perham), Mr. Welch (Southall), Mr. Hoyland
(Ashstead), Mr. page (Kingston), Mr. Conmeve (Rugby).
Mr. Biggs (Cublulgtonl, Mr. Denchfield (Aylesbury),
Messrs. Willcox, sen. and jun. (Kingston), Mr. Curtis
11: ingriown), Mr. Luxten (Tarnham-green), Brichin
Dorking), Mr. Howe (Hampten), Mr. Sherborn (Bedford),
r. Ward (Leicester), Mr. Theme (Turnhaut-green), Mr. ,
Radcliff (Hillinghan), Mr. Hill (Southall), Mr. G. Withers
(Guildford), Messrs. Liutet Sharp, and Mullion (Brighton).
The CHAIRMAN said this question wan as important to
consumers as to those who were engaged in the cattle
trade. The association was formed for the purpose el
keeping foreign cattle as mush as possible by themselves,
so as to leave English cattle free. The advantage of such
separation and freedom was seen is the case of Ireland,
where the exclusion of foreign animals had kept out the
cattle plague and led to a peat improvement of native
herds. He thought the amialratia Lase= draiW.
be held on Monday as at present ; while the foreign mar-
ket might take place on Wednesday. (A Voice : "Tues-
day.") In his opinion one day should intervene. He was
confident that on this question they would be safe in the
hands of the members of the House of Commons and of
Englishmen generally. (Cheers.)
Mr. CORRANCI, ALP., moved the first resolution, viz.:—
"That this meeting records its sense of the serious less
and inconvenience still sustained by the home cattle trade,
which they feel must continue so long as home and foreign
stock are allowed to be sold in the same market." The
hon. gentleman referred to the ease/entire and pro.
gremlin) steps which have been taken by the association ,
since August last in furtherance of its objects. It might
seem that they had been rather tardy in obtaining •
recognition of their claims by the government •
but it should be remembered that they had been oppose i
by the united efforts of a class of persons whose powers
of obstruction were very great •• and no power less than
that of the government could have embraced in one
measure such matters as were included in the resolutions
now to be submitted. They had at length arrived at •
very satisfactory position ; and though the public might
be threatened with having beef at 2s. per lb., he had no
doubt it would be perceived that the opposition arose
solely from meted interest'. He hoped that the govern-
ment bill would be received with confidence by those
whom the association represented.
Mr. J. Peox, in seconding the resolution, dwelt on the
great difficulty at present of getting a supply of meat at
Croydon, Gravesend, Brighton, and other towns near Lon-
don, adding that to remove restrictions without at the
same time taking due precautions would have been to
revive and possibly surpass past calamities. The 'widest
opponentaof the associationweretheCorporationof London ;
but surely the fact that, independently of cattle plague,
100,000 animals had annually fallen victims to contagioas
diseases imported from abroad must have opened the eyes
of the government to the necessity of • change. The cor-
poration had recognised that amenity by offering to
make alterations in their market, which, how-
ever, if carried out could not prevent contagion.
Where the haute even landed there must be a separate
market for Qom ; and whatever inconveniences might
thus arise to individual interests, they woald be counter-
balanced by the public advantage. Meat which was hur-
ried from the infected hold of a foreign vessel could not but
be prejudicial to the public health. All the butchers of any
standing with whom he had conversed on the subject were
in favour of having a separate market for foreign cattle.
The resolution was then put and carried.
Mr. Face, of Gravesend, moved the following resolu-
tion :—" That this meeting desires to express its satisfac-
tion at the announcement of the intention of the govern-
ment to bring in a bill to establish in theport of London a
waterside market for the sale sad slaughter of foreign
cattle." He would like to know whether if a bill passed
there would be a prospect of their being able to get the
home cattle home.

The Jurisprudence Committee of the National
Association for the Promotion of Social Science held a
meeting et the Society's Booms, Adelphi, last eight,
to discuss the best measures for putting an end to the
abuses of trades unions. Mr. OVEREND, Q.C., was in the
chair.

An exhaustive paper on the subject wax read by Mr.
Festinate HILL (of the General Post-office).
The CHAIRMAN said that, although daring his examina-
tions at Sheffield he had men a good deal of the abuses of
trades unions, he was not blind to • good many of their
advantages. Of course, any man had a right to say at
what price he would all his labour, and it was quite
legitimate for a number of man to join together to say
under what eirounsmanees they would do se. But, enter-
tunamly, trades unions did not atop there, bat went ea to
exercise compulsion upon non.unionista. The trades
unionists declared that, as they were not recognised by
law, they had to make laws for themselves, and the ten-
dency then was to exercise might instead of right. Ono
of the greatest evils of trades unions was their being en-
grafted on friendlysocieties,formany leen would sever have
ioined them at all, if they had not been speciously indorsed.
to do so on the supposition that they would get minething
for their old age or sickness. It would be a eery desirable
thing if the combination of friendly societies and train
unions could be prevented. He feared if the latter re-
mained in the same position as they were in at
present, aismoogatied by the law, the tendency must in•
suitably be to resort to crime to enforce their own laws..
This could not, of course, be tolerated in a civilised emir
try, sod the societies must be either legalised, or strong
remedial measures adopted. The great difli:alty Is..
law, ba t
washing leedososistryeempemeible was • sett -sif• a the imposubik of getting getting evidence to peeve. ••-••
offences. Although thousands of rounds were oilseed in
Sheffield for the apprehension of offenders nothing could
be discovered until the commissioners went down effeiuig
immunity from crime. Without that the inquiry would
have been the greatest failure in the world. A pubic pro-
secutor might be a very useful instrument, but an
injured person should still be allowed his own power
of getting a remedy. The present law was sufficient to
put down illegal combinations, but evidence could not be
got. He believed working men were exceedingly igno-
rant of the working of trades unions, and that much good
would be done by giving them full information, so that -
they might see both sides of the eebject. Government •
auditors he regarded as an excellent plan, because under •
their operation nearly every union society would soon
become bankrupt. He thought co-operation and courts of
conciliation good things ' • and his own belief was, that the
working men acted more from ignorance than malice, and
that public opinion was, after all the great power that
would destroy trade unionism. He repeated his musk-
tion that the law was quite strong enough, but that we
utterly failed in applying it in consequence of inability to
procure evidence. (Cheers.)
The meeting separated after a vote of Winks te the
chairman.

THE FENIAN DEMONSTRATION AT CORK.

The Cork correspondent of the Freeman's Journal,
writing on Sunday evening, mays " To-day there was
witnessed in this city one of the most remarkable demon-
strations that has ever taken place in Ireland. Immense
and impressive as was that which took place in your city a
few years since, when the remain. of Terence Bellew
fil`Manus were had in the cemetery at Glasnevin, to-day's
demonstration was far in excess—far more remarkable, and. •
far more signifloant as the spontaneous offering of sym-
pathy of the people of this, the southern metropolis.
of the island, for the fate of the three unfortunate•
men who expiated their mistaken love of country
on the gallows at Manchester on Saturday week.
Though between forty and fifty thousand people took
part in to-day's funeral procession, there was no.
violation of the law. Order and propriety characterised,
the entire proceedings, while the appearance, as well am
the demeanorr, am who constituted the procession.
forbid the habitual sneerer. at the people from describing.
the immense gathering ea " a mob.- It was no " mob
meas." It was essentially a demonstration of the people..
properly so called ; and though the prudence of such dn.
exhibition of sympathy may be questioned, none who..
viewed and oontem it will deny that in its regs-.
lazity and ree • "ty it was creditable to those who
organised and participated in it. Shortly after
tee o'clock the procemicu commenced to neve.
It started from the Mercy HoepitaL It was headed
t odisize, hundreds of the pupils of the Christian
artheol•—the children, no doubt, of many
of the Ines and women who fell in other parts. Then.
came &beat cue thousand five hundred of the trades of
Cork, reepeotable and matured men. These were followed.
by a large number of females attired in green apriblack,
who were immediately followed by about 3,000 young .
men, evidently belonging to the middle class of Cork's
citizens—they wore crape tied with green bows ea
their hats. Their orderly and precise march was the
theme of comment in the vast throngs which lined the foot-
paths of the streets. Next Game the hearse. It was drawn
by six homes, and covered with white linen, on which were
inscribed the names of the three men in sympathy for
whose hard fate this truly extraordinary demonatrution was
made. The hearse contained no coffin. It was followed by.
at least seven hands, which played the " Dead March,'
and " Adeate Fidel..," while the solemn procession wound
its way through the city. Thousands of those who lined
the route, sad who might be designated as spectators, also
displayed crape. The procession, impressive in its order
and character, and truly immense in its extent and
numbers, passed from Henry-street, through Duncan-
street, Great George's-etreet, the North Main-street, den,
Pope's quay. down Patrick-street, the Parade, the South
Mall,
ugt Anglesesestreet, through Summer-bill, and
reaced . Joseph's Cemetery at half.past five. Here the
scene became most impressive. The day was wild and
unusually dark, and in that beautiful " City of
the Dead " the mat coneourse crowded round the grave of
him who was their nal friend and Moe benefactor. The
grave cf Father Mathew was in fact, the plat(' rm from
which a short and pointed address was delivered to that
dense assemblage. At this sacred spot prayers were read
for the executed, and the voices of thousands gave the re-
apogees. At the conclusion of this ceremony a person
named M'Clowniy spoke a few sentences to the multitude.
He thanked them on the part of the committee for
the decorum which had marked the proceedings—a de-
oorum which arose from the fact that all felt engaged in a
most solemn and religious act. That acts as to honour
the memory of the three mem who had been hanged at.
Manchester. This sentence elicited a series of groans, after
which the speaker continued to say such expressions of
feeling were neither honourable to the dead nor creditable to
the living. He requested that peace and order would chum-
tense the conclusion of the proceedings as they had marked
their course throughout the day. They would, he trusted, re-
turn home quietly, and frequent no public-houses. Thom
with whom they all sympathised had innocently suffered
and died gloriously for the cause of their country. They
bad passed to • better place, bat those whom they left
behind would honour and revere their ashes, though their
remains were interred within jail walls and mixed
with lime. At this sentence that peculiarly plaintive
cry known as " Keening" was given vent to by
i all present—the women particularly distinguishing them-
selves by the fervour of their lamentation. The place, a
graveyard, the time, six o'clock of a dark December even-
Afiterthibeess
ing, and the occasion of the gathering, rendered this wild
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can sneer. It is the solemn offering of an entire people.
The whole country participates in our act.
just God above will right all things yet." The
vast throng then quietly left, returning home,
as some thought, ominously silent. Though neither con-
stabulary nor military were to be seen during the day, it
was understood that they were ready at a moment's notice
for action if called upon. It is stated that the gentry
from various parts of the country are docking into the
city. Prayers were offered to-day in all the chapels for
the three men executed. Ali the public-houses
were closed early on Saturday night, and will
not be open until late on Monday morning. It
is understood here that the resident magistrate
has applied for • colleague. It is also stated that the War
Department in London and the authorities in Dublin were
in hourly communication with the military here. Some
say there were four clergymen prevent in the graveyard.
Others assert there were none. I saw none. The proces-
sion which was to hare taken place in Kanterk to-day is
postponed until Monday, when there will be a solemn re-
quiem mass for the executed men.

The CHAlRMAN—Undoubtedly. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Fnumn, of Dorking, seconded the resolution, which
was agreed to.
Mr. HOTLAND, of Asheteed, moved the following resolu-
tion :—" That in the belief of this meeting this measure,
by preventing the re-introduction of cattle plague, pleuro-
neumonia, and other imported diseases, will greatly
stimulate the production of home-bred animals."
Mr. Wawa, of Southall, in seconding the resolution,
observed that, while the idea of protection was abandoned,
that was no reason why foreign disease should be allowed
to circulate in this country.
The resolution was put and carried.
Mr. CONGREVP., of Rugby, moved the following reso-
lution :—" That in the opinion of this meeting the word
• stock' should be substituted in the government bill for
• cattle," so as to include foreign sheep, whether they come
in vessels by themselves, or with cattle." He said what-
ever dispute there might be as to whether sheep could be
infected with cattle plague, there could be no doubt that
sheep might diffuse cattle plague and other diseases.
Mr. C. S. RIAD, M.P. in seconding the resolution,
dwelt strongly on the necessity of including sheep in the
operation of the government measure.
On the motion of Mr. J. ASHTON, of Market-Harboroogh,
seconded by Mr. Camels, of Twickenham, it was re-
solved :—" That it is the conviction of this meeting that
the establishment of a separate market, by the saving of
charges, despatch in business, and the avoidance of depre-
ciation in animals, would prove most advantageous to the
importers, and thus encourage increased supplies."
following resolution was next agreed to:—" That
copies of these resolutions be forwarded to the members of
the government and the Lords of the Council, and that
members of parliament be rospeotfully requested to wait
upon the Rgf t Hoe. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to
represent the views of this meeting on the important sub-
ject dimetuwed by it."
Mr. Burma, M.P., in supporting this resolution, said
in hie opinion foreign store stock ought to be subjected! to
three weeks' qquarantine.
The prooeedioga terminated with a vote of thanks to the
chairman.

BRANDT TOR CHILDREN.—The following facts,
observed by Dr. Gingeot at the HOpital des Enfants
Malades, and borrowed from an able article in Dr. Caffe's
Journal des Connaisoaricet Mediates, will be read with in-
terest, as being a confirmation of Dr. Todd's ViCitt of the
advantages to be derived from the administration of
alcohol to children in certain cases. Dr. Gingeot used
this agent under the form of brandy at 50 degs. of Gay-
Luau's ammeter, and diluted with a solution of gum
and sugar, or else simply with sugar and water. In this
manner he treated eight eases of pneumonia, one only of
which ended fatally, in children of the ages of 2,3, 1;, 9,
13, and 14 ; one ease of typhus fever, ending in recovery,
In a child of 10; two pulmonary tuberculiantions,
consequent upon whooping-Dough, both ending in
death ; one capillary bronchitis also a consequence
of whooping cough, and which' likewise terminated
fatally ; and, lastly, two severe cases of measles, one of
which was followed by recovery. So small a number of
cases cannot, of course, serve as a criterion for judging de-
finitively of the efficacy of alcohol ; but Dr. Gingeot's
object chiefly was to ascertain by observation the physiolo-
gical and theraputio effects of that agent, and the follow-
ing were the results :-1. Alcohol never caused any serious
disturbance in the digestive functions ; appetite was often
excited; the tongue and mouth moistened or deterged. 2.
One of the most frequent effects caused by alcohol was a fall
of the pulse; this was observed three times in the case
of typhus fever above alluded to. On the other hand,
the weakness of the pulse was also corrected by adminis-
tering brandy. Again, on several occasions, the tempera-
ture of the body was lowered ; but it did not necessarily
follow that the pulse slackened ; at times the pulse
quickened while the temperature fell, and at others the
contrary was the case. Most frequently, but not always,
respiration was retarded. 3. Headache, want of sleep,
restlemeese and delirium were very efflchionsly got under
by brandy, ;ad in no case did this agent cause any. Stupor
and singing in the ears were likewise removed ; so also
sudden starts. Not the slightest sign of drunkenness or
subsequent prostration was ever observed, and generally
the treatment seemed to exercise a favourable influence
on the petient's strength and on the period of oonva- FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. —Yesterday information
leemence.—Galigneti. was forwarded to Mr. W. Carter, coroner, of the death, in
St. Thomas's Hosp , ,27,
ital of James Bradshaw, aged of
SOUTH KRNSINGTON MI3BEI7M. —Visitolll during
Rutland-street, South Lambeth, engineer's labourer. The
the week ending Nov. 30, 1867:—0n Monday, Tuesday, deceased was employed at the London and South Western
and Saturday (free), from 10 mat, till 10 p.m., 6,930 • on
Railway Company's works at Nine Elms, and on Saturday
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (admlmion 6d.), iron evening last, shortly before six o'clock, was engaged in
10 am. till 4 p.m., 1,313 ; total, 8,243 ; average of cor- putting the band round the driving wheel, when he slipped,
respcnding week in former years, 8,069 ; total from the was drawn in, and carried round the shaft during at
opening of the museum, 7.087,664. least 150 revolutions, by which his limbs were nearly torn
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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3.

LONDON is threatened with a serious nuisance
in the temporary loss of its cabs. It is well
known that for weeks past the owners and
drivers of these vehicles have held frequert
consultations respecting the new rules which the
police authorities have framed under the Metro-
politan Streets Act. Now that the time has come
for enforcing those regulations, the parties whom
they immediately affect are meeting them with a
determined resistance. A committee of proprie-
tors is organizing the opposition, and has sum-
moned a meeting for this evening at Exeter-hall,
with the intimation that " all drivers are
" requested to be at home by four o'clock,"
so that after that hour for all but pedestrians the
choice will practically lie between au omnibus and
a brougham hired from a yard. It is intimated that
should the police authorities not give way the cabs
are to be withdrawn every day at four o'clock until
the end of the year. It may be soon enough to
look this inconvenience in the face when it be-
comes a reality, and by that time it may not prove
so great as it seems. In such a case the theatres,
which it is understood are not just now doing very
well, would, no doubt, have a few more boxes
empty, and travellers arriving in town by rail would
be put to their shifts unless the companies should
come to their aid. Residents in London, however,
would be able with a little foresight and manage-
ment to provide for their more urgent wants by
special hirings, and beyond this, the loss would
not be greater than we could bear for a while.
There is nothing very inviting in this December
weather, and our matrons and daughters may find
that they are happier and safer at home on these
dark, cold nights, than in traversing the long,
draughty passages, or waiting in the lobbies of
places of public entertainment. It appears that
the final resolutions of the cab proprietors are not
taken, and it may happen that after all some
means will be found of adjusting the dis-
pute without deranging the machinery of locomo-
tion for sixteen hours out of the twenty-
four. If not, the public, which has hitherto
remained a neutral spectator of Sir RICHARD
MAYNE'S controversy with the cabmen, will in-
quire for itself why they in particular should be
disgusted with their occupation. If we shored
lose the accommodation of our cabs, such as it
is, for a while, it will be as well to remember that
although, for the sake of convenience, we may
speak of their withdrawal as a " strike," it has
little or no resemblance to the movements we
have been accustomed to associate with that
name. Neither owners nor drivers have shown
themselves indisposed to continue to serve the
public on the old terms. It is Sir RICHARD
MAYNE who innovates, by requiring them to give
more than they have hitherto done in return for
the fares, the rates of which are fixed by Act of
Parliament. The most obnoxious of the new
police requirements is that of a lamp, which
is to be provided, properly trimmed and lighted,
during such time between sunset and sunrise as
the Commissioners of Police may appoint. This
does not seem much to ask—at any rate not suf-
ficient justification for a strike. Nor if the cab
trade were really healthy and prosperous would it
be likely to cause one. Under such circumstances

a factitious agitation, followed bye suspension _—
of
service, would soon bring into the field a number
of competitors for the profits of trade, and the evil
would find easy and natural redress. The case,
however, is otherwise : the cab trade, carried on
under the restrictions of the FITZROY Act, is
notoriously not profitable. Men of enterprise
and capital shun it, and the conaequenoe is
what we all see and know. Sir RICHARD MATHS
is a very able and zealous public officer, with
an unbounded faith in the power of regulation.
Be has been at his present work many years, and
we frankly admit that if any amount of super-
vision and restriction could have effected the objec.
we should all have had by this time the opportu-
nity of riding in the prettiest and easiest of
broughams for sixpence a mile. But, as sure as
water finds its level, the quality of an article in
this City will adjust itself to the price ready to be
paid for it. No police authority has hitherto
discovered a way of making men carry on busi-
ness without profit. We know what ten years of
legislation have brought us to—a cab service the
worst of any city in the world. Perhaps before
the present dispute is ended we may be brought to
see the wisdom of letting skill and capital try what
they can do for us in a state of freedom.

THE Drnr-sv Or Less CONVISSIOL—The Com-
missioners now propose, with the authosityof her Majesty's
government, to proceed with the preparation of specimen
digests of certain portions of the law. The subjects they
have selected for this purpose are the following:-1. Bills
of excbrn;e. including promissory notea, beak notes, and
checks; 2. Mortgage, including lien; 3 Rights of way,
water, and light, and other easements and servitudes. The
commissioners are desirous to obtain for this undertaking
the co-operation of the bar, and they accordingly
propose to intrust the preparation of a specimen Digest of
the Law under each of these beads to a gentleman
of the bar, to be selected by them, with liberty to him to
associate with himself another member of the bar to be
nominated by him and approved by the commissioners.
The gentlemen selected will be required to execute the
several specimens in conformity with the views expressed
In the commissioner,' first report, and their work will be
subject to the general superintendence of the commissioners.
The specimens when completed, and approved by the com-
missioners. will be reported to her Majesty, with the names
of the gentlemen by whom they here been ezeanted.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES&
(THIS DAY.)