The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-25 00:00:00

THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY AND SENATOR

WADE.

In his speech in the House of Lords on Tuesday
evening the Earl of Shaftesbury attached some importance
to a speech, which he stated had been delivered in the
United States by Senator Wade, and on which his lordship
relied to prove that communism is taking root in America
The noble earl could not have seen the following letter
from the Senator referred to:

" Jefferson, Ohio, June 27, 1867.

" Editor! Misoouri bowerat.

Dear Sire,—l notice in your paper of the 23th inst. an
article on the remarks I made at Lewrenoe, Kansas, which
have been so severely criticised by several papers, com-
mencing with the MID York Times, com meeting upon •
letter of its correspondent who was with the party, and
who furnished an abstract of the speech. There was no
stenographer present, and no one attempted to report the
speech literally; and while ! cannot pretend to give the pre-
cise words I used on that occasion, I am perfectly sure that
I said nothing about the division of property, of the un-
equal distribution of it, or even that it might be remedied
by legislation. I did speak of the immense advance that
science had made in labour-saving machinery within the
last half-century, and the power that man had acquired
over the material elements in that time, so that the labour
of one man would now produce more of things useful than
many could previous to that time ; yet I was unable
to see that those improvements had bettered the con-
dition of the labourer ; that this state of things was
wrong and must be remedied. I also remarked that
the inadequacy of the compensation of labour was
creating an uneasiness and restlessness among labourers
everywhere, as manifested by strikes, by endeavours to
limit the hours of labours, and a thousand other indica-
tions which led me to believe that the question must be
met, and that the man who should discover and be able to
apply • remedy for these great evils would be the greatest
benefactor of mankind since the time of Christ, &c. ; but
I did not attempt in that speech to point out in what the
remedy should consist. In short, your editorial his caught
the spirit of what I intended to say, and believe I did say,
much nearer than was done by the correspondent of the
Times, who, it seems to me, entirely mistook what I said on
that occasion. Several senators were present, and not one
of them that I have consulted understood me in the way I
was reported by that correspondent.—Yours, with respect,
B. F. WADY.

Mr. Taylor, on Tuesday, will call attention to
the decision of a Cornish magistrate sentencing six persona
to imprisonment for trespassing off a path through a wood ;
and to move, " That in the opinion of this house in all
cases of summary convictions before justices of the peace it
is desirable that minutes of the evidence on which the con-
viction was founded should be recorded, and preserved for
future reference in came of need."

On the 9th of next month Captain Vivian will
call the attention of the house to the servioes of the Bri
tisk troops engaged in the New Zealand wars from 1840
to 1865 ; and move a resolution.

To-morrow Mr. Powell proposes to call the atten-
tion of the Have of Commons to the inadequate punish-
ment now awarded in cases of assault, especially in those
of an aggravated character ; and to move, "That in the
opinion of this house it is expedient that amendments be
made in the law or the administration thereof, with a
view to providing better securities against wilful injuries
to the person."

Sir Robert Phidlimore has accepted the office of
Judge of the Admiralty, and it is said that the Lord
Chancellor proposes Dr. Deane as the successor of Sir
Robert Phillimore in the office of Queen's Advocate.

The Austrian journals state that the Emperor
Francis Joseph, on learning the execution of his brother
bfaximih.n,declared that he would never again sign a
death•warrant.

Prince de Metternich entertained at luncheon on
Monday the Austrian military band, whose performance at
the competition on Sunday excited so much admiration. The
tables were laid out in the garden of the embassy, and the
national dishes and drink of Austria were served in abun-
dance. Subsequently, the band executed a dozen pieces
of different styles and character, exhibiting their pro 6.
ciency both on stringed and brass instruments. All the
foreign ambassadors and Austrian notabilities now in Paris
were present at this fete, which lasted from 2 till 6
o'clock.

A meeting of the persons engaged in founding a
society for the encouragement of fishery in salt and fresh
water took place on the lgth inst., in the pavilion of the
Imperial Commission in the Universal Exhibition. The
mode of promoting the development of this industry is by
the circulation of publications, by periodical exhibitions,
the loan of fishing implements, and the organisation of
societies for the purpose of watching the fisheries as well
as preventing poaching and the poisoning of rivers.

A bonito was caught in Southampton Water, on
Monday. This fish is of the mackerel species, and is the
terror of the dying•fish in tropical seas.

- -
LONDON Taanzs'Corweic.—The annual delegate
meeting was held last night at the Bell Inn, Old Bailey ;
Mr. Barrow, of the Amalgamated Engineers, in the chair.
The annual report of the council began by stating that the
' past year had been one of the greatest importance to trade
societies. Strikes, resulting from various maim bad been
numerous, and simultaneously there were several lockouts,
bothcombining totax heavily theresonrcesof thesocieties. It
was, however, a source of much gratification to find that,
not only was every one of them perfectly solvent,
but that it bad • balance at its bankers'. After refer-
ring to various questions which had occupied the
attention of the council during the year, the report stated
that the council bad determined on calling • series of
public meetings, at which some of the meet eminent
writers and thinkers of the day would be invited to attend
and state their opinions, whatever they might be, on the
greet question of labour and capital and the present aspect
of trades' societies. Several important men had already
promised to assist at those meetings. There was an abso-
lute necessity for every trade society to watch closely the
doings of the Royal Commission, and to be prepared to
send a delegate to a conference to be called immediately on
the presentation of their report to the house. After the
adoption of the report, the meeting was adjourned for a
f