The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-29 00:00:00

TIIE LEGAL TRADE CMIOI.I.

Having quoted one of the wont eases mentioned by Mr,
Roebuck in illustration of the inexorable hardship of some
of the trades' unions, the Telegraph proceeds to say that
though this is very bard, it is precisely what happens in a
higher grade. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers
only does what is done by the Law Society. A young man
wishes to become an articled clerk in the office of • par-
ticular firm, and no other house would serve his inte-
rests equally well ; but the rules of the legal trades
union set limits to the number of articled clerks
that any firm may employ, and those limits have,
perhaps, already been reached. The applicant may
be well educated, clever, industrious ; his prospects in life
may be injured if he cannot, at a certain time, form the
connexion which he seeks; nevertheless, the rules of the
society are inflexible, mid the collective body of the
unionists will say to the employer, " If you accept the
services of this young man, you break the conditions on
which we made you • member of oar society ; we can't
help the injury which he will sustain from our refusal ; we
can't make rules for special cases." That is precisely
what the Sheffield unionists say. Why, than, should the
men who make engines be anathematised, and the men
who draw up processes be blessed Nor are the solicitors
the only unionists among educated society. Take the
army. There we have trade restrictions of another

kind.
The Star Also asks why that is murder amongst working
men which, as a bencher of the loner Temple, Mr. Roe.
buck would stoutly defend as professional etiquette The
truth is, the whole speech is too false and too flippant to
be even a contribution to this discussion. The Star invites
ita readers to prepare for the contrast which will be pre-
sented when Mr. Gladstone, a real economical and political
authority, and no partisan of trades' unions, meets Mr.
Potter's deputation.

disclosures -----
may not, The three clergy of the principal Episcopalian
rtanTo es, to church in Edinburgh, including the name of
the most respected dignitary in the whole
police, but
Episcopalian community, have issued a pro-
' Previous I test against the threatened consecation of a
the plot new bishop of Natal in Scotland. It is under-
the state- I stood that the chief laity of the Edinburgh
value; but Episcopalians are equally opposed to the step. The
dimity is • extreme precipitation with which this secret c0n-
...,,s secretion has been hurried on has made it impos-
"" ‘.".... sible to obtain more signatures at the moment ; but
" knew a there can be no question that the document repro-
sod the man, Bents the feelings of the most respectable members
-to make a of the community. It is signed by the Rev. KB.
,Aaurrr told Ramsay, LL.D., Rev. Daniel F. Sandford, and the
Jen to Bow_ Bev. Henry M. Oswald, M.A.
unained there Tax TRADES' UNION Conmissiow.—The Report
did of Mr. W. Overend, Q.C.Barstow! end
which
' informer. under the Trades Unions Commission Act of 1867
mischief, it to inquire into the outrages asserted to have taken
a knack of ' place at Sheffield and elsewhere with the support
is the second and connivance of associations of workmen, has
is associates ; just been issued, together with the evidence aken
re the result at Sheffield. The Report is addressed by the Ex-
aminers to the Commissioners appointed under the
in great part
Act, and consists of little more than a history of
men. We get their inquiry, the facts of which received so much
and intellect attention during its progress. The accompanying
crime, and can evidence, filling 450 folio pages, contains nothing
were at once of importance that has not already been published ;
D. tms to but it will always remain one of the most value-
c°llll- ira ble as well as moat painful records of a state of
, Clerkenwell
social disorganization and anarchy such as no one
amount of low
could have believed to exist upon evidence less
forming a true than irrefragable.