The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-13 00:00:00

" I h3ve the honenr to be. my Lord,
" Your Lordship's obedient servant,
" W. ALLAN, Secretary.

" To Viscount Ingestrie."

iracy of the telegraphic
The secretary received no fresh information yester-
gdaayrd:ditalas raesgpielacrtatnotelleloanf ethheesatecret, and its qbsence is re•
message received on Sunday night that the eatabksh-
meats there closed had only thrown out about 700 men,
instead of the much larger number which was last week
anticipated. In Preston it appears that the establish-
ments closed have thrown out of employment only about
29 members of the society.
Letters were yesterday received from Brighton, Pres-
ton, Stratford, Woolwich, and other ,places, announcing
the firmnets of the men, and their determination to
render support equal to the emergency of the case.
A letter was also received from the secretary of the
Bristol branch of the society, stating that an amicable
arrangement had been made between the employers and
the workmen, so that the latter should continue at work;
the conditions demanded by the steiety being agreed to
by the former with regard to the cessation of piecework
and overtime; both parties agreeing to be eventually
governed by the result of the general struggle. This
arrangement is regarded as a favourable omen by the
London workmen.
It has been before stated that a number of workmen
at Greenwich last week subscribed a capital of about
3001. for the purpose of opening a co-operative work-
shop, and that they had already obtained extensive
orders. Yesterday it was announced that a fresh order
had been received to supply a 20-horse power steam-
engine, together with the necessary accompanying ma-
chinery, for a saw-mill about to be erected in Pimlico.

THE CO-O.
of
the East
Lolinadsotnnbigrahntcahvoefrythe society took place nt the central
club-house, Stepney, to consider the propriety of adopt-
ing the propositions with respect to the investment of
10,000/. of the funds of the Society in the hands of trus-
tees for the establishment of co-operative workshops, as
recently put forward by the executive council, and which
was alluded to in our columns yesterday. Air. Eglin
occupied the chair.
Mr. W. NDWTON, in a lengthened speech, pointed out
the advantages which, in his opinion, would follow the
adoption of the plan proposed for the consideliationof
the meeting. Ile said that at present many employers
of the men who had been thrown out of work might
probably be trading upon a portion of the money be-
longing to the Amalgamated Society—money which the
society had lent to the banks at a low rate of interest,
and which the bankers in turn advanced to the manufac-
turer at a high rate of interest. Would it not be better
to reap the full benefit of the employment of their own
funds than to permit another to reap the profit at once
of their labour and their property? With respect to
the adoption of the co-operative system, nothing was
more easy to be managed at the outset even. Suppose
the 10,0001. asked for by the executive council granted,
it would be invested in the purchase of a plant and ma-
terials, which would represent the value o f the sourexpended", and upon the security of which bankers
would advance a reasonable sum of money, if re-
quired, to enable them to carry on active operations,
just as at the present time they advanced
money upon
the plant and materials of manufacturers in general, it
being a well-known fact that by such advances alone the
general business of the country was conducted. Well,
then, they would open an establishment—invest their
2,000/. in London, their 2,0004 in Manchester, and the
balance of the 10,0001. in other places according to cir-
cumstances, and so find employment for a large number
of men, without the intervention of a middleman to !sap
the profit of their labour.—(Hear, hear.) In Lancashire
alone he wound guarantee the employment of at least
1,000 men, an extensive manufacturer in that county
having offered to dispose of his establishment to the
Amalgamated Society, which now employed about that
number of men. As to the mode of employing them-
selves under the co-operative system, they must not be
nice as to the description of work which they might
have to do. Smiths must, if necessary, become simple
hammermee, and other artisans be content to become
mere labourers, but not at lower wages than others,
as under a system of co-operation wages must be level,
and all must share alike in the profits of the general
labour.—(Cheers.) Let them only show themselves in
earnest in the matter, and he would answer for the sue-
cess of the experiment. Want of money would bo no
bar to their progress, for many gentlemen of property
had volunteered their aasistance, and it was expected
that a nobleman, belonging to one of the wealthiest fa-
milies in the country, would in a few days publicly avow
his intention of becoming ono of the trustees. Mr. New-
ton ended by adviFing the adoption of. the proposition,
but after careful and mature consideration.

Mr. ALLAN, secretary to the executive, stated that the
council were in correspondence with the Lancashire ma•
nutacturer referred to by Mr. Newton, and hoped shortly
to be able to announce the purchase of his plant, &c., on
behalf of tho society.
Tito grant of 10,0001. from the funds of the society was
then formally moved and seconded.:
A discussion followed, in the course of which different
members expressed regret that it should be necessary to
apply so large a portion of the fund to purposes which
had not been contemplated at its origin. All the speakers,
however, concurred in the opinion that the co-operative
system was forced upon them by the masters, and that
no bates htep could, under the circumstances, be taken.
Eventually the proposition was unanimously agreed to,
as were also the* two others accompanying it, regulating
the mode of investment and conditions ender which
work :should he performed.
These propositions, however, will cot be considered
as adopted until fill!y sanctioned by a majority of votes
throughout the society. The final decision will be known
on or about the 20th inst.

A strong feetirg perva4ed the meeting in favour of
the payment of one day's waiks wally by those in
wo:It for the support of those thrown out.

WWSLUM OF MANKIND.

On Friday, et the invitation of Mr. Catlin, the
proprietor of the well-known American Indian Col-
lection, a numerous company assembled at his exhibi-
tion-moms, Waterloo-place, for the purpose of hear-
ing a description from him of the leading customs of
the American Indians ; but more particularly with
the view of bringing forward his proposal for found-
ing a museum of mankind designed to perpetuate the
familiar looks, the new ufsetures, history, and records
of all the vanishing races of min. Mr. Catlin's pro-
posal was made the su'aject of a paper which wici3
i
read last year before the Ethnological and Royal
dimensions
t,cz Il s to( )
f abe
ll
Geographical Societies of London. The main fea-
ture of Mr. Catlin's plan consists in the procuring of
a steamer of suit
uceudn tarsi e sa.
the
seaport
floating museum,an
hdthev
that the
s noveltyt e
h the
and
cut therein
yteermtelileinns
tm e
which:s i
arranged,ul
t is
s .
thought
experience has shown to be necessary
to
the success of such
.eollectiona would be kept
up, and that an exhibition so devised would not
only be able to pay its expenses, but would add to
the value and interest of its materials.
In th© first
instance the museum would consist of
well-selected
.--, lof the North, speci—ese.9South, and Central Ameri-
can races, and others front the
opposite parts of the
En
globe, now to be procured in gland, together with
the manufactures rage; and of these
__ .-.les ; and after a visit to
the seaport towns of the United Kiegdona, the mu-
seum would be floated to St. Petersburgh and the
towns on the Baltic,
,from which specimens of the
races of North Europe and Asia, with their manu-
factures, would be brought
_e,d. back for a second tour in
The Englaild. Th
cities
of
America would next be visited. With regard
mthv
to the is for carrying out the plan, which was
already
exertions, Mr. Catlin said that he would take all the
risks and liabilities on himself, trusting
to the support
of institutions and individuals who sympathised in
the dying races of man. He proposed that sub-
scriptions and donations should be set on foot
for the more effectually promoting the objects of
' the museum, the money thus raised to be placed under
the control of a board of trustees. For every pound
subscribed the party was to have a free life ticket of
admission to the museum, and for every 401. or up-
wards the donor was to have the privilege of travel-
ling in the vessel to any port at 50 per cent. below
the usual steamer prices. Missionaries to native tribes
were to have a free passage. The ship, with 200 feet
of deck, was to be made of iron as a precaution against
fire ; useful trades, the elements of knowledge, and
the Christian religion, would be imparted to the abo-
rigines on board, and when it was considered that
the institution had served all useful purposes by visit-
ing the various countries, the collection might be sold
to the Government that would pay the highest price
for it, and thus be perpetuated as a national institu-
tion of great interest and value. He thought there
were few so well qualified from previous experience
to carry cut such an undertaking, and his object was
to elicit the observations of others in order to ascer-
tain in what particular the proposed plan could be
bettered. Mr. Catlin was much applauded at the
conclusion of his address.
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The enormous circa
TEE EXHIBITION CHART.—The •
ins of
lasth p(rboy
ex-
ceeding the most sanguine expeccomp y
lation of the Weekly Dispatch, ontatSiounn
1 with the apuno ors),
has rendered it impossible
that
to
every purchaser ce-
ments previously made,
threceive a copy of the should,en
Exhibition; it 1 - Illustrated
has, in conse-
quence, Chart of the Great . , ,
h a r
o f t preparation,h the
4 untilth
instant,
Sunday,
,s
-tihl le bes often -
necessary to postpone the issue of a sheet
Sunday, the 11th instant
quence, been found n
day every purchaser who was d'sap-
February, on which
pointed in receiving
Orders may be given to all ''
newsvenders
titled to a copY-
demanding such carefulafucl
in town or country, or to the Office, 139, Fleet-street, London.
LEAF OF AN AMERICAN HORSE.—According to the
Sunbury American., a horze near that place recently leaped
from one
abutment of an unfinished bridge to another a dis-
tance of thirty-two feet ; and on a subsequent day, after
pieces
smashing a buggy into and spilling the driver and two
ladies into the road, he jumped twenty-three feet on rising
ground, with ther wheels or the buggy attached. The
. four
Boston ;transcript simply adds " Hadn't we seen the story
in print we shouldn't have believed it.
THE ROTA.L. EMAIL STEAM-SBIE EUROPA.—
Much anxiety begins to be felt respecting the non-arrival of
the British and North American royal mail steam-ship
Europa, which was due at Liverpool on Sunday, but, up to
last night, had not been reported in the channel. The
Europa encountered heavy adverse gales on her outward
passage, which compelled her to put into Halifax, instead
of proceeding on to New York direct ; and it is feared, from
the state of the weather during the past week, that 6118 h a
,144. eipaiiivr PI% 94 hex inulow.xcl, yvyage._