The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-12 00:00:00

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

• FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MA- IXE, Sept. 9.
The following circular has been issued by the
committee of thirty-six delegates from the Minor
German States, permanently in session in this city,
to all the members of popular representations
throughout the country :--
"By the Gastein Convention the Governments of Aus-
tria and Prussie have violated in the most flagrant manner
the clearest principles of right, and especially that of tho
Duchies to settle their own future, only limited by the in-
terests of the German nation. The measures which it was
to be foreseen would follow this convention threaten, in,
addition to shaking the sentiment of right of the German
people, to annihilate for years the material and moral pros-
perity
of the Duchies freed from the Danish yoke by Ger-
man blood. The undersigned committee considers itself,
therefore, in duty bound to request the reassembly of the
members of German Diets, already unanimously deter-
mined by the special committee of the Schleswig-Holstein
clubs, in order to discuss and resolve upon the best means
of saving the condition of public right in those lands. The
committee expects that the German delegates, who solemnly
promised at the meeting of December 21, 1863, and by the
protest handed in at the London Conference of April, 1864,
to advocate the free right of self-disposal of the Duchies
and to support their rights generally, will now redeem this
promise by their appearance at the new assembly. The
undersigned accordingly invites all present members of
German Diets to a meeting at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, on
Sunday, October 1, at ten in the forenoon. A confidential
preliminary meeting is to be held on Saturday, September
30, in the evening.

(Signed on behalf of the committee),
"Dn. SIEGMUND MULLER."

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THE IRON TRADE.—It will be remembered that
after the last lock-out the puddlers in the Wolver-
etwheorkmunastteilnsoanmed arrange-
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by which disputes might be more easily adjusted than here-
tofore. A meeting was held betweenthe two t ;no plan was
then fixed upon, but both united in regretting the frequency
of the disputes, and in pledging themselves to adopt some
plan whereby those evils might be mitigated. The Wol-
verhampton masters consulted the whole trade at the last
preliminary meeting, and the men consulted their union.
Yesterday masters and men again met, and the idea of
adjusting disputes by arbitration seemed to have been
dropped by both parties, and the amount of wages to be
hereafter paid was the matter to.which attention was di-
rected, for it seemed to both that the change necessitated
' • in the
by the variations price of iron, and, consequently, in
the rate of wages, was the chief source of difficulty. The
masters, however, could not see that any arrangement could
be come to other than that which included the legitimate
principle of the men sharing in the advance in price by a
proportionate rise in wages, and in the disadvantages of a
reduction by accepting loWer wages. By this means it was
thought that the interest of both would be more completely
identified, and the trade be more likely to be kept within
the district. The masters were, however, ready to alto
the men to be paid henceforth upon a scale which is is. a
ton in advance of that which for 20 years has prevailed in
South Staffordshire. The men, on their part, pressed for
the establishing of a fixed rate, and hinted at 10s. a ton,
but seemed as though they would be willing to let the fixed
rate be 9s. 6d. They, however, would not speak for the
trade as a whole. The masters' proposition was handed to
the men, who agreed to submit it to their union, and a reply
will be given to the Wolverhampton masters in time for it to
be submitted to the whole body of the employers at the next
preliminary meeting, which will take place on the last
Thursday of this mouth. A proposition on the part of the
masters to disassociate themselves from the trade out of the
South Staffordshire district, upon the men consenting to
give up their connexion with the union in other parts of the
kingdom, was also to be submitted by the men to their union
officers.
A Man named Mason was engaged on Saturday
in pulling down an old warehouse at Preston, when a wall
fell upon him and crushedlim to death.