The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-25 00:00:00

CORONATION .

THE ADDRESS OF THE TRADES' UNIONS OF
MANCHESTER AND SALFORD TO THE
WORKING MEN of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND.

You are caUed upon by the authorities of these towns to join in the
Coromtlon precession of our Most Gracious Sovereign Victoria on the

48th of June instant. We assure the municipal authorities that we are
not wanting in lsWe and loyaliy to the Queen, but that dear bought ex-
perience has taught us the folly of such idle pomp and useless parade,
and we can no longer, as rational and intelligent beings, become the
dupes of our oppressors, the passive instruments for creating, by shows •
and gewgaws, a false nation of our prosperity; for the truth is, the
working classes have not wherewithal to spend in glittering parapher-
nalia, neither have they any confidence in the government of the
country being willing to better their condition, and remove the embar-
rassments under which our merchants and manufacturers are now la-
bouring.
We deeply deplore the present state of things, and we regret that
our Government should have-agreed to spend so much money upon a
Coronation, whilst so many of our fellow-labourers are out of employ-
ment, and very many of them pining in hunger, and literally starving
to death, both in England and Ireland—the Hand-loom Weavers to wit.
We, the Trades' Unions, have had no encouragement fram our na-
tional and local rulers to join in any of their schemes, since we find
the wealthy, in and out of Parliament, conspiring against the labouring
poor to deprive them of the rights of industry, and withholding from
them the political rights and liberties of freeborn British subjects ; at
the same time they call upon us to testify our allegiance to that very
system of Government wnich offers us no protection—which manifests
no sympathy for the destitute poor of our country, but upon all occa.
sions takes advantage of the power they possess to treat us as slaves,
stigmatize us as cornbinators, and persecute us as criminals.
We have not forgotten our persecuted brethren of Dorchester, who
were torn from their homes, from the bosoms of their families, and exiled
to a foreign land. We c ninot reconcile to our favour the transporters
of our five Glasgow brethren, who are now suffering painful imprisonment
at the instigation of Government. We will not countenance any mi-
nistry, who, by their acts, have condemned and persecuted our order—
who have hardened the heart of our Queen, and closed the gates of
mercy against the prayers of hundreds of thousands of labourers in fa-
vour of our Glasgow brethren ; they have sworn enmity against our
order, and by such conduct are undermining the throne, alienating the
affections of she people, and bringing the throne and laws into contsmpt.
The forthcoming Coronation will convince the Government that the
ueople are becoming, tired of the system which encourages luxurious
idleness, excessive taxation, constant persecution of the poor, and the
useess squanderings of the- haul earnings of the labouring millions; it
wilt not only be shorn of its splendour, but its very existence will denote
the decay of this once mighty nation.
While our authorities condemn public bodies and political associa-
tions, on this occasion they forget that Trades' Unions are public bodies ;
necessary evils brought into existence by the baseness of our political
system, and the consequent tyranny of capitalists, whom the laws allow
to ride rough-shod over prostrate labour, and drive the labourers to asso-
ciate for common protection, since the law afil.rds them none.

We therefore hope that Trade Societies will on no account allow
themselves to be duped by their employers with gifts of money, drink,
arid feasts, in order to induce them to join the procession ; such conduct
will betray their weakness, and afford the venal press an opportunity to
boast of prosperity, which every thinking man knows full well does not
exist. Let the authorities send their delegate in vain ; join neither pro-
cession nor the idle throng that gapes on it; but betake yourselves to
some more rational mode of testifying your loyalty to the Queen, and
your hatred of those base minded wretches who fatten upon your labour,
and poison her royal ear against the prayers of her suffering subjects.
By order of the Trades' Council, composed of twenty-three Trades.

PLYMOUTH-SATURDAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

spite of a severe cold, on Wednesday the 20th, being the an-
niversary of the Accession of her Majesty, I attended divine service at
the only Church open in these towns and vicinity, comprising a po-
pulation of nearly 100,000 souls. At the said Church, however, all
notice whatever of the form of prayer was studiously omitted.
Verily it is high time for the emoluments of the Clergy to be regu-
lated according to the duties performed, since their present ones are con-
ditional, on that excellent Rubric—
" The Curate that ministereth in every parish SHALL' say daily the
morning and evening prayer in the parish Church where he ministereth."
Such was formerly the practice in the Church alluded to. Its coati
nuance, however, from Tuesday, 2Sth October, 1817, t t Saturday even-
ing, May 7, 1825, inclusively, was at the repeated instance of Mr. Ro-
bert Webb Stone Baron, a gentleman of this town, who deposed to
divers abusive dismissals of the congregation, with the view of abolish-
ing the service—their being asked by the clerk what they came there
f,r—why they did not say their prayers at home, &c. ?

Now I think, Sir, that in Churches where Sunday duty only is per-
formed, the present emoluments ought to be reduced six-sevenths,
where Litany-day duty four-sevenths; thus stimulating the Clergy of
" The Church of Mammon" to the fulfilment of the conditions on which
they hold their present emoluments, VIZ., TWO DAILY SERVICES.
It is further to be hoped that, in common gratitude to their temporal
head, means will be adopted to compel the annual use of the form of
payer for the Queen's Accession, at least in such large communities of
her Majesty's subjects.— I am, dear Sir, your obedient servant,
cD., cp.