The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-20 00:00:00

TRADES UNIONISM AND THE TAILORS.

No, amount of experience or of argument, it would
seem, will suffice to convince English working nlOl2
that the liberty they claim for themselves they
are bound to allow to others. Trades
unionism is still extant among us, and it is just
now flourishing in full vigour at Cork. TWO
journeyman tailors have been charged at Marlborough`
street with annoying and assaulting a worliwonian
named Maria Davis. Mr. Keane, a master tailor,
of Cork, said that a strike began among ilia
workpeople, in that town, a month ago, and had not
yet ceased. It was for an increase of wage*
and also on account of the employment of
machinery, which the men would not work with'
Mr. Sims, of Vine-street, London, worked for Aft'
Keane and the other master tailors of Cork, and the
assault complained of was committed in London 01;
a woman employed at his shop. The system employe'
was that called "picketing," relays of men watchia
the workpeople go in and out and telling them they
were on strike work. The people employed, havia
the fear of violence before their eyes, often to°l,
their work back and told Mr. Sims. It was urged,
on behalf of the prisoners that they had not been
guilty of violence or intimidation, but haci
merely told the workpeople that there was a strike nu
Cork. However, the magistrate was not convinced
that the - -4; had b -uite so innocent, and

proceedings hat. qk
though he admitted the evidence was slight, he
thought it advisable to remand the prisoners on bail;
It gives an idea of the energy and organisation 0'
these unions that men should be sent over fr°ll/
Dublin to London to carry out one particular design'

CHARLES DICKENS ON DOCTORS AND LAWYER'S.
Shakespere has been claimed in turn by almost
every profession in the kingdom. The wide rartganas
of his.genius was co-extensive with humanity,
his powers of depicting the thousand and one phase°
of the mind was an essential attribute of
power both creative and critical. Like Shakesperel
Charles Dickens was endowed in an extraordinary
degree with this gift of genius. The Law Journal re-
marks that he has left us a whole gallery of le
portraits. In the first rank of masterpieces Serjeant
Buzfuz stands out with a distinctness of outline n°
to be excelled—surely the learned serj eant will never,
die. In "Bleak House," the Chancery suit °lt
" Jarndyce v. Jarndyee " enabled our grea,
novelist to give descriptions of the Court
the lawyers engaged, the solicitor of the Dedl°oo
family, and the law writer, whose double maY 1)0
met in the regions of Chancery-lane every day roof
year. The British Medical Journalsays that his
cription of hectic (in "Oliver Twist") has found
its
way into standard works in medicine and surgellai
that he had anticipated the clinical researches
several well-known names, and that his descrir
tions of moral and mental insanity she w
the hand of a master. Every one 10110
the immortal Bob Sawyer, and though
often laughed at the members of the professi°'4
which, like other mundane things, is not perfecti°T.
he laughed as one who loved what was good the
One of Dickens's latest essays was in advocacy of
East London Hospital for Children.

CHIGNONS IN CHANCERY.

Chancery is the region of wigs, and therefore °
must conclude that a discussion on the most ridlts
bus of fashions is not altogether unsuitable to 1 f
sober precincts. Chignons, after making the circult
e/
the habitable globe, have at last found then
way into Vice-Chancellor Malins' Court. Mancheser;
which boasts of the variety of its trades, cocee,
among them a "chignon and frizette manufaos
turer," who sought to restrain the defendants, gessi;
Crawley and Son, from infringing his patent. el,
Rushton being, we may presume, unable to keep PeLt
with the demands of the fair damsels of Manches"',.
for artificial tresses, set to work to manufacture 1161'

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