The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-10 00:00:00

MANCHESTER TRADE OUTRAGES.

Mr. Mault, the editor of the Builders' Trade
Circular, has addressed a letter to the Times explain-
ing several circumstances connected with the brick-
making outrages at Manchester. Mr. Mault re-
minds us that the recent evidence given before the
Trade Unions Commission proved that th) restric-
tions imposed by the Manchester Brickmakers'
Union were more preposterous than any others. The
master builders in 1868 resolved that theywould submit
to them no longer, and gave their men six months'
notice to that° effect. The men went out on
strike rather than give up their rules, but the
masters held together, and got a sufficient supply of
non-union men. Mr. Johnson, whose residence and
workshops have now been attacked, took a prominent
part in the matter, and has himself taken large brick-
yards and patented brickmaking machinery, which
the men strongly object to. For this Mr. Johnson has
been subjected to a system of ceaseless persecution. For
twelve months "he has been dogged, and watched,
and warned so that he could not sleep for many
nights too•ether in one place, and most seldom of all
at home.'? In a letter to Mr. Mault he describes his
life as unbearable. His servants wish to leave for
fear of disaster, his friends shun his house,
and no one must know where he sleeps.
And this, says Mr. Mault, is in the second
city in England ! The strangest part of
the story is that the county and city authorities re-
fuse to take any steps to protect Mr. John-
son's life and property, except at his
own expense. Mr. Mault complains that
while Murphy is guarded in his efforts to promote a
riot,,Mr. Johnson cannot be protected while engaged
on lawful business. In this case, as in many others,
truth is stranger than fiction, and our sensational
novelists fall short of reality in their pictures of
trades union tyranny.

CARDINAL CULLEN.

The Irish National press have not allowed Cardinal
Cullen's last invective against secret societies and
Fenian newspapers, to pass unnoticed. One
journal, alluding to the " very long, and
very lugubrious pastoral " of his Eminence,
says he has followed the• example of the " Blood-
hounds of the London Press in charging the
national prints with the murders and outrages which
have of late occurred in the sister island. The
same paper defies the Cardinal to substantiate
his assertions by pointing out any article which
according to his opinion, "was filled with the worst
species of infidelity." Mr. Disraeli's novel is men-
tioned to prove that there is an understanding
between the English Government and the Papacy
for mutual support, and the Cardinal is represented
as imploring his flock not to embarrass the " divine
William " by exhibiting any unpleasant discontent,
and urging them to pray that the " Heaven-sent
minister may be retained in office." The Irishman
mentions a series of historical incidents to shew that
patriotic Irishmen have been silenced and snubbed
by the Pope and his ambassadors on occasions when
they ventured to agitate for reforms in the condition
of the peasantry, or for the promulgation of mea-
sures of the deepest interest to their countrymen.