The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-15 00:00:00

HIS MAJESTY'S LEVEE.

Their Majesties arrived in town at a quarter before two
o'clock yesterday afternoon from Windsor Castle. Their
Majesties were received at St. James's by the Duke of
Cumberland and the Duchess of Gloucester.

his Majesty held a levee at two o'clock:

The Baron de Marenholz, Grand Marshal of the Court
of Brunswick, sent-by his Serene Highness the Duke of
Brunswick to deliver the ensign of the order of Henri le
Lion to his Majesty, was presented to the King by M.
Lichtenberg, the Hanoverian Charge d'Affaires.
M. de Iturbide, Secretary of the Mexican Legation,
was presented by M. Garro, the Mexican Minister.
Colonel Ogden, Consul of the United States at Liver-
pool, was presented by Mr. Vail, the United States Charge
d'Affaires.

Under Sheriff Sandell was presented by Sheriff Harmer.
General Lord Viscount Beresford presented a petition
from the inhabitants and residents of the island of Jersey.
Colonel Harriot, 70th regiment Bengal Infantry, pre-
sented a drama in the French language.
Lieut. Charles H. Ackerley, Royal Navy, waspresented
by his Grace the Duke of Richmond, on submitting to his
Majesty his production for the better security of vessels
navigating the river Thames.
His Islajesty held a Privy Council, which was attended
by the Cabinet Ministers and some of the principal officers
'of the household.

Certain Acts from Nova Scotia were confirmed. Several
decisions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
were submitted to his Majesty in Council.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the clerk of the council
in _ waiting.

At the Entree Levee were present—The Russian, Aus-
trian, and French Ambassadors, and Prince Nicholas Es-
terhast, ; the Neapolitan, Prussian, Swedish, Wirtemberg,
Belgic, Netherlands, Danish, Bavarian, Mexican, Portu-
guese, Grecian, Spanish, and Saxon Ministers; the United
States and Hanoverian Charge d'Affaires ; the Dutch Spe-
cial Minister ; 31, de Hummelauer, Secretary, and four
Attaches of •:ne Austrian Embassy ; one of the Secretaries
to the ra:rench Embassy ; Monsieur de Iturbide, Secretary
of the Mexican Legation ; the Archbishops of Canterbury
and York, the Bishop of London, the Lord President, the
Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Se-
cretaries of State for the Home and Foreign Departments,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master of the Horse,
the Vice-Chamberlain,' the Captain of the. Honourable
Corps of Gentleman at Arms ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in
'Waiting; the Master-General bf the Ordnance, the Comp-
troller of the Household, the Surveyor-General of the
Ordnance ; the Marquis of Thomond, Lord Saltoun, Col.
`Giblv, and Colonel Wynyard, Aides-de-camp to the King ;
Mt\ Baron Alderson, the Captain of the Yeomen Guard ;
SP eriff Harmer, Under-Sheriff Sandell ; the Master of the
ceremonies, the Master of the Robes ; the Dean of Here-
ford, and the Rev. Dr. Blomberg, Deputy Clerks of the
Closet ; Colonel Bowater, Field- Officer in Waiting ; Col.
Horace Seymour and Master Stephenson, Equerry and
Page of Honour in Waiting.
Amongst the general company were—
DuxEs—Gordon, Buccleuch. _ _

nQuisEs--Downshire Ailesbury, Bristol.
EA RLS—Rosebery, Gosford, Pouted, Craven, Cam-
perdown, Aboyne, Rosslyn, Liverpool, Westmoreland,
Howe, Moray, Harrowby, Beauchamp, Clonmell, Romney,
Brownlow.

Visco u NTs--Beresford, Milton, Duncan, Strathallan,
Stormont.

Loans—Ducie, Yarborough, Dacre, W. F. A. M. Hill,
Saye and Sele, •de Tabley, Ernest Bruce, Dorchester,
Petre, Poltiraore, Bridport, Teignmouth, Rodney,
Prudhoe.

Bishop of Derry.
RIGHT HONOUnABLEs—Sir Stratford Canning, Charles
Wynn, Thomas Erskine.
losouitAßLEs—Baron Dimsdale, Captain Saumarez,
John Carnegie, John Stuart, Major-General King, Rev.
H. D. Erskine, Richard Moore, Captain Knox, R.N.;
Rev. Richard Cust.

Stas—Hew Hume Campbell, George Beaumont, T.
Cotton Sheppard, Lawrence Palk, George Sitwell, G. F.
Hodson, Henry Willock, T. Maryon Wilson, Frederick
Fowke, John George Crewe, Drayton F Elliott Drake,
John Walsh, Charles Hulse, Wm. Boothby, T. Win-
nington Bart. T. B. Lethbridge, Bart., Oswald Mosley,
Wm. Guise, Richard Rycroft, Bart., Keith Jackson, Bart.
Francis Knowles, Ralph Lopes, F. Vincent, Wm. Hey-
gate, John Osborn, W. Stirling, William Molesworth,
Duckworth, W. Salusbury Trelawny.
Archdeacon Butler.

Docrons—Kenning, Phillimore, LL.D.
REV. MESSIEUKS—J. F. Foord Bowes, Evelyn L.
Sutton, Henry Stevens, George W. Murray, Robert
Hurae, Edward Craven Hawtrey, W. Gardiner, H. Hely
Hutchinson.

SERGEANTS AT LAW—Goulburn, Coleridge.
MEsstEuas—Robert Halford, Sanderson Hill, John
Davies Gilbert, Spottiswode, John Foley, Brand, Joseph
Knight, Robert Williams, Poulter, M.P., Milnes Gaskell,
Dawkins Pennant, Ames, Wm. Congreve Russell, M.P.,
ritzgibbon, Christmas, M.P., Hope, NI.P., John Lock-
hart-, W. Yates Peel, A. Drummond, Hartopp, P. Ho-
ward, R. Hale, Hood, Savory, Dillwyn, M.P., Haines,
Musters, Chandos Leigh, Craven, E. Buller, Chamber-
layne, George Lowth, Charles Kirwan, Bisse Challoner,
T. Martin, M.P., Colegrave, Leith, Ponsonby, Henry
Clive, Hnghan' H. Palmer, Martyn, Macleod, M.P.,
Bland, Eyre, Taylor, Standish Barry, M.P., Robert
Dundas, Panton Corbett, Hagerman, Wynne, J. R.
Rodd, Digby, J. Blackburne, Donald Maclean, John Low,
Speirs, Wilkinson, B. Baker, Hewett, St. Leger, West,
J. H. Hely, Hutchinson, F. Maitland, Monck, J. Martin,
M.P., Talbot, Stewart, C. Wykeham Martin, Bailey,
Praed, Tredcroft, Cecil Boothley, S. Whitbread, Paking-
ton, Severn, Courtenay. Warrender, BetheU, M.P., Low-
ther, Pendarves, Frederick Dundas, Henry Brand, Camp-
bell Scarlett, Coke, Strachan, Moreton Dyer, Manse,
Thomas Halifax, Fox Strangeways, William Clay, Hodg-
son, M.P. , R. F. B. , Rushbrooke.

ADMIRALS—Lord de Saumarez, Sir Charles Ogle, Sir
Chas. Hamilton, Sir Richard Lee, Sir T. Rodd, West,
Sir George Parker, Sir Edward King, Sir Bladen Chapel,
Honyman, Lambert.
GENERALS—Sir Colin Campbell, Sir Lewis Grant, Sir
H. Bayley, Chowne, Eden, Sir W. Hutchinson, Trevor,
Sir H. 3lontresor, Sir W. K. Grant, Sir D. Gilmour,
Sir Patrick Ross, Baker, Moore, H. Fraser, Sir G. Lam-
bert, Sir J. H. Dalrymple, Sir J. Hamilton, Sir W.
Clinton, Sir J. Waters, Sir P. Maitland, Sir C. Doyle,
Lomax, H. Brooke. _ _ _

CAPTAINS (R. N. )—Sir Henry Blackwood, Garth,
Charles Hope, Sir C. Cole, Hamlyn Williams, Lysaght,
Sir W. B. Proctor, Festing, Sir H. L. Baker, Broughton,
Aylmer, Spencer, Frederick Irby, John Reynolds, Henry
Gosset, Ayscough, Thornbrough, Badcock, E. Lloyd, Sir
J. Coghill Coghill.
CoLosets—Dawkins, Francis Dawkins, Power Porter,
Lord Dufferin, Sir H. Hyatt, Sir C. Gordon, Rolt,
Crooke, Burslem, Green, Monckton, Egerton, Sir J. K.
Shaw, D'Oylv, Sir George Cox, W. Drummond, H.
Blair, Sir J. Sutherland, G. Cameron, Bingham, Raikes,
Badeock, Story.
COMMANDERS (R.N.)—Hon. W. Edwards, Hon. J.
F. Gordon, Douglas Codrington, De Saumarez, Corn-
wall, J. Vere Cotton, Pole, J. T. Cook, Gooch, Hon. H.
Keppel.
Maions—Lord Charles Russell, Hope, Brackenburv,
Hyde, Sperling, Bidwell Edwards, Kemyss Tynte.
Garrett, Pipon, P. Taylor, Hodgson Cadogan.
LIEUTENANTS (R.N. )—Charles Eden, George Henry,
Charteris, C. H. Ackerley, Henderson.
CAPTAINS—HamiIton, Harris, Cookes, Shedden, F.
Clinton, R. Williams' Balfour, Bryan, Wilson, Sutton, J.
D. George, Edward King, Yorke, Caulfield, Phillimore,
Maitland, J. J. Underwood, Trotter, E. C. Fletcher, W.
D. Tyssen, Roebuck, Gregory, Burslem. Hamilton Story,
Shearman, Compton, Widdrin,gton Riddell, Mowbray,
Walker.

LIEUTENANTS--Gavin, Dalton, R. M. , Poulden,
Crutchley, R. D. Dunn, M'Mahon, Manby, J. Hender-
son, M'Clinton, Musters, Mowbray.
ENSlGN—Hardinge.
The following were presented to his Majesty :
Viscount Milton, on his marriage, by the Earl of Liverpool.
Lord de Tabley, on his marriage, and return from the
Continent, by Earl Brownlow.
Hon. Capt. Saumarez, Rifle Brigade, by his father, Lord
de Saumarez.
Viscount Duncan, by the Earl of Camperdown.
Major Lord Charles Russell, on his marriage, by the Duke
of Gordon.
Lord Wm. F. A. M. Hill, on his appointment to the 43d
Light Infantry, by the Marquis of Downshire.
Sir George Sitwell, by Lord Byron.
Sir Lawrence Palk, by the Earl of Shaftesbury.
Mr. Sergeant Goulburn, on his rank by his Majesty's war-
rant, by the Lord Chancellor.
Mr. Sergeant Coleridge, on his rank by his Majesty's war-
rant, by the Lord Chancellor.
The Hon. Capt. Knox, R.N., by Colonel Gibbs.
Lord Dorchester, ith Hussars, on promotion, by Lord
Poltimore.
Sir G. Beaumont, by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Lord Teignmouth, on succeeding to his title, by Lord Hill.
Major-General Sir Colin Campbell, to take leave upon his
departure to Nova Scotia.
Mr. Joseph Knight, of his Majesty's Corps of Gentlemen
at Arms, by Lord Foley.
Sir Wm. Moiesworth, by Mr. Pendarves.
The Hon. Richard Moore, on his return from India, by the
Hon. Major-General King.
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, on his marriage, by
Lieut.-Gen. Sir James Kempt.
Sir Thomas Colton Sheppard, by Sir 0. Mosley.
The Rev. Edward Craven Hawtreir, by Earl Howe.
Sir Hew Hume Campbell, Bart., 1.P., on his marriage,
by the Duke of Buccleuch.
M. Charles Kirwan, by the Right Hon. Spring Rice.
Mr. Musters, by Earl Howe.
Mr. Craven, by Earl Craven.
Mr. George Lowth, on his marriage, by Mr. Sturges
Bourne.
Mr. Hartopp (Leicestershire Yeomanry), by Sir Lawrence
Palk.
Sir William Sainsbury Trelawny, Bart., on coming to his
title, by Mr. Wynne Pendarver.

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Mr. 'Hewett, on receiving the appointment of Surgeon-
Extraordinary to the King, by the Right Hon. the Earl
of Belfast. _ .

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Rev. Henry Hely Hutchinson, by the Earl of Dotiough-
more. -

Rev. iir. Gamier, by the Earl of Albemarle.
The Rev. Henry Stevens, on preferment, by Colonel
Bingham.
Mr. Leith, on going abroad, by Mr. Courtenay.
Mr. Chamberlayne, Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire, by
his Grace the Duke of Gordon.
Rev. George William Murray, on going abroad, by Mr.
Courtenay.
Mr. Eyre, High Sheriff of the county of Berks, by Sir W.
Beaucham Proctor.

Mi.i;;;;"--6;ri;ti,1;y Mr. Williams Wynn.
Mr. Martin, by Lord Rodney.
Mr. John Low,f by the Hon. Richard Fitzgibbon, M.P.
Mr. Dillwyn, M.P. for Glamorganshire, by Sir Christo-
pher Cole, K. C. B.
Mr. Campbell Scarlett, on his appointment to his Ma-
jesty's Legation at Rio Janeiro, by Viscount Palmerston.
Mr. Cecil Boothby, by Sir Wm. Boothby.
Mr,. G. H. Hely Hutchinson, by the Earl Donoughmore.
Mr. Bailey, by Colonel Wood.
Mr. Stewart, by the Right Hon. Charles Grant.
Mr. Talbot, a deputy lieutenant of the county of Worcester
by Lord Foley.
Mr. Hagerman, solicitor-general, Upper Canada, to take
leave on his return to the province, by Mr. Secretary
Stanley.
Mr. Donald Mac Lean, by Captain Garth.
Sir G. F. Hodson, by Lieut.-General Sir. J. Hamilton.
Commander the Hon. W. Edwards, R.N.' on his marriage.
Colonel Sir G. Cox, Bart., on coming to his title, by Lord
Dunboyne. . .

Lieut.-Colonel Monckton, Staffordshire Yeomanry, on his
promotion, by the Earl of Lichfield.
Captain H. Williams, R.N., on his marriage, by Sir R.
Rycroft, Bart.
Major B. Edwards, on promotion, by Sir H. Taylor.
Lieut.-Colonel G. Cameron, on receiving the Royal Order
of the Guelph, by Lord Saltoun.
Captain Yorke, on his marriage, by Mr. Peel.
Major H. Cadogan, on his change of !lamp, by Sir G. E.
Drake.
Major Hope, Edinburgh Militia, by the Duke of Buccleuch.
Captain S. Reynolds, R.N., on his return from the Conti-
nent, by Sir J. Graham.
Captain Gregory, Rifle Brigade, on his marriage, by Co-
lonel Bowater.
Captain Trotter, 2d Life Guards, on his marriage, by
Vice-Admiral Sir E. Codrington.
Captain W. Riddell, Northumberland Militia, by the Earl
of Abingdon.
Commander J. E. Cook, by Lord Prudhoe.
Lieut.-Colonel Badcock, 15th King's Hussars, on his ap-
pointment, by Lieut.-General Sir E. K. Grant.
Major Garrett, on his appointment to the 46th Regiment,
by the Adjutant-General.
Major Sperling, on promotion, by Colonel Brotherton.
Lieut.-Colonel Greenwood, Grenadier Guards, on promo-
tion, by Sir J. Woodford.
Ensign Hardinge, 39th Regiment, on his appointment, by
Lord Hill.
Cantainyhillimore, High Sheriff for the county of Hert-

ford, by Lord Saitoun-.
Capt. Mowbray, Fifeshire Militia, by the Earl of Rosslyn.
Captain H. Storey, on receiving the command of the Bal-
lyconwall Yeomanry, by Sir H. Hardinge.
Captain Charles Hope, R.N. on his return from foreign
service, by Sir James Graham.
Mr. Standish Barry, M.P., on being appointed a Deputy-
Lieutenant of the county of Cork, by Rear-Admiral Sir
Charles Paget.
Commander F. Vere Cotton, R.N., on his return from the

West Indies, by Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart.
Captain J. J. Underwood, on his return from India, by
Captain Sir J. Coghill Coghill, Bart.
Captain Burslem, on his return from India, by his father,
Colonel Burslem.
Captain Compton, Grenadier Guards, on promotion, by Sir
John Woodford.
Mr. Henry Brand, Coldstream Guards, by Major-General
Trevor.
Mr. Ponsonby, Cornet 3d King's Own Light Dragoons.
by his uncle, the Bishop of Derry.
Captain Sutton, on his appointment to the King's Rifle
Corps, by Lieutenant-Colonel Bunbury.
Captain Wilson, on promotion.
Captain Harris, on his return from Gibraltar, by Major-
Gen. Sir Charles Pratt, K.C. B.
Captain Roebuck, on promotion, by Col. Brotherton, C.B.
Sir Keith Jackson, Bart., by Colonel Brotherton.
Captain W. Daniel Tyssen, by Col. Sir J. R. Shaw, Bart.
Lieut. Charteris, R.N., on his return from the Continent,

by the Duke of Montrose.
Mr. J. R. Rodd, by hisfather, Rear-Admiral Sir T. Rodd.
Captain Shearman, by General Sir R. M'Farlane.
Captain F. D. George, by Major-General Sir W. Cotton.
Captain Edward King, 36th Regiment, by the Hon.
Major- General King.
Captain Rowland Williams, by Major-General Sir P. Ross.
Captain Bryan, by General Sir A. Brooke.
Captain Shedden, by Lord F. Fitzclarence.
Lieut. 11. 11. C. Mowbray, by the Earl of Rosslyn.
Lieut. George Henry, R. N. , by Lord Foley.
Lieut. Francis Henderson, by Colonel Hopkinson, C. B.
Lieut. Al‘Clintock, on his return from Gibraltar, by Sir
Alex. Dickson, K. C. B.
Lieut. M'Mahon, on being appointed Aide-de-Camp, to
General Sir T. 31‘31ahon, Bart., by the Adjutant-Gen.
Lieut. Gavin, by Colonel Brotherton.
Lieut. Manby, 3d (King's Own) Light Dragoons, on pro-
motion, by his father, Mr. Colegrave.
Lieut. Dalton, on his return from Gibraltar.
Lieut. R. D. Dunn, by Major-General Sir C. Doyle.
Lieut. Charles Eden, R.N., by Lieut.-General Eden.
Lieut. Crutchley, by Lieut.-General Sir W. Gordon.
Dr. Kenning, Assistant Inspector Ordnance Medical De-
partment, by Lieut.-General Sir John Smith, Royal
Artillery.

After the Levee Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambas-
sador, had an audience of his Majesty in the Royal Closet,
to take leave. His Excellency was introduced by Viscount
Palmerston, principal Secretary of State for Foreign Af-
fairs. His Excellency's son, Prince Nicholas Esterhazy,
had also an audience of the King.
His Majesty gave audiences to Earl Grey, the Marquis
of Landsdowne, Sir J. Kempt, the Earl of Albemarle, and
Viscount Palmerston. _ . .

•Mr. Baron Alderson was presented on his appointment
by the Lord Chancellor.
Viscount Torrington and Sir C. Paget were the Lord
and Groom in Waiting.

ELEPHANT HUNTING IN CEYLON.—
(Extract of a Private Letter from Sir William Hor-
ton.)—l went down on Friday to Kornegalle ;on
Saturday we started at seven o'clock, and rode nine
miles to a jungle, as they call it, which is, in fact, an
interminable wood or forest, where 150 natives were
ready to drive the jungle for elephants. Mr. R--
and myself clambered up a very primitive ladder into
a tree, where was a prepared platform, large enough
to hold ourselves and three loaders of guns ; there we
remained seven or eight hours ; the process of driving
a wood for pheasants was then enacted. The herd of
elephants, about twenty-four in number, had been
watched all night, and when we were on the ground,
the circle began to close in upon them, and drive them
up to the " fatal tree." If the elephants appear dis-
posed to turn back, these drivers, who are as active as
monkeys, are up the trees in an instant, and redouble
their cries and the beating of tom-tems, till they move
on again, when they descend to re-act the same part.
When the circle is nearly contracted, they light torches,
and then the din begins louder than ever, and the ele-
phant, having all the dread that a burnt child has of a
fire, moves on. At last, after much waiting, cocking,
and uncocking the eight guns we had with us, five or
six elephants appeared • I hit my first on the nose,
about an inch from the narrow, mortal part which
is to be hit in the head ' • killed her dead;
I wounded another, which he killed ; I then killed a
third stone dead. When they drop, they roll down
like the unloading of a waggon, and even their dying
agonies are grave and solemn, and their groans low
and deep. Before the end of the day, we killed four-
teen, I having despatched five ; and when we descend-
ed from tho.tree, we were surrounded by these dead
masses on all sides of us. I witnessed nothing that
gave me proof of their sagacity. I shot another lady,
and she fell mortally wounded, and could not get up.
R— shot her young one ; at last she did contrive to
stand for a moment on her legs, and poke out her
trunk to feel her young one, but failed and fell. This
mode of tree shooting is rarely adopted here ; the
general rule being to face them on foot, which, it must
be confessed, is a more heroic enterprise—but your
tree gives you five times as many shots, and is quite as
glorious as a battue in England. The animal is very
slow to anger, but when roused is incredibly aggres-
sive. On one of these shooting parties, the head-man,
who played the part of keeper, and organized." the
chasse," was chased by an elephant, when in a moment
he was, as he thought, quite safe in a cocoa-nut tree.
The elephant, however did not abandon his purpose,
but broke the tree in two with his trunk as if it had
been a walking-stick—when down it came, and the
head-man's head was cracked in four places, and he
died in a day or two. The elephant never offered to
touch him on the ground, feeling that his revenge had
been sufficiently ample. Another instance I heard of
an elephant so badly wounded, that though he could
stand, he could not move on; two other elephants
came up to him, one on one side ancLthe other on the
other, and, putting their trunks under him, supported
him and led him off, exactly as a wounded man would
limp off on the arms of his two friends. So.much for
I elephants.—Athenown.

MEETING OF THE OPERATIVE

MASTER TAILORS, MAr 14.

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( From our Second Edition of last night. )
A deputation from the journeymen then appeared on the
platform, and were received with cheers.
A gentleman, who said he was a master tailor, put seve-
ral questions, but rather in a general way, and in a speech.
One of the Deputies said he was sent there for the pur-
pose of answering any questions that might be put to him,
but he would prefer them to be put in a specific manner.
He considered the journeymen were perfectly right; if
they were wrong, why did not the masters meet them, and
reason them out of their error? The men would have been
obliged by that conduct, and, if convinced, would have
given way. Much misrepresentation had gone abroad on
the subject of the feelings of the men, or they never
would have been treated as they had been; for
it was for the interests of both masters and men that a
good understanding should prevail between them. It had
been stated that they asked as much per day for an ineffi-
cient hand as for a good one. He denied that ; that would
be unreasonable ; but they had committees sitting who
judged of the abilities of a man, and as they found him, so
they described him on a printed card, which each one
should show on his entering a shop. It was not any new
thing—it was no new regulation they demanded, but the
revival of an old custom. The mastersshould have come for-
ward and canvassedthe propositions. As it was, the men were
not prepared, nor would they be prepared to offer the slightest
concession. They were yet prepared to meet the masters, and
calmly discuss the differences now existing. He was
ashamed to see the names of many masters in the list of
the King-street meeting, who had never paid their men
fourpence an hour ; that was the system the men wanted
and were determined to put an end to • they were deter-
mined that every master should pay alike, and in that de-
termination they were firm. They wanted nothing more
than was just or proper ; but they were determined that a
stop should be put to the system of competition by which
thejourneyman. was ruined. Some men had already made
a fortune in the trade, others had trades by which they
were making a fortune. To those he would say " Give
in, concede to the men, or your trade is gone ;" for by their
capitals they were enabled to ruin the middle tradesman ;
but let them stick out and the lower tradesman must rise
in their place. The men were supported at that moment
in such a way that they were as confident of gaining their
purposes as they were determined to carry their resolu-
tions into effect. By the old system the men were
induced to be drunkards ; they generally spent the first
three days of the week in drinking ; and on the,last three,
by setting their wives to work along with them, as well as
other women, they made up all or more than they could
themselves have made in the week. The men were now
determined to put an end to that system by requiring that
they should work in regular hours under their master's
eye. Their lodges had been held up by the vile press as
political engines to coerce masters, and afterwards endanger
the country's peace. That was a vile falsehood, for amongst
their first resolutions it was held that no political discussion
whatever should be entered upon during the hours of business.
He then entered into the technical branch of making breeches
and coats, through which we could not follow him, and
concluded by stating his readiness to answer any questions
to the best of his knowledge.
The next resolution, as follows, was then put and carried:

Third Resolution—That it is a well known fact, admitted
by the faculty, that the number of hours the men work in
confined unhealthy workshops engenders innumerable dis-
eases, especially the life-destroying fistula and consump-
tion, withering hundreds before the age of thirty years,
and creating premature old age in the prime of manhood,
while, from the great inequality of the trade, one part of
the men working from 14 to 18 hours per day, the other
part are idle, reducing the wages to an average of 16s. per
week ; thereby exposing men to great privations and vices,
consequently leaving numbers of widows and orphans to
burden their parishes and other charitable institutions.
The CHAIRMAN then read an indulgence ticket; it was
signed by the secretary of the grand lodge, and stated the
price the bearer ought, or rather must, be paid for his
labour, on account of his being either an imperfect hand or
an old man, but what the price should be was settled by
the committee.

Another Deputy explained the meaning of the ticket,
and stated they were issuing vast numbers of them daily.
A Master Tailor wanted to know whether an able man
bat an idle one was to be paid 'whether he worked or not ?
The Deputy said the idle men would not be protected
by the Society ; the master must discharge such a man.
The Master said that all the privilege the master was to
have when he had a bad or an idle workman, was to go to
the committee and perhaps be obliged to wait there and
neglect other business.
The next resolution, as under, was then proposed, se-
conded, and carrried.
Fourth Resolution—That a committee be now formed
of those masters favourable to an adjustment of the differ-
ence now in dispute between masters and men, and that
such committee shall have power to confer with both men
and masters, with a view to that end.
A resolution was then passed, that publicity should be
given to the proceedings, a committee appointed, and
thanks voted to the chairman, when the meeting broke up.