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London, England, 1851-12-27 00:00:00

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although only one-fourth belonged to the union, all the
independent workmen joined the strike.
After ob:;ervations to a similar effct had been
offered by Mr. William Parsons, Mr. John Seaward,
Mr. Blyth, Mr. J. S. Russell, and Mr. Jabom James,
the resolution was unanimously adopted.
The SECRETARY here read over the names of the
gentlemen who had signed the attendance sheet of the
meeting, explaining that as the last resolution pro-
' posed pledged those not objecting to it who were pre-
sent to close their establishments when called upon
by the committeee, it was necessary that no mistake
L should exist as to the determination individually, as
well as collectively. The resolution, thus explained,
l was again declared unanimously adopted by the

meeting.
Mr. J. PENN proposed the following resolution--
"That the persons present at this meeting do form
themselves into and are hereby constituted a society,
to bo called the Central Association of Employers of
Operative Engineers, Etc., for the purpose of carrying
the foregoing resolutions into effect."
Mr. J. RusszLL, in cordially seconding the resolu-
tion, admitted that the address of the executive
council was craftily qualified to catch simple hu-
manity-mongers. It was an artful device to qualify
extortion, with appeals to the benevolent promoters of
the early closing movement. The hypocrisy of the
pretext should be thoroughly exposed. It should be
distinctly declared the masters were perfectly ready
to co-operate, by a benevolent and moral means, for
the elevation of the working classes, but that an edu-
cational movement, or an effort to promote social
progress, was a very different step from that of men
endeavouring not to rise by their own merit to a level
with their employers, bat forcibly, by mere exaction
and encroachment, to change places with the masters.
He repeated that the whole pretext was hypocritical.
It was notorious that so far from overtime being con-
sidered as oppressive, the men regarded it as a privi-
lege. Nay, to his certain knowledge, the very
hands who were leaders in this strike were the
largest voluntary over-time workers.—(Loud cheers.)
Who forced them to work overtime?—(Cheers.)
Any man was at perfect liberty to decline to do so.
—(Cheers.) But the fact was, that the unionists
wanted over-time wages without over-time work.—
(Cheers.) That was at the bottom of the vehole
movement.--(Cheers.) Again, who asked any man
to labour by piece-work ? But if one man put
through his hands in a given time more work than
another, was he not to be paid for it?—(Cheers.)
Yet that was the proposition of the unionists, or
rather they demanded that the profits of the dex-
terous workman should be divided with the lazy and
unskilful.—(Hear, hear.) He presumed that the
executive committee would give the signal to the
members as to the time when the closing should. be-
come general ; and he could only say that he, for
one, should faithfully stand, by his order.—(Cheers.)
Mr. G. RENNIE proposed the sixth resolution, as
follows :—" That John Scott Russell, Thomas Mands-
lay, Joshua Field, John Penn, George Rennie, Ri-
chard Revenhill, John Seaward, Bryan Donkin, jun.,
Henry Grissell, C. E. Amos, John Blyth, Joel
Spiller, and George Boville, Esqs , together with the
chairman and treasurer, with poser to add to Their
number, be elected the executive committee of this
association, to adopt all steps necessary to effect its
objects and its permanent establishment, for the pur-
pose of watching over the interests and guarding the
mutual rights of employers and employed; and that
it be instructed to convene an adjourned meeting of
this association, and to report when it shall see fit."
He was proud of this public occasion to acknowledge
the virtues and value of the artizans of this country.
He, for one, was not ashamed to acknowledge the
debt of gratitude under which they had laid hian.—
(Cheers.) He believed all masters of large experience
had been indebted for many useful suggestions, and va-
luable ideas to their men—(Loud cheers)—and he
deeply regretted the causes which created estrange-
ment between them. It should not be, however,
forgotten, that the men had taken the initiative in this
act of aggression, and that self-respect as well as pru-
dence required that the masters should defend them-
selves and their peaceable hands-from a dictation that
was ruinous to both.—(Hear.)
Mr. C. E. Amos seconded the resolution, and
thanked the representatives of the eminent firms then
present for their attendance and unanimity ; he be-
lieved that their promptitude and energy would su
persede the necessity for the use of them. He had
had the greatest difficulty in reconciling himself to
the strong measures which had been recommended,
but he was perfectly satisfied that it was possible to
be " cruel only to be kind," and that on this occasion
rigour was substantial mercy.—(Cheers.)
After a vote of thanks had been carried to the de-
putation from Manchester, Mr. Blyth presented the
acknowledgments of the committee to Mr. Charles
May.
Mr. MAY, in returning thanks, was desirous to ex-
plain that his firm, carrying on its business in an
agricultural district, was not obnoxious to the dicta-
tion which bad been complained of, and could not
therefore take part in the proceedings. Re, like them,
felt pressing upon his kindlier feelings the pain of
visiting the consequences of the sins of the guilty
upon the innocent, and he would not rest satisfied
until a counter union to that which had produced so
many evils was cemented between the masters and the
peaceable workmen.—(Loud cheers.) He conceived
that by a system of mutual insurance generously
contributed to by masters, and managed by respon-
sible and competent persons, the money lavished upon
strikes, or too often embezzled in benefit and other
clubs, might realise a comfortable provision to th•
artizans in sickness and old age.—(Loud cheers.) If
the operative members of such an association received
a preference of employment from the master mem-
bers, and bore with them diplomas certifying their
membership, and in which were entered minutes of
their engagements with their employers, he believed
much would be done to break the neck of these im-
proper combinations.—(Cheers.)
After a vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting
adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Levi Tobias —;;;brought before the Lord Mayor
charged with having had in his possession a quantity
of gloves and other property which had been stolen
from the shop of Messrs. Wilson, of Mincing-lane,
hosiers and glovers.
George Trew and Henry Webb, the officers, saw
the prisoner come out of his house with a bag which
appeared to be full. Trew said, " I followed, and saw
him go into a public-house and enter a small dark
parlour. He came out without the bag, and pre-
tended to me that he had not brought anything of the
kind. I kicked the bag before me, took him into
custody, and found in the bag a considerable number
of pairs of gloves. In his premises I found a great
quantity of miscellaneous property, which I believe to
have been obtained dishonestly."
Mr. H. Wilson said that on the night of the bur-
glary he and his servants left the shop, as they thought,
well secured by locks and padlocks. When he arrived
next morning he saw a crowd of persons about the
door, and was told that somebody inside had hanged
himself, but he soon found that the premises had been
broken open and entered by thieves and plundered of
a great deal of property. He bad, he regretted to say,
been robbed but a short time before of a considerable
part of his stock. He found upon the counter some
odd gloves, which, upon examination, turned out to
correspond with some odd gloves found at the pri-
soner's premises.
Webb, the officer, said the prisoner stated that the
' gloves found in the bag could be accounted for, as•
they had been bought in Wood-street, Cheapside, as
a job lot three months ago.
Trew said there was among the property found in a
drawer in the house of the prisoner a watch, the marks
and number and maker's name on which corresponded
with those which he had received as descriptive of a
watch which had been stolen.

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Mr. Solemons, who appeared for the prisoner, cross-
examined some of the witnesses, and said his client
would be able to prove that whatever property he was
possessed of had been honestly obtained.
The prisoner was remanded till Thursday.
WESTMINSTER.

Nathaniel Beadle, Thomas Beadle, (his brother),
Michael Banks, and Joseph Smith, four travelling
tinkers, were charged with a series of desperate as-
saults upon the police.
The facts are briefly these :—On the previous even-
ing Nathaniel Beadle attacked a person at a trades-
man's door in Queen's-road East, Chelsea ; and,
upon police-constable Powell, Y 3 B, interposing, the
offender attacked him. He endeavoured to secure
the fellow, when defendants and a number of others
attacked the officer and rescued the prisoner. A se-
cond policeman coming to Powell's assistance, an
attempt was made to recapture the defendant Na-
thaniel, and another attack by the defendants and
their associates was the consequence. An indescrib-
able scene of riot and confusion ensued, which lasted
for several minutes, in the course of which a number
of fresh constables arrived, who were all violently
attacked by different persons of the lowest descrip-
tion ; and it was not until a reinforcement of the
police arrived that order was restored. Evidence
having been given by a number of witnesses, clearly
Proving the prominent part which all but Smith had
taken in the affray,
The defendants pleaded drunkenness and sore heads
and limbs (the consequence of their violence) in miti-
gation of their punishment, and Nathaniel Beadle was
committed for three weeks, Thomas Beadle for three
months, for three distinct assaults, Michael Banks for
a like period, and Smith was discharged.

A BITTER Cur —The friends of Louis Napoleon
pretend that he hai acted with impartiality towards the sol-
diers and the people; fur if he gave wiue to the military,
he did not fail to give the citizens a taste of the grape.—
Punch,.