The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-17 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.

The weather is really most extraordinary. Last 571 t
about this time the papers were full of letters recorchl
extraordinary high temperatures ; now in manY Parts °
the kingdom fires are necessary. In June IS6S
under a
people were perspiring from every pore,
temperature of 81 degrees ; early in Feb
last, when snow would have been seasonable and fros
°tsf
.
would have been in time, the heat was the one topic 0
conversation, and Mr. Allnatt registered 71 deg e
the rays of a declining sun, and over 55 deg. 111 d
the
ripening shade. Now when sun is wahente
at
for the harvest, at a season when intense
is expected, the temperature in no case exceeds 53 deg;
mbhaeoevnnethbfalolelfNevnisTin in the East, and the wind
In London it is 49 ; in Shields as low as 43. Slicivier
ch
fall of snow in Scotland is reported.
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LABOUR AND TRADE IN LANCASiIifi

Agitation having ceased in Preston with resPeet
thewages and hours of working, the emigration selienles
cotton operatives are receiving increased attentio
The
Power-loom Weavers' Emigration Society seer°
likely to comprise a very large proportion of the unionists'
and numbers also among its members many te
non-unionists. Altogether about 450 weavers are
contributing 0°-
to the funds, at the rate of 2d. per wet„for
one " share " or passage ; in some instances es
as 2s. Gd., and even more than that, is paid by the Wein'
hers of one family. The Weavers' Union has always beeo
a weak society, but in the matter of emigration that ell
.of operatives evinces a surprising unanimity. The be
s general among them that the " thinning of the
labour market," which is the real end in view, will h-
better both for those who go and those who stay, auel
society receives accessions every night. A few clays 94°,
firm in Manchester apprised the committee thatl\less';:
Hintermeister Brothers, the proprietors of the C 111".
tenango Cotton Mills, in Madison County, about tell
hours by rail from the city of New York, wanted a
number of first-class weavers, and the committee interst!
to turn that knowledge to account. They state that
if
who would they hadtild neomwigr2alt,eoootot-mheeyrrocsovu. could
Atfi thend2oOinPeeertshro,,sg
held in their institute, the weavers are told 11°4.4”
hundreds of men and women are now walkitc the stre,,e7i
despondingly, willing to work, but unable to tin;
employment (which is true enough), and that the state 11:
this country as regards labour will never be bette-
than now, as the competition with nsc°:
Germany, Belgium, and other continental States 15
too formidable to allow of hope for a favourable change.
Thus are the operatives urged to contribute to, and pre;
pare for, self-expatriation. Every one of the merebe.dr
of the emigration society, without exception, it is sandl
has joined it with the expressed desire to emigrate, ~.0
the first " batch " for deportation will be ballotted telt
week. The Spinners and Minders' Association have fOr
many weeks sent off on an average from six to eight of thiTh
members per week, and on Monday last six men' w .
families, left Preston for Liverpool, and were to
ems,
there on Wednesday for New York in the steamer°
Nebraska. The cotton tradeof Preston is in much the 53111
.
condition as it has been during the past few months—r4e
bably not quite so bad, but still so very little iniPrereatb‘o
to be scarcely worth remark, and the general trade of
town is pronounced on all hands to be " as bad as it
eeltlitt
be." In Blackburn there has been a slight iraprovetne,ild to
the cotton trade, and this has in some measure ten but,
diminish the rage for emigration in that town' ~.
though there has been no large despatch of emierrautscis
America recently, twos and threes are still draughte
own
occasionally. About SOO workpeople have been thersers,
out of employment at Enfield by the failure ag °s
e f
Felix, Leach, and Co., consequent on the stoPPgiou
Messrs. Livesey and Thorpe, of Liverpool. A veil ser and
k e erewith
strie has ccured in Blackburn among
carpenters,o r the masters having refused toth comply
their demand of a reduction of the hours of wfrisbed
from 54 to 40 per week. The masters "'lloilo
to adopt the hour system of lAyment, or 54 with
per week, at G4d. per hour for average workmen'
3r the
some minor stipulations, and these being refused biiotila
men, they suggested that the whole question not
be referred to arbitration ; but the men wow"
at a
comply. The matter was argued a few days age ted
public meeting of masters and men, but they separs, last
without agreeing
on a single point ; and on SaturdaY 0
from 200 to 250 operatives struck v‘ work and entered ilPfe.
riere
'
what appears to have within it all the elements a
tracted struggle. The strike extends to Parlor`
w, , tb°
the masters and men are respectively connected ita , err
Blackburn associations. In Wigan the master briekle/il r ;
13 have withdrawn their notices of
• e3teent by t behavehe
but the operative joiners and carpenters in that toWO
submitted to a like prorsal.

A Cabinet Council will be held at the 01116311 re;
sidence of the First Lord of the Treasury, Dowlai'3s-svrec

on Saturday.
The Duke of Wellington, it is stated, has exPo jilsb
re'"
his intention of voting for the second reading of
th
Church Bill.
The Conference of the Methodist New Con nCeti°i:3;
now meeting in Ealifax, have adopted, by a largo
a petition iu favour of the Irish Church Bill.
Mr. Muntz, the junior member for BirmDgbaillb;
has given notice that on Friday evening he Will at„ tol
Chancellor of the Exchequer if the expense of the '-dev
Commission to inquire into the Irish Church has bedis
ascertained, and if there be any objection to lay it upon
table. 7,atb
This (Thursday) evening Colonel dio
intends to ask the First Lord of the Treasury
letter read at a public meeting at Birmingham on 31°L'cl:17c
signed John Bright, and which has appeared in the
journals, was written by the President of the Board of 720"-;
and, if so, whether the Government concur in the opini°l3-
therein expressed.
Say d)
POLITICS IN THE PLAYGROUND. .011
afternoon,f in River•street, Chester-road, Hulme, a unrubel
o young boys and girls, some Catholic and others V°.
testant, were quarrelling about the Conservative dernolv
stration of the previous day, when one of the disputalit4;
Ellen Higgins, a mere child, was assaulted and knock
down, receiving such serious injuries that she -died in con'
whether
sequence.
ENCLOSURE OF LANDS.—The whole quantity O
land which has been enclosed in England and Wales, the
in the process of being enclosed, since the passing a
Enclosure Act of 1845, is 614,804 acres ; to be reserved fol
exercise and recreation, 1,742 acres ; to be reserved forlabour
ing poor, 2,223 acres. ft may safely be assumed that not Ivor!
than three-fifths of the 614,804 acres (or 368,000) are
waste of a manor, and upon which allotments for exerclo;
and recreation, or for labouring poor, could be requite
by tho Enclosure Commissioners, _