The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-28 00:00:00

THE TBADE3 UNION CONGRESS.

The sittings of the Birmingham Trades Union Congress
aro continued daily, and on Thursday morning the ques-
tion of the limitation of apprentices was discussed. Several
Members present upheld the system which Mr. Odder
opposed in a very sensible speech. If youths were no
allowed to learn trades, what ho asked, was to become o'
them ? If they became beggars, paupers, or thieves, oz
picked up an uncertain subsistence, they would operate
more against working men than if they were allowed t,
come into the trades. Mr. Potter thought there was mucli
to be said on both sides, and objected strongly to boylabour,
child labour, and woman labour, which ho doclnred was the
curse of the country. In the Luaiest times he believed
there was an excess of labour. Subsequently a discussion
on strikes and lock-oats was held, in the course of which
it was mentioned that the dispute in the iron trade cost
£45,000; that in the Sheffield file trade, £15,000; that of
the tailors in London, £20,000; while that of the coal
trade in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Yorkshire
was enormous. In the evening a meeting of the trades
unionists was held in the Town Hall, under the presi-
dency of the mayor. The names of twelve delegates had
been selected as the speakers of the evening, each being
limited to ten minutes. The subjects were selected by the
speakers, the object of the meeting being to give the
representatives from the various districts of the country
an opportunity of addressing their fellow working men in
Birmingham on the questions affecting the industrial
classes. Mr. Potter, who opened the discussion, chose
for his subject the usefulness of trades unions, and de-
clared that through theiragency the operatives of the coun-
try had been benefitted socially, morally, and pecuniarily.
Later on the subject selected was the direct representation
of labour in Parliament, and Mr, George Odger came
forward to recount his electioneering experiences at
Chelsea. He had heard it said by newspaper; by
twaddling old statesmen in the House of Commons,
and fogeyism in the House of Lords, that working
men were not true to one another, but he would give the
lie to that as the result of his own experience. He declined
to stand for Chelsea unless he had a requisition signed
by a thousand electors. This he received and he accepted
the responsibility. He had not been three days in the
borough before he was asked about his birth and origin.
He replied that his father was a miner who died when he
Was four years old, and he had had to get his own living
since he was nine. The Pall Mall Gazette made this out to
be a crime. Mr. Odger went on to denounce in no measured
terms the " simpering dandyism" of the profession that
the Pall Mall Gazette was to be written " by gentlemen
for gentlemen." If they had spoken the truth,
they would have put outside their office the
words " Mangling done here." It did not affect
him, for four learned professors came to his aid, headed
by Mr. Mill. Still the Pall Mall Gazette attacked him,
and at last suggested ho had received money. For this
he made them apologise, but he was told Chelsea was a
gentleman's constituency, and he was not able to repre-
sent the literary men who lived there. Mr. Odger, in
conclusion, said be believed there were fifty constituencies
who would return working mess candidates if working
men would do their duty. _

At the Congress, yesterday, Mr. Burton (Manchester)
retracted an imputation which he hal made upon
Mr. Rupert Kettle, of unfairness in a recent
decision as arbitrator at Manchester. The charge, it
appeared, was made by the capenters of Manchester.
The congress then resumed the discussion of four
papers on strikes, lock-outs, and co-operation,
read on Thursday. Mr. Hibbs (Birmingham) adopted the
politico-economic argument, and Mr. Potter (London)
argued that unemployed labour should be applied to the
reclamation of waste lands. Mr. Odger (London) con-
trasted the legislation upon the occasion of the cattle
plague with the apathy of Government, when thou-
sands of men were thown out of work in Coventry
and Macclesfield by the operation of the French Treaty.
The Cattle Plague Act was legislation for the breeches
reket. Ile said that political economists were already
shahing for come of the nostrums which they had pro-
pounded.

The Eight Thornns Baer Morrell, D.D.,
('xon. re,igned tho coadjutor-L:,liopec of tho diocese of

The will of the Eight lion. Edwanl John, Baron
Stanley of Alderley, P.C., was proved in tho London court,
on the 19th inst., under £70,000 personalty.

A Dublin correspondent telegraphs !bat it is stated
Colonel Tighe, of Woodstock, ecunty Kilkenny, intends to
place £lO,OOO in the braids of 1113 new Church body.

The Duke of Cianbridge has conferred the new
appointment of milittry controller iu the Chatham district
on Assistant-Commissary-General W. Fulford Adams, who
has entered on the duties of the office.

An extraordinary case of cool daring and gallant
determination to save life las just been rewarded by Lie
Royal Humane Society by the presentrtion of handsome
and suitable testimonials to two men named Buckley and
Jones, who were recently instrumental in rescuing four
persons from suffocation by chokedz.mp in a well at Liver-
pool.

It appears from the proceedings at one of the com-
mittees of the Manchester City Council that the expense
attending the reception of the Prince of Wales in Manches-
ter was £560. The Corporation was congratulated upon the
economy which had been observed ; and it was mentioned
that there had been a possibility of the visit entailirg an
expense of £5,000.

The report of the Seitct Committee appointed to
inquire into the Abyssinian war was pub:ished on Friday.
together with the evitlen( o taken before them. The eri
denco we have presented to our readers as it came out. The
coma, toe dec'are they are rot in a condition to report. They
have therefore agreed to lay the evidence before the House,
with a recommendation that the committee to renppointeii
in the next Session of Parliament.
The Prince of Wales and his :lute arrived at
Aberdeen at one o'clock on Thursday af t:sraoon. After a brief
gtay his Royal lliiliness left by special train for the Bigh-
eads. At Aboyno ho halted fur a short time, and was re-
ceived by the Marquis and Mort hionees of Huntly and party,
at present residing at Aboyno Castle. .Ballater was reached
nt three o'clock; there the Prince was received by the
guard of honour of the 92d Highlanders. The weather was
beautiful.

Mr. West, the recorder of Manchester, in his
charge to the jury at tho opening of the intermediate ses-
sions on Thursday, adverted to the Habitual Criminals Act,
and stated that he had no great faith in Acts of Parliament
'or the repression of crime. He hoped the Act referred to
would be as successful as was desired; but he pointed to
good example on the part of those in a higher position of
society, and to extended education, as being likely to be
productive of considerable goad.

At tho opening of the court at Bridgewater, Mr.
Brisson asked for more time to go through the lists, to
give the names of more bribers, and was compli-
mented by the Commissioners on the frankness and
readiness with which he bad given his evidence. Andrew
Allan, glass and china dealer, was next called, and began
to detail tho proceedings of the last election. Ho told the
story of the voters bottled up at the New Inn. Young
Prior, akthe Bank, gave him £5OO, and the witness gave the
names of about thirty voters who got £lO each.

U n Thuraday,at theWolverhamptonßoroughPolice-
court, Charles Crook, publican, of Walsall, appeared on ad-
journment to answer a charge preferred against him by the
police, that he permitted a booth of which he was the oc-
cup:or, on the Wolverhampton racecourse, to be used for the
purposes of betting. The bench, having heard the evi-
dence, considered the case proved, and inflicted a penalty of
£2O and costs. Mr. rartlett then gave notico of appeal, and
the magistrates fixed the amount of the recognisances for
prosecuting the appeal at £2OO for the deferium —I two
sureties in £lOO each.

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