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

THE WEATHER.

The weather is really most extraordinary. Last Year
about this time the papers were full of letters recording
extraordinary high temperatures ; now in many Partsofq
the kingdom fires are necessary. In June I°`'"
people were perspiring from every pore, under a
temperature of 81 degrees ; early in Februari,
last, when snow would have been seasonable andfros'i
would have been in time, the heat was the one topic °f
conversation, and Mr. Allnatt registered 71 deg' 13
in the
the rays of a declining sun, and over 55 deg•
wanted
shade. Now when the ripening sun is
for the harvest, at a season when intense beat
is expected, the temperature in no case exceeds 53 deg.
In London it is 49 ; in Shields as low as 43. showere
have fallen in the East, and the wind on the coast hes
been blowing a gale, which would have done credit to the
month of November or the month of March. d besvl
fall of snow in Scotland is reported.

LABOUR AND TRADE IN LANCASIIIO

Agitation having ceased in Preston with resPect to
wages and hours of working, the emigration schemes °f
the cotton operatives are receiving increased attention.
Power-loom Weavers' Emigration Society seeins
Ti
likely to comprise a very large proportion of the union
a ists' ,
nd numbers also among its members many of the
non-unionists. Altogether about 450 weavers are 11°"
contributing to the funds, at the rate of 2d. per week for
one " share " or passage ; in some instances as mesa'
as 2s. 6d., and even more than that, is paid by the W
hers of one family. The Weavers' Union has always been
°
a weak society, but in the matter of emigration that cies
The
of operatives
evinces a surprising unanimity. belief
is general among them that the " thinning willthe
labour market," which is the real end in view,
better both for those who go and those who stay, and the
fire:
receives accessions every night. A few days eg°
Hirra in Manchester apprised the committee that gesso.
t meister Brothers, the proprietors of the Chit'
tenango Cotton Mills, in Madisonabout to
County,
hours by rail from the • city of New York, wanted
number of first-class weavers, and the committee intend
to turn that knowledge to They that
account. state t
if they had pers
Low £l,OOO they could find 200
who would • emigrate to-morrow. At the rneeticg.,„4
held in their institute, the weavers are told 11"
hundreds of men and women are now walking the streetS
be
despondingly, willing to work, but unable to 611 c!
employment (which is true enough), and that the state
this country as regards labour will never be bet
icter
than now, as the competition with Aincr3;'
Germany, Belgium, and other continental States 's
too formidable to allow of hope for a favourable clieDge.
Thus are the operatives urged to contribute to, and r;
pare for, self-expatriation. Every one of the Ineuwe..;
of the emigration society, without exception, it is
sel
has joined it with the expressed desire to emigrate, and
the first " batch " for deportation will be ballotted this
week. The Spinners and Minders' Association 110° f%
many weeks sent off on an average from six to eight of their
members per week, and on Monday last six wen' ivni
families, left Preston for Liverpool, and were t° c—e;
bark there on Wednesday for New York in the steare 0
Nebraska. The cotton trade of Preston is in much the set°,
condition as it has been during the past few months—Pdl:s
bably not quite so bad, but still so very little iinpruve
the
of
to be Scarcely worth remark, and the general trade
could
town is pronounced on all hands to be " as bad as
it
be." In Blackburn there has been a slight iruPresvernerld to
the cotton trade, and this has in some measure ten
buts
diminish the rage for emigration in that town;
for
though there has been no large despatch of emigrantesaoui
America recently, twos and threes are still draught
00
occasionally. About 800 workpeople have been tlherssre•
out of employment at Enfield by the failure of eof
Felix, Leach, and Co., consequent on the stoPPagrios
Messrs. Livesey and Thorpe, of Liverpool. A very ~,,a
strike has occurred in Blackburn among the iuhlier-ivith
carpenters, the masters having refused to corell34. king
their demand of a reduction of the hours of °risiod
from 54 to 49 per week. The masters ;ore
to adopt the hour system of payment, or 54 with
per week, at 64d. per hour for average wor ,„ the
some minor stipulations, and these being refused refused Pb•7oold
men, they suggested that the whole qt not
veer 0t 0
be referred to arbitration ; but the men
comply. The matter was argued a few daYa ago
separate
public meeting of masters and men, but they last
without agreeing on a single point ; and on Sattir°l.,oo
from 200 to 250 operatives struck work and entered 11;0.
what appears to have within it all the elements of Vi'ere
tracted struggle. The strike extends to Darivn',l the
the masters and men are respectively connected with the
Blackburn associations. In Wigan the master brielo'er
have withdrawn their notices of payment by the 1,9,0
but the operative joiners and carpenters in that toWn."
submitted to a like proposal.

A Cabinet Council will be held at the official eret:
sidence of the First Lord of the Treasury, DoWniog-s.+ r-e
on Saturday. pAsea
The Duke of Wellington, it is stated, has ePr— 5
T 1 ii
his intention of voting for the second reading of
the
Church Bill.
The Conference of the Methodist New Conn
now meeting in Halifax, have adopted, by a large
rnaj°l3 '
a petition in favour of the Irish Church Bill.
ivgbfir°
Mr. Muntz, the junior member for Birrnl3;
has given notice that on Friday evening he Will atotol
Chancellor of the Exchequer if the expense of the 1,;" 0
°ll
Commission to inquire into the Irish Church bas
'l,O
ascertained, and if there be any objection to lay it uP
table. -k-ratb
This (Thursday) evening Colonel "-
intends to ask the First Lord of the Treasury wbe,.tbernor
letter read at a public meeting at Birmingham on .51°-giiic
signed John night, and which has appeared in the lA.—,
journals, was written by the President of the Board of Trodet
and, if so, whether the Government concur in the oPicd°l3l
therein expressed.
,s,,e,
sPtatpurt,:nt,
were
e IN TIIE PLAYGROUND.— 011 StinCl?,l
af.ternoon, in lliver.street, Chester-road, Hulrne, a nuow`"
of young boys and girls, some Catholic and others Vr°.
quarrelling about the Conservative detn°ll‘
tralun of the previous day, when one of the disputant",
Ellen Higgins, a mere child, was assaulted and Itilecl'ed
down, receiving such serious injuries that she died ill
COT)
sequence.
ENCLOSURE OF LANDS.—The whole quantity °I
land which has been enclosed in England and Wales, or if
in the process of being enclosed, since the passing' of the
Enclosure Act of 1845, is 614,804 acres ; to be reserved 'at
exercise and recreation, 1,742 acres ; tobe reserved forlabour
ing poor, 2,223 acres. It may safely be assumedthat notntord
than three-fifths of the 614,804 acres (or 368,000) are laud/
waste of a manor, and upon which allotments for exerci%j
and recreation, or for labouring poor, could be require(
by Ow Enclosure commissioners.