The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1867.

AFTER Covent-garden Theatre—EVANS' to
SUP.
After Drury-lane Theatre FVANS' to SUP.
After Lyceum Theatre FVANS' to SUP,
After Adelphi Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Olympic Theatre . ....... EVANS' to SUP.
After Strand Theatre EVANrs' to SUP.
After New Royalty Theatre I4IVANS' to SUP.
Alter St. James's Theatr. FVANS' to SU►'.
Alter Pz ince of Wales' Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
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for the working men of London, and not for those
of all England. (Crirs of " No.") He had
thoroughly examined this subject for the last 15
years, but how to carry out a principle depended on
time and circumstances. He had been long of
opinion that Reform would not be handled
thoroughly, or brought forward with vigour, un-
less by Mr. Gladstone—(hear, bear)—but it was a
difficult question to deal with in the House of Com-
mons. The Government were obliged to form an
opinion in the dark, and no doubt a great deal of
time was lost in desultory warfare. In his opinion
they took the only course they could, and the vote
on which they resigned was to all intents and
purposes a vote of want of confidence, and not to
alter the wording of the bill. They would have
been guilty of the greatest folly had they acted
otherwise ; and in his opinion the result would be
of the greatest advantage to the cause of Reform,
because it was now settlei by the Liberal party that
the Government of the country could not be carried
on without a measure of Reform. He believed Mr.
Gladstone would one day carry it in spite of all
obstacles. (Cheers.) And with respect to those
demonstrations made outside doors, he thought the
working classes were perfectly justified in doing so.
They were taxed with being indifferent to Reform,
and were right in evincing that such a charge was
entirely erroneous. He himself attended a Reform
meeting in Manchester, which was everything that
could be desired, and when it wrs proposed to imi-
tate it in St. James's Hall he went there. (Loud
cries of " Hear," and laughter.) He carried away
from St. James's Hall the pleasing reflection that
those concerned resolved to do what he suggested,
and no course was adopted likely to injure the cause
itself. It was said the House of Commons would do
nothing in the coming session, but he did not credit
it. He believed, on the contrary, that party contests
would bring out Parliamentary Reform, and a proper
measure would no doubt be brought forward and
carried. (Cheers.) It was said that if the franchise
were extended to the working classes the nation
would be too fond of going to war, but he did not
believe that assertion ; but, on the contrary, he
believed in his conscience the wisest thing that
could be done was to give them an interest iu main-
taining and defending the institutions and interests
of the country. (Cheers.)
Mr. DAY next moved, " That the best thanks of
this meeting be presented to Mr. Ayrton, M.P.,
for attending that meeting, and for the course he
pursued as one of their representatives."
Mr. GLADDING seconded the motion.

Mr. DUFFIELD moved as an amendment, "That
this meeting indignantly condemns the uncalled-for
and unmanly attack made by Mr. Ayrton on her
Majesty the Queen at the Reform Meeting in St.
James's Hall, on the 4th of December last, and is of
opinion that his treatment of the Reform cause at
that meeting, as well as his refusal to give his aid to
the insulted and oppressed tax-payers of Mile-end
when called upon to du so, renders it impossible that
the people of the Tower Hamlets, should continue
to give him their confidence and support." He
candidly avowed he had never much confidence in
Mr. Ayrton—(cheers)—and it was for them to say
whether they would any longer disgrace themselves
by returning him to Parliament. (Cheers.)
Mr. BRAIDLAW seconded the amendment, be-
cause Mr. Ayrton did not advocate that extension
of the suffrage demanded by the great body of the
people in the Tower Hamlets.
The CHAIRMAN called on Mr. Ayrton to say if ho
made any attack on the Queen.
Mr. AYRTON, in reply, said the imputation in the
amendment was literally and entirely untrue and
unfounded.

A VOICE—Mr. Bright said so.
Mr AYRTON—Yes, but he was udder a misappre-
hension. What he said then he would now repeat,
namely, that it was the duty of her Majesty's Mi-
nisters to advise the Queen to identify herself more
with the life of the nation. There were great inte-
rests at stake in this metropolis, for hundreds and
thousands of people depended for their living on the
wealth that flowed into the metropolis, and it was
of the utmost consequence that the Sovereign should
be among them as much as possible. (Hear, hear.)
• The amendment was then put and negatived, and
the original resolution passed.
Mr. GABLE next proposed a resolution in favour
of manhood and residential suffrage, protected by
the ballot.

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Mr. BLAND seconded the motion, and it was
adopted.
A vote of thanks was next passed to the chairman,
after which the proceedings, which were of rather a
noisy character, terminated.

The Law of Trades' Unions.

IMPORTANT DEPUTATION TO MR. WALPOLE.

Yesterday afternoon a deputation waited by ap-
pointment on the Right lion. S. 11. Walpole, for the
purpose of representing to him, and through him to
Government, the position in which trades unions
have been placed by the decision of the Court of
Queen's Bench in the case of the Bradford boiler-
makers, and impressing on the Government the im-
portance of putting them in the same position with
regard to protection as friendly societies in general.
The deputation consisted of Mr. William Allan,
representing the Amalgamated Engineers ; Mr. D.
Guile, the Ironfounders' Society ; Mr. R. Apple-
garth, the Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners ;
and Mr. George Odgers, of the Trades' Council.
The deputation was introduced by

Mr. THOMAS HUGHES, M.P., who said he believed,
and with great reason, that the decision of the
Queen's Bench had placed trades' societies entirely
or
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been placed by the acts of former Governments.
Mr. ALLAN said so far back as 1855 they succeeded
in getting two clauses inserted in the Friendly Socie-
ties' Act, by which they imagined they obtained legal
protection against fraudulent trustees or other offi-
cials. It was now very questionable whether they
had that protection in fact, they were inclined to
think they had not. The Court of Queen's Bench
had decided that their rules placed them outside
the pale of the law, and that they could not have
the protection of the Friendly Societies' Act.
Mr. WALPOLE understood that the Lord Chief
Justice decided that the society before him could
only be looked upon as a society formed to act as a
restraint on trade, and could not be supposed to be
legal.
Mr. HUGHES said that in the rules of all the socie-
ties there were clauses that would 'probably be con-
sidered also as a restraint upon trade.
Mr. ALLAN said the Friendly Societies' Act gave
them certain privileges on depositing their rules
with Mr. Tidd Pratt, provided they contained nothing
contrary to law. In 1851 the society got the opinion
of Sir A. Cockburn, at that time Attorney-General,
who held that their rules were perfectly legal. If
they were legal, the societies contended that they
should have the protection of the Friendly So-
cieties' Act with regard to fraudulent trustees.
On the faith of that protection they had deposited
a large amount of money in the Post Office Savings
Banks. They had at first some difficulty about it,
iffu funds
but they waited on Mr. Gladstone, who ultimately
fraud took place, they had any control over the
gearearnet.ed
Itth elymaathne
npwrivgilnegesetoiofndaebpoosi
persons who defrauded them. Mr. Glridstone de-
cided that their rules were not illegal, and therefore
wtinhgeththeeri,r,
ties' Act.
they ought to have the benefit of the Friendly Secie-
Mr. WALPOLE—What power had Mr. Gladstone
to decide that? He only gave his opinion, I sup-
pose ?
Mr. ALLAN said be was Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, and representative of the Government.
Mx, IlvoiES aaid there had been a direct §anction,

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED sd.

by the Government of the investment in the Post
Office Savings Banks.

Mr. GUILE said the funds of the Amalgamated
Engineers amounted to £1.40,000, and they were
scattered in various parts of the country.
In reply to Mr. Walpole, Mr. GUILE said that
the rules were pretty nearly alike in all cases.
Mr. HUGHES said those of the Bradford Boiler-
makers were rather stronger.
Mr. ALLAN said the rules on which Sir Alexander
Cockburn gave his opinion were quite as strong, if
not stronger than those of the boilermakers, yet he
said distinctly that they were not illegal, but per-
fectly sound according to law.

Mr. WALPOLE then read the judgment of the
Lord Chief Justice, to the effect that he thought
the society could not be brought within the Friendly
Societies' Act, first, because the purposes for which
the trades' unions were organised were not analogous
to those of benefit societies, and because its rules,
though not criminal, yet, acting as a restraint on
trade, they were by the law of the land illegal. He
also read the opinion of Sir Alexander Cockburn,
which was to the effect that it was legal for men to
combine to protect themselves and to persuade others
to act with them, provided no violence were done to
person or property ; that all threats, intimidation.
and molestation were avoided, and that G.
were not objectionable in point of law, though they
might have been prepared with greater accuracy.
The hon. gentleman then asked the deputation to
point out what they specidcally asked him to do.
Mr. GUILE said the society which he represented
instructed him to ask the Government to take their
rules and put them into the hands of the law advisers
of the Crown for examination. If they were of opi-
niOn that they were not legal, he as requested to
ask the Government to provide such an act as would
place them within range of the law for all practical
purposes. The speaker mentioned a case in which
an agent of his society had £B3 belonging to it, but
which, after the recent decision, they could not claim.
He also furnished a number of statistics to show
that the object of the societies was more for bene-
volence than the advancement of trades' unions. In
eight years the society to which he belonged bad
expended on men out of work, but not through the
operations of strikes, on the sick and the disabled,
on the aged and on funerals, no less than £138,303,
whilst in the same periad the total amount paid for
strikes was £1,877. This was at the rate of ss. 6d.
per member to support strikes or disputes, while for
benevolent purposes there had been paid
£2l ss. 64 d. per member.

Mr. IVALioLE said there was no doubt that
would be perfectly legal. He did not know really
how far the facts in the case, as decided by the
Court of Queen's Bench, were or were not identical
for the purpose of the law with the ease as regarded
the deputation. He thought it so important a
matter that the best thing the deputation could do
was to put into writing in the shape of a memorial
to be presented at that office the exact thing they
wanted him to do. That would enable him to
consider, and, if necessary, to consult with his col-
leagues as to how far they could fall in with the
suggestions made to the Government. He saw a
difficulty about consulting the law officers merely
on the application of one society, for he should, if
granting the facility in one case, have to afford it
in others.

Mr. HUGHES said that the case of the societies
was that they had been led into this present scrape
by previous Governments ; they had dropped their
old system of protection by checking their officials,
and they had been led to rely upon the protection
of the Friendly Societies Act. Now their funds
were scattered all over England, and their affairs
were exceedingly critical, because if the officers
turned out rascals they had no power to recover a
penny.

Mr. WALPOLE said the matter really depended
on the ulterior question whether the societies
were legal or not according to the judgment of the
Court of Queen's Bench. The law officers could
not decide such a question. Nothing but the Court
could decide whether the rules were contrary to
law or not within the meaning of the decision of the
Court. The law officers of the Crown could not
give them any valuable opinion except as to what
the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench would
be.

Mr. APPLEGARTH said the important question
was—were trades unions simple, or were they not
to be outside the pale of the law ? They had been
of opinion that it was quite lawful for working men
to combine for the protection of their interests,
provided they did not bring themselves into collision
with the law that provided against intimidation,
&c. He would admit that, if in any part of the
country work was plentiful, men underpaid, and
employers refused to raise their wages, they would
draw the men from their employers, and pay them
15s. a week as strike pay ; bat they set their faces
against all kinds of intimidation ; and as for strikes,
they would not say they dreaded them, but they did
all they could to oppose them, set their faces against
them, and endeavoured to substitute for them a
system of arbitration. He thought the suggestion
made to them by the hon. gentleman was a very
good one, but he should wish that, after they had
put in writing what they desired, there should be
some sort of inquiry to let the Government see
what trades unions were. No doubt they did many
sad and serious things, but they were not so bad as
they were painted. Such an inquiry was necessary
before any legislation was attempted. They required
some specific law for their protection ; for even now
at Bradford and Hull they had cases of agents
from whom they could not obtain large sums of
money on account of the decision in the Court of
Queen's Bench. The question was, what were
they to do ? Were they to be placed at the mercy
of unscrupulous men, when the Government had
led them to believe they had protection ? A favour-
able solution of the difficulty would lead to the
purging of their rules if on impartial inquiry any-
thing objectionable could be found in them; but
with this exception, that they could not abolish
strike wages, for if they were abolished the unions
would go. He did not think they could give up the
union even for a bill.
Mr. WALPOLE said two distinct propositions had
been laid before him. One was to deal with this
particular case by some legislation immediately, and
that he understood the deputation were prepared
to lay a memorial before him as to the exact points
on which they wished legislation. Secondly, with
reference to importance of a full investigation into
the working of these societies all woulduld say now
was, and he believed Mr. Hughes bear him
out, that they would in a very few days see that he
was not in the least unfriendly to such au object as
that.
The deputation then thanked the hon. gentleman
and withdrew.

STREET-NAMING IN BELGRAVIA.--The Metropo-
litan Board of Works has ordered the following alterations
to be made in the names of public thoroughfares in Bel-
gravia :—T he name of Belgrave-street South to be abolished,
and the whole line of thoroughfare to be called Lowor
Belgrave-street ; the name of Ranelagh-street to be abo-
lished, and the street incorporated with Ebury-street ; the
names of Grosvenor-street West and Hobart-place to be
abolished, and the whole line of thoroughfare to be called

Lower Grosvenor-place. The five houses called Belgrave
Mansions to be incorporated with Grosvenor-gardens.

UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.—The official challenge
from the Cambridge University Boat Club has not yet been
forwarded to Oxford, but a meeting of the officers is to be
called in a few days by Mr. W. R. Griffiths, the captain,
when the matter will be determined, and there is every
reason to believe will result in the usual form being gone
through. Mr. Griffiths steered the following eight down
the river on Thursday :- -Anderson, Trinity; Bromby,
Christ's; Still, Gains; lion. Gordon, Trinity; Kemp, Tri-
nity; Naden, Pembroke; Collard, Lady Margaret; Pinck-
ney, Trinity. W. R. Griffiths, coxswain.
There were nearly 4,000,000 pounds 9f wool
gathered in Vermont last year.

NEWSPAPET)
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MANCHESTER, Feb. 1.--For c A
trade yarns the market has been quiet.Klu
ping yarns the market opened rather quietly, but
,h ,114-11,1 'TV,
conßiderably. -ore busi-
,l Mu..., Le under the rates spin-
ners were asking; Where-spinners have been dis-
posed to meet buyers pretty freely at a little under
yesterday's quotations they have in some instances
done a considerable amount of business, and this
branch of the market closes more cheerfully than
for some days past. Home-trade yarns have been
very quiet, and the recent slight improvement in
these goods has been entirely lost. The only busi-
ness done has had to be effected at the rates of this
day week. In cloth sellers report the market very
flat to-day, and say very little business has been
done. The buyers who were operating lately ap-
pear to have satisfied most of their present require-
ments, and they manifest little or no disposition to
go further at present, except at lower prices. These
have been offered to some extent, but have not
found general acceptance, consequently the busi-
ness of the day has been small. The recent busi-
ness done in some descriptions of goods haviAg
placed manufacturers under contract, they are
naturally less easy to deal with on that aczount.
Heavy goods, such as Bolton counterpanes, have
been active for export to America, but the anticipa-
tion of a reduction of from 45 to 20 per cent. in the
tariff had the effect of checking operations, and the
business both for export and home consumption is
flatter, perhaps, than it has been known to be for
the last six years.
BARNSLEY, Ist. —ln addition to the Northfield,
Midland, Milton, Elsecar, and Parkgate works, the
proprietors tit. the Cyclops and Atlas works hav e
given their employes notice of a reduction to the same
extent as at the'other works-10 per cent. A simi-
lar reduction was made at these works a month or
two ago, against which the men struck work, but
which they afterwards accepted. For railway ma-
terial the demand continues brisk, more particularly
in the heavier branches. Very little pig iron is being
manufactured, as the requirements of the trade are
very small, and orders are only given to meet imme-
diate wants. The steel trade is still very brisk, both
for the plain and manufactured article. The coal
trade is without alteration, and now that the canal
traffic has been fully resumed a good export trade is
being done at Hull, Goole, and Grimsby. A heavy
tonnage of the best house coal and those descrip-
tions known as Barnsley and Silkstone is being sent
to London and the south.

LEEDS, Ist.—The following is the trade report of
the Leeds Chamber of Commerce for the month of
January :—" In the woollen warehouses business has
been dull throughout the mouth, with a slight ten-
dency to improvement towards the close. The ship-
ping houses have also, with few exceptions, been
unusually quiet. The home trade has no doubt been
affected by the weather, which has caused the spring
trade to be rather later in commencing. The manufac-
turers have been so far very fairly employed, but un-
less there is an improvement in the demand merchants
will be slow in repeating their orders. The cap trade
partakes of the general dulness. The d emand for colo-
nial wools has been languid, and with the present
prospect of the wool market manufacturers have been
unwilling to increase their stocks of wool. Prices
remain about'the same. The English wool market
has been less active. There has not been much done
in fla.xes, and the trade is dull. Better classes are
very scarce, andmaintain their price. Lower classes
are not much inquired for, and though stocks are.
low yet they are not firm in price. Fine tows are
in demand at full rates. Common sorts are plenti-
ful and in little demand, and prices are unsteady.
Hemps are tending downwards. The yarn trade is
dull and orders scarce—more for low than for fine
numbers. Prices are nearly unchanged, but rather
in favour of the buyer. Threads are withoutchange.
The iron trade has been unusually dull during the
month, but has improved during the last week. The
iron girders for the Apperley viaduct, weighing 500
tons, have been made in this neighbourhood, and
the iron rolled for them by a house in the town in
the unprecedentedly short time of three weeks. The
machine makers are nearly all doing less. The en-
gineer tool makers are also very dull. The demand
for cut nails is quiet. There has been a quiet month
for rapeseed and linseed, but prices have been well
maintained, and merchants are not disposed to accept
lower rates. Rape oil has been in moderate con-
sumptive demand. Linseed oil, as usual at this sea-
son of the year, is flat, at unremunerative prices.
Cakes are in brisk demand, and prices very firm.
Olive oils have been more inquired for, and have
advanced £2 to £3 per ton. Stocks are small, and
held for higher rates. The past has been a very
dull month for all descriptions of leather. There
is no material change to report in prices. The tan-
ners are very dull. The shoe trade continues to be
very indifferent both for home trade and for ship-
ping. There is a better demand for both sanitary
tubes and bricks, and makers are busier. There has
only been a limited demand for paper. Material
continues plentiful at about former prices. The
tobacco trade is without change. The supply of
cattle has been large, and prices have been lower.
Number shown (five markets), beasts ,1,962; sheep,
14,250. Corn.--There has been a fair supply of
wheat, but prie'es have advanced ls. per quarter.
There has been a good demand for barley, which
has advanced about ls. Oats and beans without
change."

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THE UNIVERSAL TOURIST COMPANY

(LIMITED).

THE DELEGATES OF THE TRADE SOCIETIES.

A meeting took place on IV•ednesday evening at
the Terminus Hotel, London-bridge, of the Direc-
tors' Universal Tourist Company (Limited), to lay
before the delegates of trades societies and working
men plans intended to offer special facilities to those
classes to visit the Paris Exhibition.* A memorial
has been drawn up to his Imperial Majesty the
Emperor of the French, calling his attention to the
prohibitory sums which will be demanded for lodg-
ings, and tend almost wholly to exclude the work-
ing classes from the Exhibition. The directors
propose to despatch a deputation from their board,
accompanied by the representatives of the working
men, who, they are in hopes, • the Emperor will
honour with an interview to further an object his
Majesty is known to have at heart, and that the
opportunity may not be lost, offered by the coming
Exhibition, of bringing together the French and
English working people. The memorial requesting
the audience of the English trade delegates has been
most graciously and favourably received by his Ma-
jesty. It was intimated that there was reason to believe
the Emperor would grant the use of certain barracks ' •
and it was promised that any boon thus derived
would be freely given up to the tourists, without
benefit to the company. If, however, the lodgings
provided gratuitously by the Imperial Government
should fall short of the need, as would, in all pro-
bability, be the case, it was proposed that the ad-
vantage should be distributed over the whole body,
so that, assuming that six thousand could be lodged
in barracks without cost, and six thousand would
have to pay, the twelve thousand should be charged
a level sum. Some questions were put and sug-
gestions offered by Mr. Mackey (bookbinder), Mr.
Brighty (wood turner), and other delegates. Re-
solutions in accordance with the views expressed
were passed by the meeting ; and twelve delegates
were elected from among those present to accom-
pany the deputation to the Emperor.
M. A. Duboys de I,avigerie, the general manager
of the Tourist Company, has given years to mature
the plans he now proposes to bring into operation,
and the explanations he offered at the meeting were
most favourably received.

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* Mr. Coffey, director of the English and French Steam-
ship Company, presided.

THE PUBLIC PRIZE TRIAL FOR SPORTING DOGS.
—The public trial of sporting dogs on game in the field,
which is under distinguished patronage, and excities con-
siderable interest amongst sportsmen, has been deferred in
consequence of the wild state of partridges and grouse.
Birds are yet paired and in large covies, but as soon as
partridges "couple Off," and will lie to pointers and setters,
the trials will come off. Some well-stocked grouse moors
and partridge manors have been secured in Staffordshire,
and the trials will probably take place next month,

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PERILS FROM POISON.—A family named Wright,
at Havre, has just narrowly escaped poisoning from eating
food cooked in a copper utensil in which verdigris had been
formed. The lives of about 30 persons have been placed in
danger at Znaime, in Bohemia, by the mistake of a baker,
who inadvertently put some arsenic into his bread, instead
of giving it to the rats as he intended. Many of these per-
sons continue in great danger. The Frankfort police has
forbidden the sale of the fabric know as green tarlatan, as
it is dyed by colours composed in great part of arsenical
preparations, and is consequently very injurious to health.
THE LAST OF GAINSBOROUOWS " SITTERS."—A
lady has just died at the age of 85, Amelia, widow
of tha Rev. David Williams,-D.C.L., whose portrait was
painted by Gainsborough when she was a child. Gains-
borough (lied in Austst, 1788.