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London, England, 1859-09-29 00:00:00

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of wages or price, and the hours or time of working
—each class, masters and men, are subject to the
same law.

PRICE 41) STAMPED, SD.

By a later act, 22d Viet., c. 34, passed to protect
the working man, it is provided that no one, whether
in actual employment or not, shall by reason
merely of his entering into any agreement with
any workman, or other person or persons, for the
purpose of fixing, or endeavouring to fix, the rate
of wages or remuneration at which they, or any of
them, shall work, or by reason merely of his endea-
vouring peaceably, and in a reasonable rawer,
and without threats or intimidation, direct or in-
direct, to persuade others to cease or abstain front
work, in order to obtain the rate of wages or the
altered hours of labour so fixed or agreed upon,
shall be deemed or taken to be guilty of " molesta-
tion or obstruction" within the meaning of the
former act, and shall not therefore be subject to
prosecution or indictment for conspiracy- But it
is provided that nothing contained in this later act
shall authorise any attempt to induce any workman
to break or depart from any contract.

fixes a disgrace upon the people of the British na-
tion as an enlighted and Christian community."
He contended that the degrading practice of flog-
ging in the army and navy would never he done
away with until the people were better represented
in the House of Commons.

Mr. BrwyoN. seconded the resolution, which was
agreed to. _ _

Mr. J. ACLAND then moved the second resolu-
tion :—" That immediate steps be taken for the
abolition of flogging in the army and navy, by me-
morialising her Majesty the Queen, petitioning both
Houses of Parliament, and addressing the authori-
ties at the Horse Guards and Admiralty, for a speedy
and total abolition of flogging." He did not agree
in what had fallen from Mr. Edwards, that they
ought to wait until they were better represented in
the House of Commons, because if they did, there
would be many thousand brave fellows that would
be degraded, not only in their own opinion, but in
that of all their companions, by means of the lash.
(Hear, hear.) After referring to the disgraceful
practices resorted to in enlisting soldiers, he said
that when a man became a soldier he lost his citi-
zenship. If a soldier committed a crime he had not
trial by jury ; he was not tried by his peers, but by
the scions of the aristocracy, who purchased their
right to punish him. He asked whether it was
just that because a free citizen of England got drunk
and foolish, he was to sell himself for a shilling, to
forfeit his rights, and submit to be lashed whenever
his commanding officer chose to indulge in that
luxury ? (Hear, hear.) Now the object was to
get rid of this horrid system as soon as,possible, and
he advised them to commence at once, and, like the
attack upon the corn laws, the success would be
signal and glorious.
Mr. M4GILCHRIST seconded the resolution, which
was carried.
The SECRETARY then read the memorial to be
(presented to het Majesty, and moved the 4vliew-,
mg resolution : 6"rhat the- memorial 476 Her _
Majesty, as now read, be adopted by this meeting,
and that petitions founded thereon and on the reso-
lutions of the meeting be presented to the Houses of
Lords and Commons, as well as addresses to the
authorities of the Horse Guards and Admiralty."
The resolution, having been seconded was agreed
to, as was also one for the appointment of a cora-
initttee to carry out the object of the meeting.
The business then terminated.

TEE STRIKE.

Yesterday, in -pursuance of the resolution passed
at the meeting of the Masters' Committee on Tues-
day, to the effect that they were willing to see a de-
putation of the operative masons, though they
considered the difficulties in the way of withdraw-
ing the declaration, taken as it had been by
nearly 8,000 men, as in superable, Richard Harnott,
Samuel Northam, John Salter, and William Per-
ham, the four leading masons who had previously
sent in an offer of mediation on the part of that
body to which that resolution of the Masters' Com-
mittee was an answer, are understood to have had
an interview with a sub-committee of masters, of
which Mr. Plueknett was chairman, at the Free-
masons' Tavern, on the matters at issue between
them.

The interview is said to have lasted seven
hours, and at its conclusion to have been adjourned
until this day (Thursday). So protracted. a con-
ference, and one which is to be resumed, naturally
induces a hope that the differences between the
masters and this important section of the operatives
in the building trades, are not altogether irrecon-
cileable. The result, whatever it be, must needs
have an impel tent bearing upon the strike. No
official information has yet transpired as to the
subjects of discussion during the interview, but
some of the local by-laws of the metropolitan ope-
rative masons of which the masters complain as
being oppressi‘e and detrimental to their interests
are said to have formed the chief topic of
argument. Both masters and masons stand com-
mitted to a given course,—one stating the existence
of insuperable obstacles in the way of their aban-
doning the Declaration ; the other offering to re-
sume work at 10 hours a-day, as befor, thus giving
up the ground on which they originally
.struck,
provided the masters no longer persevere in what
they (the men) call ~.an attempt to enslave them.
This is the difficulty the parties concerned have
now to solve. The Declaration, once abandoned by
the. masters in the case of the masons, as a matter
of course, it must be given up as respects the rest of
the' building artisans. It remains to be seen
whether the employers aie prepared to take that
course. If they are the strike will be practically
at an end; for the men- in their present temper, and
after such a concession, would scarcely think of
carrying the nine hours' agitation further,
at least, for some little time to come. On the
other hand, should the masons yield, and go to
work under the Declaration, something, but not
all, will have been gained by the masters,
for they cannot carry on operations in which the
labour of so many handicraftsmen enters with one
class of artisans alone.

The masons' deputation, it is said, are to Meet
their constituents this morning at 10 o'clock, be-
fore resuming the interview with the masters, and
consult with them on the course to be adopted. One
thing would appmy manifest—viz., that the split
between the masons and the Conference is irreme-
diablt, for it is partly on the ground of that separa-
tion that the masters consent to negotiate with
them.

The members of the Conference, it seems, are not
at all disposed to pocket the affront passed on them
at the last meeting of the masters' committee, by
whom they were stigmatised as an irresponsible
and illegal confederation. They consider that com-
mittee an equally irresponsible body, and they are
now making arrangements for holding an aggregate
meeting of all the operatives in the building traces,
at St. Martin's•hall, on Friday evening, to elicit an
expression of opinion from them as to the course to
be pursued in the present state of things.