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TRADES UNIONS.

A crowded meeting of delegates of London trades
societies was held on Friday night, at the Bell Inn, Old
Bailey, to receive the report from the sub-committee
appointed to arrange the forthcoming conference with Mr.
Gladstone, and to consider the recent attack on trades
unions by Mr. Roebuck, M.P. Mr. George Potter, who
occupied the chair, said, before the report of the sub-
committee was brought up, he desired to make a few
remarks upon some matters of recent occurrence relating
to trades unions. They were all aware that Mr.
Roebuck, in addressing a meeting at Sheffield lately, had
made a fierce onslaught on trades unions, and branded their
members with being guilty of all sorts of crimes. Now, Mr.
Roebuck was himself a member of a profession the rules and
practices of which were more stringent than those of any
c.Torkmen's union— a profession which limited the number of

its articled clerks, fixed the minimum fee which its mem-
bers
should receive for their services, allowed no member.
to receive a brief in person from a client, and did arl those
things and more which he denounced- in working men's
unions. Again : he thought it most indecent in ,
Roebuck, while sitting in a judicial capacity as a member
of the Trades Union Commission, to go about the country
denouncing those men upon whom he was sitting in judg-
ment. No honourable •or right-minded man would be
guilty of such conduct. Mr. Roebuck ought at once to
be removed from the Royal Cormnission.—The secretary
then read the report of the sub-committee, the correspon-
dence with Mr. Gladstone, and the baSis laid down fer the
conference, with the names of the delegates appointed to
conduct it—viz., Messrs., Potter, Lawrence, Dunning,
Upshall, Lewis, Squire, Broadhurst, 111`Nainara„ Cohen,
and Hartwell. After some discussion the report was
adopted, with the substitution of Mr. Lester for Mr.
Upshall, on the ground that the former delegate repre-
sented one of those trades in which the limitai, ,n of
apprentices was enforced.—Mr. Lawrence, (tailor) then
said he thought the delegates were bound to express
their opinion of the conduct of Mr. Roebuck in re-
ference to his attack upon, trades unions, looking at his
position on the Trades Commission of Inquiry. He would
therefore move the following resolution : " That this
society of trades delegates is of opinion that Mr. J. A.
Roebuck, M.P., has acted most indecently and unfairly in
his strong denunciation of trades unions at a public'meet-
ing in Sheffield, while
_he at the same time is a member of
a royal commission appointed to inquire into the working
of those bodies, and hereby declares that no honourable
man or unionist can accept the decision of the commission

he continues a member of that body, he having declared

his opinion before the evidenc3 has been completed. We
therefore, consider him an unjust judge, and one unworthy
any longer to sit upon the Trades Union Commission.'.--
Mr. Cohen (cigar maker) seconded the resolution, which
was carried with loud cheers, and a copy ordered to he
sent to the Home Secretary, and also to the chairman of
the Trades Union Commission. The meeting was tEen
adjourned until Friday, the 21st inst., to receive the report
of the deputation to Mr. Gladstone.

Both Mr. Beresford Hope and Mr. Cleasby. Q.C., are
in the field for the representation of Cambridge University,
and have issued their addresses to the members of the
Senate. Lord Stanley was asked to become a candidate,
but he declined to leave King's Lynn.
A large meeting against the rating clauses of the Reform
Act has been held, amongst other places, at North Shields.
It was absurd, the chairman said, that the qualification
for voting should depend on the personal payment otrates.
The Duke of 'Northumberland in Cluirton had paid the
rates of all his tenants ; so had Mr. Trevelyan, M.P. ;
and there was no bribery and corruption under them. A
motion was carried for a• petition to the House against the
illy I clauses.

Mr. Digby Seymour, Q. 0., addressed, on -Priday night,
what is de.t.Abed as a large meeting of Irishmen. He spoke
plainly enough on all hands. He was the leading counsel
for Larkin and Gould, Yet he thought they had
committed an outrage, and he did not, as he told them,
believe in their remedy for the wrongs of Ireland. He was
a loyal but by no means either a satisfied or contented
Irishman. He believed in a Protestant Church of
England, but he regarded the Irish Establishment as a
perpetual insult to the Irish people. The tenancy at will
throughout a great part of Ireland was only another name
for serfdom. He was opposed to a repeal of the Union,
yet he did not think that a Parliament sitting at West-
minster could understand the wants of the Irish people.
He therefore proposed local legislation by a Chamber
sitting at Dublin, whose proposals should be sent up to
the Imperial Parliament for its approval. The Irish
people did not want a Lord-Lieutenant ; they wanted
Royalty. It did not necessarily follow that the Queen
must go there—why not the Prince of Wales or the Duke
of Edinburgh? Still he was loyal, and lie urged .the
meeting to come forward and sign the address to the
Queen, which, he said, would be given to Mr. Hardy
for presentation on Tuesday, with 20,000 names attached.
The disappearance of Illr. Speke excites more lively in-
terest daily. The theory of voluntary absence is fast
losing ground, and the general op?nion now given is that he
has been foully murdered. m. T.," writing to the Times,
suggests another solution of the mystery. The writer
calls attention to the fact that Mr. Speke had a relative
whose town-house is in Queen-square, Westminster.
There is no other house in Westminster to which he could
have been going. It is stated that Mr. Speke's relative
was absent from London at the time. It is no uncommon
thing at such a time for servants to leave a house un-
guarded. Somebody having temporary access to the place
may have received lihn. Tiler?. are gardens and snrumxiles
at the back to whietaie may have :retired, anct:.where a
stranger may have been concealed. The' tact that tnese
gardens are actually ill. birdcage-walk, where Mr. Speke's
hat was found two hours after he was
last seen. is surely
was picked up directly opposite the steps which lead into
a singular coincidence, and the writer believes that the hat
she square.

THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT.—It has beet .
resolved by the military authorities to apply the provisions
of the Contagious Diseases Act to Colchester, Shoincliffe,
Canterbury, and the Curragh.
THE "LIFE OF THE PRINCE CONSORT." The
..thencrum, states that her Miviestv'o " I.ife of the
Prince Consort"' is to be reproduced iii a condensed form,
in embossed letters, for the use t,f ale blind. The work
of abridgment has been entrusted to Mr. John Plummer.
CHALLENGE TO FIGHT A DUEL—The Derby
borough magistrates have heard an extraordinary applica-
tion. A local solicitor applied for a summons against Mr.
W. Turpie, manager of the Derby and Derbyshire Bank,.
-and captain of the Ist Company of the Derby Battalion
of Volunteers, with a view to have him bound over to
keep the peace towards Mr. T. B. Hutton and all her
Majesty's subjects. Mr. Hutton has for many years been
cashier at the Derby and Derbyshire Bank, of which
Mr. Turpie is still the manager, and for several years
Mr. Hutton is said to have been subject to various
acts of petty tyranny 'and annoyance from Mr. Turpie.
On Tuesday last the anno3 auces were so great that it
forced Mr. Hutton to express himself in strong language
to the manager. The. latter summoned him before the
board of directors and brought against him the serious
charge of dishonesty, and it ended in Mr. Hutton being
called upon to at once give up his situation without the
usual three months' notice. The charge of dishonesty
has been since withdrawn. On.Thursda,y Mr. Hutton was
astonished to receive the following letter :—" Gth Feb.,
1868.—Sir, having been grossly insulted by you, I, as an
officer and a gentleman, demand satisfaction.' I ask you
to send me the name and address of your friend, and I
shall request Captain Cox—who, I underFitand, returns
to-night—to call upon him, and make the necessary
arrangements for a meeting.—l am, sir, &c., w. ToRPIE.—
Mr. T. R. Hutton, Uttoxeter-road, Derby." The magis-
trates at onto granted a summons.

BABY-FAR•miNG.-7-An inquiry has been held in
the committee roonis, Fountain-court, Minories, by Mr.
W. J. Payne, deputy-coroner, relative to the death of a
child, six weeks old, named Adelaide Neumann. The
deceased was the daughter of a German Jewess, named
Rachel Neumann, who had been deserted by her husband.
The child was taken to the registrar by the mother and
another Jewess, and neither of them being able to speak
a word of English, they gave her the name of Adelaide in
Hebrew. The registrar believed the infant to be a boy, and
registered it as Isaac. The mother, finding it necessary to go
out to service, took the child to Mrs. Lily Speckmaster,
living at 8, Garden-court, Minories, and gave it to her to
take charge of, promising to pay her ss. a week, paying a
week's money in advance by way of a deposit. That was
on Saturday week. The child was hand-fed ;it got arrow-
• root three times a day. The coroner asked Mrs. Speck-
Master hew the child got on upon that food. Her answer
was, " What are you to expect with a child of five weeks
old ?" It looked skinny, she added, when it was first
brought to her. On Tuesday last it would take no more
food ; it looked badly in her eyes, and she called in
a chemist, but it died that night. The mother visited
the child every clay. On Tuesday she said it would
die quick, and she stopped until it did die. Mrs. Speck-
master, it appeared,' called the child Eliza ; other people
called it indiscriminately Idel and Redd and Rachel. The
mother, on being examined through an interpreter, said
that she had forgotten what was the real name of her
after a long investigation that it
child, and it was only
was concluded by the coroner that its original and real
name was Adelaide. When death took place the chemist
who had been called in gave a certificate contrary to the
Act of Parliament, with a view to the burial. Mr. D. H.
Dyte said the deceased died from debility. Of course so
young a child should have been suckled, and not fed by
hand. The jury returned a verdict of death from debility
fziThaßfitgliSAßEM

LAW INTEL IIGENCE.,_This ray.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge-Ordinary.)
BOOTII V. 3300 V-I AND LEAPMAN.

In this case the Qneen's Peoctor had intervened.
The case, which came' from Leeds, was originally
heard before his lordship on tilt) petition of the hus-
band against the wife for dissolution of marriage,
and there being no opposition, the decree nisi was
made. Circumstances, however, had come to the
knowledge of the Queen's Proctor, and he now
sought to have the ration p. resented on the first
occasion dismissed. _ _ _

A witness named Fanny High, ,m stated that she
accompanied the husband, who ft. rmerly lived at
ase
Leed-, to London to carryon the e for a divorce.
There were two other persons with et. rn, but as
they arrived in London very late they all fo.:lr went
to a coffee-house near the railway station, Anci en-
gaged sleeping apartments. She (witness) occu-
pied the same room as Martin Booth, the peti-
tioner, and Richardson and the witness named
Lodge slept in the other room. Richardson said,
being desirous of getting a drop of whisky early
in the morning, he went to Booth's bedroom, and
after knocking he beard a female voice, and then
Booth said he would bring it. It was done, and
after that they had breakfast, and all went out to
a la wyer's office, where Booth, the. petitioner, got
some money. Mrs. Wilber said she knew the peti-
tioner when he lived at Leeds, and she had had oc-
casion to desire him to quit her house on account
of the disreputable company he used to bring home
with him of an evening. Ellen Laycock said the
petitioner was on the most intimate terms with a
girl named Violetta Smith, and also that he was a
constant visitor to the house of Lotty Wilmot,
in Lower-street, Leeds. Mr. John Pollard, the
Superintendent of the West Riding Constabulary,
said he knew the petitioner, Martin Booth, very
well. lie had known him for many years as a
most disreputable character. He had kept a noto-
rious house iu Leeds, and was the associate of the
most dissolute characters in the place.
The Judge-Ordinary said a more abandoned case
had never come before the Court, and it illustrated
most remarkably the wisdom of the Queen's Proctor
intervening. Here was a wife living in adultery her-
self giving her husband 150 to procure a divorce, and
on the petitioner coming before the Court, there
being no opposition, a decree nisi was made. .It
was now proved that the petitioner, on the very
night:he arrived in London, being that previous tohis
attending in that court in the capacity of a witness,
he had himself committed the same offence with one
of the other witnesses, named Fanny Higham.
The petitioner was a person who had trampled
under foot every moral obligation, and therefore the
petition he had formally presented would be dis-
missed, and with costs against the co-respondent, if
it was so desired.
It was intimated to his lordship that the co-re-
spondent was dead.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
(Before the Lord Chief Baron.)
WOODEIOUSE V. DICKER.
The hearing of this trial, which commenced yes-
terday, was resumed this morning. It was an
action brought for an illegal arrest under a writ of
ca. sa. issued in respect of a judgment which had
been obtained by the defendant against the plain-
tiff upon a certain bill of exchange after such judg-
ment bad been satisfied by the payment of the
amount of the debt and costs. The defendant
pleaded not guilty, and that the plaintiff had not
satisfied the judgment befere the arrest took place.
It appeared that the plaintiff had formerly been
a lieutenant in the 13th Infantry, and the defendant
was a bill discounter. In ttie autumn of 1866 the
plaintiff was indebted to the defendant in the sum
of £4BO, for money advanced upon four bills of
exchange. In respect of that sum the defendant had
obtained judgment against the plaintiff, and had
issued execution, lodging a writ of ca.
sa. in the hands of the sheriff. In August
the plaintiff sold his commission for £7OO, and the
money was paid into Messrs. Cox and Company's,
who received instructions to pay the bills held by
the defendant. The bills having been paid, the de-
fendant's attorney wrote to the sheriff, requesting
him not to put the writ of ca. sa. into execu-
tion, as the matter had been settled. In
the following January the plaintiff was shooting
in company with several friends near Bognor,
when he was arrested under the ca. sa., and taken
thirty miles to Petworth Gaol, where he was de-
tained for eight days, until he was able to show that
the bills had been paid and the judgment satisfied,
when he obtained his release. The defence was
that Messrs. Cox had paid the £4BO to the defendant
under a mistake, they having omitted to debit the
plaintiff's account with a bill of exchange which
they had discounted for him, and that when the
error was diPeovered the defendant had repaid
Messrs. Cox £lOO, receiving back from them the
£lOO bill, upon which the judgment in respect of
which the ca. sa. was issued, had been obtained.
The defendant, under these circumstances, thought
be had a right to put the ca. sa. into force, in order
to compel the plaintiff to pay the remainder of the
debt. There was no malice upon the part of the
defendant in causing the plaintiff to be arrested.
The case is not expected to conclude before the
rising of the Court.