The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-22 00:00:00

SYRO-EGYPTIAN SOCIETY.

A general meeting of this Society took place yester-
day evening, at 1!s rooms in Mortimer. street. There
were about a hundred ladies and gentlemen present.
Isaac Callemore, Esq., in the chair.
The CrtArnmAN having made a few preliminary re-
marks, in the couree of which he mentioned that the
members of the Society now amounted to eighty,
The minutes of the last meeting were read by Dr.
Hovr YAfE4f the Honorary Secretary, and adopted.
Mr. NEVILES MUBIABINI then read a further portion
of a paper, commenced at the ►ast meeting of the Society,
on the subject of the Races of Man. Mr. Mussabini
intimated that he would conclude his dissertation on a
future occasion.
Mr. SILK BUCKINGHAM, by way of settling the ques -
tion as to the descent of the Irish from the Phcenicians,
mentioned a fact which had come within his knowledge,
of a gentleman from Fez, who, by means of the language
of the mountaineers of Atlas, with which he was inti-
mately acquainted, kept up a conversation with two
Irishmen in their native idiom. He also knew of a
Dublin lady, who by means of the Irish language con-
versed freely with the mountaineers of Atlas in their
native idiom ; these mountaineers being the descendants
of Carthagenians who had taken refuge in ancient times
in the Atlas Range, and preserved the dialect of their
Phoenician forefathers....
Mr. C. FRXOTT BARBER then commenced the reading
of a paper on the condition of Syria—a subject with
which he may be supposed to be well acquainted, his
father having been many years Consul-General for
America (we believe) in Egypt, and he himself having
resided in Egypt fifteen years. The paper, it was an-
nounced, would contain some important information re-
lative to the productions and commerce of the country,
its resources, and the working of the old and new tariffs ;
but in consequence of the extent of the preliminary his-
torical sketch, the portion containing the information
upon these points was postponed till the next meeting.

THE LONDON GENERAL ASSO-
CIATION OF ALL TRADES.

Last night the Association established for shorten-
ing the hours of business held a district meeting at
the Saddlers' Arms, Swallow-street, Regent-street.
The chair was filled by Mr. \VIIEATLY, who gave a
detailed account of the progress of the Society since
its formation. They had, he continued, met on a
most important occasion—important, because it re-
lated to the well-being of thousands and tens of
thousands, and he might say, in reference to the whole
of the country, hundreds of thousands of their fellow-
creatures. The present late hour system had been
inflicting, year atter year, an incalculable amount of
evil upon those who had filled the capacity of assis-
tants, and even on masters themselves, and
for no other reason was it perpetuated but
because those around them were doing the same—cer-
tainly a most flimsy argument in support of so evil a
system. They naturally said that the monarch was
responsible when he refused to listen to the voice of
the nation, and that the minister of the gospel was
responsible for the well-being of his flock; and upon
the same principle of justice, that the employer was
equally responsible for the well-being of his as-
sistant. They regretted exceedingly that this system
had been carried to such an extent as to give rise to
a move:nent amongst those who ought to be silent on
public matters. They would much rather have
seen the employers exercising the principle of
sympathy, and come forward as a body to release
those under them from this direful bondage. But,
alas ! many of them had been looking forward to this
step being taken, and the result had, unfortunately,
been a cruel disappointment. Many of them had
long borne the heat and burden of the day, and he
might say, the night also, without even a murmur or
a complaint to the public. They disclaimed all in-
tention of resorting to coercive measures to attain
their object—they relied more on the humanity of the
public and good feeling of their employers, and when
they had acquired a little further strength, they in-
tended calling a conference of the leading firms of the
metropolis, to see if they could not by such means
obtain their object.
A series of resolutions favourable to the objects of the
Association were then moved, and after being ably
supported by several victims of the system, were put
from the chair, and adopted unanimously.
An addition to the roll of members was subse-
quently made, and a vote of thanks to the press and
the Chairman having been carried by acclamation,
the meeting, which was very respectably attended,
broke up.