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London, England, 1845-07-30 00:00:00

SECOND DAY, JULY 29.

"8. That the Conference shall hare power to make and re-
vise the laws of the Association, subject to the following regula-
tions :—No fundamental or important law shall be repealed or
altered, without at least six months' notitehaving been given of
such intended repeal or alteration, and it shall be concurred in
by at least two-thirds of the. Conference. Similar notices shall
be given of. all intended additions to the laws, and such addi-
tions be similarly appieved of. To elect the Central Committee
to fix the salaries of the officers of the Association, and gene-
rally to transact all such business as may come before it.
" 9. That members of the Central Committee may sit and
speak in7Cunfer,nce, though not elected as delegates, but in
such Casa they shall not vote.
10.' That the delegwes shall be elected to serve in Con-
ference for twelve months, or unlit the. next general election.
" 11. That within one month previous'to Whit-Monday, in
each year, the Central Committee shall issue their precept to
those trades entitled to send Delegates, requiring them to
proceed, within fourteen days after the receipt of the saute, to
the election of a delegate or delegates to represent them in
Conference for the ensuing year. And such precept shall be
signed by the President and Secretary of the Association.
" 12. That each of the said trades shah, seven days previous
to Whit-Monday, cause a return to be forwarded to the office
of the Central Committee, certifying the delegate or delegates
elected to represent such trades, and such return shall be signed
by the chairman of the meeting at which such election was
held, and by the secretary of the trade.
" 13. That, if any Delegate, by absence or other cause,
should become, in the opinion of the trade, unfit to continue its
representative, the said trade may declare the office vacant.
"14. That, on the death, resign.t ion, or removal by the
trade, of any Delegate, the president and secretary of the trade
by which such delegate was elected shah certify the same to the
Central Committee, which shall forthwith issue their precept
for the election of another to supply the vacancy.
" 15. That no salaried officer of the Association elected as
delegate to Conference by any trade shall vote on questions
personally affecting themselves.

CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
The following rule for the appointment of the Central Com-
mittee were then agreed to :-
Ist. That the general executive power shall be vested in a
Central Committee, to be chosen annually by Conference.
On the rule referring to the persons who were to compose
the Committee being proposed, a lengthened discussion arose,
and the following resolution was then proposed and carried :
" That the Central Committee shall consist of a President,
Vice-President, and eleven others. The President and the

Vice-President to be elected wi,liout reference to their con.

nexion with any Trades Union, but the eleven others to be
bona fide members of a Trade Society."
The Conference then adjourned till ten o'clock to-morrow.

Mr. Thomas Duncombe left the Conference a little before
twelve o'clock, being obliged to attend in his place in the House
of Commons at that hour; and Mr. Evans, Delegate of the Pot-
teries, took the chair in his absence. Mr. Duncombe pro-
mised to preside again at ten o'clock to-morrow.

LYNN AN!) ELY RAILWAY.
The first General Meeting of the Shareholders in the Lynn
and Ely Railway Company was held yesterday at the London
Tavern, Sir W. J. H. B. Felkes, Bart., Chairman of the Board
of Directors, in the chair. The Secretary having read the ad-
vertisemvnt convening the meeting, read a report which stated
that the meeting had been called in accordance with the provi-
sions of. the Act of Parliament, authorising the construct►on of
the line, which only received the Royal assent on the 30th of
the last month, and consequently the Directors had not, for the
want oft ime, been able to prepare 'a lengthy and detailed account
of the position and prospects of the Company. There could, how-
ever, be no doubt that it would prove amply remunerative, and the
Directors looked forward to the time when it would be united
to the Lynn and Dereham and Lynn and Huntingdon lines—
in fact, they might state, that an arrangement had been made
for uniting the three lines when completed. The Provisional
Committee, which consisted of the chairman, Francis Cress-
well, Esq., William Everard, Esq., Henry Charles Lacy,
Esq., Foster Reynolds. Esq, and W►lliam Seppings, Esq., had
been confirmed as Directors to manage the affairs of the Corn •
pany under the Act of Parliament.

The report wa. unanimously adopted on the motion of the
Chairman ; and. Mr. Bonne, of Mincing-lane, and Mr. Self, of
Lynn, having been appointed auditors of the Company for the
ensuing half-year, a vote of thanks was awarded to the Chair-
man and Directors, and the meeting terminated.

STOCKHOLM, JULY 15.—The London Society f
the. Relief of Foreigners in distresS has applied to our KING to
become one of its proteitors, to which his Majesty has scot a gra-
cious answer, with a donation of 1201, sterling.
IMPORTANT PROP': ItTY CAi.SE.-At the Limerick
.
assizes the Lord Chief Baron and a special jury were engaged,
during the last week, in trying-an issue from Chancery, as to the
validity of the last will and testatament of the late Lord
Guillamore, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. The will
was impeached by the present Lord Guillamore, eldest son and
heir of the deceased nobleman, who had conveyed, by this disputed
document, considerable freehold estates to other branches of his
family. On Friday evening the jury returned a verdict in favour
of the defendant, Lord Guill more ; thus deciding against the vali.
city of the will. Lord GuLlamore, then the Hon. Colonel Standish
O'Grady, was formerly Whig Member for the county of Limerick.
DEATH FROM DRINKING.—A donkey, belonAtig
to a farmer on Westwood estate, near West Calder, a few days ago
strayed to an adj,ining farm, and walked into the dairy (the door
of which had been carelessly left open), where a large quantity of
milk had just been deposited. The donkey drank the whole, and
instantly fell down dead. The owner of the donkey demands
payment for the loss of his beast, while the other farmer demands
the same compensation for the loss of forty cows' milk.

ACCIDENT IN PICCADILLY.—On Monday night Mr.
Bedford held an inquest at St. George's Hospital, on the body of
John Salter, aged fourteen years. Mr. John Cheetham, of Vine-st.,
Piccadilly, carman, deposed that on Friday afternoon last he saw
the deceased riding on horseback at a walking pace, and when near
St. James's street the animal suddenly slipped, and rolled over on
his side, and deceased was thrown off and 'pitched up 99 his head
on the stones. Witness immediately
„Iqnt to 'his assistaucf, and
found he was quite insensible. He. was conveyed to the hospital,
whssre he died in aboUt a quarter of an hour. On .a
post morteilt
examination it was found that his skull had been fractured, and the
brain ruptured in two places, which was sufficient to cause death.
Verdict—" Accidental death."

DEATH BY Fin E.-0.1 Monday Mr. Bedford held
an inquest at St. George's Hospital on the body of Susan Woraker,
aged 64 years. Deceased resided with her son, in Wood's.mews,.
Park.lane. She was rather infirm, and in an attempt to pass from
one room to another on the morning of the 9th inst., with a lighted
candle in her hand, she accidentally set the upper part of her dress
on fire. Her daughter, on seeing what had occurred, called for
assistance, and a policeman carne in and extinguished the flame.
She was conveyed to the above hospital, where she died on Satur-
day last, from the effects of the Injuries she had sustained. Ver.
diet—" Accidental death."

ACCIDENT ON TUE DOVER RAILWAY.—The half-
past six o'clock train from Dover, on arriving on Monday evening at
the Pen.hurst station, was run in upon by an engine which had
been assisting behind, when the train was stationary. Three or
four carriages were doubled up, and one dashed to pieces, About
I(l,perSons received contusions and cuts. One gentleman had his
leg fractured, and another received a severe injury in his back.
Mr. Cubitt, who was with the train, states, that the accident oc-
curred from the red lights not being placed on the last carriage at
Tunbridge, and that the engine which occasioned the mischief was
following to bring up the lights. But most of the passengers state
that the engine had been assisting behind all the way from Dover.
The danger of having engines behind cannot be too strongly im-
pressed upon the directors of railways, as most of the accidents
which have occurred have arisen from this cause.

AIDE-DE-CAMP TO THE MASTER-GENERAL OF THE
ORDNANCE.—By general order, dated July 2, 1845, the Master-
General has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant George Boyce,
of the 2nd Life Guards, to be his aide.de-camp, in room of Captain
Paget, resigned.
The Dowager Countess Grey is surrounded by a
numerous family circle at Howick Hall, Northumberland. At
the dissolution of the late venerated Earl, Viscount Howick (now
Earl G. fey), the Hon. and Rev. John Grey, the Honourable Cap.
lain Frederick W. Grey, R.N., Lady Georgians Grey, Lady
Caroline Barrington, the Honourable and Rev. F. R. Grey, the
Honourable Captain. Henry Cavendish Grey and Dr. Wilson, were
present beside the death bed. The Honourable Colonel Grey,
equerry to the Queen, did not arrive at Howick until Saturday,
and the Honourable Captain G. Grey, B. N., did not reach
Howick Hall until a few hours after the Earl had expired. Lady
Mary Wood and Lady Elizabeth i.ulteel did not arrive there be-
fore Saturday. It was the late Earl's most earnest desire that his
uneral should be conducted as privately as possible. _ _

understard that PostinaAter- General, Lord
Lonsdale, paid a visit to the Adelaide Gallery on Monday, far the
purpose of hisiucting the model of Pilhrow's Atmospheric Railway
now exhibiting at this institution. His Lordship seated himself
in the carriage and was piopailed with great velocity along the
line. Ilis Lordship expressed himself highly pleased with the
easiness of the motion go the facility with which the carriage
went down along the model railway,

The Delegates of this Conference, having for their ob-
ject the consideration of the plans proposed by the Cen-
tral Committee, who were appointed on Easter Monday last
to prepare measures having the twofold object of uniting the
trades in one vast confederation for mutual support and assist-
ance in all matters involving trade regulations, .disputes, and
strikes, and of concentrating and rightly directing their surplus
funds, so that they should be reproductively.-employed, and
reduce the amount of that superabundant labour which forms
a principal cause of the reduction of wages,
re-assembled at ten o'clock this morning, in the Literary and
Scientific Institution, John-street, Fitzroy-square. T. S.
Duncombe, Esq., in the chair.
The preamble of the plan for the general association of the
trades for the protection of industry having been agreed to
yesterday,
The Conference resolved itself into Committee, and pro-.
ceeded to discuss the details of the " draft" recommended by
the Central Committee to carry their objects into effe,t.
After a very lengthened oiseussii n, in which the greater.
number of the Delegates took part, and which was—nut re-
markab!e, either for the order with which it was conducted, or
the moderation of the language used by some of the speikers in
advocating their suggestions, the two first rules were, after a
few verbal amendments, agreed to.
" 1. That the Association shall consist -of those trades
unions and other organised bodies of the working classes, having
a stated time and place of meeting, that subscribe to its funds
and conform to its laws.
" 2. That the legislative power shall. be vested in an annual
Conference of delegates from the several trades in the Asso-
ciation, in the following proportion :—Trades having not less
than 30, nor more than 150 paying members, may return one
delegate. Trades with 150, and not more than 300 members,
two delegates; and one additional delegate for every 300
members above that number.
"3: That in cases where the members of the organised body
are less than 150, they shall be at liberty to unite with another
organised body or bodies of the Association similarly situated,
for the porpose of sending a delegate or delegates.
"4. That all Delegates to Conference be paying members
of one of the societies they represent.
"5. That an annual session of Conference shall be held on
Whit-Monday, in such town and place as may be determined
upon by the Conference or Central Committee, and such Con-
ference shall continue its sittings so long as is requisite for the
transaction of the business brought. before it.
"6. That the Central Committee shall have the power of
convening a special session of conference when it shall appear
to a majority of at least three-fourths of the committee, that
such a session is necessary, or upon a requisition of at least
one-third of the members of Conference. In case the Cen-
tral Committee neglect to call such special meeting on such
requisition, the requisitionists shall have power to call it them-
selves. Not less than fourteen days' notice of all such special
meetings shall be given to the delegates.
"7. That one month previous to the assembly of the annual
Conference, the Central Committee 'shall cause to be prepared
and issued a business paper, or programine of the matters in-
tended to be brought under the considerwion of the Conference.
Such programme shall be laid before the various trades, to
enable them to give instructions to their delegates thereupon.
But the Central Committee -shall have the power of intro-
ducing subjects not included in the said paper, if agreed upon
by three-fourths of the Committee, and such as appear to them
to require the immediate attention of the Conference. Notices
of special sessions shall include the business for which they ere
called.