The Bee-Hive. — 1876-07-22 (London, England)

MANCHESTER.  (Front our Special Correspondent.) The quarterly delegate meeting oi the Manchester and Salford Tindall Council was held on the 18th instant. The business was generally ofli routine and unimportant character, although there was one feature War.t: lug. Your readers will remember the unmeasured condemnatT_ bestowed upon the Liverpool and Glasgow Trades Union Council in ta,:e annual report of the council, and that that body was unrepresented at latter place in consequence of the low estimate they formed of the value.il the congresses. The report subsequently published expressed satia.fo uactlof at the course taken in not appointing representatives as the proceedi.ne the congress were asserted to have been of the character antimpan Some of the delegates at a recent meeting were, therefore, surprised to a,ut a recommendation from the executive committee of the council to aPP°Ifl a_. delegates to the forthcoming congress at Newcastle; but no offered to the proposal, and the secretary (Mr. W. 11. Wood) and ba; George Townley were appointed delegates. lam curious to know kind of reception they will get from the people they abandoned in. tlithelre opposition If: report, or rather, I suppose I should be more correct in saying, 351  report issued in their name. at The trial of. the men charged with the murder of James ThomPon'w Bolton, closed here on Friday last, and resulted in a verdict of maanlaugh; against Birch, Ainsworth, and Atkin, who were sentenced respeotivellar fifteen, ten, and seven years' penal servitude. Barnes, Haslam, and _AA croft, wlio had turned approvers, and given evidence, were dianbsrlr-'  Though the newspapers have systematically described this as a trade union outrage, there was not a tittle of evidence produced at the trial to Justify this description, or to prove that the union, or any officer of it, instigated the outrage. The prosecuting counsel certainly tried to establish a case of this description, and iendeavoured to ;make a point out of the fact that one of the prisoners wore different clothes on the day after the outrage (Sunday) and those he had on the previous evening. As might be expected, an attempt bolstered by such weak arguments as these broke down. In the course of tho trial, and again in summing up, the judge (Baron Bramwell) must have rather astonished some of the gentlemen in the court by his statement that if he were a working man he should be a trade unionist, though he qualified it by stating that he should take care that some of the rules were :more reasonable.  The cotton trade remains in a very unsettled state. At the meeting held here on Tuesday of the central committee of the North and North-east Lancashire Cotton Spinners' Association, a deputation from the Operatives' Association attended, and stated their reasons for recommending the postponement of any reduction in wages. The committee resolved to postpor.e action for a month, in order to give those who are anxious for short time an opportunity of carrying out their views, and seeing how far it is possible to effect an improvement by that means. This decision will certainly be unpalatable to those who are persistently clamouring for a reduction in Wages; but the operatives have shown such an unanimous determination to resist the reduction that the wiser heads among the employers hesitate to provoke a conflict, and many see clearly that to limit production is the best way to relieve an overstocked market.