The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1879-12-13 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ASSOCIATION. " Liverpool, Deo. 9, 1879. _ _ _  Dear Sir—l am in receipt of your letter of the 6111 inst. Some little time ago I met the secretary (Mr. Soarples) of the Operative Painter.' Society, and suggested to him that the Operative Painters' Society of Liver; 00l should send in a letter asking for a deputation of their society to be received, and I have no doubt that if this was carried out the employers would meet the deputation. I may call your attention to the fact that the board of arbitration that would be weed would be the same as that in other trades, a copy of which I enclose you. —Yours very t;uly, W. KNOX, Secretary. 'Mr. P. M'Arthur, 60, Exmouth-street, " Birk.nhead."  The constitution of the proposed board will be u follows :—The court shall ociosist of six employers and six working men, who shall have power to come to terms, and wboge decision shall be binding on both parties; but, if unable to agree, they shall proceed to appoint an umpire, to be mutually agreed upon, who shall act as sole referee, and whose decision ,hall be the decision of the court, suid shall be equally bioding on both parties.  CLAUGHTON CHURCH INSTITUTE  A PIIBLIC debate was held on Monday evening, in Christ Church Schoolroom, between the members of this society and a deputation from the Liverpool eeee Society, on the question "Is War consistent with Chrietianit%." The affirmative was taken by Messrs. A. S. Smith, Ed. Derbyshire, and W. Bromham, and the negative by Messrs. E. Leicester, T. Warry, and A. B. Hayward on behalf of the Peace Society. The affirmative speakers showed that although war was andoubtedly a great evil, and not to be resorted to except when necessary, nevertheless there are continually times when a natio 1 mast resot to the arbitrament of the sword, the time not yet having arrived Iv 'en perfect peace can reign. On the other side the Peme Society tried to prove that because the teachings of Christ were that men should love each other and be ready to give up all thing. for the sake of the Go-pel, thetefore war and chrietianit are diametrically opposed to each other, and all war mast be wickedness and murder. The chair as taken by Mr. R. O. Kelly, one of the vice presidents of the institute. Owing to the inelemerit weather there was bat s moderate attendance. Am' rig the audience, however, were a number of young men, who had evidently come prepared to make a di-turbance, and they frequently interrupted the speakers by knocking with their sticks, and shouting, groaning, etc. The committee endeavoured to maintain order, but they were threatened with violence by some a the disturbers, and the presence of the police only ramie matters worse. At one time the spiking was totally stopped for about ten minutes, and when the debate was over there was again a serious disturbance, sic young man, who et the time was under the influence of drink, being especially violent, and threatening to st,ike anyone who attempted to eject him, at the same time cursing and swearing in • fearful manner. It is very hard upon the officers of the society, who take a great deal of trouble to p.-ovide innocent recreation combined with information i'vr the people of Clanghton that they should be so annoyed by young men in the position of gentlemen and who ought to know better, and we are glad to hear that the committee have determined to take a firm stand and stop any such proceedings in the future, The matter is now in the hands of a solicitor, and s summons against the alleged ringleader of the disturbance on M.,nday w.al on Thursday granted by the magiatrates, and the ease will be heard on Tuesday. The eciantittes of the Institute decided in this in. stance to proceed only against whom they considered the worst offender, but we understand that should any each disorder take place in future all those implicate i will be cal ed to account. Owing, in a great measure to the scion of the officers of the society, the lectures have almost all been most attentively lie ened to this year, and the order has been very good.