The Express. — 1868-01-29 (London, England)

TIIE LEGAL TRADE CMIOI.I.  Having quoted one of the wont eases mentioned by Mr, Roebuck in illustration of the inexorable hardship of some of the trades' unions, the Telegraph proceeds to say that though this is very bard, it is precisely what happens in a higher grade. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers only does what is done by the Law Society. A young man wishes to become an articled clerk in the office of • particular firm, and no other house would serve his interests equally well ; but the rules of the legal trades union set limits to the number of articled clerks that any firm may employ, and those limits have, perhaps, already been reached. The applicant may be well educated, clever, industrious ; his prospects in life may be injured if he cannot, at a certain time, form the connexion which he seeks; nevertheless, the rules of the society are inflexible, mid the collective body of the unionists will say to the employer, " If you accept the services of this young man, you break the conditions on which we made you • member of oar society ; we can't help the injury which he will sustain from our refusal ; we can't make rules for special cases." That is precisely what the Sheffield unionists say. Why, than, should the men who make engines be anathematised, and the men who draw up processes be blessed Nor are the solicitors the only unionists among educated society. Take the army. There we have trade restrictions of another  kind. The Star Also asks why that is murder amongst working men which, as a bencher of the loner Temple, Mr. Roe. buck would stoutly defend as professional etiquette The truth is, the whole speech is too false and too flippant to be even a contribution to this discussion. The Star invites ita readers to prepare for the contrast which will be presented when Mr. Gladstone, a real economical and political authority, and no partisan of trades' unions, meets Mr. Potter's deputation.  disclosures ----may not, The three clergy of the principal Episcopalian rtanTo es, to church in Edinburgh, including the name of the most respected dignitary in the whole police, but Episcopalian community, have issued a pro' Previous I test against the threatened consecation of a the plot new bishop of Natal in Scotland. It is underthe state- I stood that the chief laity of the Edinburgh value; but Episcopalians are equally opposed to the step. The dimity is • extreme precipitation with which this secret c0n...,,s secretion has been hurried on has made it impos"" ‘.".... sible to obtain more signatures at the moment ; but " knew a there can be no question that the document reprosod the man, Bents the feelings of the most respectable members -to make a of the community. It is signed by the Rev. KB. ,Aaurrr told Ramsay, LL.D., Rev. Daniel F. Sandford, and the Jen to Bow_ Bev. Henry M. Oswald, M.A. unained there Tax TRADES' UNION Conmissiow.—The Report did of Mr. W. Overend, Q.C.Barstow! end which ' informer. under the Trades Unions Commission Act of 1867 mischief, it to inquire into the outrages asserted to have taken a knack of ' place at Sheffield and elsewhere with the support is the second and connivance of associations of workmen, has is associates ; just been issued, together with the evidence aken re the result at Sheffield. The Report is addressed by the Examiners to the Commissioners appointed under the in great part Act, and consists of little more than a history of men. We get their inquiry, the facts of which received so much and intellect attention during its progress. The accompanying crime, and can evidence, filling 450 folio pages, contains nothing were at once of importance that has not already been published ; D. tms to but it will always remain one of the most valuec°llll- ira ble as well as moat painful records of a state of , Clerkenwell social disorganization and anarchy such as no one amount of low could have believed to exist upon evidence less forming a true than irrefragable.