Master's and Operatives.

Evening Post, Issue 163, 16 August 1865, Page 2

Master's and Operatives.

-Lord St. Leonard's bill has been printed. It propjses that any number of masters ai d workmen in any trade or trades, having been fur the previous six months inhabitant householders or part occupiers in the place (the masters having carried on their trade for the six m raths and the workmen having worked at their trade for the seven previous years,) may at a meeting agree to form a council of conciliation and arbitration ; and, after due notice in a local newsj paper, a license may be granted by the Crown for the formation of such a council. The council is to consist of masters and workmen, not less than two nor more than teuof each, and a chairman unconnected with trade, the chairman to be elected by the couucil. The council are to be^elested annually by masters and workmen qualified as above described, the masters appointing their portion of the council and the workmen theirs ; and a register of electors is to be formed and kept by the clerk ot the coucil. The council are to have power to hear and determine all disputes and differences between masters and workmen, as set forth in the Act of 5 George IV. cap 96, which may be submitted to them by both parties, the award to be final and conclusive; and the council may adjudicate upon any other disputes submitted to them by mutual consent of masters and workmen. But

nothing in this bill is to authorise the council to establish a rate of wages or price of labor or workmanship, at which the workman shall in future be paM ; and no member of the council is to adjudicate in any case in which he, or any relative of his, is plaintiff or defendant. Disputes are to be first referred to a committee of the council- -the committee of conciliation — consisting of one muster and one work" man, who are to endeavour to reconcile the parties; if they are unsuccessful in this, the dispute to go before the council, a quorum to consist of not less than one master and one workman, with the chairman. No counsel or attorneys are to be allowed to attend any hearing. Two Notorious Characters. — The portrait of two individuals, who have attained very unenviable notoriety, have just been added to those of the celebrities whose cartes de visite crowd the printsellera' windows. Wilkes Booth looks defiantly at the puMic, who look curiously at him. His handsome lace expresses great determination and strength of will, and his artistic make-up savours of the profession to which he belonged. There is, however, nothing of the murderer in his appearance ; he seems like one who might be broken, but could not he bent, but who would be \ more likely to support a cause he espoused by hard arguments than hard blows. ¦ The other portrait is that of the unhappy Constance Kent. She presents a marked contrast to the individual besides whose cartes her own are ranged. He outstares the start, r; she looks modestly and penitenly ou the ground ; she is dressed in the habit of the religious order of which, since she disappeared from public notice, she has been a member, wears a plain black dress, and a curious specimen of head gear, and displays a long double string of beads terminating in a cross or crucifix, towards which one hand reaches. On the subject of the Road Hill murder I may mention that notwithstanding the clear and circumstantial confession of Miss Kent, the public cannot be persuaded that she is the guilty party. I suspect it is the confessional that makes them doubt the truth of the confession. By the way, the question arises, How came Miss Kent to favour a photographer with a sitting ? The portraits are all marked " copyright," and they are sold literally. by the thousand. A handsome young artist can scarcely be supposed to have found his way inside the grim walls of the Brighton convent. Who suggested that the young lady who was so soon to become notoiious should don the t tappings of the sisterhood and visit the studio of the artist ? Was it done in contemplation of the then forthcoming announcement, and was filthy lucre at the bottom of it?— London Letter. Excommunication.— Father Ignatius has excommunicated two of his monks for drunkenness and misbehaviour to their superior. The excommunication took place on Thursday night, after the ordinary vesper service. The altar was then draped in black, and previous to the excommunication, the details of which had been sent down by Father Ignatius in a lengthy document, the lights were extinguished. This was a part of the arrangement prescribed, and immediately it took place there were some hisses from the spectators . These were quickly silenced by a xebuke from the prior, Brother Cyprian, and the event of the evening then commenced, the excommunication being conducted by the prior. An ingenious New York mechanic has invented a formidable and elegant weapon of war— a combination of a subre and a sixs'looter revolver. In the cap of the sabre hilt is the charging part of a six-shooter, which revolves in the usual manner, and discharges the balls through an aperture bored in front of the flat guard, coming opposite the thumb when the sabre is grasped. To begin well and go on well is best ; but it is better to go on well after repeated failures, than to throw our whole cargo of good intentions overboard, because some one or two of them are not working quite to our mind. The single effort by which we stop short in the downward path to perdition is of itself v a greater exertion of virtue than a hundred acts of justice.