We are happy to learn that the Trades Council in
London, which represents a great number of Trades' Unions, has sent a deputation to Mr. Gladstone, introduced to him by Mr. Thomas Hughes, on the subject of his proposed Deferred Annuities and Life Insurance Bill, and that, instead of expressing dissatisfaction, they said that, so far as the very short time that has elapsed had enabled them to test the feelings of their constituents, those feelings were decidedly favourable to Mr. Gladstone's Bill. In the Exeter Hall demon- stration against the measure, not a single Trades' Union was, we believe, officially represented. We may then hope that the work- ing dames, either now or soon, will be fully alive to the greatest benefit which the Legislature has proposed to confer on them since the repeal of the Corn Laws.
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