Sir Charles Bright made a speech to his constituents at
Greenwich on Thursday. He did not say anything worth noticing, but one of his constituents did, " wanting to know " if Sir Charles would support measures for "the equalization of poor-rates, the reform of the Court of Bankruptcy, the reform of the licensing system, the abolition of Church-rates, the appoint- ment of a public prosecutor, for a compulsory Education Bill, the reform of the Irish Church, the reform of the Army and Navy, the amendment of. the law of master and servant, the laws regu- lating capital and labour, a Bill to compel railway proprietors and speculators to build proper houses in lieu of those which they caused to be pulled down, a Bill providing a court of criminal appeal, and, last of all, a Bill for the due punishment of our daring hordes of swindlers." Not a bad list, and last Sunday delegates from the cotton hands assembled at Accrington added to them an
E'ght Hours' Bill, and the establishment of Courts of Arbitration between masters and men. These Courtaore to be compulsory.
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