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 the Roman Church. We shall again meet with our reconstituted National Church further on, and see how she then also fared.

Ere the great Yellowly had quitted the world, he had succeeded in a chief object of his life, namely, the creation of a great permanent, national, representative trades union. It was by means of such a body—created out of, and representing, all the other like bodies—that he hoped best to reform all the latter, and rid them of all the erroneous or vicious tendencies, which had heretofore limited their membership, and weakened their influence. Success followed his efforts, and when he finally closed a long and busy life, he had left behind him a system that promised to work to the credit and well-being of his order and of his country. One hundred years had rolled over since that time, and it was now the duty of the great union president of the day to celebrate the first centenary of the death of the honoured founder. In abridged form I give some few of his more striking observations.

The president remarked that there were three different subjects to notice in this proposed retrospect. First, he would look at their own advance, which, as a representative union, they had accomplished by following the lines laid down for them by their