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      1190 : :Ihe Leader. [Ho. 361, Sa-Mjsday

      1190 : : iHE LEADER . [ Ho . 361 , Sa-MJSday

      The Northern Trades Will Are Glad To Ann...

      THE NORTHERN TRADES Will are glad to announce tliat the nucleus of & "FederalUnion of the Scottish . Trades has been formed at Glasgow . The Society organized by Mr . PBotrDFOOT ! and his colleagues has published a set of rules which appear to have "been thoughtfully discussed .. The objects declared are of the most moderate character , there being on the part of the industrial ^ Federalists no desire whatever to introduce coercion or conspiracy into their system of operations . Events have abundantly demonstrated the necessity of the movement , -which has our heartiest sympathy , and which may be a means of protecting the working classes throughout Scotland from the arbitrary selfishness of their masters and the frauds to which they are frequently subjected in factories and mines . The enormous losses caused by strikes to tli e public at large , no less ihan to the operatives and their employers , have been exhibited in the report of Mr . MACKUfWON ' s very useful committee . It may be hoped that the intelligent combination of tlie working classes may induce the class that flourishes "by their labour to adopt those moderate and generous principles of conduct which some masters have adopted , thus reconciling the interests of industry and capital , and benefiting both .

      The King Op Prussians Question. Iisr An ...

      THE KING OP PRUSSIANS QUESTION . Iisr an article which appeared under this head in our last week ' s impressionj a typographical error occurred , by which the Neufchatel Protocol of 1852 was dated 1855 . ISTo one , of cpurse , could have been misled "by this inaccuracy , since it was distinctly stated that 3 Jord MT ^ tMESBiiET , who quitted office early in 1853 , was the Minister who signed the Protocol on behalf of Great Britain . Nor would it have been easy to remember the IRussian Ambassador who officiated in London during the siege of Sebastopol ! But it is S 3 well to point out that the assent of the four Powers to the King of Prussia ' s claim was procured four years , not sevoi years , after the adoption of the Federal Constitution by the Neufchatelese . This circumstance in no way affects the argument . JNTeufchatel , by a revolution , had separated itself from the Prussian monarchy . The Prussian monarchy , four years afterwards , put forward a claim , which it did not attempt to enforce . Tour years have again elapsed , and the claim is repeated . NeufchiUel is , to some extent , in the position of Texas , before tliat territory

      became a state of the Union . Texas had , by her own act , become independent of Mexico . Subsequently , by her own act , sho became part of the American Federation . Then , though the Government of Mexico had been -unable to retain Texas , it made war on the United States for accepting her adhesion , to their political compact—and was defeated , as Prussia deserves to be defeated should she disturb the peace of Europe for the sake of her " inalienable rights , " which signify no more than inalienable perversity .

      The Resolute. Owe Of The Handsomest Pres...

      THE RESOLUTE . Owe of the handsomest presents which was ever made by one country to another as on its way across the Atlantic . It is the British discovery "barque Resolute , which went out under Captain Xbi ^ rx to assist in the search for Sir John Franklin , and which is now coming back as a present from tie United States to England . Everybody remembers h < m the vessel , was abandoned by order of the commander of the expedition . From her station m the Arctic regions sho drifted among the icebergs 1200 mile * ., and was found , several months back , by an American whaling crew , bolonging to New London , in Coanecticut . The

      ship had been distinctly abandoned , the English Government waived all claim to the "vessel , and she was now the private property of the crew . The American Government showed a stronger appreciation of this interesting relic than our own had exhibited . The two Houses of Congress united in a joint resolution , voting 40 , 000 dollars to purchase the vessel from the crew who found it , and to present it to the English Government as a token of tko friendly feelings entertained by that country for our own .

      This exactly followed out the whole course of events in which tbe Resolute had figured . The search , expedition fell under the command of an officer who showed a strange apathy in carrying it forward ; who appeared to feel in some degree a jealousy of the greater zeal , perhaps the greater success , of the officers under him . Against the opinion of the others , he caused the barque to be abandoned ; and the Government completed its abandonment . No sooner had the search for Sir

      John FR / LNKiiiK been announced , than it was manned by volunteers and the American Government spontaneously accepted the services of its own volunteers to assist in the search . The ship which was abandoned by an order of Sir Ep ward Belcheb was ^ bvnid by Americans , and reclaimed by the American Government . Nor did the American Government stop short at the mere return of the ship as it floated . In tlie words of our contempoi'ary , the Jfew York Times- —• ¦

      " She lias been repaired and fitted with the utmost care at the expense of our Government , with the design of restoring her to the Queen , in at least as good a condition as she was ira at the time the exigencies of their situation compelled , her crew to abandon her . With such completeness and attention to detail has this work been performed , that not only has everything found on board been preserved , even to the books hi the captain ' s library , the pictures in his cabin , and a musical box and

      organ belonging to other officers , but new British / nags have been manufactured in the Navy-yard to take the place of those which , had rotted during the long time she -was without a living soul on board . From stem to stern she has been repainted ; her sails and much of her rigging are entirely new ; the muskets , swords , telescopes , nautical instruments , & c ., which she contained , have been cleaned and put in perfect order . Nothing has been overlooked , or neglected that was necessary to her most complete . and thorough renovation . " '

      The vessel , thus renovated , has been placed in the charge of Captain PI . J , Hartstein , one of the ofiicers of the late Arctic expedition , who will bring her into Portsmouth . It appears to us that the ship hiis thus acquired a value which it did not possess when it first left the builder's hands . Every sword , ev « ry telescope , every quadrant , has gained something more precious than a covering of gold , in the friendly care which has been bestowed upon it . Nothing can have been more handsome than tlie whole conduct of the American Government , from first to last ; but most especially in the graceful attention to these small details .

      Will not the American officei * s be welcomed ? Of course they will . The Times has done justice to English feeling by announcing the welcome . It will have a deeper meaning than the mere exchange of official courtesies . There have been ' differences' between the two Governments ; we look in vain to Und any differences between the two peoples . The Government of the United States usually harmonizes with the feeling of its own people ; we cannot always say the same of ours . Where our volunteers have pressed to perform the sacred office of friendship in the search for Fbank , lin , our Government has been dilatory and cool- The Forcis-il Government of America

      has shared the enthusiasm of our volunteers . Although conveyed to the English Government , we may be quite sure that this gift is at heart presented to tlie English people , and we are equally sure that Queen Victoiua will perfectly understand the spirit in which her ship comes home to her . Some forty days , counting from the 13 th of November , will the ltcsolute be at sea—or less , probably , considering the Btrong westerly gales . She will reach this country before Cliristuuis , and a right hearty English Christinas welcome -will bo given to Captain IIartstkin , his officers , and his crew , by every Englishman , ay , and every Englishwoman , that can win the presence of the visitors by the most cordial of hospitalities .

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      There Is No Learned Man But Will Confess...

      There is no learned man but will confess hP v , n . much profited by reading controversiesThis ^ awakened ana b . 13 judgment snarpened if t ^ ? be profitable for him to read , why . sibuld it v ?«? ' t least . betolerablefor hiaadversary tovSUzir S'

      The Moon's Rotation. (To The Editor Of T...

      THE MOON'S ROTATION . ( To the Editor of the Leader ) Sl ?> . —™ . y ^ allow me to ask a question on . this subject , which I have no doubt some of youi coire spondents will be able to answer . I presume tha > the alternation of day and night is really , as usuallv stated , the result of the earth ' s rotation on her aw and is quite independent of her motion in her orbitif , therefore , this rotation were to cease , I suppose that the alternation of day and night would cease as well , and not otherwise ; in fact , that the one is en tirelythe result or effect of the other : if , hwevpr

      tne alternation ot day and night were to cease the earth would then constantly present the sarae ' face to the sun in her revolution round that body in the same mariner as the moon does to us in her revolution round the earth . Now , how am I to reconcile the two cases if this supposition be correct- ^ -viz . " that the rotation of the moon on her axis causes her always to present the same face to the earth , but that the « o / j-rotation of the earth on her axis would cause her always to present the same face to tlie sun ;" aud if the above supposition be not correct , lio \ v is it that the alternation of day and night depends upon the earth ' s rotation . —I am , sir , yours obediently , Q .

      (To The Editor Of The Leader.) Sri?,—"Wi...

      ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sri ? , —" With your permission I will take the benefit of your "Open Council" column to give public expression to the sentiments of a class to which ! belong , relative to the above subject . I belong to that class of men who contemplate mathematical truth for its own sake , and tlie rotation of the satellites is a , mathematical truth , or rather , perhaps , arnechanical truth , admitting ; of successful contemplation only by mathematicians ; and even by them only when they reason in accordance with niatlieinatical axioms , definitions , and logic .

      It is quite true that a man who is no mathematician , or who possesses just sufficient of this kind of knowledge for the transaction of common lift affairs , has the same natural and lawful right to discuss such questions as mathematicians , and he may , if lie pleases , give publicity to his views , and even amuse himself , by dictating how such matters ought to be treated ; but of this he may rest assured , that by so doing he is but pronouncing , after his own way , the fact that lie lias yet to learn the-Urst rudiments of the science to -which the truth under

      consideration belongs . Those who have acquired their ideas from a similar course of training to himself may laud him , and others who have taken another than , the ' royal road to yeomelry' may try to set him right ; but whether such efforts be attended with success or not , one thing is certain , that whenever lie speaks or writes on such subjects for the instruction of others , lie will surely jumble words together in a manner altogether ridiculous . In support of tills view I need only , I believe , quote a few phrases and sentences from the last public statement made by the originator of the present controversy : — "No one denies that the moon turns roujid . " "It turns -without rotating . " To say the least of it , this is making a singularly illogical use of words .

      " The sidereal day being the measure of the rotation of the earth is a positive blunder . " Blunders are such errors as , properly speaking , result from conceit , ignorance , or stupidity ; but surely our instructor cannot mean what he says . " The rotation of a globe which is at the same time revolving in an orbit is incomplete , till it presents the Bame meridian lino to the centre of its orbit . " This is one of many instances -which prove that the writer has taken the royal road to gcoynclnj ! " Astronomers make the year consist of 3 Gf > f sidereal days , instead of 3 G 5 £ solar days and rotations , as the fact is . The one extra turn is merely ( he orbital revolution whicli the moon has . "

      Astronomers make the year to consist of neither the one nor tlie other . They state that 3 < 36 j sidereal days arc equal to 36 . > £ solar days , and that enen period ( with a little adjustment of tho fractions ) is equal to one solar year ; and so it is . . 11 Tho consideration of the variouB views published relative to this subject forces a reflection 011 wy mind , that the cause of tho widely spread , indefinite ideas entertained respecting it li « s its origin in tno ardour existing in this country for popular instruction in the pure sciences . That this kind of instruction is really good in its general results I may , to n certain extent , admit ; but 1 certainly do think thut this ono result of it is not to us , as one of the enlightened nations of tho globe , entitled to the term crcdUubk . Southampton . « J- fc > xEist «

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1856, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13121856/page/14/