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    How To Keep Up Tb3! Militia. Amoira The ...

    Hag "the --service 'attractive , and by infusing iitto tfee'tFiiKtl « nd suburban populations the ffoa ^ dufy . iBjurt ^ e ^ ar more efficient mode of keeping arp'tbe Militia would be by a further extenaion- 'of ? the voluntary spirit . It behoves the jOflvegrnment to consider whether , having waived the ballot , they can command the annual training of sufficient numbers to

    sustain a respectable force . Under the present system we doubt ' whether , the stimulus of war being removed , that can be done . But there is one mode by which it would certainly -be accomplished—a mode which would place -a large constitutional reserve at the disposal of the Government , and foster healthy habits ramong the people . That mode is the simple -one of repealing the Drilling Act , and per-• mitfeing the enrolment and organization of volunteer regiments and companies . Remove the obstruction to the free assembling of

    oerj sons for purposes of military exercise , taking such precautions as might be deemed fit for the security of the state ; not only permit , but encourage the formation of these corps . Let every schoolmaster in the country be recommended to include drilling in the school -exercises . In all schools that partake of a public character , let the boys be induced to form into military bodies , the drill-instructor

    appointing the officers . As a sanitary measure , this would be most valuable ; nor would its moral be hardly less than its physical results . Discipline is as good for the mind as for the body , and as beneficial to children of honest parents as to those who find shelter in institutions like Mettray . The cost would be nothing to the state ; the gain would be immense to the state ; to individuals incalculable . We can see no valid objection to the adoption of such measures . If the G-overn-• jnent are in earnest in their desire to improve the army ; if they really wish to raise at call a truly national force that would make a country like ours perfectly safe from invasion , these are the measures they would adopt : perpetual maintenance of the regular Mi-Tifin . nnfmirnwrnpiiJ ; in + lir > rwlr » nf ; irm nf

    milltary organization in all schools ; and , above all , the repeal of the Drilling Act , which is in itself a violation of the written right of Englishmen .

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    A WORKING-CLASS DEFEAT . Once more tho employer has defeated the employed , because ho is tho employer . The , Glasgow miners have capitulated to their masters . The long Scottish strike is at an « nd ; the men have been starved into submission . After a three months' struggle with misery , they arc to resume their work at a reduction of twenty por cent , upon their former wages . Tho lords of districts and counties rejected till plans of arbitration ; they would have their men submit unconditionally , without reserve or discussion .

    That is , the coal and iron masters are to bo unqualified despots ; they will not treat the individuals in their servico as in any respect better than serfs of the soil . This i « a new : aspect of feudalism—tho autocracy of tho . mine-as of tho mill . "While tho strike lasted , the coal and iron masters mado holiday at home , or enjoyed thoir glimpses of tho London season . They calculated how far the vigorous human , nature ftl T * . li n \ i \ t i ii / a M /^ mi / tun onuf out 4 ' Its * UMlllr . f \\ WIMM

    matter which deserves a word of explanation . The National Association of United Trades in London appear to have imagined themselves censured by tho Leader for ignorance on a question of law involved in the recent application to Lord PaTjMErston to appoint and empower a court of arbitration to settle the dispute of the Scottish miners . Now , tho allusion , which was not a censure , but a simple statement of fact , referred to the Society of the United Trades of Glasgow , and by no means to tho Metropolitan Society . Tho National Society of United Trades , established in London upwards of twelve years ago , wore requested by Mr . Mackinnon to co-operate with him in tho movement for establishing Courts of Industrial Arbitration , to arrange , on a conciliatory

    master , we say , knows this to be impossible , knows , "further , that the workman , however exasperated , will return to his work . A balance is struck , therefore , between the advantage of gaining his point , and the disadvantage of iaterrupting his business . If the gain is worth the interruption , why then the unctuous logician closes his schools , suspends his OVfVTSfifirS . find Wfl . ifcs nnt . il Vila xxrnrAr-ma-n

    If all Me . toade societies in the United Kingdom'were Faffiliated to the Central Society in London , an organization , almost irresistible , would be created . But the result of Mr . Ma-o . kinwon ' s investigation will suggest a full discussion of this and similar topics .

    have spent their savings , exhausted their credit , fettered themselves with debt , degraded themselves by the sense of physical privation . The appeal is made , not to reason or right , but to the powers of despair , to famine , to the humility of hunger . "What is the value to the working classes of the civilization which places them under these conditions ? What is the value to them of the national prosperity w hich leaves them , in the nineteenth century , exactly as powerless , in relation to their emnlovfirs . n , a in th ^ t ¦ r

    j — — — — . m » - _~ ^ m - ^ r ^^ " ™ J ^ rwf *** ^ b ^ h ^^ «« A ^ h ^^ sixteenth ? The civilization is , after all , of some value . It influences the men , if it does not humanize the masters . "When the northern strike began , prophecies of outrage upon life and property were circulated through the mining districts . The militia , the yeomanry , the constabulary were invoked , and " good society" was organized against the anticipated

    violence of the thousands of rough and strong men thrown up from the depths of the coal and iron mines . What happened ? Crimes , instead of becoming more frequent , became fewer . The c incendiaries ' who led the movement gave their advice , invariably , in favour of strictly legal and pacific action , and the ' incendiaries' were obeyed . This is what the working classes have gained by civilization . It may be that material improvements and the reform of manners have not conferred on them a better station in society ; but they are better fitted to claim what is due to them . Had the mass of the working classes been as civilized at the time of the Chartist agitation as they appear to be now , the agitation might not have been a failure . Connected with this subieet is n , p ersonal

    basin , the disputes oi masters with their workmen . They wore consulted as to the constitution of tho committee , and have done good service by collecting and preparing a systematic body of evidence , calculated to assist and enlighten tho discussions of tho Legislature . It was by tho London Society that the delegates from Glasgow were brought to give their testimony before Mr . Mac-Kinnon's committee This exnlanation in duo to tho National

    v * . \ Jix \ j iju ] uin < tn i , tin nitoiMiu unw >» « . * iiu v . * ww * . j . and they knew that , when tho extreme point of endurance had been reached , tho fathers ¦ of- famifihod . children would once more dive sullenl y into the mines and labour for bread . IPTeithor tho Scotchman nor tho Englishman is capable of tho nbjecfc bittornesH which brings tho Hindoo to bin eneiuv's door , that hia death from hunger may be a curso cm the oppressor ' s family . The

    Society of United Trades , because a eocioty formed in Glasgow for temporary purposes appears to huvo adopted tho same " title , " and by doing bo ban been tho originntpr of Homo confuHioii . Tho London Awsociation of eoni-HO ( loon not dewire to be held rospoii-Hiblo for orrorw of opinion or conduct that may be committed by junior societies not in correspondence with it .

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    the members rushed away , leaving not twenty in the House . Two displays of this sort might have been enough for one evening . Honourable members did not think so . The same pertinacious " bore" raised himself , after a solemn interval , upon bis legs , and said , " Sir , I beg to move that the House be counted . '' Again tho signal , the alarm , the mob at tho door , tho ( Speaker's , pause , the count , the announcement that more than forty members Avcro in tho House . And again tho noisy outgoing . That put an end to tho comedy ? Not at all . Lord Stant / isy spoke to about twenty honourable gentlemen , and , for tho fourth time , there was a scandalous i-epctition of a 1 tho

    scene . There might have been a fifth ; but when , for tho fifth time , a member moved that tho House be counted , the coftco-room legislators did not find thoir way to their places early enough to anticipate the Speaker ' s reckoning . " There being only twenty-seven members proaent , the Houbo stood adjourned . " Thin is our Imperial Parliament .

    Tite . For the sake of safety , a iew members had dropped in when it was moved that the House be counted . The essential Forty were in their places . Then , Mr . Mackinkon delivered his objections , and the British Legislature dwindled almost to the limits of a common jury . Again a " count" was sounded , and the alarm was signalled in tfoe coffeeroom . The Speaker kept silence to allow the senatorial dummies to get up a second sham , and then solemnly reckoned from side to side of the House , and pronounced that a quorum was present . After this farcical decision , up rose the Eight Honourable Sir Coknevaii Lewis , Chancellor of the Exchequer , to give the opinion of the Cabinet on the patronage of science by the State . Scarcelv was his first sentence uttered than

    are representing their constituencies . It matters not whether ten or fifteen are listening to the debate , provided that a scout is at the door to report in the coffee-room whenever a " count" is moved . Early on Tuesday evening Mr . Heywood ' s motion in favour of an extended endowment of science was discussed—a motion which was seconded , almost in dumb show , by Mr .

    If it be an honour to be a member of the House of Commons , it seems to be equally a nuisance . The gentlemen thus honoured , often with a very ill grace on the part of those who " honour" rthem , go down with a supreme contempt -for public business—a contempt almost as supreme as that of the clerks of the Foreign-office . During the present session there have been fewer full Houses than usual , and several counts-out . But when there is not a count-out , it is by no means to be simnosfid that , fortv mfimrtfirs

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    London IIohpitai . Mkdioai- Coli . kcjb . —The Council uncl JPioleanor . s of tho London Hospital Medical Col-| logo met on Monday in ono of tho lecture-rooniH of tlio ' inutitiition to dintributo the prizeH awarded to tho more I ] ii « ritorioiiH of tho , ntudonts during tho Honsion of IH 5 B-G . Th « JJirthop of Oxford occupied tho chair , and Lord Auckland , tho Uiahop of Bath and Woiln , waa ulno prc-Hont at tho imrcmony . Tiik Cahio ov AucJHiiiRiior Dknihon . —Tho Archbirthop of Canterbury has fixed to hold hi » court for procuodinK with tho cuho of tho Archdeacon of Taunton at the Uuildluill , Uuth , on Monday , July 21 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 14, 1856, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14061856/page/15/