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      Factory Labour. The Failure Of Mr. Cobbe...

      MSult being itfajjy lianas out of work , and lowfcr wages . tfiCow * vas it that the manufacftwreite -wfere betrayed into that erroneous ! S * tffcici « ation'of business ? It'arose from the Tact That each man tried to anticipate the market , and kept his movements secret from jiis fellows , although he might have known beforehand'that the- same impulses would be

      influencing others equally with himself . So ~ ib proved , every man making as much as he could , sending out as much as he could . All made too much , and bankruptcy came home to the manufacturers—want of work to the men . IS " ow the working hands , themselves assist in piling up this evil . If the cottontrade can be rescued from that condition in

      which its producing power exceeds the consuming power of foreign markets , it must be by rendering its products yet cheaper , and thus spreading' to wider markets ; and at the same time by so improving its methods as to require less hand labour . The working classes will assist in this reform by withdrawing their labour from the factories ; and hence their advantage and safety in that process which we have already recommended to them asthe true substitute for the suffrage

      at home-r-it was Mahomet s process—to go to the suffrage if the suffrage would not come to them . Let them emigrate . Every man who goes to America or Australia may , after a first trial of difficulties , become a landowner himself , or the father of landowners , and see his family continually rising in wealth , comfort , and intelligence . He eeases to become the half-pauperised maker , and becomes the consumer ; thus helping the fellows whom he left behind .

      Those who remain at home , however , would" still need something to strengthen them against the overwhelming p ower which wealth and combination amongst similar numbers places at the command of the millowners ; and it is to be , found , we believe , in the same thing that is wanting throughout all English public action just now—a stronger regard for each other ; a greater fidelity to the interests of class , a great firmness in combining , a more powerful feeling of personal regard for their fellows and their leaders .

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      Lokd Lucajsl Juoud "Lixjcan's Case Is No...

      LOKD LUCAjSL JuOUD " LiXJcan ' s case is not one whit improved by Lord Luoan ' s pleading in his own behalf in the House of Peers . There were two questions : whether lie behaved with that judgment which should characterise an officer in command of cavalry ; and next , whether he

      deserved a court-martial r With the latter point we shall not trouble ourselves , as the obstacle was the military law ordaining that no officer or soldier shall bo tried upon any charge if he served after that charge should have been made . Upon the first question we may add a few words to our former statement .

      There are several minor questions in Loi'd Lit can ' s defence , but the turning point of the whole affair rests upon his interview with Captain ISFolan . According to Lord Lucan ' s own statement , Captain Nolan brought him the written order which we placed before our readers a fortnight ago . That order , as wo conceivo , and our opinion is sustained by Lord Cahdioan , Lord ITakdinqe , and the Duke of Rioiimond , directed the commander of cavalry torn ako n . tentative advance to tost the practicability of saving the guns which Lord Ragman believed the Ihisaians wore

      removing from the redoubts . Captain Nolan delivered the order , and wont boyond his duty in accompanying it with a verbal explanation , that it meant Loi'd Lucan should attack immediately . Here lies tho pith of the case . Should Lord Ltjoan have obeyed Captain

      Nolan ' s interpretation , or Xord Kaglan ' s written order ? There can be no doubt that when an aide-de-camp brings a verbal order from the cominander-in-chief , the officer to whom it is addressed is bound ' to- obey it , quite as much as if he had it from the lips of the commander himself . But military authorities and common sense agree that when a written order is sent , the writing , not the

      speaking , is to be followed . Lord Lit can lost his temper , obeyed Captain Nolan , and justified Lord Eaglan ' s rebuke to him on the evening of the day , whdn he said , " Why , you have lost the Light -Brigade . " We maysay , with the Duke of SfcroHMOiTD , that if verbal interpretations are to be regarded , " what , in Heaven ' s name , is the use of a written Order ?"

      As we have said before , the order was eminently discretionary . And the minor questions introduced by Lord Tineas only serve to show that he lost his discretion . He says the guns were not being carried away , that Lord [ Raglan was mistaken in thinking they were . Well , if that is so , was it not stronger ground for a discretionary execution of the order ? Lord Raglan informed him

      that the [ French cavalry we ' re on the left . As he had interpreted the order , or rather as he had adoj > ted Captain Nolan ' s interpretation , he thought that the information about the [ French cavalry did not mean that he might combine his operation with theirs , but that the [ French cavalry had been already ordered to advance . Therefore , he says , he had no time to conlmunicate with them , and had he not charged he would have left them unsupported ^ before the enemy . This was another blunder . It is clear that

      the intimation given by Lord Raglan ,- as to the Trench cavalry , related solely to their position in any combined movement . The fact is the French cavalry-did not take part in the charge of the Light Brigade , but charged afterwards , in order to silence a portion of the [ Russian fire , so fatal to the Light Brigade . ' Lord Ltjcan made an ex parte statement of the events of the day ; and we are not in a position to test its accuracy . But one fact , not an unimportant fact , comes under the test . In his speech Lord Luoan said that Lord Cabdig an had sent him a

      message to say that he found the enemy so numerous as to make it difficult for him to hold his ground . Lord Cardigan promptly supplies the correction . He sent no such message ; the message he did send was sound information , to the effect that the hills on both sides of the valley were occupied by [ Russian artillery and riflemen , with cavalry drawn up behind . That is the information which should have prevented Lord Luoan from ordering 700 horsemen to attack the Russian army .

      AVo see no reason to alter our opinion that Lord Lucan alone is responsible for the loss of tho Light Brigade .

      Hospital Boats. We Invite The Particular...

      HOSPITAL BOATS . We invite the particular attention of our readers to a letter which we have printed this week in another part of our journal , under the title of " Hints to tho Admiralty . " The letter proceeds from a gentleman whose statements are in the highest degree deserving of our respect and confidence . While wo are horrified at tho revelations , before the Crimean

      Committee as to tho transport of the sick and wounded at Scutari and Balnlclava , it is important that tho publio should bo aware that at' this vary time , and upon our own shores , tho sick are conveyed from our ships to tho hospital in tho most cruel , and careless manner . Even at Spithead wo

      find the alternative t > F men 'beinygf ' fiiA . tip ' j . tb a confined cockpit and Spreading- infection through a ship , : perhaps 'through a Heefc , afc a moment when neither-aship nora man canl > e spared , or of their being pulled on sTiore , fever-stricken and exhausted , in open boats . Surel y > at each of our -great naval ports there should be a service of hospital-boats . To arrest the chances of infection in the ships , and to convey the sick to the hospital wi * h as much ease , comfort , -and celerity as , possible , seems to us to be a question of the simplest duty and of the first necessity .

      An -Explanation. It Is 1 Too Bad Of A Se...

      AN -EXPLANATION . It is 1 too bad of a semi-official paper , such as our inestimable . contemporary , the Globe , to mystify the foreign'prdss with feeble , ' but-not harmless , pleasantries . A journal that enjoys the happy privilege of seeing that everything is good in every possible act of every possible ministry , on this side -Toryism , has ¦ n o business with joking . -It is ^ expected to be ^ at lea * t decently dull . What shall we thMk of a journal •^ hi ch is -supposed to represent with due decorum * the policy of the Whig Cabinet , placing at the head of a column usually devoted to-the scrapings of Downing-street , a conspicuous-paragraph in leaded type , -to the eflfect that " -we have been requested-to state that the King of Prussia was accidentally shut out from the division at the Conferences of Vienna . " We quote the sense , not the exact words , of the paragraph . This unseemly and not brilliant burlesque of parliamentary slang is an unpardonable indiscretion-at such a crisis . > Itis not only'a clumsy-and misplaced insult to that king , who , however weak , is still strong enough to be courted b ; y the Western Powers , it is an unjustifiable deception practised upon the good faith and ' simplicity of thecontinental journals , who have reasonable grounds for considering a journal like the Globe to be -serious -and

      circumspect . What would be thought o the Moniteur inserting a paragraph , a la Charivari , at the head o its " Partie non qfficielle ? ' immediately under a batch of Napoleonic decrees , or a state paper of M . Drouyn de Lhuys ? Why , it would thrdw every Bourse of Europe into-hysterics , and frighten even Downing-street from its propriety . Here is the careful and judicious TJebats gravely accepting this paragraph o the Globe as it were a sort o semi-official sop to the dignity of his Prussian Majesty , who is still to be coaxed . Here is La Presse , habitually keen and wide awake , boleranly taking note of this paragraph in the Globe , as an unaccountable postscript to Lord

      Lyndhurst ' s debate , which defies explanation , and which it does not pretend to solve . We can only request our French contemporaries to believe that the Globe is an after-dinner organ of the Ministry , tjhfortunately this paragraph wasperpetrated on the Day of Humiliation . Perhaps a fast day for the Globe is a day of fast writing . We would , however , suggest to our semi-official friend to desist from this species of " fast" paragraphs in future . They belong to the facetious columns of young Tory journals , to whom is permitted the desolate

      licence of Disraelites out of office . Nevertheless , we cannot help suggesting that if the Debats had called in M . John Lemoinne , and if La Presse had consulted M . Alphonse Peyrat , this ridiculous mystification ( the King of Prussia at the Vienna Conference 1 ) would have been impossible . Either of these distinguished journalists would have easily seen through the Parliamentary slang of this sorry nonsense . But French journalists have , wo fear , forgotten even the blague of Pafliamentury institutions .

      « The Stranger" In Parliament. [The Resp...

      « THE STRANGER" IN PARLIAMENT . [ The responsibility of the Editor in regard to theso contributions is limited to the net of giving them publicity . Tho opinions expressed are thoso of the writer : both tho Leader and " Tho Stranger" benefit by the freedom which is loft to his pen and discretion . J The nation seems quite proud of its Day of Humiliation , in the belief that the sitting of Parliament down at St . Margaret ' s , on last Wednesday , has placated Providence and induced tho favourable turn now

      visible in the news both from Balaklavaand Vienna . It is such n struggle for that highly practical assembly , the House of Commons , to put on h pious air , that one may naturally look for surprising consequences , once tho operation of going to church has been . accomplished . Lord Palmerston , with his views about f ho Kedemption—which ho thinks the Home Minister of the porioil ought to have discouraged—could not bo expected , to eeo with any great acuteness the necessity of his spending a morning in itho hideous

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 24, 1855, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24031855/page/15/