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    3032 TIE LEABEB, JTHo. 344, Saoteda*

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    IN TILE PROVINCES. Ljltixy, the metropol...

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    IT IS A LONG "LATNG THAT HIS NO TURNING....

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    Federal Union Of Tkades. The Project Of ...

    mitted the jeweller and excluded the baudloom wearer ? It may be true that , in the event of a strike , unskilled labour ¦ would be so easily supplied , that the attempt to support the men who were ' out' -would be a serious undertaking- ; but the attempt to ground a resolution on this contingent difllculty fell through , for want of a seconder . The delegates at Glasgow accepted it as a sufficing , reason against any such monopoly , " that the fact of his place being so easily

    filled ' up was the very reason "svhy an unskilled labourer should be supported in his struggle . They might not be able to get him so far up the hill as would be desirable ; but they might be able to get him over the- boulders and rotigh stones at the bottom . " Why , this would be practical chivalry , were we not well assured that chivalry is the virtue whence Caudisas" and Tempest taka their titles of

    nobility . "When we know the difference between being a . ' fine high-spirited fellow' and a ferocious idiot ,, between ' his lordship' and the unfortunate navy lieutenant who waa condemned to death for cowardice , we shall be able ten say more distinctly whether the PBOtTDiPOOT maxim exhibited magnanimity , or only that ' rough good nature * conceded

    to working men by their patrons . "When the work of federalization has been completed , employers will be inclined to hesitate a little longer before they drive their men to a conflict in which they will be supported , if necessary , by the general levies of the working population throughout Scotland . If the success of the union be what is

    anticipated ,, one class will not be forced to succumb within a few -weeks merely because the other possesses the resources essential to the prolongation of human life . But it is unmistakably set forth , among the declared © bjecta of the federal Society , that strikes are , if possible , to be prevented , and means of conciliation sought between masters and workmen in the seyeral trades . An attempt will be made next session to base some practical measure , of an enabling character , upon the result of Mr . Mackin-3 sroN * a committee on courts of industrial

    arbitration . The evidence elicited was of the most satisfactory kind . ! Not only did it prove that the working classes throughout the United Kingdom are , as a body , disposed to accept a fair adjustment of their claims but that many employers are willing to second them , and to resist the despotic cupidity of other large capitalists . But , while the experiments are in progress , it would be gratifying to hear that the trades of England had been really federalized , and placed in correspondence with the Scottish trades .

    3032 Tie Leabeb, Jtho. 344, Saoteda*

    3032 TIE LEABEB , JTHo . 344 , Saoteda *

    In Tile Provinces. Ljltixy, The Metropol...

    IN TILE PROVINCES . Ljltixy , the metropolis being dull , with only Naples , Mr . Sptjbgeon , and smaller topics , such as W . J . Uobson and E . Y . Tempest 1 on hand , certain correspondents , not long returned from Moscow , fled into the provinces . There they wandered , from town to town , to fashionable places and manufacturing places , to trading ports , and to bays where only pleasure-boats and yachts are known ; but a deplorable absence of excitement they found everywhere . Strange to ' our own '

    who has written in . vermilion language an account of Alexander ' s coronation , to find himself at Leeds , without a matter going on . that could justify the slightest pictorial tinting t In the courso of a week ho was enabled , upon the best information , to report S ^ i , W * ™** , of Sand Hutton , near Ihirsk , had < plucked a pea' from his garden which had forty-three pods containing four hundred . peaa : that Onsiwx bad lectured at the X 6 Wn Hall ; that Bingley cattle fair had been

    held ; that Mr . PabijtaiiI , had offered some explanations with reference to something he said to Mr . Crossley , and that Mr . John Frost had made a . very foolish speech at the Music Hall . Clearly ,, this correspondent could hardly expect to be kept on . ' Manchester has not been . so- utterly dull . The Free Trade Hall and the Mechanics' Institute have been opened , and the Duke of "Wellington's statue inaugurated . The Bishop has been busy . The Half-holiday League has been at work . The Poor Law Guardians have been considering the Pigsties of Swinton .

    Mr . -Kobson- has been playing at the Theatre Hoyal . The Municipal Elections have been going forward . There is a perpetual gossip , too , concerning the Art-Treasures . Sheffield is engaged ( that is to say , ten gentlemen at a square table ) , as usual , in deploring the limitation of the Hoyal prerogative j and ] N ~ ewcasile-upon-Tyne ( that is to say , five gentlemen at a round table ) in censuring certain gentlemen for omitting to say , at a public meeting what they did say , unmistakably .

    In Belfast , Piccolomini has been singing , and the lost correspondent transmitted to London a critical article upon that event , which would have done credit to his taste , had it not been pirated from the Northern Wliig . Then , the Bight Honourable Sir James Monciiiefp , M . P ., has been lecturing on Social Reform , Mr . Henrt Uichoxs has

    been trying to play the part of Hamlet , a cow has been stolen , and several Irish gentlemen have furnished puns on the eclipse . Away in Scotland the correspondents were in a bitter mood , complaining that they are too late for Balmoral and Mrs . Stowe , well aware how fervid is the interest inspired by the Victoria and Stjthert . a ^ d circulars . The

    thrilling introduction that had been , composed to the " Execution of John M'Mantjs" was eompulsorily set aside , because John M'Ma-NUS had been respited . jSTor was-the reopening of Glasgow Cathedral a very inspiring affair . But a Napoleon has turned up in Dumbarton—a Napoleon verily ; or , in other words , the Sheriff Substitute , who / interdicts' the JDumbarton Herald from publishing a report of certain evidence in a libel case in which that journal is concerned with a Mr . JDtjnbar . Accordingly , tlxe Herald appears with a long blank

    column , marked , " This is where the report ought to have appeared . " "Who is the Sheriff Substitute , and where is Dumbarton ? We should like to have the interdicted report in MS ., that is to say , unless theDuNBAn interdict be a far-resounding thunder reaching to the Thames . At all events , next to the dreary Donald Boss picture of the depopulated ' landa of Sutherland , ' where there has been a Norman sort of piracy , it would seem , this example of bureaucratic austerity is one of the most lively things just now talked of in Scotland . Thither have ticket-of-leave

    men betaken themselves in serious numbers ; there , municipal elections approach , in one city and another ; there , John Mac a re gob ., M . P ., is talked of as being M . P . for the last time ; there , the price of boots and shoes is raised , owing to the scarcity of leather ; there , the desperation of bewildered well-meaners drives them to the infliction of 101 . fines in the interest of morality , which puts the money in its pocket , and is so far benefited .

    There , also , in Edinburgh especially , the law falls like a Nasmytii hammer upon crippled beggars and destitute orphans , upon tho principle which actuated a worthy English justice lately , when he committed two men to prison for being able-bodied and penniless . At Hochester , ' our own' went disconsolately to tho Town Hall and hoard a squabble about the Mayor . At Exeter he was favoured by a policeman with particulars of the

    burglary at Evans's . To Tewkesbury he carried a letter of introduction to the Town Clerk but that functionary had run away with funds for the exercise of a safer hospitalitv ar Copenhagen . In Bath he found the Corpora tion perplexed what to do with Mrs . Colonel Godfrey ' s stuffed birds . At Basingstoke he was slighted by the < highly respectable ' classes for going to hear a lecture by Henbv

    Vincent ; but redeemed himself by avowing that a lady from London -who holds forth in that Town Hall periodically is a genius . At Brighton he heard the townspeople calling Lord Eenest Vane Tempest a puppy , -though the visitors were awe-struck by the apparition of that majestic young man , braving out his dismissal along the cliff on the box-seat of a drag . At Dover three gentlemen were

    encountered , who had been forty years abroad and who contemplated coming up to London to start a morning paper on Conservative principles . Upon receipt of this intelligence the correspondents returned to towiu

    It Is A Long "Latng That His No Turning....

    IT IS A LONG "LATNG THAT HIS NO TURNING . What is the great test of the country ' s welfare ? "Who is the greatest patriot of the day ? We find an answer to this question an the exposition of political history and wisdom which Mr . Laino- has laid before his constituents of the Scotch Northern \ Burghs . If we remember rightly , Mr . Laing- entered the House of Commons as a philosophical Radical , or something very like it , but not as

    an impracticable . He also accommodated his views on many points to the opinions of his constituents , and was rather an Agnewite than otherwise . On the whole , he might be considered as intending to be a regular House of Commons man of the Liberal party . Hog ? greatly he has increased his wisdom since those days ! He tells us , that when lie last saw his constituents , he mistrusted Lord Palmerston ' s Government because they appeared to be coquetting with the war clamour in order to keep themselves in power .

    "A few leading statesmen and orators , such as Mr . Gladstone , Mr . Bright , and , after his visit to Vienna , Lord John Russell—one solitary organ of the press supposed to represent the opinions oC Mr . Disraeli—and hero and there a stray independent member like myself , who happened to have some practical acquaintance with the state of opinion in Europe , were then the only advocates of principles which now are embodied in treaties and assumed as axioms . "

    This is a wonderful version of history ! If we remember rightly , Mr . Lain g was amongst those independent members who were rather rousing the Government to the war than damping its ardour . At that time , too , if we do not misrepresent him , lie was for measuies ; now "I profess no great measures , " he says , " for I have no faith in them . " He is only for getting rid of fleets and armies , so that lie may abolish the tax on knowledge , ( paper ) , ' providence' ( insurance ) , on ' commerce with

    France' ( wine ) , and on tobacco . He docs not state what virtue tobacco represents . All this is to bo done by getting rid of the ¦ wax taxation and rendering the income-tax permanent , . Then , he would make law language less cumbrous , improve the precautions against fraud , with a variety of other measures ^ all tending , however , to tho one end . "With respect to foreign policy , ho has a vei'y simple measure , and modestly as ho disclaims great ones , this invention appears to us quite to deserve tho epithet : —

    " I aim satisfied , from a pretty extonsivo acquaintance with leading men on tlio Continent , tliat if by ttn 7 means wo could bind over tho limes , tho House of Commons , and the Foreign-office , to hold their tongues for ton years together about foreign matters , the cause ct rational liberty abroad would bo more advanced than W any other means that could possibly bo devised . ' Look after tho shop at home , make journals , let members hold their tonguea for ten

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 25, 1856, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25101856/page/14/