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      the document ; but on a deputation from the Conference waiting ^ upon Mr . Jay"yesterday ( Thursday ) , they were informed that he had no intention of withdrawing it . Mr . Blyers , we understand , had interviews yesterday with Mr . Piper and Mr . jay . The Paviors * Arms committee are now applying all their energies in preventing men coming from the provinces to supply the places of the thousands who stall refuse to return to work under the masters' declaration . ¦ ¦ "¦/ . ... ¦ ' ¦ '

      They have their emissaries at every rarlway station-ilr the metropolis throughout each day for the purpose of watching the arrival of workmen from the country , and , if possible , of intercepting them and persuading them to return . Of 15 men whom Mr . Kelk brought from Bristol the other day , they induced 14 to go back . On Thursday they induced bthfer men to return home who had come to London , in addition to those they persuaded to go back to Bristol . Occasionally the scouts from the Paviors Arms , keeping watch and ward at the metropolitan stations , recognise an agent from a master builder , starting on a journey into the country to collect

      workmen ; they immediately report progress to headquarters , and an emissary is instantly put upon his track to mar the success of his mission . The sum received from bodies of sympathising workmen in the provinces yesterday by the Conference was . £ 135 . Mr . Potter , the secretary , spoke at a large meeting of operatives at Brighton , on Tuesday evening , and Grey , Osborne , and Brown , delegates from the Conference , are visiting the large provincial towns fbr the double purpose of eliciting sympathy and pecuniary aid for the men on strike , and ^ of prevailing on the workmen there to abstain from coming to Condon .

      THE PADIHAM STRIKE . ThePadiham weavers resumed work , conditionally , on Mondav . There still appears to be a doubt whether the Executive Committee has obtained the Blackburn standard list of prices , and a fortnight ' s trial has to be given in order to test the terms on which work has been resumed . The sums received on Monday as contributions to the' operatives amounted to upwards of 400 Z .

      SHOEMAKERS AT BURY . . On Monday , a general meeting of the journeymen shoemakers took place in Bury , in consequence of an application having been made to the masters for an advance of wages , equal to about 10 per cent . Without an exception the masters consented to grant the proposed advance . The Bleachers at Glasgow . —An open air meeting of between 2 , 000 and 3 , 000 persons was held at Barrhead on Saturday afternoon , for the urpose of taking steps towards getting the Factory Act applied to women and children employed in bleachworks . Mr . M'Lean , blacksmith , occupied the chair . It was stated that it had been ascertained

      by the Glasgow Council of Trades , that in the bleachfields women and children were employed for days consecutively seventeen hours per day , and that this hard labour induced hideous diseases , and rendered them , in a short time unfit for work . Mr . Little spoke of the labour to which women and children were subjected in bleachfields as worse than any he had seen in America among the slaves , and expressed his surprise that clergymen did not interest themselves on behalf of the sufferers . All they wanted was to give a fair week ' s work for a fair week ' s wages , and that he thought they were entitled to have . Resolutions were carried in favour of the object . .

      The Chorley Cotton Spinners *—Seeing that the Bolton spinners have agreed to accept the proposition of the masters to abolish charges for gas and broken bobbins , the Chorley spinners have been plaoed in a very difficult position ; but they , trusting to their employers' generosity , solicited an advance of five per cent . This the , masters , irrespective of former agreements , have conceded .

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      POLITICAL FORESHADOWING ® . At an entertainment given at Stamford , on Thursday , by the electors to their representatives , above 200 gentlemen were present . Lord Robert Cecil M . P ., said that party warfare had fallen a good deal into abeyance ; and he must confess that he was not very sorry for it . Until the Opposition were able to place their own party in real power , with a sufficient majority to enable thorn to maintain their position for a considerable time , he did not himself wish for a change of Government . He thought it highly to bo desired that , fbr the present at least , and until some such largo majority should bo got

      together , the Government should remain as it was . He wished wo wore less interested in Italy . Ho Ttawed with alarm and apprehension the keen intere «» t < whiQh our Government seemed apt to take in thle- Italian question . Wo , as privato Individuals , nrtght sympathise wi $ h . the Italians struggling ft > r freedom j wo might wish them all success , ana we might hope that they might display those

      virtues which our own' ancestors had manifested , but we . were , not brought so closely in . contact with them , either by territory or by commerce , as to render it right and fitting that our . Government should interfere in the regulation of affairs which in no way concerned us ; On another subject , the noble lord remarked : He believed he was speaking the rigid truth when he said that but a very small portion of the people of England had the slig htest desire to quarrel with the Emperor of the French . England valued peace far too highly to think of hereditary hostilities between the two nations ; but we , must all feel that the times were' threatening , and . we should feeL too , that we were not doing our

      duty , either to ourselves or to posterity , whose interests we held in our hands , if we did not endeavour , by prompt and liberal measures , to secure that prosperity which had been so long preserved to us unmolested . He believed the feeling of the people of England was very nearly unanimous upon this point , and yet , in the political arena , we found dissentients from this opinion . He had every wish to speak with the highest respect of the gentlemen of the Manchester school , because they were many of them persons of great ability and undoubted patriotism . But he thought their views were not only in contradiction to those of the vast majority of their countrymen : but that they were opposed to the

      plainest and most obvious dictates of common sense . The noble lord then criticised Mr . BrightVHuddersfield speech , and remarked that a few years ago the same hon : gentleman had declared that all our wars had been undertaken for the purpose of affording out-door relief to the aristocracy . He ( Lord Robert ) believed that every student in history would be able to refute so ridiculous a charge . Every one knew that in all our great wars the English people pressed on their statesmen by their own . unconquerable ardour . Iii reference to those wars the people might sometimes have been enthusiastic—might sometimes have been over hasty , but he thought the records of history would show that what had

      impelled them to the enormous expenditure they had incurred , arid to the gallant resistance by which they had been distinguished , had been their determination that they would sacrifice their last farthing , and would give up their last man , rather than suffer a foreign enemy to pollute their shores , rather than suffer any one to injure an empire to which they were proud to belong , or to diminish the value of the institutions which , they loved so woll . ^—( Loud cheers . ) —Sir Stafford Northcote also spoke upon this occasion , and took for his theme the duties and the privileges of " her Majesty ' s opposition . " Important service was rendered by an Opposition , so long as it acted in union , with confidence in its leaders ,

      and with that sense of responsibility hanging over it which proceeded from an honest desire to prevent Government doing anything injurious to the public interest . At the present time , especially , it was of great importance that the Conservative party should , if possible , support the Government . It was very true that it might become their duty to take strong measures to oppose Government upon matters which might be of great and vital importance ; but at the same time , looking to the general interests of the country , to the state of affairs in the East , and to our financial condition ; looking to that great question of the defence of the country , and to the necessity for adopting measures for placing

      ourselves upon an independent footing , which would render us free from those degrading panics to which we were from time to time subject , and would at the same time command the respect of foreign nations , —looking to all these questions , it was particulai'ly important that the party to which he belonged ' should adopt a line of conduct which was at once firm and not factious ; which should show that they had a policy of their own , and were prepared to enforce it ; but that as long as they saw those measures adopted which they might consider to be for the gopd of the country , they would abstain from all faotious proceedings . That was peculiarly important , because the Conservatives numbered nearly one-half of the House of Commons , and because it wan in their power- —there would be

      no difficulty whatever , by taking advantage of casual opportunities—t-to embarrass and defeat the Government . But that ought not to be the object of an Opposition which did not command an absolute and clear majority . What the Opposition should do was , to take eare that the Government went straight , to take care that those feelings which there wore in the present , as in other Governments , should have freo play , so that when urged on by their more extreme supporters to measures of which they did not as a body approve , they should bo able to turn round and say , " Wo will not do these tilings . " If that was the spirit which animated the Opposition , he believed all would go well . At a meeting of the liberal electors of the county of Ayr , on Saturday , it was resolved to request James Oasipbmll , Esq ., of Craigio , to come forward as a candidate for the representation of the county .

      After the passing of the Reform Bill , Mr . Campbell contested the Kilmamock burghs with Sir John Dunlop of Punlop , and was defeated by a very narrow majority . Some years later he contested the county with Viscount Kelburn , now Lord Glas <» o \ r but was again doomed to defeat . The third attempt is , however , likely to be more successful . Lord Fermot , presiding at an agricultural meeting in Cork last week , said : — " Tbelieve , in an agrU cultural point of view , we are far inferior to England and Scotland . I believe we have internal resources £ ar superior to either of those nations , but we are far below them in developing the resources that we possess . We have an immense lee-way to make ud and it is the of all classeslandlords

      duty , , farmers , and commercial classes , to apply themselves energetically to the development of our agricultural resources . ( Hear . ) I do not wish to overlook the claims of the labouring population of the country which are its mainstay and sheet anchor . I am happy to say that a bill has been carried through Parliament for the improvement of the habitations of the labouring poor . This was an exceedingly useful and necessary measure . The labouring population have been too much neglected . We have been running through our population like spendthrifts who think their means are inexhaustible . What between workhouse mismanagement , and pulling down of houses , the labouring classes of have lamentable diminu

      this country undergone a - tion . Let all , therefore * exert themselves in contributing to increase the comforts arid material prosperity of the labouring classes . By raising their wages you will give them the means of purchasing your meat and flour , and they will become your best customers . Who are the principal consumers of our corn and cattle ?—rthe operatives iu the mining and manufacturing districts of England . There you will see families earning , £ 10 a-veek , and they will eat nothing but the best bread and meat . It is upon the industrial classes , and not upon the aristocratic classes * who are comparatively few in number , that you are really to depend for developing the vast agricultural resources of the country . "

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Lord Clyde retires from the command of the Indian army at the close of this year . Be will be succeeded by General Sir Hugh H . Rose , wh , o recently acquired distinction in . suppressing the rebellion in Central India . General Mansfield will be appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay army . We learn , on good authority , that Admiral Hope will be recalled , and Admiral Keppell appointed to the command of the naval forces in China . A ship of the line , to be called the Magenta , which is to be steel-plated , and the largest vessel m the French navy , has been put upon the stocks at Brest . This ship is upon the new principle invented by the Emperor himself from the plans furnished by 31

      Dupuy de Lome . The vessel is to be the first of a series , to ba constructed after the same model , iron cased , one hundred metres in length , and aimed with the famous new rhinoceros horn , destined to cut through the enemy ' s centre , and dividing nun in half enable the new invfintion literally to passet outre with as little danger as the MonUeur , in us rhinoceros fashion of attacking the other journal This work , and the announcement of the openin ^ of the Vincennes railway on the 22 nd , have been principal subjects of conversation during tlieiu " few days in Paris . The Magenta is destined to spread the elements of war abroad—the Vinconnes railway to draw thorn to the capital . I he troops from the fortress con be brought into Tans almost

      at a fowmmutea' notice , , The Trusty , 14 , screw floating battery , baai boon rdmovod from Chatham to Sheorness , P P \ rRt ° £ v being sent to Shooburyness , where she is to bo ox perimented upon by guns of heavy , oalibro , in order to ascertain her capacity of . resisting the steci pointed spherical shot wh « n flrod at her from long and short distances . The sides of tlio'Jru ; sty « j lined , from her water-mark , with vrrougM"iron plates of immense thickness , and the sidesi oi inj battery sloped at a very obtuse anff 10 . * ,, * ^!^ rv » , « li na nnuihln t . hfi fifFfifitS of sllOt . At tllC tOrWU *

      experiments made with the Armstrong- gun , Bovorw of the shots ponotratod | tho sides of the Ti-ub ty , bjik ting the iron plates , and ono passed right tiuong " 1 C Tho Independancc asserts that Englandi latojj proposed , through Lord Cowley , to eupp y « n « P » JJ take out a French force to China , and tlgt tw offer either has been or will be declined , thoIronw Government being very glad to take Jho preeont op portunity of finding employment tov omoor g many vessels which it hns recently built . * i vo o six largo transports are to bo immediately pioooa the service of tho Chinese expedition . f r Tho building of a perfect squadron ° ™ ; , ' la being carried on with unremitting , activity »

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      %% y ? pi THE LEAPEB . [ No . 496 . Sept . 24 , 1859 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 24, 1859, page 1074, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2313/page/6/