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PREPARING FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION IN THE " LEADER . " AN ANALYSIS OF THE POSITION OF ; rHE 'JO IN T- S T 0 C K B A N KS OF LOUDON ON 30 th OF JUNE , AND 31 st DECEMBER , 1858 .
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence * WJiatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed * owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the commuriica-¦ We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , becauie there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Arkold .
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will be little difference of opinion . The simplification and cheapening of proceedings in Bankruptcy and Insolvency , will be a great practical boon ; the assimilation of the' criminal laws of the United Kingdom , and their accurate codification , will obliterate from the statute-book many anomalies and scandals ; and above all , the application to England of the p rinciples found to work so well in Ireland respecting the sale of land , the concession of an indefcasiule title , and a complete rogistry of title deeds , will justly earn for the present law advisers of the Crown the commendation of all
¦ THE QUEEN'S SPEECH . The Address delivered by her Majesty- at the commencement of the twenty-second legislative session of her reign may be fairly characterised as being fitly in unison with the tranquil temper and moderate expectations of the country . To the great majority of the nation , who are as niuch opposed to standing still as they are undesirous of rash or experimental change , the promises of useful work cut out for Parliament during the next few months will be hailed with quiet satisfaction . What the Ministerial proposals of Electoral Reform may be , we must wait a few days to learn , and until we do we must reserve all further discussion regarding them . About other amendments of the law there
thinking men . We regret to observe the omission of any promise to settle the long-vexed question of Church Rates . It will be in vain for Lord Derby and his colleagues to . shirk- the matter . Public opinion and the decisions of the courts of law concur in declaring the existing state of things unmaintainable , it is alike shameful and injurious to the Church that each parish should bo exposed to sectarian conflict from year to year about the repair of ecclesiastical cdificos . Perhaps , like the Jew Bill , the settlement of the question may originate with some privato monibcr of Parliament , and that Government think it more prudent to prove to their obstinate adhorents thoir inability to resist ( its progress , than , by undertaking a measure of thoir own on tho subject , to provoke mutiny and desertion in thoir ranks .
coast fortifications , which , with excep far between , we hold , to be nothing but enormous and egregious jobs . The Commission of Inquiry for the best ^ Mode of Manning the Navy has not ^ yet made its report ; it would be therefore premature to introduce the subject in discussion . Popular sympathy , however , and popular instincts , wliicli are seldom very far wrong in what concerns the permanent interests of the country , point to the improvement of the condition of our sailors and our ships , and to the outlay of public money upon them rather than its investment in earth-mounds or bastions , counterscarps or batteries . The great use of every additional sea fortressi : is to provide a pleasant and profitable place for some incapable of good connexions to go to sleep in the capacity ot Governor or commandant . We have enough of such costly perches , and enough of such gaudy birds of prey already . We will have no more of
them . ' ¦ . ' ¦ •¦ i . 1 - » r-i The cautious language in which her Majesty reviews thepresent aspect of foreign affairs will no doubt be read with chagrin and disappointment by every reckless partisan of Austria or of France , at home and abroad . The dignified utterance of the national resolution to keep the peace with all our allies so lone as they abstain from doing us any wrong , would , under other circumstances , be a mere platitude . It is not so , however , at the present juncture , « -li * n nnf . m-inuslv our active aid is sought by the
despotic ruler of France in his schemes of territorial or family aggrandisement in Italy , and when , upon the other Tiand . the untaught and unteachable tyranny of Austria , which is driving the Italians to the madness of despair , would fain have / us guarantee her from the consequences of its infatuation . There is one caustic phrase , indeed , in this portion of the Speech which will not pass unobserved . . The Queen assures the - estates of the realm that to cultivate and confirm friendly feelings with the other powers of Christendom , and " to maintain inviolate the faith of public treaties , and to contribute as far as her influence extends to the preservation of the general peace , are the objects of her unceasing solicitude . " : ¦¦ ' ..- ' .
There , would be no sense or meaning in the expression " public treaties , " if treaties of another description were not present to men ' s minds . We all know that such is in point of fact the case ; and that amid all the show and parade of intimate alliance the present ruler of France has for many months been contracting obligations secretly and furtively with Sardinia aud other States , with a view to the accomplishment of dynastic changes in the south of Europe . These private treaties , whatever be their purport or tenor , the Sovereign of England disclaims all intention of regarding . It is
with the public ties subsisting between nation and nation that she has alone to deal . It is wise and just that the distinction should be unmistakably marked , and that the steady ways of absolutist diplomacy should be declared not to be our ways . Simultaneously with this intimation , a graceful acknowledgment is made of the disposition of the French Government to abandon the system of compulsory emigration from the east coast of Africa , which ' in practice has been found indistinguishable from the slave trade . Nothing is saidof Lord Malmesbury ' s negotiations with America about tho right of search , a tolerably significant proof that they are likely to come to nothing . Meanwhile evidence has
been given ot tho readiness or the present ^ zar or Russia to renew the relations of friendship formerly subsisting between his country and ours—a readiness whioh it is possible certain continental politicians view with anything but feelings of satisfaction . For ourselves , we have no fancy lor political intimacy with any of the despotic Governments of the Continent ; but if we wero oompcllcd to choose , we must profor that which is the most remote and tho least embarrassing to us in every point of view . It grows daily , wo think , more and more manifest fluil ; whatever suggestions of an anti-Austrian , kind Russia may have made to France , she has no intention at present of being involved in hostilities with her ungrateful neighbour for tho profit or pleasure of the Houso of Bonaparto .
To what is said respecting tho necessity of increased expenditure on tho navy , nobody can with rawm object . Maritime warfare has been revolutionised by tho use of steam , and we have no choice but to adapt oursolves to tho ohango as rapidly as possible , cost whnt it may . Tlioro will bo all the more reason , however , to look with inexorable , and soRTOlung economy into every other branch of naval expenditure . Wo aro glad to find nothing said in lftvour of burying more of tho people ' s money in
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We are disposed , on the contrary , to entertain a less pleasing belief that the knowledge of the fact in question would have added an additional zest to the entertainment . There was , in fact , but one thing wanting to complete the felicity of the youthful persecutors , and that was ah innate and unreasoning conviction that in some form or other the frogs were " hostes humani generis "—creatures by whose violent extinction some great moral principle was vindicated , or some great social reform , advanced and perfected . These several conditions ' TIT ' j • _ " 1 . ' - ^ . ^_ ' . 4 . 1 * a . A «*<* iL-. M » UM £ - *•• . m « . 4- _ . ui . _ *_ ¦ _ .
of complete beatitude—an interesting pursuit , a victim to whom that pursuit is fatal , and a moral purpose to be promoted by the ruin of the victimare fulfilled in the instance of those parochial authorities who rule over our sanitary system . It is , therefore , with no fond and foolish hope of so fteninw the hearts of the persecutors , but from a desire to appeal to the public , who from their position are debarred from participating in the pleasures of persecution , that we venture to say a word on behalf of a very hardly used class of men , the chemical manufacturers of London . _ . _
We all know when and how the Nuisances ' Removal Act was passed . We were then in a state of panic . The recollection of the cholera was vivid ; the probability of its return was imminent . Something must be done , was the universal feeling . An outcry was raised against all persons engaged in offensive and unsavoury trades . Their factories , it was asserted , polluted the atmosphere , and they themselves grew rich by breeding pestilence among their neighbours . The dog was given a bad name ,
and hanged accordingly . A bill was passed giving the . police magistrates summary authority to impose a series of rapidly ascending fines , and , if expedient , to order the immediate cessation of the process of manufacture and the removal of the offensive materials of trade . With the act , regarded as a temporary and immediate measure , we have no great fault to find . The doctrine of Caiaphas , " that it is expedient that one man should die for the people , " however-much theologians may rail
against it , is in practical life a sound and a wholer some one . It was needful , or , what comes to the same thing , it was deemed needful for the good of the state that something should be done , and somebody should be sacrificed . It is the way of our country ; and if in this instance the manure makers , and bone-crushers , and refuse collectors of the metropolis happened to fall victims to the salus reipublicce , they have no just cause for complaint . Now , however , that the sacrificial mania has been appeased , and that the public are able and disposed to look fairly at the question , it is worth while considering what the practical effect of this
revolutionary measure has been hitherto , and how far the general interests of the country , as well as the ends of justice , are perverted by the continuance of this state of martial law to which at present our chemical factories are subjected . The public ought never to forget that the existence of what are technically termed offensive trades is absolutely essential for their own comfort and wellbeing . If there were no persons who collected arid made a profit out of garbage , refuse , and offal ,. these nauseous substances would either decay and putrefy in our streets , or would have to be destroyed at a great expense out of our own pockets , and
probably in a far more offensive and loss efficacious manner than at present . The promoters of offensive trades are , literally speaking , public benefactors ; but however philanthropic they may be , it is not probable that they will continue their trades when they cease to be profitable . There is a story told of a miser who , out of economy , resolved to save the expense of horse-keep ; unfortunately , however , whenever the horse learned to exist on one grain of corn a day , it died accidentally , You may , undoubtedly , destroy the unsavoury character of offensive trades , but then you must not bo surprised if tho trade should accidentally dio out at the very
OFFENSIVE TRADES . All good children are taught to believe that if the boys who polled the frogs with stones could only have been made aware that what waa sport to thorn was death to tho reptiles , they would at onoo have desisted from thoir amusement . The experience of later life docs not confirm tho truth of this moral .
period when your efforts aro crowned with sucooss . Tho plea of the chemical manufacturers is at any rate a logical one . Their works arc * or rather were , carried on almost entirely in certain favoured localities ; Bow-common , Bormondsoy-fiolds , Batfccrseamarshos , Maiden-lane , tho Isle of Dogs , and the water-side at Lambeth wore tho haunts they most especially affected . AU these spots were soleotcd , because , at the time when the works wore first established there , they were unoccupied regions at a convenient distance from London . By degrees the workmen employed At the faotories built houses in tho neighbourhood , tho town spread , and the interval between tho factories and London became
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 5, 1859, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05021859/page/17/
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