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FALSIFICATIONS IN BUSINESS. Not long ago...
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Il .Ijifl Aprii, Q. 1859.1 The Leader. 4...
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SU BSCRIPTION TO " THE LEADER . " ONE GUINEA PER YEAR , UNSTAMPED , PREPAID . ( Delivered Gratis ) . NOTICES TO CORRESPOND ENTS . No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondency Whatever is intended tor Insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; no * . necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . It is impossible to acknowledge the . mass of letters wereceive Their insertion is often delayed ; owing to a press ES &^ tt ^ sw ^ WM sar tion . ¦ . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . OFFICE , NO . , CATHERINE-STREET , STRAND , W . C .,
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. " .. There is nothing- so revolutionary , because there is nothing ao 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 . —Dr . Arsold . .
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into the precise nature of the issue we have got to try . To the mass of the community it iooks as if it were neither very great or very important . The surface of things is what strikes most people in polities , and the outer rind of the present controversy does not give much promise of what is either very pleasant or very useful . Although things were brought to a dead lock by the vote on the second reading of the Ministerial Reform Bill , it is not upon any definite or precise phrase of the question of Reform itself that the dissolution is
declared to he taken . Lord Derby explicitly stated that he would hold himself free of all pledge as to principles involved in the measure which had been defeated ; and that his mam reason for appealing to the constituencies was to try and put an endy to some extent at least , of the anarchic condition of the Hoiise of Commons . He described that assembly as no longer consisting of two great parties , but of a number of separate and jealous sections , no one of which was strong enough to dominate over
the rest sufficiently to secure the possession ^ of power for any considerable time . This condition he pronounced incompatible with the maintenance of national influence abroad , or the well working of our institutions at home . In the address of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the electors of Buckinghamshire , the same ideas are pointedly and pungently expressed . N " ot a word is said about Reform ; but the ' Opposition is held up as impotent for the work of government , yet irresistible in its factious strength ; and the people are called upon to return , a patriotic Parliament , which shall enable the Queen ' s Government to ¦ . carry on the business of the country with dignity and effect . In . other words , the hope of Ministers is , that ,, sinking all minor questions , the nation will take care to give Lord Derby a working majority in the new House of Commons .
Meanwhile , the various sections of the Liberals prefer to represent the issue at stake as one of measures rather than men . They do not assert their individual or collective superiority to thenopponents ; but . they say that the foreign policy of Lorcl Malmcsbury is spiritless , and that the Reform Bill intx'ocluced by Mr . Disi-aeli was inadequate to meet the case it professed to deal with . Lord John Russell has come out with a new bidding , namely , Gl . annual value , instead of 10 / ., for the suffrage in towns , without the limitation of two years and a half ' s residence prescribed in the bill of 1854 ; he would also retain the
professtant , the secret of Ministerial intentions was well kept ; so well , indeed , that their most devoted friends were taken hy surprise , at-last , when they heard of the Cabinet ' s decision to dissolve . Many stories were afloat as to divisions amongst them on the point ; these , however , have been absolutely disposed of by Lord Derby ' s announcement of their having been unanimous in the advice they gave to the Queen . Then there were stories to no end about the withdmwalof individual Ministers—Lord Stanley ' s , General Peel ' s , and Lord Salisbury ' s names being those most freely used . But each and all of these retain their places , and we do not hear now of any resignations whatever . Nor was the Sovereign herself omitted by '' rumour , in its
cata-THE- DISSOLUTION . Lord Derby has made his option ; and instead of wasting jmblic time and patience in further fencings with the Opposition in" Parliament , he has resolved to appeal to the country . All the laborious argumentation devoted by many of our cotemporaries to the great constitutional question , whether he could or should hold . office after being defeated in a great party battle , By a majority of thirty-nine , is gone to the winds . For the . three days which intervened between the termination of the struggle in tho House of Commons , and the Premier ' s announcement in the House of Lords on the 4 th
inlogue of mysterious disclosures . Her Majesty was said to be ne ' ryoxisly apprehensive of the consequences of a dissolution , but still inoro so of what might arise of a change of Ministry . Domestic agitation , encouraged by the election of an ultra-popular Parliament , and peace abroad endangered by the return of the Whigs to ollicesuch were the conflicting . fears supposed to occupy the royal mind . But those who observed the features of her Miijcsty , when she appeared in public could discern , no traces of peculiar anxiety thoro ; and tho promptitude with which her assent wns given to tho net of dissolution leaves no room for further ingenious' inventions upon that score . It is quite clear that tho Crown reposes as much confidence in jts present advisers as in nnv others . Some observations of Lord Pnlmerstoifs
as to tho power and thq right of tho Commons to prevent tho exercise of tho prerogative in tho way of dissolution , are supposed to luvvo been not particularly palatable in high quarters : hence the noble lord ' s anxiety to explain , them a wny in tho House on Wednesday last . And now that we two fairly embarked in the business of the national trial , and the pleaders on either side have begun their appeals to the judgment of thoooun try , we bogin to look more closely
sional and other franchises enumerated in that bill , and the 101 . occupation in counties . He no longer pronounces the ballot pernicious or un-English , but intimates that ' when public opinion is a little more matured on the subject it must be earned . Lord Palmerston and Mr . Bright , though for opposite reasons , l object . The veteran viscount not having been consulted beforehand , demurs to the whole scheme , and refuses to hold himself pledged to any part of it . Mr . Bright , through his only organ in the daily press , denounces the plan as
falling far short of what ho would recommend . Porhaps the majority of the Opposition , were they left to do exactly as they at heart desired , would rather incline to the inertia of resistance Lord Palmcrston suggests ; but the majority of them , having regard to their electoral makers , would , doubtless , think it prudent to vote with Lord . John . A parliamentary party , prepared to take Mr . Bright as its head , is an article yet to ho manufactured . Whether the honourable member for Birmingham will bo able to produce' it in form , when the now Parliament meets , we must wait for a few weeks to see .
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yield sufficiently to prevent hostilities . Other Powers may try to persuade themselves that they are about to engage in a peaceful review of relative forces for the purpose of harmlessly measuring one another ' s strength , and then drawing off their respective contingents without a shot fired in anger . But France and Austria look upon the proceeding as one which enables them to reconnoitre each other ' s position , and to manoeuvre previously to a collision which they both believe to be inevitable . When two such States are bent on going to war , it is hard to find a sufficient excuse for preventing them . Tv'ho the British plenipotentiaries to the Congress are to be , does not seem to be finally determined on . Lord Stratford de Redcliffe and Sir Hamilton Seymour are , beyond all question , the most distinguished ornanients of our diplomatic service : how far they could be induced to concur in the pursuit of Lord Malmesbury ' s policy , is more than we can venture to say . M . Druyn de Lhuys is believed to have been asked to act on behalf of France ; but , if so , he will have certainly declined .
FOREIGN POLITICS . ; Tub conference respecting tho Danubian Principalities has assembled in Paris . Tho precise result of their deliberations regarding tho election of Prince Alexander I ., is not yet known . Very little doubt is entertained , however , of a general agreement being como to in favour of recognising tho locality or his joint Hospodarato . Tho great Powers nave become too much absorbed in the more serious question—What is to bo done in Italy to prevent war P—to permit of their indulging in diplomatic quarrels on other points just now .
Some time will probably yet olapso oro the froposetl Congress rnoefo regarding Italian affairs . t is certain , however , that tho impression daily gains ground that neither Franco or Austria are about to enter it with any genuine , disposition to
Falsifications In Business. Not Long Ago...
FALSIFICATIONS IN BUSINESS . Not long ago the adulterations by shopkeepers of the common articles of subsistence and of daily use as luxuries , engaged public attention , and justly roused public indignation . The case of the Messrs . Taylor , and their opponents , heretofore their customers and coadjutors , which brought the false measures commonly used in the thread trade before the public , has no-w directed attention to different , but equally injurious , and probably more extensive , and less suspected species of frauds . From the following letter , and from several specimens of similar abuses -which have been brought under
notice by our contemporaries , the falsification by manufacturers would a | : > pear to surpass in number the adulterations by shopkeepers . It is high time the public looked after its own interests , for it is quite impossible for any law to reac'i an evil so completely a ' part . of the national Hie . Opulent and indolent people will not take the trouble to attend to such minute matters , and consequently encourage the frauds of those who supply them . The industrious classes , especially the busy poor , cannot attend to them ; they must , in a great measure , trust those with whom they dealand so there would seem to be no other
, remedy for the malady thaii to strengthen the conviction of its general injuriousness . Manufacturers and dealers must be shamed out of it , as even more foolish than vicious . We want amongst us , now , something like Chinese minuteness in dealing with One another , and Chinese acuteness in detecting small frauds ; and as we are not likely suddenly to acquire these habits—whatever the persistence in such rascality may ultimately bring us to—our only hope of amendment rests in improving public knowledge and public sentiment . We tuat all
have great faith in the principle men . sees good ; it is their nature to strive after it . Evil is pain , and men naturally avoid it :, they sin from ignorance more than from design , and increased knowledge is the parent of purer motives and greater virtues . The public may learn that a rogue is only a fool with a circumbendibus—that fraud is folly ; but such errors and vices cannot be corrected by the coercion of others neither more honest nor more enlightened than the ropes and the fuels . With these few words aa an introduction , we lay the letter of our correspondent , rough as he says he sends it , beforo our readers : — Manchester , March 20 , 1859 . . Sir ,: —From tho surprised manner in which you spoak in last Saturday ' s Leader of tho expose m the matter of Taylor ' s Persian Thread , it is quite evident that you are in n state of blosscd innocence as regards tho thread trade , that is us astonishing as it is refreshing , to peonlo engaged in tho buying ana scUinff of goods . _ . Why , sir , withouti any joking , Messrs . Taylors are looked upon as one of the moat upright firms m the trade , and however unooinnllmuntary it may be to tho rest , I really boliovo thuy arc justly so rc-Ba ' practico of short longtlis , insidious as it doubtless is , is surpnssod in tho difficulty of detection by tho practice equally common of " marking up , that Is to say , marking cotton that actually cvro 2 O ' a or 30 ' s as 6 O ' fl or 80 ' s , and ao on , in greater or loss degree , according to the—what shall I call it t - —the elasticity of tho buyor and manufacturer j this practice is chiefly confined to « ball" sowings ,
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Leader (1850-1860), April 9, 1859, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09041859/page/17/
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