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1022 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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THE FARMER AND HIS FRIEND. The country g...
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dDpra dmssai.
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[IIT THIS BEPAHTMENT, AS ALI , OPINIOjrS...
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There is no learned man but -will confes...
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THE GREEK EMPIBE NOTION. ' (To the Edito...
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THE WAGES MOVEMENT AND THE POLITICAL ECO...
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HOTEL CHARGES. (To t7ie Editor of the Le...
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g overnment neglect of hoottxsii rights....
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A NEW INVENTION. (To the Editor of the L...
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NOTION TO OOlUiKSPONDENTft JtuHHiAN Hici...
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, WJUNN A P.KNNY itKOKIiri'-STAMJ.* JH ^...
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1022 The Leader. [Saturday,
1022 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
The Farmer And His Friend. The Country G...
THE FARMER AND HIS FRIEND . The country gentlemen begin to show themselves men , and leaving the Derby and Beresford hunt have turned to the more wholesome and cleanly task of working well each in his own field . And the . earth has given the new . Ahtisi a fresh strength . An active and enterprising landlord , once a thorough Protectionist , Sends us this week a tale of his own conversion to unprotected science , comically contrasted with the headstrong obstinacy of a foggy old farmer . He writes :- —¦ " This morning I went to inspect the men finishing the work of cleansing my reservoir . I met old H— - ( his immediate neighbour and tenant ) , and told him I should make a large tank at a sufficient distance from the house to catch the liquid manure and surface water from my out offices , his out offices , and his pigstyes , so as to put a good sum in his pocket in the shape of the best manure we know of , and at the same time remove a dangerous nuisance from the vicinity of bis house . His answer was : — " I doan't want a tank . It ' s always run into the ditch sin' I known it , an' I ' ve bin here thirty-eight year . " " And how often have you cleaned out the ditch ?" " Well , I know I ' ve cleaned ' un out ttvice . " " The ditch is within about forty yards of the house , and the manure water alone must have been worth hundreds in the period lie namedw " Our correspondent adds , " I didn't bolieve he could be such an ignorant old fool . " He forgets that not many years ago half the farmers of the kingdom were allowing such wealth to run to waste while they ran , piteously howling , after the Derby dilly .
Ddpra Dmssai.
dDpra dmssai .
[Iit This Bepahtment, As Ali , Opiniojrs...
[ IIT THIS BEPAHTMENT , AS ALI , OPINIOjrS , HOWEVER EXTBEME , ARE ALLOWED AN EXPRESSION , THE EDITOR NECESSAEIXX HOLDS HIMSELF BESrONSIBLE FOB NONEj
There Is No Learned Man But -Will Confes...
There is no learned man but -will confess lie hath , much , profited by reading controversies , Iii 3 senses awakened , and Ins judgment sharpened . If , then , it be prontaixle for hina to -read , why should it net , at leas fc , be tolerable for his adversary to write—Milioit .
The Greek Empibe Notion. ' (To The Edito...
THE GREEK EMPIBE NOTION . ' ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) 10 , Great Winchester-Street , Old Braod-strcet , October , 18 , 1853 . Deaii Sir , —Permit me to thank Mr . Robinson for his letter referring to the Greek Empire meeting at Crosby Hall , and at the same time to correct a misstatement of his , or a misprint of yours . I spoke of 9 , 000 , 000 of Christians , not of " 90 , 000 , 000 . " The Greek Empire attempt seems to me to be a great mistake . It means insurrection of the Christian population of Turkey during her present difficulties , and the sequence of such insurrection would be , not freedom to the Christiana , but dismemberment of the Turkish Empire . Sucli insurrection would be an excuse for Austrian interference on the western frontier , and would forco Turkey into an injurious truce with Russia , bo that an insurrection , whether meant or not , would really be an effort for the interests of Russia . The Christian insurrectionists would be put down . If Turkey alone could not do it , Russia and Austria would help her to do it . Their object is , I need hardl y say , not freedom to the people , but aggrandisement of Russia and Aufitria . The character of the Christian and of the Mussulman need not be discussed , nor tho moti ves and interests that prompt Englishmen to advocate the restoration of the Greek Empire . The inutility of such an advocacy is so plain , and the blind infatuation of its advocates so evident , that there is no need to imply bad motives to defeat them . Intelligence and energy are sure to make themselves felt . If the ( 2 r « oka possess qualities they will become the dominant race , but if the Turks possess those qualities in a greater degree , thenjnothing we can do will dispossess them of the inheritance and dominance that iH ever the birthright of intelligence and strength . — . Youra very truly , C F . NionoMi .
The Wages Movement And The Political Eco...
THE WAGES MOVEMENT AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMISTS . ( To the Editor of the Lmder . ) Si It , —I bolievo it is a maxim of the political economists , that a man should be peacoably allowed to got , as much as ho can for his commodity , and that tho Heller will probably bo a bettor jiid tfo than any uninterested party , though never ho lean Kid in their science , of what that mitxinmm is . Public writers who violently condemn tho workman ' s demands , and counsel masters not to accede to them , appear to jno HometimcH to lose ni /^ ht of these maxims . It is also , if I ' m not mistaken , admitted by theso Maine economis t ** ( who wore never particular friends of oiu-h ) , that A .. 'h refusal to sell is , at least , as # ood a proof that the market value lmn not been offered , an B . ' h declining to buy ih a proof of the contrary .
Writers who point to the rejection of the workman s demands , as irrefutable evidence that they should not have been made , appear to me to forget this maxim , also . - I am told , that all good Benthamites have scratched out of their dictionary such words , as " regrater , " ' forestalled" " usurer , " " extortioner , " & c ., and that they affirm , that a greater demand than supply gives the seller the power to exact a higher price , and the right to do so , if he can . May not a shipwright or collier , for instance , who could neither read nor understand Mr . Bentham ' s elegant English , possibly have a glimmering of this ' truth at the present time ? If so , ought we , professing Benthamism , to call him a " misguided man , " to rate him . from the Bench , to abuse him in the papers , and to caricature and sneer at him in Punch ?
A general bullying of the " Bears , " or an overbearing attack upon the " Bulls , " might probably affect the Stock Exchange but it would neither be fair towards the " Bears" or the " Bulls . " Our Newspaper writers , I suppose , feel this ; for they never interfere with them to damage or uphold either interest . Now , we are simply " Bulls , " our employers ( without offence ) are " Bears . " Might it not , then , be fairer and wiser , after all , to let us alone , too ? I am , Sir , yours very respectfully , W . M . T .
Hotel Charges. (To T7ie Editor Of The Le...
HOTEL CHARGES . ( To t 7 ie Editor of the Leader . ) Boulogne , 13 th Get . 1853 . Sie , —The Leader of the 24 th September contains respecting hotels , an article full of truth , and very much to the purpose , and ending with the announcement of a project that could but appertain to a company who have already stirred the world with , a most gigantic conception , executed so that every nation in turn will try to imitate it . This project , sir , which I think is the indispensable auxiliary to railways , will complete the grand education of cosmopolism begun at your great Exhibition . The good effects of such a change in the systems of hotels can hardly be calculated , for it will bring together people that would otherwise have remained buried in their own conceit and infatuation . . . . The idea is certainly worth the great nation which has already taken so many noble initiatives . The Frenchman , who still thinks that a visit to London costs a small fortune , will no longer satisfy himself with what he hears from those lucky enough to have the means to go and see ; but he will be able to go and see himself ; and as his bile will no longer be kept in constant ebullition by the incessant drags upon his purse , his eyes will see what they otherwise would certainly not have seen .
Besides , instead of a hurried visit of a day or two , during which the visitor runs from one place to another like a madman , ho will give himself time to digest hia thoughts , and will not regret his money when he has had what he wanted for his money . . . . The question is not always the sum spent , Imt often , what did one get for that sum . Now , Mr . Editor , suppose the system projected for London be carried in Paris , and in some of our principal towns in France , how many English , who retvirn home disgusted with the numerous impositions to winch they have been subjected , will lose many prejudices only to bo eradicated by a frequent and friendly intercourse .
Again , how extended the limits for the peregrinations of the humble purse when this most excellent hotel system is imported into Gormany and Italy . With respect to Paris and London it is most desirable and vory feasible . Cheap and comfortable places might even be secured in Boulogne and Folkestone for the traveller to either capital . Let uh also hope that the passage between Folkestone and Boulogne would then be what it should have been for Home time—Cs . and ' , \ tj . in conclusion , Mr . Editor , I think that all the world ought to vote thanks to ,-i company who are taking an initiative pregnant with ho many moans of civilization , and which will do more for fraternal fooling between nations than writing for a century upon manners , & c . Excuse my Franco- English , and allow ino to remain , sir , your very obedient servant , P . BoNNiumv .
G Overnment Neglect Of Hoottxsii Rights....
g overnment neglect of hoottxsii rights . ( To tho Mdttar of tho Loader . ) S"t , Much of the indiffereneo regarding Scottish matters , iiHcrihed to the good folks Houth of the Tweed , arises from two causes -viz ., from limited and imperfect notions of what Scotland really requires and complains oi " , and above all , from a disbelief that ; t ( Jovormnont which gives justice to England , ' And Homething- more to Ireland , would deny to Scotland her just and proper rights . But huoIi is the fact , as the following uxt . raot will in Home meaHiire illiiHfcrate : — TlIK FltKNCU riV I'OHHVIHHION Oif A BlU'llMH ' L > OCK . — Thi . s , however strange , ,, | oininouH it may Hound , in litorully the ease . There m nt Iioith u Government dock
called the Queen ' s Dock , forming the westmost of the three docks belonging to Leith . Harbour . Here are laid up such government craft as may happen to be in the quarter , and yachts and other private vessels whose owners are allowed the privilege . Formerly the entrance to this royal basin , was guarded by a sentry , but this , we suppose , being found -to be more a piece of etiquette than necessary for security & c , the usual result in Scottish arrangements followed— - the extravagance was lopped off , and the sentinel withdrawn , a year or two ago . Some few weeks back a small French man-of-war came to our coast , and it has latterly been laid up in this dock . The public , who are admitted to the place , were last Sunday evening rather astonished , as they were walking about viewing the vessels , & c ., lying there , when they were accosted by a French marine from
the French vessel , ordering them to turn out , that he might shut the gates . Not knowing what to think of this foreign exercise of authority , the people , with their habitual deference to orders , obeyed , and it was only when fairly on the outside that they gave vent to their British feeling on the subject , one old woman exclaiming , " Wee ] wha wad hae thocht o' seeing us put oot o' our ain docks by the French ? " . Seriously , is it not disgraceful that , for the miserable saving of a sentry's pay , the guardianshi p of one of our royal docks should actually be entrusted to the men of a French man-of-war P—North British JDailyMail . Now , Sir , financial reform and retrenchment are two excellent things when judiciously administered ; but the screw principle , as applied to Scotland , is , to say the least , both unfair and unmerited , seeing that she is , in more senses than one , a paying concern . *
"Were the English people fully alive to Scottish matters and interests , we would have no lack of hands willing and ready to help us ; to such I would now appeal , and from all I would ask help . lam , Sir , yours , & c . A Scotchman . Edinburgh . . [* What would old Samuel Johnson have said to this assertion of our correspondent ?—Ed . ]
A New Invention. (To The Editor Of The L...
A NEW INVENTION . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) October 19 , 1853 . SlB , —Shawl and plaid printing gives occupation at present to between three and four thousand persons in Scotland . These persons work with blocks in heated shops . The occupation is severe , not very healthy , and not very permanent , but remunerative while it lasts . Messrs . Cumming , Melville , and Co . are patentees for a machine of cylindrical character , which will produce four times the quantity of work at present produced by three men , and for the sum of eig ht shillings will give what at present a workman would charge four pounds .
It is only within a fortnight that the sight of the new machine has induced 130 sales at 100 Z . for every four , that is , above 300 ( K worth of it has been sold . These sales only include the right to fit them up ; the material and expense of fitting them up depend on the buyer . Now , what is the moral of this ? Naturally it should tend to take a tax oft ; but the greater number of the blockprinters here look on it as a misfortune , some seo through it a criminal intention , and would say the inventors have " perpetrated , " & c . I cannot see how a blockprinter can make his objections good unless he ignore the conveniences and hopes of existence .
, When a blockprinter sends his child to a bakers shop he is careful that it learn to walk thither on a path approximating as nearly as possible to that line , "in which , " saith Archimedes , " if any two ^ points bo taken , the part intercepted between them is the shortest that can be drawn . ' * When a blockprinter if ) eager to seo a friend , his walk is such as to show he practically understands Euclid 1 and 20 , every time ho turns a comer . When ho wishes to heat his house he inserts a .
poker where the power of the lover will abbreviate tnac of the hand . He will not even let a syren pluck on his beard , but flies for the aid of the keenest of we dg es , and his obligations to the wheel are past finding o \ it . It would bo hard to find him working seriously without ( according to the measure of his force ) working o « the very principles which urged forward the most Htartling inventor in his career . Methinks , then , it were wise to paviHo before ho blame . l '
Notion To Ooluikspondentft Jtuhhian Hici...
NOTION TO OOlUiKSPONDENTft JtuHHiAN Hicitjpooni , by Aloxmulio Uorzen , in our ««*<; .
, Wjunn A P.Knny Itkokiiri'-Stamj.* Jh ^...
, WJUNN A P . KNNY itKOKIiri ' -STAMJ . * JH ^"" " f / T ^ you purchase over the counter ho . many articles ll " . . invoice is made out , and the vendor writes paid « # ' the total of M . or upwards , a penn y-receipt . «•* ' should l > e stuck on the invoice , and the vendor 9 """' , written upon the stamp ; whereby it is deface " , » rendered incapable of use a . second time . J . toniu «> - that tin , stamp is not a receipt until that d ^"' " ^ is made , and that neglect to make it exposes to ft » of 10 / . If a tradoHiua . i , calling at your house , ii ; oil' in your a (! eount-hook items to the amount m - ' •¦ or uj ) wards , that inforinal acquittance must M * witnessed by the attachment of the penny 'W" ^ -. , t , i . of course , in paying larB « r Hums -such as y »« r . ";!| U ) II mas rent you will tak « « ur » tl . at the receipt ifl Wiilt «' out on Htamped \ nn > or . —Noncoirformuit .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 22, 1853, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22101853/page/14/
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