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June 23, I860.] The Leader and Saturday ...
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REMODELLING EUROPE. IT is doubted in Par...
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SUNDAY TRADING. YOUR well-meaning man is...
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India..—Military Changes. At Present, Ou...
been , from the legitimate service of the country , to serve the purposes of a class . Thus , to extend the system , while we cry out against the clothing-colonels'fees , is knocking out the bumghoie , and screaming with despair at the waste of a . leaky spiggof . It is a vast extension of military misrule , while the House of Lords deliberately usurps a power over the property of the people . The power of the sword ' already belongs to the aristocracy , and with this amazing extension they also claim the power of the pnrse . What better England will politically be tlian Venice was , or than the military and bureaucratic
despotisms of the Continent are , should the Peers be triumphant and Sir Charles Wood succeed , ingenuity is puzzled to discover . We don't despair , nevertheless , of the country . Its living power is in the energies of the people , not in political organization . But we dread , as the consequence of such a combined usurpation , a swifter destruction to the power of revolutionary conservatism than may be compatible with internal peace and welfare . England must avoid the continental series of insurrections , revolutions , and despotism , in pursuit of freedom and security .
June 23, I860.] The Leader And Saturday ...
June 23 , I 860 . ] The Leader and Saturday Analyst , 585
Remodelling Europe. It Is Doubted In Par...
REMODELLING EUROPE . IT is doubted in Paris whether the visit of the Emperor to Baden is to be considered a failure or a success , but , taken in conjunction with M . Abot't's pamphlet , it ran only be regarded as designed to hasten the internal commotion of Germany , in order that France may have some new " idea" to recommend others to fight for , or , if it should prove convenient , to fight for herself . We have long recommended that the English Government should express itself in favour of German unity , leaving the Germans to make what arrangements they pleased for the realization of a project dear to the national heart , and necessary for the common safety of Europe . Our Cabinets , Avhose policy has the appearance of having been picked up at an " old clo' shop , " redolent with reminiscences of other days , has not given any aid to the liberal party in Germanyj-whose principles ally them riatu-~ rally and closely with ourselves , and now the Emperor of the French starts forward in advance of England as the advocate of beneficial change . He forestalled us in Italy , and he forestalls us in Germany . We are thrust back as belonging to the post , while he ^ moves forward as the man of the present and of the future also . In France . M . A . bout ' s pamphlet will win great popularity for the Government . The nonsense about French liberty may be laughed at , hut the national pride will be gratified by the belief that French ideas and French power are about to realize their old , . ambition , of remodelling the world . The rubs for Prussian constitutionality will tell . Neither the Prince of Prussia _ -n /) r-au . y-oihfir ( Terman " potentate cau . csclaim with Ham : let , " Let the galled jade wince ; " and poor Francis Joseph will shake in his shoes when he finds -the concmeror at Solfcrino speaking through his scribe , and , alluding to the Germans , say , " They know that in accepting the ; -domination of Austria , they must renounce even a hope of progress , " for , as he says in another place , " Austria represents thedoctn ' ne of divine right in its most absolute rigour . Political and religious despotism , abnegntion of the rights of the people , the most enormous concessions to clerical authority , and blind worship of the past , and an obstinate hatred of all progress , these are the wormeaten bases of the Austrian monarchy . " The Kixg of Prussia is asked by M . About whether he sides with divine right or popular right—" with divine right , and the King of Naples , or with popular right and the Kmpemor of the French and the King of Sardinia ? " This pamphlet , like other expositions of policy , will very likely be disavowed by I imperial authority , but it would not have appeared , unless in conformity with the designs of the astute ' . Ruler of Franco . Taking it altogether , it is not comforting Jbr Germany , but it certainly offers a way . out of all difficulties ; and . if the Puikck of Prussia would forget his political bigotry , and declare himself , as recommended , in favour of popular right , he would at once secure , in the numerous and intelligent German race , n counterpoise to any evil designs of Honapnrtist ambition . Our peace-at-nny-priee contemporaries profess to believe that everything ; betokens a continuance of caliu , hut while' Loins Napoleon invites Gerniariy to a " rebellion ' against its -priiie ' eH , and holds'Austria up to contempt , events march on in Italy , and bid fair to bring Sardinia once more into the field , without much further delay , if the Neapolitan (« overnment gives up the , two steamers which have been seized merely on suspicion , and whii'h are formally reclaimed , Gaiuhalot will have another useful triumph , and the moral power of Bom . ha . 11 . will sink still lower . If , on the other hand , the latter refuses to make restitution , a war with Sardinia will be imminent . Anyhow we may
reckon that the blaze of revolution will soon be kindled —if it is not so already— -on the mainland of Naples , and then Austria williind herself so hard-pressed ,. that avoiding a conflict will become impossible . At Rome , Lamoricie-ee has been of more sei'vice to the national party than to the Pope . He has been so craftily opposed by Antonelli and the . priests , who profit by corruption , that he has reorganized nothing , while his efforts have served the purpose of making confusion worse confounded . A storm in . European politics is manifestly brewing and when the Prince of Prussia tells the German Sovereigns assembled at 15 aden , " that in order to come to an understanding Austria has taken some steps to which he attaches great value , " we are curious to know what sort of an alliance , with that
miserable power the Prince will agree to , and whether any sucli alliance has the approval of the English Courts It is our misfortune that we do not know what our rulers are about . 33 iplomacy is still a black art—shrouded in mystery , and only worthy of distrust .
Sunday Trading. Your Well-Meaning Man Is...
SUNDAY TRADING . YOUR well-meaning man is invariably a mischievous legislator . He is so anxious to put everybody and everything right that , if allowed to have his own way , he will worry people out of their lives with his tender precautions for their welfare . Whenever he sees a nuisance , or what he ; deems a hardship , he hastens at once to remedy it'by . Act ' of Parliament , never considering that small inconveniences are the inevitable accompaniments of laws of a high utility , or thinking that his remedy in healing the
particular sore which disgusts him will make the whole body politic exceedingly uncomfortable . Lord Ciielmsfoud is distressed beyond measure- 'because ; the shops are kept open in some quarters of London the whole morning , and introduces a Bill into Parliament the practical effect of which would be to inflict immense inconvenience upon the poorer inhabitants of the metropolis , and fill their minds with a bitter sense of the injustice or mdifference of the tipper and powerful -classes" .. ~"
Wherever the shops "are open on a Sunday they-supply a public want . If there were . no such want , if the customers of the tradesmen in these .. quarters could make their -purchases on Saturday , the shops could be closed just-as easily as warehouses and banks are now closed on Saturday afternoons . -, In the wealthier districts of London , where"Ihe residents caiT conveniently lay in quantities of the commodities they ' are likely to eoimiine , the shops are all closed ; they are opened-in the poorer parts because tiie working-classes can only buy .-in very small quantities , and are afraid to keep the meat or fish for their Siuulay dinner a whole night in their close unhealthy dwellings . 'The poor prefer , ¦
too , to make their-purchases on the Sunday morning , because they have a natural suspicion of the articles palmed oil' upon them by gaslight . Lord ^ CiiKLM-si- ' pit i ) , indeed , admits the necessity of some Sunday trading , inasmuch as hi ; allows some shops to be open until 10 o ' clock , and a few-during , the whole day , ami by that very admission gives up the ' principle upon wliieh ho professes to legislate , li" fruit may be sold all day why not '¦' vegetables ? Are '' gooseberries dean and greens unclean ? What new revelation justifies Lord OiiEMisrouD in pronouncing apples legitimate ; objects of transfer on the Sunday and water-cresses objectionable ? JIow is the line to be drawn ?
The police will have to compile a catalogue of the " forbidden fruits" for the benefit of greengrocers and street hawkers . Lord CliKULSFoun , perhaps , thinks that by letting the shops be open until ten he-allow * everybody plenty of time to procure all lie may want for the day ; but-his lordship , ' if . he , knew anything of the ' habits of the . hard-working population , of the metropolis , would be aware that Sunday inoniirtg is an especial season of
indulgence with them '; obliged to gt . t ' up to work every other day ' at five or six , they like to take several extra hours' sleep on ( he Sunday . Of course no tradesman ' ought to be obliged to keep his shop ' open' to indulge this laziness , but be ought not to be compelled to shut it against his will ; and i ( there is such a necessity for the opening of whops on ( he Sunday that tradesmen cannot of thtur own motion force their customers to buy on . the Saturday , it is absurd to try to cflisel the object by penalties . 1 „ .., ! Ciidi u ^ i . 'Arin I > w 1 n / wl iv . < l c li !< f > uu <> vni'W miif'll 111 ) 1 ) 11 t . llG Lord ( Jiihumsi'OJU ) indeedrests bis ease much upon the
, , vory hardship inllieU . 'd upon the shopkeepers themselves , who wish , he says , to be obliged to close on the Sunday . With all deference £ 6 i ; be elt-Chimce ^ done on Sundays could be done before ten , thu tradesmen ooultl accomplish all that the Act would try in vain to do . They ' say , however , tlu . it one of ( heir competitors may keep open , and therefore ( hey must do tlie name , much as , it hurts their consciences . The linem . lrnpers , when first usked to close earlier in tho evenings , made Iha wumo object ion , but they have now discovered . that there was nothing in their fears . They do not lose cuatomura who would puv for the gas ¦ ihey »» wt burn . So "it would bo
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Leader (1850-1860), June 23, 1860, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23061860/page/5/
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