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$0^4 THE LEA PER. [No; 496. Sept. 24, 18...
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POLITICAL FORESHADOWING^. At an entertai...
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NAVAL AND MILITARY. Lord Cltde retires f...
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The Strikes, Is Tho Building Trade, Alth...
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 . Myers , we ^ understand , had interviews yesterday with Mr ^ Piper and Mr . < fyy . The Paviois' Arms committee are now applying all their energies in preventing men coming from the provinces to supply the places of the thousands who still refuse to return to work tinder the masters * declaration .
They have their emissaries at every railway station in 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 . Qf 15 men whom Mr . Kelk brought from Bristol the other day , they induced 14 to go back . On Thursday they induced other 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 headduarters , 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 ¦ JS 135 . Mr . Potter , the secretary , spoke at a large meeting tif operatives at Brighton , on Tuesday evening , and Grey , Osborne , and Brown , delegates from the Conference , are visiting the large provincial towns for the double purpose . of eliciting sympathy and pecuniary aid for the men on strike , and ^ of pr evailing on the workmen there to abstain from coming to London .
THE PADIHAit STRIKE . The Padiham weavers resumed work , conditionally , on Monday . 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 4001 .
SHOEUAKMS AT BtTRY . '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 nrpose 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 Tendered them in a short time unfit for work . Mr . little spoke of the labour to whioh women and children were subjected in bleuchfields 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 ia favour of the object .
Tece Ckob & et Cor-KMT Spinners . —Seeing that the Bolton spinners have agreed to accept the proposition of the , masters to abolish charges for gas and broken bobbins , the Ohorley spinners have been placed 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 givon at Stamford , on Thursday , by the electors to their representatives , above 200 gentlemen wore present . Lord Robert Cecil M . P ., said that party warfare had fallen a good deal into abeyance -, and ho must confess that he was not very sorry tor it . "Until the Opposition were able to place their own party in real power , with a Bufilciont majority to enable them to maintain their
position for a considerable time , he did not himself wish for a ohange of Government . He thought it highly to be desired that , for the present at least , and until some such large majority should be got -together , the Government should remain as it was . He wished we were jess interested in Italy . Ho "viewed with alarm and apprehension the keen interest which our Government seemed apt to take in ifW » Italian question . We , as private individuals , ¦ wnfifnt sympathise -with the Italians struggling ¦ Rw freedom t we might wish them all success , nna 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 re nder it right and fitting that our Government should interfere in the regulation of afl & irs 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 slightest 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 . Bright's Huddersfield speech , and remarked that a fev / years ago the same hon . gentleman had declared that all pur wars had been undertaken for the purpose of affording , out-dpbr 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 . In 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 , and to the gallant resistance by which they had been distinguished , had been then- determination that they would sacrifice their last farthing , and would give up their hist man , rather than suffer a foreign enemy to pollute their shores , rather than suffer any one to injure an enfpire to which they were proud to belong , or to diminish the value of the institutionswhich they loved so well . —{ 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 naensures for placing ourselves upon an independent fpoting , 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 particularly 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 good of the country , they would abstain from all factious proceeding's ? That was peculiarly important , because the Conservatives numbered nearly one-half ofHhe House of Commons , and because it was in their power—there would be
no difficulty whatever , by taking advantage of casual opportunities—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 care that the Government wont straight , to take care that those feelings which there were in the present , as in , other Governments , should have free play , so that ' when urged on by their more extreme supporters to measures of winch they did not as a body approve , they should bo able to turn round and say , " We will not do these thing's , " If that was the spirit whioh animated the Opposition , he believed all would go well . At a meeting pf the liberal eleotors of the county of Ayr , on Saturday , it was resolved to request James CUan'matx , Esq ., of Craigie , to oorao forward as a candidate for the representation of the county .
After the passing of the . Reform Bill , Mr . Campbell contested the Kihnarnock burghs with Sir Join Dunlop of Dunlop ,-and was defeated by a very narrow majority . Some years later he contested tie cbunty with "Viscount Kelburn , now Lord Glasgow , 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 : — " I believe , in an agricultural point of view , we are far inferior to England and Scotland . I believe we have internal resources far 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 makeup ,
and it is the duty of all classes , landlords , 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 tie 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
this country have undergone a lamentable diminution . Let all , therefore , exert themselves in contributing to increase the comforts and 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?—T-the operatives in tie mining and manufacturing districts of England There you will see families earning £ 10 a-week , . 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 tie country . " . ''¦
Naval And Military. Lord Cltde Retires F...
NAVAL AND MILITARY . Lord Cltde retires from the command of the Indian army at the close of this year . He will be succeeded by General Sir Hugh H . Kose , who recently acquired distinction in suppressing the xebellidn 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 in 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 M . Dupuy de Lome . The vessel is to be the first of a series , to be constructed after the same model , iron cased , one hundred metres in length , ana aimed with the famous new rhinoceros horn , dostmed to cut through the enemy ' s centre , and dividing him in half enable the new invention literally to poster outre with us little danger as the Montteur , in its rhinoceros fashion of attacking the other journals . This work , and the announcement of the opening of the Vincennes railway on the 22 nd , have been nrincinal subiects of conversation during tlio last destined
few days in Paris . The Magenta is ro spread the elements of war abroad—the Vmconncs railway to draw them to the capital , rno troops from the fortress can be brought into Pans almost at a few minutes ' notice . „ w > n The Trusty , 14 , screw floating battery , has been removed from Chatham to Sheerness , preparatory to being sent to Shoeburyness , whero sho is to bo experimented upon by guns of heavy calibre , in ordo * to ascertain her capacity of resisting the secipointod spherical shot when fired at her from . long and short distances . The sides of theTrusty we lined , from her water-mark , with wrouglit-iron plates of immense thickness , and tho side * oi vie battery sloped at a very obtuse angle to , "; ' ~_ much as possible , the effeots of shot . At ^ otwam nvnnrimnnta mftdn with the Armstrong gUll , SOVe nu
of the shots penetratedjtho sides of the T "f Vi ' vEh ting tho iron plates , and one passed right . tnrougn ie ° Xndepandance asserts that England \ f ^ proposed , through Lord Cowley , to supply ships to take out a French foroe to China , and that itte offer either lias been or will be declined , tho 1 loron Government being very glad , to take tho present « P portunity of finding employment fov so me « WJ many vessels whioh it has recently built . ™ 1 Z six large transports are to bo jLnimodiatolv plaooa ww the service of the Chineso expedition . The building of a perfect squadron of wo ]* - ™ ' *" is being carried on with unremitting activity a
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 24, 1859, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24091859/page/6/
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