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STOCKPOlfiD AND PRESTON . As if the Strike Question were not complex enough already , new difficulties are springing up in Stockporfc , calculated to plunge the unhappy employers and operatives of Lancashire into even a worse dilemma than before . To those curious mental anatomists who are
pleased at the discovery of any . new phase in human perversity and folly , these disputes will afford matter for much pleasing speculation ; but to all true patriots , to those who are apt to confide in the industry and intelligence of Englishmen , they cannot fail to be a source of the deepest dissatisfaction and disgust . . This time , at least , there can he no mistake about the cause of quarrel ; it is clearly expressed on both sides , and the limits of it
were accurately defined before the struggle began . This was not bo at Preston . When quarrel arose , the public were sufficiently in the dark about it to allow of a great deal of mystery with respect to the matters in dispute . The operatives said that they wanted ten per cent ., and the employers said that they wanted the mastery in their own mills . This pretence of the employers ( for a pretence they have since practically admitted it to be ) won over to their side , so far
at least as sympathy was concerned , all those nervous , well-meaning individuals to whom , the bugbear Socialism is a constant dread . Henee the fitful thundering of the Times , which , thoroughly informed and clearly persuaded of the justice of the operatives' demand for higher wages , was too much inspired by its constitutional horror of strikes
to lend them any efficient support ; and hence the alarmist tirades which that portion of the press which damages the Manchester party by its aid have poured out in support of the employers . Hence , too , the anomalous fact , that the manufacturers in other districts have been persuaded into giving pecuniary support to their Preston rivals in a contest which was to ensure to
those rivals the power of producing at a less cost than themselves . But now , at Stockport , the cause of quarrel is clearly ascertained ; it ia whether the employers have a right to reduce the rate of wages in consequence of a depression of trade . The resolution of the Spinners ( who appear
to be by far the moat reasoning and intelligent body among the operatives ) , quoted in our Preston correspondence , puta the case for the operatives in very comprehensive and intelligible terms , Reduction of wages ( say they ) " does not remedy the evil , but gives encouragement to a reckless course of competition , by which the markets become glutted tind goods and yarn depreciated . *'
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the prediction of an " Old Gordon Highlander , " that on the understanding of immediate active service , another 850 bayonets , before the autumn is out , will ra ll y round the old Gordon colours . Archibald A ., of Newgate-street , wrote me to Dover , that Lord Major Sidney hadn't made it up with the almoners of Christ ' s Hospital . The " Spittle" sermon on Easter Monday was preached only before Moon and Wire . Thus neither Lord Mayor nor sew president attended with the school to church . Quis curat t The boys were balked of half then show , and that ' s a shame .
PRIVATE A 3 TD CONETDENTIAX . If the courtiers who wished to compliment King Canute upon his absolute dominion over land and sea , had been aujtt ^ iuc h'k ® ** ^ nde awake as my Lord Master of the BuckfcMjmdbjrm instance , they would have placed the monarch ' s whea tide 'was
^ GKprsq ^ th ^ iteach the falling , rather than ' .. . ^^/^ bS-waftm were rising : then . Swine or Sweyne and ^^ fnSmjpil ^ bdld h ave vowed that the sea knew her lord , ' t | i ^| fceji at- lhrespectful distance ; and the old king would J « J ^< i ^ al 5 ! JBchoed their cry . That ' s what came into my ^ S ^ yWPrtWT *¦ l *** ^ fluming along through the yi | I |! pJM » jMnel in }» the pleasant old town of Dover ; a ^ Mc |^ h 5 * i "The South-Eastern Railway has served but L- jtrfMkr Pftglecfipg Her for the tfttle forward fish-fag of < Folkestone , Whose bedizenment and cleaning up have cost a Itpower of money . The company vants a manager : Mr . Macgregor has had . enough of the anomalous place of master
and servants-King foozle and Factotum both in one ; and 4 t ^ itanreficidera return hi s courtesy and say they're all glad he ' s gone . That is the fate for everybody who does more than his duty . . The whole service must be revised . Take ¦ the common , ticket charges : you can go down to Hitchin by the . Great Northern , thirty-seven miles , for 6 s . 6 d ., first Clafea fare ; you are charged 10 s . by the South-eastern for jadi Journey to Tunbridge , forty-ona miles ( and only thirty by ^ the road ) - So again with the return tickets , the reduction is ^ t worth con sidering . , The North Kent line , b « ing one for the people , Juis a far more defendable tariff . Pat me in the pofrwr , Oh Men of Kent and . Kentish Men ! and I'll show you what you should do ! ~ .
JL stopped at the Lord Warden Hotel , which cost the rail-^ p » j comply ^ 00 , 0 (} 0 & . . *> r ' so : and yet is leased out to llr .. Hakea ^ - j Jbf Manchester-square , for 1000 / . a year . So they say . The coffee-room is pleasantly furnished , and has a-nice set of aspects—northand east ; but the charges for b * er £ and l ! m obliged to " Bass" myself twice a day , as my e ^ srt ^ jr c alls it ) are infamouft . One . shilling for a quart o £ ADsopp ' s draught ale 1 Think of that , Master Brook , to a
man ^ of my consumption . Beds , beef , bread , beer , everytf with a * ' b ** in a hotel should be cheap to a bachelor at » t £ , \ Ihe ,, service otherwise is very reasonable , and lily rendered : the-waiters ate respectable-looking men : the chambermaids dragoonift : there was a huge highc&fteked iroman " who beat my bolster so , that it lost all its ^¦ jrijng , and I could not sleep , for thinking of "her brawny Jons . - ¦'" .. , : . . >
The < military . exercises are very amusing to a looker-on . " Shoulder arrums ! Support arrumsl Slope arruras ! Loadt Handle c ' rtridge ! . Draw ramrods I Bam down c a rtridge ! Return ramrods / ' anl so on 1 They ' ve a depot for a West India , regiment ; and the sergeant-major was drij ^ g recruits to a finesse and delicacy in the musket practice that . dazzled ? me . ' Captain P , of the West Surrey Militia assured me he" loses two to two-and-a-half pounds oi j | 98 h " ^ dailf : ; ' having before and afternoon to mount the Owpd Shaft staircase ( 124 steps > , and then to go through < SrHJL on the heights . - I ' m boring you with all this , because I t £ &h that the Cockneys should be convenience ^ with cheap
excursions to neighbourhoods boanteously provided with such t ^ proughtv ^ ractions as Dover presents . The castle , and its agperant ^ UAted passages , as old Jtrs . Hudson would call ' em , are well worth a journey . DeaL is as salubrious a town as any in England . Nothing , says my friend Macarthy of the Carbineers—nothing kills an old woman but a gun . Mflhas had a long experience of his mother-in-law , the Honourable Mrs . Glennaquoich Stuart M'Giltwray . At Deal the women die firstj so you may conceive the longevity of the natives generally .
As I passed through Ringwold , country gaping , gawky lads crowded around the coach . With the aid of two gal-JkjOS of beer , and a larga railway time-table , which I officiously declared was a proclamation from the * <} ueen , calling dut volunteers for tbe navy , I made an harangue , which resulted in four lads out of a dozen accompanying me outride tjie coach . That evening I shipped 'em aboard the & ,. Gwpe , 120 , lying in the roitds . She ' s one of the noblest ships afloat ; the best officered of any man-of-war of my
aoquaintsnce . Even the boys VikS their homo in her . They ' ve an Hungarian band-master , who is llest with the hand of David for the harp . Not a grain of ill-humour in a ship ' s company inspired by tho presence of a musician such . as he . And yet they want , as I told you last week , some 800 or 400 of their full complement— " ' cos the Government ' s 89 stingy , and don't tell us wot they'll do for Sal , Nan , or Poll , and tbe little ones , " said one of tho men in my four-oaied galley from Deal Beach , iu which old Thornton , the pilot , sent me off .
Go to the Royal Exchange roadside inn in this quiet port . Supreme comfort , cheapness , cleanliness , cheerful landlady named Cork—admirable name for a landlady . The officers of tho 9 ? nd Highlanders wiBU their regiment to bo reorganised . So do J . At Egraont-op-Zce they overthrew a column of COO 0 infantry , saved tho English batteries , and turned the enemy" » position ; at Mandora , in Egypt , they drove back the flower of the old army of Italy , the yfctors of Lodi and Arcola . With all my heart I echo
Theodore Hook , seeing a Temperance procession , gazed at ' em a long time , and then cried out , " Well , if you are sober , you . needn't make such a brag about it . " That ' s my remark on J . B . Gough , who nevertheless , as a Tnb-extemporiser , is worth going to hear once . " Greased lightning" is his speech , voluble , i ncessant , irresistible , flattening like a steam hammer .
It s consoling for a London liver to learn that " the least mortality is during the mid-day hours—namely , from ten to three o ' clock ; the greatest during early morning hours—from three to six o ' clock . " Thus I , as a practical philosopher , am moving about , actively concerned over my existence , during early morning hears—the time of danger—whilst during the meridian day , the ¦ tempus tempestivum , I am calmly asleep in my bed .
The Society of Arts ( most studious men hate temperate habits ; its only very stupid or selfish men , like Brothertbn and Ghadwick , that are moderate and refraining)—tbe Society of Arts , I say , have discovered , through Dr . Forbes Boyle , that the Canabis saiiirct of botanists , cultivated in India for the intoxicating property of its leaves , i s the strongest hemp in the vegetable kingdom . The corollary is , 41 that ale ohol , ia its proper place , is a principle of strength . " There's a fact for Captain Costigan and Dr . Stone .
Thackeray has returned : I can't but speak familiarly of one of the kindest fellows alive , though he makes mistakes sometimes as well as other men . fie is well and happy , and is going to leave respectable old Kensington for the dissolute New Brompton . The Board of Health have written to me about some of Lady M . ' s Pimlico property vndrained . I like to learn of their activity even at my own expense . But why don't they submerge Stangate and South Lambeth—hang up the bonecollector , and let his hollow carcase swing at the river side , to scare away the anti-sanatorials ? just as they used to deck the laud "belovr pool ' with pirates' skeletons suspended in chains .
The country wants rain . The spring torn yearns for the shower : but the crops generally are promising . As a pig grubs up a pearl unexpectedly , so I , buying a book called Mr . Wray'a Cash-box , came upon a jewel , a flower , a gem , the gaud of which dazzled me for a time , yes , for one shilling there ' s as pretty a frontispiece as any I know , by Millais , called *• The New Neckcloth , " -with a very fair , unreal , well-told story by Wilkie Collins . " Well worth the money , " as my poor brother Bill ' s parrot used to sing out . Millais is the Raphael of our metropolis—in . person and with paint-brush . *
A Mr . Cole ( any relation to Exhibition Cole ?) is offering himself for tie manager ' s < hariot at tlie South-Eastern . What are his capacities ; or , rather , in this English country of ours , Who are his friends ? New Westminster-bridge , being to be begun next month , furnishes another job for Barry . That gingerbread Westminster Palace , Germanised a little , of his , must have a bridge by its side in " architectural harmony . " Oh , yes 1
and who cares for navigation of the river , as long as the low bridge heightens the Houses of Parliament ? Alter the Trinity datum line , do anything you wil ] , but don ' t interfere with my grand Westminster improvements ! What secret , solemn and never-to-be-disclosed , does this spendthrift Sir Charles possess over the Woods and Forests ? I have been told that he ' a actually to design a new street right away to Cbaring-cross : this . Barry the Bold , who builds only to break up , and breaks up only to build .
Throughout this long holiday communication , you haven ' t had one word of French . G . M , who knows French as well as I do Syriac , told me once that th « Elety never used French ; and some of your correspondents , you tell me , call the use of it affected and insincere . One ' s as wrong as the other . I am in very jocund health and robust ; and am dull and Boeotian accordingly . The four days' run has expanded my lunga , but contracted wiy sympathies , and I am like an ox , sound in wind and limb , but with little brain . I have no less than fift y letters to open : and Mac , my tailor , tells me I ' m to give him a design forthwith for a fancy dress for Walewski ' s ball to tho <^ ueen next month , W . M . Oh I they want to know -who Iain , do they ? Tell ' em M . M . Btandi ) for Moi-mOirm .
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372 T H E LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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SATTJEDAT , APRIL 22 , 1854 .
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Fhere is nothing so revolutionary , because there ia nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world ia by the very law of it 3 creation in etexnal progress . ^ Da . Absoxd .
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TO HEADERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge tho mtum of letters we receive . Thoir insertion is often delated , owUik to a press of matter j and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of tho conamunica-- tion .
No notice can be taken of anonymous communications , Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee ofhis good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 7 , Wellington-street , Strand , Xiondon . Communications should always toe legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them ..
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Leader (1850-1860), April 22, 1854, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2035/page/12/
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