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    imitted the jeweller aad excluded the laudloom weaver ? It ; may be true that , in the event of a strike , unskilled labour would be Bo easily supplied , that the attempt to support the men who were c out' would be a serious undertaking ; but the attempt to ground a resolution on this contingent

    difficulty fell through , for want of a seconder . The delegates at Glasgow accepted it as a sufficing reason against any sueb . monopoly , " that the fact of his place being so easily filled up was the very reason why anunskilled labourer should be supported in his struggle . They might not be able to get him so far up the hill as would be desirable ; but they might be able to get him over the boulders and rough , stones at the bottom . ' * Why , this would be practical chivalry , were we not well assured that chivalry is the virtue whence Cardigan and Tempest take their titles of

    nobility . " When-we know the diflference between , being a ' fine high-spirited fellow' a ferocious idiot , between ' his lordship' the unfortunate navy lieutenant who was condemned to death for cowardice , we shall be able to say more distinctly whether the 3 ? EouDF 0 or maxim exhibited magnanimity , or only that ' rough good nature' conceded to "working men by their patrons . " When the work of federalization has been

    completed , employers will be inclined to hesitate a . little longer before they drive their men to a conflict in which they will be supported , if necessary , by the general levies of the working population throughout Scotland . If the success of the union be what is anticipated , one class will not be forced to

    sucrcunib within a few weeks merely because the other possesses the resources essential to the prolongation of human life . But it is unmistakably set forth , among the declared objects of the Federal Society , that strikes a ^ yif possible , to be prevented , and means o ; conciliation sought / between masters and workmen in the several trades .

    An attempt will be made next session to base some practical measure , of an enabling character , upon the result of Mr . Mackiititon ' s committee on courts of industrial arbitration . The evidence elicited was of the most satisfactory kind . Not only did it prove that the working classes throughout the United Kingdom are , as a . body , disposed

    to accept a fair adjustment of their claims but that many employers are billing to second them , and to resist the despotic cupidity of other large capitalists . Bat , while the experiments are in progress , it would be gratifying to hear that the trades of lEngland had been really federalized , and placed in correspondence with the Scottish trades .

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    IN THE PROVINCES . IiATEXT , the metropolis being dull , with only iNaples , Mr . Spurgeon , and smaller topics , such as TV . J . Kobson and E . V . Tempest on hand , certain correspondents , not long returned from Moscow , fled into the provinces . There they wandered , from town to town , to fashionable places and manufacturing places , to trading ports , and to bays where only pleasure-boats and yachts are known ; but a deplorable absence of excitement they

    found everywhere . Strange to ' our own ' " who has written in vermilion language an account of Alexander ' s coronation , to find mmtielf at Leeds , without a matter going on that could justify the slightest pictorial tinting . ! ln the course of a week he was 2 ? ° ? ^? . the best information , to report S ? , u Wkight , of Sand Hutton , near t - u \ a / P lucked a pea' from his garden which had forty-three pods containing four hundred peas : that Oasnre had lectured at the J-own Hall ; that Bmgley cattle fair had been

    Trade Hall and the Mechanics' Institute have been opened , and the Duke of Wellington ' s statue inaugurated . The Bishop has been busy . The Half-holiday League has been at work . The Poor Law Guardians have been considering the Pigsties of Svvinton . Mr . Hobsok has been playing at the Theatre [ Royal . The Municipal Elections have been

    going forward . There is a perpetual gossip , too , concerning the Art-Treasures . Sheffield is engaged ( that is to say , ten gentlemen at a square table ) , as usual , in deploring the limitation of the Royal prerogative ; and JSTewcastle-upon-Tyne ( that is to say , five gentlemen at a round table ) in censuring certain gentlemen for omitting to say , at a . public meeting what they did say , unmistakably .

    In Belfast , Piccolomini has been singing , and the lost correspondent transmitted to London a critical article upon that event , which would have done credit to his taste , had it not been pirated from the'Northern Whig . Then , the [ Right Honourable Sir James Monorieff , M . P ., has been lecturing on Social [ Reform , . Mi * . Henry ISTichols has

    glary at Evans ' s . To Tewkesbury he carried a letter of introduction , to the Town Clerkbut that functionary had run away with funds for the exercise of a safer hospitality at Copenhagen . In Bath he found the Corporation perplexed what to do with Mrs . Colonel Godfrey ' s stuffed birds . At Basingstoke he was slighted by the « highly respectabl e ' classes for

    going to hear a lecture by Henex Vincent ; but redeemed himself by avowing that a lady from London who holds forth in that Town Hall periodically- is a genius . At Brighton he heard the townspeople calling Lord Eenest Vane Tempest a puppy , though the " visitors were awe-struck by the apparition of that majestic young man , braving out his dismissal along the cliff on the box-seat

    of a drag . At Dover three gentlemen were encountered , who had been forty years abroad , and who contemplated "Coming up to London to start a morning paper on Conservative principles . Upon receipt of this intelligence the correspondents returned to town .

    been trying to play the part of Samlet , a cow has been stolen , and several Irish gentlemen have furnished puns on the eclipse . Away in Scotland the correspondents were in a bifcter mood , complaining that they are too late for Balmoral and Mrs . Stowe , well aware how fervid is the interest inspired by the Victoria and Sutherland circulars . The

    thrilling introduction that had been composed to the " Execution of Johnt M'Ma . nits" was compulsorily set aside , because John M ' Mais'Us had been respited . [ Nor was the reopening of Glasgow Cathedral a very inspiring affair . But a Napoi-eon" has turned up in Dumbarton —a Napoleon" verily ; or , in other words , the Sheriff Substitute , who ' interdicts' the JDumoarton Herald from publishing a report of certain evidence in a libel case in which that journal is concerned with a Mr . Dunbab . Accordingly , the Herald appears with a longblauk column , marked , " This is -where the report ought to have appeared . " Who is the Sheriff Substitute , and where is Dumbarton ? We should like to have the interdicted report in MS ., that is to say , unless the Dtjnbar

    interdict he a far-resounding thunder reaching to the Thames . At all events , next to the dreary Donald lioss picture of the depopulated ' lands of Sutherland , ' where there has been a Norman sort of pira-cy , it would seem , this example of bureaucratic austerity is one of the moat lively things just now talked of in Scotlaud . Thither lia-ve ticket-of-leave men betaken themselves in serious numbers ; there , municipal elections approach , in one city and another ; there , John Macciheqor , M . P ., is talked of as being M . P . for the last time ; there , the price of boots and shoes is raised , owing to the scai'cifcy of leather ; there , the desperation of bewildered well-meaners drives them to the infliction of 10 / . fines in tho interest of morality , which puts the money in its pocket , and is so far benefited

    There , also , in Edinburgh especially , tho law falls like a Nasmzth hammer upon crippled beggars and destitute orphans , upon the principle which actuated a worthy English justice lately , when he committed two men to prison for being able-bodied and penniless . At [ Rochester , ' our own' went disconsolately to the Town Hall and heard n squabble about the'Mayor . At Exeter he was favoured by a policeman with particulars of tho

    burheld ; that Mr . jFabna-LIj had offered some explanations with , reference to something he said to Mr . Cbosslex , and that Mr . John FnosThad made a very foolish speech at the Music Hall . Clearly , this correspondent could hardly expect to be ' kept on . ' Manchester has not Ibeen so utterly dull . The Free

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    IT IS A LONG LAING THAT HA . S NO TURNING . "W " hat ' ¦ ' is-. the great test of the country ' s welfare ? Who is the greatest patriot of the day ? We find an answer to this question in the exposition of political history and wisdom which Mr . Laing has laid before his constituents of the Scotch Northern Burghs . If we remember rightly , Mr . Laing entered the House of Commons as a philosophical Radical , or something very like it , but not as an impracticable , lie also accommodated his

    views on many points to the opinions of bis constituents , and was rather an Agnewite than otherwise . On the whole , he might be considered as intending to be a regular House of Commons man of the Liberal party . How greatly he has increased his wisdom since those days ! He tells us , that when he last saw his c onstituents , he mistrusted Lord Palmerston ' s Government because they appeared to be coquetting with the war clamour in order to keep themselves in power .

    " A few leading statesmen and orators , sucli as Mr . Gladstone , Mr . Bright , arid , after his visit to Vienna , Lord John ltussell—one solitary organ of the press supposed to represent the opinions of Mr . Disraeli—and here and there a stray independent member like myself , who happened to have some practical acquaintance-with the state of opinion in Europe , were then the only advocates of principles which now arc embodied in treaties and assumed as axioms . "

    This is a wonderful version of history ! If we remember rightly , Mr . Laing was amongst those independent members who were rather rousing the Government to the war than damping its ardour . At that time , too , if we do not misrepresent him , he was for measures ; now " I profess no great measures , " he says , " for I have no faith in them . " He is only for getting rid of fleets and armies , so that he

    may abolish the tax : on ' knowledge , ' ( paper ) , ' providence' ( insurance ) , on ' commerco w ith France' ( wine ) , and on tobacco . He does not state what virtue tobacco represents . All this is to be done Vy getting rid of the war taxation and rendering the income-tax permanent . Then , ho would make law language less cumbrous , iuvprovo tho precautions against fraud , with a variety of other measures , all tending , however , to tho one end .

    " With respect to foreign policy , ho has ^ a very simple moasuxo , and modestly as ho disclaims great ones , this invention appears to us quite to deserve tho epithet : — "I am satisfied , from a pretty extensive acquaintance ¦ witli leading- men on tho Continent , that if liy ^ ny means wo could bind over tho Times , tho House of Commons , and the Foreign-office , to hold their tongues for ten years together about foreign matters , tho cnusc ot rational liberty abroad would be more advanced than l > y any other means that could possibly be devised , " Look after tho shop at homo , mako journals , let members hold their tonguos for ten

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    j . 022 THEfMllEB , [ No . 344 , Saturday ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 25, 1856, page 1022, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2164/page/14/