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^¦¦¦ ^^^^™«; ' ¦ ' - - — _ . . .. THE NORTHERN TRADES "We are glad to announce that the nucleus of a ^ Federal Union of the Scottish Trades has been formed at Glasgow . The Societyorganized by Mr . Pboudfoot and his colleagues has published a set of rules ¦ which appear to hare been thoughtfully discussed . The objects declared are of the most moderate character , there being on the part of the industrial [ Federalists no desire
whatever to introduce coercion or conspiracy into their system of operations . Events have abundantly demonstrated the necessity of the nnoYement , \ fhich lias bur heartiest sympathy , and which may be a means of protecting the " working classes throughout Scotland from the arbitrary selfishness of their masters and the frauds to which they are frequently subjected in factories alld mines . The enormous
Josses caused by strikes to the paiblic at large , no les s than to the operatives and their employers , have been exhibited in the report of Mr . MacKinnon ' s very useful committee . rt may be hoped that the intelligent combination of the working classes may induce the class that flourishes by their labour to adopt those moderate and generous principles of conduct which some masters have adopted , thus reconciling the interests of industry and capital , and benefiting botb .
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THE KING OP PRUSSIA ' S QUESTION . ~ 5 j& an article which appeared under this head in our last week ' s impression , a typographical error occurred , by -which the Neufchatel Protocol of 1852 was dated 1855 . N " o one , of course , could have been misled by this inaccuracy , since it was distinctly stated that ILord JMtAiiMESBUBT , who quitted office early in 1853 , was the Minister who signed the Protocol on behalf of Great Britain . Nor ¦ would it have been easy to remember the ^ Russian Ambassador who officiated in London
during the siege of Sebastopol ! But it is as well to point out that the assent of the four Powers to the King of Prussia ' s claim was procured jfoe / r years , not seven years , after the adoption of the Federal Constitution by the ! £ feufchatelese . This circumstance in . no way affects the argument . Neufcliatel , by a revolution , had separated itself from the Prussian monarchy . The Prussian monarchy , four years afterwards , put forward a claim which it did not attempt to enforce . Pour years have agaiu elapsed , and the claim is
repeated . Neufchtltel is , to some extent , in the position of Texas , before that territory became a state of the Union . Texas had , by her own act , become independent of Mexico . Subsequently , by her own act , she became part of the American Federation . Then , though the Government of Mexico had been unable to retain Texas , it made war on the United States for accepting her adhesion to their political compact— -and was defeated , as Prussia deserves to be defeated should she disturb the peace of Europe for the sake of hei * " inalienable rights , " which signify no more than inalienable perversity .
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. ( To the Editor of the Leader . ") Sin , —With your permission I -will take the benefit of your " Open Council" column to give public expression to the sentiments of a class to which J belong , relative to the above subject . I belong to that class of men wh . o > contemplate mathematical truth for its own sake , and the rotation of the satellites is a mathematical truth , ot rather , perhaps , a mechanical truth , admitting of successful contemplation only by mathematicians ; and even by them only when they reason in accordance with mathematical axioms , definitions , and logic .
It is quite true that a man who is no mathematician , or who possesses just sufficient of this kind of knowledge for the transaction of common life affairs , has the same natural and lawful right to discuss sucli questions as mathematicians ^ and he may , if he pleases , give publicity to his views , and even amuse himself , by dictating how such matters ought to be treated ; but of this he may rest assured , that by so doing lie is but pronouncing , after his own way , the fact that he has yet to learn the first rudiments of the science to which the truth under
consideration belongs . Those who have acquired their ideas from a similar course of training to himself may laud him , and others who- have taken another than the ' royal road to ycomctry ' may try to set him right ; but whether such efforts be attended with success or not , one thing is certain , that whenever he spealvs or writes on such subjects for the instruction of others , he will surely jumble words together in a manner altogether ridiculous . In support of this view I need only , I believe , quote a few phrases and sentences from the last public statement made by the originator of the present controversy : —
" No one denies that the moon turns round . " "It turns without rotating . " To say the least of it , this is making a singularly illogical use of words . ' " The sidereal clay being the measure of the rotation of the earth is a positive blunder . " Blunders are such errors as , properly speak ing , result from conceit , ignorance , or stupidity ; but surely our instructor cannot mean what he says . " The rotation of a globe which is at the same time revolving in an orbiC is incomplete , till it presents the same meridian lino to the centre of its orbit . " This is . one of many instances which proic ^ that the writer has taken the royal road to geometry . " Astronomers make the year consist of 3 riG { sidereal days , instead of 3 Gf » £ solar days and rotations , as the fact is . The oue extra turn is merely the
orbital revolution which the moon has . " Astronomers make tho year to consist of neither the one nor the other . They state that 3 fifi £ sidereal days are equal to 3 G 5 £ solar days , and that each period ( with a little adjustment of tho fractions ) is equal to one solar year ; and so it is . . The consideration of the various views pubh shcu relative to this subject forces a reflection oni niy mind , that tho cause of tho widely spread , ind efinite ideas entertained respecting it has its origin m tlio ardour existing in this country for popular instruction in the pure sciences . Tluit this kind of inst ruction is really good in its general results 1 may , to n certain extent , admit ; but I certainly do think that this one result of it is not to us , us one of the onlitf hteiieu nations of the globe , entitled to the term cr&hMnc-Southampton . J . tSuM-. ct ,.
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ship had been distinctly abandoned , the English Government waived all claim to the vessel , and she-was now the private property of the crew . The American Government showed a stronger appreciation of this interesting relic than our own had exhibited . The two Houses of Congress united in a joint resolution , voting 40 , 000 dollars to purchase the vessel from the crew -who found it , and to present it to the English Government as a token of the friendly feelings entertained by that country for our own .
This exactly followed out the whole course of events in which the Resolute had figured . The search expedition fell under the command of an officer who showed a strange apathy in carrying it forward ; who appeared to feel in some degree a jealousy of the greater zeal , perhaps the greater success , of the officers under him . Against the opinion of the others , he caused the barque to be abandoned ; and the Government completed its abandonment . No sooner had the search for Sir
John Fraxkmn been announced , than it was manned by volunteers ; and tLe American Government spontaneously accepted the services of its own volunteers to assist in the search . The ship which was abandoned by an order of Sir Edwaiid . Bei . cher was found by Americans , and reclaimed by the American Government . Nor did the American Government stop short at the mere return of the ship as it floated . In the words of our contemporary , the New York
Times" She Las been repaired and fitted -with the utmost care at the expense of our Government , with the design of restoring her to the Queen in at least as good a condition as she was in at the time the exigencies of their situation compelled heT crew to abandon her . With such completeness and attention to detail has this work been performed , that not only has everything found on board been preserved , even to the books in the captain ' s library , the pictures in las cabin , and a musical-box and
organ belonging to other officers , but new British flags have been manufactured in the Navy-yard to take the place of those which had rotted during the long time she was without a living soul onboard . From stem to stern she has been repainted ; lier sails , and much of lier rigging are entirely new ; the muskets , swords , telescopes , nautical instruments , &c , which she contained , have been cleaned and put in perfect order . Nothing has been overlooked or neglected that was necessary to her most complete and thorough renovation . "
The vessel , thus renovated , lias been placed in the charge of Captain II . J . Hartstein , one of the officers of the late Arctic expedition , who will bring her into Portsmouth . It appears to us that the ship has thus acquired a value which it did not possess when it first left the builder ' s hands . Every sword , every telescope , every quadrant , has gained something more precious than a covering of gold , in the friendly care which has been bestowed upon it . Nothing can have been more handsome than the whole conduct of the American Government , from , first to last ; but most especially in the graceful attention to these small details .
Will not the American officers be welcomed ? Of course they will . The Times lias done justice to English feeling by announcing the welcome . It will have a deeper meaning than the mere exchange of official courtesies . There have been ' differences' between the two Governments ; we look in vain to find any differences between the two peoples . The Government of tho United States usually harmonizes with tlie feeling of its own people ; wo cannot always say the same of ours . Where our volunteers have pressed to perform the sacred office of friendship in the search for Fkankxin , our Government lias been dilatory and cool . The Foreign Government of America
THE RESOLUTE . On : e of the handsomest presents which was ever made by one country to another is on its way across the Atlantic . It is the British discovery "barque Resolute , which went out under Captain KauujBx to assist in the search for Sir John Franklin , and which is now coming back as a present from the United States to England . Everybody remembers how tho vessel was abandoned by order of the commander of tho expedition . From her station in the Arctic regions she drifted among the icebergs 1200 miles , and was found , several months back , by an American whaling crew , belonging to New London , in . Connecticut . The
has shared the enthusiasm of our volunteers . Although conveyed to the English Government , we may be quite sure tliat this gift is at lieart presented to the English people , and we are equally sure that Queen Victoria will perfectly understand the spirit in which her ship comes home to her . Some forty days , counting from the 13 th of November , will the Resolute be at sea—or less , probably , considering the strong westerly gales . She will reach this country before Christmas , and a right hearty English Christmas welcome will be given to Captain IIaiitstkin , his officers , and his crow , by every Englishman , ay , and every Englishwoman , that can win the presence of the visitors by tho most cordial of hospitalities .
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There is no learned man tut -will confess he ^ n . much proated by reading controversiesi his Ji ^ awakened , . and his judgment sharpened ? ' If \ w ^ be profitable for him to read , why- should & ' least , be tolerable for his adversary to writeUlfiiT ^
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THE MOON'S ROTATION ; ( 2 the Editorof ' the Leader . ) Sib , —Win you allow me to ask a question on tKs subject , which I have no doubt some of your cor ** spondents will be able to answer . I presume tW the alternation of day and night Is really , as usuallv stated , the result of the earth ' s rotation on her axis and is quite independent of her motion in her orbitif , therefore , this rotation were to cease , I supnosc that the alternation of day and night would cease as well , and not otherwise ; in fact , that the one is entirely the result or effect of the other ; if , however the alternation of day and night were to cease the earth would then constantly present the saiue ' fiice to the sun in her revolution round tliat body in the same manner as the moon does to us in her
revolution round the earth . Now , hov am I to reconcile the two cases if this supposition be correct—¦ vi z . " tliat the rotation of the moon on her axis causes her always to present the same face to ' . the earth , but that the Ho / j-rotation of the earth on her axis would cause her always to present the same face to the sun ;" and if the above supposition be not correct , how is ifc that the alternation of day and night depends upon the earth ' s rotation . —I am , sir , yours obediently , 6 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1856, page 1190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2171/page/14/
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