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856 THE LEADER. [Saturday ,
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A DISGRACE TO HER SEX. Elizabeth Ryan ha...
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THE PAISLEY BLOCK-CUTTERS, AND DOCK LAIJ...
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he was a friend of the Prince Consort ' s , in his confidence , having been his chief ally and instrument in the direction of the Great Exhibition , and that , consequently , his Royal Highness would , protect us from the possible errors of the inexperienced but well-intentioned son of that " talented" diplomatist , and obsequious ambassador , the first Earl of Granville , G . C . B . Prince Albert has not only the advantage of being a foreign gentleman engaged in life as an English politician , but he has the personal advantage of having
a policy . King Leopold may have instituted this policy , but the head of the family , and the leader in that policy , is unquestionably his Royal Highness . This chieftainship his Royal Highness owes , in the first place , to his position in this country , but , in the next place , to his intellect—one of the most accomplished , the most refined , and most candid of the age . This policy is called the Coburg policy . It is always called so ; very fortunately for the Coburg Princes , so far as England is interested , for to the enlightened English mind the
phrase—" the Coburg policy" —conveys a pleasingly safe , because indefinite idea . The Coburgs are an extraordinary family ; you cannot trace them forty years back as prominent historical personages , yet in 1853 they are the most powerful family in Europe A Coburg married the heiress to the English throne / and when she died , another Coburg married the actual English Queen . A Coburg married the Queen of Portugal ; a Coburg only narrowly missed—Louis Philippe was a very clever man—the Spanish Quaen ;
a Coburg was the other day ready for that throne of Greece ( which a Coburg once declined ) , if the Bavarian had disappeared ; a Coburg has the throne of Belgium , and as King of Belgium , has had great power in England and France—in England , because he was the uncle of the Queen : in France , because he was son-in-law of the King ; a Coburg—the son of the King Leopold—has just married an Austrian Archduchess . France being lost , King Leopold seeks German alliances . It is a Coburg plan that the future Queen of Prussia shall be a Princess Royal of England , and it is as certain , as things human can be , that
daughters of Prmce Albert will be sovereign ladies , in great abundance , on German thrones , great and small . Hence a family " solidarity , " great now , increasing with every year , and an obvious dynastic policy . At any rate , obvious fulness of knowledge on the part of Prince Albert of all the Court movements of Europe , obvious extensive sympathies , obvious breadth of view ; and the value of Prince Albert as a directing statesman in Great Britain , is , consequently , incalculable . This paper is written to put his position and his services in the point of view in which w ' o may comprehend him , and be grateful to him .
This power for good , and the influence which he possesses , were not obtained in n day , and merely because of his station ; he progressed by degrees , and ho succeeded because- he proved ability . Ton years ago , he was not a man to excite much respectful deference among the- men of our governing classes ; to-day he is stronger than any one of them— . stronger in position stronger in popularity . Prince Albert is probably the most popular man in thin country ; and it ; is a
fact all the- more remarkable that the popularity has been obtained by his discovery that the English who firmly believed that , they wore long ago an onlightened nation , arc barbarians in art , mid in all the moro delioato cultures of civilization ! As a foreigner , ho is enabled to detect and to counteract tho liormondsey policy ; ^ as a foreigner , in tho name way ho could see tho coarseness , and tho vulgarity , and tho insularity , of our art manufactures . Whut , ( net , what
consummate cleverness , luust ho havo displayed while engaged—and ho hun boon some years nt it—in convincing us flint wo were uncouth ami ignorant . Clearly , ^ KWSPil ^ ii ^ " tlm < l ino "K l 1 Iu > <; imu <)< ' g > » l'ify that passion ' ^ C ^ h- *^ " TTi ^ jjr P * ffi " incidental to his birth , and station , and / £ rv » o . " " ' *"' ' /¦¦ l ^ $ ^ Hc ti > r of uriml , m controlling Sir William Molon-/ •¦ ^ it ^' - 'i- ^^ ' ^^ ' ^ V ' " ' "' ^ ' O 1 Ml " ' ' * imim WilHO 11 llf ' "'" Tre » - I \ ¦ £ " t ' " ^ \ Ifc'fc J ^ y )! . ^*? r ° fousohttion and compensation in tho erea-^ V ' v . ^ - V - ^ - - ^ ^ v ^ ' / MlUlH < ll ' . y oi' 1 > n ' ) n <; 1 'in'ruction—tho oflieei \ "^ 'V- " * * ^ . !^ / j" ?\ i $ p 6 HJio officiously holds , jukI holds with honour . . 11 o - ?& . $ €% \ f df iW ^ " * " ^''^ our art manufacturers ; ho in lunching
a clumsy people to love grace as well as strength ; to admire symmetry as well as power ; and he is revolutionising the darkened popular mind without giving offence—nay , at the same time becoming the most popular man in England ! Such a man must be a great man . . And such a man—may he not be . exhibiting equal art , tact , and patience , in abolishing the Bermondsey policy , —in instituting a foreign policy for England ? Let us hope that his foreign policy is as beneficent as his domestic policy : we cannot doubt that it is as artistic . Non-Ei / ectob .
856 The Leader. [Saturday ,
856 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
A Disgrace To Her Sex. Elizabeth Ryan Ha...
A DISGRACE TO HER SEX . Elizabeth Ryan has acted very badly . She formed a connexion with a tradesman , and had three children . Instead of cutting-up the babies in little bits as s oon as they were born , and finally committing suicide after a wretched life , she has kept her house neatly , has brought up her children well , and , though she and their father fight , she dares to call it a home . Mr . D'Eyncourt , the magistrate , praised her for this part of her conduct , and was mild in his decision , that he might not break up the home . He has thus provoked terrible censure from a Married Man , writing to the Times . What ! " compliment Ryan on the clean and healthy appearance of her illegitimate children ! " this is " queer morality . " We agree with the Married Man . Mr . D'Eyncourt should have
pointed out to the woman how far superior was matrimony to all other bonds ; how the married life is always marked by pure love , and a total absence of strife ; how , in all circles of society , from police-magistrates to coalheavers , the refining influence of the rite is such , that husbands are always kind , and wives always quiet . On the other hand , he should have shown the necessity of bringing up " natural" children in such a way that they might furnish frightful examples , and that the mother herself should slope down towards the foulest sins and the darkest crimes , that her life might point a pious moral and adorn an Exeter Hall tale .
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Thni'C is no ' learned man but " , will confess hn hath much proTit-edby ronduiiioonl' . roversieS j hia rojim <\ s awakened , nnd ma jud ; ; rnei ii , . sharpened . Ii , then il . be prolil . ablo . for him to road , why should it , not , , aL least , bo tolerable for hia adversary to wr . il . fi . —Mn / roN .
The Paisley Block-Cutters, And Dock Laij...
THE PAISLEY BLOCK-CUTTERS , AND DOCK LAIJOUItKIlS OF LONDON . ( 7 V > tho ICditor of tho Loader , ) Sin , —lly tho paragraph appended to my short , communication of last week , you still seem to consider tho conduct of tho Paisley block-print cutters as " unfair , " and " dictatory , " in seeking to regulate tho number of apprentices to bo ialien , and the mode of distributing employment among those apprentices and themselves . Now , I am not going in this pln ' co to say more than to is til to once again , that I believe tho men , in endeavouring to ( tiled ; some alteration in these matters , arc perfoofubly justifiable , for what can ho of greater injury to the abiding interests of any trudo than the continuous introduction into it of any element of tho more cheapening process P as all occupations in which this system has been recklessly carried on abundantly testify . What , I would ask , but this avidity for boy-labour , ban caused the . cruel slop-working of the tailor ? Of the shoemaker , in tho eastern quarters of London , and at Northampton , Norwich , and different places beside p Of our low-priced cabinet making ? Of that which tukoH place in our under-outf ing printers' dens p Nof , to intuition numoroun other inslances which might bo specified of the like complexion ; and also minify ing , as tho same system does , perhaps more extensively Htill , into all occupations where female- lubour i « ill
request , the industrious daughter of the poor na being taught a trade , at which , as soon as it is learned or rather but half-learned , she can find no independ I employment—the on-coming , new brood of 'prent girls filling the situations she and her compani ^ have been just compelled to vacate—to vacate beca ' the ' prentice with her fee , small as such fee may . pro ^ ° in amount , and-her unpaid stitching , is the more b ° fitable acquisition .
But , as already has been intimated , this subject is fa too large a one for present discussion , or , at least f 0 my present purpose , which is merely that I may b permitted to reassert my prior given opinion in favour of the fairness ( under the circumstances in which the employing and the employed are now place d in society ) of the Paisley block-cutters , or any other class of working men or working women ( for why should not women look after these things , in like way , as well as men ?) striving to keep themselves from being wholly crowded out from the chance of earning some sort of a comfortable living , at the mere will of the calloushearted profit seeker .
In the workshop of the block-cutter the master takes the apprentice , and gets the apprentice-fee , while the journeyman has to teach these apprentices for nothing but a " thank you , " or scarcel y that , in reward ; and then , after all , when a dearth , of employ . ment comes , the apprentice—advancing now nearly into the perfect craftsman—has either all , or the best
paying portions of the work given over to him , such apprentice being paid—because he is still but nn apprentice—at , perhaps , not one-third of the wage of the journeyman j and for this reason is it that this apprenticeship system is so tenaciously clung to by tho master ; while , on the other hand , for reasons of quite an opposite character , the journeyman does all he can that such a system should be somewhat modified .
The Leader , too , I find , seems still inclined to blame the dock labourers in the affair of their late strike . " We see two parts , " the writer , in regard to this matter , states—"' riot ' and ' failure ; ' both are faults . All failures are not faults ; but in the present condition of industry the men who deserve success generally command it . " Now , is this writer not . aware , that there may lie ¦
such a " condition" of things as that in which the worker may not know how best to " command success ? " Just as an uninformed child , in attempting to escape from some apprehended suffering , may push itself further into the jaws- of danger ; and yofc surely , because of this unwittingnegs , is it fair to assume that death , or any other heavy injury , is the merited consequence ?
Assumptions of this kind , if they were allowed to fructify into indifference still more extensively than lit present is the case , would soon render this world of ours a thoroughly dispiriting abode , with no remedy for tho immediate wrong-doing whatever , and no hope for the future . Then might the so commonly abused iit'M labourer become still more the serf—the children '" our factory districts bo still less cared for—the twelve or fifteen . shilling a week earner of tho town still find his only homo where the low lodging-house- providi'i holds dominant sway ; or the cruelly injured slave dass of America have no chance of ever being lifted Into tno
sphere of an equal humanity ; and all merely as it might bo asserted in respect to each of thwo injured interests—they knew not how to win their own redemption , and consequently wort ; to bt * loft to ( hen fate , be that what , it might—tho most severe and loi ^ - enduring ! . Surely tin ; able , clear-sighted , and hones t-purposH Leader , an it undoubtedly is , is not prepared <<> . xiiihtion any such permanency of the Unjust as thin , on !
principle , as goes tho old song , that none hut M » '"'" deserve tho fair , or that other maxim which tells »¦ that every one has the shaping of his own <'(> I " tul ! ° ' . Many a f ' urner up of the stiffened clod of the v » H'O ''" ^ a strong will and clear perception--ninny « l """' . ' nf factory boy and j ^ iil an earnest yeiiniing tor nl 0 U' ^ personal freedom- —many a ( lurk-skinned toiler ' ¦ ' ¦ slave districts of tho / WY ' -ealletl United States of |»^ ricn , the inflatus of a real hero in bin hoiiI ; and * " j ' ^ are , doubtlessly , among tho doek labourers of boi " ' ^ those who have a , trim and keen comprehend " " ^ ^ their proper worth as men -ns " laboured wor JJ is . their hire "—and yet , not withstanding « H llI " ( l J | | H ., ' | , sions , the ploughman lives in a hovel , is uioauly < ' " ^ and inadequately fed ; fho chill-eyed »»< l * ' , / , ; . throated factory child has to rise to Mm < " ¦ " ' . . ; re lory bell ; and » Uncle Toms" are still of U" ) ^^ cast ; for even when Christian-taug ht ; . 1 " .. ' lj |; o insists on such heaven-winning humility . wb > () , „ .. manner the dock labourers art ! inoapnhle <> ' ni ;| c _! 11 )( | . lioration of their both wait-iintlstarvo and wo ^ ^ ; starve condition . Nevertheless , all those , wi ' . ' . . ^ cepfion of that of tho children , arc uo toiiL J
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1853, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03091853/page/16/
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