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    Tfo.Socfc I>Nr- 22. 18s9.1 F.He Hei-D;Eb...

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    legislator s w seeks to eradicate vice in reforma tories ,. and to raise up virtue ^ by a ^ s ystem o secondary punishment . The Hon . W > Cowpe the apostle of sanitary doctrines ; and also toi Kay Shuttleworth , whose creed is primary educa tion were also there . As for Lord Kadstock , w < feel puzzled about his peculiar attribute—his scien tific specialite . Happily we call to mind , tha ia all provincial dramatic companies there is oni nondescript kind of actor , who is termed a gentle man of general utility . We suspect that , mutati mutandis , Lord Radstock occupied a similar position among the sages , and was * m fact , the gentleman , of general respectability Why the conclave met at Bradford is a mysterj above our comprehension . The only associatior we can call to mind about Bradford is in connection with its poisoned lozenges . Various important social considerations might have been evolve- ] from the shape and colour of the Bradford lozenge . Innumerable and invaluable statistics might have been collected as to the decrease or increase in the sale of lolly-pops and Everton toffee since the arsenicated lozenges have been brought into disfavour , and an apposite and appropriate paper might have been composed on the subject of adulteration , and printed with an exact fac-simile of an original Bradford lozenge as a frontispiece . A prophet , alas ! has no honour in his own country , and a lozenge is ignored at Bradford . It happened , however , that Bradford is a great manufacturing town . So good an opportunity for the display of wisdom was not to be lost . It seemed hard that the working men of Bradford should have no share in this intellectual repast—no mental crumbs from the wise men ' s table . A meeting was summoned in St . George ' s Hall , at which the working men of Bradford were requested to attend . We grieve to say the invitation was not fully responded to . ^ The banquet was ready and the guests were wanting . Gamaliel was there , but the disciples who were to sit at Gamaliel ' s feet stopped at home . In place _ of working men there was , however , a large gathering '" of ladies . There were bonnets instead of blouses * and crinolines instead of corduroys . Doubtless that ideal being , the model mechanic , the intelligent operative , was there also . He "was not visible to mortal eyes—he never is so ; but to the mental vision he was plain and conspicuous . It was to him that the solemn truisms were addressed ; upon his devoted head that all this seyen-sage power of wisdom , and science , and experience was ruthlessly directed . The wise acres who went to hear Barnum lecture on the art of money-making , in the hope of learning the road to fortune ; the green horns who crowded to hear Lola Montes discourse , in the expectation of picking-up the secret mysteries of the " Demi-Monde , " were not more hopelessly disappointed than the working men who went to hear the social philosophers discuss the great question of modern civilisation . The speakers , one and all , commenced with the pompous paradox , that they also were working men like their auditors . For our own part we are sick of this pretence . No doubt Lord Brougham , Lord Shaftesbury , and Mr . Cowper , are hard working men , but they are no more working men than they are carpenters or chimney-sweeps . They can stop work whene ver they please . If they choose never to open a book again , they ~ may suffer somewhat in position or fortune . But aa long as they live they have the certainty of competency and comfort for themselves and their" children . It is possible that Lord Brougham- may work more hours a day than a Bradford mechanic Be it so j but he has not to work ten hours a day to provide his morrow ' s dinner . He has not the prospect before him of the same endless series of labours day after day , week after week , without hope of ohango or relief . Ho has not the . constant terror before his oye that failure of health or strength may reduce him at once to the workhouse and his children to the streets . A villa at Cannes is always something to fall back upon . Even admitting 1 that Lord Brougham and his colleagues are working men , we- * don't see that much comes of the admission . We are still more at a loss to discern the value of a discovery announced b y Lord Radstock , that as the working men of England received some twenty millions , annually amongst them in wages , that therefore they had the disposal of this vast sum of money

    . , and might do wonders with its aid . Ho doubt i \ » f is a consolatory reflection to consider that , in some r mysterious manner ,- your individual being : has r some influence on the disposal of ^ £ 20 , 000 , 000 , ^ . just as certain the ologians- derive intense satise faction from the idea that they are integral parts - of the universal "kosmbs . " But what practical t application a mechanic , with a wife and six children e and 20 s . a week wages , is to derive fiomi it ,, is - beyond our . power to discover . Lord Shaftesbury s recommended the cultivation of the domestic - virtues , and abstinence from intoxicating liquors . - A Mr . Napier expressed his approval of the model prize essays written to Mr . CasselTs order , and Lord Broug ham wound up by the remark , that nothing in this world was ever gained by violence , and that working men should be contented with V things as they are . Strange advice , truly , in . the [ mouth of Henry Brougham ! This was all . Now with all respect for the » well-intentioned and meritorious gentlemen who de ~ ' livered these remarkable utterances at St . George ' s L Hall , we would ask whether , even if the mountain . could only bring forth a mouse , the mouse need [ have been so very small a one ? Whether the ! evils , under which the working classes labour in t this age and country are curable or not * is an ; open question . It is certain that they are not of ¦ a nature to be cured by slip-slop sentiments and ; dame-school moralities . The solution of the social problem is not that of the seven Solomons of Bradford . ' ¦ i

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    POLITICAL FORESHADOWING ^ . At the annual dinner of the West Cambridgeshire and South Herts Agricultural Society , at Kneesworth , the Earl of Hakdwicke entered at some length into a description of the M'Clintock Arctic Expedition , in which the fate of the gallant Franklin had been'settled . He said he had fervent hopes that even yet some tidings might be heard of the missing men . He would allude to another important ^ point . —the recent mishap in China . He would abstain from saying one word as to the generalship of the admiralship which attended that expedition . He himself knew nothing of the count ay—he had never seen the ground—and consequently could form no correct estimate as to the circumstances attending the affair . But he could form an estimate of the daring , the courage , the resolution , and the great bravery manifested hy those who were engaged in it . There had been the same exhibition of intrepidity , the same gallant bearing , the same indomitable courage shown as that which had characterised every instance iu which the arms of our brave countrymen had been called into play in whatever quarter of the world . The gallant leader in that expedition—the brave commander-an-chief in that affair—had been himself severely wounded . Whenever they saw their intrepid officers gallantly performing their duties under fire , careless of all but the performance of those duties and their country ' s honour , they fe l t themselves bound to offer them their gratitude , their admiration , and their esteem . Englishmen never deserted those who so gallantly served them , even though they might be unsuccessful in their efforts . The greatest naval man the world ever T 3 aw was once , defeated—Nelson , at Teneriffe , whon he was severely wounded , nay , when he lost his right arm . But if Nelson had not been supported by his country subsequently—if his country had not upheld him by their generous sympathy , they would never have seen the hero of a Trafalgar or a Nile . At a dinner at South Creake , theEarlof Leicester said , that for the first time in his recollection the demand for labour in some parts of Norfolk had exceeded the supply—a very different state of things from that which prevailed a few years since , before such extensive emigration took-place . It was true that by the introduction of reaping , machines , & cf , agricultural operations were less dependent on manual labour , but it had never yet been found that the demand for labour had been diminished by the introduction of machinery , On the contrary , the demand for labour had increased of late ; and he believed that never at . any time did the proportion of labour per aorc amount to more on the large farms of West Norfolk than at present . The aimy and navy now offered such inducements to the labouring classes , that he believed if they were more known the number of those who tilled the soil would ho still furthor lessened . No man of any education at all was in a much worse position than the agricultural labourer , or in a worse position to improve himself . Ho could not admit that ' the paltry sums agricultural societies were enabled to give for good con- i duct were in any way an equivalent or payment for < character or moral worth } they were moroly pwWio ^ approvals of the recipients' conduct . But it did i not rest with public sooietioB to reward meritorious I

    t servants ; it was the master who should be the kind » protector and friend , and it . was on his sympathy \ that the poor man with a large family must con-* . ' tinually depend . It was the duty of all classes of - ¦ ' the agricultural community to promote the- welfare ' of the labourer . Much depended on the landlord ^ ! hut more on the employer . Agricultural labourers ^ must no longer be mere machines , and the associ-1 ations established had tended very much , to improve their social position , and to add to their comfort and . happiness ^ Those brilliant senators , the honourable members for Middlesex , have been talking to a considerable extent this week . After a ploughing match at Staines , the Hon . GeoegbBtng and his coadjutor Mr Hanbuky discussed the question of protecting our shores , and defending our territory , and maintaining our ascendancy on the reas * Mr . Byng s . speech was the speech of the night , and it is somewhat satisfactory to know that amid so many exclamations in favour of plenty of estimates , we have it stated , that peace , after all , is the best policy-. Mr . Byng wishes to give to the word " politics a larger meaning than it at present takes , and he is anxious that those ministers who commit mistakes should not be condemned as being actuated by bad motives . The hon ; member undoubtedly is in favour of peace at home ; The Hon . Abthto Kinnaird ; M . P ; , has been on a little tour in Italy , and on his return has hit npan the happy idea of making capital out of hi 9 trip . He therefore writes a letter to his constituents at Perth , informing then that as he saw nothing could be done just now in the way of reform , he thought it is duty to go and look after Italian affairs . He says he had the privilege ( hi Exeter-hall phrase ) of conversingwith Signor Farini and General Garibaldi at Mo- * dena , and with Baron Ricasoli and General Salvagrioli at Florence , and was almost equally delighted with the sentiments expressed by each , manifesting a statesmanlike comprehension of affairs , combining moderation with energy , and practical wisdom with honest determination of purpose . " Most sincerely do I wish them God-speed , believing , as I do , that with their success is bound up * not only the happiness of Central Italy and the religious welfare of thousands of its inhabitants , but the maintenance of the peace of Europe . Of course , in the above , remember I do not refer to that clerical pairty whose wordly interests are identified with the triumph of the papacy , and . ' who . 'carenot who is sacrificed so that its interests are advanced . " Lord Hathektomt made the leading speech at a dinner at Handsworth , near Birmingham , on Tuesday night . It was a rifle-dub dinner , and every speaker naturally directed attention to the question of invasion . It was asserted that even the clergy are ready to take the field , and help to beat back anyforeign intruder from our shores . Lord Hatherton wants 15 , 000 men to defend Plymouth , 10 , 000 for Portsmouth , and 10 , 000 for the Isle of Wight . He further thinks that the ballot should be established for the militia . At the Leominster agricultural dinner party the speeches turned a' good deal upon the Gloucester and Wakefield exposures of political corruption . Lord W . Gkaham was of opinion that the county constituencies are pure as compared with towns , p > ut he ought to have remembered that landlords are not much in the habit of giving their tenants the chance of accepting bribes . —Mr . Hardy spoke more courageously and wjteely . He contended that the whole country was implicated in the corruptions of Crlou " cester and Wakefleld , and he spoke energetically of the necessity of financial retrenchment . The contest for Whitby , arising through the death of Mr . Stephenson , promises to be a sharp one . Mr . Chapman , Chairman of Lloyds' is in the field aa a Tory , and so is Mr , George Hudapn . The Liberal candidate will be Mr . Thompson , the chairman of the North Eastern Railway .

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    FKANCE . Pakis , Thursday , 6 p . m . Upon their return from Bordeaux the Imperial Court repaired to St . Cloud , whore it is thought JCwill stay only for a few days . Prince Nupoleon has gone to England to inepect thei Great Eastern before its departure from Holyhead . Th « Prince pretending great interest in everything pevtajnmg to the progress of the arts and sciences , and os » pqolalljr to those connected with navigation ; it waa one © Proposed to make him High Admiral of Franco , 1 noticed in my last a curious case of ppurioufl Ingots of silver having been pawned At the Monte deTPietc for a sum considerably above their actual value . The individual who pawned theie ingotB , » nd who is also the manufacturer of the article , hao been arrested . Upon being taken into custody , the ;

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 22, 1859, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22101859/page/15/