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THE CYCLES OP XIFE. The following epigra...
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+ 1 e very highest offices in Uhe state—ay , without _single exception . In the Senate , for examplethe elective House of Lords , as it were—there are many men who have belonged to the working lass . Mr . Dickinson , of New York , we believe , was orig inally a tailor ; Judge Douglass was a cabinetmaker ; General Houston , a farmer . A _practical knowledge of farming , in its humbler occupation s , is indeed common . When the members of an agricultural convention recently waited upon Mr . Webster , he said to
them" You do me no more than justice when you call _jne the ' Farmer of Marslifield . ' My _fatliea was a farmer , and I am a farmer . When a boy among my native hills of New Hampshire , no cock crew so early that I did not hear him , and no hoy ran with more avidity to do errands at the bidding of the workmen than I did . " The President of the United States has been a farmer s boy , a clothier ' s apprentice , and a lawyer . To the same gentlemen of the agricultural convention he
said" I was myself brought up on a farm . I know by experi ence the labour and toil of a farmer ' s life . When a boy , I have followed till T was so weary that I could hardly walk to the house at night . I have swung the scythe and handled the sickle all day , but am happy to learn that these laborious occupations are now much relieved by the invention of reaping and mowing machines . The farmer ' s life , with all its toil , affords a happy independence , that the professional man may well envy . "
Yet we cannot get a single William _Newton into the House of Commons , " the People ' s Chamber" !
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THE CYCLES OP XIFE . The following epigram was appropriately circulated , during the demolition of some very fine sewage-fed strawberries , after dinner , at Mr . Mechi's recent f ete , at Tiptree hall : — Time was , 'tis said , ere England's woes began , When every rood of ground maintained its man ; Your sewage save , says fow , * and'twill be found That every man maintains bis rood of ground .
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TIIK _ANSWKIt TO _TIIIO A 1 MM 0 AL . Sir , The . _answer to Lord Derby ' s appeal to tho country has been pronounced with a sullicient degree of emphasis , iih tho _following figures will demonstrate . Out of 8 , 5 ( 17 , 07 4 individuals , who compose tho population ol" those e " it , ies and boroughs in Oviv . it _Uvituiii which return members to Parliament , nearly twu-thiids , namel y 5 , 580 , 1 ) 11 , are comprised within IIH cities and boroughs of the greatest magnitude . 11 , is _obvious tbat two-thirds constitute a very decided majority of the whole , and the manner in which that majority have expressed their opinion becomes , therefore , an interesting point .
There are nine cities and boroughs in ( _Jreat Britain sending members to _PiiiTutment , in eaeh of whi « h is a population considerably beyond 1500 , 000 , one of , them indeed exceeding 500 , 000 , und the average of all the nine being above 330 , 000 eaeh . Tbe _following lint . _contains their names , their population according tii the last , census , and the recent , electoral return to the new I _' aiTu in lent : -
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Population . liberal . Conservative Tower Hamlets . 539 , 111 — 2 — 0 Liverpool . . 376 , 065 — 0 — 2 Marylebone . . 370 , 957 — 2 — 0 Finsbury . . . 323 , 772 — 2 — 0 Glasgow . . . 329 , 097 — 2 — 0 Manchester . . 316 , 213 — 2 —• 0 Lambeth . . . 251 , 345 — 2 — 0 Westminster . 241 , 611 — 2 — 0 Birmingham . 232 , 841 — 2 ' — 0 2 , 981 , 012 16 2 The nine cities and boroughs next in magnitude are those which range above 100 , 000 , but which still fall short of 200 , 000 , the average being about 137 , 000 : — Population . Liberal . Conservative . Southwark . . 172 , 863 — 2 — 0 Leeds . . . 172 , 270 — 2 — 0 Edinburgh . . 160 , 302 — 2 — 0 Bristol . . . 137 , 328 — 2 — 0 Sheffield . . . 135 , 310 — 2 — 0 London ( City ) . 127 , 869 — 3 — 1 Wolverhampton 119 , 748 — 2 — 0 Greenwich . . 105 , 784 — 1 — 1 Bradford . . . 103 , 778 — 1 — 1 1 , 235 , 252 17 3 Four having a population beyond 80 , 000 , but below 100 , 000 , are the next in rank : — Population . Liberal . Conservative . Nevcastlc-on-Tyne 87 , 784 — 2 — 0 Salford . . . 85 , 108 — 1 — 0 Hull .... 84 , 690 — 2 — 0 Stoke-upon-Trent 84 , 207 — 2 — 0 341 , 789 7 0 Four exceeding 70 , 000 , hub being below 80 , 000 : — Population . Liberal . Conservative Dundee . . . 78 , 931 — 1 — 0 Oldham . . . 72 , 357 — 1 — 1 Portsmouth . . 72 , 096 — 2 — 0 Aberdeen . . . 71 , 973 — 1 — 0 295 . 357 5 1 Seven below 70 , 000 , but exceeding 60 , 000 : — Population . Liberal . Conservative Brig hton . . . 69 , 073 — 1 — 1 Preston .... 09 , 542 — 1 — 1 Norwich . . . 68 , 195 — 2 — 0 Sunderland . . 67 , 394 — 1 — 1 Merthyr Tydfil . 63 , 080 — 1 — 0 Bolton . . . 61 , 171 — 2 — 0 Leicester . . . 60 , 584 — 2 — 0 459 , 639 10 3 Then follows five others which havo fewer than 60 , 000 inhabitants , but more than 50 , 000 : — Population . Liberal . Conservative , Nottingham . . 57 , 407 — 1 — 1 Bath .... 54 , 240 — 2 — 0 Stockport . . . 53 , 835 — 2 — O Plymouth . . . 52 , 221 — 1—1 Dcvonport . . 50 , 159 — 1 — 1 267 , _86 li 7 o , - < M CO O i—I CO CO I ( M s Iri j < CD . 1 _^ . . fc- _» _D O lr- I Ol 2 r-l _< - _* r-i 1 CD I I ! I I I ij fl IM O l > O ) i > i _) o th -ra oo > o co cd r-i ¦ q o _ r-. _i- co ___ _< x > _co 5 ; ¦ $ , r-l \ S r- \ \ 0 _ffi" ( C o _rf CO CO _-K Q IO ID CO _§ . < _3 > M CO Ol - * Ol , o _F 4 < N _i-h id o o o o o o Q c 5 < 5 o X g o o o o < 5 o ca o o o o o _0 CD O CO j- CD _01 Ol ,- _( „ . O O O O o S I o _Q _g O o 3 ; 8 § 3 8 8 C t- o" o o o o ft 2 O 00 1 _^ CD > o bo a fl o 0 . r , r -a r : o o afl bo V * Qi "fl " * _l > » 0 J OO I
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Here is found a return of 62 to 12 , or in the proportion of more than 5 to 1 decidedly adverse to the Derby dynasty ; and even the 12 are made up of members prepared to give only a very qualified support to the new Government . Amongst the number are Mr . Walter of the Times , member for Nottingham —Mr . Masterman , for the City of London—Mr . Wickham , for Bradford , and others of similar views . But , indeed , it ' seems doubtful whether Mr . Wickham will be able to retain bis seat . The nominal majority was only 6 , and confident anticipations arc expressed of these being struck off , and even a still larger number
by a scrutiny . The remaining 2 , 986 , 163 individuals to complete the total of 8 , 567 , 064 , are divided amongst 183 constituencies , and return 282 members—rather a disproportionate number , it must be admitted , as contrasted with the 74 members for 5 , 580 , 911 . If the 356 members returned for these several cities and boroughs were in proportion to their population , the relative numbers would be changed to 233 members being retained , instead of only 74 for the places containing 5 , 5 S 0 , 911 individuals ; whilst the 2 , 986 , 163 would be reduced from 282 members , to 123 . And who is there that would contend that such an alteration would not be perfectly just ? Previously , and up to
the passing of the Reform 15111 in 1832 , the city of Edinburgh , though then containing upwards of 100 , 000 inhabitants , contained only 33 individuals in whom was vested the privilege of voting for the representation of the city ! The proposal for a change was stigmatized as dangerous and revolutionary by the same class as that which now denounces all further change in the same direction as equally fraught with danger . Indeed , to prevent such change is represented to be one of the objects of the present Government . They have appealed to the country—let them read the decision in the figures now set forth . And let them further calculate what the relative numbers of Liberals
and Conservatives would be if the representation were in an equitable ratio to the population . Even if the verdict of tho country is to be taken from the record of the 2 , 986 , 163 , through the members they have returned , it is still adverse to Lord Derby , though by no means expressed so emphatically , the numbers being much more evenly balanced in the smaller , than in the larger constituencies , I am sir , faithfully yours , H .
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The OrnoNisM op _Comfoutability . —It is very easy for you , O respectable citizen , seated in your easy chair , with your feet on the fender , to hold forth on the misconduct of the people;—very easy for you to censure their extravagant and vicious habits;—very easy for you to be a pattern of frugality , rectitude , of sobriety . What else should you be ? Here are you surrounded by comforts , possessing multiplied sources of lawful happiness , with a reputation to maintain , an ambition to fulfil , and tho prospect of a competency for your old age . If you , do not contract dissipated habits , where is the merit ? yon have few incentives to
do so . It is no honour to you , that you do not spend your savings in sensual gratification ; you have pleasures enough without . But what would you do if placed in the position of the labourer ? How would these virtues of yours stand the wear and tear of poverty P Where would your prudence and self-denial be if you wore deprived of all the hopes that now stimulate you ; if you had no better prospect than that of the Dorsetshire farm servant with his 7 s . a week , or that of the perpetually-straitened stocking-weaver , or that of th
troiu dawn till dunk ; fed on meagre food , and scarcely enough of that , ; married to a lactory girl ignorant of domestic ; management ; deprived of the enjoyments which education opens up ; with no place of recreation but . the pot , house , and then let us see whether you would be as steady as you are . Suppose your savings had to be made , not , us now , out , of surplus income , but , out of wages already insiinicieiit for necessaries ; and then consider whether to be provident would be as easy as you at , present , lind if . Conceive yourself one of a despised class contemptuously termed "the great unwashed ; " Kfiginatise . il as brutish , stolid ,
vicious ; suspected of harbouring wicked designs ; exeluded from Die dignify ol' citizenship ; and then say whether fhe desire lo be respectable would he as practically operative on you us now . l . asfly , imagine that , _Hce . _iiig your capacities were but ordinary , your education next to nothing , nod your competitors innumerable , you despaired of ever attaining fo a higher station ; and then think whether the incentives to perseverance and forethought would be its strong as your existing onen . Keali / . e these circumstances , () comfortable citizen , and then answer whether the _rcckless , disorderly habits of tho people aro ho _inoxcuaablcj——Social Sialic * ,
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Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1852, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24071852/page/17/
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