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wigan competing with Newcastle. We under...
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A Judge. Ensicinrc Discovered, On Behalf...
_f peers , possessed by the spirit of the law , he should 1 i ! gVasp the substance of the subject-matter before ' ! him , for it is his duty out of conflicting argument i to collect the material of truth , and to try it by the ;\ : ! belief of his twelve assessors , the jury . How was *' : I it that so accomplished and cultivated a man ; i I missed the truth of this case , even to proclaim it 51 though he might be unable to enforce it ? Was I the _iudce , all too mistaken , jealous of the poet , and f so mistrustful of himself But how comes this peculiar Judge to have been selected _rrthrstemdutrof trying criminals-a : j _dutyfrom which _htsmost sUn _7 _exfellences prove I to be alien ? In what passage of his public career < ] had Thomas Noon Talfourd shown such mastery , i i such power of grappling with the very bone and substance of his subject , such stedfast indepen- dence of mind , as to force on the English Ministry the acceptance of his appointment ? For it is ; _remarknble that successive Governments were not in any hurry to select Mr . Sergeant Talfourd for Jt _Vr ;« i _Kor , _^ _Ppnnlo boron tn _sav inrWri the judicial bench . _People began to say , indeed , that he had been passed over What corrected i that official misappreciation ? It was simply this : ] ; Mr . Sergeant Talfourd belonged to the " Liberal" _T party ; he voted in Parliament on that side ; he _\ i Ld 7 . ' certain , _sending in his profession ; finally , j ) there is one influence whose absolute authority i over-rides every Other in official matters , and that 1 1 ] _j 8 routine . % %
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;| _TTTT ? _TPTT-P _APPT 7 AT FOR _RPPEAL I i 1 HE _J- _H-UJj . _AF-F-bAL . HUK KH , l-K . A . L ,. ' ! A specimen of Ireland—there it is by Hyde _P Park : an exposition not of * the industry of all \ , 1 nations / ' but of one nation , not noted for its , ! industry . The Diorama at Hyde Park Corner is ' - ' the excerpt of Ireland , or a painted mirage thereof : ' for it is but paint after all . The sole specimen of t _^ _I _intjLs i « tW _rpsnprtable but invisible Asmo- the natives is that respectable but mvisiDie Asmo ¦! deus , whose voice reaches you from behind a j curtain—Paddy Blake ' s echo come to town to tell ' the whole story ; and you have a fair-priced London pianoforte , vice the wild Irish harp . It is but a ¦ ; _= shadow and a whisper , yet both have pregnant j \ meaning for you if you care to take it . ( / ' The beauties of the Emerald Isle are in some sort before you , and beautiful they are : that wild 1 hill of Glenffarriff , —as wild and beautiful as ' _anything in the Mediterranean ; lovely Killarney ; auybiiiiig in hig iricuiiciia _t , j _i-ii _^ a the Vale of Avoca , with its fantastic hills ; and . '• i Armagh , with its hill-throned Cathedral , —home j . and type of the alien faith that now overrides the | land without commanding it . What a country ! i tt _ ,,, _ron _^ _fwiv f _., _11 nf _rpsn ' iirqps » What could i How manifestly lull ot resourses wnat could not an _English race have made of it ? Pass before u _^ m _^ you also the wrongs of Ireland , in the shape of _^¦ H & certain unroofed huts ; not an uncommon feature , H | Asmodeus tells us ; for the Irish people suffer their _^^^^ mr abodes to put on that fashion rather plentifully . _^ HH _^ Also " scalps " and " scalpeens " are shown a kind _PfT' of cross between the troglodyte habitations of the Red Sea and an Indian wigwam . But while you look , that respectable and diligent pianoforte keeps up its strain of appropriate re- mini ™ -a v _^^ melodies , diversified now and then with a loyal compliment from the English Warbler But , even as the Irish muse parades her works betore your ear , how impossible it is not to be struck , as if for the first time in your life , with the peculiar character of that music , —so expressive , so varied , so instinct with life ; so fervid , so full of tender- ness , of fun ; so complete in its design . Here , then , i . s the power of the Irish ;—here is the thing i that they can do;—here is their logic . Can we j match them at it ? Assuredly not . In this phase , in this Pjovince of _'inhrcrsal i activity we must acknowledge m the Irwh « i superior race , lhey r can boat their _English masters here . _& ven the defects of their music are strikingly characteristic ' and i _> regnant : it is the passion of sensation rather | than impulse—the feminine rather than the _mascu- line passion . It wants the impulsive power and i notion of Italian muse ; the downright sturdy force , sufficiently typified in the scraps borrowed by the _Bcctliovcn-Aamocleus from the " Warbler " of the Kmrlish muse . The Irish genius does not insniro it with the knock-down force of " Britons Sir o Homo" The Irish arc not Britons and nJ , . _Ui-ion thev do no ' _^ _s _^ _kriioiTinthisTnodc as a nation , they do no . stnkc Home in thus knock- down way . < .,,,. „ .,. . It is the music of their wild lulls , indigenous to the soil , or long growing there ; not going lorth to 8 conquer , but existing to feel and enjoy . If we could get at the meaning of it , this _^ it is which Ireland ought to be and do . Could English legis- lators rise to the standard of it , here is where I v
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they should learn their lesson And be it rexnem- bered these strains are not antiquated . Coolun is not a myth but a modern _Peonage ; and Coolumsm still lives in the people We have made a bad business ot our mastery ; nave not fostered , but rather perverted and suppressed the race whose misfortune it is to be weaker than we ; inferior in many things , higher m some ; at all events existing and born to the spirit of those hills . If we would make the best of them they must be what their music indi- _cates . Could we English do it , we must legis- late in the spirit of _^ hese songs Our acts of Parliament shou _* d _* armomz f _™* _^^^^ of Coolun ; and then might Ireland , with its fostered , and not suppressed , nationality , be a true and fitting handmaid of England .
« The Leader " And Protection. It Seems ...
« the leader " and PROTECTION . It seems that the existence of our new journal has not been overlooked by persons interested in the " National Association for the Protection of Industry and Capital u _^ Empire ___ p re 8 ident , his Grace the D K uke of Richmond , K . G . " Some printed papers have obligingly been sent to us including a petition " to the Queen ' s most excellent Majesty , " for a dissolution of Parliament , in order to reverse the Free-tradepokey The _^^ _- _[^^ _- { _^^ l _^ _TLlTe unweicome . if an organ of free discussion were to drift _j n that direction , we can conceive that it would be very satisfactory . We heartily sympathize with the objects of the association , —we desire to " protect" every British interest from many influences that now waste our energies and subsistence , —we desire most especially to secure for the British labourer ample opportunity for his _JyJ 1 * ' _* _" _^ e _iS _" e _. _hSreaiThifhSlS _tTeTweft % h | _J _^ 0 _™ ' _^ _V _^ T _^^ S _^^ mo _^ g _^ l w , ong direction when they try to restore the laws of the past . Do they not see in history that every age has its own laws differing from those that have gone before , the _™ 8 ult » indeed _> of developed knowledge ? The Pro- tcctioni 8 tg , mugt restudy this que 8 tion , if they would once mcre have with them lhe British agricultural and the British workman . These are doctrines that lie in the onward path well suited to the admirable purpose of the National Protection Society ; and if it will diligently _££ _, _£ * £ _^ S _^^^^ l _^ 1 _^^ the _Lea _^ er _' r '
Wigan Competing With Newcastle. We Under...
wigan competing with Newcastle . We understand that the directors of the London and North-Western Railway Company have entered into a contract with certain coal proprietors at Wigan to for- ward coals to London at the rate of _4 d . per ton per mile . This will amount to about 9 s . per ton for the whole dis- tance from Wigan to London ; and , as the terms of the contract are that 200 tons shall be forwarded daily , the income from this source alone will be about £ 40 a day , or £ 12 520 excluding Sundays . It would be pre- mature t (/ 8 ay what effe * t thU _^ ew arrangement may | have in reducing the price of coals in London ; but we have no doubt that when it has come fairly mto operation , it will tend to cheapen them considerably .
Undku This Hoad We Proposc A Council Whe...
Undku this hoad we prOposc a Council wherein every Opinion may find a voice . Each speaker is respon- _sible for his own ideas . We affix no conditions but these : That the communications be not too long— and that they comply with the decorum of tone and spirit enforced throughout our columns . Under these simple restrictions , we offer a free port to all Nations and to all Faiths ; satisfied that tho peaceful conflict Opinion can only perfect the emancipation of _^^ In the following l communications Mr . Thomas opens a subject which will receive ample discussion _^ future numbers . Mr . Holyoake _' _s straightforward tatement speaks for itself . Mr . Somerville _' s com- munication has been reduced in length to meet the exigencies of space , but not a sentence has been altered . Tho rest of tho last letter is suppressed , because it relates to purely private matters ,
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RIGHT OF SUBSISTENCE OUT OF THEI 8 _OIL . prospectus _thlt you in-Sm ,-: perceive _^ y _^ l _^^ _J _^ Z _^ o _t _^^ _f . . ™ _^ this strik | s at the very root of the t social question of prOperty , perhaps you or one B f r _coJrespondents will be good enough to answer these questions . upOn what _»^ _M other than the " right of might , " does property itself repose ? Upon what primordial right do you base the necessity that each man should share in the advantages of property ? It i * easy to declaim _upaJ _tnengltfof the poor man and to rail _^ _£ _^ _£ * _£ through tie 4 P _?^ idence of his parents , or thrown £ poverty by the improvidence of his own acts , entifl _f d to claim from me the surrender of any portion of my wealth and havings ? As well might the sickly claim a portion of my health and spirits ; as well might the ugly claim some graces of zny person . I was born healthy as he was born sickly ; I was born wealthy as he was born poor . It is my chance m tne lottery . We cannot all be rich . Slaves—under One name or other-there always have been ; slaves ° here always will be , i . e ., men contented or comu , _' fom the iowest offices for the lowest _re-** ' « _^ d _j friend , I say , _™ _££ _™ _7 _^ m J P itiabl an ( _f 1 ive * it „ _* pit ?; give also any s V lrl cash ' or food \ hich m _£ benevolence or convenience may suggest ; but , emphatically , I do not admit that you have any right to the same ; no more than I can admit your right to my health . ' * What can you theorists object to in my answer ? The right of property is not to be affected by new comer ! f # If I have earned a sum of money , or my father has earned it forme , you admit my absolute right to that property ; it is mine . Now , what right has any man , for whom neither my lather nor X worked , to say he is entitled to any snare ottnat money ? Clearly none . And what is true of one species of property is true of all species ; you can only escape the difficulty by saying , with the truculent Proudhon , that there is no such thing as property . p j _return to the question : What right has any man _} . a subsisJence out of the soil ? If vou , or any of your readers , can answer that in a brief and convincing manner you wfll greatly oblige , Your subscriber , W . Thomas .
Association And Communism, ~ . A . *? ,;...
ASSOCIATION AND COMMUNISM _, ~ . A _. _*? , ; , _„„ _n _* + ita r o _^ _Jw To tKe Edltor _& _*/ " L _' ader - . Sir , —Your prospectus , with an outline ot prmciples and purposes , has just fallen into my hands ; and a friend has intimated who the persons are—how well fitted , and what the means are—how ample , to carry out your purposes . oa observe that - the Leader will seek to reflect the gocial Hfe of Engiand as it is—difficult , endeavouring . working out its redemption ; " that " it will seek to 6 heer _^ endeavour > \ o he ' lp in that redemption . " Good . But you must be something more than sentimental . I beg to suggest that you direct your power pointedly , forcibly , practically to the industrial association of the working classes . I hold that all social progress—all terrestrial happiness—must be founded on the acquisition of material wealth ; and _^^ _SSS _^ ffi _^ i _^ 1 _!?^ 1 _^ ' consumed . The equitable diffusion of material wealth may be obtained by the association of its producers _, I seek here only to draw your attention to the power of association ; but I would distinguish clearly between association and communism . The one is an alliance of capital or reproductive power in its condition of greatest fertility ; the other is reproductive power unprotected b y the duty to produce before consuming : it is capital in its condition of greatest sterility . It has proved so even in the hands of devoted _^ hevers _^ m _^^ _commmiism _^^ rhere _^ is , to rights , W community n of p _^ opert y _^ which _^ ead _? them to a belief in the possibility of attaining to such a condition Thev admit that all men should be perfect to work out such a principle , but are willing-they only being perfect—to take into alliance somo of the old moral-world . men and women ( with money ) to train them and their children to that perfectibility required _, I knew a somewhat eminent instance of this kind _, The chief apostle of the community , who was to guide the rest , began by violating a fundamental law , not ?* J _* e olcl moral world only , but of nature ; a law as indispensable to the harmony of the moral world , old or new , as gravity to the planets : he began by con . suming capital without reproduction . Bytheoperation of natural laws , which can # only be set aside when the principles of eternal justice cease to be known amongst men , the community ate itself out of the house , and was dispersed . But this is an exceptional case , says some one . I say , take it for what you may , the principles of _cornmunism remain . Those principles give the right to consume property without a . power to enforce the
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Leader (1850-1860), March 30, 1850, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_30031850/page/12/
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