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the very highest offices in the state—ay , without a single exception . In the Senate , for examplethe elective House of Lords , as it were—there are many men who have belonged to the working class , ftf r . Dickinson , of New York , we believe , was originally a tailor ; Judge Douglass was a cab inetmaker ; General Houston , a farmer . A practical knowledge of farming , in its humbler occupations , 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 me the ' Farmer of Marshfield / My father was a farmer , and I am a farmer . When a boy among my native bills of New Hampshire , no cock crew so early that I did not hear him , and no boy 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 np on a farm . I know by experience the labour and toil of a farmer ' s life . When a boy , I baye followed till I 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 . " v Yet we cannot get a single William Newton into the House of Commons , " the People ' s Chamber" !
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Population . liberal . Conservative . Tower Hamlets . 539 , 111 — 2 — 0 Liverpool . . 376 , 065 — 0 — 2 Marylebone . . 370 , 957 — 2 — 0 Pinsbury . . . 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 . Uewcastle-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 , but being below 80 , 000 : — Population . Liberal . Conservative . ifcindee . . . 78 , 931 — 1 — 0 Oldhain - . . 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 , 673 — 1 — 1 Preston .... 69 , 542 — 1 — 1 Norwich . . . 68 , 195 — 2 — 0 Sunderland . . 67 , 391 — 1 — 1 Merthyr Tydfil . 63 , 080 — 1 — 0 Bolton . . . 61 , 171 — 2 — O Leicester . . . 60 , 584 — 2 — 0 459 , 639 10 3 Then follows five others which liave 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 — 0 Plymouth . . . 52 , 221 — 1 — 1 Dovonporfc . . 50 , 159 — 1 — 1 267 , 862 7 3 „ < M CO O r-l CO CO I < M I I I I I I I I . ' CO b b * O O i > I / M I j 9 H H r-H | CD | I I I I I I n N ffl ffi N O ) N I tH O i-H » O CO * O CO CD r- \ C O H N CO © 00 < X > ^ H ) fl H w " O > h CS p oo w ^ en > o cd oo & O > ( M CO N ^* N » O Ph oi tH » n > o o o * — > c 5 o > 8 cS c $ o" o" o O O CO 1- CO IM CM r-H , _ , o o o o LH CO ¦ 3 H cS cS o" o ~ o ?! O o OO A ^ CD » O bu a 9 ° g = a 5 s s o J $ . 2 -a cd d ) ~ »* ** * N "J ~> * o « n o > «* «* *> ta I oo I
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THE CYCLES OF IIEE . The following epigram was appropriately circulated , during the demolition of some very fine sewage-fed strawberries , after dinner , at Mr . Mechi ' s recent fete , at Tiptree hall : — Time was , 'tis said , ere England ' s woes began , When every rood of ground maintained its man ; Your sewage save , says pow , * and'twill be found That every man maintains bis rood of ground .
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There is no lcarnnd man but will confess ho hnt . h much profiled by midmy controversies , Ins senses awakened . and his judgment , sharpened . H , Ihen , llbe profitable for him to rend , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for hia adversary to write . —Milton .
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THE ANSWER TO THE APPEAL . Silt , —The answer to Lord Derby ' s appeal to the country has been pronounced with a sufficient degree of emphasis , us the following figures will demonstrate . Out of 8 , 5 ( 57 , 074 individuals , who compose tho population of those cities and boroughs in ( Jreut Britain which return members to Parliament , nearly two-thirds , namely 5 , 580 , 1 ) 1 . 1 , nr « comprised within 38 cities and boroughs of the greatest magnitude . It is obvious that two-thirds constitute a very decided majority of the whole , and tho manner in which that majority have expressed their opinion becomes , therefore , an interesting point . There are nine cities and boroughs in Orcat Britain Moulin ^ members to Parliament , in each of which is a Imputation considerably beyond 200 , 000 , one of them indeed exceeding 500 , 000 , and tho average of all tho nine being above 330 , 000 each . The following list contains their names , Mieir population according to the last census , and tho recent electoral return to tho now Parliament : ¦ - -
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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 , 580 , 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
Here is found a return of 62 to 12 , or m 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 his seat . The , nominal majority was only 6 , and confident anticipations are expressed of these being struck off , and even a st ill larger number
would not be perfectly just ? Previously , and up to the passing of the Reform Bill 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 prop osal for a change was stigmatized as dange rous and revolutionary by the same class as that which now denounces all further change in the same direction as equally fraught with danger Tndeed , 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 Conse rvatives would be if the rep resentation were in an equitable ratio to the population . Even if the verdict of the country is to be take n 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 tho
larger constituencies . I am sir , faithfully yours , H .
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The Optimism op Comfoktabixity . —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 , of 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 the prospect of a competency
for your old age . If you do not contract dissipated habits , where is the merit ? you 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 ? Where would your prudence and . self-denial be if you were 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 . ? . a week , or that of the perpetually-straitened stocking-weaver , or that of the mill-hand , with his periodical suspensions of
work ? Let ur see you tied to an irksome employment from dawn till dusk ; fed on meagre food , and scarcely enough of thai , ; married to a factory girl ignorant of domestic management ; deprived of the enjoyments which education opens up ; with no place of recreation but tho pot-house , and then let us see whether you would be as steady as you are . Suppose your Havings bad to be made , not , as now , out of surplus income , but out of wages already insufficient for necessaries ; and then consider whether to be provident would ho as easy us you at present find it . Conceive yourself one of a despised class contemptuously termed '" the great unwashed ; " stigmatised as brutish , stolid ,
vicious ; suspected of harbouring wicked designs ; excluded from the dignity of citizenship ; and / lien my whether the desire to be respectable would be as practically operative on you as now . Lastly , imagine that , seeing your capacities were Imt ordinary , your education next to nothing , and your competitors innumerable , you despaired of ever atl . auiin tf to a higher station ; " and then think whether the incentives to perseverance ami forethought would lit * as strong as your existing ones . Realize these circumstances , O comfortable citizen , and then answer whether the reckless , disorderly habits of tho people aro ho inexcusable *—iSoaiul iHtatioin
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Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1852, page 709, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1944/page/17/
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