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son ' s accomplishments . I am no advocate for private scandal ; but the private character of a -public magistrate is public property . His bringing up should be strictly inquired into , in order to judge of his fittingness for his office , just as a man inquires into the characters of his domestic servants ere he engages them . The rulers who appoint
the magistrates , and whose business it is to inquire into their characters , evidently neglect it , or such improper persons would not be appointed ; therefore the public , or the writers who represent the public , must do it on their own account . It would scarcely be a bad speculation for the penny press to commence a set of articles entitled 4 Lives of the London Magistrates . '
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862 Notes on the Newspapers .
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Trade Unions . —In the * Times ' of Nov . 6 th , there is an editorial article , fulminating against trade combinations , upon ^ the strength of some ill-understood quotations from Mr . Wade ( not the Doctor ) in a previous number . The following paragraph will clearly show what a strange jumble of notions—I had almost said ideas—there must be in the editor ' s brain .
* This combination amongst journeymen hatters , tends to make every poor man ' s hat dearer to him ; and what is the consequence ? That we see so many boys and men without hats ; but , instead thereof , wearing caps , and casques , and all kinds of scaramouch coverings for the head ; whereas , if every man wore a hat , as the cheapest and best covering for the head , the supply would be so » much the greater , and the wages of the journeymen would rise of themselves ?
Had Domine Sampson read this he would have exclaimed , * Prodigious ! t 1 * There , is a paragraph , reader ! Every thing but a hat is a scaramouch covering . ' Does the learned editor , who sometimes describes himself as so profoundly versed in the English language , know the meaning of the word scaramouch ? It would be a good designation for his mock thunder which serves as an admirable fly-flapper to small people . Doubtless the editor wears an undeniable felt with a very portly brim ,
by way of patronizing the hat trade and distinctly marking his own 4 respectability . ' Could he not give his readers a wood-cut of it in * the leading journal , ' just as the Yankies andlLiverpool people advertise their ships ? Does he wear his hat in the form especially approved of by Mr . Borrodaile the great hatter and M . P ., ' as was ? ' Why , too , has the editor suffered women to escape ? What right have they to wear * scaramouch' bonnets of chip , and straw , and leghorn , and silk ,
and satin , and gauze , when they can get such beautiful long-napped black beaver hats ? The acuteness displayed by the learned editor is really surprising , and the idea is most brilliant as to the wages * rising of themselves . ' Pity it is , it is not quite new . Abel Handy ' s burning house was to * go out of itself . ' The learned editor must excuse me if I hint at one difficulty in the matter . What is to become of the '
scaramouch' makers , when the hatters , enlightened by his lectures , shall have taken all their trade from them by superior cheapness in the 4 best coverings for heads ? ' But I suppose they are to die off * of themselves . ' It is important that the interests of hatters should be attended to , but as to ' scaramouches' they assuredly cannot form a part of the British nation . As the common people are accustomed to say , when expressing th « ir astonishment at learning , ' I wonder how the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 862, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/58/
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