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* Hampshire Telegraph , ' and then we will draw the balance . That process would , to any reasoning mind , settle the question finally ,
whether Ireland is commercially a gainer by England , or England by Ireland . Whether the Irish labour used here might not be more advantageously used in Ireland is another question , which might
probably be answered in the affirmative ; but wiser men must be in the seat of Government ere it be brought about . English labourers would rejoice to see that day .
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The True Sun and the New Police . 867
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The True Sun and ( he New Police . —It is a painful thing to have to make strictures on a paper which has shown itself so fast a friend of the people as the ' True Sun / but it were unwise policy to spare the faults of our friends , even though they were to quarrel with us for our pains . For a long time the ' True Sun' has been an opponent of the New Police . The exposition of the knaves and ruffians amongst them is all quite right , as the duty of all honest men ; but the ' True Sun * objects to the whole principle of the establishment . This seems
a mistake . It is not my intention in any way to uphold the atrocious doings of which they have been made the instruments ; my voice , feeble though it be , has ever been upraised against such things ; but surely the possibility of a musket being used by soldiers against the
freedom of a people is not an argument against the manufacture of guns . Were we to divest ourselves of all useful things which art * capable of being abused , we should have little left . The question simply is , does the New Police keep down thieves better than the Old Police and Watchmen ? No unprejudiced man can say that it does not *
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Specimens of German Genius . — ' According to the " German Pedagogic Magazine / ' there died lately in Suabia , a schoolmaster , who , for fifty-one years , had superintended an institution with old-fashioned severity . From an average inferred by means of recorded observations , one of the ushers has calculated , that in the course of his exertions he had given 911 , 500 canings , 124 , 000 floggings , 209 , 000 custodes , 136 , 000 tips with the ruler , 10 , 200 boxes on the ear , and 22 , 700 tasks to get by heart . It was further calculated that he had made 700 boys stand on peas , 600 kneel on a sharp edge of wood , 5 , 000 wear the fool's cap , and 1 , 708 hold the rod . ' There's a
glutton for you , reader ; ninety average punishments per working diem . In quantity England is decidedly shamed , but this quotation gives evidence what a decided advantage there is in the international exchange of knowledge . Kneeling on the sharp edge , and standing on peas , are decidedly novel in England . Would they not be worth a patent ? But , thank the stars , England has still a chance of teaching Germany something in the science of education . They evidently
know nothing of ' horsings / and nothing of the ferula , or the split cane , or the piece of perforated trace to ' suck up blisters . ' That is the most exquisite piece of all . ' Hold out your hand , sir . Flinch , and I'll give you ten . ' Oh the joy too , when the hand is held out timorously , to inflict an upward stroke on the knuckles from beneath . A skilful tormentor can thus contrive to give a treble number , and make the hand unfit to hold a pen for a whole day afterwards . Good old times !
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 867, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/63/
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