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masters resolved upon discharging all men belonging to the Union , an attempt had been made by that body to impose conditions on the masters . We found it difficult to believe that such an assertion would have been made without some foundation in fact , and we therefore applied for information to a Derby manufacturer , who is not a party to the combination of the masters ,
and whose workmen , though they belong to the Union , have not ceased to work . He states positively that no advance of wages has been demanded ; that the turn-out was solely by the masters ; and that the printed tariff of wages , and list of other conditions / which the c Times' speaks of , never existed as an act of the Union , nor , to his knowledge , at all . He also ( though this is of less
importance ) contradicts another assertion of the Times , that the masters ' gave their workmen a considerable time to consider the steps which they were taking , before they invited other hands from the country to supply their place . ' The new hands were invited immediately , though , of course , some time elapsed before they could arrive .
We do not attempt to account for this perversion of the truth . It is difficult to imagine any sufficient motive in the case , for being guilty of it wilfully . The assertion was probably made at first rashly and in ignorance , and the writer afterwards had not candour to own that he had been in the wrong . 22 d April . The Church-rate abortion . —During the first week after the reassembling of parliament , Ministers were beginning
to regain some of their lost reputation ; but they have not known how to keep it long : yesterday has swept it away . In spite of many good deeds , their character is always bankrupt . The moment they see a balance accumulating in their favour , they make such large draughts upon it , that they have soon overdrawn
their account . Lord Althorp ' s astonishment at the ill reception of this emanation of his legislative wisdom by the organs of the Dissenters in the House , was curious enough . Could a person live in England , and look round him , and expect any thing else ? But when Lord Althorp looks round him , he sees only a few Whig families , and his officials in Downing-street . In every other street in London it would be considered self-evident , that
when a government waits and does nothing until the whole country is preparing to refuse a tax , taking off' only half the tax will no longer do . This is no fiscal question : it is not pecuniary relief that is demanded . The Dissenters object to being taxed at all , for the
support of a favoured sect : they do not complain of paying too much , but of paying any thing . Was it likely , then , that because a part of the tax , which was expended , it seems , on mere superfluities , is to be remitted , they would submit , not only to paying the remainder , but to having it fixed upon them for ever , and losing the power of controuling it by their votes in the vestry * or
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368 Notes on the Newspapers *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/56/
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