The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-10 00:00:00

honest ~ by whatever _ devick strietly Speak
iris; is 6 taling,=--- i s one of those acts which
are forbidden by positive laWs,— laws which
the very instincts of our hearts, and calculations
of elpodickiey, May, and da, confirm ; although
prior to such confirmation they are binding upon
LIS by a divine authority. Still the confirmation
which every one lef.4o,liti very
'nature gives to it,
is a weighty consideration. It is one of the
evidences that Mari Cannot act Or feel or think
'Without the eonscionsness• of somethnig in him
and also of something external to himself,—that
within-being-his own conscience ; and that which
is external, the law which even Pagan moralists
iecOgnise,' making conformity td it vlittte;' anti,
departure from it vice. '
,
But the Recorder of the city of London deve-
lops his vie:7- of the Cage of PIILLINGER still
further, and•more suggestively. "He could not
help saying," We read; '' that in siich cases as these,
where a large business was carried .6ii and such
defalcations arose, he thought, that there must
be something wt:ongbetween the employer and
' the employed. He had no desire to encourage an
unjust suspicion between the employer and the
employed; but still a due amount of supervision
over the employed ought to be exercised, and
when he saw the . amount of business done
without this, he felt some surprise that such
offences were'. not even more numerous than they
are." Now here the learned judge, we must take
leave
,to say, rather stultifies himself. Why; of
course, there must .of necessity "be soniething
wrong between the -employer and the pinpleiyed;"
_if the employer is to be excused when he is guilty-
: Of that which " under any circumstances is cal-
. Ciliated to produce mischief," and , only with
persons in the position of PULLINGER, who de
not happen to do it " with the knowledge of their
employers '-it is to be considered criminal conduct,
We are . now. speaking, let it be understood, of
gambling. such as that which tempted PtittiN6Eß
into his acts of enibeiilenient---=not -of einbcizle-
. ment itself. And it n;,sedS no force of aegiinitent
to slio*; that the One led-as it so often does
lead—to the 'other,—that 'the act' which, as the
~.. .
'Recorder observed, " was under any circumstances
calculated to produce ' mischief," was not . un-
'natUrallY • productive of mischief—the mischief,
namely, of embezzlement, which was only, indeed,
' a further descent in the same fraudulent course
On which he had already set out, Such a course
is generally,pursued under the force of temptation
or the impulse of passion t and he' *ho Pursues it
does so because he has not sought the means of
resisting the one; or subduing the Other. For, as
all moral philosophy clearly teaches-, " there is a
wide difference between the determination of a,
bad man, after balancing between action's, to it.
'What is wrong, and the deterMination of a good
man, to do what is good. The former is a deter-
mination to abandon further struggle; the latter
to' continue it. One folds his arms, and allows
himself to be carried down the stream ; the other
• nerves them to a more vigorous effort."

No doubt the learned Recorder was quite right
when he added, that "it was the duty of
employers not. to afford encouragement by-any
unnecessary temptation, by temporary eartless-
ness, or want of proper watchfulness,°— encotirage-
ment, that is, to act dishonestly. But his truest
remark of all was when he declared, that " it was
no mean offence for one man to cast a stumbling-
block in the way of his fellow-man,"—a maxim
which loses none of its force, we may depend
upon it, in its application to such a case as this.
There- are various, kinds of stumbling-blocks
which employers may, and do continually, throw
in the way of those whom they employ. But
certainly there is no greater one than that of a
vicious example. It is an old and homely saying, ,
" Like master like man." And if the master is in
one case more than another the pattern which
the man takes care to follow, it is where the
social position of the one is likely to be aspired
to, and the• social habits imitated by, the other.
And .hence the great moral responsibility under
which such employers are placed. For man is
an imitative being ; and he is always prone to
imitate those whom he looks up to, and whose
examPle,' whether for good or evil, is most con-
stantly before him.

LATEST NEWS.

[BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.I

SARDINIA.

TURIN, May 8.

The King arrived here this evening, and was
met by the inhabitants, by whom he was warmly
cheered. The result of the election is favourable
to the Ministry. The Chamber has adjourned
until Thursday. General Oudinot has given a
denial to the report that he intended taking
service in the Pontifical army.

FRANCE.

PARIS, May 9,

A circular note of the Board of Trade, dated

27th of April, and addressed to the foreign
governments, invites them to send their official
delegates to London, to attend a preparatory
meeting, which will take place on the 13th July,
three days before the regular opening of the
fourth international statistical congress.

Pamphlets are again appearing frequently at
Paris, and their fire is a good deal directed
against England. One of the latest is by Count
Du Hamel, one of the supporters of the Govern-
ment in the Legislative Body. It is entitled
"France, England, and War," and is a tirade on

the selfish policy of England, and her captious
policy towards a generous ally. The Govern-
ment has interfered to prevent the appearance
of another pamphlet, entitled the " Frontiers of
the Rhine," the object of which was to demon-
strate the absolute necessity for France to take
pacifically the Rhine as a frontier.

The camp of Chalons is definitively organised.
lIP troops altr\gothn, 41/1(111.-it. 4n losinn
under the command of the Duke of Magenta, the
first strategist in the French army ; and it is
expected that under his direction the camp will
become a first-rate military school. Several new
theories are to be reduced to practice, and the
employment of new and powerful fire-arms will
give rise to very important manoeuvres.

The Herald's Paris correspondent says, the
force at Chalons will, in reality, Constitute the
centre of an army of observation, in the course of
formation, along the Rhine frontier. The whole
force will amount to 90,000 men.