The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-25 00:00:00

ML. LINDSAY, N.P., ON STAMM.

On Tuesday clOt a great demonstration took place in
North ShisMs, on the occasion of the non-looters' preesstas
time to Mr. Lindsay. The presentation consisted of • very
handsome rosewood cabinet (manufactured by Mr. Hadley
Chapman), and containlog sumptuously bound copies of the
works of Shakspeare, Milton, Bacon, and Burns. A soiree
was held In the Albion Amenably Rooms, which wag attended
by shoot 600 inhabitants of the borough many of We. Lind-
say's friends from ifunderlsed and Newcastle being also
preTheent.
chafe was taken by Dr. DODD, who wee supported on
hie right by Mr. Liedsay, M.P. sad Mr. Ingham, M.P., and
on his left by Mr. Jostios Haliburtee, and meny moot influ-
ential inhabitants of the town and district. Mr. Lindsey, on
entering the TOM with his frisods, wee received with humane
hewing.
Mr. RIDS', • journeyman joiner, read an address to Mr.
Lindsay, which was signed by about 800 non-electors of the
borough.
Mr. LINDSAY, who was greeted with loog-conlinned
cheerier, thanked the aseembly for tbe tastimanial with which
they had presented him, but, shove all, thanked them for the
feelings which dictated this spontaneous desire to aid so very
bumble • member. H. h.d loft them in regret, but not Is
eager, sad perhaps they might in of yews fled that the
prieciplm which besdvoceted ware theminelplas white meld
tend most to the interests of the people at large, and to their
own Wrest. In the long run. But It wag not so meth on ac-
count of his political pricclples that the testhanial was given
to him, but there was a feeling among the working-choose
that be had sasisted In giving them the mesas of gaining
knowledge. fomegentlemenwereofopenionthatitwasunwte
' to educete the working classes, end that knowledge led to
combination and strikes. At all events there were strikes
when knowledge wee fees rare than it is new, and If know-
ledge had done anything It had done this: that while the
strikes in olden times were accompaaled by bloodshed and
violations of the law, no violatkem of the law occurred now.
The mecbaeles bed first to Ilan that the wen-being of the
working-classes was as esmatial to the tranquillity end hap-
piness of the state as It wee to their own hsrminere ; and by
a little study they would here that the increase of revenue
and stock wee increased eational wealth. If they had this
Impressed on their minds, they would not be so disposed aa
they were at pre-eat to combine among themselves to enforce
better Ingle, when the demand for labour did not warrant It.
Labour was the poor man's capital, se much ea shipping
and lend was his (Mr. Lindsay's) ; and ha had • miffed right
to disothe of that capital to the best advantage. (Cheers.)
He ern going to speak a few words to them in plain, honest
language ; but it was for their good. In former times there
were laws which made combinations for the advance dynes
illegsl, sad malty restrictions were put upon the masters in
remod to the somber of apprentices they took, &a., even be
the dictation of the manner in which thaw apprentices should
he fed. Happily, ell these laws had bees swept awn,ib.s;
being unjust and injurious to the people thiamine.
had now • right to combine amongst themselves, but it was
very questionable to him whether it was for their Menet to
do so. They lost In the long ran. Say, for Matinee, that
they struck three months to get an advanes from 64. to
be. Bd.; even if they wend their point they had
lost 6s. a day for three months, and metaled an im-
mense amount of suffering upon themselves and (*milk*.
They had also done an injury to the state, be-
cause they were unproductive labourers; they were
consumers, but they were not lending anything towards
the crinkle of the wealth of the nation. He would now
come to the next poise. While they had a perfect right to
my they would not take a certain wage per day, they had no
right to my to their neighbour that he sot do so if he
thought proper, because that was a species of tyranny, by not
allowing him to minim his own free sill. What was the
effect of there oombthations ? Thera wore rules laid doss
which said that • certain man should rely work • certain
Dumber of house. Take, to instance, tee masons trade
which war now on strike In London. They said a man
should only um his trowel with one hand; and the affect of
Ibis woo that the skilled and industrious and energetic
man wee put on the same footing as the indolent
man, whose wages were the some es the other. The was en
unnatural acme of things ; and the surprise to him wee, that
the intelligent and energetic man should become a pasty to
these combinations which attempted to "regulate" the see
of labour. While he amid this, he begged them to bear in
mind that he considered it equally Impolitic and erroneous
for the masters to combine. (Loud chem.) Take the
ship-building trade, far instance. Tatra were In Sunder-
land and in that port various grades of shipbuilders.
There was one shipbuilder who could by his greater
energy and shill have more odes for shipe, and could
efford to pay workmen 6.. • day sad wake • profit.
What DOA bed the other muter, to dictate to such a ship-
builder as this, and fay that beams they wise only paying
ds. a day to the carpenter, be should only give as. ? Why
he only gave 6s. a day on the presumption that he could get
e full nodal for that money. Tamer*, it was ea impolitic
and as unwise on the part of the masters to eater into these
combinations unit wee foe the men. The Menge to regulate
wags. wee also injurious. A large employer of labour that
day told him that he was connected with the mem, and it
Maimed that la the Printer.' Union they had a general as-
sembly and varlotto preabyteriee. The rate of pay woe 6d.
pm thousand letter., but at Aberdeen it watt osly 41d. The
reifsmoothly decided that the Aberdeen pay 'mould he
ied that the Aberdeen printers should sinks. The
prlitten mid, " We do not want to etre.; we are setistlod
with the pay, and as house rent mad living are a great deaf
cheeps: In Aberdeen then In London, Liverpool, and other
great cities, 41d. is better to us in Aberdeen than 6d. to you
In London." The general asenubly would not listen to
that sensible rentoong, end compelled the Dna to strike
against their Inclination and clearest convictions ; sad
they were obliged to leave their famine/ in want end
misery to obey the mandate, of that general .trembly.
This was a species of tyranny not to be tolerated. All
attempts to regulate wages Of the price of articles had been
signally fallacious; the price must be repulsed by demand
and supply. Macy years since an attempt wee made to re-
gulate the price of coals. The coaloween fixed the amount
of produce and the price of the coals. Consequently, to
maintain the price they had flied they were obliged to ma:ete-
rnity curtail the supply, so that some large collieries which
could have worked 600 tons a day were obliged to reduce
their workings to perhaps 100 tons. Intelligent men said
immediately. We are getting 16e. per ton upon there hun-
dred toss, but if we gut 7.. a ton upon live hundred tons,
we should have a much larger profit, and be able to
employ • greaten number of workmen; " so that title system
which they bad established fur their especial benefit brought
an amount of ruin upon venous collieries. It was the num
thing with any attempt to regulate wages. Why should
the indolent man be placed on the same footing es the due,
manly, energetic fellow who could niske Is. or 8.. • day?
Did they think the intelligent mon of England would con-
tinue to steed that P No. A. they got more knowledge they
would and that those combination were not only tying their
hands, but they were doing more than this.. This wee •
great national question. Since the policy of free trade was
wisely established in this country Englishmen had been
force! to Compete with other nation, sad to maintain our
position we must compete also In the, labour market. If by
the.., combinations they were curtailing the time when a '
man was allowed to work, sad oonsequentiy must give blue
• greeter wage, they were raising the rote of wages, so
that the manufacturer of this country might not be able to
produos the article at se tow a price as his competitore. the
consequence was that be wee driven out of those markets.
This nil ell upon &a workmate, because it threw them out
of employntent. It mode the number desirous of being em-
ployed greater than the number required; and consequently
wage. fell, while employment ceased. He asked them to be
bound by no law which attempted to hear thee energy, sad
so ask in the market for that pries which their labour we.
worth, but also to ask to have free scope for their industry
and energy, ea that they might nap the reward. By doing
so they were not only benefiting themselves, bat the "Ilion.

FAR, EMIGRATION TO THE CAP& OT GOOD HOPE.
—Os the 234 instaat ware embarked at Southampton. wider
the sapsriuteadsuce of the Ron. Mr. Field, in tho ship Ber-
mondsey, for Algae Bay, 230 son* equal to 192 statute
adults. They are principally agricultural labourers and
fint.als domestic servant., rough carpenters and joiners,
blacksmiths, wheelwright', and waggon makers, with a few
boot and shoemakers. The total free amlpwlon to the Caps
at the cambial expense daring tar poor 1869 now antoeutta,
missive of isolated prom to 2,0119 mob.
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