The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-18 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

from our friends !"—we should have had a pretty
result. D,ANIEL O'CONNELL called the Press " the

scourge of tyrant's !"

And yet, without venturi

on, an expedition to lAlnput,. we can find pigm3
beings enough who would—if they could—scourge

he Press !

Impudence

ad' Dignity," indeed !

Surely such popinjays requir

a GII.LLIVER to

pommel them most heartil

The Press, we maintain, must not only be free

from governmental espionnage.

and party doinina

it must likewise be independent of indivi-

dual control and interf(

citizen and

)atriot should support a newspaper, provided it

lay claim to merit. That is a duty. But

at the same time. subscribers

that such an act empowered them with anti

internal
aware that they do not engage a paper as they

ver it

arrangements

aey should bE

would a flunkey.—to b

subservient to their will

—study their foibles—flatter their prejudices—

ind obey their commands. If such were the cas

each individual would require an organ expressly

got up and conduct

ed to suit his own whims and ha

and exactly in keeping with the shape and

colour of

Then tailors might witl

justice exchange th

goose" itself for the gool

quill; and could make, as they are wont, every
article." to measure," warranting a " good fit !" Lr
BROIERE tells us of a writer who. _upon bein

quested to compose a speech for the lord mayoi
very politely asked for t

he measure o.

the mouth of

his lordship

Certainly

he remarked, " there is

a relation to be observed between tl

words an

the mouth whic

L produces them:.'

'Twill never do,

Individuals must not be so

le Press aims at being the direct

of the public mind, and the conservator of the pub

lie morals. If a people, therefore, want to be benefit

ted, they must venerate and estimate their preceptors,
otherwise little advantage will be derived from

whatever efforts might be made for their improve-

meat

The Press to be healthy, must be free—free as
the air and light of Heaven. 'Twill not do for it to

cribb'd, cabin'd, and confin'd" by the capric

of contemptible despots

Stop my paper !" the 3

cry, ifyou say aught against their perturbed notions

offend their miserable prejudices, or refuse to cone
ply with their paltry and selfish wishes

Stop my

paper," forsooth! Heavens !

what shall become of

THE

7, 7 STIIIKES 111

PRESTON

VUFACTU.RING

MEMORIAL TO THE HOME SECRETARY.

JURSDA

•
The draft of a memorial, of which the subjoined is a copy,
has been adopted at a general meeting of delegates, and was
to be transmitted to Lord Palmerston this day :
To the Right Hon. Lord Palmerston, Her Majesty's Princi-
pal Secretary of State far the Home Department.
"We presume, my lord, to address you at this time, be-

cause; independent of your well-known sympathies for suf-
fering humanity, in whatever part of the world it may exist,
we understand that your lordship is desirous of being made
. .

at may affect

the peace and harmOn

aore detrimental to the

manufacturing and commercial interests of this country, than
the anxiety, agitation, and confusion which at present per-
vades these districts ; they destroy that harmony and equili-

brium so necessary for the peaceful progress and develop-
ment of the skill and ingenuity for which we as a people
are proverbial; and we feel, my lord, that a serious respon-
sibility is attached to those who, by a disregard of reason
and justice, have brought about this state of things.
In order that you may fully comprehend our view of this

matter, and we assure You that it is based on incontrover-
tible facts, we beg your careful consideration to the follow-
ine, digest,
' taken from the public documents of our body.
We presume that labour has its rights as well as its duties,
and that capital h is its duties as well as its rights, and we have
yet to learn that it is antagonistic to these principles, peace-
fully, and at a proper time, to endeavour to get a better re-
muneration for our labour.

My lord, you will remember the depressed state of the
cotton trade about the year 1847. At that time the manu-
facturers of Preston and neighbourhood, made a serious re-

duction in our wages ; but die), promised they would restore
it as soon as an improvement justified it.

On the first day of June, 1863, -a meeting of weavers
took place, and it was agreed that a memorial be sent to
each master, respectfully soliciting for an advance of ten
per cent, on all fabrics of cloth. The memorialists said—
' We would beg to impress upon you, that a few years ago,
when trade was in a depressed state, we submitted to a

serious reduction in our wages, in the confident hope when
it revived it would honourably be put on again. We have
patiently waited to see our expectations realized ; we find
that trade is in a most flourishing condition, that the demfind

for manufactured goods is on the increase, and we submit
for your consideration whether we are not justified in wish-
ing to participate in good trade ; if we are to receive none
of the benefits of a flourishing trade, but to have our wages
continually reduced, when every depression takes place, our
position will be deplorable." When the hands waited upon
their employers for a reply, some treated them with courtesy
and respect; but a great majority, with insult and contempt,
and many who thug `l-,m were discharged. and

)on the world
lord, up to this tim

upo
irked men and women
Id no thought of combina

tion or unit

natural sympathy that alway

will exist among

non, if they bel