Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-23 00:00:00

boys, do not believe those your be

"My black

friends who shed most tears in your behalf.

There

are tears which assauge none, and there are dry eyes

which wipe away tears.

The luxury of tears is as

necessary to man as the luxury of smiles ; and those
with whom life is a continual sunshine seek this
luxury as they do others, driving in carriages to
enjoy it in theatres on cushioned seats, and with

accompaniments of music, dress, gas, and suppers,
might have had more real cause for

whereas they

tears nearer home. Or they view the stage at a
distance of 1,500 or 3,000 miles, and the actors are
black, and they perform their parts so well under
the master direction of a Stowe that the amphi-
theatre of a world weeps—weeps in comfort at a

distant
for pity and succour at their doors,

tu, Wii

1- misery in every shape is pleading
But tara ra ra

la la go

s the music, and ten times ten thousand

)ric handkerchiefs dry

crack goes the whip, drowning

—the crack of that

single whip,• at a distance of thousands of mil

strikes"

among

drowning the groans of myriads of human beings,
who can not be heard because they happen to be of

.nd appreciate stiongl

an unromantic color—white, and at an unromantic
distance—near home, and because the audience don't
go to the play to dispense charities, but to have a
good cry. And you might say to this audience,
How much untruth may be conveyed by an improper
way of representing truth P And you might sug-
gest to them that, as life is not very long, it would
be better to cease crying and commence doing ; and
and that, since the relief of the misery of mankind
is the grand object, at present, with all benevolent
minds, it would be more systematic as well as
charitable to begin with the most miserable first,

just as a surgeon attends first to the wants of his
most dangerously-wounded patients. But then, my
boys, it would be long before your turn would

A WEDDING IN GAOL.—On Thursday morning a curious
matrimonial union took place at the prison in Gloucester-
street, St. Helier ' • the respected chaplain of that establish-
ment, the Rev. Mr. Lembriere, having, by special license,
joined together in wedlock—" for better or for worse"—
two inmates of that place —viz., John Small and Miss
Cooper, the would-be Goddess of Love and Fortune. The
bride and bridegroom are both members of the gipsy tribe,
and are now undergoing their term of imprisonment, for
having extorted the sum of £2O from a young lady of this
island, by pretending to " rule her planet," and promising
to find her a suitable partner for life. Such an event, being
of rare occurrence within the gloomy walls of the Gloucester-
street "Hotel," was, as may be presumed, joyfully celebrated
by the (nn)happy pair. —Jersey Times.
ympathiziug eyes, and I Sio

.RCHIBALD ALISON ON STRIIIES.—In a lecture on
the " Currency Laws," delivered in Glasgow on Wednesday
last, Sir Archibald Alison made the following remarks upon
working men : "I understand perfectly
e cause of these strikes. I feel
vil'of what the men complain of, and I am not at all
surprised that they take this mode of remedying
it. What I wish to impress upon you is, that of
all mistakes that ever were committed by working men,
the most fatal is that of striking. I know
perfectly well that, in many cases, strikes are successful.
When the produce of labour is rising in the market, the
working men are entitled to say that they ought to share in
the common benefit that is going on. But the great error
they commit is this, that they think, by the same
means, that they can prevent. their wages falling in
periods of adversity, and all the great strikes
which have produced such devastations in
society have arise' from this cause. When the price of
produce falls, as it has done now, the master is of neces-
sity obliged to lower wages ; if he did not do that, he would
become bankrupt in the space of 'three or four months.
Nevertheless, the master will retain his workmen as long as
he can, because he losses so much by their going away. He
will never stand out against a strike in the face of a falling
market unless he is compelled to do so. If you strike
when he could not pay

you the wages you demand.
but at a loss, you strike not in your interest but in his.
He is too happy to be rid of you in such circumstances.
Nevertheless, he will not hold out unless forced to do so.
It is the same evil to a master if his workmen go a way as
it is to a general if his army be disbanded. New hands
are never half so good as old ones. The old hands, there-
fore, will depend upon it that, if the master reduces their
payment, he does it'from actual necessity ; and the reason
of that is, that the changes of the currency produce a
fatal change in the price of his goods. Now, only
ider what is the effect of these great strikes on the
interests of the working classes. Why, the colliers'
strike of 1842, in this county alone, did not cost less
then £500,000.
aTwhs,enwsothwrtiiickut:e of 1857; which was the conse-
quence of the monetary crisis of the year before, cost, in
the counties of Lanark, Ayr, and Stirling, no less than
•t'leosoe,ooBtor,ikaelsl oyfonwchoincllifiellel
to
opodno tahethwinogrking classes. In
impos-
sible, and in the
oatttehmopstelteo do which. wyholleihairseyir-swe whatnl Toe si
Is subjected
therecommendvictim ti s ocoarrieensabttienpotrhi vaeasgetntiongrngstle.a,
your o
etsi .h;
Com-
bine against the I
society,th e
i, h e
There
isd no
ha
i master,rgeefo ri en
merely of the currency laws, but to com-
()oilman of Cant"' with you the whole of
sense in the country who
won't Join with you in the effort to make such a change in
the currency laws as will prevent these fatal changes in
prices, and, with them, /raps and profits."