The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-14 00:00:00

LEWIS'S LEWIS'S LEWIS'S
VELVET CAPS. WOOL STOCKINGS. WOOL SINGLETS.
for Boys. for Boys. for Boys.

or Boys.

L E WIS'S

LEWIS'S
UNIVERSITY CAPE

LEWIS'S
LEATHER BELTS

BOYS' CLOTHING ONLY.

for Boys.

for Boys.

274 e NEW E STAB L ISHMENT,devoted
to the Manufacture and Sale of BOYS' CLOTH-
IN fit ONLY, is NOW OPEN. A business of this.
kind has long been needed. There are at present
in Liverpool eight hunds ed and seventy-eight houses
for the manufacture of Men's Clothing, but not one
for that of Boys' only. Messrs. LEWIS f CO.,
seeing the necessity for such an establishment, have
opened their Warehouse with the most extensive
assortment and the greatest variety of every Wear-
able requisite for Boys of all ages from six to
twenty years.

LEWIS'S
DERBY TALMA

LEWIS'S
BEAUFORT SCARFS
for Boys.

for .boys.

LEWIS'S
RUTLAND TALMA
for Boys.

LEWIS'S
NECK TIES

RANELAGH STREET.

for Boys.

MRS. A. ANDREWS has just received for the Christmas a Fashionable Assortment of

LACES, DRESS CAPS, COIFFURES, HEAD DRESSES, WREATHS, BROCADED
VELVET NECK TIES, FLOWERS, FEATHERS, FANCY RIBBONS, GLOTES, &c.
BABIES' BRAIDED HOODS AND CLOAKS,
Which are now ready for inspection.
NEW STYLES IN MOURNING BONNETS EVERY WEEK.

Observe, at 53, London Road (late Bronson's), Three Doors from Fraser Street.

SELLING OFF, for Three Weeks only, at greatly REDTJCED PRICES, CARPETS,
DAMASKS, FURNITURE, CHINTZES, &c., and GENERAL UPHOLSTERY GOODS.

FLOOR CLOTHS.

GEO. WOODS,

ADELPHI HOUSE,

21, BOLD STREET,

REMOVING TO THE PALATINE ESTABLISHMENT,

♦DJOINING TAE NEW GLUE-ROUSE, BOLD-STREET.

Last Season's PATTERNS and REMNANTS, at EXTREMELY LOW PRICES.

THE NORTHERN TIMES.--LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

LEWIS'S LEWIS'S LEWIS'S LEWIS'S
MELTON CAPE MOHAIR CAPE 4N6ORA CAPE. VECUNA CAPE.

for Boys.

LEWIS'S
DURFIAJITALMA
for Boys.

for Boys.

LEWIS'S

for Boys.

LEWIS S
WOOL MUFFLERS
for Boys.

LEWIS'S
KID GLOVE'S

for Boys.

LEWIS'S
ELASTIC BRACES

for Boys:

SLAVERY.-WHAT IS SLAVERY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.

Sin—ln continuation of my subject, I am of
opinion that no rightly thinking merchant would
wish his clerks otherwise than well remunerated
for their services ; but I fear there are very many
who never take the slightest trouble on this score
to further their views in life, or, by any benign
feeling, strive to better their condition in
society ; and it may well be questioned whether
such an unremunerative system which they carry
on does not eventually operate against themselves,
besides engendering improper habits of mind in
those whom they engage to servo them. Man y
merchants of this class, who have their mercantile
affairs to attend to, are very apt to say, " I am so
busy, I have no time to think of you or your
families ;" and such consid,)rate men as these, doing
a first rate trade, who employ clerks to manage
their books and correspondence, attend to the
execution of orders, and carry on to a very heavy
amount the regular routine of office work ; and who,
moreover have the consequent anxiety and identi-
fication with the concern, which, as a matter of
course, necessarily connects them with it; and all
these responsibilities for a salary, at the rate of
thirty or forty shillings per week ! ! Justice and
common fairness certainly should lead them to
expect better things, instead of as is really often
the case, not having the common comforts of dogs.
Merchants, I say, then, should be called upon to
give them better pay, as, unquestionably, owing to
their services, business is in a great manner trans-
acted and carried on. Now, sure enough, worldly
business should not have a tendency to put gent]
thoughts out of their minds, and disenable them
from acts of benevolence and kindness towards
the slavers at their office desks ; and all men of
information must know very well—or at all events
men possessing ordinary common sense must
know—that rankling envy and discontent Al be I
fostered in such minds when they feel and know
their labour has not been rewarded with liberality
proportionate to their talents ; and w I .whatever such
men may imagine, or pretend to imagine, there are
some, aye, very many, whilst engaged in their daily
avocations, are 'like the troubled sea when it
cannot rest, whose waters cast forth mire and dirt."
Where business habits are found to be inherent
in the clerk, such habits as industry, arrangement,
calculation, prudence, punctuality, and perseverance,
then, possessing all these qualifications—qualifi-
cations continuously exercised—they should then
unquestionably give him that reputation in the
estimation of his employer, as to show him the
necessity of rewarding his abilities with liberality.
There may be a great difference in some clerks, as,
no doubt, is really the case, and their success, I must
allow, may be attributed, in a manner, to a differ-
ence in their business habits ; but however this limy
be, pay a man according to his work, and not get
rich entirely at the expense of those who have heads
upon their shoulders as wise as your own, and who,
from lack of capital and connections, are often only
prevented being raised to the same exalted position
in the world as you are. Bear in mind, that per-
fection in most things is unattainable ; and those
who have attained to a higher degree of perfection
in the cultivation of these qualities by diligent
study and application over the other, reward them
amply by giving them that which they deserve—
quid pro quo.
Now, another word or two for the clerks, as I
have finished with their masters. Though you
may have your gloomy hours, and think this is a
heartless life to lead, yet endeavour to rouse up,
and by what energy of purpose will do as some-
thing may yet be in store for you ; and, therefore,
shrink not from your duties, not even when count-
ing over the paltry pittance when you receive it,
and, perhaps, thinking to yourselyes the few com-
forts it will bring to the drooping hearts at home.
Industry, bear in mind, constitutes the energetic
engagement of both body and mind in every useful i
employment. It is the secret spring of those grand
results that fill the mind with wonder. When a
thing should be done, it should be done immedia-
ately, without parleying or delay. A. repeated
exercise of the will, in this way, will soon form
such habits of industry. And, as regards arrange-
ments, apportion your time to duties, and keep
an exact register of its transactions ; it has a
post for every man, a place for every tool, a
pigeon-hole for every paper, and a time
for every settlement. A perfectly methodical
clerk leaves his books and accounts in so complete
a shape, that if he were to die during awe, night,
everything could be perfectly understood. By
observing such a method you will never have to
search for a paper, it will always be in its place.
Some may manifest this habit at an earlier age
than others, and apparently exercise it with less
difficulty; but any one with attention may acquire
it. Calculation, too, must be a mater of great
study, for a readiness in calculation gives every
ono a great advantage over his leas experienced
neighbour ; and many a one has brought his fish
to a bad market from inability to calculate quickly
and accurately. But calculation, Rs a business
habit, is not limited to arithmetic. It deals with
principles as well as figures, and frequently arrives
at principles by means of figures. It reduces the
value of economy, and distinguishes between a;,r
true and false economy: It satisfactorily demon
strates that "honesty is the best policy," and the
a rogue is a fool. There can be nothing debasing
in reducing everything to a rigid system o
calculation; and principles that will not bear it
are not sound. A man may take
.advantage
of confidence to perpetrate an act of villany
—is he a wise man or a fool ? How
does his accounts stand ? On the debtor
side he finds the confidence of his employer
lost to him, his family disgraced; his happiness
embittered, his soul endangered, and much more.
On the creditor's side is found only a temporary
advantage gained, and the balance is largely against
him The man, as the proverb has it, "who killed
his goose to get at the golden eggs," has not been
handed down to no as a very wise man ; and
Solomon says, " He that getteth riches, and not by
right, shall leave them in the midst of his days,
and at his end shall be a fool." Then policy, right,
reason, and revelation, all harmonise. Prudencc
and punctuality also are defined to bo wisdom
applied to practice. Under prudence is compre-
hended the discreet suiting arid disposing as well
of actions as of words in their due place, time, and
mannen.and punctuality is known by every one to
be the very hinge of business. It is a virtue that
most men reverence in theory, but all do not carry
into practice. Every one likes a punctualeVan,
because he respects his word, and has a regerdlor
others' convenience; and every one dislikes an
unpunctual man, because he interferes with plans
laid out, consumes time, causes uneasy feelings,
and implicitly tells us that we are not of sufficient
importance, in his estimation, to make him
prompt ; and, last of all, perseverance is a valuable
business habit which clerks should have to
notice. It means the steady pursuit of a plan,
whether good or bad, but it would be very unwire
to persevere in a plan which conscience or practice
has proved to be bad. In actual life, where there
are so many different pursuits, and different wars
it
of doing the same thing, tenet °Goya' to all that
it means steadiness in the execution of whatever
plan is determined upon, for there are unquestionli
-
ably very many who have had a variety of -ripper
tunities for settling themselves comfortably in the
world, yet, for want of this steadiness to carry out
any scheme to perfection, they have sank from
one degree of wretchedness to another for years
together, without the least hope of ever gating
above distress and pinching want.
I would say
again to both old and
young clerks who are en-
gaged in mercantile capacities, to study well and
truly the interests of your employers so as to move
them, if they are at all disposed to be moved, to
(Ling that higher position in life which you
parlaece ylo forward to. Let riot any exertion
on your part be wanting to accomplish this end.
You may, by thia constant perseverance and
attention, thaw the icicles so often suspended
from hearts that should be warmed towards you.
Well, try and let not your employers have it in
their power to say you are unworthy of your hire.,
A great deal rests with yourselves in pleasing those
whom you are in a position to serve. Your master
will not always take the trouble to study you