The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-10 00:00:00

HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.

T Tig DAY—Morn. 53 min. aft. I—Evening 16 min. aft. 2
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THE WEA.THER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 10.
THERIIOIfETER, IN THE SHADE.
55 -highest since noon yesteritay.
51. —towest this morning and daring the night.
57—this day at noon.
So.uomETRE, 29.96—rising again.
WIND, S.W.—Light, with fine suushiny weather.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVESII3ER 10, 1855,

Sir Cowl CAMPBELL is about to return home.
The General, who has pre-eminently and mo.t
deservedly obtained the confidence of the entire
army—who has been actively engaged from the
very commencement of the Russian War, and had
previously served with the highest distinction in
various parts of the world—is about to sheathe
his sword for the present, and to retire into pri-
vate life. This is a misfortune of no ordinary
character. The iron constitution that could
endure the utmost privations and labours—the
apparent insensibility to danger that rendered
him as calm and collected during the most
perilous operations as if he wero merely on
parade—the genuine kindliness that endeared
him to every soldier under his command,
were all qualifications of no ordinary value for
the very highest post within the power of the
Government to bestow. His absence from the
army, with whom he is so justly popular, on
any account -whatsoever, may be regarded
as a national calamity, and
the more sa, if, as
more than hinted by the Times, it has b
occasioned by the wanton insult offered in the
promotion over his head of a junior Officer, who
had not seen a tithe of the service he had rendered,
and whose qualifications and claims were far in-
ferior to his own.
The Times, even while attacking him for re,
turnin home, has borne true testimony to hi.
high qualifications. It says—" Sir Court will be
an irreparable loss to the army. His gallant con-
i',uct in action, his vigilance, his carelessness of
fatigue and exposure, were an example we can
ill aff3rd to miss, especially in so young, and, we
fear we must add, so indifferently organised an
army." In this well-merited eulogiutn, and in
the great and irreparable loss to the servieo, we
fully and completely concur. But these matters
Should have been earlier thought of, before the
insult and injury were inflicted, and the favourite
Promoted over the head of the meritorious candi-
date, at the instance of the secret, irresponsible, and
Unconstitutional influence that regulates the affairs
of the gorse Guards.
It ou
ELLght to have
CA been known that Sir COLIN
MPB. Could not have submitted to the slight,
and continued to serve under his fortunate and
highly-patronised junior. Whatever may be
the custom in other armies, it has been the con-
sta.ret practice in our own, and, in
accordance
wit n the invariable precedent in such rases,
the
the inevit-
able tirement of Sir COLIN CAMPBELL is
'able consequence of the promotion of Sir Winnult
CODRINGTON. The evil, then, has been entirely
occasioned by the course adopted by the concealed
elplurna nder-in-Chief, and he must sustain the
odium of its natural result.
It iS stated, in a very clear and able letter from
weleave
an ex-eavalry officer to a cantemporary, which
extracted into this day's impression,
that "his return home on leave during a portion
of the winter was
new Commandn-
projected by him before the
Chief's appointment was
made known."er-i The
writer has apparently
correct information) and should he be cor-
rect in the present Statement, it furnishes
the only Possible apology for the nomi-
nation of 5i.7.• WILLIAM CODRINGTON ; although,
even assumir g it to be so, it is merely an extenua-
The offer
tie; not a justification of the step,

common interest. •
The delicate point is to avoid coercion. No
man who does not like working for less than
20s. per week, has any reasonable right to say to
mother, you shall not work for 19s. One man,
by his habits, may live better on the smaller sure
than his companion on the larger one, and might
think it much more to his interest to take the
smaller sum than to tramp the streets till
ho and his employer could agree. The other
replies, true ; but, by taking the lower
wages, you compel me to take lower
wages too. By no means, we rejoin ; since, if
your master wants you as well as him, he must
4ive you your terms, as well as him his—unless,
indeed, other men are willing to fill your place at
19s. ; and if they are, we ask-;-:;;By what right do
you hinder them from selling their labour at a
price which they think it their interest. to take ?
Evidently in that case labour is to be had at a
lower price than you ask, and, like all others who
have anything to sell, your masters included, you
must take what you can get for your article.
We acknowledge, and we deeply feel, the trial
to the operative accustomed to spend all his wages
when wages begin to fall. But he should boar in
mind two things : that no power on earth can
depress wages if masters have full or superabun-
dant profitable employment for men, and that
nothing can keep them up bong if masters are
losing at the actual rate of wages. This Could
itnhteo Gthazeetstte,reaentsd. thArosweeino
only issue eventually in putting their masters into
gn
d theirtruth
hin
the throngswor;.
jug classes are very slow to learn, and for even
mentioning which they generally abuse their beat
friends, is, that no workman in decent employ
ought to spend all his wages. Those of them who
read our journal must know how strenuously we
have always resisted any legislative restriction of
their pleasures ; but, on the other hand, we as
plainly tell them that every man in full work who
will not restrict his own pleasures must be a beg_
hen work is scarce and ill-
gar or a great sufferer w
paid. The workman, as
well as the middle-class
man, who saves nothing, or who has no balance
to meet the variations inevitable to human affairs,
must be ever and anon "a distressed operative."
There is no royal road to independence. Except
for the lucky few who are born to the silver spoon,
self-denial and saving something is the only means
of independence. Were the operatives of Man-
chester able to live on their savings till prices
rose, and did they (which would be unlikely in
a community of money savers) think well to be
out of work rather than work for less, they would
at least be in a position to do so.
At the risk of
giving
offence we must repeat
our advice to the operatives not to think of a
contest with their
masters till they have, say fur
ten years at least, practised the self-denial.
wh: eh
shall put some few pounds into th • pockets--
Into poc,cets---
In to their own pockets we mean, not into the trea-
sury of a society for coercing masters f whose
leaders they aro to be the blind tools. When work-
people will learn not to squander their money in
drink, or attempts to apa the dress of their mas.
ters and ma s ters' wives, or luxuries in eating
and drinking which those who occupy houses