The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-19 00:00:00

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from the lathes and planing machines. They can see
clearly enough that the Newtonian theory of " co-opera-
tion" means exclusion and monopoly. They have found
out that " organization of tabour" is only a conspiracy,
to forestall and regret°
bt
the
thmeasreklefits ho
of
short-sighted,nd
employment,
disguished in Frenchified
lingo. They can distinguish betwixt that kind of inde•
pendence, advocated in The Mother Country," which
is promoted by the removal of every obstruction, legal
and conventional, to the attainment of the rewards of
honest industry, and that unjust ascendancy, there as
emphatically condemned, which conspires, by trade
combinations and selfish club rules, charters, or Acts
of Parliament, to deprive our fellow-men of their fair
chance of earnine their livelihood, and that liberty
to toil and to take their chance with the rest of the
subjects of their common country, of securing employ-
ment, end pushing their own way in the open market of
the world, w hich is the great charter of industry, and
which can never be defied with impunity, or offended
without injustice. What right has any man to say to
his master, " You shall only teach one apprentice for
every four journeyman? " What honest purpose can be
served by an engineer saying to a poor Wiltshire
plougliman, earning Bs. a week for a family of six, that
none of hie hungry brats shall be admitted into the fac-
tory to have a chance of rising to 36e.' to him a princely
koe ih/
epruebslticoafn u,
s a—lteyoouug
income? What pot-boy ever said to Mr. Newton, when
he
/ flunggs down the file to take the Ptcesix, "You are not
nheyveoru hcaarvreieqduapioifitse,d
and
dr a
havesi sinner,
ne ro,
liright to sneak behind the bar and chalk up scores."
What clerk has said to him, " Halloo, there—how came
to the (n
you to be a Secretary? have you ever been articled?
are you one of us? We shall Meet and send a depute-
twnnsl of ame eer) A ss memo() Company,
ll demanding the
haramermen or brumins,em üblicans
it of none
from the office, and the latploymc P
but 'legal'
secretaries? " We.had thought the economical heresy
which inspired the "riglar' dustman to demand the
" dismissal " of the eleemosynary
sweeper of the crossing
had bees exp
loded
mak; but really these " Amalgamated "
doctrines begin to eus doubt whether the Ilindoo
castes are not to bo revived. in Europe. We have
alroaely warned the well-disposed of the insanity of in-
vestments in this society. The ceution is doubly neces-
sary against intrusting to indiscriminate hands the pro=
posed subscriptions to maintain the strike, and the sham
capital of the co-operative factory. If they are crazy
enough for a moment to entertain so wild a scheme, we
know, we are sorry to say ,of but too many masters,
who will gladly take the opportunity to get out of busi-
ness by disposing of their works to them. In a few
years engineering firms have suspended operations or
fled from the trade, who had embarked 1,200,0001. in it.
They have discharged 5,000 hands, having commenced
with all the advantages of large capital and ripe expe-
rience, and carried on with mature arrangements and a
character for their work. It is against the masters who
have to struggle with such a trade, with the most formid-
able competition, and who now pay the highest wages of the
beat remunerated class of workmen, that the increased
difficulties now offered by the Executive Council are
raised. Should the Amalgamated Society succeed in
subduing the masters, they will assuredly drive away
the trade, and loss employment altogether. Should the
masters triumph, as assuredly they will, it will be by
utterly superseding the services of the very men whose
demand has been that nobody should be employed but
themselves. It always has been so—it always will
be so. Mr. Fairbairn, of Leeds, has been bullied,
by strikes, into working the largest flax-ma-
chine factory in - the kingdom almost entirely
by boys and foremen, at an expense so trifling that the
Manchester makers declare that, if he removed his esta-
blishment to that town, he would defy the possibility of
competing with him, and shut them all up. The em-
ployment of labourers at lathes and planing machines
has scarcely yet extended to London. This insane move-
ment will render their introduction universal, and their
services permanent. It is a sorry answer for an industri-
ous workman to make to his wife and children when
wages have ceased, and they are living not on work but
by subscription, " I am at home, not at the factory, be-
cause I sought to prevent my master from teaching our
neighbo'ur's boy to earn his living, and because he would
not turn out our labourers to starve in the streets to the
order of our Executive Council." That is—Go'd help
use—a queer kind of " co-operation," and a rather per-
plexing illustration of the " organization of labour." If
a man, with a dozen children, seeks to feed and clothe
them honestly by overtime wages, who has a right to
say to him, nay? If a dexterous and contriving work-
man desires to turn his rapidity and skill to account
by piecework, why should not he be entitled to con-
tract by the job, as his master does? It is not by
groaning at the Dispatch that dictation, self-seeking,
and injustice can be made to supersede the obligations
of truth, the sanction of justice, and the common rights
of man. The inexorable laws of political economy
render it certain that the whole loss arising out of this
" early closing movement" will have to be worked out
of the labour cf the anima. The 10,0001. of wages
weekly divided by employers to their hands will no
longer circulate among the neighbouring tradesmen; and
the resources of men earning no wages can last but a
short time, for they must produce in order to consume.
If they would not afford time to masters to make the
fatal discovery that they can do without the recusants
altogether, we would urge upon the men the suicidal
folly of the advice they have so obsequiously followed.
Masters know full well that itsis not because they are
ride, but because they are right, that we have roundly
told the Council and their dupes that they are wrong,
and that it is not in their interest, but in that of the
public and the masses that we have wielded what influ-
ence we possess, and have honestly earned, to dispel a
mischievous delusion. The capitalist happens, on this
occasion, to be the victim of a pernicious act of injustice,
and the representative of the most vital economical prin-
ciples and social rights; and, therefore, it is that we
adopted our position—" not that we loved the people
less, but that we loved truth the more." When
masters espouse a bad cause, or wrongly urge a right one,
they shall find to their cost that we shall execute upon
them even-handed justice, " without partiality, and
without hypocrisy." A word more, and we have done.
" John Bull dearly lover a Lord." It is no good earnest
of the honesty of their cause, that the Executive Council
sneak after the aristocracy and quote the Morning
Herald. We do not forget the Duke of Richmond's
cheques being traced to the paid Chartist disturbers of
the Anti-Corn-law League. We see now that they sidle
up to "such men as Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Carlisle,
Lord Grosvenor, the lion. A. Kinnaird"—that they have
bagged Lord Ingestre, sub-lieutenant in the Guards, a
man of questionable talent, to be their intercessor—that
they has not been for want of sycophant
platform, and that it
had Lord Goderich and Mr. Vansittart, on their
of the
epeop aristocracy,le , and not
toocfruths
he
the Bath, an
importunity
dthsaotinthey f
tcannot
Garter.pro dlurctehheaßl fritthisehOarrdti Order of
a policy which seeks to
beware how they •
give the
the middle classes, let them. of
ge
become
the.e
the
eorder l
so
of
Ptao their aid the terrors of a mod.
suspicion
n oligarchy, raarebbtloe,
sordid scheming to
countenbtaeonlobrnee
keep power,
It smells of of O'Connor' Brigade,
the dregs 8 and the
les. " Avoid it
sediment of his princip altogether."
rule a great nation
ytticoh
anellisbnuyss

No small degree of
REMARKABLE
d on Saturday was create afternoon by the disco-
DISCOVERY.--
excitement
body
of b embedded in the walls of St. Stephen's
very "while the workmen were chipping an old stone
Chapel
11 of the chapel, .
wall on partially uncovering it, a human form was
canvas, and,
disclosed
in a perfect state of preservation. A wooden
pas-
toral staff was found by its side, such as was carried by the
mitred abbots of the olden time. The discovery created in-
tense excitement, and hundreds of persons flocked to the spot.
Air. Barry was sent for, and, in the meantime, the remains
are strictly guarded, in order that a satisfactory examination
may be made by competent persons. It may be remembered
that the walls in which this interesting relic was discovered
form part of the chapel built by Richard 11., in 1398, the
money for the purpose having been raised by a tax imposed
on all foreigners then residing in the kingdom. The body
must therefore have been imbedded nearly 500 years. It
was found in the wall of the crypt, under the high altar,
where, in the old monasteries, there was generally to be
found a small chapel, underneath the great
public church.
To be buried in this position was a remarkable distinction,
reserved for the founder.
d'
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JAN. 17.—The adjourned
meeting of the Middlesex magistrates for county business
was
held to-day at Clerkenwell, Mr. Roe in thech
to collect it.
The rate
was passed, and the county treasurer ordered
The overseers of Shoreditch appeared to explain why that.
parish was in arrear for the county rate. They said that on
i the following Wednesday a board was to be held in order to
make up the arrears, and the bench gave them till the next
amount ; after which
day (Thursday) to pay the outstanding
the Court adjourned.

FAREWELL DINNER TO MR. PEACOCK., Q.C.-
The bar of the Home Circuit gave a farewell dinner on
Saturday evening, at the Albion, Aldersgate-street, to Mr.
Peacock, Q.C., on his appointment as legal member of the
Supreme Council of the Indian Government. Mr. Sergeant
Channel!, as leader of the circuit, presided; and among the
gentlemen present were Mr. Baron Platt, Sir Frederick
Thesiger, Mr. Sergeant Shee, Mr. Montagu Chambers,
Q.C., Mr. E. James, Q.C., Mr. Bramwell, Q.C., Mr. Bodkin
Hon. R. Denman, Mr. Sergeant Gaselee, Mr. Petersdorff.
Mr. Locke, Mr. W. W. Attree, Sir Walter Riddell, Mr. E.
R. Simons, Mr. M. Fortescue, Mr. Lush, Mr. Bovill, Mr .
Parry,Mr. W. Payne, Mr. Woollett, Mr. Boated Clarke,
and about forty others, members of the circuit, Several
complimentary toasts were proposed and duly honoured, and
the party separated hi
•
ghly pleased with the evening's enter-
tainment.

•
T the course of last
CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL—An L
admitted on the
year, 17,995 indigent sick persons
in-patients, and
vaiscitdt at
restored ot rheed s
ut to
support
2b,0409ke51. ofui s this.
2i, valuable 1;u aobf 1 e
these, institution relief,oo:fiereorrame
were
raet
16,795 were out-patients, many
their own homes, and the grea.tereo6efpaurptawtieornes
blessings of health, and to their occupations
cases formerly reported,
of their families. These,
with
i and needy individuals who
make a total of 204,858 sickta
the
ees of the institution, from its
31st December, 1851. Of
the last year, 1,226 were
tenipereallzt,ol'itt
Btd,evd-atnedurring
the above, 17,995
recommendation, and 16,769 were admitted
dniintdation. This charity had been in
n'-eears as a dispensary, before the opening
wwiittlLluetttearnsyofreeeam
operation for
hospitalfifteen
eY in 1834, during which period, viz.,
Of the present
81s
,to the close of 1833, it afforded relief to
from the year 1
Hills, convicted of
born
of
her newly- infant, at Wakefield, who was
the murder
week, has been commutdd to transportation for
36,420 patients, at aoncosst
aorfa6h,BBA6/.nBns. Bz!d
The sentence .
respited for a
life.
PRINTERS DRAMATIC SOCIETY.—A soirée in sup-
port of this society took place on Saturday evening, at An-
deerrteon's Hotel, Fleet-street. A variety of entertainments
provided for the occasion, consisting of songs,
arecita-
tions,d dramatic scenes, imitations of London actors,
The
performances on the pianoforte and other instruments.
wereTh
performers, with the exception of three musicians,'l'ties to am use
members of the printers' trade, and their
the company were quite sufficient to compeanbsiTaitheeforprteheeeed
ab-
sence of a larger number of " professionals."much
good taste, and the prevailing sentiment
proceed-
ings were conducted throughout with
amernegegult atrhietyamanad.
tours appeared to be that each should
make
s,
Ne,retriyousnuinmfearvoou and the result was evidently satisfactory
of the general cause. the utmost ex-
ertions company w
g All concerned.