The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-09 00:00:00

WAGES AND WORK.

During the course of his speech on the Trades
Union Bill,•Mr. Thomas Brassey made a remarkable
statement by way of shewing the close relationship
that there is between good wages and good work.
He said that when the North Devon Railway was
begun the men were paid 2s. a day ; during the course
of the contract wages rose to 2s. 6d., and then to 35.;
but that it was found that labour was cheaper at the
higher rate than at the lower. It is no new revela-
tion that better work can be done by a
labourer able to afford meat than by one who has to
live on bread and cheese ; but it is a very startling
fact, witnessed to by the member of a firm which has
every inducement to get its labour as cheap as pos-
sible, that an increase in wages of 50 per cent. is met
by an increase in work of more than 50 per cent.
The old saying, "A fair day's wages for a fair day's
' work," has now an additional and more forcible
meaning than before.
AMERICANISING OUR INSTITUTIONS.
Four years ago a good deal used to be said about
Americanising our institutions. In fact, it was the
gravest political offence known. The mere imputa-
tion of it was enough to ruin any statesman, how-
ever eminent in public opinion. The stigma of it was
sufficient to extinguish any political reform,
insult
to wise or needed. It would be an
to the Americans to say that the scene which
took place in the police-court during the hearing of
the Murray-Carington charge was to assimilate
our courts of justice with theirs, as much an insult
as it is to the four-footed animals to call a drunken
wife-beater a brute. Nevertheless, it is the intro-
duction of such rowdyism as this that the noble
dukes and earls who took part in this disgraceful
fray mean when they talk of Americanising, and we,
therefore, ask them to look at home the next time
they accuse some noisy stump orator of that grave
offence.

DEAN STANLEY AND MR. VOYSEY.
The Guardfan publishes in full Dean Stanley's
letter to Mr. Domville, announcing his intention of
subscribing to the Voysey defence fund. The Dean
strongly disapproves of Mr. Voysey's treatment of
the Bible, even while crediting Min with honesty of
Purpose and a devout and humble faith. But
lie opposes the prosecution on three grounds :
1. The questions which Mr. Voysey has raised are
greatly agitating the minds of both clergy and laity,
and are entertained by persons of high rank in the
Church without blame, so that any attempt at an
abrupt suppression of their agitation in a single
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are agitated by all the Uhurehes on the UOntlnent,
and it would be deplorable if a Church professedly
so free as the English were to set the example of
rigid suppression. 3. Latitude has been won by
recent trials, and all that could be gained by
an adverse decision would be a limitation in
point of detail. 4. If unsuccessful, the prosecution
would cause much injury, because it would be sup-
posed that the Church is committed to all the crude
vagaries and extravagant assertions which Mr.
Voysey may have used. The Dean points out that the
Archbishop of York was clearly influenced by these
considerations, and that it was only in consequence
of the pressure put upon him that he consented to
prosecute.