The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-24 00:00:00

MANCHESTER.

The Manchester Rifles are rapidly increasing,
the number last week being about 440, and now
nearly 700. A second corps is about fo be formed.
Levenshulme, Longsight, Ardwick, Old Trafford,
and other out-townships are also raising companies.

ENGLAND EIGIITY YEARS SlNCE.—Leisure is
gone—gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the
pack-horses, and the slow waggons, and the pedlars who
brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons. Inge-
nious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of
the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not
believe them ; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to
rush in. Even idleness is eager now--eager for amusement,
prone to excursion trains, art museums, periodicals, litera-
ture, and exciting novels ; prone oven to scientific theorising
and cursory peeps through microscopes. Old Leisure was
quite a different personage; he only read one newspaper
innocent of leaders, and was free from the periodicity of
sensations which we call post-time. He was a contemplative,
rather stout old gentleman, of excellent digestion ; of quiet
perceptions, undiseased by hypothesis, happy in his inabi-
lity to know tho causes of things, preferring the things
themselves. Ho lived chiefly in the country, among plea-
sant seats and homesteads, and was fond of sauntering by
the fruit-tree walls, and scenting the apricots when they
were warmed by the morning sunshine, or sheltering him-
self under the orchard boughs at•noon, when the summer
pears were falling. lie knew nothing of week-day ser:-
vices, and thought none the worse of the sermon if it
allowed him to sleep from the text to the blessing; liking
the afternoon service best because the prayers were the
shortest, and not ashamed to say so, for he had an easy,
jolly conscience, broad-backed, like himself, and able to
carry a great deal of beer and port wine, not being made
squeamish by doubts and qualms and lofty aspirations.
Life was not a task to him, but a sinecure; ho fingered the
guineas in his pocket, and ate his dinners, and slept the
keep of the irresponsible—for has lie not kept up his char-
tor by going to church on Sunday afternoons ? Fine old
Leisure I Do not-be severe upon him, and judge him by
our modern standard. He never went to Exeter Hall, or
heard a popular preacher, or read tracts for the times, or
Sat for licsartus.--Adam Bede.

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