The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-15 00:00:00

'MPORARY PRESS,

VORKING CLASSES OF ENGLAND.
(From the Morning Herald.)
'9rning Chronicle of yesterday there appeared
:tate and temper of the work-
.ance and England—an article display-
nixture of knowledge and of ignorance
subject treated of. _ _

.cle on the presen

'hronicle commences by adverting
eelings of deep discontent with their condi-
hich pervade the working classes in France, in
id, and in the United States. He then observes,
to be incident to the present state 'of
nd it demands the best efforts of le-
the convulsions, of which it threat-

writer in th

tion w

tat the evil in question is " incident to
ite of social progress," is, we admit, to
ite on the subject. The real
It of the admitted facts of the

nottun

It the present progress of society
)n, and whether that progress be
nciples ? The legitimate infer-
ited by the Chronicle is, we are

hat the present age, despite its
nd" principles of progression, is not so
other nations have been—ages
iguished than the present by boasting and
incation.

so happy

state of feeling amongst certain sections

bourir

is, in some respects, truly de-
icle. " The cry is not for more
ges. The attempt is to barricade
)m industrial interference, and
irbons from the government."

both countries there is a sort of
acy, which the rest aim at being
French workmen claim the same

'ention of the contractor or
an oppression. They want
lly in all, without allow-
the advantage to which

Ives itself, as we stated
rty movement. The
in extent, in error in its

of that movement. It is
r.ing in a certain sense, that
French or English workmen
es for all." The workmen who
'ty theory may, indeed, be de-
urately) as doing so—inaccu-
tch as the anti-property men hold that the
irn under which the produce of la-
) " wages" for one class, and " pro-
wolves the perpetration of fraud on
es." The anti-property men, in
hole produce of labour should
r to the society at large,

',Lim views, every member of
su-
it to labour, and to contribute the produce of
common stock. It is only in the
ribed, that any section of operatives
wa r-- all classes of labourers.
na indeed, be claimed for all kinds of
nal wages" are not amongst the
I:4contented of the operatives in

iety'o

h mac

:corder

Told I

lode t

equal wages

roceeds to admit that on the
the whole brunt of modern
T!-,2 " unskilled labourers"
competition with steam and
a sense of what they cannot
d injustice. "And, moreover,"
if they he not educated in the
benefit them, there is a kind of
rntinualiy going on which is not lost upon
stimulated. They look around
s, and have notions of the

ze I'/t7

on their growing

' falls

)%v ver

iltituA,

the Chronicle's prescription for
'f he conversion of "unskilled"
firers—the diffusion of " educa-

tion tro

tieapn

he corn laws!

ges our contemporary, " to
nerous race of unskilled la-
s it does exist, we are treading
nermanent safety of society

1 in all its institutions, is con-

..lion of the poorer classes.
lould be put in training to become a skilled,
_ _

)rid, if

I mor

labour

intpri I

education" is the panacea !
1. the Chronicle, after showing

exactly as " education" has ex-
sery and discontent become dif-
muring classes, should still look
education" as a cure for

tiinbler portions of society.
" (which is merely education

'mg classes require—but pro-
Ts who rob and oppress them.
reover, that the men who cla-
your of " education" for the
nen who never weary in their
nentiy the rewards of labour—

a who never cease extolling
ess" being only another name

lisunderstands the mean-

illed," and " unskilled" labour.
lominated "skilled." or " un-
e of any reference to the state of
:!.—or to the quality of his " edu-
cl!aracter of the work which he
bier kinds of labour—those, to

Trenticeship" is required—are
;" and all the " education" in
on. the men who perform the
scion, would fail to convert them
;rs. Before the class of " un-

a 'cease to exist, all the humbler
3rmed kinds of labour must be

ERSUS STOWELL.
'rand:ester Courier.)
r addressed by Mr. Stowell to
'on. Times, a new trial is to be
The conduct of Mr. Baron
irsued by Mr. Stowell's coup_
gentleman no alternative;
lit that the Court of Queen's
application. That abundant
an be shewn, no one who has
he late proceedings will deny.

1 last week, stood upOn
as or was not a libel upon
ad imposed a certain pe-

.that 'particular penance
other priests, and sane-
ine, and practice of his
the course he pursued,
towards Mr. Hearne.
Jay be said that no evi-

that such a penance as
Vi commonly enjoined by
as far as that particular pe-
s true, the evidence was defect.-
Mr. Crooke admitted that "it
ice of a priest to prescribe pe-
those penances are left " more or less to
the priest," and that "it was difficult
to that discretion, there was sufficient
penance as that performed.by O'Hara
wescribed by Mr. Hearne, in the ex-
!cretion," without exceeding the prat-
ii= church ; therefore, it could be
to i.ini a course of conduct which
Ititude permitted by that church: Of
we do not take into our consideration the testi-
mony of the witnesses who ougkt to hare been called

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