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common enemy.

of late, been taught to look upon society as an accumulo
lion of opposing classes with' opposing interests. Thi
war of classes may be safely said to have originated i

(cement which had for its immediate object ti

aggrandisement of the great manufacturers,--which scru-
pled not to teach the unthinking masses, that if the pro-
prietors and tillers of the land were denuded of those

intraunitic.s which they enjoyed in consideration of the
peculiar burdens to which they were subjected, the opera-

NC classes, as their flatterers termed them, would receive

the full benefit of the robbery. In following out this
nefarious doctrine, the labourers of towns were inflamed
against all who owned or cultivated the soil. The unsocial

impact has been so far

appear to have forgotten ti

Tied out; but its ori,gina

They who S(

shall reap the whirlwind." No sooner was the object of
the first agitation secured, than a new set of social

" regenerators" immediately took the field. The new apos-
tles of disorganisation took lower ground, and secured

wider basis for their operations. They raised the

1 comprehensive denunciation GI
their battle-yell was thc

capital in every form,

senseless, but to the mob seductive cry of labour
against capital. By this class, and their representa-
tives, numerous both in the press and on the plat-
form, capitalists of every grade were represented as un-
scrupulous plunderers, and blood-thirsty and oppressive
tyrants. By an artful management of this wholesale

denunciation—ingeniously elaborating and expatiating on

some fancied—or exaggerating some real grievance, the

unsuspecting sons of toil were drawn into the vortex of

agitated passions, and thence beguiled into excesses from
which their calmer reasons and better feelings, if allowed
their sway, would have effectually protected them. The

result we have already seen in the protracted and unprofit-

able idleness; the misery and ruined prospects of thousands

—and the utter discomfiture of the false assumptions and

baseless hopes of the credulous, and too easily excited

multitude.

What, let us now inquire, is the real state of this
insensate quarrel of labour with capital ? The pos-
sessor of capital has, no doubt, many advantages in

the social struggle for advancement; but it is not
the mere possession of that capital which confers on

THE pageant with which the inauguration of the
LORD MAYOR of LONDON is accompanied, has given
rise to an excitement of opposition to its further
continuance, on the ground of its being merely a
vestige of antiquity, and its interfering with the
business of the city for a few hours. There is
something so thoroughly utilitarian in a modern
Radical, who may be considered a compound of
anythingarianism in religion and unmitigated
selfishness, that we cannot be surprised at their
rage against the time-honoured Lon]) Mexon's

Show, because it may cost a little money, and may
hinder some of these petty tradesmen from turning
a penny. We cannot forget, however, that it is one
of the few holidays enjoyed by the toiling artisans
of a densely crowded population, and to deprive
them of it would be to virtually sanction that dese-
cration of the Lord's Day which is one of the cry-
ing sins committed in this vaunted age of intelli-
gence. Some progress has been made in reforming
the evil of compelling those who labour to toil
all the week, by which the excuse was made
that Sunday must be devoted to recreation,
or they would have have none at all ; but
short days are no excuse for the abolition of that
holiday which has stimulated many of the youth
of London to industry and perseverance, in order
that they might one day occupy the chief place in
such an imposing pageant. Amusements are not
designed for philosophers, nor thinking men, nor
money grubbers ; but if smartly dressed horses
and gaudy flags will please the ignorant, the inno-
cent, and the hard worked, it is a happiness dif-
fused at very little cost.

DR. M`NEILE AND THE EDINBURGH

REVIEW.

Trt E final rejoinder of the Rev. Dr. WITHILE to the de-
fender of. the Edinburgh Reviewer on Church Parties,
which we have given in another column, affords the most
triumphant reply to the unfair attack of which the pre-
tended description of parties in the Church was made the
medium. The Rev. Canon has not only exposed the
unfairness .and injustice of attributing opinions to him
from the imperfect recollections of a speech delivered more
than twenty years ago, although there were numerous
published works of his to which to refer ; but, what
is far more satisfactory, he denies altogether the opi-
nions attributed to him. He distinctly repudiates ever
having held the notion of the worthlessness of morality, or
having spoken of the soul-destroying doctrine of repent-
ance. Indeed, he states that if ever he made use of the
phrase alluded to by the Very Rev. Dean CONYBBAJIE, it
was in condemnation of it. As the article in the Edin-
burgh Review, which was at the best a coarse satire on
all religious parties, excepting the one favoured by the
writer, conveyed an absurd imputation on the principles
professed by so able a champion of the Church as Dr.
31`NBILE, it is satisfactory to notice that the latter has
given so complete a denial to the charge.

THE WAR BETW:gEN CAPITAL AND
LABOUR.

THE RECENT CASE OF SCANDAL

-.-.....---

Ma.2rvr weeks have now elapsed since the newspapers,
provincial and metropolitan, first announced that the
mechanical and other operatives belonging to the northern
counties of England, having failed in obtaining the con-
cession of certain demands made upon their employers,
had struck work, resolved, by the withdrawal of their labour,
to coerce their employers into compliance with demands as
unreasonable' n character as the means adopted for en-
forcing them were injudicious and illegal. Not a few weeks
have also elapsed since the same agencies of intelligence
communicated information that the deluded operatives,
having exhausted their limited resources, were all but
starved into an abandonment of their impracticable de-
mands. It was likewise stated that a few, who, by dint
of greater effrontery and assurance, and less honesty than
their fellows, had been recognised as leaders in the
movement, still retained influence enough among their
dupes to prevent the realisation of any mutual accommo-
dation between the employers and the employed. Thou-
sands, nay tens of thousands of men, who by their industry
were previously enabled to support themselves and their fa-
milies in comfort and independence, were, by a fraudulently
arranged scheme of forced idleness, compelled to see their
wives and children reduced to misery and want, while
they themselves, from being placed in dependence on
eleemosynary aid, were at last constrained to endure the
pangs of hunger. Maddened by the intensity of their
self-inflicted sufferings, many of these men were driven
to perpetrate the grossest outrages, in which,
having been detected, they must now abide the vengeance
of an outraged law, and submit to the penalty of their
combined folly and wickedness. Still we regret to ob-
serve the iniquitous system continues in operation.
Subscriptions are exacted from those who are in work to
support in idleness men who, by their labour, could not
only maintain themselves, but also earn a sufficiency to
secure the comfort and independence of those dependent
on them.

THE Court of Queen's Bench was appealed to on Thurs-
day, in order to justify the reputation of a highly respect-
able lady of this town from the scandal to which publicity
had been given by one of our local contemporaries. It
will be seen by the report, which we have given in another
column, that no attempt has been made at justification of
the libel; but, unfortunately, in all such cases the mischief
is greater than is within the power of remedy, for the lady
herself, being beyond suspicion, ought not to be called to
deny the truth of such an infamous imputation, though it
is a course which she must take in order to avail herself
of the protection of the law. Our contemporary pleads,
and, no doubt, with truth, his innocence of any evil inten
tion ; but the error he has committed is in giving currency
to scandalous rumours—a course which can have no other
effect than merely gratifying one of the basest passions of
human nature. No public interest can be served in dis-
seminating such reports, whether true or false ; and there
is always the mischief arising from such mysterious an-
nouncements, where no names are given, of suspicion

being ti

rown upon other innocent parties, as well as tilos,

,littded to,

TME HERRMA NN, United States mail steam-ship, arrived
on Saturday night at Southampton. Her advices are
unimportant ; her latest date being to the 6th instant.

MIR MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COLTNCIL
,1-
tended divine service at St. Barnabas' Church, Pariniamia ec;
oi
street, on Sunday last, when the annual sermon 1
the Southern and Toxteth Hospital was Inanhed by
Rev. D. T. Barry, 8.A., honorary
made in aid of the above institution,
£O2 is. 4d. chaplain, and dama
ocuolilietedettiolthine
LTANEO VS COLLECTION.—
LOCAL CHARITIES'
sof the wn, was
sormnadinge
inTh e
Church° RINCES PARK, after A sermon by
last. At Sr. l'Avils,.
collectionF amounted to £lO7 10s., together
thean dinuffalercoenllect collection in aiSdrmofutlthie local charities
whicha year theof prosperity following
Dr. M`Neile, the .
"A sm. e'
is a coPY— 00 " making in all a collection of £207 10s.
and mercy, £1 fielannekllse-doffneorite'n'ereffor with an anonymous
Barnu'', the collection in the morning amounted
of £B3.—At ST. PHILIP'S, the sum of £52 2s.
w;astt'icol ST.ected. The following are the Charities selected for
support this year :—The Royal Infirmary ; Blue Coat
support this year :—The Royal Infirmary; Blue Coat
Hospital ; Northern and Southern Hospitals; Northern
and Southern Dispensaries; Eastern Dispensary; School
for the Deaf and Damb ; and Female Orphan Asylum.
DR. BOWRING ON DECIMAL COINAGE.—On Friday
afternoon a lecture on decimal coinage was delivered at
the Collegiate Institution, to the pupils and others, by
Dr. Bowring, who, during his stay in Liverpool, is the
guest of Mr. William Brown, M.P. Having prefaced his
remarks by an assurance of the gratification he felt in
being enabled in any way to co-operate with the exertions
of his valued friend, Mr. Brown, who had been endeavour-
ing, and, he believed, successfully endeavouring, to super-
sede that strange and barbarous system which had got
possession of the coinage and the accountancy of this
conntry, and to introduce something more intelligible,
more simple, and, of course, more practically useful, Dr.
Bowling gave a history of the various complicated modes
of notation adopted by the ancients, and the less civilized
people of modern days, and contrasted them with the
decimal power. In the evening Dr. Bowring delivered a
similar lecture at the Mechanics' Institution, with Mr.
Brown as chairman, and on Saturday he repeated his
lecture at the Concert-hall.

The amount of injury inflicted on society by such pro-
ceedings is very inadequately represented by the individual
and family sufferings of the men themselves. A pecuniary
valuation of the property:destroyed during the outbursts
of such popular frenzy, is scarcely a less imperfect repre-
sentation of the evil. That must; in a great degree, be
estimated by the slower, but not less certain, operations of
extended idleness, and its concomitant evils—depraved
habits introduced into prosperous districts, and once in-
dustrious and happy families converted into social pests—
employers beset by circumscribed means and crippled
energies, unable, successfully, to combat with the vice and
misery which surround them, have all, and each of them,
their share and influence in the general injury inflicted
on society by the demoralisation consequent on slackened
industry. To these serious evils must be added the discon-
tent, malevolence, and strife which strikes, and the dema-
gogues who direct them, contrive to sow, as it were, broad-
cast among the various classes of society. All the evils
here referred to, we scruple not to say, have been mainly
camel by that false system whereby the community has

generous public

r trade in t

REFORM BILL

it year v

fth of t

for cotton ! all

the people of c

Small towns

Chatham and Liverix

) storm

clowns

so dull

Blackburn and Hull

But then there's the ballot—each Cabinet palate,
Whig, Radical, Renegade, how shall we please

Tis a mere open question, which each man's digestion

rage or not, as the di€

Though we once had a policy (all now its folly see),

avi-Cons(

%tive christened of old,

Tis useless to foster the arrant imposture,
When Tories are angry and Churchmen are cold

Our poor Coalition to keep in condition

For further support we must send round the hat

So a child we'll affiliate, made to conciliate
Chartist and Radical, Papists and Rat.

At Manchester mammon and Governm
The old British Lion may Brun

Withthe Tiniest° write crammers, weheed not hisd
Hurrah for our measure of total Reform

POLICE COURT-YESTERDAY.

wocnatEena.rn,dwrribrerocE.—Thomas Pia&
him these advantages ; it is the perseverance, the pru- i STREET R
deuce, and the skill with which he directs its agency, ing, Peter
Shropshire, in Banastre-street, on Saturday night, about
vereench.anrged with
whereby the possessor of capital derives most of the bene- having assaulted and robbed John Darrell,Smith,
rav?u'eglok.
come Ft.,...0m the evidence it appeared_
inAqvueestiol on business, was
fits it places at his command. Nay, every one is familiarhalf
with the ease with which, by means of a little carelessness, that-pDarralle,v
hood of Banastre-street, when his friend left him. In
from behind, when iliias
even a large capital is speedily dissipated, while there is with a friend on the evening
scarcely one of its benefits whichit is not in the power of pru-
te?dpre-
dent and persevering industry, combined with intelligence, feelvt m'Al-lierueesknoclTiTecallifl'o'asm and the prisoner
to command—hardly a pinnacle of eminence attained by the M`Cabe placed his hand over prTosieicmnior
vent him from calling out, while the Otlleorsutil*
capitalist which has not been achieved through the agency
of these virtues, and through their agency alone. In P°chim of his witch, £5 los. in money, hhiilf3;
having obtained They
aeirdl ofr't ran away,
aay,and
r oabnbr
ag
the
proof of this, need we do more than inquire into the origin prosecutor overcoat, kts'
policeman, went
of the most eminent capitalists this 'country has ever in search of the thieves, who were found in
reputable., house in Banastre-street, in which aadis.
known ? How few, if any of them, have not arisen from glove.
belonging to prosecutor, and which had been in his o
ver-
.. .

among the sons of toil? Where, let us 'ask, were the coat i7cCiet at time he was robbed, was found. No
ancestral acres or paternal hoards of Sir RICHARD ARK- other portion of the property was discovered. The prose...
WRIGHT, probably the greatest capitalist this great country cuter, who appearednanlezeasbneecastabtlnenmeaptrentified the
ever saw ? An obscure shop, in a small town in Stafford- tas prisoners
him. Fleming
e said he was perfectly sober ea?lii.teytiwmhe°,
shire, included the broad lands of his early culture ; from and had not been in a public-house in .Liverpool. An
the teeming storehouse of his own inventive brain, and i alibi was established on the part of the prisoner Smith,
and be was discharged. The other two were committed
rob the shop-till
the exhaustless resources of his unconquerable Indus- for trial.
.o'clock.ee, on
ph
Ithi7g3to
try and intelligence, he drew the fertilizing stream, ATTEMPTED SHOP ROBBERY.--A boy, named Joseph
tcoweenfnec
elioenveerns
asnhop twelve
which, converting the arid waste into a field of gold, Moore, was charged with attempting
raised him to honour, and enriched his country. He never Sundaymatie,
listened to the syren song of those who represented capital saw the prisoner lying over the counter,tii.
hisA witness
listened
as the antagonist of labour. Who, we may inquire, built the till-drawer, and gave the alarm. The prisoner wasat
up the princely fortune of the elder PEEL ? No bloated taken
ion,inecustody, and having been oonvicted on a pre.
capitalist, as the phrase goes, bequeathed to him the mvieonnsthse . was sentenced to be imprisoned for three
means of buying the blood, and bone, and sinew of his POCKET-PICKING /N STANLEY-STREET.—John n
fellow-men. His own integrity, prudence, and industry nelly, a ragged little urchin, was charged with picking the
raised for him the edifice of fortune. To come nearer our spockete ofs a ltmetcnhe;, who wasm the worse of liquor, in
own times and neighbourhood, from what stores of antes- o'clock.' He was seen, by aY 'rpoliceman,g l'oh`all half-past t one
a k e
tral wealth did the late Sir JOHN GLADSTONE derive the , book from the pocket of the tipsey man, and was sntenced
t -
fortune by which he was enabled to provide with ducal i to be imprisoned for three months.
ROBBING HER MISTRESS.-Julia Ryley,
munificence for his own family, and bestow a lasting
and dirty-looking girl, was harged with a poor ragged
blessing on many of the poor of his native land ? Sagacity, secreting two sovereigns from a drawerbelongingbstr9cting and
courage, integrity, prudence, and industry were his only i mistress, residing in Wesley-street. It appeared htaot hersli
patrimony. From the overflow of whose plethoric wealth wasttakseneninaot thsahouae as an act of charity, and here
did PETO derive the means which have raised him to a 1 ing which she taxed the ps'd nere.severeigns,with abstract-.
This
place in the senate, and given him the companionship of 'I denied all knowledge of ; but on being
pressed,the latter at first
princes ? In what undiscovered land of gold did RoBERT i ened with the police, her obstinacy gave way, aianici dsitiherfirst
eat-
NAPIER originate those works which have conferred on !
of thesbedtahialtd salrch shorrds uld be made under the math
him the title of the greatest marine engine builder in the the money:;-Which ewilsrafounlwhewreledgedp having purloined
world ? a blacksmith's shoeing forge, in an obscure suburb The mistress expressed a • h toe havries,ilieer hatil sueggested,
of the City of Glasgow, was the origin of his el clorado I punished, and she was dismissed with an admonition.
But further
But why should we seek to prolong the enumeration? I PASSING BASE COlN.—John Bradeley, an elderly many
Every day's experience—every page of our history—re- wnieghet withlast,el'ilna pu passingflc.
ou
stew o
It
iad shillings on Saturday
waspeared he watched an
veals to us that in this happy country no point of social \ opportunity while the landladybusy, and went and
'
elevation, no extent of operation, is denied to sober in- called for a glass of ale, for which he tendered a shilling,
tegrity and honest toil, if these are allied to industry and received change, drank the ale, and walked off. In a
e
prudence. It is to uproot so fair and goodly a tree, to gslliasor
otifmLeafatenrdwaragd.asinheplcirde back, called for another
s own The first
poison so beneficent a stream, that those moral pests who 1 shilling having by this time been a shilling,discover
discovered to be bad, the
debauch the mind, and inflame the passions, of our work- second was looked at, ale found to be bad also. The first
ing millions, have directed their noxious efforts. shilling had, in the meantime, been broken by *
.some one;
and on the prisoner being charged with
nlan +l. catu.rmrl 11., bornmp a 1,,.;•...,. —_ passing it, and

a►MO We bel'AlllU, 11C neuanie auusive, swore at all
the ac-
cusers, swallowed the second shilling, and threw the
pieces of the first one into the fire. lie was taken into
custody, and the fragments of the base coin saved, and was
brought before the magistrates. Mr. Clough said the
prisoner was known at the office as a passer of bad
money, and requested to have the case remanded for a
week, which request was complied with.

SUSPICIOUS CHICUMSTANCE.—Peter 111`Neaney and Rase
NUNeaney, who keep a disreputable house in in Richmond.
row, were brought up, charged with having in their posses.
sion a silver watch, which they could not account for.
The female alleged that the watch had been left as se-
curity for a night's lodging by a young man, whom she
did not know. They were remanded till Saturday, to
afford time for further inquiries.

ABSCONDING WITT( lIIS EMPLOYER'S MONET.—Patrick
Malone, a rough-looking Pathinder, was charged with ab-
sconding with £8 Os., which he had been sent to collect
by his mistress, Jane Perry, residing in Olive-street, Cop-
peras-hill, on Saturday last. Not returning with the
money, search was made, and the prisoner was found
He about to embark on board the Drogheda steamer, he hay-
ing paid for his passage-
was taken into custody, and
£8 ss. 4d. was found in his possession. He said. he did.
not mean to steal the money. Remanded till next day.
TILE FORGED ORDERS FOR DELIVERY OF COTTON.--•
John Woods, late a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Seddon,
was brought up on remand from last Monday, on a charge
of having presented forged orders for the delivery of cot..
ton, whereby forty-three bales had been fraudulently re.
moved from Messrs. Seddon's warehonse. Mr. Clough
applied for another remand, as the evidence had not yet
been quite completed. The attorney for the prisoner ob-
jected to the remand. He said that, even on the previous
occasion, there had not been evidence sufficient to justify
a remand, and nothing new had since transpired to impli-
cate his client in any degree farther than had then been
adduced. Mr. Clough said Inspector Keogh had obtained
a clew to the transaction, and was now in the country en.
deavouring to trace the property; he had no doubt that in
aday or two the transaction would be cleared up. Remanded
till Wednesday.

—The ball to be
I Mersey Yacht

g vRe
nO
under
M E
tRhSeE IrpaYtr
0A Cn I la
gT e CL
of
, Roy,L
-Club, for the benefit of the Liverpool Sailo.s' Home,
place in the Town Hall, on Thursday night. The atten-
dance is expected to be numerous. There will be, we
understand, a brilliant display of plate on the supper
table, including several of the finest prizes won by the
yachts belonging to the members ; among them will be
two of Her Majesty's Cups, won by the Bacchante and
Coralie ; also, the first grand Challenge Cup of this club,
won by the Vision.

THE LATE Ma,. TITOMAS PARR.—Our obituary to-day
announces the death of Mr. Parr, registrar of one of the
.local districts.. He was a gentleman of refined taste and
a cultivated intellect. As an artist, the late Earl of Derby
held him in high esteem; and his occasional poems will
compare advantageously with many of his contemporaries:
He was an excellent judge of art, and, what was better,
he had a good heart, which endeared him to all his friends ;
Shanisofontl:ewillberendered
his family adored hini.—Liverpool Journal.
THE OBATOIZIO AT TILB PIIILITAIIMONIC HALL.—
Ofaratorsitoreonf;
Philharmonic
society. There is no melody equal to sacred music, of
which Handel has left us the finest specimens, and
" Samson" is considered one of the best of his works.
None who really delight in music should miss the opportu.
nity which will be afforded this evening, of which one of
tHliisandeeviesZaggibi3ifi• ctleinet
the most pleasing features will be that fine solo, "Let the
bright seraphim?" by Madame Viardot Garcia..

LIVERPOOL AMATEIIR GLEE AND MADRIGAL UN'
—The sixth performance of this s

in Clavt

,ily attended than