The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

EL AND THE FACTORY SYSTEM

(From Mr. °miler's Fleet Papers.)
ler letter 1 told you that I feared Sir Robert Peel
quainted with the real character of the working
d that I was apprehensive_ his ignorance on that

Ant would be the ruin of his administration, as it was
,at of the Whigs. I informed you, also, that it had
3erto been Sir Robert Peel's habit not to receive the de-
ations of working men, when they waited upon him, but
t his custom was to require them to state their views in

I am now delighted to have the opportunity of stating to I
jou, that Sir Robert Peel has received a deputation of work-
ng men from the Short-time Committees of Lancashire ;
.hat he has patiently listened to them, whilst they rehearsed
o him the miserable condition of the factory workers, whilst
they explained the causes of their misery, and whilst they
'minted out the remedies. The Premier received them with
great courtesy. listened to them with marked attention, and
expressed to those working men his approval of the very pro-
per and able manner in which they had described the suffer-
ings of their clients, and pointed out their causes and reme-
dies. Sir Robert Peel assured the deputation that "he was
deeply impressed with the very great importance of their
mission, and of the facts which they bad laid before him,
and that he and his colleagues would devote their most seri-
ous attention to the question, with a view to the happiness
and well-being of those concerned." The deputation did
not forget to impress upon the Premier the close connexion
which there is between the factory system and the new poor-
-' how the latter was calculated to oppress and add to
who are engaged in the former.
,ss it should be. The government and the work-
are no longer strangers. The truth has been told
rig men to her majesty's ministers. There was no
Chadwick, no Muggeridge, intervening to mar their
or to suppress their evidence. I know what effect has
produced on the minds of the working men by that in-
'w—l guess what impression has been made upon that
premier.• No man can come into close contact with
-king men of England without loving them. It is the
'die cormorants of commissioners, their assistants,
,tvies, who have lived upon traducing the working
' who have ruined their patrons, the Whig govern-
stened to their lies, and acted upon their sugges-
"lose despicable hangers-on, who have, by de-
overnment, caused all the misery under which

Now, th

ngs cf th,

and groan

r, the fact that the premier will now corn-
; men raises my hopes more than I can
.ough it may seem strange to you, it is true,
Acuities of the government have arisen out of
—a perfect ignorance of the character of the work-
The truth is, that commissioners have found it
interest to make the government believe that the
asses were idle, turbulent, vicious, profligate, and
at what. Hence every measure which has been
ay the lecislature is of a coercive character, being
d for a different class of beings than the working
;ngland; and consequently it has increased the misery
t was intended to remove—forced the complaints of
)ple to become louder; and then it required another
.ilers, in the shape of commissioners, assistants,
inspectors, clerks, and all sorts of idle drones, to
;t industrious, reasonable, virtuous, and loyal
urn rebellion. Now, however, that the premier
working classes have had a meeting, I anticipate the
ath of Job-Commission-Leoislation ; and, amongst other
,00d measures, I think that ?foresee the speedy enactment
of a simple, plain, efficient Ten Hours' Factories' Regulation
k ct, without one single hanger-on.
"‘an Sir Robert Peel has received a few more deputations
I am confident that he will see how
, people have been libelled by the Poor
_..,stoners ; and when he has discovered that, there
no doubt that he will at once repeal the accursed New
Poor Law Act, which was passed under the assumption and
-;tive declaration that the working classes were idle, lazy,
-nt, and profligate ! The truth is, and it is impossible

e working

to lay too much stress upon this one fact, the philosophers
are a race of men who are eveidreaming of a state of exist-
ence without restraint, which they call "liberty," but which
we, of the Christian school, know to mean libertinism. To
pave the way for the consummation of their hopes, they want
to get rid of the aristocracy on the one hand, and of the poor
on the other. It mars their peace to see a race of men, who,
from their station, are so much their superiors. The re-
straint which homage imposes makes them miserable; and
then, the poor are so burdensome," that, in order to gratify
Ile selfishness of our philosophers, and to ease them of the
:traiiit required by the support of the poor, a dogma was
'ushingly propounded, that " the poor have no right to
that nature never provided a seat for them at her
" Upon that doctrine, so contrary to the divine law,
,ew poor law founded ; and this philosophy sue-
,ndermining the Christianity of the constitution,
ued got rid of the claims of the poor. To accom-
'ish desires of these philosophers, (the destruc-
ocraey and the poor,) they have pictured the
as monsters, and have succeeded in setting
The result has been that the deluded Sri-
...ve been beguiled
Ice. by the sophistries of the philo-
anbelieving
insthe great
d that the poor were in reality lemon-
which they were depicted,
rui
see Lord Brougham ' he fables of
s speech on proposing the
•
ew poor law), a law that has been passed, on the principle
let the poor have no rights.

1 at var

schoolmaster

DUTIES.--1n the morning, think what thou hest to do ;
and at night ask thyself what thou hast done.
We learn from Corfu that the harvest of Corinth grapes
has been very good this year both in quality and quantity.
Cephalonia has produced nearly 12,000,000 of pounds, arid
Zatite about. 7,000,000. A fall in the price is therefore.
loolc.ed far. It was expected that a very large quantity of
exceltent olive oil would be made, as the trees were loaded
with fruit in fine condition.

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