New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-28
A NEW ENGLISH ALLIANCE.
Union OF THE TORIES AND THE WORK
INGMEN.


ABLE TO AGREE WITH THE MIDDLE
CLASSES - REPORTED REJECTION Bf THE
GARNET OF TIE PROPOSALS OF THE WORK.
INGMEN.
,yRoN THB REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THB TRIBuNBl
LONDON, Oct Eff the accounts Published
within tho two days may DO trusted Ahgiaho 10 on
the eve OF a new Revolution, peaceahle IN FORM out
ono an deep "a to make all the Radcaism OF recent
var soam utter Conse rvatlsm The Scotsman and tho
xan,h,ster Guardian have published (the former on
uesday the latter yesterday detailed naTauVeS OF tno
nav depart,re. It must DO said az once tnaI uue'
nothing OF equal Importance has appeared IN prh' tn
many year The architect OF the new scheme Mr.
soo,t Rnsseu the emincnt engineer. He conceived, 80
tong spo as last January, the idea OF conference
between tho wOrkngmeu and some OF uo
governing men in Poltos. He mad seen
-As anybody who chose to look oelOW tne
surface could not belp secing-that the artisans
Ara far from being satisfied with their own condition.
and farther st from being contcnted with the measures
~ laxsIation offered by the Liberal leaders. They
wanted the suffrage and the ballot but only as meana
while Mr. Gladstone has always seemed to regard them
a. ends Moreover, the active minds among the work
ipgmen had got Of habit Of regarding the Liberal
party as party to which tHoy must necessarily belong
or with which toy could have close sympathy, or from
which they cau expect measures o. radical relief The
party was too bourgeois, too midde-class, too much
under control TIE men whose solo idea Of government
IL like Dlnl WcbScrs that its business is TO protect
OF the extan Of the feeling against the political power
exercised by the House OF Lords and that an agitation
might al at arg spring up formidable enough to
endanScr thrir existence Us a Legislative Body.
All these considerations and many moro presented
themselves to the mind Of Mr. Scott Russell and led him
TO open negotiations between the two We may safely
presume that Mr.. Scott TsSon had read and pondered
tie history Of the French Revolution, and fOresaw that
after ano''cr s; must another o. Between
middle class ond lower thOrc could no no alliance
Between aT'cracy and tire people an alliance vas pos
sible. Ir conferred with representative men OF both
CLASSES. After many interviews the artisans formed
themsclves INTO Council Of skilled workyuen and at
the request az the Peers up statement Of their
demands Some 4 the wOrkngmen appear, at one stage
Of the oatOus have sought to enlist The LlOelas
this and the Liberal Peers OF high rank be-
came party to IT, but the Cabinet, II s said would
nothing to say proposals sweeping The vel
sion of them in The Manchester Guardian is as follows:
l. The families OF or workmrn shall be rescued from
the dismal lanes crowded silcys and qnWhoeSon"
dwellings OF towns, and placed "out IN the clear
WHERE in ~ 1nd'Ie OF q garden family shall have
lts own detached homestead, md where IN wholesome
S pr e' mprT ne ienco OF weor5ered homes There
Shs be ated perfect orga1z2tion Tor me
the acquisition and disposal ~ land for the common
Honest %rri IT, al .iti1n to schools for elementary
education there shall be established schools tjr teen,
public recreation knowledge, AMI rcrcshment shah he
establshe 'nl mani lived as prs OF tns PqGnC ar
tarcd IN rvrr town frr the sale Of goods Of the Scst
quality in su quantities At wholesale prices T. There
Of the TuGc service on the model Of the POst-ofce.
That o. The Scotsman differs in phraSeolOgy and IN
some paints in subs do not know which Z the
more authentic but that you m2y judge between them,
Iquotc this also:
l. Souctli ike the United States H5:oes'cad law,
with modern improvements, is 10 b. Gna'ed y which
the crowded quarters of the towns and given detached
q The CommuDe is TO be established so far as TO con-
fer upon al counties towns and villages perfect or
QUESTION and disposal Of lands for the common good.
8. Eight hours of honest nd skilled work shall cOnsti-
l. Schools for technical Instruction shall be established
at the eIrse Of the STATE in the midst OF the home
Public markets. s1 he erected in every town, 1T the
public expense for ~ sale o; goods Of the best quality
There shall b. established parts Of the public
service places OF public Tocleauon kuo"cdgr, and re-
:. The railways shall be purchased and conducted at
the public expense and for the common good, as the
POstOfice service is now conducted.
One of these two was submitted to the Council Of
Peers and the h August they accepted it in the fol
lowing terms:
The counsel Of legislation for the well being and we'll
doing nf English skilled worknen accept tho propositions
made 10 them Mr. Scott Russell, the President
Council Of Ecpres ntatve Workingnen, constituted il
Titb tSst Council regarding the legislative measures
necessary promote the physical moral and intellectual
s6ity Of preparing those legislative measures carry
ing the objects OF tne t enTG ann "I PrnG
OF Parliament. They do not conceal from themselves
difclti = ana opposition which may arise in carrying
into execution tbs agreement and in inducing Paria-
Inent TO the legislation demanded; but they must
rely upon TIE good sense aud PATRIOTISM OF the Gnleht-
sued public opinion Of the country 10 secure ultimate
suCcess
The names purporting to he signed this document
are among the greatest in England They the Earl
NJ IohAsld tho Earl Carnarvon the marquis OF Sal
tsbury tie Marquis OF LOrne, Lord Henry LennoK Lord
John Manners Sir John PakiDGtOn, Sir Stafford North
COTE and NJ, Claiborne Hardy The Earl Of Lichheld
and tie MARQUIS OF Lorne Liberals. All tho others
are Tories and all have been Cabinet Ministers except
Lord Henry LenuOx, who was Secretary TO the Admi-
itv pnder the last two Conservative Administrations
II IA said Lord Iiched and Lord Lorne are among the
liberals consulted In the way have mentioned above
and that thoy insisted on remaining members OF the
Council after the chiefs OF their party had refused
20 take any share in the proceedings. 1t is said further
and might be guessed that Mr. Disrae. Lord Derby,
and the Duke Of Richmond prvy to the whole scheme
and approve It, but have kept their names on the paper
That Mr. Disrae at the bottom Of the whole business
nobody who suppUses to have real meaning Woulu
for moment doubt He has been occupied, ever since
the passage Of his Reform bill in 1857 in inventng the
Conservative workngman" and the term Of his labors
Hould seem to be approaching. The signatures on the
mart OF the Council Of Skilled WOrknEmen" are those
OF Messrs Robert Appegath Joiner; Daniel Guile iron
founder; George Howell, brcklayer ]. W. Hughes car
penter George Potter, joiner Lloyd Jones' tsttan cut
ter; W. BroadhurSt. masOn Wetstone' engineer; Deigh
ton oiner Barker shoemaker; Squires, painter Barry
anthor Of "Workmen's Rights" Latham, Chairman Of
the Labor Representation League; Highlander. tele-
eraohist and Scott Russell Engineer. OF these, Messrs
AppleRaFth Howell Potter, and Lloyd Jones are well
known to everybody interested OF late years IN labor
questions Mr.. Odger and Mr. Bradlaugh are not men
toned 1t added that the Peers Committee is 70 De
largely increased and that early in January the two
Committees or Councils will meet in order to agree on
hills tn he offered In Parliament at the beginning OF the