News from 15/01/1881
1881; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Autores
Henry Broadhurst, W. E. Gladstone, John Pringle,
ResumoFrontmatter: Notice!, The Common Good. Table of contents: Contents. Editorial: The Dog's Grotto, To Correspondents, But One of Those Wise Old Romans Who Left Us so Many Pithy Aphorisms, Which Have Passed into Proverbs, Asks in a Certain Connexion,"Quis Custodict Custodes?" i. e."Who Is to Guard the Keepers?" Who Is to Guide the Leaders, and "Lift" Those Who Have to Lift Others? and Again, How If the Bulk of the Members of a Club Refuse to Be Lifted. News: The Value of the Trust Properties of the City Companies Have Increased during the past Twelve Years by Something like £105,000 a Year, The Coal Statistics—Port of London, 1880, Mr. Robert Dale, the Manager and Secretary of the Printing Exhibition Held at the Agricultural Hall in July Last, Has Handed to the Printers Pension £100, as the Share of the Profits of the Exhibition Which He Had Promised to the Institution, The Saying,"Anything Is Better than Hard Work," Has Passed into a Maxim; and If Further Proof Were Required as to Its General Accuracy, We Have Only to Refer to the Evidence Given at the Surrey Sessions, on the 6th Inst., in Corroberation of Its Correctness, Nevertheless, Be It Observed, That It Is Usually the Best Men of Their Class Who First Form or Join a Working Men's Club, and Who Therefore Give the Right Tone to It in the Critical Period of Its Youth, The Plea for an Extended System of Inspectorship, under the Factory and Workshops Act, and of a Wider Choice in the Selection of Inspectors, Urged with so Much Force at the Deputation to the Home Secretary, Is Quite in Accordance with Resolutions Passed over and over Again, during the past Twelve Years, at Successive Congresses, Emigration to America, Erratum, Greek Fables and Fairy Tales Endymion, Educational Notes, The Revenue, Mr. George Smith, Whose Name Is so Honourably Associated with the Canal Boat's Act, and with the Clause in the Factory and Workshop Act Having Reference to the Employment of Women and Children in Brickfields and Tile-Yards, Calls Attention to the Constant and Scandalous Evasion of the Provisions of the Former Act, by Means of Sunday Trading and Travelling, Artist-Workmen and Artizans in Antient Times, According to an American Telegram the Railroad Construction in the United States Last Year Amounted to 7,000 Miles, and This Is Estimated to Have Cost 35 Million Sterling, The State of Political Parties, Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections, Lord Bacon, in His "Wisdom of the Ancients," as Usual, Discovers a Much Deeper Meaning in the Legend than Has Usually Been Found There, The Home Secretary on Factory Inspection, The Experiences of James Woodford, Carpenter, Joiner, and Chartist; or, How It Looked to a Working Man Forty Years Ago, If 23s, Is Accounted "A Bad Day's Work," What in the Name of All That Is Honest and True Would Be Considered a Good Day's Work? Engineers, Shipbuildres, Carpenters, Cabinet-Makers, Masons, Bricklayers, and a Host of Other Artizans, Think They Have Done Fairly Well Whe They Get a Couple of Guineas to Carry Home to Their Wives on Saturday Night; but Here Is a Lazy Vagabond Who Grumbles If He Does Not Make Four Times the Amount, Thrift in Liverpool, No Doubt a Most Important Answer Is Given by the Establishment of Working Men's Social Clubs, Which, When Well Managed, Admirably Meet the Wants of the Working Classes in Regard to Social Intercourse, Recreation, and Business. Business: Trade News, The Board of Trade Returns, Just Issued, Are of a Most Encouraging Character, for They Not Only Show the Turn of the Tide, but They Indicate a Growing Activity, and an Increasingly Progressive Prosperity, as Proven by the Following Figures, Notes, Notice to Advertisers and Others, Mr. Gladstone and the Trade Unions. Letter to the editor: "My Dear Sir,—I Have to Acknowledge with Thanks Your Letter of Yesterday, and I Am Much Gratified, as My Colleagues Will Be, to Receive an Expression of Confidence from Your Committee with Regard to Our Declared Intention of Asking Parliament to Amend the Land Laws of Ireland", Correspondence The University Extension Scheme. Poem, verse: Poetry Endymion. Display ads: "The Common Good" Newspaper Company, Limited. Classified ads: Multiple Classified Advertisements.
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