ne dragon's teeth, which Burns the demagogue and his coadjutors sowed on the banks of the Thames last year, have been energetically starting from the! ground and bearing fruit. The perfectly natural, if somewhat overdone, sym-dockyard labourers, who formed the first pathy felt and actively expressed for the
: erop, rather than the innate merits of: the ouse, is the stimulating fertilizer mainly responsible for the proligious harvest which has been ripening continuously since. The lavish generosity of our Australian brethren, so works Company is used in the manufac- ceedingly well meaning but so wnfor- over-policed that the complaint of inture of this ive, do not ate to {tunately misdirected, through no fault! sufficient numbers is periodically rei-partake of it, believing that they are of the donors, was answerable for much. quite safe la so doi For those tens of thousands of pounds We have received a letter from a from the Colonies gave currency to an correspondeut—which is perhaps too impression, entirely erroneous emphatically expressed for publication turned out, that the Colonists wished their charitable intention was to save from starvation the strikers' innocent victims, their own families to wit. Burns, to whom the distribution of the money was entrusted, knows how much of it reached its legitimate destination and how much was mis spent on the discouragenient of blicklegs. But, to the average artisan, it was probably never made quite clear what the sympathy at home and over the seas really meant. The mind of the would-be striker endowed the sentiment with an elasticity it never possessed, and each one fondly dreamed it would be extended to him too, if he would only whatever the indivi-f his case might be, So the dockers of Liverpool followed the dockers of London, only to tind that the public interest had" had time tuwaue. Then came the gasworkers with their alleged grievances; strony, apparently, ct that their services were indispensable to. the public, yet destined to on that very account. For people who could syuipathies with a dockyard trouble which affected them personally only indirectly, turned a cold shoulder to a movement which threatened to leave them in the dark after sundown. Undeterred by the defeat of the gasman. the miners in the north country and railway servants in Ireland kept up the succession, and now by the latest accounts the movement has extended to the police and postuien of the metropolis.
Of the seriousness of the news, there can scarcely be two opinions, general tion from work of the letter-carriers and sorters of the London Post Office would result in a dislocation of the business, not only of that city but of the world, and it is almost impossible to p all. the ra gravity of the consequences. It is searcely too much to say that last year's predicament, when te 'Thames was lined with steamers whose cargoes could not be worked for want of labour and j the shipping trade of the port received a blow from which it is scarcely yet recovering, would sink almost' into insignificance. he paralysis of the postal service for a single day would entail the detention of over a million letters and the non-delivery of nearly twenty thousand parcels; and what might mean merely personal inconvenience in the idle quarters of the capital might spell financial disaster in the city. Yet business prosperity itself must be a secondary matter in comparison with the security of life and property. Even with the fifteen thousand men which the combined city id Metropolitan Police Departments: di pose of, London is so fur from being terated in the public prints. If therefore even the half were to lay down their batons and peacefully retire into private life, it may easily be imagined {what a carnival the dangerous classes
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