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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...be the United Kingdom, what would this empire be, if tliemen of their class could, by any sudden change, be taken from amongst us? The nation would dwindle into no nation at all, and thqse men wh from their heights of power and wealth look down upon the multitude whose business it is to labour and obey the law, and yet have no share in making that law, --those mn would bo at once dethroned from being the apparent leaders of a great nation, and would themselves, incompetent as they are, have to descend to works of commbn labour, Thich they now.despise. There was One thing I was delighted to see yesterday. It was evident in Birmingham as munh as it was evident here, --more evident in Birmingham than it was in Manchester and in Leeds, --that there seernedtp be a great onion of all classes in the proceedings. Employment for the time appeared to have ceased, except that employment which was the business of the day. There seemed to be--I may be speaking from inadequate mea, ns of observation--but there felt to. me throughout yesterday as if ihe men who lived in the great houses around us had a sympathy in the purposes in which the great body of the people were engaged. If that be so, it augurs well for the cause; and I think it desirable should be known throughout every portion of the kingdom, for I am satisfied that the influence of yesterday's procesdings will not epd with yesterday; it will not end with Glasgow and the west of Scotland, but it will be felt in every portion of the United Kingdom. It is quite clear that this movement in which we are engaged is beginning to be, and has already assumed the proportions of a national movement. What was done in London three months ago was as nothing to what caifibe done in London now, whe