The sailor in the merchant service does the name.

Both are an uncultivated, a shamefully uncultivated, class--and see the result! Look at the Map of Crime, and you will find the most hideous offenses in the calendar, committed--not in the towns, where the average man doesn't lead an out-of-door life, doesn't as a rule, use his strength, but is, as a rule, comparatively cultivated--not in the towns, but in the agricultural districts.

As for the English sailor--except when the Royal Navy catches and cultivates him--ask Mr.Brinkworth, who has served in the merchant navy, what sort of specimen of the moral influence of out-of-door life and muscular cultivation _he_ is." "In nine cases out of ten," said Arnold, "he is as idle and vicious as ruffian as walks the earth." Another cry from the Opposition: "Are _we_ agricultural laborers?
Are _we_ sailors in the merchant service ?" A smart reverberation from the human echoes: "Smith! am I a laborer ?" "Jones! am I a sailor ?" "Pray let us not be personal, gentlemen," said Sir Patrick.

"I am speaking generally, and I can only meet extreme objections by pushing my argument to extreme limits.

The laborer and the sailor have served my purpose.