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Redemption Society . —The camp meeting on Woodhouse Moor , Leeds , waB well attended , and was addressed by Messrs . Arandall and Henderson . At the close a person rose to oppose the Society ; but as he charged the promoters of the Society with seeking their own personal interest onl y , and concluded by stating that there was not a man or woman there present who possessed a respectable moral character , of course including himself , his opposition did good to the cause . Whoever speaks in favour of cooperation in this district
is sure of opposition . This is much better than the listless apathy which has so long prevailed . The plan of the store is not decided yet . We wish to proceed in the best manner , and have written to friends in London , Rochdale , and Galashiels for the benefit of their experience . Weekly meetings are regulary held , and well attended , to arrange the plan of proceeding . Moneys received for the week : Leeds , £ 2 2 s . 2 d . ; Manchester , per W . Bloomer , 6 s . 3 d . Building fund : Leeds £ 1 7 s . 6 d . John Sturzaker , Northowram , £ 1 . Propagandist fund , Is . Id . —James Henderson , Sec , 162 , Briggate , Leeds .
Association in France . —Clekmont , July 17 . —The following particulars , communicated to a friend by M . Feugueray , of the spread of association in a third-rate French town , afford perhaps a stronger evidence than anything we have yet seen , of the vitality of the principle in France , and of its universal working . The information was supplied originally by the manager of the oldest association : — " As in many English towns , association began in Clermont with the tailors . Next came the cabinet-makers , the pianoforte-makers , the shoemakers , the arm-chairmaker 3 , and lastly the hatters , whose association was formed but recently . Before long , it is announced , the four building trades ( masons , carpenters , joiners , and locksmiths ) will also form menuisiers
associations ; besides the coach joiners ( en voitures ) who are very flourishing , and have the best prospects for the future , this branch of trade having been long and profitably carried on in the neighbourhood . Generally , the existing bodies are succeeding . One only seems to have no chance of success , that of the armchair-makers , who are suffering from the hostility of the master-upholsterers , who have combined against them to prevent their finding work . It would have been necessary to create also an upholsterers' association , which should have helped that of the arm-chairmakers ; but hitherto this has proved impossible . ( This instance shows , says Mr . Feugueray , how important it is to existing associations that the principle should extend throughout all connected trades . At Paris the success of many associations ,
particularly at the first , has been owing to the help which they have lent one another , and which the older ones in particular have never refused to the younger . Without formal engagement , but by a natural consequence of their common organization , working associations understand and help one another , as being engaged in the same battle , and labouring in the same work . ) The associations of Clermont have been founded solely by the devoted energy of the working men , who have been able to collect but small funds , who have as yet but little credit , and therefore have to bear many privations and miseries , but who nevertheless do not despair , and have already overcome the first and greatest obstacles . All now ( except the one above-named ) begin to have their regular customers , and to feel assured of their position . " — Christian Socialist .
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CASE OV T 1 IJS CO UN MILLERS . July 30 , 1 H 51 . SlK , —Observing that you have been ho good us ( , notice the motion brought , forward by Lord Nuns , on the 16 th iriHt ., I bog to send you No . 7 of the Millars ' Circular , in which you will iind a statistical report ( bo fur uh information has been collected ) of the prcaont Htate of the corn nulling interest . You look on the motion as a labourer ' s question ; and with groat justice when , an you will perceive , that in 318 mills in Ireland , where 6776 men were employed when the millH were in full work , then ; are only 2787 at present employed . You will uIho Hee that In 321 mills in Ireland , only 30 work full time ; , 81 hull " t ime , 48 one-third time , 18 ono-quarter tune , mid 4 /> aroidle . AIho that in these mills only 660 pairs stones wo « tirork grinding corn , Mid 688 * pains idle . Jji
England , Wales , and Scotland , from returns of 340 mills , you will perceive that where 5572 men would be employed if the mills were in full work , there are only 3101 employed at present . It is probable you may be told that the people have found new sources of employment , I therefore send you extracts from statistical circulars sent by Irish millers ( you can see the originals at No . 4 , Gannon-row , Westminster ) . " Kilkenny , No . 59 . —A mill with 7 pairs stones , now idle . French flour is selling so low , and Irish wheat not grown . From 1837 to 1845 these mills ( 3 with 17 pairs stones ) cost for carriers' wages and rnens labour £ 3500 per annum , they now cost only £ 500 yearly , the labourers all in the poor-house or gone to America , that were then employed .
" Tipperary , No . 9 . —Ten pair-mill , £ 5000 , about onethird worked : our export trade being totally annihilated by the immense importations of foreign grain ; 100 men once employed , now 40 . " Cork , No . 28 . —The water-power mills at Shannon Vale are and have been idle these three years ( worked 10 pairs' stones per water ) . We expended over £ 8000 in additional buildings and machinery within 16 years , after which the mill part was burnt down . We since put up the mills and machinery on the newest principles , at an expense of £ 3000 ; but finding free-trade interfered so much with millers , we never since worked them , and they are idle these three years . We were glad to give a surrender of these mills after all our expenditure . Forty men were employed—most of the men and families are now in the poor-house .
" Cork , No . 36 . —The importation of foreign flour interferes so much with the trade , and it is so dull in consequence , that scarcely first cost can be made of the wheat , and not allowing anything to pay the expenses of clerks , millers , carters , labourers , and interest of capital . If something is not done to afford some protection to the trade , these concerns will be stopped ( 9 pair mill , value £ 7000 ) , which will add considerably to the distress of an already very poor district , heavily taxed with poor rates , &c . " Waterford , No . 50 . —A mill , 5 pairs stones , cost £ 5000 , all idle , and remains as a monument of the baneful effects of free trade , every man discharged . "
But the number of men returned as thrown out of employ is very far from the actual quantity . Attached to every large mill in Ireland were formerly a number of carriers , carters , or boatmen , and these are also deprived of work ; see a return which states" Cavan , No . 18 . 6 pairs stones . —Including carters there are forty men thrown out of work , at the two mills of Messrs . Rathbone ; but in returns the millers only losing work are estimated at fourteen . " I believe the fact is , that for every 40 written who are deprived of work , there are in the whole 100 men of one class or another . I now refer you to a circular from Cork , dated July 19 , from Messrs . A . A . Boardman and Co ., it
states" Flour a slow consumptive sale . We see the trench flour is still coming , to the utter ruin of the Irish and English mi ler , who are actually robbed by this most iniquitous law , which would not be tolerated a momont in any other country . We have frequently alluded to this subject , but there seems no possibility of rousing the millers to a sense of their duty . We now tell them if this free trade in flour be not checked , the imports of wheat will gradually fall off , and , ere long , it will all come in manufactured . Of this there cannot be the least doubt . We have said before , and now repeat it , that a duty of 5 s . per sack on French , and 3 s . per barrel on American , flour would at once relieve the workhouses of 100 , 000 hands . There is a cargo in our river now from Nantes waiting orders . " If the middling class , or any other class benefited by this wholesale importation of flour instead of wheat , it would be some palliation of the evil ; but from all parts of Ireland it is stated that bran and coarse flour are A 5 to 40 per cent , dearer than before the alteration of the Corn Laws ; this arises fromjthe line flour only being imported , and the stoppage of the mills in Ireland deprives the poor of coarse flour , and the farmer and cattle-feeder of bran and offal for his pigs , ike . In eonsequenee of the millers having no market for their flour , they are unable to buy of the farmers , und in eonsequenee a large extent of wheat land is thrown out of cultivation in Ireland . Such is the present state of tilings in that distressed country , and the Government have refused to grant an inquiry to ascertain whether the alleged complaints are trul y founded . The milling interest in England , though not ho burl us in Ireland , is becoming worse and worse every day . 1 am , Sir , yours , &c ., A Country MihLi . it .
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" Liverpool , July 30 , 1851 . " Dear Friend , —I received your kind letter on the 28 th , and rejoice that I have one sincere friend , at least , left , in the trying circumstances in which my family are now unfortunately placed . When I read the petition , I thought how easy it is for a living ass tc kick a dead lion . I have nothing but character and reputation left , and it shall be no fault of mine if these be not preserved . " I have not , and cannot have , any objection to the affairs of Queenwood being thoroughly investigated by the House of Commons ; perhaps this will be the most
satisfactory way of adjusting them . Many statements in the petition , however , are a distortion of the facts , calculated grossly to mislead , and others are positive falsehoods , which are not w . orth my notice . I will now only state a few facts , the truth of which you and many others can attest , viz ., that the lessees not only made themselves responsible for the rent of these farms on a ninety-nine years' lease , when they were not worth much more than half the rent that was given for them , spent much more than £ 1000 of their own money on the experiment , and gave years of their own time and labour in endeavours to make it succeed , without receiving one farthing remuneration ; but even after the party who , as they believe , are the authors of this petition , had taken possession of
the property , and greatly deteriorated it , by , among other things , destroying the excellent schools which , with great labour had been formed there , drought the whole plan to a stand still , having on the premises a man with his wife and large family living in idleness upon the property of the creditors upon pretence of bring what he never was legally , an ' assignee , ' and who , when expostulated with about this waste , replied , that he did not care if the property were all spent , for then there would be nothing left to quarrel about , and that he was determined to remain on the farm as lone as there was ^ j MBB 4 »» »* ** -4 * ^ - ^ " « » " ^ " ™ " - ** ™ ' ™ — — — —— — — — — — —
^^ _ ^ ^ a . **^ r . ^ ^ /*» a blade of grass left ; the expulsion of whom , atter earnest remonstances many times repeated during a considerable Bpace of time , is stigmatized in this famous petition as an act of great cruelty ; 1 say , after all inis , the lessees by much exertion found a party to come forward , able and willing to advance Bcveral thousand pounds for the purchase of the farm , stock , and furniture , and for finishing the buildings , and to take a su » - lease of the property for twenty-one years , thus enablmf ? the lesBcew to pay nearly £ 2000 arrears of rent , he * 1 ^ many other payments that were necessary to secuie I - safe possession of the large building , which coa ^ Ilttt ^
£ 20 , 000 , und other property . " Since the furms and buildings have boon in lI ) ^ possession of [" ono" ] Mr . Kdmondson ( the lnr » ' « being htill cultured by their former manager ) , t ' lar ( V hall has been finished , papered , and painted , and J »»> J other buildings have been erected , and permanei lt l . proveinents made ; and I believe it is admitted tlia ^ farms are better cultivated , anil produce better cr l ' than can he grown upon land of similar quality anyw in the South of Kngland . All this and much more J ^ hi en effected by the exertions of these shocking
lesaeeB . " The accountH of the lessors arc duly kept , and who " ever the purlieu who have a right to cull for t'lCiii ^ piepaud to compensate the present occupier of 1 Ue <' , . ( for the money and labour he hau expended , an ' t () * . ' , . the leHHeeH from all responsibility , they will m « Hl fully givo up all the property into their hundn . " It iniiHt be left to our friends and the public tf * " ^ rally , to judgo whether this petition ih a suiia >!<> ' , for all the trouble , anxioty of mind , time , 1 » l ) l ) UI ' , ;„ money , which the 1 uhh <>< b have suffered mid < 'xp « ' »> yi ) Utli this nroiitltHH undertaking .- 1 am , dear U 1 <> I J' , ' / ., truly , ( SiK «« cl ) John JMnoii . " William Ture , Jtiuq ., Dublin . "
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There is no learned man but . will confess lie hnl . h much profited by reading controverniea , Iub aenaCH awakened , and Jtun judgment sharpened . If , then , it . be profitable , for lum to read , why should it not , at . leant ,, bo tolerable ibr Jhjjsi advoruury to write . ' — Mii . ton .
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" Clontui-r , July i 5 H , lNf » l . "Mr Dioau Hin , —1 have read in the Loader of Saturday luut a petition to the Houuo of ( Jouunuuiu ,
from some persons whose names are not given ( vm « fairly , as I think , since they make so free with the narAea of others ) . The petition relates to the affairs of the Harmony Estate ; and it is therein averred that , at a meeting of creditors , &c , held atRosehill , on the 29 t h of June , 1846 , I attended ' and moved certain resolutions as and for the said John Finch . ' Now , this is not the fact . The resolutions were framed by myself , and moved independently of you or any other perso n ; and were so framed and moved in consequence of what I then deemed , and still deem , sound legal information which I had obtained as to the relative position of parties ( especially the lessees and so-called assi gnees ) and having reference also to the most equitable mode of winding up the affairs of the society ; and in whic h resolutions , after mutual explanations , all parties present acquiesced .
" I regret exceedingly the animus which runs through this petition , and the unworthy though futile atte mpt which is made to damage the reputation of yourself , who have devoted so much time and money to the society's affairs , and have incurred heavy responsibilities , fro m which others have shrunk . " As one of the largest creditors of the estate , and as the representative of a deceased creditor to the extent of nearly one-third of the entire liabilities of the society , I have every confidence that at the proper time you will make such a statement of the thankless duties which
you have undertaken and performed at the request of the parties interested—and which have occupied so large a portion of your time and attention , —as shall satisfy all reasonable and business men . And , if I am not much mistaken as to the authors of the petition , it will be found that the extraordinary course pursued by the m and their friends , has very much retarded , and still retards the winding-up of the society ' s affairs ; and ( under advice ) has imposed upon you a silence most disagreeable to your feelings . —I am , my dear Sir , yours , very truly , ( Signed ) William Pare . " John Finch , Esq ., Liverpool . "
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CORUlOSrOJMDMNCK ON TJ 1 K 1 IAJLMONY-11 ALL i'Kl 1 T 1 OIM . Dublin , July ai , 1 HT > 1 . Sih , —I forward yon copies of two hitters which huve passed , in reference to the petition under the above head in your last number , which I will thank you to insert m your next , und oblige , Sir , yours , re » i > eetfully , AVii . i . iam J ' akk .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 16, 1851, page 784, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1896/page/20/
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