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      how the Tailors there have taken a large building in the AUmarkt which they christen Academie der Kleiderkunst , or Academy of the Art of Tailoring , and are there occupied in inventing a sort of national costume , in order to do away with French fashions , against which their pride revolts . Success to them I But this appears to me to be the case with all r eforms , whether of politics , language , or co stume , viz ., they must pass to a higher stage through modifications of existing things . Bloomerthe Phoneti

      ism will fail as c System failed—the change is too sudden , the leap too great . Home I drove , sad and thoughtful . My expectations had not only been disappointed , but I had seen Human Nature under aspects by no means fav ourable : the mob outside , the mob inside , and those poor creatures flaunting in satin , driving one ' s thoughts in upon one ' s soul to brood there in sadness . Above shone the cold stars , distant and dim . Around all was silent . My wearied head was soon reposing on the pillow , and I too passed into silence .

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      INFLUENCE OF CO-OPERATION ON PUFFING . An Association of Journeyman Hatters have com " menced business at J 2 , Broughton-road , Salford . The miseries of unlimited competition , the abuse of the power of capital , have taught the woiking classes that " union is their only strength" ! but painful experience has likewise shown that strength to be wasted , for the most part , in combinations for the raising of wages , in the forced idleness of strikes . By united labour , therefore , they now seek to maintain ihemselves and their families , and if not in every instance able to compete with the nominal cheapness of the low-priced tradesman , they hope in the quality and workmnnshipof their goods to guarantee to all customers the fullest value of their orders .

      Those who look beyond the work to the worker , who feel that custom iUelf has its morality , and that the working classes of England have been stinted of their due reward in money , health , and knowledge , will surely aid a movement which tends to substitute airy workshops for dens of filth and fever , fair pi ices for starvation wages , fellowship for division , and moral as well as practical self-government for mechanical obedience , or thraldom bitterly felt , and by the peaceful , healthy , intelligent , and gradual processes of labour , to check the blind and sudden struggles of want .

      The Old Gamut Store , Manchester , is a new store , doing a portion of its business with the Central Agency of London . At . No . Ul , Drouk-Ktrcet , Old Garratt , near the Caipenter . s' -hall , this industrial cooperative association has been established by woiking men . The objects of this society are to supply its members and others with articles of consumption of the best quality at . a reasonable rate , and to direct them to the production of agricultural and manufactured wealth , so as to supply their material and educational waiitu , improv .: their social mid domestic condition , and generally diffuse the benefits of cooperative unity . The capital is raised in one pound shares , each member has two shares , and

      pays one shilling for entrance fee , and instalments of not less than threepence per week , until the whole , be p ; iid up , live per cent , per annum interest allowed on uli paid up shares . The profits after retaining one tenth for secular educational purposes , Mid one tenth for a sunk fund will be divided amongst the meinberB in proportion to their outlay . % In case of ( sickness or di « tr » ss , a part of the shares maybe withdrawn , thus answering the purposes of a Trades' Union , licnefil Society , or Savings -Hank , and industrious classes and all in the district who are'desirous of nceing tin ; present syHtem of isolation Hupcibeded , are asked to give them all the assistance in their power .

      This Htore does not yet receive all the support it has a li ^ ht to expect from friends near , abh ; to add u . seful influence to its proceedings , und in Home moral mcanuie pledged to do so . Hut . on another visit I hope to find it posHChfiing the cooperation of all its rightful allies . The Htore at 1 , i , Swan-street , Manclienter , under the K 0 . pt'i jntrudiiice of Mi . Lloyd Jones , in a branch of the Central Agency , 7 (> , Charlotte-street , London . It in Well situated , well stocked and beai . s the appearance of a promising bu . sincHM shop . The account of the two kIdmk first named in rendered ( with slight omissions ) in the \ vordn of the placard * * issued by the directors , and it . in on this account , chiefly , 'hat 1 use their HtatementH . The old verbiage and hombuHt , which pretended to cure all liuinim ills , and refor m ^ th « cntiro navigably world , by u , fungle grocer ' s

      shop , or isolated hatter ' s block , is now falling into desuetude ; and a modest good sense , moderate in its professions , but not less faithful in performance , is taking the place of the old hyperbolism of reform . All over East Lancashire I observe new mills being erected , all of them large , many of them elegant structures , much more elegant and tasteful than their commonplace , gloomy , prison-like predecessors . The cottontrade people flourish in these days . At Padiham the working classes are taking advantage of this vegetable prosperity . Seventy-five operatives have subscribed as many shares of £ 2-5 , and built an admirable mill , both as

      respects strength and style .. Its complete fitting up with machinery will raise its entire cost to about £ 7000 . The shares are being augmented to effect its finish . Its rise has been rapid . When I went over it a few weeks ago its machinery was beginning to be placed in it . If these operatives do not get rich by their plan , they are pretty certain to get knowledge , position , and the incalculable pleasure of being their own masters . Already it is being spoken of as an asylum for some men who , on account of their opinions , have been injured in their employment by other masters . Thus cooperation enables these operatives to become the protectors of their own class .

      It is not likely that any of these new capitalists will fall info the narrow selfishness of too many of the present race of masters . These rising cooperators everywhere make provision for the education and final emancipation of their employes , which promises a belter future for industr )' . Some political lecturers have lately been round , speaking against cooperation , on the ground that it . makes men into masters and capitalists . So much the better . The more l he merrier . Let the workman have his turn ; no harm will happen if the chance comes round to every man . Any how there will come moral good out of these

      cooperative schemes . The pretension of honesty is good —it ieads to : he reality . Protesting , as all cooperators do , against the present false system of trade , they endeavour to avoid it , and bit by bit they succeed . Witness the plain , and therefore pleasant , statement made by the Central Cooperative Agency of London , of the goods they supply . They confer ( as I have observed in a former letter ) as much benefit on society by ih < i quality of their statements as by the quality of their articles ; and all cooperation inclines to proportional language . Disliking competition , it naturally avoids its besetting vice of exaggeration to sell its strife-begotten wares .

      Puffing has become a moral nuisance which ought no longer to be endured . When a man tells me , as is done by show bills at-many stations on the Midland line , that my " railway expenses may be saved" by buying his tea at his shop , I not only disbelieve him , I am disgusted with him and his tea too . If I do not Eoon learn to dislike tea itself , I am sure that I could no more drink the decoction procured from than I could Epsom Salts , in which Pil . cochia had been dropped with

      a view to flavour it . If a tradesman tells me he has " the finest bacon ever imported , " how am I to prove it ; and if I cannot prove it , why does he tell it me ? Am I to take his word ? A dozen other Corn-factors , in the same street , tell me the same thing . The " finest" hog that ever was , cannot have been large enough to havefilled a dozen shops at once . He who tells me what I cannot prove , and what I cannot believe , must mean to deceive me ; and if he will deceive me in his window , how do I know that he will not deceive me over his

      counter ? The man who will lie in his placard , will not scruple to lie in his dealings , lam sure that there is a widespread sickness being felt at this offensive inflation ; and even poor and humble tradesmen in every part of the country are conceiving a repugnance to the practice , and refusing to fall in with it , and pooler working-men ( from whom it . is not to be expected ) , and from poor workingwomen ( from whom it is less to be expected ) , arc avoiding those shops which offend taste and truth in their puttings . 1 have seen this done , and have ascertained it by questioning , and I know that the day is coining when the trade of truth will be as profitable as the trade of falsehood is now . I ought to write has been , for I am glad to be able to yny that the trade of falsehood does not puy now half so well as il did , and is altogether a " losing game" in many places . Ion .

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      Sinci : iutv and 'lnum iiufihib all Iiiimcis . — lhe feeling which we are considering ( Consiieiitiouttness ) is the moHt important of all , because it regulates the proper action of all the others , by confining them within the bounds of what in right . It makes mm desire " to do to othern as we would they should do to uh , " and to love truth and sincerity above all things . It is painfully evident to nil who think upon the subject , how much the world needs the proper cultivation , exercise , and direction of tliin faculty . It is disheartening to contemplate the vast area which " Vanity Fair " occupies , in which each acts a part , each wears a mask , each endeavours to deceive bin neighbour by passing for something more or less than

      he is , and each is satisfied with mere seeming , without being or doing . Love of approbation is the prime mover ; the craving ; for distinction , not excellenceto appear , not to be . I ' lairsc . in the grand desideratum ; and as to he virtuous is often too diilieult or too troublesome , the semblance is nusumed of whatever will bortt weenie the approbation of society . The development of a large conscientiousness can alone counteract the wide-ttprcading and infectious tendency . We inuHt strengthen the love of truth , of sincerity , of candour , in our children , and begin early to make them feel heaitily ashamed of taking credit which in not strictly their due . Never neglect an opportunity of showing how mean , how dbhonuwt it i » .- —Mlw < , < , tionof tho Feelings , by Charles JJray *

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      THEATRES . Want of space prevents our doing more than simply recording that Miss Laura Keene made a successful debut at the Olympic in the Lady oj Lyons ; that Morris Baenet has worked up an old and amusing stoiy into a very amusing farce , Circumstantial Evidence , at the Strand Theatre j that Miss Glyn has been reading Shakspeare at the Whiltington Club j and that Ingomar , that queer German play ( in which Anderson made a dash at low comedy ) has been revived at Sadler ' s Wells to give Phelps the part of the Barbatian , which we hear he plays very skilfully .

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      nm [ In this department , as all opinions , howbvbr extremh , ARE ALLOWED AN EXPIIBSS 1 ON . THE EDITOR NECESSARILY HOLDS HIMSELF RESPONSIBLE FOB NONE . ]

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      There is no learned man but will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened , ir , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for his adversary to write . —Milton .

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      THE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF'S CHARGE . October 27 , 1851 . Sir , —As you profess to conduct your paper for a social and religious purpose , 1 take for granted that you would not desire to accomplish your object by unrighteous means . You stated in your number for October 11 , that the Bishop of LlandafF , in his recent charge , has made the " crushing confession , " that " the Church of England is not the Church of the people ; " and you have given with inverted commas the words , " Still , the Church of England is not the Church of the people , " as if these were tlie Bishop ' s words . Now , the fact is , that the Bishop never said anything of the sort . His words , which are garbled as above , are these : — " The Church of this diocese , it cannot be denied , is not , to ths extent which we should desire , the Church of the people . " You have applied to the Church generally what he only said of the Church in the diocese of Llandaff ; and you have altogether omitted the qualification with which he has made the statement even with respect to that . You have kept back from your renders the fact , that in tViirty years the population of the diocese has increased from 150 , 000 to 357 , 000 , which is sufficient to account for and explain the statement ; and you have shut your eyes to the Bishop ' s words , p . 53 , in which he is speaking of the Church of England , and says : — " Our Church is not , as it is too frequently regarded in Wales , the Church of the rich only , but of ihe poor also . " Sir , I take for granted that truth is your object , and persuade myself that you will not hesitate to retract a statement which you have so incautiously made . A CtKKQYMAN OV TIIH DlOCKSE Ol' LLA . NDAFF .

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      THE TEMPERANCE LEAGUE . 48 , Morniiiijton-place , October 21 , 1851 . Sin , —Finding from the remarks upon me in your paper of the 18 th instant , that you have been led into a gross error , in consequence of the inaccuracy of a part of the report of the inauguration ot the Temperance League , at Exeter-hall , I beg to set you right in that matter . In that report I am stated to have asked — " Did any of them think that our Saviour ever partook of wine ? " Whereas it should have been , " ever made or partook of intoxicating wine ? '' The effect of this omission , I am sure you will allow , entirely alters the character of my question . Being chairman upon that occasion , a paper was bunded to me , with the question of , " What do the teetotalers say to the miracle of our Saviour turning the water into wine ? " This paper I read , and stated , for the information of the querist , that the teetotalers hud already largely discussed that subject , and also settled it to their entire satisfaction ; and that their opinions might be found in various Temperance publications . Now , as this question was put to teetotalers , and ns I was then addressing a large number of those persons , I asked " If any of them thought that our Saviour ever made or partook of intoxicating wine ? " The universal reply was "No . " After this explanation you will , no douht , h"nd that you owe nus an apology . The ; insertion of this letter will , however , ualiufy— Yours respectfully , (« HO . ( , ' Ul / IKHHANJC .

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      HOMCKOrATJlY A HVMIWO . Liverpool , October ' 2 , 1 , 1 H 51 . Sue , —That u whole pa » o of your most excellent paper should have b «« -n sacrificed , in us last number , to such a subject m Jloiim >» i > ntliy , torimn it lhe Medical ( illusion of lhe J > ' \ y . <» used me no very jicM-niblc Hiirprise . Why , Sir , there is not a rightthinking im « l honest " ' »> . w" <» . »' « 1 V 1 I 1 K the matter a fair » n < l eloso examination , bus not pronounced Homujoputhy on insuuo idou or a vile deception .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 1, 1851, page 1047, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1907/page/19/