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      at daylight on the 15 th ; the columns north of the Waterkloof , under Colonel Buller , the column south of the Waterkloof under Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre . The operations of that and of the following days were conducted with unabated vigour and great judgment on the part of the officers in command ; the troops bivouacked each night on the ground of their operations , and pursued , the following day , with an alacrity and zeal which cannot be too highly commended , the arduous task of searching for and clearing the forests and krantzes of the enemy ; these appeared to he panic-stricken , offering little resistance , but

      endeavoured to conceal themselves in the caverns and crevices of the wooded hills , where many of them were killed . So closely have all the kloofs and forests of these mountains been penetrated , that although a few lurking Kafirs may have evaded the troops , the result of the three days operations has been the evacuation of the Waterkloof and other fastnesses by the Tambookie chief Quashe and the Gaika chief Macomo and his adherents , and the expulsion and destruction of the Hottentot marauders ; whilst the occupation of

      commanding points and the establishment of military posts effectually preclude their again fixing themselves in those haunts . These operations having been carried on tinder the personal observation of the commander of the forces , it is very gratifying to him to have witnessed the energy and admirable conduct of the troops , burghers , levies , and lingoes ; and his Excellency conveys to the officers , non-commissioned officers , and men employed in these fatiguing duties , his satisfaction with the cheerful manner in which they were performed . "

      The non-arrival of the constitution has caused much dissatisfaction . -An intimation has been received at the Colonial office at Cape Town , that a despatch on the subject of the constitution will be sent out by the next steampacket . Her arrival was therefore looked forward to with much anxiety . A meeting was held on the 8 th of October , by the popular party , when it was resolved to petition Parliament for the purpose of getting the constitution in the spirit of the letters patent ; and in the event of failure serious results were ominously predicted .

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      REVOLUTION IN BUENOS AYKES . TnE restless people of the Argentine Republic have effected another revolution . On the 8 th of September General Urquiza left for Santa Fe , to instal the Constituent Congress , providently taking with him a considerable number of the deputies elect , and leaving General Galan with 4000 or 5000 Entrerianos and Correntinos to keep the Buenos Ayreans in order . The hitter had made no great secret of their dissatisfaction , and found some of Urquiza ' s most influential chiefs ripe for a revolt . On the morning of the 11 th the people and a part of the army fraternised , and Urcjuiza was deposed . Some two thousand troops , under the faithful ( jalan were allowed to retreat . Ifow the revolution has resulted we have no means of saying . Generals ' Pinto and Piran , who succeed to a part of the powers of Urquiza , for the old Chamber of . Deputies has arisen again , have confirmed the free navigation of the Panina and other rivers decreed by Urquiza . Thai is the chief interest wo have in tin : ups and downs of the cxeifeuble gentry who dwell in that fiery region .

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      NATIONAL DKKKNL'K . Alt , the accounts from the militia regiments which have been in training represent them as in a lair way of becoming good soldiers ; and , whin , is more important , thai their general behaviour has been unexceptionable . From pcrHoual inspection we can speuk of the altered appcunmce of the men of at- least one corps . They now stand erect where they stooped before ; their movements sire brisk instead of sluggish ; they hnvo the look , and guit , and bearing of men . It is now demonstrated that twenty-one days ' I raining is immensely serviceable , if only in a sanitary point of view ; and the London clerks niufshopnien would be as much benefited as the London paupers . So if . is in the rustic quarters of the kingdom . Hut volunteer militia regiments are not the only , nor by any means the chief , means of mil . ioim . l defence . We Jook for a great extension of military training , so that all classes may shun ! in' it . Wi ( . h this view we am pleased lo see that , Karl 1 'Wteseue , in reviewing the Kxefer Rifle Corps , made flic following speech : — " 1 have , just received , wilh much pleasure , a report , informing mil Unit you huvo completed tho number required to form two companies , and I inn now oflieiully enabled to lay before I lor Majesty ' s Government u formal statement to" that , effect . It will allord me , satisfaction to add my personal testimony to Mm eflieieney of the corps , whoso voluntary services arc thus tendered to her Majesty . I do not , and I never have feared u foreign invasion ; hut I do boliovo that the bent safeguard against such aggression would be th » knowledgo by foreign countries thafc tho

      people of England are prepared to repel it , and I cannot but feel that the best evidence of that preparation is to be found in the voluntary enrolment of those who are most interested in . cultivating the arts of peace in associations for acquiring the knowledge necessary to encounter the emergencies of war . Gentlemen , I view with pride the effort you have made in this county , and it will at all times fee a gratification to me to promote the constitution of your corps by every means in my power . ' ¦ * Earl Fortescue is the Lord Lieutenant of Devon , and his word is valuable at this juncture , as we may place it beside the Derbys and Lansdownes and Disraelis ; but why did not the Whigs , when they had the power , encourage the armament of the people ?

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      PROGRESS OF ASSOCIATION . REPORT OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING WORKING- MEN ' S ASSOCIATIONS AND OF THE COOPERATIVE CONFERENCE . -I . We have received , and have given particular attention to the perusal of , The First Report of the Society for Promoting Working Men ' s Associations , to which is added a Report of the Co-Operative Conference , held in London last July . We have great pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to this document , which intimately relates to the most important social movements of the day , and furnishes valuable and abundant materials for practically considering them . The Leader has always felt , and certainly evinced , a friendly interest in the work undertaken by the Promoters of Working Men ' s Associations , as a sympathetic effort of certain enlightened members of the liberal profession , to encourage and to guide a movement going on in this country , especially in the North , we might even say , for the last twenty vears . We have been at the same time anxious not to give blindly or indiscriminately our approval ; and we have even at the risk of unjust imputations , opened our columns to queries which may possibly have had some share in eliciting many statements now to be found in the Report both of the Society and of the Co-operative Conference .

      We shall have to consider more than one point raised by these Reports , to place in their true light several statements which admit perhaps of a somewhat different aspect from that which they receive in these pages . Especially it will become our duty to point out such reforms in the constitution , and such modifications in the objects of the Society as we deem indispensable to a Society which aspires to represent f ully the character and efficiency of a truly co-operative institution .

      We are the more disposed to advance our suggestions as the Society has spontaneously expressed the intention of modifying its own constitution . After offering our hearty testimony to the real good which has been effected by the conscientious and self-sacrificing efforts of a few benevolent gentlemen , we will sum up some valuable information , for which we are indebted as well to the delegates constituting the Conference as to the founders of the Co-operative Agency and the promoters of the Working Men's Associations . The following extract may be considered as a synopsis of the doings of the Society from its origin ( 1849 ) up to the holding of the Co-operative Conference , July 18 , 1852 : —

      " The Society for Promoting Working Mon'a Associations utood pledged by its constitution to publish a yearly ' Report . It is now well on in the . third year of its existence , and hart as yet published no Report . It lias broken its bond , arid we think with good reason . Any Keports which we could have published at the end of our first or second years would have been but the voices of children shouting in the dark . The whole mass of our materials were lying round us , and tumbling over us , in chaotic

      confusion . Kaiols which wo thought we had established and done witli one day , were belied by other fuels equally strong on the next . Many of our pot theories wore being lorn up by t . lui roots , and over their uprooting wore groat searchmgs of heart . ; nor do wo pretend oven now Mint we have been uhlo to set our bouse in order , und that henceforth <> ur work will slide on gently without any cliunee of another of those great downfallings , from which we have had no often to pick ourselves up sinoo we started .

      " We do not say this We have a perfect science to oiler ; we do jiot even think that wo have yet ascertained what is the dent way of doing the work we have taken in hand . Hut this we do know , that , that work is one of the grenlest and noblest -if not tho greatest and noblest . — to which a man can put his hand at , this time in . Eiif / land . And that wo Jiiivoho far made a trial of it as to bo able in some eases to generalize pretty confidently from our own experience , and to say This course is a right one , and that a , wrong ; with reasons for our assertion . Keeling , therefore , tliut , in certain matters , which wo btilievo to be of vital intercut , to our country , wo have now a right to speak as men who have been irrt . be battle and have proved their weapons , we have no scruple in giving thin Report to ( lie public , and in claiming for it the earnest uftcntion of all good men . " Our first , mooting was hold in Novombor , 184 t () , unti ut that meeting eight or ton gonthjmon , and two or fchroo

      working men , determined to start an Association of T lors ; choosing this trade because we had already a whom we could thoroughly trust as manager , and beem , we could immediately ensure a certain amount of busi to the Association by becoming ourselves its customers " No sooner had our first Association started than m ' tions of all sorts arose as to its constitution and trover *" ment , its' relations to its founders and the public m over , other bodies , of working-men applied to ua ' forTl ? same kind -of help as we had given to the tailors . It b came necessary , therefore , that we should meet often a ^ organize ourselves so as to act with effect upon the bod of working-men with whom we were getting into co ^ nexion , and bo in February , 1850 , the Societ y was defini " tively formed into the shape which it still keens ami *™ i " offices at 458 , New Oxford-street . * ' took

      "We have published lull details as to the org anization of the Society , in Tract V ., on Christian Socialism ; it i 8 needless , therefore , here to enter upon the subject . Tn order , however , that this Eeport may be understood bv those who have never seen the Tract , we may here stato shortly , that the Society consists of Promoters and Associates . The Promoters are represented b y a council or twelve , under the chairmanship of the president of the Society . The Associates , or members of associations connected with the Society , are represented by a central board under the chairmanship of one of their own body , elected by themselves . The council of Promoters has charge of all business which the Society may iiave with the public at

      large , and of the teachings which the Societ y maj feel itself bound to put forth , it has acted also in practice as a court of arbitration , to which the members of the Associations may come , if they please , when internal disputes arise . The central board settles the trade affairs of the Associations , and their relations with one another and tho public , as trading bodies . Both of these bodies meet weekly . Eegular minutes of their proceedings have been kept from the first by the secretary , and the more important of their resolutions and doings have been published regularly in the Christian Socialist and the Journal of Association .

      " The first difficulty which the Society had to meet was the impossibility of giving a legal existence to the Associations which were growing up around it . If the number of members was less than twenty-five , they were all partners , consequently , under the law as it then stood , every individual member had power to pledge tho credit of the Society , and might have made away with tho common stock , or refused to obey the laws of the Society , while the only remedy against such dishonesty was a suit in Chancery . If the Association numbered more than twenty-five , it placed itself out of the pale of legal protection , unless it chose to register under the Joint-Stock Companies'Act ; the provisions of which , being wholly framed for bodies of persons subscribing capital merely , and not labour , were totally inapplicable , and too expensive , in any case , to havn been of use . Under these circumstances , wo mado

      the best shift we could for the time being , by vesting the whole property of each Association in trustees , and giving them power at any moment to enter , and doal summarily with that property . We also set seriously to work to get the law altered , and as Mr . Slancy had just obtained a committee of tho Ilouse of Commons upon the investments of tho working-classes , we sent members both of the council and central board to givo evidence before it , of this great want in our statute-book . Mr . Slaney took the matter up warmly , and the lteport of his committee urged strongly the necessity of giving proper facilities to working-men to combine together for tho purpose- of carrying on their trades for their own benefit . In the autumn of that your

      ( 1850 ) tho Bill , which lias since passed into law , was propared by Mr . Ludlow , member of the council of ProinoterH , and early in tho next session , by the exertions oi Mr . Slaney and other gentlemen , it was submitted to and approved by tho then Government , who undertook to pass it , but did not keep their word . Again , at the beginning of tho lato session ( 18 ^) , tho Bill was brought forward > y Mr . Slaney , the Whig- Government having refused to inKO it up ; and that gentleman , seconded by Mr . Tullriell ana Mr . Sotheron , succeeded in reading it twice , undo ila . nmf , a select committee of tho House upon if in May . itm ' K ' still however have stood over the Hession , but that sevenai members of Lord Derby ' s Government took it " 1 » wftrllll J ' Lord John Manners arid Mr . Henley attended I w «> " •¦ mittoo regularly , and supported Mr . Slnney at tlio u » reading . Tim Bill was mid u third time m Juiii > , ll ! ' lawIts short title is The 1 ndustrial and I n . vi'l . i i Him in tin

      now . ' J 1 OW UIW . . 1 IN Hllliri , •»•••« .. j Societies' Act , ' 1 HIVJ , and , under its provisions , all l ><« i «• working-men joining together for tho purposes oi i < jnay register themselves , and so obtain a legal eMM < ' . ' It enubles them to sue and be sued in the names < n ' oflicers , gives a . summary tribunal to which U > ey "i . > ^ peal in oases of dispute , and power to bind their inn by their rules . Tho machinery of the KrieiM | . V *< " ' ^ Acts has been adopted , and the registrar ol ' ' , ''"'" ' ^ v ( , eieties will now register Associations and * <> - "l , ¦ Stores . Next , to the gentlemen above name ; wm - ^ men have Lot hunk M r . M idlings , Mr .. I . A ; S " ! " ; | ' . ( , 1 other members of the select committee ... tl . e " , , Commons , and Lords i I arrow by and K . pon in "" . ' ' , „ House , for this Act , which will enable then . . '" '' ' | ' will work together with , every fair facility . I'liiluui '

      lio at their own doors . . Tho efforts of f ho Society towards the piiwii'h' <> j '„ new net , "Tim Industrial and Provident Society ' ^ ' . are , up to tho present , moment , the most pnici { o denoe of their labours . The results of f I"' " r *^ , ;„ create associations , now amounting to ' . | . , , (() number , have certainly contributed wlUl > rr "" ' . ll ) l ,., it prove that tho urgency of new legislative « was justified by pre-established facts . flu- l >» " ° - Another useful movement of Mm Society wa * ^^ nosal of intorvoution in the dilute of t «« *

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 20, 1852, page 1108, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1961/page/8/