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THE PROPOSED NEW COTTON COMPANY, (LIMITED).
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One of Them . By Charles Lever . No . 10 , September . London Chapman and Hall . —The spirit ar d interest of this work are maintained in the number before us . We commend the following passage to those inclined to disparage America and the Americans : — "If you ' re going to pick holes in Yankee coats , to see all mariner of things to criticise , condemn , and sneer at ; if you ' re satisfied to describe a people-by a few peculiarities which are not j ^ leasing to you , go-ahead and abuse us : but if you'll accept hospitality , though offered in a way that ' s new and strange to you—if you'll believe in true worth and genuine loyalty of character , even though its possessor talk somewhat through the nose —then , Sir , there ' s no fear that America will disappoint you , or that you will be ill-treated by Americans . "
The Leisure Sour . Part CIV . London : 164 , Piccadilly , and 56 , Paternoster Row . —This is a well illustrated , and weU got up periodical . The articles contain information conveyed in a light and pleasing style , and it is not crammed as some serials are with nothing but ' timekilling " materials . Some interesting biographical sketches of celebrated men will be found in this publication . The English Cyclopaedia of Arts and Sciences . Part XX . Conducted by Charles Knight . London : Bradbury and Evans . —The present part of this great work opens with the concluding portion of the " law of Mortality , " and completes the 5 th volume . It promises when finished to be one of the best publications of the kind that ever issued from the press Kingston ' s Magazine for Boys . No . 19 . September . London r Bosworth and Harrison . This is a periodical which carries out _ purpose and object expressed in its title , and excellently combines amusement with instruction , making the latter diverting and the
former profitable . [ Recreative Science , a Monthly Record and Remembrancer of Intellectual Observation . September . London : G-roombridge and Sons . This is another of G-roombridge ' s excellent publications . A paper on " Microscopic Preserves , " by H . j . Slack , is a very interesting contribution . Medals of the British Army , and How They Were Won , Part II . London : Groombridge . and Sons . —The second part of this work is like the first , devoted to the Crimean campaign , and has an excellent fac simile of th& Frenchwar medal for its frontispiece . Blind Ursula , by Mrs . Webb . London : Grbombridge and . Sons . This is a little tale for children , one of a series entitled " Magnet Stories for Summer Days and Winter ; Nights , " extending from p . 185 to p . 228 of the issue . . v '
Lucid ' sr Marriage ; or , the Lions of Wady-Arabd London : J . H . and J . Parker . This is one of the series of " Tales or Young Men and Tales for Soung Women , " noticed from time to time in these columns . The present " story of the Idumean Desert' is writtenin a pleasing and popular style , and relates to a very interesting historical period . It affords a few hours pleasant reading .
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ri ^ HB staple commerce country , symooiizeq . oy me . . X sack " on which the highest judicial officer known to our constitution takes his seat in the assembly over which he presides , was once confined to the fleece of the sheep . In more modem tunes , however , the mineral products ot England havo furnished the raw inateriala of her most eolloasal branch of native commerce ; while tlie branch of mercantile enterprise which in magnitude and importance vies with the la tter has its sources . in and is fostered by the supplies of an exotic growth , not merely alien to our soil , but chiofly derived from regions under the sway of a foreign power . Cotton wool occupies even a more important place now in the trade of England than the wool
of the sheep did in by-gone ages , and America has been the great reserve whence the supplies of Europe have been drawn . The advant ^ go , therefore , of cotton cultivation in our Indian territories are too obvious to escape the attention of our capitalists , and the wonder , is that the resources which our pastern Empire presents have not been earlier opened up and utilised to tke maximum extent . Such an enterprise efficiently prosecuted Would revolutionise our commerce . And we find that an undertaking ia in course of being carried out for effecting tins great object . Any serious defalcations that may from whatever causeand cousee are plentiful betweanJIseparate and rival ' states . —take place in the American supply , would produce in this country all . the widespread ruin and concomitant disastrous effects of famine , as it would oaralvse at one ' blow half the commerce of our large manufacturing ;
towns , arid deprive millions of the means of obtaining bread . But it our raw cotton were supplied by our own colonial possessions , tliw terrible contingency would be effectually precluded . And that this is easy of accomplishment is proved by the fact that thore is more land suited , for the production of this plant within the territories belonging to G / reat Britain than those possessed by any other power in the world . There ia no spot on the face of the earth where oottoti can be prbduood under more favourable conditions of cheapness , abundance , and quality , than in India . Australia , again , produces cotton equal in every respect to the beat yields of E , gypt and the Brazils . It has been computed from rehnble data , and by competent authorities , that 25 per cent , per annum would represent the profit
within little more than a tvrolvomonth of the inception of the Company ' s operations . It is proposed to establish model farms in the bust cotton produoing ( Jistriofcs , the moat approved mophftriioal appliances for cleaning and packing will bo put in requisition , modern scientific agricultural processes and , implements wi }| be had recourse to , and evory apeoios of industrial improvoinont as well' material . as in the directorship * arftf management of the condom will be introduced and applied . Unaer these oiroumstancos tho project bids fair , to be ono of the most mportant and successful enterprises over initiated in the whole range of foreign commerce . Wo boo tliab a mooting on this important raattqw ia to take place on Friday morning nex * , the Uth insfc ., at eleven o ' clock , * t Manchester , tho JMfayor of that city having pl « cod tho lown-hnU ab tho spryioo of tho promoters of the project in quostion .
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THE WORKMEN'S VOLUNTEER BRIGADE . The first parade and drill of this corps took place on Saturday evening in an enclosed paved yard , entered from Botolph-lane , which was kindly afforded by the authorities of the parish for that purpose .. Nothing could be more gratifying than the demeanour , appearance , and conduct Of the men , and the progress made by them , which was declared by the officers present belonging to various corps to be most remarkable . About 250 men fell in , in two divisions , one , as appointed , at six o ' clock , and the other at half-past seven . Captain Cameron Geddes , V . R ., and late of the 96 th Reg iment , who has patriotically lent his services as acting adjutant to the corps , with sergeant-major Hollandand sergeants Hincheyand Marborough , of the Tower Hamlets Militiaand assisted by a little staff of volunteer officers , undertook the
, task of instruction , and performed it most effectively . After _ each pi the drills , the men were marched round , the full volunteer band of the fifes and drums of the regiment , under band-master Farley , playing popular and patriotic airs in the most inspiriting manner . As soon as the men were dismissed from parade , they gave three hearty British cheers for the Queen , and three for the adjutant , who had so ably taken the command . The name of Alfred B . Richards , the hon . secretary and originator of the brigade , was then received with loud and protracted cheering . Nine cheers were given for him and the other promoters of the brigade . Captain G-eddes addressed the men in true soldierlike style . He exhorted them to remember that they are now discilined
soldiers , and to conduct themselves as p men . They no longer formed a mere portion of a London crowd . He told them to continue as they had begun , and to take a pride in their regiment . They might depend upon it * they would speedily equal any corps in smartness and soldierly attributes . Captain G-eddes then asked the men if they were pleased with the uniform which the committee had adopted . As this was a volunteer regiment , he said : the council wished to consult , as far as possible , the inen ' s own tastes in the outset . Did they like the frock ? ( Cries of" All ! all ! " ) He would show them another cap besides the one which he wore , ( No , no ! that is the one . ) They were all , then , pleased and unaniuious ? ( Yes ! yes ! Ihree more cheers for the Queen !) Captain G-eddes then told them Mr . Richards
would address them ( cheers ) . Mr . Richards then stepped into the centre . After alluding to the great gratification experienced by the officers present , in the expression of which he cordially joined , lie said : Men ! this is a proof whether the workino- men of England are fitted or not to be trusted with arms in their hands for the defence of their Queen , their homes , and the honour of the country . You have . come here to-night loyal , earnest , and patriotic , steady in your desire to learn to take part , in this-great volunteer movement . Without you , without the bone * sinew , and muscle of the land , that movement can never be grounded on a wide and efficient basis . It is this , and this alone which Will give security to the empire , and cause England to be respected abroad ; That which has taken place here to-night , within the limits of this small and crowded space , will increase and extend until Eneland shall have an army of loyal freemen worthy of her , fit
to defend her in arms against the world , and fit to see justice enforced elsewhere , and the rights of Humanity respected . On the social , as well as military advantages of discipline , I need not expatiate . I must , however , compliment the officers , and compliment the men upon the manner in which our martial exercise has been inaugurated . You will bear in-mind how much depends upon your preserving their order , that attention , that earnest spi rit , which without an exception has been exhibited this evening . I say it is surprising as well as gratifying under the circumstances . What corps has made greater progress than you m a single night ? It is becauso you have come hero to learn and not to play at soldiers . Persevere , and there will not be a regiment which shall hereafter march before your Queen out of the great army ot volunteers , which will receive more hearty applause and warmer cheering than the « Workmen ' s Volunteer Brigade . " No Government ; no to ouia
officials , could they see what lias taken place , here -mgJic , o unau pretence for refusing a separate organisation to artisan voluntoors . It is impossible that they can be so blind to a proud and patonj roauty . Let them witness your loyalty , your order—the kind of men who come forward on an occasion like this , and they must weloome you in tho only way in which a proud and independent people will volunteer , that is , on a separate and distinct organisation , like the rest . Lot me tell you , that brave and dist inguished offloers , Generals in Her Majesty s service , approve of this branch , wliioh will soon be the main body of the movement . I havo laboured in that movement from Mie . liwtj but I have long looked to this , without which tho rest must tail in its development and effect . [ Mr . Richards then boggod thorn to continue as they had oomraqnqed , and was throughout listoned to with attention , and warmly applauded . As ho was called on by Captain Gecldes to address the men , after the drillof both divisions , we havo endeavourou to amalgamate the substance of both speeches in one ] . At the conclusion the , hand nlavod " O-od save tho Q . uoon , " the men romaming ot « 0 Lirfl 0
unoova-od , and the regiment , headed by tho band , still playing , w « s marched up in perfeot order to head quarters , attracting tho attention and tho applause of numbers of Her Majesty ' s lieges in tho street . Wo havo bean induoed to bestow this unusually long report of tho first parade and drill of the « Workmen ' s Voluntoor Brigade , »» ordw to show tho fooling , tho spirit , and tho inclination ovinood by mon who have oomo forward in . the most spontaneous manner to join tin ? brigade , and who aro a fair sample , unsolootod by any moans » avo tho opening of an enrolment office and tho distribution of a low circulars , pt tlio working olass of Groat Britain as vpluntoors . Wo havo dono so to oalm tho amjrdhonBions of Lord' Hardwioke , who hbellod thorn , antt
to remove ' the crotchet of Lord Kloho , who would pati-omsingly anaon a few , in a ooarsor dross , to his own and other oxmUhg pogmiontjj ,. but who does uot . think tho artisans , of England havo My oluirn w dlstino ^ lvo recognition in tho miwtovvoU of dolonco , or uro entitled to ooast an esprit de oorj > s , or to boar as their own eoparato motlo tho noble mid appropriate words—Labor omiua vwott .
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788 The Saturday Analyst and Leader . [ Sept . 8 , I 860
The Proposed New Cotton Company, (Limited).
THE PROPOSED NEW COTTON COMPANY , ( LIMITED ) .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 8, 1860, page 788, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2364/page/12/
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