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      Political And Social.

      POLITICAL AND SOCIAL .

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      The Executive Committee of the National Charter Association met on "Wednesday evening last . Present—Messrs . Arnott , Grassby , Hunt , and Milne . Messrs . Harney , Holyoake , Jones , and Reynolds , being in the country , were absent , as was also Mr . O'Connor . Mr . Grassby presided . The correspondence received was read . Subsequently a letter has been received from Mr . Ernest Jones , dated Exeter , August 6 , in which he says : — " A glorious meeting was held here last night ; the Athenseum crammed . Reverend Arthur Gurney rose to oppose the Charter . I answered him . Fifty cards were disposed of . The Secretary reported that the

      " Monthly Circular" was now ready , containing an address to the Chartists , a tract by Thornton Hunt , cheering reports from many localities , and a list of those localities from which reports have not been ¦ received , with the names and addresses of the subsecretaries , &c . ; that the price was one halfpenny each ; and that those friends who felt desirous to aid in its circulation were earnestly requested at once to send their orders through any bookseller , or to the office . The secretary also reported that Ernest Jones had arranged to be at Bristol on Monday next , and from thence would proceed to visit Bridgewater , Merthyr Tydvil , Llanidloes , Newtown , Birmingham , Peterborough , Northampton , Newport Pagnall ,

      Congleton , Stockport , Manchester , Padiham , Bolton , Bradford , Bingley , Sheffield , Staleybridge , Hanley ( Potteries ) , Coventry , Cheltenham , High Wycombe , &c . It was then unanimously agreed : — " That the sub-secretaries ( corresponding and financial ) of all the localities in and around the metropolis , be solicited , and they are hereby requested to meet the Executive Committee at the office , on Wednesday evening next , August 13 , to take into consideration the necessity of a renewed and vigorous metropolitan agitation during the ensuing autumn and winter months . " After the transaction of financial and other business , the Committee adjourned to Wednesday evening , August 13 . —Signed on behalf of the Committee —John Arnott , General Secretary .

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      BRADFORD WORKING MEN'S CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION . July 31 , 1851 . Sir , —It has long been the desire of several of the friends of Association in this town , to see regularly inserted in different papers available , a brief summary of the movements and proceedings of the several cooperative stores throughout the country , somewhat in the form of weekly or monthly reports , showing forth their objects , with a description of their articles of produce and consumption ; thereby giving socictie ' s which , like ours , are desirous of keeping as much as possible the cooperative trade , or the cooperative world , an opportunity of knowing where articles of which they arc in want , are being produced ; and at once open a connection for the purchasing of such . Therefore , as your paper has for its object the emancipation of the people , mainly by the subversion of competition , with labour in concert , we trust you will have no objection to the above suggestion being curried out in your journal ; and , by way of commencement , 1 subjoin a report oi " the association in this town .

      The Bradford store opened for the first time on Saturday evening , May 31 , for the sale of provisions and clothing , and has continued business with success on Monday , Wednesday , and Friday evenings in each week , from six to nine p . m ., and on Saturday from four to eleven o ' clock . We have seventy-four members . The average amount of business done is about £ 2 ( i weekly upon a capital of £ 120 . Besides the provisions and grocery business , —the principal of which goods are supplied us by the " London Cooperative Agency , " Charlotte-street , —we have

      entered into the trade of utufl pieces , winch wo arc able to do advantageously , as their whole process from beginning to end is personally conducted and superintended by several of our members , whose long experience of these articles has given them a perfect knowledge hi manufacturing superior goods , and imparting an improved texture in the finishing . The following is a list of what we are now in a position to supply both retail and wholesale , at an even lower « eale of prices than any extensive ; merchant in the town , resulting from the many peculiur advantage ^

      we possess . Merinos , Orleans , ( , 'oburg cloths , Alpaca lustres , for coat-linings , waisteoaling , ike . ; and Alpaca mixtures of every < 1 ohci iption for dresses . We have ; already went off several eoiiHigninentH of Alpaca lustres for coat-linings to the Castle-street and Joint-Htock Tailors' Association ** , London , who state that they do exceedingly well . We have also just completed arrangements for supplying members with coals , which will in a great measure protect them from the gross imposition now practised here by coal dealers . On Saturday lant , 2 <> th ult ., we received our lirtjt cuuBigumunt of . hftU » from the Cooperative

      Hat Manufacturers ' , Manchester , which has proved highly satisfactory to all , —so much so that another order of a dozen has been speedily got up and sent off . We have purchased some pieces of striped cotton for shirting of the Whit-lane Weaving Company , Manchester ; but , they being very negligent in . attending to our orders , we fear we shall be obliged to go elsewhere . We have likewise a little trade in the silk line , which we should be glad to do with our MacclesfieM brethren . We also intend to extend our business to various other commodities , in proportion as our capital and a . knowledge of business increases . This being our first contribution , it has necessarily been rather long ; but in our subsequent reports we shall occupy but very little of your valuable , room . — By order of the Committee , Wm . * Scott , Secretary . [ We shall be happy to receive communications , consisting of monthly or semi-monthly reports , from the various cooperative stores throughout the country ; and we trust other associations will follow the example of the Bradford store . There are two things which it is desirable should characterize these reports—clearness , for the sake of the public ; and brevity , for the sake of our journal . ]

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      Redemption Society . —The directors held a special meeting on Thursday evening , July 31 , to arrange for the establishment of a cooperative general store in connection with the society . Various plans for raising capital , &c , were laid before the meeting , and discussed at length ; but the meeting adjourned for a week , without coming to a decision as to the mode by which capital is to be raised . It is however determined to open a st 6 re soon . Mr . Henderson ' s lectures at Dukinfield and Hyde , have been the means of increasing the number of 1 - > 1 *¦ 3 J * ^

      candidates in this district . The number of intelligent questions put to him at the conclusion of each lecture showed that the people were really in earnest in the desire for reform of some description . A camp meeting will be held on Woodhouse Moor , Leeds , next Sunday , weather permitting . Moneys received for the week : — Leeds , £ 1 3 s . 5 d Building fund , 2 s . Propagandist fund , 5 s . O ; Jd . Other moneys have been received , but owing to the absence of Mr . H . in Cheshire , the account was not given in at the weekly meeting . —J . Hendeeson , Sec , 162 , Briggate , Leeds . 1 ; I ' t t t ,

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      There is no learned man but , will confess lie hath much profited by reading controversies . Ins senaes awakened , and his judgment sharpened , ff " , then , it b < 3 profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for hia adversary to write . —Milton .

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      TO CO Hit US I' ON DENTS . The crowded Htate of our columns—in part occasioned by the pressure of passing events , in part by the pres-Bure ot papers thrust out in making room , for Mr . Cnninghiun ' s lecture last week—obliges us to defer Rome communications of interest , including Mr . James Hole ' s excellent letter on Association and Communism , and a letter by the editor , intended to dispel the apprehension that the principle of Association has tendencies destructive to the interests of traders and shopkeepers . Great pressure compels us to postpone the correspondence on the " Harmony hall Petition , " and " The Power of Education . " The Report of the " Select Committee on Newspaper Stamps" is also deferred from the same cause .

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      A WORD TO TI 1 K PEACIO CONORKSS . Clont . aiT , July 1 W , 1851 . Sir , '—Some ten or twelve years nince , at the close of a lecture in the Town-hall , Birmingham , by Captain l'ilkington , on the horrors of war , and in which the principles of the i ' eace Society were enforced , the leaders of the Chartists who had assembled in large numbers , determined to test the sincerity of the local members of the society who surrounded the lecturer , by moving a resolution calling on the Government at once to disband the army . The friends of Captain Pilkingtou were not prepared to do this , and a somewhat stormy debute ensued , towards the close of which I spoke to the resolution , and offered , what seemed to me , a solution of the difficulty in which the meeting wan placed . Whilst npprovinjr entirely

      of the object sought to be accomplished by the resolution , namely , the saving of a large annual expenditure upon a body of men kept for destructive purposes , I expressed the great regret I should feel at the dismemberment of so fine an organization as that of the British army , which appeared to me capable , if rightly directed , of producing a large amount of good . I pointed out generally how this might be done by the foundation of military colonies upon our waste lands , where the soldiers , by exercise of bright spades instead of bright swords , might quickly be made self-supporting : in short , that if the same pains were taken to enable them to create as hitherto to destroy , they . might be made to " scatter plenty o ' er a smiling land , " and would thus become a blessing instead of a curse . The idea was caught up with enthusiasm by the meeting , and something like unanimity was restored . Soon after this occurrence the late Marshal Bugeaud , one of the most able military men of France , and who had command of the French army in Africa , published a pamphlet , showing how the cavalry of France might be made selfsupporting , the necessary number of which , —to maintain what was then called a state of " armed peace , "—he estimates to be 45 , 000 . Having given his reasons for this number , he asks : — iiTInn 4 > m « or-o A . R ODOhnrstPH nn A mpn tn Tip mainiainnrl TV Jk \ M ash V 41 JA

      ^ ± \ j % blJtV ^ U * I * A V * S | V V V ** ^^* KS ** ** **~^ m ^«_ a ~»^ » m v w m * v w ~** A V VA without going beyond our income ? I think I have found out the secret . It is founded on this incontestible truth , that the manure of an animal , properly employed , will support both man and horse . Under the present system , you neither benefit the treasury nor the State by the very moderate labour you require of man and horse . The manure is not sold for the tenth of what it might produce , if it were"judiciously applied in agriculture ; for I am firmly convinced that the manure , joined to very moderate labour of the men and horses , would not only nearly feed both horses and men * , but pay the rent of the land beside . " The General thus proceeds to give the outline of his plan : — " Let the attempt be made by those regiments , or fractions of regiments , the light and heavy cavalry and the waggon train-. ' " Let the Government agree to farm , for five years , large farms in Limousin , in Marche , in Auvergne , in Perigord , or in Britany . On my own property in Perigord I would construct a stable for 40 horses , at an expense of from 5000 francs to 6000 francs , which would be at 125 francs per horse ( the last ' Commission de Cavalerie ' allowed 925 francs per horse ) . I would determine the number of horses and men which each farm might support in hay , forage , straw , corn , bread , wood , vegetables , &c . I would have both men and horses to farm and work these establishments . Four or five hours a day labour would be all that is requisite . Franklin said , that if mankind worked with judgment for two hours daily , they might easily support themselves . At the commencement , perhaps , it would be necessary to put an agricultural bailiff at the head of each farm , unless a person understanding farming could be found among the officers or sous ojficiers . " My proposition is , however , so contrary to custom , that a thousand cries will be raised against me ; but I answer to all these that at Oran I organized such a system , by which the Second Regiment of Chasseurs of Africa procured vegetables , potatoes , and a supplement to their pay by the sale of the surplus products , and by which the horses of the regiment obtained additional straw and corn . This system has been since perfected by Colonel Randon , under the most unfavourable circumstances . " There is the Swedish cavalry , which all—all , except the Regiment of Guards—are established on very small colonies and farms , and occupy their leisure in agriculture and horse-breeding . There are also the colonies of Russian cavalry ; the cantoned cavalry ot Austria ; and the Arabian cavalry , numerous and excellent , which is wholly supported by nomadic culture . Why , then , having meadows , and arable land , and a gricultural science , and perfect security—why should we no succeed in France ? " Doubtless the officers will be deprived , under mj system , of the pleasures of large towns ; but on theotn hand they will acquire a true , solid , and soldierly i nstruction : they will be exercitied in horsemanshi p , in 8 $ . ^ nasties , in hunting—so necessary for the bodily ' * , and coup d' oo . il of a soldier . Here the officers will n «« resources for their table in poultry , game , fruits , a vegetables . Officers , sous ojficiers , and soldiers will live better than in barracks , and ut hulf the coat . " I have no doubt that a million of francs thus In " ' would furnish a regiment of 700 men and horse" w lodging , bread , and wood for tho men , and hay » ' ° ' " ' corn , and straw for the homes . .. h " The economy , then , would be « ' } 14 , (> 05 francs for Ctt regiment . " The General next proves that bin calculations » r < j based on experience , both as to the coat ot I » I |( , the value of the crops . This portion of the pump' ' in a detail of figures , with which I will not trouble your readers . of The following in his recapitulation or flum" ™ / all these calculations : ¦ — " KXrKNJHTUUIO . Interest of 1 , 200 , 000 francs cupital forming f 0 , ; . stock , & « . « o o liuilding and repairs .. i ji ' oOO ® Tuxes ,... ' ma 60 Pciioit iu tlio production of oats I ^— ~— ~"^ W 7 , MWt 000 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 9, 1851, page 760, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1895/page/20/