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NEW FOEMS OP CO-OrEBATION "We have befor...
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On The Cultivation Op Flax * Vii. Fob So...
fortune , I would go round the country and buy up all the seed ; not at what the farmers would ask for it , for _tiiey did not know the value of it , but on whatever terms I proposed myself . " This statement was made at the annual g athering of the Royal Irish Flax Improvement Society , and the report of the committee strangely confirms Lord Downshire ' s story , since it appears that out of 138 , 611 acres of flax grown last year in Ireland , the seed of at least 100 , 000 acres was totally lost , because its value was not known .
Now , an acre of indifferent flax will yield two quarters of linseed , and half a ton of bolls , " equal to hay . " The loss , therefore , to green Erin , last year , in these two representatives of beef and mutton , was as follows : — 200 , 000 quarters of linseed , at 50 s . is £ 500 , 000 50 , 000 tons bolls , at 60 s . is . 150 , 000 £ 650 , 000
In other words , the holders of 650 , 000 acres at 11 . per acre , were last year ejected from their farms for non-payment , of rent , because the " Royal Society for the Promotion and Improvement of the Growth of Flax in Ireland , " had not taken the pains to impress upon the minds of the peasantry that beef and mutton were as valuable as linen and cambric . It is asserted that it is owing to the exertions of this society that the breadth of land under flax has increased from
53 , 863 acres in 1848 , to 138 , 611 acres in 1851 . Agriculturists have been appointed to " instruct" the people , aud the first evidence of their instruction is , that over half a million of money has been wastedenough for the support , through the winter , of over 200 , 000 souls and bodies ! Is not this monstrous ? Here we are importing 650 , 000 quarters of linseed annually , for crushing , and 100 , 000 quarters for sowing , while it is wasted in this wholesale manner at our own doors ! Let us remember Lord Downshire ' s tour through Ireland when next we are asked for an Irish starvation grant , and refer the applicants to the Royal Flax Society for particulars .
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NEW FOEMS OP _CO-OrEBATION "We have before drawn attention to the People ' s Mill at Leeds , as illustrating the advantages of co -operation in the preparation and purchase of flour . Nearer town , at New Brentford , with offices in Upper Wellington-street , has boon established a People ' _o Brewery . The economical advantages of this new experiment in Association consist in tho sale nf Ales at reduced prices , in enabling the pooi _^ it who consume Ales to become themselves shareholders at a limited liability , in giving all subscribers the right to view the premises and inspect the materials used , and in the
admission ( after five per cent , to the shareholders ) of tho workmen regularly employed , to participate in tho surplus profits according to wages earned . The sanitary advantages are _« , guaranteeing genuine beer , and the non-use of thoso deleterious drugs which are so frequently employed . Except from houses of the highest character , it is next to impossible to obtain ales thc purity of which can be relied upon . With such houses the mass of our population aro precluded from dealing . This Metropolitan and Provincial Joint Stock Brewery Company will therefore be a means of moral and economical service to all who consume malt
_boverages . The quality of tho Beer and Porter browed by this Company lias been tested by an eminent analytical chemist , whoso certificate we subjoin : —
To Ma . W . Sxkvens , Manager of the Metropolitan and Provincial Joint Stock Brewery Company . Silt , —I . havo examined the Ale and Stout brewed by the 'Metropolitan anel Provincial , Te > int Stock Brewery Company , and have founel them to be perfectly freo from any deleterious ingredients , anil to contain nothing but what is deriveel from good malt anel hops . Altogether I consider the wholesome beverages brewed by this Company tei be of unexceptionable character , anel Much that must lind favour with the public for their excellent qualities anil moderate prices . 1 am , _« ir , your obedient servant , Wixi . iam _IIastic , Analytical Chemist , 2 , Brook-street , Bond-street , London . August IH , 1852 .
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A _National _Pailty . —What we want is a new power , whioh might be to our two great family parties what tho Whigs were to the Tories fifty yours wince . The times seem to be ripening to Home such issue . _JIud we a " grout Nationalist party—we like that word , it in largo-meaning and large-hearted—even the literature of such u party would be as a morning freshness to us all . It would be _u literature of conviction nnd feeling . At present our literature is hardl y less _subservient tei the artificial pleasure of certain superiors among us , than was that of Franco uuder Louis XIV . to the will of its great ruler . — British Quarterly Pevicw . —August .
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There Is No Learned Man But Will Confess...
There is no learned man but will confess he hath , much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened _, and nis judgment sharpened . If , 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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A HINT TO THE READERS AND AGENTS OP THE " LEADER . " ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sie , —I feel that it would be an unpardonable act of indifference , not to say ingratitude , to neglect acknowledg ing your truly valuable services in exposing the disgraceful intimidation , and other mean and unlawful practices exercised by the Protectionist party during the recent East Somerset election . It will be gratifying to you , and doubtless to many of your readers , to know that so highly were your bold , manly , and impartial exposures appreciated , that the friends of Mr . Elton , the Liberal candidate , ordered to be printed and posted your first article on the subject as a placard , and to be
circulated over the whole comity . That the influence of that broadside imbued the minds of many doubtful electors with manly and independent resolutions to vote conscientiously , 1 know to be a fact _; that it also prevented or stifled the commission of further contemplated outrages upon public justice by the same party , I know to be also true . With a deep conviction , therefore , of the great value of the Leader to the cause of liberal principles and general progress , I conceived it to be my duty to set about the work of attempting to augment your list of subscribers . I first supplied those friends who were most likely to be supporters , with a copy of the paper " to read _,- " and within ten days after , by such simple means I procured for you nearly itcenty quarterly , half-yearly , and yearly subscribers ,
who , no doubt , even after the termination of those respective periods , you will still retain as your constant readers . Believing that many persons , anil especiall y agents , are unaware of their personal influence in forwarding the interest of a newspaper , I beg to be permitted , despite all delicacy , to suggest to them that some such effort be made generally by the readers and agents of the Leader . Enemies there arc who hopelessly , but eagerly , seek its destruction—and it is onl y a few weeks ago since an instance of the kind came under my observation . Why should not , therefore , friends make a bold push to enlarge its already wide sphere of usefulness ?—I am , & c . A _PlUliXD 'I'O THE " _IjEADUB . " Weston Hupor-Mare , August 12 , 1852 .
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A N K W T URN I P . ( _Te > the Editor of the Leader . ) Jlirtlo , _neur Hey wood , August 7 , _lflfi 2 . Sra , —Though not having an inch of ground besides a small garden , i have been much pleased with the articles in tho Leader , on Flax Culture , and wish to draw the attention of the writer to u new variety of turnip , whioh 1 think will be of service in the _ilileiinim mentioned in this day ' s article , about tho stone turnip not
always succeeding at so late a part of tho year , as a successor of llax . It is sold by Mr . _Chivas , seedsman , _Eiustgate-street , Chester , who , I havo no doubt , will be happy to supply his pamphlet , containing testimonials , Ike ., a copy of which I sent to a . friend of mine onl y a few minutes before I got your paper to-day , or I would have enclosed it . I send u little of fhe seeel , and the following extract from the Cottage Gardener of Jul y 2 !) t , h : —
"We here beg to recommend lo tho allotment man , and indeed to everybody , a new turnip which has appeared in these parts during tho lust two years , called fhe ' Orange felly . ' This ban hoou given to the public hy Mr . _CliivoH , seedsman , Clicntcr , who grows an lmuienue slock for the agriculturists : they are beginning to find its value . Tei allotment , holders it is of equal importance , as combining all that in requisite , viz ., heavy cropping , abort tops , and a Soculiarly rich lhivour aud pulpy flesh . Ab wo had some ouhtu of its _earlinosu , wo this _upring tried a plot against
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the early Dutch and Stone—a pretty good test-and it beat them hollow _; and as for flavour and texture tW > no comparison . We were shown a field by Dr . Brindl _M in April , which the doctor said was sown in the ae _^ week of September last , and , strange to say , has produ _' _eS at that late period a crop large as good-sized cricket ball and which had stood the winter in st y le . This is a er I boon to those who want to crop very late ; for at thatlt period most of our other kinds would be _nothing hi foliage . The allottee may sow some by all means if h can get at it , for his famil y ' s use , as well as for the pi e » Mr . Chivas ' s instructions are , to allow nine inche or certainly not more than a foot , between the plant ' each way . *—I am , Sir , your obedient servant
The Temperance Cause (To The Editor Of F...
THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE ( To the Editor of fhe Leader . ) Sib , —There is much truth in "Ion ' s" strictures on the Temperance cause . The advocates of that cause have by their injudicious zeal , brought it into disrepute ' Their intemperate advocacy and rudeness to all who do not embrace the whole six point * of the Teetotal Charter at once , have done more to drive from their ranks the cool-headed thinkers than all the arguments and facts presented by experience could do to attract recruits . The champions have damaged their cause j hut if the cause be a good one , as " Ion" confesses , then , I think , a writer of his well-known moral courage mi ght have taken up the good cause , without being overawed by any " harshness of imputation- "
Like all spectacles , Cruikshank _' s illustration of the gradations of drunkenness is highly coloured ; but there are instances of such small beginnings leading to the fatal consequences there pictured . And on the ground of expediency ( the only tenable ground of total abstinence from strong drinks ) , one instance in twent y , or one in one hundred , will justify the adoption of the extreme course of safety . How necessary to the safe navigation of our coasts are the lighthouses on headlands , & c .
Perhaps , nineteen nights in twenty some of these lights may not be required , yet who would extinguish them ? Paley _' s moral axiom— " If , by following auy course of action , we may do some good and can do no harm , we are as much bound to follow this course of action as though the good were certain , " applies strictly to the temperance cause . I think " Ion" most unhappy , too , in his condemnatory illustration as given in a colloquy between a London lecturer and the Temperance hotel-keeper . If there was any blame to attach in his being there , blame those who sent him ;
and if he chose to be there , then the rudeness in treating the hotel-keeper as represented by " Ion" is certainly on the side of the metropolitan , for whatever extreme views the man might have regarding alcoholic drinks , his consistency and sincerity in maintaining them should have elicited the admiration and approval of the guest , instead of his ridicule . Suppose this fatigued lecturer had been recommended to a Jew ' s eating-house for refreshments , would ho have presumed to quarrel with his host because ho could not have a ham sandwich Pf R . Adaib :
To Continental Leaders (To The Editor Of...
TO CONTINENTAL LEADERS ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sin , —Would it not be well if the advocates of p olitical liberty in thoso countries which are now grievously in want of it , would restrict themselves at present chiefly to one particular object to bo gained . Say , for instance , that they take up ' courts of justico , and by showing tho outrages committed in them , and the means by which reforms could ho made , even under the present system of government , draw more forcibly and to ono
point the attention of people here ; whilst by exposing fairly their injustice , and seeking , without threats ot violence , to shame them into a change , they may hy degrees acquire some influence over thc rulers of those countries in which they wish their opinions to ho felt . Rut without this , and supposing that no such result i « possible , to see tho leaders of tho democratic party working definitely at the reform of law would inspire more confidence in their intentions than anything clso would-I remain , Sir , yours respectfully , * . ' [ Wo are afraid our correspondent is not _sufficiently explicit as to what should be done under present oircuiustances in tho way ho states in tho countries to which he appears to allude . —Ed . I
* Wo suspect this turnip to be a congener of tho Ah <" - deen Yellow . After the strong recommendation of our « ' _*" _celfonf , contemporary , wo should not hesitate to sow ii ' August , on the cleared flax bed . But it must not be l <> _" gotten , that rape will flourish in land unfit for _turnipa , _' _* _" " that the harden ! wintor will not affect it ,. —Em L eader . _f We are not awaro that Jews' _aatinfr-homon o * 1 _^ where a slice of ham is not to be procured . The ruproHO lativoH of tliat distinguished race havo tho good senHO _^ keep their Levitical ordinances to thomselveB , and n 0 . seek to imposo thorn upon customers , a largo propor of whom must nocoHflarjly bo Gontiloe , undmw ay ovoa co _voreant with pork . —Ei > .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 21, 1852, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21081852/page/16/
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