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    ^» PROFITS OF COOPERATION . The enquiry made last week by a correspondent , ¦ whose initial appears to have been omitted , as to the ascertained profits of the Tailors' Association , admits of a sufficient answer . In the report entitled " Savings of the Middle and Working Classes , " ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on the 5 th ultimo , the evidence given by Mr . Walter Cooper , described as * ' Manager of the Working Tailors' Association , 34 , Great Castle-street , " is to this effect : — - " Though we have been only three months at work , at the end of that time we found that we had a clear profit of £ 77 after paying all expenses , and paying the workmen good wages . That £ 77 we divided into thirds ; one third went towards paying off the capital we had borrowed , the second third to the increase of the stock , and the next third was divided among the workmen . " —p . 53 . __

    The " Cooperative Provision Store " of Galashiels also furnishes an early balance of profits . From information just received it appears that , during the last thirteen weeks , provisions , &c , to the amount of £ 1765 16 s . 2 Jd . have been sold ; £ 64 in new shares have been added , and £ 14 have been withdrawn ; and £ 86 14 s . Id . have been gained as profit during the quarter . _ _

    The operations of this " store" are not without interest . In the bakery attached to it , 16 , 500 fourpound loaves have been made during the past quarter , and £ 16 worth of small bread . It is very gratifying to find the cooperative store plans , which have been ignored for so long a timewhich promised such useful results eighteen years a reviving and bearing fruit though in late season . Ion .

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    THE ICARIANS . —LETTER FROM AN EMIGRANT . Icarian Committee-rooms , No . 13 , Newman-street , Oxford-street . We have received the following letter from Mr . Oborne , who left England with his wife and family on the 25 th of May to join the Icarian Community at Nauvoo—the only representative of English Communism in a colony consisting of people from almost all the other European countries : — New York , July 12 th , 1850 .

    " Dear Friends and Brothers , —Many days and many miles have intervened since we last had the happiness of communing together , and doubtless by this time your anxiety to hear from me is fully equal to mine to communicate with you . I take , then , this earliest opportunity of doing so . Our voyage has been a protracted and sufficiently a boisterous one ; nevertheless without accident of material importance , a mainyard broken , a half dozen sails carried away , and sundry minor misfortunes among the refractory plates and dishes and other culinary utensils . The deaths of three children took place , one from croop and the others from the measles : all were under twelve months . These have

    been the limits of misfortunes in general . In particular , with the exception of M ., who was ill more or less during the first three or four weeks , the family did not suffer much from sickness ; the children and myself suffering the first two or three days , and occasionally qualmish now and then afterwards . Our voracity at times has been that of a shark and our digestion that of an ostrich ; generally speaking the children were never better in their lives , as , indeed , was the case with the majority on board , 250 being the total , of which eighty were children . The babes and sucklings seem to suffer most at sea , being much affected by the indisposition of their mothers . The captain affirms that our voyage was the

    worst he ever experienced at this season of the year , and , considering this , I think we have escaped very well . We spoke several ships which had been much longer at Bcathan we were . Although M ., with her usual method , has pertinaciously , in spite of illness , regularly kept our log . I yet shall abstain from details , for , generally speaking , the days at sea do not vary more than did Paddy ' s dinner , which report affirms to have been salt and potatoes one day and potatoes and salt the other . I will merely remark that a voyage at sea is by no means the formidable undertaking some persons anticipate , and ,

    though involving many inconveniences , it does occasionally present many objects of pleasurable contemplation . Nothing can be more gorgeous than the rising and Betting of the sun ; a poet or poet-painter would fail in depicting its ever-varying splendour ; the bounding of innumerable shoals of porpoises in pursuit of their prey ; the swift flight of the stormy petrel circling around us , imd occasionally seeming to dance on the crest of some foaming billow ; the meeting of returning ships , and the occasionally exchanging signals with them , serve in some isort to divert the general monotony of the journey . friends

    " Dear , we are about to be still more widely separated from each other as to distance , yet confidence in u reciprocity of feeling and of sentiment assures me that our hearts and endeavours are as ardently and as closely nkin to each other as ever—that the chain of sympathy nnd mutual desire , which has hitherto bound us , is us firm and tenacious as heretofore ; and that , however ilistant we may be , its links have but lengthened in proportion , in order to extend more widely the circle of our ictioiiK , mul endeavours , in furtherance of our object , uid Jiccelerating the happy success of the cause we are levoted to . I trust that my removal tojthc close proximity > f our brothers at Nauvoo will impart a fresh and active

    interest to our cause at home , and a corresponding impetus to your operations among the dormant and inactive spirits of quasi socialists—that my humble efforts -will be seconded by your endeavours to disseminate the principles of practical communism , and to impress our latent friends , the dilletanti of Socialism , with the laudable necessity of doing something for the cause in which , tne Icarians are engaged ; for their cause is identical with the cause of Socialism in England ; the triumph of Socialism with them will be the triumph of Socialists over

    the world , the victory of a principle . But how much more will it be a triumph in particular to the friends of Mr . Owen—for who can fail to perceive a remarkable resemblance in the characters of an Owen andaCabet—the same benevolence and equanimity of disposition , the same universality of sympathy for suffering humanity , the same abnegation of self , comtempt of office , and mdif ference to power and emolument , save those that may contribute in aid of their grand design , are the distinguishing traits of both these single-hearted reformers . which

    " Apart from my domestic duties , were somewhat onerous , for you must know that at sea all duties of this kind devolve on the male—employed myself in reading many works treating of America , and the comparative advantages of its 'different states . I have also had much conversation with individuals well acquainted with the country and its resources , and all agree that the State of Illinois and its vicinity offer by far the greatest , so that I think we have no reason to complain that the Icarians have given it a preference ; it is saying much for it , that full one half of the emigrants on board the Adeline are bound for that district ; these , with myself , set out in company immediately The

    Government of America does not evince the lassitude and supineness of that of England in permitting the seeds of intelligence and morality to fall neglected into an impoverished and vicious soil , merely contenting itself with lopping off abnormal excrescences and refractory branches . A state-imposed education is rapidly spreading broadcast the germs of reason and enlightenment , and communism hao here nothing to fear in its endeavours ; on the contrary , it would seem that the principles of communism are tolerated by the authorities , for among other communist parties the Cherokee nation , a portion of the civilized aborigines of America , are protected in their laws and specially located by the Government , live together in community and cultivate their land in common . " I remain , dear brothers , yours fraternally , " Andrew Oborne . "

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    THE REDEMPTION SOCIETY . Great progress is making in Halifax . The camp meeting of Sunday last will produce a good effect . Another meeting of the kind will be held near Leeds shortly . The members at Hyde are very active and are about to get up a meeting in that town . Moneys received for the week : — Leeds ,... ; . ^ 1 16 8 Morley Jj . £ «> Hyde , per Mr . Bradley 0 13 0 £ 2 11 2 Communal Building Fund : — London , per Mr . Corfteld , for G . II £ 1 0 0 Hyde , Mr . J . Hogg 0 1 3 Leeds , Various 0 40 £ 1 5 3

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    NOTES OF TRAVEL IN FRANCE . 1 have crossed the Jura to Dijon , and everywhere I find the same opinions respecting the present state of things both among the peasantry and the soldiers , and among a great majority of the bourgeoisie . The president is estimated at his proper value , and all are looking forward to a speedy termination of the reign of hatred , for it is nothing else ; in fact , so intense and fierce is the hatred exhibited by the present ruling party , that no one can conceive it or scarcely credit it who has not witnessed their proceedings . The general expression is , " Cela ne finira pas sans un autrc coup de feu , " ( " It will not finish

    without another battle" ) . The slightest accident will bring things to a crisis , and so discontented are the military men that a trifle will be sufficient to make them refuse to fire on the people , among whom may be their brothers , their fathers , or the companions with whom the day before they had been drinking at the cafe . All without exception with whom I have conversed have expressed the greatest horror of fighting against their freres ( brothers ) as they properly term it . In the meantime the ruling powers are blind to their position , and are only anxious to come to a fight , while the very support on which they are depending is every day giving way under them . It was but yesterday that Carnot declared in my presence , that had Baroche delayed two minutes longer to ascend the tribune on Friday evening , he would have been arrested in the Assembly , and sent to Vincennes , which would have been the

    signal for a general outburst , " Nous avons manque une revolution , de deux minutes , " ( " We failed in a revolution by two minutes" ) . M . Mounter , editor of the Echo des Institulcurs ( Echo of the Instructors ) , and schoolmaster in Paris , has been condemned at the Cour d'Appel , in a second trial for the same offence , to be prohibited from ever more receiving pupils ; because , says the act of accusation , he has endeavoured to bring con tempt upon the Catholic religion ! There were thirty judges to decide the question , but no jury , or he would have been acquitted . As to the provincial districts , affairs are very different in different parts ; thus , in the department of the Jura there are scarcely any labourers ; all the peasantry being small proprietors , cultivating their own lands : they live comfortably enough , clothing themselves in home manufacture , and living on humble fare ,

    but then they are independent ; and , proud of being proprietors , there are many of them rather harassed with debts to the usurers , but they do not mind submitting to hardships to keep themselves independent , and will , probably , next revolution clear off their debts in the simplest manner ; they are , however , generally anti-Socialists in those districts , remarkably egoistic , and will , probably , for a long time resist any attempts at association ; whereas in the towns the ouvriers are rapidly discovering the advantages of association . At Lyons the soldiers are becoming very much discontented at the excessive strictness of discipline ; it was but the other day that a soldier was sentenced to death for having in a moment of intoxication knocked down his lieutenant ; and if a soldier absents himself for three days without leave he is considered as a deserter . —C . of the Weekly Tribune . *_»_ __ . _ _ ^ __ ^ M _ _ i _ 3 _ 4 * *

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    Beith . —Mr . Robert Cooper lectured here on the 23 rd ultimo , on " Cooperation the great want of the age . " Mr . Cooper was listened to by a very numerous and attentive audience . The lecture appeared to leave a salutary impression on the minds of the people of Beith . A New Advocate . —The Future is the title of a new " Advocate of Social and Democratic Progress , " which registers the movements of " Working Mens' Associations . " No . I . commences Letters on " Individualism and Cooperation , " which promise instructive interest . " We give the Future a cooperative welcome . The Working Shoemakers' Associations . —The working men are beginning to see , and the public begins to see , that the exterminating system of competition has reduced the price of labour to the point of starving the

    WUIIIUICU , BUU luav Aoavwatiuu , t * J u » aug vm i * u *** u t , MA ^ j can share the capital they create , is the only means of ameliorating their condition . With the assistance of gentlemen who have advanced the necessary capital , three sections of Associated Working Shoemakers have been formed , so federated that their interests will be identified with the cause of Associative Labour , and they are able to combine in themselvss the hitherto antagonistic characters of employer and employed' ! They have commenced business on the Cooperative principle , with a stock of superior boots and shoes , all made on the premises , in well-arranged workshops , which may be inspected by any persons "who take any interest in this movement . All their work is warranted not to rip ; and should a boot or shoe happen to rip , if the customer will bring it back , it is immediately repaired without any charge . __ .. .

    __ _ . Camp Meeting at Mosiey . —On Sunday , the 11 th instant , a camp meeting of the friends and others interested in the progress of the Redemption Society was held at Alorley , a picturesque site near the Leeds and Huddersfield Railway , and about equidistant from Leeds , Huddersfield , Halifax , and Bradford . The meeting was originally arranged to be held at Hooley-hall , an old ruined castle that crowns the summit of a hill near Batley , but the proprietor of the ground having objected the place of gathering was changed to Morley . About three thousand persons were present . The speakers

    were Mr . Gregg , Mr . David Green , Mr . Campbell , Mr . Cliffe , and Mr . Shaw . Mr . Gregg and Mr . Campbell , both of whom are local preachers in the New Methodist Connection , endeavoured to show the intimate relationship between true Christianity and Communism , while the other speakers kept to the more practical and immediate features of the question . With the exception of a passing shower the day was fine . Many of those present had travelled ten miles on foot to be present . At the close of the meeting the leading friends took tea together in a public-house near to the scene of the day ' s proceedings . __ _ „ ,. „ ., „ Cowi street The friends of

    Public Meeting in » er- . — Associative Labour held a public meeting , numerously attended , in the British Institution , Cowper-street , on , Wednesday evening ; Mr . Lloyd Jones in the chair . The chairman enforced with great ability the objects of the meeting . He said the problem to be solved was the union of the cunning of the hand with the intelligence of the head . Associative societies , such as the one in question , were formed without reference to political parties ; and the great object of emancipating industry by being held indivisible must become invincible . Messrs . Millbank , A . Campbell , Shorter , and Benny enforced similar views up till ten o'clock , at which time our report closed . The following were the resolutions affirmed by the meeting : —

    " I . That competition ia the principal cause of the misery existing amongst the working classes , and that the organization of labour by association is the best and most efficient remedy for the evils arising from that cause . ' II . That the organization of labour by association cannot only be effected without endangering capital , but it also may be the means of securing to it the payment of interest , as is proved by existing associations . # «• III . That the best means of p ractically realizing the advantages of associative labour is by giving support to those associations already in existence , for upon their success depends the formation of other associations necessary to carry out the great end of rendering these associations self-supporting , and all labour associative . "

    Mr . Buchanan . —The address of this gentleman will be for the ensuing week W . Love , Esq ., 5 , Nelsonstreet , Glasgow , where he will be glad to receive communications from the friends of Social Progress in Scotland in reference to lectures . The Costetimongers' Supper . —On Monday evening next , in the Working Men's Hall , Barbican , the costermongers bring the subject of the improvement of their order before the metropolis by the means of a public Buppcr . _ _ _ , Rational Progression Society , Leeds . — The Board of Directors of this Society lately engaged a hall for Mrs . Martin , of London , to lecture in , and paid £ 2 deposit several days before the lecture , and when the time came the place was refused , to the great inconvenience and injustice to those who had purchased its use . The denial is attributed to differences of opinion .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 17, 1850, page 490, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1850/page/10/