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AXD ROCHDALE , BLACKBURN , AND EAST LANCASHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY . fpflOWelOLVAIXT _BEOISTBBEB . J Ca pital , £ 1 , 750 , 000 , in 87 , 500 Shares of £ 20 each . Deposit , £ 2 2 s . per Share . _rnovtsioxAi , committee . C . H . Handersoii , Esq ., Upper Clapton , Director of " the South Midland itailway Company . Charles Dickson Archibald , Esq ., _1-Ml . S ., F . S . A ., Tork-terrace , _Regent ' _s-park _, and Walney , Director of the Trent Valley Railway Company . William Bean , Esq ., Tuhe-hiH . _T / fillism Beresford , Esq ., M . V ., 77 , Pall Mall , London , Director of _thei'haaies Valley Railway Com-
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EREWASH VALLEY EXTENSION AND ROCH DA LE , BLACKBURN , AND EAST LANCASHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that no further Applications for Shares in this Company can be received after WEDNESDAY , the loth of October , after which the allotments will take place . By order , _SiiixiNOFfB-sr Lockhr , Sec . 44 , Finsbury-circus .
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EREWASH VALLEY EXTENSION AND RCCHDALE , BLACKBURN , AND EAST LANCASHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY . _TVTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that tbe offices _jJI of this Company are REMOVED to il , Finsbury-circus . By order , STIIXIXGFI . KET LoCKEB , SeC . October 9 . 1845 ,
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TO TAILORS . Byap'Tobation of Hit Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Hig hness Prince Albert . THE LONDON aud PARIS FASHIONS for Autumn and Winter , 1615 andl 84 C , ready early in October , by READ arid Go ., 12 , _llart-street , _Bloomsl-ury-sc-uarc , London -Birgcr , Holywell-street , Strand , London , and may ba had of all Booksellers -wheresoever residing ; a very superb Print , representing the most splendid exhibi-Xvxa . ivx Europe , an Interior View of the Colosseum , Regent's-park , London . This exquisitely executed and beautifully coloured Print will be accompanied with fullsize Dregs , Frock _. and Riding Coat Patterns ; also , Patterns ofthe New Fashionable Folka Frock , and Locomotive
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TO TAILORS . Just published , _LOKDOE and PABlo FASHIONS for the Autumn and Winter , 1845 , by T . GOOD , C , Conduit-street , _Regent-street , London . The moBtsupeib plate ever published—19 figures , representing the most fashionable garments , particularly the new style paletot over-coats , boih single and double-breasted , six patterns of garments—via ,, two sizes of paletot , two dress coats , the Parisian style Test with skirts , and shooting vest ; lull and partieutar report , & c ., & c . Price 10 s . Gd . for the one season , or 20 s , for one year , including an intermediate report , _sammer and winter , with every necessary information throughout the year .
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TO THE EMBARRASSED . —IMPORTANT . THERE are thousands of persons who havo struggled long against the force of misfortune , but few are - . ware that by a very recent Act all small traders owing debts not exceeding £ 300 , farmers , and all others owing to any amount , can be entirely raised from tlieir ( _ll'flicul . ties at a email expense , and without imprisonment or bankruptcy . All such Mr . Weston begs will apply to him at Moira-chambers , 17 , Ironmonger-lane , Cheapside , by letter or personally _. Person * summoned for small debts should apply immediately , as they may thereby save themselves from frequent and lengthened commitments to prison .
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TEETH . M ASTICATION and Articulation _Improred and Guaranteed , —Messrs . DAVIS , _Surgeon-Dentiitfe , 123 , Pall-mall , opposite the Haymarket , and 1 , New Bridge-street , corner of Fleet-street , continue to supply teeth , guaranteed never to discolour , break , or . _deeay , anil fixed without springs or wires , without extracting the old stumps , or giving any pain . A single tooth , Ss . ; a set , £ 5 . Loose teeth fastened . Scurry in the gums effectually cured . Stopping decayed teeth . Price 4 s ., Davis ' s Hermasticnn : nil persons can use it themselves , as full directions are enclosed , snd can be sent per post .
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_GENUINE TEAS AND COFFEES FOR THE MILLION . Tim cheapest place in London for Teas and Coffees is ut tin Warehouse , 24 and 35 , _llegent Street , Westminster , near tlie Vauxhall Bridge Road . THE Proprietor , E . WARMINGTON , takes this opportunity to return thanks for the liberal support he lias received since he opened the above premises ; and to those wiio have not yet favoured him with _tlieirpatronage , E . IV . most strongly solicits a trial , feeling assured thnt thc articles sold at the warehouse , both in price and quality , will give universal satisfaction . Goods in any quantity sent free to all parts of London and the suburbs ; and persons in . the country , by remitting a Post-office order , Will find tlieir instructions faithfully attended to .
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G _1 REAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE r SOCIETY , 14 , _Watebloo-place , Losdo . v . EiitEcroits . The Chisholm , Chairman . William Morley , Esq ., Deputy Chairman . Henry S . Barber , Esq . James John _Kinloeh , Esq . John _Brijilitin . iii _, Esq . Henry Lawson , Esq . Francis Broiligan , Esq . Henry Penny , Esq . James Wm . Deacon , Esq . Robert Power , Esq ., M . D . Alexander It . Irvine , Esq . The Rev . F . W . Johnson John Inglis Jerdein , Esq . Viokery , A . M . AUDlTOltS . C . B . Rule , Esq . T . C . Simmons , Esq . G . Thomas , Esq .
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JKmeB TO EMIGRANTS . TlTE _Underswraed continue to engage Passengers for First-Class Fast-Sailing AMERICAS PACKET SHIPS wliich . » verage from 1000 to 1500 Tons , for the _fol-Inir ine Vorts , viz . : — ° NEW . YORK , I BOSTON , PHILADELPHIA , NEW ORLEANS , BALTIMORE , 1 BRITISH AMERICA , & C . Emierants in the country ea . - engage passage by letter addressed as underneath ; in wh . cn case they need not be in Liveriiool until the day before the Ship is to sail ; and thov will thereby avoid detention and other expenses , _besitlss securing-a eheaper passage , and having the best berths allotted . to them previous to their arrival . For ' .. _vthor t , _urtieulfii _* s apply , post-paid , to . u p * JAMES _lifiCKETT oi SOX . North End _Priuce's Dock , Liverpool .
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TO ALL WHO CAN'T PAY ! IMMEDIATE Protection , and u prompt and safe final discharge , witliout the intervention of a _Trison Clan Attorney . A discharge to Debtors is nowimperative , because Imprisonment for Debt is now penal , not remedial . —Debtors ofall grades will be benefitted by applying forthwith to Jolm S , Benstead , 22 , _Basinghall-street , near the Court of Bankruptcy , London .
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COLOSSEUM . PATRONISED and visited by her Most Gracious MAJESTY and his Hoyal Highness Prince ALBERT . OPEN DAILY from Ten till Six . Pronounced by the Press , and confirmed by every visitor to be the most perfect triumph of Art in its various oranches , both by Day and Night , that has ever been achieved . Equal to six exhibitions . The Glyptotheca , containing works of the first artists ; Mont Blanc awl Mountain Torrents , Superb Conservatories , Gothic Aviary , Classic Ruins and Fountains , Panorama of London , re-painted by Mr . l ' arris , & , v . Admittance , 8 _s . Children , half-price . The Stalactite Caverns , the most magnificent of all the temples whieh nature has built for herself in the regions of night , _Is . 'extra .
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MINERS' ALMANACK , FOR _lS-iG . By Mr . William _Dakiells , Iu the Press , and shortly will be published , THE miners' ALMANACK , for 1810 , containing Twenty-Four Pages , over and above the Advertisement Covers ,
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JUST PUBLISHED , In one volume , foolscap 8 vo ., neat cloth , price 7 s . Cd ., THB PURGATORY OF SUICIDES : A Prison Rhyme ' . in Tfiiv Books t BY THOMAS COOPER , TIIE CHARTIST . J . How , Publisher , 132 , fleet-street . _£ _"" " - Orders from the Country to be sent through the Booksellers . MR . COOPER ' S NEW WORK . To bo Published early in November , in 2 \ ols ., 12 mo ., Price Fourteen Shillings ,
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not see alarming evidence of the truth and loresight oi the Star ' s warnings and observations . Where is there now a " best possible public instructor" to be found that is not preparing thc public for that deranging re-action which tee pointed out as a certain consequence of the measures then initiated , even while tliere was yet time to have prevented them , had there been courage enough in the administration to grapple with thc incipient difficulty and nip it in the bud . But now ; now that the mania has been allowed its full growth ; now that it has attained its full strength , and is somewhat on thc wane ; now
that it has spread its contaminating influence throughout all society ; now that it has sucked in hundreds of parties , who at the time wc spoke , looked upon the gambling practice with horror ; noiv , that it has made _ceutais of all die mischief it can _rjfect , thc everready and wholly-honest press of England is generally sounding the note of alarm , and warning the ' reckless speculators" of the tremendous consequences that await them . For speakin g in time , when these evil consequences might have been prevented or guarded against , the Northern Star was
dubbed a " croaker : " lor speaking now when the mischief is done—when the warning can be of no sort of possible earthly use ; for speaking now , when all power of prevention is gone , and when even the possibility of guarding against the awful consequences of the gambling infatuation has departed ; for speaking now , under such consequences , the press of England is acquiring a character for " wisdom , " for " foresight , " and for " truthfulness" enough to make it , like our whole blessed order of things , — " the envy of surrounding nations and lhe admiration of thc world . "
For the last few weeks we have been somewhat silent spectators of the gambling transactions _, llaving repeatedly uttered the warning ; having re-
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peatedly traced the operation of the mama up to its climax , and shewn the tremendous consequences sure to follow ; having put our numerous cautions on record , we left the matter without further public notice , to watch the _developemeut of that which we had done our best to crush in the shell ; but wliich the " g reat statesman" now in power dared not to tackle , tor fear of upsetting the whole of our " stock " - bascd system . That developement we have now seen : and we are constrained to confess that lively as the d anger appeared iH prospective to US ; allengulphing as the mania threatened to be , the reality has far exceeded the most gloomy picture of its extent that the mind wasjthen able to form . At tho present moment we have schemes afloat—companies
formed—shares taken , and " selling" at a premium , for projects whicli require for their realization upwards of £ 700 , 000 , 000 of money ! There has been " subscribed" by the reckless speculators and gamblers a sum of money to provide facilities for transit , equal to the National Debt ol England , which it is notorious there is not money enough in the whole world to liquidate ! Of course the reader will fully understand the meaning of thc term " subscribe , " as applied to Railway and other gambling projects . It does not mean that the money has been paid—but only 'PROMISED and he will hardiy need to be reminded that in these things there is a vast diifcrence between " promise" and performance . The Bank of England " promises" to pay all its notes " on demand ; " while it is notorious that it could
not , even now when it has such a stock of bullion in its coffers , meet one half of its engagements were it called on . To expect that the "subscribers" of the £ 700 , 000 , 000 for Railway purposes at home and abroad , could realize in practice half of what they have promised , or even one seventh of it , is to be very innocent of political and economical _knowlcdgcindeed-Why , if the . infatuated dro . imings of the least sanguine speculator could be realized , the National Debt would be a flea-bite merely , Which we should be silly to care for . If there was anything like £ 700 , 000 , 000 of unemployed capital in the country , ready to
be " subscribed" in le 3 S than two or even five years for the formation of Railways , we could pay off mi Debt , without difficulty or derangement to any one "interest , " in less than ten years . And yet , is it not as notorious as that the sun shines at mid-day , that to pay the interest of this said Debt only , has plunged the nation into dangers and difficulties unheard of before in the history of states ? Is ifc not notorious that the exaction of £ 60 , 000 , 000 annually for thc interest of the Debt , and for the Establishments which that Debt renders necessary , has humbled us , as a people , before the world ; has tied our hands
on our backs , and forced us to tamely put up with insnltsand wrong from all the " strong" powers of the earth ? There is France in Algeria , bombardi ng Mogndore—making war on the Em » Enon of Morocco —engaged iu a series of conquests which will materially interfere with our "interests : " and yet wc dare not say " muff , " but are compelled to look inactively on the . " war of extermination , " " free " only to indulge in the forlorn hope that the barbarous hordes led on b y Abd-el-Kadkb Will he powerful enough to drive thc " conquering hosts" of France into the sea . Tliere is Texas—annexed to
our most powerful RIVAL , —thc United States : and this , too , in spite of the threats and bluster of Mexico , OUR " ally" whom we are bound ly treaty to aid ; and in spite , too , ofthe threats in England , when annexation was first proposed , that the _Yankies should " not be permitted to accomplish their object . " But there Texas is , —ANNEXED ! The Oregon territory is already occupied ! The Caifornias arc set on and the preliminary preparations engaged in for another annexation ! Mexico itself is in imminent danger of passing Into the hands cf the " Great Republic ; " and here we are , tied up I
—bound hand-and-foot together with the pebt , and incapable of doing more than utter quiet despairing grumblings , against the acts which tarnish our " national glory" and _reduae the national power . Should we remain thus passive , had we so many hundreds of millions of unemployed capital in ( he laud , as our Bailway promoters have " subscribed ?" Should we let the debt crush us into the earthhumble our pride—make our bull-frogcdness lick the very dust , had we the means at command that these " men of metal" have made themselves " responsible" (!) for ? Should we present the humiliating
spectacle ol a nation in " periodical" nuu ; with manufactures prostrate ; with traders iu the Gazette ; with _worU-people starving ; with every tenth man a pauper ; with gaols abounding ; with crime increasing six times over in _iifty years , while the population has not doubled : should we present tliis spectacle before the world , as a consequence of our debt , had we the millions amongst us that thc Railway madfolks have put down on paper ? If there had been half of the means in the country these folks have PLEDGED themselves to produce , would Sir _Rouekt Peel liave proclaimed in thc face of day that the limits of taxing the producer ( from _wnoii _. ALL wealtu _si'iuiscs ) had been passed
and that it was now impossible to wring the £ 00 , 000 , 0 x 0 a-ycar out of him ; and that therefore tliose who had " accumulated" wealth UlUSfc give up a portion to enable them to retain the rest ? But why pursue thc inquiry further ? The PLEDGES that have been made are but the acts of madmeu , madly engaged in ; pledges which it is utterly impossible to redeem even to a seventh degree : and pledges of whicli thc non-fulfilment , as well as thc fulfilment ( were that possible ) is equally sure to bring ruin upon hundreds of thousands , and paralyse all the productive energies of the country . The nation will have dearly to pay for the reckless pranks of those _tvhom the law ought to have restrained _.
This has ever been the case—the rcsuit—from all former national manifestations of the gambling propensity . Tht pvescutr is lav from being thc lirst occasion of the sort ; and our governors have therefore no excuse for not having nipped it in the bud , other than that the whole _superstructure of State is built on a gambling foundation * , and that lo interfere would be to endanger the entire social fabric . If there liad been no _cTjiiTiciici ! to appeal lo , as to THE EFFECTS which national gambling are certain to produce , thc inaction of Sir llonKirr Peel would have been more defensible than it is : but with the " light of other davs" before his eyes : with history
in his hands ; with his own experience to appeal to , his conduct , in relation to the present rage for gambling , charged as he is with the destinies of this industrious and endeavouring people , is iseaua _* chimixal , and affords of no defence other than that abovc set forth . Had he not the experience of 18 . 15 and of 1 S 25 to guide him ? Was hc not an actor ou the political stage at both periods ? Could he have forgotten the awful consequences on both these occasions , irom the gambling manias then set in ? Was it possible for the years of gloomy depression , with their SWING FIRES—their riots —their emutes—their insolvencies—their "
ruination —their calling on God to put an end to unendurable sufferings before morning : " was it possible for Sir _Houert Pekl to have forgotten all tliese things ? Had he not the history of the South Sea bubble within his reach ? Could he have lacked information , as to ivhat has been the consequence of former " manias" to obtain fortunes witliout productive industry , had he taken trouble to seek for it ? And with such information in his hands , was hc not a pusillanimous minister not to try to save his country from the dire inflictions certain to be entailed , if the incipient mania were allowed to develope itself ? The plea that he dare not do so , for fear ol " upsetting the whole apple-cart" of Government , is a splendid testimony as to iu stability , and of the righteous foundation on which it is grounded !
The " full infliction , " however , we are doomed to bear . Full play has been accorded to the gambling bubble speculations of the day ; and the full tale of " consequences" we must endure . What those will really be , —how heavy and how devastating , —time alone can reveal . But some idea may be formed from looking back at what has been the result from similar causes less extensively applied .
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The mania for gambling seems to have periodic developements in different portions of the civilised world . In England we have had a pretty full share of it , at the times and occasions enumerated above and also in our lotteries , which were eventuall y suppressed by law out of a pretended regard to the national character of our people . America aho ha 3 had her share : and her share of CONSEQUENCES too , both in depreciation of property , and in depreciation of national character . REPUDIATION is the natural offspring of gaming . To talk of '' honour " in relation toa gamester , is to confound truth with
falsehood . Light is not more opposed to darkness than is aii gaming to honour and rectitude . The very foundation of gaming is rotten — dishonest . Gaming is the chance of obtaining , or losing that for which no equivalent is or can be given . This is in its very nature nefarious—dishonest . So Universally is , ' this hwwn and felt to be the case , even bv the most infatuated of gamblers , that they will xxot pan with their losings , if all chance of gaining them back again lias passed _axvay . ' Let the game be hilt l * UJl out—and all chance of winning gone ; and your veriest gambler will REPUDIAT E ! And why should he not ? Thc very princi ple that justifies his acceptance of the * ' birthright of his brother , " without even giving " a mess of pottage" in exchange , will justify
his refusal to be stripped of all hc possesses , without any equivalent from the stripper . Kay , in relation to "honour , " and "honesty , " and " morality , " the refusal is by far more honourable than the acquiescence . It is true that such a course is a direct infringement of the " laws of gaming ; " and proves the man a scoundrel who resorts to it , after he has subscribed to tliese Jaws—and , by his acceptance of " winnings , " pledged himself to abide by tliem : but of this the camkstkr is not entitled to complain . Before a man can engage in gaming transactions at all , he must be scoundrclkcd in nature : and if a scoundrel acts as a scoundrel is expected to act , and as his nature prompts him , it is not for other scoundrels to taunt him and reprove—but it is for honest men to try to mend the whole batch .
Perhaps the most interesting as well as the most issTnccnvE lesson as to the course of national gaming , and its demoralising consequences , is given by _Beckmasjt _, in his history oftlie Tulipomania of tlie seventeenth century . Many people of the present day are not aware that the mania for gaml- ! in « - fixed itself at that period on tlie harmless Tulip with equally as great avidity as it has now fixed itself on Railway schemes , or as it did in the beginning of the eighteenth century on the South Sea bubble . But such is the fact : and iu the history of that period wc may trace our present coursc-and anticipate some of the consequences sure to ilow out of the present enormous developement of the evil .
The Tulip , ' says Beckmaxx _, which is of no farther use than to ornament gardens ; which is exceeded in beauty by many other plants , and whose duration is short and very precarious , became , in the middle of the seventeenth century , the object of . trade such as is not to be met with in the history of commerce , and by which its price rose abovc that of the most precious metals . This trade was not carried on throughout all Europe , but in some cities of the Netherlands ; particularly Amsterdam , Haarlem , Utrecht , Alkuiav , Leyden , Rotterdam , _Enkhuyscn , and Meedenblick ; and rose to the greatest hei ght in the years 1 C 3-1-5-C and 7 . For a root of the spocics called "viceroy , " the after-mentioned article-.- , valued as below expressed , were agreed to be delivered _: —
Florins " Two lasts of wheat us "Four do . rye ... _SiiS "Four tat oxen ... ... -ISO " _Kiirht fat swine , 210 - ¦ Tlclve fat sheep ... ; 320 " Two hogsheads of wine ... r , r ) " Four tons of beer ... 32 " Two do . butter 102 " One thousand lbs . of cheese ... ... 120 " A complete bed 100 "A suit of clothes SO " A silver beaker ... ... t'O
" Total for one Tulip ... 2 , 500 !" " Tulips were afterwards sold according to the weight of the roots . Four hundred perits —( a weight less than a grain )—of the tulip 'Admiral _Liefkenf cost 4 , 400 florins . The species Semper Augustus , often sold for 2000 florins ; and it once happened that there were only two roots of it to be had , thc one at Amsterdam , the other at Haarlem . For a root of this species one agreed to give 4 , 000 florins , together
with a new carriage , two grey horses , and a complete harness . Another agreed to give twelve acres oi land for a root . Those who liad not ready money , promised their moveable and immoveable goods , house and lands , cattle and clothes . The trade , is which 00 , 000 florins were sometimes ci . _eaiikh is one month , ivas followed not onl y by mercantile people , but also by the first noblemen , citizens of every description , mechanics , seamen , farmers , turf-diggers , _chjmilfi / sweeps , footmen , maid-servants , and old clothes women .
AT FIRST EVERY ONE WON , AND NO ONE LOST . Some of the poorest people gained in a few months houses , coaches and horses , and figured away like the first characters in the land . Iu every town some tavern was selected , which served as a "Change , where high and low traded in flowers , and confirmed their bargains with the most sumptuous entertainments . They formed laws for themselves , and had notaries and clerks . "
The object of these speculations , however , had nothing to do with the desire to posses * , or cultivate the plant ; it was a _meue gamixg fob mo . _nkt , and totally unconnected with the feelings _xvtiich prompted thc first purchasers . It was a theme which drove the grave , the prudent , the ponderous Dutchman as wild as over did the South Sea bubble his more excitable and loss calculating brother , John Bull . " A speculator , " continues our authority , " often ottered and paid large sums for a root which hc never received , and never wished to receive . Another sold roots
wliich hc never possessed or delivered . Ofi did a nobleman purchase of a chimney-sweep tulips to theamount <>/ 2 , 000 florins , and fold them at the samG time to a farmer ,- and neither the nobleman , chimney-sweep , « or /« rHk * r , / ia . tI roo f * in their possession , or wished tu _ptxsftss thon . Before the tulip season was over , more roots were sold and purchased , bespoke and promised to be delivered , than in all probability were to be found iu the gardens of Holland ; and when ' &'«¦>" ¦ ' Augustus' was not to be had , which happened twice , no species was oftener purchased and sold , hit ' space ot three years , more than 10 , 000 , 000 lie" * - wore expended in this trade in only one town i _* Holland . "
To understand , this gambling traffic it may lie necessary to give the following illustration . A nobleman bespoke of a merchant a tulip-root , to bo dclivered in six months , at the price of 1 , 000 florins-Suppose that at thc end of that time , the price bd risen to 1 , 500 florins ; in that case the nobleman iii not wish to have the tulip—but the merchant paid him 500 florins . If the price was fallen , so that » root could be purchased for 800 florins , the nobleman paid to the merchant 200 florins . In all tliese circumstance , however , no one ever thought of deliver ing the roots [ or of receiving them . In proportion a ' more gained by this traffic , mokk _ekgageo in it : a '"*
those who had money to pay to one soon had money to receive of another ; as at faro—one loses on one card , and wins on another . The whole trade was a game at hazard , as the Mississippi trade was afterwards , aad as stock-jobbing is at present . High and low-priced tulips were procured , that the rich and poor might gamble with them . Whoever is surprised that such a traffic should become general needs only to ic " * upon what is done where lotteries are established , ty ivhich trades are often neglected and even abandoned , because a speedier move of getting fortunes is 2 win ied out . in short the tulip-trade may yery _vreU serve to explain stock-jobbing ,
At length , however , THIS TRADE FELL OF A SUDDEN . Among such a number of contracts , max * were broke * . MANY HAD ENGAGED TO PAY MORE THAN THEY WERE ABLE . The whole stock of the adventurers was consumed
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 18, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_18101845/page/4/
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