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By Henry H. Wiltshire.

On Reverses in Life. By J. T.
The Rational Calculus, and a Uniform

System of Weights and Measures (con-
tinued.) By F. Reimann.

The True Order of Society-Part 2, Justice,

By A. C. Cuddon.

Cosmopolitan Addresses.

Michael Bakunin.

Shakespeariana-No. 1, Julius Caesar. By
The Street (Poetry). By T. F. Ball.
Alpha.

Progress of Cosmopolitanism.

Notices to Correspondents, &c., &c.

London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row;

and all booksellers.

FOR Good, Cheap, and Fashion-

Printed at the Strand Printing Office, 335, Strand, W. C.

THE WORKING MAN.-The form, size, and price of this periodical has been altered.
and each alteration is, in our opinion, an improvement. The articles are written in a
tolerant, hopeful, genial spirit; many of them display considerable ability. In the last
number there is an admirable letter from Mazzini to the working men of Cagliari, the
spirit of which we would like to see infused into our working-class associations in this
country. An appeal is made by the Council of the National Reform League, on behalf
of their president, Mr. James Bronterre O'Brien, a name at one time well known on
Tyneside. It appears Mr. O'Brien is in bad health, and as years increase upon him, he
is not so able as formerly to attend to his usual labours. We cordially endorse the
Working Man's testimony to the able and undaunted champion of the people's rights, and
trust the appeal of his friends may meet with the hearty response it so well deserves.-
Newcastle Chronicle.

THE WORKING MAN (No 21).-A comprehensive sub-title given to this serial shows
that it is devoted to many important subjects for working men. It is "a political and
social advocate of the rights of labour, and a monthly record of co-operative progress."
We have read several of the articles with considerable pleasure, especially those which
descant on the principles of co-operation. Without subscribing to all the conclusions
which earnest advocates of co-operation arrive at, we are quite satisfied that there is very
much in those principles which must have a salutary effect on the future welfare of the
labouring classes of this country. The drawback to carrying out those principles hitherto
has been the difficulty in finding the right men to manage the stores. From the specimens
which have been seen about this neighbourhood, we are not very favourably impressed
with the material out of which the fabric has been sought to be madc. Prior to success,
the masses of working men need to be educated in the theory of co-operation, and then
they must have disinterested, conscientious men to take the lead in carrying on those
institutions which may be established in different parts of the country. This magazine,
we have no doubt, will assist in the enlightenment which is needed, and we ask the
artizans of this district to purchase it regularly, and make themselves master of the
principles which its writers are engaged in discussing.-Cardiff Times, Jan. 10.

THE WORKING MAN.-This little journal is peculiarly fitted for the class to whom it
is specially addressed.-National Reformer, Jan. 11, 1862.

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piercing eyes embrace an immense range where to choose his prey. We have raised ourselves to the high sphere of philosophy, we have been enabled to survey the whole of our common abode the earth, and we have counted our friends-the friends of liberty, of labour, of justice.

We have seen them all heroically contending against our enemiesignorance, superstition, despotism, competition, exploitation of labour, slavery and our hearts have been elated with proud joy. Amongst those whom we distinguished from the crowd, you, Bakunin, stood among the highest, by your courage, your uudaunted energy, and your sufferings. We saw you handed from one tyrant to the other, as if each succeeding one was afraid to keep such a prey too long in his hands; at last, we heard you had been sent to the deadly mines of Siberia-a torture that even Dante could not invent for his Hell. We had gone into mourning for a brother lost, for one of our guiding stars dropped from our heaven of hope, when lo !-can we believe the report?we heard that you had baffled all their cunning, broken through all their meshes, that you were free! No, it cannot be; for who can come back from Siberia? We might as well hope to see Prometheus break his chains, and fling them at his torturing vulture.

But no, it is true! Bakunin is free! he has landed in America--he is in London.

Prometheus can break his chains. Vultures, your fate is now doomed! Fly, and leave us free to love one another, and to labour for all.

Bakunin, welcome in the land of freedom. We have forgotten the lessons of our oppressors, who tried to teach us to look upon men as foreigners, as enemies, because they were born on another land, or because they spoke another language, or because their skin was not exactly the same colour as ours. We have felt the warmth of their hearts, and the loving grasp of their hands, and we have called them brothers.

Brother Bakunin, welcome to England.

Brother Herzen, you have lived already a long time among us; you know our customs, you will guide him and comfort him, and when he will have rested himself from his fatigues, we will, as our forefathers used to do, form a circle around him, and he will tell us the wonderful tale of his struggles, and then you both will help us in our search after truth. The land where you were born, is we think, unknown to us. The customs and struggles of your countrymen we want to be acquainted with; for in the examination of the great problem of labour, which we have undertaken, we want all the light that men like you can give us.

Bakunin, Herzen, we tender you the right hand of fellowship.

On behalf of the Committee,

The Deputation:

[A. C. CUDDON, Chairman.

W. TURNBull.

H. BAKER.

W. P. WALLARGE.

G. HILL.

G. E. HARRIS, Secretary.

Bakunin then answered as follows:

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Friends, I am deeply moved by this manifestation of your sympathy, which I did not hope to have deserved. I ascribe it to the democratical instinct which enables you to recognize a friend, even in a man of a foreign race, because a friend devoted to our common cause. And, indeed, as long as I recollect, I have been passionately devoted to the cause of social and economical emancipation of mankind; I have not succeeded in doing much. Imprisonment and exile have taken from me twelve years of my life and activity. But all that remains in me of life and strength will be devoted to our great cause. The time is come when the Russian people, who have slept so long, are awakening, and will not go to sleep again. We Russians know how much depends upon this struggle for the emancipation of labour, but we know also that its strength is not destructive, but productive. We are persuaded that the Russian element will bring a new idea into the great social question, and that it will, in its turn, stand in the rank of all nations which tend towards the fullest emancipation of mankind, and offer a brotherly hand to those working for our common cause.

The hearty congratulations then became general.

Michael Bakunin, Alexander Herzen, and several other gentlemen, then entered into explanations as to the economical and political organization of Russia, which, when we reproduce them in our columns (as they have promised to contribute articles upon those subjects) will rather startle our readers.

WHAT IS PROPERTY?

THE Roman Catholic theologians of Germany a short time since held a meeting at Munich, the capital of Bavaria; and in a document which expressed the result of their deliberation, they declared no less than three times that "the fall of the temporal power of the Pope would lead to the destruction of the right of property in Europe." Not one in ten thousand, perhaps, of the readers of this document could trace the existence of any relation between the Pope's temporal power and the right of property; but as the theologians to whom we refer are men trained from their early years to the use of logic, and are not in the habit of employing a vague and unmeaning phraseology, we shall endeavour to trace this connection; and as we are about discussing the most important problem in social science, we ask for the serious attention of our readers to this subject. Their future, their rights, comfort, and position depend on their having clear and definite ideas with respect to property. It has been said by one writer of great eminence that "property is robbery," and by another, that "every violation of property is robbery." Strange as it may appear, both those seemingly contradictory opinions are reconcilable, as we shall see when we get a clear notion of what property ought to be and what property is. Property, like other general terms, such as glory, ambition, love, is good or bad, according to the form in which it exists in society. The glory which leads one man to take arms in defence of his country is a

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