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"SANABILIBUS ÆGROTAMUS MALIS."

WE ARE FAR FROM WELL-BUT OUR MALADIES ARE CURABLE.

THE best possible Government at the least possible cost

(i. e. the least possible demand on the personal liberty, and on the purse, of each individual)—

Is the right-the want-and the wish-of civilized man.
But such a Government is impossible until Commerce-

(i. e. the whole public business of buying for the purpose of supplying demand by re-sale)

shall have been taken out of the hands of private individuals, and shall be carried on at the cost price of economical management by the servants of Society, for the benefit of Society.

The principle of fairness requires that the distributing power shall buy as cheaply as justice, with regard to the producer, allows; and shall sell as cheaply as justice, with regard to the consumer, commands.

Every act-every neglect-which tends, needlessly, to raise prices, is Treason against Humanity.

The business of public buying and selling

(i. e.- -Commercial Agency or "Distribution ")

Is the Business, or Duty of a Public Profession, in which no more profit, on its duly performed transactions, ought to be permitted to accrue than would be tolerated in any other Branch of the Public Service.

This is the true Free Trade which the world wants, and wishes for.

Away, then, at once (as speedily, at least, as possible) for ever with the false Free Trade of Messrs. Cobden and Peel.

The Jews buy as cheaply as they can, and sell as dearly as they can; our "Law" aims at better things-yet ordains nothing "Quixatic" or "Impracticable," when it insists that, in this matter (of Commerce), as in every other matter, so far as our imperfect nature and condition will allow us, we should do unto others that which others would, reasonably, wish that we should do unto them—not merely that which we would wish that others should do unto HENRY CLINTON.

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LECTURES.

DURING the past month we have twice availed ourselves of the opportunity of attending Dr. Skelton's Lectures, delivered at the Botanical Medical School, 105, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. Of the Doctor's style of oratory we will only say that it is plain, unaffected, and simple-always understandable and never flighty-his subject embraces all the sciences connected with the Medical Art, Surgery, &c., and are carefully and philosophically treated,whilst, best of all, his object is to mark a useful life by the establishment of a school or college wherein an entire new and progressive system of therapeutics might be taught, as should rescue the country from the monopolised medical bondage of the wealthier classes, and thus enable the poorer classes to become better acquainted with the laws affecting the preservation of health. We most heartily commend the Doctor's energy, and hope he will live long enough to see his efforts crowned with success-for no greater boon can be conferred upon society than teaching its members to understand hygienics.

ON Tuesday, the 18th ult., "Iconoclast," who, whatever may be his belief or unbelief, has faith in good works, lectured in St. George's Hall, Southwark, for the benefit of the O'Brien "Testimonial Committee." There was a large attendance, and at the conclusion of a powerful address, which lasted upwards of an hour, there was a voluntary subscription of £I 7s. 1d., which, with the amount taken for tickets sold at the door, will, we trust, somewhat alleviate the privations of one who has laboured so long, and sacrificed so much, for the cause of the masses.

LABOUR NEWS.

THE "Sheffield outrage" controversy, of which we have heard a great deal of late, begins to pale its ineffectual fires, whilst we regret to add that another "outrage" has been attempted in the same town upon some co-operators sitting in their room in Devonshirestreet. The entire industrial world seems to be out of joint, and from all quarters and in all sections the cry coming to us is the same. We have seen nothing advanced by the Sheffield controversialists calculated to remedy the outrage, which, in the first instance, has been, and is, infiicted on those whose lot it is to labour. The arguments used might with equal force be employed in support of the Papacy, or any other combined tyranny, and vice versa. All who have noted what has been going on all over England during the last few years must be acquainted with the wholesale spoliation of the poor by the rich law-making classes. Nevertheless, we have faith in human improvement. It is by progression, and by slow degrees that men have arrived at the art of self-government. Having thrown off some of the shackles by which the few held the mass in bondage, of mind as well as of body, our progress towards the right ought now to be more rapid. It will be 8o. Self-government will be followed by less government; perhaps by none at all. The labour struggle is indicative of the time having arrived for less government. Individuals are for all great and beneficial changes before the mass, and must go forward as pioneers. We contend for less government. We say to our public agents, cease to interfere in the business arrangements of the people; let their voluntary contracts be adjusted between themselves, so that character, and not force, shall be the dependence for their fulfilment. Let them seek their own markets without let or hindrance. Aim to prevent crime, and to reform rather than punish the criminal. Above all, arrest the monopoly of the land. Follow these principles, and you will find "Sheffield outrages" reduced ninetenths in their bulk. The following brief extract from our Blackburn correspondent may be taken as a sample of our "advices" from Coventry, Manchester, Huddersfield, the mining districts, and the metropolis. He says:-"A period of the commercial crisis has arrived which exhibits a semblance of things to come, an awful realization of poverty, wretchedness, and privation. Probably there is no town in the country which is suffering so much from depressed trade as Blackburn. The reason is obvious. The staple trade of the town is almost wholly the manufacture of cotton goods for the Indian markets, which are and have been for some time past overstocked and glutted. For months short time has been run in a large number of the mills, and by this means the operatives have been gradually succumbing to poverty, their reduced earnings being too small to provide the wants of nature for themselves and families. A general resort to short time has succeeded, and the new year has revealed further and deeper privations. Nearly 6,500 operatives are now wholly unemployed, including labourers and artizans of other classes, and more than twice that number are just earning sufficient to maintain themselves and keep their families from the necessity of applying for parochial or other relief."

THE MONTH'S PARLIAMENT.

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THE Westminster" Yarn-Spinning" Company (limited) have again began business in their newly-erected premises. The machinery, some of which is new, is constructed and worked after the most approved atmospheric principles. It is said to be admirably adapted for the completion of its indefinite nothingness, the present staff of conductors, and the Chief Engineer in particular, having expressed themselves highly gratifled as to its efficiency. As each and all of those employed (?) on the Company's premises are allowed to "spin" their own "yarn," we must not be surprised to find the "lengths" different, the "qualities" spurious, and little, if any, genuine. The specimen "length which we have seen exhibited on the 6th ult., and had been manufactured off the premises, is called the "Queen's Own." It is of the usual texture and form-meagre 166 spun" and "framed with a due regard to prudent economy." Casting aside metaphor, let us come to the Queen's Speech and see what it is, and, without analyzing, we shall be greatly disappointed if its best feature is not found to be an unmeaning phraseology, if not a sham entire. The only thing in it worthy of note is the promise of a bill "for rendering the title to land more simple, and its transfer more easy.' If this is not meant to cajole the people, merely to please the needy rich on the one hand, and the greedy rich on the other, then we do no wrong to advise the landless millions to send in their claims as early as possible. Whoever the framers of the bill may be, they will deserve well if we find inserted in their bill a clause declaring the land must be made to revert to its rightful inheritors-the people, as public property, never to be again alienated to private individuals. Allusion is also made in the speech to the poverty of the masses, &c.; but before the masses can see their danger as we see it, they must learn the real causes of their poverty and degradation. They must be taught that mere political changes alone-the alteration of the name of a law or the form of a Government, while its inherent diabolic essence is still retained-can never initiate the reign of prosperity and peace. With the exception of Mr. Ayrton's bill, providing compensation to workmen, to which we have alluded elsewhere, there is nothing else deserving notice, except it be the question put to the Chief Engineer, by Mr. Cox, on the subject of Reform.

The British Workman. Monthly. S. W. Partridge, Paternoster Row.

THE February number, which we have received, devotes its front page to a magnificent engraving of a medallion portrait of the late Prince Albert. We are glad to see the high style of art which is diffused by this paper, but we should be better pleased to see the text more manly, and fit to make a man of the British workman.

The Children's Friend is another publication from the same publishers. It is very nicely got up, and does them credit.

King Labour's Song-book. By J. B. LENO. Farrah, Holywell-street. HERE we have a working man setting himself the task of writing one hundred songs dedicated to the cause of labour; and the effort, judging from the six parts before us, is one which reflects credit upon the author. As of men, so of books, their merits are not indicated by the titles they may bear, and we regret our limited space will not allow us to make quotations from some of these truly ennobling compositions. Their manly sentiment, healthy recognition of labour, and original fulness, recommend them for becoming household chaunts. Mr. Leno's style is generally good, and many of his songs speak very forcibly Of manners primitive, and that good old time, Which I have seen, when discipline prevail'd.

The Working Man: What is he? By WILLIAM WARD, Editor of the "Cardiff Times."

THIS is a well written pamphlet of sixteen pages, and the working man spoken of "is he who labours at a trade, and thereby contributes much to commercial wealth and greatness." Although this definition may appear to have a limited speciality, the writer's views are taken from an elevated stand-point, and his pleadings to and for the class to whom he addresses himself bespeak a thorough acquaintance with their habits, wants, tastes, and aspirations. The pamphlet deserves a wide circulation, and we hope at some future time to transfer (by permission) a portion of its contents to our columns.

Books received, to which we shall refer in our next.-" Andi Alter Partem; or, Letters to his Constituents." By Lieut.-General Perronet Thompson. "Pictures of Controversy." By J. C. Farn. Two Lectures on Trades' Unions, delivered in the University of Oxford, 1861. By Charles Neate, M.A. "Aborigines' Friend." "Colonial Intelligencer," No. 13.

IMPORTANT NOTICES.

1. We are obliged to postpone to our next number the publication of a very important work by J. R. Taylor, entitled "Usury versus Co-operation."

2.-At the request of many of our friends, we are going to re-publish the articles on the Labour Question, which appeared in the early numbers of the WORKING MAN. 3.-We have secured the co-operation of a Medical Friend and of a Legal Adviser, so that we shall be able to give advice to our readers upon any question they may put to us, and we shall from time to time publish articles from these two talented gentlemen under the headings of "Our Medical Friend" and "Our Legal Adviser."

4. We have secured the Co-operation of some first-rate correspondents on the other side of the Atlantic, so that we shall be able to report the progress of the Free Labour v. Slavery movement which is going on in the States.

CO-OPERATIVE AND LABOUR TRACTS.

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six times as much for it."-Lord Brougham.

MECHANICS, AMATEURS, &c., who

are desirous of purchasing the Vibrators, Keys, and other materials, in order to construct an Harmonium, or wish to purchase a Flute, Fife, Drum, Cornopean, Violin, or any Instrument or article in the music business, should by all means send for Thomas Croger's price list and testimonials. Manufactory, 483, Oxford-street, four doors east of Museum-street, London, W.C.

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