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ALL


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' p H E O . W I L S O N Begs to inform his ensfomers


ana Uio inhabitants of Clitboroo tliat lio lias REMOVED TO MARKET PLACE


(next door to tho White Lion), where ho is carrying OB his business ns Usual. Noto tho address:—


T H E O . W I L S O N , CTJfTS’. slvi:


vl \hi:. i';i' •


N O T I C E T O S P O R T S M E N . have a large stock of Cartridges, Chilled Shot, Curtiss and Harvey’s


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A N D G E N E R A L IR O NM O N G E R , UAHKET PLACB, CLPTHBROE.


trbe irtmcH, FJUDAT, AUa. so, 1389. THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL, S T O R E S T he Eighth Ordinary General Meeting of KING AN D M A R K E T S T R E E T , C L ITH E R O E . £tmcntion. W . H A YH U R ST , BLACK


FoitHm, Fianoforton, Ainpricnn OrRftnn, Ansln OrannH, Ac.i ct the «Btquality MKRson*l)laprIc«.i. Flanoa, Uannonluma


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X H E t i m e s o f f i c e (R. PARKINSON, Silteb Medalmbt FjOr a l l k in d s o f p r in t in g


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t a il o r in g ron THU AUTUMN 4 WINTER D. FLACK


Will surpass anything lie has done in


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Suits to measure may bo now had from 30/- to 100/-.


COME AND SEE THE QUaVLITT OF CLOTH & MAKE OF GARMENTS.


Before you buy elsewhere, and oblige, yours respectfully,


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CaU early at .


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Orange, Raspberry, Currant, and other Syrups.


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„


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SEASONABLE GOODS. A l l o f t h e B e s t Q u a l it y .


olT Woono Lnne, Iimpb In ntorlt Eitalliih nnil


A. P A R K E R Is selling lots of


JACKETS AND VESTS AND


J o II N L E W IS Lato of tbo Ann of T, A J. Lewis,


COACH COATS AND VESTS, OR B U IL D E R


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Carrinpcfl of every dc.scripllon made to order. All kindH of Carriages bougtit, Hold, or exchanged.


the Manchester Ship Canal Company was held last Monday, under what must be call­ ed exceptionally favourable circumstances, The tone o f the meeting was self-congratula­ tory, and deservedly so, whatever might be said to the contrary by its enemies. It is a well known fact that the latter have, o f late, had, to quote a popular expression, to “ sing low.” As is usual in such cases, a goodly num­


ber o f those who, in the initiatory stages o f the undertaking, opimsed the scheme tooth and nail, have accepted the inevitable with


All now work worrnnlixl 12 moiilha. Eopalrj neatly and | as gOOd grace aS they COuld aSSUmC, and promptly eiocutcd. EBllmateo free.


gone over to the enemy. History is said to ® ^


repeat itself, and it requires hut a little re­ search to find that all great schemes o f this kind, intended to overcome some great en­ gineering difficulty, have at first received but little support from its generation : have, in fact had to encounter the most violent and deadly oppostion. But we usually find, if we probe a little underneath the surface, that tho opposition in most cases has arisen out o f self interest. That accorded to A rkwright when he invented the power loom, to replace the slow and tedious h.andIoom; to R obert Stephenson, on his intoduction o f steam to locomotive power; and to a host o f other similar inventions and enterprises, which were meant to be, and afterw.ards proved their right to be, valuable acquisitions to the community at large. English people are, as a rule, too apt to


look at new undertakings with suspicion, and prefer to go on in the old ruts rather than take the trouble to try a better part o f the road ; but when they do see the neces­ sity o f a thing, and m.-ike up their minds that it shall be done, there is no power on earth that can stop them. Thus has it been with the Lancashire people who have under­ taken the supiJOrt o f the Ship Canal, and now, with the record o f the Eighth Ordin.ary General Meeting before them, they will have no cause to regret the day that they deter­ mined to be one of its supporters. ■ There have been a great many hindrances


and disappointments; the difficulty o f raising the - necessary capital on the one side, and the harrassing, persecuting opposition shewn by the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, both in- Parliament "and out- of it, on the .other.


I^ARKE T PLACfi, 0LITHEROE.


IKEXFENSITE ASD AHTISTIO d e c o r a t io n .


Nos-FoisoKon« Coloubs. DESIGNS AND


ESTIMATES


For Ercry Description of I nterior


A Choice Selection of Furnishing Ironmonger Goods, and Ex terio r VVork. P A Y N E


jy£ARKET PLACE; QLITHEROE.


These hindrances and drawbacks, while they o f draining the


have been the mean, resources o f the Company, have also had the


into a still greater zeal, if that were possible. It 13 curious to note, and at the same


time interesting ",to reflect, on the similar experiences o f the promoters o f the Suez


Canal. Even such an enlightened and cap­ able engineer as R obert Stephenson, was


not impressed with the future success o f that undertaking, and , it was . in consequence of his unfavourable' report that the project was abandoned, and the railway to Suez con­ structed instead. When such a one as this could he mistaken in forming an estimate of an undertaking, the like o f which, he, o f all men, should have been the one to under-i otand, it cannot be wondered at, that engin­ eers o f our own time should have had serious doubts as to the ultimate and unqualified success o f our own local venture. What was required for the Suez Canal, as was after­


wards proved, was an engineer with a firm, deep-rooted conviction o f the practicality o f the scheme, and also the courage to carry it out to a successful issue. This was found in the person o f M. F erdinand de L esseps, who demonstrated its possibility only one year after R obert Stephenson had pro­


nounced it impracticable. So with regard to the Ship Canal, amidst


all the objections and difficulties raised by eminent engineers, employed by the Liver­ pool authorities, Mr. W iLi-i ams has persevered, with indefatigable energy and a firm conviction o f the righteousness o f his cause, until the result can be easily foreseen and estimated by a very babe in intellect. Nothing now remains for the opposers of


the scheme but to take every available opportunity of snapping and biting at the heels o f this giant o f commercial enterprise. At one time it looked as if these snarlers would be a serious drawback to success, hut the systematic way in which Mr. W illiams has met and overlaid each successive objec­ tion as it arose, has almost completely taken the sting out o f them, and now their only resource is to trammel and encumber the tho work in every possible w.ty. Sir j . E. Lee struck a vital chord when


so that there remains ^1=0,450 to be taken up m order to complete the issue


therefore seem that after such ■ salutory effect o f stimulating the supporter- meeting, and the prospect of a


mination, there should be no difficultv ' disposing o f the remaining shares Th wonder is that there should beany shar« available , at all, and it only goes to prove that in these days, investors are e.xtremely


THE GREAT STRIKE. Conflicts o f capital and labour are always


extremely regrettable, because the welfbcii o f both is best compassed when industiyand its money-motor are amicably allied to the end o f production. Without labour, capiy impotent; labour, unassisted by capiul


could not but bring .about a lamentable wasting o f the community’s energy. Capital and labour .are one and indivisible, tach weak without the other; together capable of keeping the world happily and prosperously moving. What is one’s interest is the other's also; neitlier car. secure unfair advantages without endangering the concert essential to


to the continuous activity that alone main­ tains both. Not only are disturbances of the even-


ho said that amongst the visitors to tlie Ship Canal works there were some who were o f more importance to them than the Shah ; whom Lord Egerton expressed as taking very great interest in the operations and especially in the steam navvies. These were the chairmen and directors o f the various railway companies, who, it will be remem­ bered, at the outset o f the undertaking, were amongst its chief opposers. In his own words, " The result o f these visits had been to bring those great railway companies into unison with the great undertaking. The railway companies saw that it was not a chimerical scheme, that it was bound to be a great factor in the trade o f this country, and especially o f this district, and they were now willing to connect their railways up to the terminals o f the Ship Canal Company’s docks and wharves.” Such unsolicited testimony on the part o f


swing o f industry calamitous to master and man alike, but a strike or a lockKiut of any considerable extent quickly inconvenience the entire community. But for the honois o f the bloodshed incident to hostile military movements, a great strike makes almost as i much upset o f the commerce and occupation i o f a nation as does a war. When countrie set themselves in b.attle arr.ay their trade goes by the hoard, and new ports spring up in pacific spots, like Antwerp did within memory when Europe was a camp of oppos­ ing arms, and many shipping places were compulsorily closed. And .os a w.ar made the Belgian city’s new greatness, so a strike started into magnificent proiiortioiis the com­ merce o f the Clyde. In both cases, which may stand illustrative of many more, those who made the conflict hurt themselves m a way they have not recovered from in afiei time. A strike then, again, like a war, is a matter of household concern. We cannot afford to have our capitalists and labourers at cross purposes; we m


ust


insist on a just and amicable selllement of any quarrel that may arise between them, and that always without delay. These genenal remarks on an .always


abiding economic tlieme are evoked of course by the great strike which has engaged Lon­ don’s chief attention and furnished food for thought to everyone from Land's End to John O’Groal’s during sever.al days p-ist, and which, as these lines are being penned, stands at an acute stage, though the hope o f effectual arbitration between the dispa- tants assumes likelihood. ProfiLably and appropriately now we ni.ay calmly consider, with an open and unprejudiced mmd, some salient points o f struggles, such .as tliat whiih has arisen through the diss.atisfaclion of the dock hands of East London with theirpos-


tion in life. “ Tho labourer is worthy of his lure, 1


the railw.ay companies is bound to h.ave great weight, and those who have previously been in doubt .as to whether tho Canal would be able to pay, in face o f the opposition o f the railway companies, with regard to rates, may thus rest assured on tliat point. It is not very likely that the directors o f tho railway companies have been influenced in their action by any philanthropic notions o f supporting the Canal. No, they have found out it is not a bit o f use kicking ag.ainst the prick.s, and their be.st policy under the circumstances (business policy, recollect I) is one o f concilia­


tion. How differont the attitude o f tho Mersey


Dock and Harbour Board who paid a visit to the Works. The result o f their investiga­ tions seemed only to raise their ire still more, and to have added to tlie hopelessness of their cause. S ir J. C. L ee says that they are still breathing out threatenings and shaughter. O f course, this will be t.aken for only what it is worth, as it is a well-known fact, that when a man cannot argue he infal­ libly has recourse to abuse. Now, however, the neck o f the undertaking


is broken, .and although a good deal remains to be done, yet the successful result is practi­ cally assured. An explanation o f the pro-, gress made already, .and the bright look-out for the future, as given by tlie Chairman (L ord Egerton) and S ir J. C. L ee, will be relished with Immense satisfaction by the shareholders. One satisfactory item, although the amount


in itself is insignificant, is the reduction with­ in the last half-year o f the calls in arrear


from ;^42,025 to j^27,S°S- This is impor­ tant, as show’ing the increased confidence existing amongst shareholders. There is still remaining, however, ;C62o,.\so unissued capital.


;^Soo,ooo o f this has been agreed


a pronouncement of old and liigh standing, the justice o f which is agreed upon, in theorist


all events, by everyone. But here lies th crux, in what should that hire consist of? Sais


the labourer, the wherewitlial of subsistence for me and mine. That he asks and tint he should have given ungrudgingly. Capital exploits him, puts his accomplishments on


-the markets o f the world, making for ’t-C the most its skill and scheming can secoK: dispensing to him the whde, .os little as will take for the expenditure of Ins energies- Labour, in brief, gets as much nioneUr)' consideration as it can; Capit.al, suranun) speaking, pays as small a price commodity it deals in .as possible, re-c ‘ s at the highest procurable quotation.


concerned were the starting th.at labour bo in practice proper position.


This would be legitimate enough »t point sounoi


admitted to it>


sponse to any demand for a undeqiaid labour, -that the wages are profits avill permit of, then Capil-'t' admission that its auckstering with the P duct o f labour is not successful, that, m its management is bad; and


forfeited its right-to control labour an This brings us home to tlie c-ase


London Dock Companies and their We hold with the men that fivepcnce hour’s hard, if wholly unskilled tod, "■


very uncertain hold upon as much as the labourer is worthy in fact,-a sufficient consider.alion tot dustrials employed in necessary


o f shipping and embarking cargo- D o ck Comp.anies cannot justify their


enco by obtaining remuneration mercantile world sufficient to compe them for the use o f their capital an


ft-iim iiisatc


upon to give to the contractor in lieu o f cash, engagement o f their commercial 0™


of A* hands- fora"


I f Capital complam,!!''^’' concession h)


;alltliJ! It would


,Len they are -in a position o f uselJ r qtate and stand as stiimbling-j


thep-ath o f ■bourisju3t i fied,sa d a sa re th e c ,|


2 o f strikes at all times, m v,-it from capital the commodity it deal ! i S o n ; fhr cutting «


su


labour’s only we.apon against cal society is constituted.


Toil can, o f course, economic,


insist, combine on the principal thaj labour is the only capital, and by co-J


do everything in the way o f both pi and distribution; but while labour isl to market its wares, so that the clroil pations may be gone, labour is c l produce. There is work for all tcl room for all to live i f each will d o ! for himself and his fellows, seekmgl what is his own by right and t nothing which belongs in justice to I Qipital must be required by the c o l to recognise this; labour should c l accept so equitable a situation. Wl bal.ance has been broken by graspii j one hand or on the otlier— and our ci.al history has excessive concessioil by labour from capital to tell o f .o-J grinding o f the faces o f the men byl cipled masters, he it .noted— then :| business o f the Sovereign p cop k j matters straight. The remedy, we say, then, is iiidtl


arbitnation, with proper regard for ll cstsof.all concerned and for the wF the State, whicli is the overmaster ;l of both capital and labour. It is e l that we should move cn masse to]


. disastrous dispute such as tliat origi| East London, so that the world’s should be s.avcd from w.aste, and I that forerunner o f certain calamiti spre.ad idleness, with its accoinpanil rancour, should he prevented from o l itself into our midst. In a word, it | body’s business to hinder or end an}l of capital and labour wliich snaps thi of industry, for no strike wortli til can occur without working some mil all.


[tVo take tlio following froin llio -ll


CmriVr, ns it will no doubt be intercsliif rcailcrs.]


VKNDLK HILL.


James M’Kny, IMl. II. S. London: Honf ami Company, rrcston: llcmhl Oflicu.


rnmassus of tho County Halatino, :il Lincashirc men very much wliat tho Wr| prouil yolopians. Prom the days of DnI bpciiscr it.H praises have been hymned in \l as celebrated in iiroso, history and traditil mnul It; tlic shaping power of the im.j has clothed its wooded doughs and deep 1 Jmgloa with the weinl drapery of suporstl Weak solitudes are reputed to*have been ll of sorcery and enchantment, and its wild wF wastes liavo witnessed tho dark deeds of 1 practised by unhallowed beings addictcl through the midnight air astride their bnl anil hold communion witli tho Kvil One. 1 In a scries of papers contributed to till


Herald, Jlr. M’Jvay has gathered togo;|| connoctctl form .all that has been sai<l oil


the tamous Lancashire land-murk, and til his own observations and speculation.s, lul presented to the world in a goodly voluml oO


O pages. As the title implies, the ail


largely availed liimsclf of tho writings I who liave made rcndlc Hill their theme, ll audcil very considerably to the ^tock of k| prciiou.sly possessed by his owri^investigal parches. The pliysical aspects and .‘•F formation, tho natural history of the disj


Ua early annals, arc in turn dealt with. [ ft»r. M‘Kay combats the arguments of L chroniclers that l\'iullc was an unknown vj


m pre-Kormau time.s, and he devotes coil space to the considorjition of its condition i| early British, Roman, and Saxon pcri(|


chapters relating to the introduction of Chf ^ the district around reiidle are full of mt | 0 are glad to sec that, when referring to I tured crosses in ^Yhanoy Churchyanl, ll


courage to discanl the oft-repeated story I ere erected to commemorate the first ul


Uinstiau truth by the “ Groat Apostl ^tyUi,'’ l»aulinu5.


Long Bubsequont to the departure of til gionariesof the country westof Pcndle-f


creill’p ?;•


0 ti L


'


Leltic kingdom of Strathclyde—StI it was sometimes calicd—and


formed an integral p:l


included in the diocese presubJ eontomporarv of ColuL t'Jtvc received the lii-st glil


itu« tbe co-labourers-with Augustiil ° Paulinus or 'NVjlfnd 1 revive Christianity aftcil


of Ragan persecution. of


and ^ the head of “ Pendle r| at some Icngtli ■


’ tile principal fail Mlnffn*!? u itiAi*


the om n*“”’^? ^‘'^tisfactory. iV-a is J l^aiip n, M


8«rc thnl , cj


fdL an iM 1 1‘bonctic approaacli to t| “viclib™,,.! ’ “ i” '


tbe®ouutar^?''’F " ‘ ’'“gvai'liy ot I’oJ Mrlv


Tb,. tlio


tbinSi,??'} “ mS


®tat.a’l “ fiartors


/ ’oii-Ay tlian timtl “ I’ ’- iBiistral


in ‘I


Manclicstcr, Iinving b| I


v>'ni>tc-r.-i ot Mr. .M’il I’^tt to winit III


100^0? .1* C™rso mnao to the fail 'ountrr


found ti,?. -^’Rciiv. Ldmuml Spon.sor hi| ffou-alin


F''Jsic.al beauty,I of hia f a t c -J


“ 'la fond a f fe euS™ .'"K ^Urr^lS’.il"


®bow j


iiitt Wrifnv. ..-.1 “■ Pioasaut, chattv tit biij


bits, of legendary Ic


makn entirely at homo with | ^ r c a t i^ — reading of his book


of scenery, sera' ^tiUotl or pretc| chatty, an| fi‘c foil romance ot Pcmllcl


'I”'® closely uomicctcl itwns “ in tlic etornl


to bo „ .I'” ‘ '1” tbo Celtic teachers of the l|


‘^'foresting account is given of L ^^*^^rict embraced, inclul


P


bolintl I ?^i’> ^f^tton, Ribcliester, Duw*i| dciU


I rcmllc Hill has long ranked as tlic l l “ rcmllc Hill m History Literatil _ ^


interpretation of the le| ™


■word for hill, and bl in succession iidop|


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