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 and the foul and pestilential principles which, by their action, began, forty years ago, to consign to beggary hundreds of thousands of harmless and ingenious hand-loom weavers, seem destined, if not speedily resisted, to sweep away all the barriers that still remain to shelter productive industry from the encroachments of those classes of men, to whom the abasement of industry is the source of increased power and influence."

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From the Morning Chronicle:—

"The elevation of Mr. Gladstone to the head of the Board of Trade will be viewed by the country as a satisfactory proof of Sir Robert