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    THE LANCASHIRE MILL. 379

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    Virtuous T It He Asser Is A T By Ion Com...

    aspect from that which , it presented in the early days of its existence . No longer the gloomy abode of oppressed victims

    wearing out their lives in ceaseless toil , it became peopled , instead by healthy and intelligent beingsrendering willing

    work for just wages ; a scene of cheerful industry , , under a rule of righteousness and mercy ; and the city where factories most

    multiplied became noted , not only as a gold-generating centre , whence riches flowed over all the kingdombut as a leader in

    all social improvement , foremost in philanthropy , as in wealth . Alasthat it must be said it was so ! Manchesterprincely

    Manchester , , is under a cloud , and she that reigned , among cities sits mourning- now dethroned and desolate amid the

    chill hush of cold quenched furnaces and silenced mills , while her children eat the bitter bread of dependence , as their hands

    hang heavy in involuntary idleness . In a brief space we trust this cloudwhich dims her glory so entirely for a timemay

    pass away , , and the fair fibre , on which her people ' s welfare > depends , shall again whiten our shores , fairer than ever ,

    to because be wroug unstained ht by free by the and sweat happy of workers slaves , a into free-grown clothing product for all ,

    nations . Meanwhile , however , it is rather in Manchester as it was two or three short years agothan in Manchester as it is

    at the present passing moment , that , we must seek an illustration of how the modern world is clothed , and of the condition

    of those who supply the chief material for its garments . Not withstately cathedrals and palacesnot with streets of

    marble and , monuments of bronzenot with , flowery gardens within her walls or sweet environments , of rural beauty , did the

    wandering proud city feet of sp in indles ilgrimag , in her e to most the prosperous lace where days she , woo sat

    enthroned ; and the tal p l chimneys belching p forth sooty smoke , and the mean thoroughfares thronged with artizansin

    worksoiled attire , and odours of oils , and bleaches , and , dyes , and the din of engines and machineswere not well-fitted to attract

    the idler or the pleasure-seeker , to explore the marvels of that was magic turned , by which at will cotton to gold , at . the Still touch during of Lan one cashire bright machinery summer ,

    she was the cynosure of all artistic , eyes ; and having shewn the , world that , in the midst of cotton she had not forgotten art ,

    it was meet that the world should show in return that , in the midst of art it could still remember cotton . Liberally did the heads of the great manufacturing establishments respond to

    who the , general _avowedl desire y drawn of their there friends by the temporary and their friends pictorial ' friends attrac- ,

    tion , yet wished while there to see something of that fibrous foundation on which the whole city may be said to rest ; and

    well repaid were the many who spared some portion of their

    The Lancashire Mill. 379

    THE LANCASHIRE MILL . 379

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 379, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/19/