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Winding streams, and the mountain breeze, and a little 1842.
Wholesome labour—six shillings a week, and all this! And Zn. 38.
nothing to do with your six shillings a week, but merely
to pay your rent, buy your food, clothe yourselves and
your families, and lay by something for old age! Happy
People!” In many rural districts the only arguments
which the lecturers were called upon to resist were stones
Bnd brickbats ; and even in some of the towns they still
*hcountered rough and unfair treatment from members of
the respectable classes, and their hired ruffians. The
Chartists were for the time less violently hostile.
Among other devices this autumn was that of a great
bazaar, which should both add to the fands of the League,
20d bring the friends of its objects into closer personal conch.
 The bazaar was held in the beginning of the followng
 February, in the Royal Theatre at Manchester, It was
® great success, and produced nearly ten thousand pounds.
The following may serve to show Cobden’s eye for the
Sal] things of agitation, and the unconsidered trifles that
affect public opinion tm
“I have just got your letter, and am delighted that you
“6 Satisfied with the bazaar prospects. Really I wonder
how you and your four coadjutors endure the immense
®Xertions called for in this undertaking. You must not look
Pon the mere money return as the sole test of success. It
Will give ug a position in the public eye worth all the outlay.
I Temember twelve months ago feeling apprehensive that the
onopoligg papers would have deterred the ladies from
“Ppearing as sellers ab the stalls by their blackguardism.
Certainly three years ago that would have been the tone of
the Herald, Post, and Bull. Now what a marked change is
S%en in thoge papers; not a joke or attempt at ribald wit.
Al i8 fair and even laudatory. In this fact alone I see the
S¥idence of great moral triumph of the League. Could