ABSTRACT
H U!IIAN nature must be different in Rochdale from what it is elsewhere. There must have been a special creation of mechanics in this inexplicable district of Lancashire-in no other way can you account for the fact that they have mastered the art of acting together, and holding together, as no other set of workmen in Great Britain have done. They have acted upon Sir Robert Peel's memorable advice ; they have " taken their own affairs into their owt1 hands;" and what is more to the purpose, they have kept them in their own hands.
