Cooperative Societies are of still more recent origin than Mechanics' Institutions. Their object has been stated more than once in this Magazine. They are decidedly on the increase in all the large towns, and the most important consequences are expected to result from them, by those political economists who seem to have paid much attention to the subject. One thing is clear, that to be a good cooperator it is necessary in the first place to be an intelligent and moral man. The proceedings and prospects of cooperative societies will be found recorded in the Voice of the People, Midland Representative, Chester Courant, and Carlisle Journal; news-papers which, in point of sound political intelligence, are of the first order.
