text:  And this is the country where three years ago the manufacturer and miner were starving Manchester almost in a state of siege and Staley-bridge in absolute insurrection! Happy Britain where every man has discovered the philosopher's stone! After this need we say any thing more upon the great topic of capital? Were the nation now in its sober senses the facts which we have stated and for the accuracy of which we pledge ourselves would surely be enough to awaken it to a true conception of the vortex into which it is plunging