Excerpt from Lancashire's Lesson, Or, the Need of a Settled Policy in Times of Exceptional Distress: A Letter Addressed to the Right Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M. P., President of the Poor Law Board

Public Works Act, Who Blameable for Delay, Operatives Good Labourers, Waste Time and Waste Labour, Exceptional Employment, Public Work in Ireland, Municipal Conscience, Blackburn and Manchester, Statement of Mr. Rickards, Loans, How used at Manchester, Decaying Branches of Trade, Chance of Escape lost, Protests and Apologies, Recent Renewal of Distress, report of Mr. Rawlinson, Works at Blackburn, What might have been, Instances of Imposition, Retrospective Enquiry, Appendix

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