 | John Noble - 1875 - 408 pàgines
...been witnessed before. ME. COBDEN. July 8th, 1842. I see the Hon. Member for Leeds in his place, and 1 challenge him to say whether the condition of Leeds...Stockport. We have not 40,000 utterly unemployed ; our poor-rates are not so high ; his borough must be one vast poor-house. At Hinckley there are 1,500 stocking... | |
 | Jacob Bright, Ursula (Mellor) Bright - 1885 - 408 pàgines
...men in this meeting. It is again from Mr. Cobden. Speaking in July, 1842, he made this statement : " I see the hon. member for Leeds in his place, and...Hinckley there are 1,500 stocking frames, and only twenty-one fully employed. What is the state of the miners of Staffordshire ? There are twenty-five... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1919 - 504 pàgines
...Richard Cobdon : 'This might be said to be a Manchester question three years ago ; but it is not so now. I see the hon. member for Leeds in his place, and...this moment is not worse than that of Stockport. We [in Stockport] have not 40,000 utterly unemployed ; his borough must be one vast poor-house. . . .... | |
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I see the hon. member for Leeds in his place, and I challenge him to say whether the condition of Leeds at this moment is not worse than that of Stockport. We have not 40,000 utterly unemployed; our poor rates are not so high. His borough must be one... 