Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Saturday Evening Assembly of the Working Men of Chester: December 27, 1862
And first I shall present to you a rude, but I h0pe a tolerably accurate, outline of the facts.
The bulks of the cotton manufacture of this country is carried on in a region comprised within twenty-seven of those Poor Law Districts, which we term Unions.' Their population is somewhat beyond two millions: and the rated value of' that portion of their property which is subject to rates, is above five millions and a half.
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