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I COTTON OPERATIVES AND THEIR WAGES. To the Editor of the Manchester Courier. Sir,—I read the loiter signed A

... his coHeames will only make their cloth from cotton instead of China clay. &c, we should need hear nothing of the sh'ps he speaks of taking goods from Antwerp. Hamburg, &c. The Bishop of Manchester, a few weeks ago, offered some very salntnry advice to ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 667 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT

... unfolding of the great national enigma. In the late Cabinet there was not one man of dominant intellect. It was fashionable to speak of M. Waddington as a man in whom Europe bad confidence simply because he had been at Rugby and Cambridge, and because he happened ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1405 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

l rer ■ — — ia y.-w e uv oven years. «nSS

... and liberty. According to Mr. Goldwin Smith we are to understand that at the first dawning of 16 months of which Tacitus speaks, the system of government of the empire of Rome was changed and made '' less personal and more liberal. The simple facts ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3812 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SIR WINDHAM C. ANSTRUTHER, M.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS

... were very angry because the country was found to approve of the policy and success of her Majesty's Ministers. Proceeding to speak of fagot votes, Sir W. Anstrnther characterised it as a gross misstatement to say that the Conservatives were the first to ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 953 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WRESTLING

... been some talk at the table about General Grant's banquet, when Mr. Clements remarked with a arnile and his peculiar drawl, Speaking of banquets reminds me of rather an amusing incident that occurred to me during my stay in smoky, dirty, grand old London ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1880
Newspaper: Sporting Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2562 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE DELIVERY OF PANTOMIME LINES

... miscalled pantomime, ' who will move their limbs in exquisite time to a tune, never seem to have an idea of rhythm when they speak. How mercilessly they slaughter the metre of the couplets written for them—how ingeniously they try to throw an emphasis on ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SUMMARY

... inquiry mto the circumstances attending the accident will be opened at the Assize-court, Dundee, to-morrow. Sir W. Harcourt, speaking at the annual Druids dinner Oxford last night, referring to the agricultural distress, said it would be a consolation to ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 774 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A CHINESE VIEW OF MILK AS FOOD

... not do injury to the life of the calf is there not bitter hatred and distress in the minds both cow and calf? Beasts cannot speak; how, then, tnev able to tell the man that, in eating the milk 'ipq,st* his body becomes like that of birds and But men wish ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 358 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WHO'S BOSS HERE?

... been much variety here for some time, and if things go on as they are there will not be any for some time longer. Don't speak like that to jour Boss, good woman, said Humphrey Pritchit, who, nevertheless, felt stung to the quick by the observation ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1712 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION

... homage to liberty, to justice, and even to humanity; but now we are another people, ruled by other lords. Can there too much speaking against this ? Can Christians bo too excited and too eager to save their country from the evil that now sits dominant upon ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY. The Board of Trade inquiry into the circumstances attending the recent accident ..

... consequently much weaker laterally. seems, therefore, probable that tho central long girders being loose both ends, so to speak, and having a 27ft. higher elevation, were under more lateral strain than the others before the train entered them, and that ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 8 | Tags: none