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to his honour that he should finish his useful and noble life as plain Joseph Hume, so that we may continue to say of him as was said on the Middlesex hustings the other day by Lord Robert Grosvenor," He is one of the fairest men in the House of Commons. He has passed the whole of a long life in serving the people without fee or reward.—Biographical Magazine.

END OF VOL. II.

JAMES AINSWORTH, PRINTER, AND PUBLISHER, PICCADILLY, MANCHESTER.

BIOGRAPHIC HISTORY

OF

FREE TRADE & THE LEAGUE.

INDEX TO VOL II.

Anti-bread tax circular, 513, 526.
Anti-corn-law association of Man-
chester, 152. 399, 414, 416, 481,
486.

Anti-corn-law bazaar at Manchester
in 1841, 514.

Anti-corn-law circular, 487.

Anti-corn-law league, 186.
Ashworth, Edmund, 179.
Ashworth, Henry, 214.
Ballantyne, John, 487.

Banquet, anti-corn-law banquets at
Manchester, 487, 490, 493, 504,
527.

Jaxter, Edward, 414.

Bazaar at Manchester, in 1841, 414.
Bazaar articles contributed, 520.
Bentham, Jeremy, 330.

Bowring, Dr. John, his visit to Man-
chester in 1838, 399.

Bowring, Dr. John, his speech, 401.
Bowring, Dr. John, his life, 417.
Bowring, Dr. John, at the opening of

the Free Trade Hall, at Man-
chester, 528.

Bright, John, M.P., on the growth of
cotton in India, 284. See also,
417, 491.

Bright, John, M.P., memoir of, 529.
Brooks, John, manufacturer of Man-
chester, 426.

Brotherton, Joseph, M.P., 413.
Brotherton, Joseph, M.P., memoir of,
562.

Buckingham, James Silk, 284.
Buckingham, James Silk, committee

of inquiry in 1834, into his expul-
sion from India. Resolutions una-
nimously reported to the house. 291.
Buckingham, James Silk, facts proved
in evidence, 292.

Buckingham, James Silk, his opinion
on Indian reform, aud quarantine
laws, 299.

Buckingham, James Silk, on domestic
and social reforms, 300.
Buckingham, James Silk, on antiqua-
rian researches, 304.

Byng, George, M.P., his advice to Mr.
Cobden, 522.

Chartist leaders hired by the bread-
taxers, 508.

Childs, John, of Bungay, his pro-
phecy of the corn bill of 1815,
385.

Clarkson, Thomas, memoir of, 233.
Cobden, Richard, his speech in the
Chamber of Commerce, Manchester,
13th Dec. 1838, 174.

Cobden, Richard, his second speech in
the Chamber of Commerce, Man
chester, 188.

Cobden, Richard, his form of petition
for the total repeal of the corn
laws, 193.

Cobden, Richard, notices of him, 429,
500, 522.

Cobden, Richard, he announces the
proposition to raise a fund of
£50,000, 524.

Cobden, Richard, memoir of, 540.
Conference of ministers of religion at
Manchester, 513, 521.

Corn law of 1815, opinions of Man-
chester politicians on it, when en-
acted, 386.

Corn Exchange, Manchester, League
meetings at, 523.
Crawford, Sharman, 502.
Cunningham, W. A., 414.
Dalziel, Andrew, 414.
Dyer, J. C., 171, 184, 196.

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