FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE:
PIONEERS OF FREEDOM OF OPINION, COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE, & CIVILISATION,
THE AGE OF FREE TRADE IN MANUFACTURES, FOOD, AND NAVIGATION.
ALEXANDER SOMERVILLE.
("ONE WHO HAS WHISTLED AT THE PLOUGH.")
JAMES AINSWORTH, 93 PICCADILLY.
Bates Grant
7-10 -4 m 45431.
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, 486. 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.
East India Company, rise, progress, and subversion of its monopoly, 236.
East India Company, constituted, 272. Elliott, Ebenezer, the corn-law rhy- mer, 361.
Elliott, Ebenezer, specimens of his in- tellectual power, 377.
Expenses of the anti-corn-law agita- tion, 489.
Ferrand, William Busfield, 521 Fletcher, Samuel, on the corn laws, 156, 170.
Fox, Rev. William Johnson, M.P., me- moir of, 543.
Free Trade Hall built, 527. Fund, league funds, 486, 524.
Gibson, Right Hon. Thomas Milner, 501.
Gisborne, Thomas, 497. Greg, Robert Hyde, 198. Grenville, Lord, 319.
Hadfield, George, of Manchester, 409. Henry, Alexander, M.P., 417. Heywood, James, M.P,, 42. Hicken, Joseph, 508. Hoole, Holland, 216.
Horner, Francis, and the bank ques- tion, 326.
Howie, James, 414.
Hume, James Deacon, his evidence on
the import duties, and his estimate of the evil effects of the corn laws, 511.
Hume, Joseph, M.P., 423. Hume, Joseph, memoir of, 565. Kershaw, James, M.P., 417. Kinnaird, Lord Kinnaird's letter on
the league fund of 1842, 526. Ladies, patronesses of the bazaar of 1841, 514, 516.
League, anti-corn-law, the moral worth of the "thorough leaguers," estimated by The Times newspaper, in 1842, 521. League, its origin, 486.
Lecturers, of the league, 488, 522. Manchester Chamber of Commerce, corn law debate in, Dec. 13, 1838, 152, 183.
Manchester anti-corn law association, 152.
Manchester, its progress from mono-
poly to free trade, 380. Manchester "Times" newspaper and Mr. Prentice, 397. Massie, Rev. William, 514. McKerrow, Rev. William, 403, 514. Morse, Arthur, of Swaffham, 527. Neild, Alderman William, 161. O'Connell, Daniel, 498, 503. O'Connell, Daniel, memoir of, 553.
O'Connor, Feargus, and followers, 521. Operations of the anti-corn-law league on county electoral registers, 521. Palmer, John, mail coach reformer, 323.
Paulton, Abraham Walter, 482. Pearson, Benjamin, defends Poulett
Thomson against Mr. Cobden, 202. Peel, Sir Robert, opinions of the first Sir Robert Peel, on the corn- laws of 1815, 386.
Peel, Sir Robert, defeats the whig. ministry in 1841, 513.
Peel, Sir Robert, repeals the corn laws. Phillips, Mark, 496.
Potter, Sir Thomas, 203. Prentice, Archibald, educator of public opinion in Manchester, 380. Prentice, Archibald, his recollections of the corn bill of 1815, 385. Prentice, Archibald, on infant schools, 394.
Prentice Archibald, on the corn laws. Prize essays, the league prize essays of 1842, 527.
Rawson, William, 215. Rose, Sir George, 336.
Sandars, G., his speech in the Cham- ber of Commerce, Manchester, 204. Slave Trade, 222.
Smith, J. B., his speeches in the Cham- ber of Commerce, Manchester, 1838, 161, 207, 417, 508.
Spencer, Rev. Thomas, 491. Strike of the manufacturing operatives in 1842, 521.
Taylor, Peter, silk merchant, London, 521.
Thompson, George, 502, 513. Thompson, Colonel Perronet, his life, 463.
Thompson, Colonel Perronet, his an- swer to the Doncaster fallacies, 470. Thompson, Colonel Perronet, his an- swer to the fallacies of Mr. Beckett Denison, 475.
Thompson, Right Hon. Poulett, (Lord Sydenham)-
his speech on the principles of free trade in 1829, 16.
his views of taxation, 25. his presidency of the Board of Trade, 28.
he promotes the principles of inter- national commerce with France, 31, 49.
his election for Manchester, 34. his first speech at Manchester, (a vindication of commercial reform), delivered 28th December, 1832, 37.
Thompson, Right Hon. Poulett, (Lord Sydenham)
his alterations in the customs' duties, 41.
his commercial reforms serve as precedents to Sir Robert Peel, 43.
elected for Manchester (the fifth time in five years), 47.
his letter to Lord John Russell on "patching" up the finances, 55. his eulogy of the public services of Lord John Russell, 57.
his improvement of the Board of Trade, 60.
is appointed governor-general of Canada, 62.
leaves England for Canada, 64. his opinion in 1839, that Sir Robert Peel might abolish the corn laws if he had courage, 65.
his opinion of Sir James Macin- tosh.
he arrives in Canada; condition of Canada at that time, 67. his measures of government in Ca- nada, 79.
Tracts, league tracts issued, 524. Villiers, Hon. Charles Pelham, 431, 497.
Villiers, Hon. Charles Pelham, his
speech on assuming the anti-corn law leadership in parliament, 15th March, 1838, 437.*
Waghorn, Thomas, pioneer of the over- land route to India, 307. Walsall, the election there in 1840, 506.
Warburton, Henry, 502.
Wilberforce, William, memoir of, 222. Wilson, George, (chairman of the anti- corn law league), his proposition for raising a fund of £50,000, in 1842, 524, 528.
Wood, George William, M.P., president of the Chamber of Commerce, at Manchester, 152.
JAMES AINSWORTH, PRINTER, AND PUBLISHER, PICCADILLY MANCHESTER,
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