The History of the Cotton Famine: From the Fall of Sumter to the Passing of the Public Works Act

able-bodied America amount Ashton Ashton-under-Lyne assistance authority bales Blackburn Board of Guardians borough Bridgwater House capital cent Central Executive Committee Central Relief Committee charge charity clothing condition considerable cotton districts Cotton Famine cotton manufacture cotton supply cotton trade demand distress duty emigration employed employment England equal estimated expenditure extent factory facture Farnall Glossop Government hands honour improvement increase India labour Lancashire land less loan Lord Lord Derby machinery Manchester Mansion House Committee manufacturing districts markets ment mills mittee months obtain Oldham operatives out-door paid parish pauperism persons Poor Law Board poor-rates population post 8vo pound Preston production profits rate in aid rateable value received Relief Aid Act relief funds respect Rochdale Salford scale of relief schools shillings spindles Stockport subscriptions thousand tion towns township unemployed Union Relief Aid Villiers wages week Wigan yarn