XXII 189 An Incident by the Wayside
XXIII 197 Wandering Minstrels; or, Wails of the Workless Poor

LETTERS AND SPEECHES UPON THE COTTON FAMINE

209 Letters of a Lancashire Lad
217 Mr Cobden's Speech
227 Speech of the Earl of Derby

253 Songs of Distress chiefly written during the Cotton
Famine



PREFACE



The following chapters are reprinted from the columns of the
Manchester Examiner and Times, to which Paper they were contributed
by the Author during the year 1862.



HOME LIFE OF THE LANCASHIRE FACTORY FOLK DURING THE COTTON FAMINE.
(Reprinted from the Manchester Examiner and Times of 1862)



CHAPTER I.