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The fine classical head of the speaker, the beautiful voice, the gestures so free and flowing, the fire and fervour of the whole performance these things left him gaping. 'Who's that? he ventured to inquire of a man near him, a calico salesman, well known in the Salford Conservative Association, who had come to support the Independent speaker. The man laughed.

If, in Manchester, the police, from time to time, every six or ten years, makes a raid upon the working-people's districts, closes the worst dwellings, and causes the filthiest spots in these Augean stables to be cleansed, in Salford it seems to have done absolutely nothing.

They left the weir very early the next morning, after a breakfast from the cold ham which Mrs. Avory had bought them at Stratford. On their way through the village they stopped at Salford Hall, because Hester and Gregory had had an argument as to whether or not it was possible to hear the breathing of the person in the hiding-hole.

I can readily understand how these errors have arisen the writers concerned have confounded the place of the execution of the Manchester Martyrs, Salford Jail, with the prison, Belle Vue, to which the prisoners were being taken on being remanded.

But in spite of these barriers Dora well remembered a slim, long-armed schoolgirl, much dressed and becurled, who once in a by-street of Salford had run after her and, looking round carefully to see that no one was near, had thrust an eager face into hers and kissed her suddenly. 'Dora, is your mother better? I wish I could come and see you. Oh, it's horrid of people to quarrel!

Accordingly, by arrangement, I reached Manchester one morning between six and seven o'clock, that being the most convenient time for him that Bishop Vaughan could give me, and together we discussed the best means of forwarding the interests of the paper in the diocese of Salford.

Whoever passes over this viaduct and looks down, sees filth and wretchedness enough; and, if any one takes the trouble to pass through these lanes, and glance through the open doors and windows into the houses and cellars, he can convince himself afresh with every step that the workers of Salford live in dwellings in which cleanliness and comfort are impossible.

The farewell letters addressed by them to their relatives and friends from which we take a few amply illustrate the truth of the foregoing observations. Here is O'Brien's last letter to his brother: New Bailey Prison, Salford, Nov. 14th, 1867. My dear brother I have been intending to write to you for some time, but having seen a letter from a Mr.

The library is open to the use of the public without charge or restriction, and a small, but convenient, reading-room is provided for their accommodation. Notwithstanding the immense population of Manchester and Salford, this valuable institution is comparatively little used, the number of readers averaging less than twenty per day.

On Sunday evening the same scene is usually repeated, only less noisily. And when their money is spent, the drunkards go to the nearest pawnshop, of which there are plenty in every city over sixty in Manchester, and ten or twelve in a single street of Salford, Chapel Street and pawn whatever they possess.

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