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On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. I.
On Agriculture
Financial State of the British Empire, Part I.
The Shopkeepers and the Retail Trade
The Cotton Manufacture
Ireland-Statistics
Wooing of Master Fox, a Fable
Colonies of Great Britain. Statistics
Commerce
Agricultural Distress
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. II.
Ireland, No. 1.-On Poor Laws
Taxation, No. II.
Agriculture
The Shipping Interest
Our Sound and Wholesome State!
Evidence Relative to the Hand-Loom Weavers
Wooing of Master Fox-continued
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. III.-A Prophecy
Agriculture
Taxation, No. III.
Letter from Mr. Stocks
Evidence Relative to the Hand-Loom Weavers-continued
The Cotton Manufacture
Ireland, No. II.—Poor Laws
Wooing of Master Fox-continued
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. IV.
Is the Country Distressed ?
Agriculture
The Silk Trade of England and Continental Europe
Letter from Mr. Oastler
Letter on the Corn Laws
Defence of the Industrial Magazine
Letter from an Operative
Letter from an Agriculturist
Evidence Relative to the Hand-Loom Weavers-continued
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. V.
Good Times
Mr. Salt's Advertisement for a Meeting at Birmingham
Agriculture
Ireland, No. III.- Poor Laws
Mr. Oastler's Letter-continued
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. vi.
On the late Change in the Administration
Tc the Electors of the United Kingdom
Minority who voted for Mr. M. Attwood's Motion
Inequality of Taxation, by G. R. Robinson, Esq. M.P.
Letter from Mr. J. B. Bernard, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. VII.
Agriculture
Letter from Mr. Thomas Warsop
Mr. Oastler's Letter--continued
The Cotton Manufacture
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. VIII.
Agriculture-Mr. Medley's Address
Hand-Loom Weavers—Mr. Maxwell's Letter
Reciprocity System
Bank of England, its Liabilities and Assets
Evidence Relative to the Hand-Loom Weavers—continued
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. IX.
Agriculture-Yorkshire Central Association
Taxation, No. IV.
Hand-Loom Weavers~Mr. Gillon's Letter
Prosperity-Letter from the Paupers of Bledlow to the Poor-Law Commissioners

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Letter from Mr. Stocks on the Effects of Low Wages
New English Ballad
Malt Tax
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. X.
Agriculture—To Landlords, Tenants, and Labourers
Mr. Oastler's Letter-continued
Ireland, No, IV.-Poor Laws
Evidence Relative to the Hand. Loom Weavers-continued
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. XI.
Agriculture
Memorial of the Birmingham Political Union to Earl Grey
Letter from an Operative, No. II.
Mr. Oastler's Letter-continued
Evidence Relative to the Hand-Loom Weavers—continued
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. XII.
Agriculture
Defence of the Industrial Magazine
Factory Inspectors' Report
Ireland, Part V.-Poor Laws
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. xiii.
Agriculture-On Tithes, by James Bernard
Pithy Reply to an Official Letter
Causes of General Distress
Address from a Yorkshire Landlord
Address from the Hand-Loom Weavers to Mr. Maxwell
Mr. Oastler's Letter-continued
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. xiv.
Agriculture-Lord Chandos and the Malt Tax
Address of the Operatives of Preston
Mr. Oastler's Letter-concluded
Letter from W. D. Gillon, Esq. M.P.
Evidence Relative to the Hand-Loom Weavers-continued
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. XV.-Cotton Trade
Agriculture—From the Circular to Bankers
Machinery-Letter III, from an Operative
Letter from Mr. Crosby, on the Currency
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. XVI.-Wool Trade
Agriculture-Duties on the Imports of Foreign Goods
Letter on the altered Value of Money
Petition of the Hand-Loom Weavers of Bradford
Letter from Mr. Braby concerning an Industrial Village
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. XVII.
Agriculture—From the Circular to Bankers
List of the Minority on Mr. Cayley's Motion on the Currency
Profuse Expenditure, Letter on, from W. D. Gillon, Esq. M.P.
Petition of the Farmers of the County of Cambridge

Our own Fireside,' a Poem, by John Clare
Evidence Relative to the Hand-Loom Weavers-continued
Address of the Driffield Agricultural Association
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. XVIII.
Agriculture-Petition of the East Kent Association
Letter from Mr. Bernard on a National Association

Mr. Braby on the Rights of Producers
On Better Prices, Better Profits, and Better Wages, No. xix.
Agriculture-Cambridgeshire Farmers' Association
Letter of an Operative, from Huddersfield
The £3. 178. 104d. Currency Gentlemen
Letter from Mr.Henry Tepper,
Agriculture, Manufactures, and Trade, by Mr. Doubleday,
The Execution at Bury-Remarks on
The Lace Trade at Nottingham-Distress of
On Better Prices, Better Profits and Better Wages, No. xi.—Conclusion
Agriculture-Observations on the Cambridgeshire Address
Report of the Select Committee on Hand-Loom Weavers

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