AND

ITS REMEDY;

OR,

AN INQUIRY INTO THE EXTENT AND CAUSES

OF THE

DISTRESS PREVAILING AMONG THE LABOURING CLASSES

OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS,

AND INTO THE MEANS OF REMEDYING IT.

BY

WILLIAM THOMAS THORNTON.

"The destruction of the poor is their poverty."

PROVERBS OF SOLOMON.

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OF THE

UNIVERSITY

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LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.