Birmingham
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in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Rising industrial city cited repeatedly as an example of the new towns unrepresented in Parliament.
The prosperity of Birmingham was attributed by observers to that rising town being still in theory a village and free from the disadvantage of being a corporation;
Towns such as Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool acquired a new importance, and with this change the influence of employers of labour begun to overshadow the authority of squires and merchants.
whilst fortytwo members were lavished upon Cornwall, neither Birmingham nor Manchester had any representative whatever;
The Law of Torts
English city where the Birmingham Waterworks Co. frost-damage incident occurred.
In the memorable “Crimean winter” of 1854-5 a fire-plug attached to one of the mains of the Birmingham Waterworks Company was deranged by the frost, the expansion of superficial ice forcing out the plug, as it afterwards seemed, and the water from the main being dammed by incrusted ice and snow above.
Law in a Free State
The city where the Miners' Conference took place at which Mr. Pickard made his quoted remark on the Eight-hours question.
Pickard said on the Eight-hours question at the Miners' Conference at Birmingham some few years since.