Sheffield
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Industrial town cited as an example of the new towns denied parliamentary representation.
As long as the power of the State was centred in the south and west of England, a system which denied representatives to Birmingham or Manchester or Sheffield, whilst it showered representatives on petty Cornish boroughs, might be defended on grounds of expediency by ingenious thinkers such as Paley, or by practical statesmen such as Lord Liverpool or Peel;
Law in a Free State
The city where the chemist defendant in the tincture-of-opium case traded.
” The defendant, a Sheffield chemist, had sold as such three ounces of a decoction which, on analysis, turned out to be only about 75 per cent of the strength described in the British Pharmacopœia.