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every occasion to do all that lies m his power to promote the 

 prosperity of the borough, I do not think we could select a 

 gentleman better qualified to succeed our late worthy Mayor, 

 Robert Milligan, Esq.' 



Mr. Salt was a warm admirer of Cobden and Bright, and at 

 a banquet held to celebrate the abolition of the corn laws, he 

 was called upon to acknowledge the toast of the corporation. 

 That Bradford benefited and approved of these opinions, is 

 evident from the fact that when the Exchange buildings were 

 built, figures of Cobden, Salt, Gladstone, and Palmerston were 

 placed round the outside. A white marble statue of Cobden 

 has also been placed in the principal hall of the Exchange, 

 which was unveiled by the Right Hon. John Bright. 



The year 1848 was a period of great distress in Bradford. 

 In one week, 17,680 lbs. of bread and 2954 quarts of soup 

 jvere distributed over 1200 families. In January, previous to 

 the French Revolution, he had been able to keep on most of 

 his hands, but since that event his sales had fallen off ^10,000. 

 He was willing nevertheless to engage one hundred 01 the 

 wool-combers who were unemployed, and lay their produce 



by. 



Amongst the other benevolent movements in which Titus 

 Salt was concerned, was that for establishing a Saturday half- 

 holiday, and at his suggestion a meeting was convened in 

 Bradford to think of some means to repress vice and profligacy. 

 During a visitation ot cholera, when several hundreds of deaths 

 occurred, Mr. Salt contributed liberally to the wants of those 

 who were suffering, and proved that he also sympathized with 

 them by visiting many scenes of distress. When the tide 

 turned and trade was again fairly prosperous, Titus Salt 

 enabled ^000 of his workpeople to visit his summer residence 



