Revolt of the Chartists and the Newport Outrage
A critical editorial condemns Chartist violence in Newport, denounces leaders like Feargun O Connor and Oastler, and urges a return from bloodthirsty rhetoric to order. It laments Frost and warns of the consequences for those who incited unrest while praising restraint and lawful response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
Frost
Monmouthshire
Feargun O'Connor
Ireland
Irish Sea
Oastler
National Convention
Tribunal of Justice
O’connor
Steadfast appeal against Chartist violence and civil war
A resolute condemnation of physical force and bloodshed as political tools. The speaker warns Chartists that a vast majority of working people will defend order and rational liberty, urging restraint, peace, and lawful reform to avert civil war and social ruin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephens
Vincent
Birmingham
England
Monmouthshire
Wales
Newport
45Th
Chartiat
Rural Police Opposed as Un-English Tyranny
A 19th century editorial denounces a proposed Rural Police as unnecessary and un-English. The piece condemns centralization and warns that a gendarmerie would alienate gentry, fail to quell unrest, and echo French policing, urging readers to protest Frenchinfluenced legal reforms and defend traditional local authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Department
England
Home Secretary
Governara
Common Council Grants One Thousand Pounds for Churches in Bethnal Green
The Common Council voted 39 to 28 to grant one thousand pounds toward erecting new churches in Bethnal Green. Critics question the propriety of using public funds given many places of worship are underused or offered for sale, arguing clergy should address the district’s religious needs. The piece notes calls for active clergy over new churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethnal Green
Common Council
Norris
Norrin
Hanbury’s
London
Wompers
OnaTony
Hazlitt
Morning Chronicle
Lord Pl
Plunkett
Tipperary
Dalbury
Trurley
Derbyshire
Messie
Wyse
O'Ferrall
Shiel
Galloway
Horne Tooke
Hardy—Thelwall
City of
Mexico
Paley
Prussia
O’connell
Assessing Universal Suffrage and English Self Rule
The present Earl Grey’s Household Suffrage motion is discussed in Parliament. Mr Fox extols America as a model yet argues its republic is unsuitable for the English, stressing self command as essential alongside suffrage. Carlyle is cited on reform and personal duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Grey
House of Commons
Fox
Vane
Thomas Carlyle
Execution of Peytel in Bourg Sends Tremors Through France
The execution of Peytel, a former Paris journalist turned murderer, occurred at Bourg after a highly publicized case of alleged motive to murder for fortune. Detailed dispatches describe his calm until the scaffold, his pale face, and final act, with notes on his last letters and a vast collection of manuscripts he left behind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Bourg
Peytel
Lamartine
M. de Balzac
Jules Janin
Vey
Bridge of
Andert
Court of Cassation
Gasette Des Tribunaux
Procureur du Roi
M. Mangeraud
Assize Court
Veteran Navan Heno dies aged seventy eight at port
William Smith, one of the port's oldest seamen, dies on the 30th ultimo at eighty eight? correction: seventy eight. He fought under Admiral Hyde Parker in the 1781 Dogger Bank action against the Dutch fleet led by Admiral Zoutman. An aged survivor Mr. Gray, late of the Customs, rests his arm lost in the same battle. The piece recalls Parker’s convoying success and honors brave captains in the Fortitude at Sea order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navan Heno
William Smith
Hyde Parker
Zoutman
Dogger Bank
Ile
Neptune
Mr. Gray
Customs
Ana
Berwick
Parker
Admiral Parker
Baltic
Leith
Aberdeen Herald
Nortus Tancens
Colbert
Louis XIV
France
Fortonz
John Mobbs
Islington
Wenlock Farm
Church of England
Shoreditch
Hoxton Old-town
Queen’s Head
Mobbs
Doctors Commons
Court and aristocracy at Windsor review and dinners
The 2d Life Guards and Rifle Corps reviewed this morning at Windsor with Her Majesty Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on horseback. A large royal party attended by Lady Barrington, Miss Murray, Viscount Torrington, and others, rode in the Little Park as rain fell. Royal dinners followed and several nobles arrived at or departed from Windsor Castle. A serious accident befell Princess Sophia Matilda at Broadstairs but she recovered. Various nobles and dignitaries were noted arriving, leaving, and hosting at Windsor and surrounding mansions. The report also lists other courtly movements, charity acts, and staff changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Macdonald
Miss Murray
Miss Paget
Frances Cowper
T. Howard
Colonel Wemyss
Tlon
Murray
Winonsor
Prince Albert of
Saxe Coburg
Lyttelton
C. Dundas
Barrington
Murray and
Melbourne
Prince Aiden of
Cocks and Murray
C. Hartington
Downeree
Fanny Cowper
Grey
George Byng
George Paget
Jorrington
Major Keppel
Colonel Grey
J. Gore
Windsor
Wm. Canning
Ald
Elvey
Massey
Boyce
C. Barrington
Agnes Byng
Torrington
Walmerston
Kolnwrath
Alvensleben
C. A. Murray
G. Byng
Lehzen
Wampsor
Duke
Duchess of
Eur Howe
Robert
Lady Peel
Drayton Manor
Staffordshire
Sophia
Augusta
Duchess of Gloucester
Duke of Cambridge
Mary of Cambridge
Gloucester House
Dejenné
Princess Sophia Matilda
Broadstairs
Royal
Alicia Gordon
Gordon
Mr. Gardiner
West Kent
Marquis
Marchioness of
Ailesbury
Grosvenor-square
Paris
Baron de Bourqueney
Yis
London
Isis
Hamilton
Lady Seymour
Antwerp Company
Princess Victoria
Brussels
Edward Sugden
Ralph Howard
Wicklow
Ife
Powerscourt
Lady Taylor
St. Leonard’s
Brook Taylor
Sir Herbert
Lord
Lady Worsley
Manby
Lincolnshire
Sir Charles Morgan, Bart
Tredegar
Wales
Baronet
Lady Hodney
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Hannay and
Dietrichsen
Almarnack
Hannay
Fe Hannay
Beausfonde
Adame Tussaud and
Poe
Duchess of Kent
Sussex
Cambridge
Viscount Melbourne
Marquis of
Normanby
Lord Lyndhurst
Baker-street
Portman-square
Madame Tussaud
Undercliff
Isle OF Wight
Regent Street
Serriere
Canton Neuchatel
Witzerland
Constitutionalist
Catherine Steet
Strand
Fret
Catherine-street
the Constitutionalist
Rosert Rotre
Justice Vavenay
Falmouth
City Lands’ Committee
Duke of Bedford
Drury Lane
Covent Garden
Covent Garden Market
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