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Newspaper
Empire
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 10, 1856
Page
4
The article notes 634,438 total ounces with 2,829,379 on hand and 2,674,677 ounces named on hand at year end, estimating 478,144. It calculates the weight raised as 123 sins WOent at eighty shillings per ounce value about 11,856,292. It cites Khull doubting quartz production exceeds 20,000 ounces and mentions export duty paid on 1,542,392 ounces with 50,763 ounces evaded.
The Metropolis reports the ongoing hearing into General Airey's management of army supplies at Balaklava in the Crimean campaign. Witnesses including Colonel Wetherall and Colonel Mackenzie describe attempts to issue clothing, blankets, and hats amid scarce stocks, transport limits, and bureaucratic hurdles. The board adjourns with further testimony expected and Colonel Tulloch's illness delaying proceedings.
London churches and chapels filled as Royal thanksgiving marked by a Maylike sky and large crowds in parks. The Archbishop of Canterbury's prayer form was used in Established churches, with Jewish and Catholic communities observing their own prayers. The Queen and Royal family attended services at Windsor and Westminster Abbey, while collections supported the church services across the metropolis.
The House of Lords attended a Sunday service at Westminster Abbey with Lord Auckland preaching on Dent viii 2. He urged gratitude for peace, condemned neglect of religious education, and called for reform of vice, housing, and church-building funding, urging donors to support a church in Constantinople as a memorial to fallen countrymen.
Outline of sermons preached before the Houses of Lords and Commons on support for the proposed Protestant Church at Constantinople memorializing those who have fallen.
The House of Commons held a Sunday service at St Margarets Westminster with about 100 members attending. Speaker led the procession with the mace as Prayers were offered and Rev Thomas Garier preached on Mark 4 39 about peace and calm amid storms.
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