Manufactures Drive Growth and Prosperity Across Lands
The passage argues that manufacturing wealth expands towns and raises rents while drawing rural populations into cities. It foresees California and Australia boosting manufacturing, land values, and crop markets, with new techniques like the reaping machine and steam engine improving agriculture and enabling变 direct soil cultivation and alternative crops. It urges reasonable rent, landlord cooperation, and investment security to foster enterprise.
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California
Australia
Experiments With Manures for Crop Improvement
The article discusses the empirical nature of agriculture and soil idiosyncrasies. It reviews experiments with ammoniacal manures, guano, sulphate of ammonia, and Peruvian guano, noting profits per acre and instances of loss. It highlights uneven responses, with some cases showing increased hay yields while others fail to pay costs. It also covers peat charcoal mixed with night soil and its variable effects on corn and straw yields.
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Inquirer
Laboratory
Nature
Fires in Metropolitan Year 1851 Show Sharp Increase
Returns from principal fire offices show over 1 000 fires in 1851 in the metropolis and suburbs, with 400 to 500 houses destroyed. The year included major blazes such as the Humphrey warehouse fire near London Bridge in June, suspected incendiary by reward offer of 500. Fatal fires declined, while the fire brigade remains at 100 men with three engines.
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Alderman Humphrey
London Bridge
First Annual Report of the Association for Repeal of Taxes on Knowledge
The association forms from the Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee dated March 7 1849 and February 13 meeting chaired by T Milner Gibson M P. It seeks to end press taxation and control, notably the penny stamp, arguing taxation harms readers and favoring free postage. It cites duties on foreign books paper and advertisements and notes a March 5 meeting in St Martin's Hall with a large petition and a report recommending postage wrappers for newspapers.
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Fendall’s Hotel
T. Milner Gibson
M.P
John Bright
Richard Cobden
Wm. Ewart
Joseph Hume
Wm. Scholefield
Stamp Abolition Committee
Smay
Edward Lambe
Norfolk
St. Martin’s Hall
Hume
House of Commons
John Russell
Milner Gibson
United States
Rowland Hill
Post Office
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