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Newspaper
Freeholder
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 01, 1851
Page
6
The piece argues the territorial system harms agricultural families by separating parents from children, drives Ireland’s mass emigration, and corrupts English democracy. It contrasts German and French reform with English stagnation, praises Cobden, and calls for swift abolition to restore national liberty and prosperity.
The Great Western Steam-ship Company directors sold Great Britain to ship-builder Mr Patterson of Bristol for £18000. He now builds a Royal West India Mail-packet vessel, six feet longer than the Great Britain, in the dock where it was built. London housing counts and recent growth noted. Bank of England hints higher discount rate around three percent due to gold flows to Paris. London housing: 309000 houses, area eighteen by seven miles, 64058 new houses and 1652 new streets added in six months of 1839. A physician patent claims galvanic prevention of boiler incrustation.
On Tuesday polling opened at eight and continued slowly as bands and crowds filled the streets. By four o clock Mayor announced Bell 129, Carden 40, giving a clear victory to Mr Bell amid cheers. Bell thanked electors while Carden pledged to contest the result and uphold the election process.
The Times correspondent reports intense bitterness in South Nottinghamshire as Lord Newark the Ducal candidate and Mr Barrow the tenant candidate battle. The Ducal party denounces independent candidates while tenantry and gentry cry foul at lawyers and aristocratic agents being used. Barrow argues the electors’ right to choose their representative.
In Aylesbury Friday, John Houghton stood as opponent to Frederick Calvert for a parliamentary seat. Initial polls showed Calvert ahead. Houghton’s radical stance and alleged agricultural relief proposals failed to gain traction against Calvert’s preparations. Final results favored Calvert with a substantial majority. Also mentioned are Feargus O’Connor’s fundraising appeal and a Christmas service at St Barnabas Pimlico with notable ritual observations and absence of Mr Bennett.
The Wolverhampton Freehold Land Society reports steady progress in year two, detailing land purchases and road layouts for Moorfield and Sedgley road estates, with Whitmore Reans planned soon. Shareholders number 750 with 1208 shares. accounts show a large incidental fund balance as trade conditions affect withdrawals.
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