Irish land reforms urged to end feudal restraint
A barrister argues for Ireland to adopt a simple registration and conveyance system, abolish entails and costly deeds, and enable local buying of waste lands. He warns current land laws drive emigration from Ireland, favor English landowners, and hinder yeoman farming and social reform. He supports Lord Campbell’s Registration Bill as a crucial first step.
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Germany
England
Ireland
Treland
America
Lord Campbell
Great Britain
Iron furniture revolution takes hold in homes
The Boston Transcript reports iron replaces wood in furniture and ornaments, offering greater polish, durability, and cost savings. Examples imitate porcelain and gilded finishes, with elaborate forms and inlays. Hospitals in New York banish wooden bedsteads as iron gains popularity.
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The
Boston Transcript
New York
Complaint over profits and reserve fund in Free Hold Land Society
A letter from London dated December 26 1851 questions the Free Hold Land Society profits of £3077 13s and asks how £2000 is added to the reserve. The writer accuses officers led by Sir Joshua Walmsley of misusing funds and diminishing members profits, demanding clarity on trustee investments and solicitor’s bills.
Farm offices excluded from inhabited-house duty valuation
Inquiries to the Board of Inland Revenue confirm farm offices such as byres barns and farm buildings strictly belonging to the farm are not to be included with the farm house for inhabited-house duty. A peasant proprietary movement emerges in Kilkenny under T R Walsh Esq offering tenants the chance to become owners via instalments with variable term lengths.
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Board of Inland Revenue
Kilkenny
Owenstown
T. R. Walsh
Walsh
Griffith’s
Mr. Walsh
England
Progress of the National Freehold Land Society meeting report
The National Freehold Land Society held its annual meeting at the London Tavern chaired by Sir Joshua Walmsley. The secretary read the second annual report noting estates sold or in preparation, new rules on rights transfers, and the expansion of building society activity enabling members to obtain funds against their lots. Rights values are quoted as pounds per share, subject to market variation.
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Joshua Walmsley
National Freehold Land Society
London Tavern
Brentford
Saffron Walden
Chichester
Coleford
Baldock
Colchester
Romford
Walthamstow
Croydon
Aylesbury
Chertsey
Oxford
Farnham
Barnet
Margate
Twyford
St. Alban’s
Reigate
Dorking
London
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Freeholder
J. Walmsley
Hume
John Russell
Tidd Pratt
Times
O’connor
the National Freehold Land Society
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