Horrors of War From Chillianwallah Journal Excerpts
Readings from a subaltern in the Second Europeans describe the Chillianwallah fighting. The narrative follows bayonet charges, furious musketry, a surrounded battery, Nightingale’s death, and brutal jungle combat ending with a night bivouac and a battlefield inspection.
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Chillianwallah
Gilbert
Steel
Nightingale
Direct Taxation and the Case for Reform
The Financial Reform Association argues for direct over indirect taxation, citing equity and practicality. It notes income based levies, critiques of indirect taxes on industry, and cites Ceylon’s labour tax as illustrating inequality and potential rebellion. It also highlights smuggling and fraud in tobacco as issues under the current system.
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Financial Reform Association
Ceylon
Britain
Association
Public meeting on secular education petition in Manchester
Lancashire Public Schools Association held a meeting in Manchester town hall to decide on petitioning Parliament for a secular education system funded by local rates under local control. A pro petition amendment favoring the Government system won by a small majority after hours of debate. The will of Mr Jermy of Norwich was deposited in Doctors Commons. estate sworn at under £9,000.
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Lancashirne Pubic Schoors Association
Town Hall
Manchester
T. Bazley
Absalom Watkin
Canon Stowell
G. Osmonde
Jermy
Mr. Jermy
Norwich
Doctors’ Commons
Court and Official News From St James and London
The Queen held a drawing room at St James's Palace and received Christ's Hospital scholars. Reports detail appointments for the Admiralty and Irish governance, a new prison board, and honors for Sir George Grey. The Times notes on Irish poor law, Gosford’s lord lieutenantcy, and quarter revenue forecasts.
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St. James’s Palace
Christ's Hospital
Duchess of Cambridge
England
Ward
Sheffield
Admiralty
Ionian Islands
Tufnell
Devonport
R.E
D. O’brien
Voules
Grorce Grey
Civil Order of the Bath
W. Miller
Constabulary
Ireland
House of Lords
Earl of St. Germans
Lord Monteagle
Earl of Gosford
Armagh
Lord Gosford
Canada
Earl Grey
Archibald Viscount Acheson
Department of Taxes
Times
Lord Palmerston
London
Globe
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Protectionists
Lord Stanley