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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 22, 1857
Page
8
Reports from Dundee Hawick Tavistock and Dudley outline calls for large extensions to the suffrage including manhood and five pound franchise. Speakers urge education to support reform while warning against centralized power and rapid change without public schooling.
A large public meeting of London workers at Cowper street School room expresses regret at the defeats of Cobden Bright Gibson Miall and Fox in Manchester Huddersfield Rochdale and Oldham and calls for broad reform including manhood suffrage ballot and annual parliaments. The gathering backs secular national education funded by the state and demands labor rights and expanded representation.
The Home-in-the-East Reformatory held its annual meeting chaired by Rev. G. T. Driffield. Boys admitted come from the worst street classes, many with no parents. Sixty-five have left in fifteen months. thirty-seven left under discouraging circumstances, others improved and found homes or colonies. The institution is in debt and subscriptions are welcome. A later meeting at Broad Street, Bloomsbury, prepared departing boys for Canada with remarks by Rev. E. Bayley and Earl of Shaftesbury about the impact of ragged schools and duties to society.
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