Legal debates at Westminster Sessions over juries and perjury
In Westminster, judges reserved judgment on several legal points raised by Dr. Kenealy about a perjury case. The Lord Chief Justice expressed regret for any harshness in dialogue and sought future harmony between Bench and Bar. The report also covers a London meeting on East African slave trade suppression, chaired by Russell Gurney, with Sir Bartle Frere and others urging continued government action and public support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster Sessions House
Bar
Middlesex
Old Bailey
City of
London
Kenealy
Justice Blackburn
Justice Quain
Lush
Committee For
Stratton-street
Canterbury
Tait
Mies Tait
C. Tait
Lord Cochrane
Bartle Frere
K.C.B
C. Trevelyan
R. Anstruther
John Kenmaway
Ryan
House of Commons
Sir Bartle Frere
Commons
Bishop Ryan
F. Buxton
J. Long
Charles Reed
Fawcett
J. Helms
Bethnal Green Museum
Anecdote of the Late Charles Sumner
A Washington Chronicle correspondent recalls a posthumous Lincoln offer of the Chief Justiceship to Charles Sumner. Sumner refused, citing loyalty to the Republican mission and a widening rift with President Lincoln over Chase. The autographic card stands as proof of ambition vs duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Sumner
Washington Chronicle
Taney
Sumner
A. Lincoln
Chase
Lincoln
Marriages and Deaths Notice Grid from London to Manchester
Advertisements list multiple marriages on April dates across England with names and locations. Adeney Axford, Croggon Payne, Barber Viccars, HenNel Ellyet, Barton Mia ll, Schott Haslam tied by clergy in various chapels and churches. Death: Emily Leigh, April 11, wife of Rev R G Leigh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grampound
Cornwall
Eliza Lewis
Charles Payne
Salisbury
Barber—Viccars
Victoria-road Church
Leicester
George Ion Turner
Edward Barber
Nottingham
Mary
George Viccars
de Montfort Square
Hennell—Ellyett
Congregational Chapel
Heathfield
Schott—Haslam
Bankstreet Chapel
Bolton-le-Moors
Jeffery Worthington
James William
George Schott
Manchester
Annie
John Haslam
J.P
Gilnow House
Leigh
Emily
R. G. Leigh
Farnworth
Bank of England Balance Sheet and Teething Powder Ad
Bank of England notes and securities figures dated April 16 1874 show government debt and bullion totals. An 1874 advertisement warns parents away from opium teething medicines and promotes Stedman’s Teething Powders and Materfamilias Pills as safe substitutes with depot address in Hoxton London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Children’s Hospital
Stedman
Castor Gil
Hoxton
London
Tea adulteration analysis by Dr Hassall
The Times reports Dr Hassall’s analysis of 18 tea samples showing all were adulterated. They were colored with Prussian blue turmeric and a mineral powder, substances added to tea faces serve no useful purpose but enable other adulterations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hassall
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Liberation Society
Church of the People
Church of England
Lieutenant Gill
London Fields
Ritchie
M.P
Hales
Holmes
Glennings
G. O. Trevelyan
Lord Macaulay
Lord Lytton
Prince Bismarck
Royal Park
Potadam
Varzin
Trousie
the Star and Herald
M’cash
Princeton College
Bradder
Harper's Weekly
Revauiation of Nature
H. B. Stowe
Florida
Reed
London Necropolis Company
Prospectus Free
Lancaster-place
Strand
W.C
Bank OF England
Victoria
Rie & Silver
F. May
Horniman
Bond
A. H. Hassall
M.D
Lorniman S
T&a
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