Cornhill and Saint Pauls Review of New Books and Essays
A survey of Blackwood and The Cornhill noting sharp attacks on progress, with features on New Books by Hepworth Dixon Rossetti and Linton, strong fiction from Saint Pauls, and pieces on the Greek Massacre Rest Saint Helena and Garibaldi letter from Caprera. Includes essays on Disraeli Lothair Sidney Smith Mark Lemon and Wilkie Collins Man and Wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackwood
Hepworth Dixon
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Lynn Linton
Cornhill
Hudson’s Bay Company
Saint Helena
Porte Des Capucines
Mr. Disraeli
Dukes
Lothair
Gentleman's Magazine
Disraeli
Mark
Cassell
Garibaldi
Caprera
Hortense
Wilkie Collins
Disjointed 19th century notes include lectures and elections
The Royal PolyTeounte Institution hosts a lecture on the Suez Canal with M Lesseps present and praise for Professor Pepper. Norwich election petitions challenge Mr Tillett’s return citing disqualification and corrupt practices, while Huddleston contested the seat. Other items report tax, education union plans, harvest news, and legal cases with Sir Henry Edwards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal PolyTeounte Institution
Madame Lesseps
Pepper
Suez Canal
M. Lesseps
Norwich Prrction
Tillett
Norwich
Huddleston
National Education Union
Westminster Palace
Arr
Tellers
George Anderson
Glasgow
Alfred Illingworth
Woolwich
Harga
Harvest reports and wheat prospects across English counties
Harvest operations are active around Boston and Spilsby with good wheat prospects. Uloeby near Lincolnshire expects average wheat after short straw. Norfolk harvests look variable on light lands, feared indifferent. Newmarket reports rapid progress with large wheat carried and yielding well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Spilsby
Uloeby
Lincolnshire
Norfolk
Newmarket
Gleanings of a Busy Era From 1869 News Notes
Reports span suspensions of payment by Brecon bankers Snead Snead and Co due to London agents refusal, Crimean War cost estimated at 80 million pounds, a 103-year-old resident in North Peckham, railway crash injuries totaling forty two, a farmer struck by lightning at Weton, a Westminster inspector’s wife dies from vermin powder, a verdict of temporary insanity, a woman dies after hair ingestion, a Liverpool cotton fire injuring two warehouses, Belfast harvest migration down, Malle Nilsson to tour New World for 26000 pounds, alligator farming alleged in South Carolina, Manchester City Council seizes fifty tons of bad meat since 1869, Sydney Smith anecdotes and wit, heat effects on troops in 1868 1869, hospital ward temperatures and dog deaths from heat in India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs
Snead
Snead, and Co
Brecon
London
Lowe
Upper North Street
North Peckham
Oupar
John Dodd
Weton
Carlisle
Westminster
St. Pancras
Liverpool
Belfast
England
Scotland
Malle
Nilsson
New World
New York Herald
South Carolina
Manchester
Sydney Smith
Sydney
Louis XIV
York
Smith
London Bridge
Edinburgh
Gentleman's Magazine
Herat
Army Medical Department
Nowshera
India
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Commercial Indemnity Corporation of Great Britain (Limited
Lewis
London and County Banking Company
Livinestone
Kirk
Zanzibar
Lory Marsh
Livingstone
Medical Club
Ujiji
Chalers
Unyamwezi
Ballinasloe
Newton
Mrractz
Kingston-on-Thames
Temperance Lyceum
H. Edwards
Sir Henry Edwards
Beverley
York Assizes
Justice Brett
Henry Kidwards
Queen
Burrell
Tus Iarvest
Saffron Walden
Stamford
Spalding
Urigg
Epworth
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