Preachers and politicians shape a busy notice paper
A crowded notice gathers preachers and politicians debating reform aims. Candlish leads non essential service cuts while Rylands Shaw and Helms split the attack on charges. Bulwer resists Ballot and US relations, Chambers pushes ritual reconciliation, Locke seeks forest utility, Graves presses halfpenny postage, Macfie opposes patents, Brower tackles homeless policy. The era shows lively parliamentary energy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Candlish
Rylands
Shaw
Helms
Henry Bulwer
America
Chambers
Locke
Epping Forest
Graves
Macfie
Brower
Land Question Debates Stir Irish Policy In Liberal Rows
A Scotsman correspondent notes Liberal MPs discuss forming a society to study the Irish land question. The Times commissioner reports from Tipperary describing local wealth, drainage faults, and decent cottages on Lord Derby’s estates. Irish journals push revolutionary views while Conservatives warn of a Liberal cabinet rift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Scotsman
House of Commons
the Times
Ireland
Tipperary
Dublin
British Isles
Lord Derby
Earl Derby
Landocracy
Gladstone
the Express
Lowe
Harvest Prospects Across English Harvest Regions
Weather remains unfavourable for securing crops in the eastern district with wheat damage minimal so far and barley generally fair. Reports from Bungay Suffolk predict wheat yields below last year while Cornwall foresees above average wheat and satisfactory barley. oats good, oats and barley variable elsewhere. Irish harvesters arrive in Lincoln with slow progress though conditions may improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bungay
Suffolk
Lincoln
Godmanchester
Huntingdonshire
Lincolnshire
Kettering
Northamptonshire
Cornwall
Wheat Trade Prospects Amid Drought and Harvest Across Scotland
The Scotsman notes harvest under fine weather with a crop described as a fair average. H Rains-Jackson presents a cautious wheat outlook, estimating two thirds of land average and a third blighted but not severely. He foresees importing eight million quarters of wheat with some hope of supply. The Mark Lane Express remains less hopeful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Scotsman
Scotland
H. Rains-Jackson
Mark Lane Express
New Acts of Parliament on Bankruptcy and Debtors
The government issued a comprehensive bankruptcy consolidation with 136 sections and two schedules, effective January 1. It creates an eight part framework governing adjudication, administration, county courts, privileges of Parliament, liquidation by arrangement, composition with creditors, and temporary provisions for bankruptcy courts. An accompanying act abolishes imprisonment for debt with specific exceptions and outlines penalties for fraudulent debtors and related offences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
House of Commons
Basinghall Street
Great Northern Hospital and Middlesex Charities Digest
Over the past week Great Northern Hospital in Caledonian Road attended 1 493 applications including 497 new patients. A donation of 1 000 was sent for the hospital. A general digest lists Middlesex endowed charities with total gross income 50 5081 128 and detailed allocations to education clergy church uses and poor relief among others.
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Great Northern Hospital
Caledonian-Road
Commissioners of Inquiry
Royal Family and Cabinet Moves Across Britain and Europe
The Queen and junior royals depart Osborne for Windsor and Balmoral, with Prince Arthur sailing to Canada to join the Rifle Brigade. Prime Minister Gladstone rests at Walmer Castle while Cabinet members travel Europe. Lord Justice Selwyn dies aged fifty six, and potential promotions to Lord Justice of Appeal are discussed. Disraeli and Lady Beaconsfield visit Alton Towers as ministers eye Asia travel and Madrid posting rumors surface.
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Osborne
Windsor Castle
Balmoral
Prince Arthur
Birkenhead
City of
Paris
Canada
Rifle Brigade
Mersey
John Laird
George Prothero
Lord Cowley
Sydney
Lowe
Gladstone
Walmer Castle
London
Liverpool Albion
Ireland
Dublin
Town
Earl Granville
Newton Mendip
Bruce
Duffryn
Aberdare
Duke of Argyll
Inverary Castle
Bright
Rochdale
Scotland
W. E. Forster
M.P
Switzerland
Selwyn
Richmond
Lichfield
Canon Selwyn
Lady Margaret
Cambridge University
Jasper Selwyn
R.N
Roundell Palmer
Lord Cairns
James
Jessel
Dover
Walter
Auberon Herbert
Berkshire
Lord Broughton
J. Cam Hobhouse
British Museum
Prince
Princess of Wales
Wildbad
Marlborough House
Abergeldie
Disraeli
Lady Beaconsfield
Lord Shrewsbury
Alton Towers
Candlish
Sunderland
Beaumont
South Durham
India
William Stuart
Buenos Ayres
Madrid
Huxley Considered for British Association Presidency
The British Association for 1870 may offer its Presidentship to Professor Huxley. Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold are conducting a wide ranging study of London from Wapping to Kensington for a future work on the city. Doré has assembled a notable collection of study pieces. It is claimed that neither Dr. Doran nor Mr. J.
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British Association
Huxley
Gustave Doré
Blanchard Jerrold
London
Wapping
Kensington
Monsieur Doré
Dr. Doran
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