Birmingham Peace Meeting Discusses Frankfort Conference
A large Birmingham Town Hall gathering heard delegates report on the Frankfort Peace Conference. Speakers including Cobden Bright Sturge and Worms urged restraint in Schleswig Holstein affairs and warned against Holy Alliance interference. The meeting approved a peace-focused agenda and planned a London Congress mid July with a Sub-Committee to organize further actions.
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Birmingham
Frankfort
Lucy
Messrs
Cobden and Bright
Joseph Sturge
Worms
Hamburgh
John Angell James
Baldwin
Palmer
England
Schleswig-Holstein
Germany
Europe
Austria
Java
Chambers
Edinburgh
Peace Congress Meeting at Hall of Commerce on Nov 28
A Friends of Peace conference met at the Hall of Commerce with Joseph Brute in the chair and several notable attendees including R Cobden J B Buckingham Joseph Cooper Charles Gilpin Henry Sterry George Dornbush Rev Henry Richard and others. The report praised continental peace efforts and the Frankfort congress with Sturge Burritt and Wheeler noted for Denmark Schleswig Holstein missions. The finance board said the 5000 target was met leaving about 1000 in reserve. The treasurer spoke and Cobden commended the committee’s zeal and discretion.
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The
Friends of Peace
Hall of Commerce
Joseph Brute
R. Cobden
M.P
Buckingham
Joseph Cooper
Charles Gilpin
Henry Sterry
George Dornbush
Henry Richard
Joseph Sturge
Edmund Ivy
Society of Friends
IL. Riccarp
Peace Congress Committee
Frankfort
Messrs
Sturge, Burritt
Wheeler
Denmark
Schleswig-Molstein
Ricuarn Con.pun
Suervesa
Bazaar for Brotherhood Promoted at Hall of Commerce
In May friends at the Hall of Commerce organized a bazaar to promote the League of Universal Brotherhood. A second sale is planned during the Peace Congress and the Great Exhibition of Industry in June to push for peaceful dispute resolution. Contributions of every kind are requested for sale items by the Ladies' Committee of Management, 3 Winchester Buildings, London, by May 1, 1841. Lectures continue Tuesdays at the Hall of Commerce, the latest by the Rev. H. Richard on The Influence of Standing Armies.
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Ladies’ Committee of Management
Winchester Buildings
London
Hall of Commerce
H. Richard
Patriolic View on Anti Papal Agitation in London and York
A London Guildhall gathering follows a York Castle-yard meeting as part of a national demonstration. The piece condemns accusations of persecution and cites the Birkenhead incident where Irish labourers attacked Protestant employers. The tone criticizes Cardinal politics and laments an alliance between dissent and unity.
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London
York
Daily News
Birkenhead
Bequest to Nun Dismissed in Vice-Chancellor Court
In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, Mary Eleanor Dickson loses £10,000 legacy due to codicil tying payment to her taking the veil. Judge Rolfe rules the condition lawful and the petition to recover the legacy is dismissed. Other cases include Gathercole v. Hawkins with a receiver ordered, and O'Connor v. Bradshaw affirming no new trial.
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Mary Eleanor Dickson
Cratteris
M. A. Gathercole
Chatteris
Hawkins
Fearous O'Conver
Nis Lane
Baron Alderson
Baron Platt
Louis Purtirre
Commissioner Funblanque
Stephen Charles Lakeman
Monsieur Chalé
Duc de
Messrs. Baring
Count de Neuilly
Paris
France
House of Orleans
Times
Lakeman
General Rumigny
Heautless
Georgiana Sloman
Honour
Grant
Irwin
Bowen
Reynolds
Lambeth
Games
Gould
Mile-end-road
Ieman
Stepney-green
Mr. Wood
Walthamstow
Rev. J. Sherman
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Finance Committee
Cygre
Tuomas Box
Joan Janus
Bruguels
Tus Recest
Park Buretany
Dyson
Mahony
Mitchell
Central Criminal Court
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