From Russia to electric pens and bank collapses
A collage of 19th century excerpts notes Russian peasant family fortunes and infant mortality, the electric telegraph’s rise and its imagined power, a banking crisis with poles of panic in Lombard Street and decimated provincial banks, and a scathing Edinburgh Review essay on modern religious skepticism and intellectual disillusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Europe
Fraser
Nursling
Niebuhr
Frederick of
Saxony
Luther
Wittemberg
Rome
Belshazzar
Edinburgh Review
London
Lombard-street
Sir Peter Pole and Company
Bank of Williams and Company
Expulsion clarified and class-leader removal noted
The Leeds Mercury reports Mr David Briggs was not expelled from the society but deprived of his class leader role for uttering a disgraceful calumny about the quarterly meeting. He was told to reform before any future reappointment could occur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davin Brices
Leeds Mercury
David Briggs
Briggs
Iron Trades of
Liverpool
Music Hall
Bald Street
Central Committee of the
Iron Trades of London
Nine Elms
South- Western Railway
Midland Counties
Fairburn
Manchester
Bury
Liverpool Trades
South-Western Company
Richborough
Various 19th Century Briefs From Global News Briefs
The item reviews Bank of England reserves, Edinburgh gallery plans, Van Dieman’s Land guano, a new Festus poem, Kossuth gifts to refugees, Crawford’s depopulation pamphlet, Noel not traveling to Rome, imperial steam yacht orders, tea-tree cultivation in South Carolina, a humorous American printer’s hint, reflections on youth health wealth, a new Kentucky cave, Lamartine’s political work, Buckland’s London water scheme, d Hericourt manuscripts in Abyssinia, hydrophobia plant, Pope toast by Cornish fishermen, Cork penny death, and Bristol Rooms Sunday hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of England
National Gallery
Edinburgh
Lords of the Treasury
van Dieman’s Land
Angel Wamlp
Nottingham Review
Widdin
Kossuth
Constantinople
Suleiman Bey
Firman
Shumla
Sharman Crawford
Kentucky
Lamartine
Buckland
London
Thames
Henley
Literary Gazette
Paris
M. Rocher d
M. d’Hericourt
Académie Des Sciences
Morning Chronicle
Cork
Curtayne
Bristol
Births and Marriages Notice Seals December Events
September 13 in Shanghae a daughter to the wife of Rev W C MILNa. November 22 Henley on Thames a son to Mrs CHARLES Pratt. November 29 Kinga land a son to Rev T W AVELING. November 29 Greenfield Lancaster a son to Rev J Flremina. November 29 Brighton a daughter to Mr H Hoover. November 27 Tonbridge Chapel wedding Thomas Witty Chandler to Mary Ann Hamilton. November 28 Hythe George Hatke to Martha Mapphen. November 24 Clerkenwell J Williams to Emily Adeline Dix. November 28 Great Torrington Josefu Bangham to Margaret Bastau d. November 29 Walworth H Davis to Mary Clare WELLER. December 1 St Stephen Coleman Street Rupert Meldrum to Agnes Niss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghae
W. C. Milna
Henley-on-Thames
Charles Pratt
T. W. Aveling
Kingaland
Greenfield
Lancaster
J. Flremina
H. Hoover
Brighton
Tonbridge Chapel
New Road
London
J. H. Davies
Congregational Church
Sherborne
Homas Witty Chandler
Cheltenham
Mary Ann Hamilton
J. Davies
Old Chapel
Haverhill
Suffolk
Ebenezer Chapel
Chapel-street
Hythe
W. Marsh
George Hatke
Martha Mapphen
St. John’s Church
Clerkenwell
H. Hughes
J. Williams
Taynton
Gloucestershire
Emily Adeline
J. Dix
Clerkenwell-green
Independent Chapel
Castle-street
Great Torrington
Devon
J. Buckpitt
Josefu Bangham
Margaret Bastaud
Horsley-street
Walworth
H. 8. Seaborn
If. J. Davis
Many Claass~weller
Gallowtree-gate
Leicester
G. Legge
Jams Hodson
Rura
J. Waagstaff
Regent Street
Welford-road
St. Stephen’s Church
Coleman-street
City
Rupert Meldrum
Agnes Nxss
G. Grant
Colnesburgh
Fifeshire
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Johnson
Byron
Macaulay
Clarke
Paley
Butler
Jesus Christ
Mahomet
Napoleon
Pascal
Bacon
Leibnitz