The Reform Movement In Reading Meeting
A public meeting in Reading debated forming a branch Freehold Land Society with Berkshire included. MP George Thompson supported unity but urged civil and political rights, enrolling many new members and signaling wider movement expansion. A Norwich National Reform Association deputation visited Tuerroro with overflows as H W Bailey presided. Resolutions backing the National Reform Association’s principles were carried.
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Reading
Freehold Land Society
Westminster Freehold Land Society
Home Counties
Berkshire
George Thompson
M.P
Tuerroro
J. H. Tillett
Samuel Pigg
Norwich
National Reform Association
H. W. Bailey
Emigration Scheme Gains Gentlemen Support
A committee led by Sidney Herbert and including Lord Russell and other nobles pushes an emigration plan to the British colonies. It offers aid to needlewomen and shopworkers, with offices opened for registration and safeguards during passage. The project has broad approval despite some opposition from Protectionist economists.
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Smyey Hensenr
Sidney Herbert
Lord J. Russell
Lord Carlisle
Lord Ashley
London
Herbert
Shonenam
Shelly
Alexander Gordon Lennox
Duke of Richmond
Liverpool Albion
Nelson-street
Newcastle
William Wells Brown
Glavery
United States of America
Joseph Crawhall
Brown
Independence
Mesars
Bell, Pringle
Rogers
Matthew Forster
Chelmsford Chronicle
Representation of Perth Passio Meretino Meeting
A large Perth gathering heard Charles Gilpin of London advocate financial reform and broader franchise access. Local figures urged unity of electors and non electors while noting potential candidacies of Arthur Kinnaird and Fox Maule amid possible government changes.
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Passio Meretino
Charles Gilpin
Enq
London
Society of Friends
Barlas
Gilpin
Milce Pullar
Arthur Kinnaird
Fox Maule
Burgh
Maule
Edinburgh News
Mr Gilpin in Perth A Liberal Advocate of Reform
The Perth audience praised Mr C Gilpin for his large intellect and moral reform concerns. He favors gradual franchise expansion while urging temperance industry and self-reliance for non electors with universal suffrage as a future aim. The Perthshire Advertiser notes his eloquence and lasting seeds of social progress.
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Gipin
Perth
C. Gilpin
Gilpin
Perthshire Advertiser
The Axeric Expedition and Arctic Proposals
The Rev Dr Scoresby believes Sir John Franklin’s Arctic expedition may still be safe and advancing toward Behring’s Straits. He urges delaying relief vessels and sending a ship to Port Leopold Barrow Strait with lighters to explore Melville Island. Forty Austrian students are conscripted as common soldiers after booing a professor at Olmütz.
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Scoresby
Sir John Franklin
Arctic Ocean
Behring’s Straits
Arctic Sea
Port Leopold
Barrow Strait
Melville Island
Leeds Mercury
Olmutz
Agricul turists and Protection Debate Across Regions
Reports from the Society for the Protection of Agriculture and British Industry reveal insistence on protection and tax reform as essentials, with calls for Parliament reevaluation. Meetings discuss union of protection societies, tenant concerns, and petitions to the Queen on agricultural relief. The Duke of Marlborough faces farm dispossessions in Oxfordshire.
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Society For the Protection of Agriculture and British Industry
Old Bond-street
Duke of Richmond
Newdegate
W. Bennett
National Association For the Protection of British Industry
Leicestershire Agricultural Association
C. Kilby
Eurns Morey
East Kent Protection Society
Brook W. Bridges
W.o.hammond
Mr. Deane
Plumptre
J. Hammond
Oxfordshire
Duke of Marlborough
Public competition for three York Newcastle line managers
The York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway directs applications for three general managers at annual salaries of 500 pounds for passenger traffic 400 pounds for mineral traffic and 400 pounds for merchandise with pay rises tied to profits. The move follows a policy of public competition to fill top posts.
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York
Newcastle
Berwick Raiway
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East
West Indies
India
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