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Labour and social notes from London and Manchester
Reports note Captain Tyler’s possible rail carriage arrangement. Lord Derby opens the Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society meeting in Manchester, stressing reform and preventing recidivism. Sir Walter Scott works gifted to Berkhamstead Club. A French room in London promotes secular and religious activities. Gladstone responds to amnesty resolutions and political prisoner concerns. Siemens Brothers signs a contract to lay a submarine cable linking Rio de Janeiro with Montevideo and Buenos Ayres for the Platino Brazilier Telegraph Company, to be completed within six months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyler
Board of Trade
Lord Derby
H. F. Cowper
M.P
Berkhamstead
Working Men’s Club
Walter Scott
London
J. du Pontet de la Harpe
Percy Street
Tottenham-court-road
City of
Messrs. Siemens Brothers
Rio de Janeiro
River Plate
Montevideo
Uruguay
Buenos Ayres
Reublic
Platino Brazilier Telegraph Company
A. Rieke
Southerica