Cobden Appeals for Civilian Control and Tax Relief
Cobden argues against military dominance in governing, urging colonies to fund their own civil and military needs and to rely on civil power. He warns that armaments raise costs and taxes, risking discontent and upheaval, and praises efforts to reduce unjust taxation and expand foreign trade. He closes by thanking laborers and urging practical aims in financial reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Richard Cobden
Robertson Gladstone, Esq
Liverpool Financial
Reform Association
Liverpool Association backs Cobden on National Budget reform
At a crowded meeting of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association on a Wednesday night Lawrence Heyworth, MP, moved and spoke to approve Richard Cobden, MP’s letter. The group pledged to exert influence to adopt the National Budget as an immediate reform step and toward further expenditure reductions.
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Liverpool Financial Reform Association
Lawrence Heyworth
M.P
Richard Cobden
Ashton's Chartists Plead Guilty at Liverpool Assizes
At the Liverpool Assizes, several Ashton Chartists pleaded guilty to sedition. Baron Alderson urged temperance and virtue as the path to power and sentenced them to under a year in prison. Treason trials in Ashton followed with Constantine and others pleading guilty. many received transportation or death after the murder of James Bright, the Ashton police officer. Ratcliffe was found guilty and sentenced to death, with mercy recommended. Constantine was acquitted.
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Ashton
Liverpool Assizes
Baron Alderson
Joseph Constantine
Ashton-under-Lyne
Quilty
Bright
America
Constantine
Kenworthy
Stott
Tassiker
Sefton
Walker
Tun Murpen
Bricut
Joseph Ratcliffe
Liverpool Special Assizes
James Bright
Ratcliffe
Wright
Pollock
Governor's blunt lesson in governance stirs satirical clash
The piece mocks Sir Harry Smith as he lecturs his "kafirs" pupils claiming the Queen's paper is unalterable. It contrasts his pomp with Jan Tzatzoe's pointed rebuke and notes broader European shifts as monarchies age, reform, and reconfigure power.
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Harry Smith
Orange River
Eye
Cape Town
Jan Tzatzoe
England
Tratzoe
Change perplexing kings and European politics in 1848
The Spectator notes Europe’s 1848 upheaval with shifting monarchs and realignments. It references Pope, Naples, France, and Germany, plus a dubious Regent of Germany and a joked title for John as Regent of Nobody. The piece sits beside a local electoral report and a Norwich Independent Electoral Association meeting.
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Penn
Barataria
Germany
Austria
Ferdinand
Francis Joseph
Bavaria
Louis
Maximilian
France
Louis Philippe
Louis Napoleon
Egypt
Mohammed Ali
Abbas Pacha
Europe
Ferdinand of
Naples
Ernest of
Hanover
Prussia
Denmark
Tuscany
Sardinia
Holland
Belgium
Spain
Portugal
Switzerland
Russia
Wyld
London
Hobnails
John
No-man’s Land
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Norwich
Tillett
J.C. Smith
A. Bagshaw
Soman
Lynes
Blackburn
Holmes
Lomas
Weavers
Palmer
Bunting
Great Britain
Mr. Lomas
Norfolk News
Joan Russert
West Rapine
Craven
John Russell
Lord Ribblesdale
Mr. Denison
Culling Eardley
Liberal Party
Settle
Leeds Mercury
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