London School Board Debates Ragged Schools and Secular Education
At a London School Board meeting Charles Reed cites Ragged School Union figures showing a drop from 32,309 ragged school pupils in 1870 to 9,347, with about 12,500 transferred to board schools. Debate covers petitions for increased government grants, the transfer of management, and tensions with secular education supporters led by Mr. Peek, including remarks on Lord Shaftesbury and Mr. Bradlaugh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London School Board
Charles Reed
Ragged School Union
Ragged-Schools
Ragged Schools
Lord Shaftesbury
Currie
F. Peek
Education Department
J. A. Picton
Freeman
Irons
Gladstone
Bevan
Lovell
Macgregor
Watson
G. M. Murphy
Picton
Legga
J. Sinclair
Lucraft
Peek
Geome
Bradlaugh
America
Mr. Peck
Gover
England
Mr. Bradlaugh
B. Waugh
Mr Peek
Pesk
J. Rodgers
Whoether
Lt. Bovan
Mr. Peek
Lt. Bevan
Atheistical School Board of
Birmingham
Lord Napier
Scrutton
Ogle Street Ragged Schools Adjournment at Marlborough Court
An adjournment of two months was arranged at the Marlborough street Police court in the Ogle Street Ragged Schools case to allow conductors to raise teaching standards under the new code. Mr. Knox praised both sides as satisfactory to the public and themselves. Free schools in Manchester discussed by the School Board with plans for Ancoats Angel Meadow Hulme and London Road. Final takeovers for Sharp Street and St Matthew’s Byron Street Schools were approved to admit fee paid children under the 25th Clause amid Catholic opposition led by Canon Toole and supported by Rev J Nunn.
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Ogle-Street Raaeed
Marlborough-street
Ogle-mews
Knox
Manchester
General Purposes Committee
Ancoats
Angel Meadow
Hulme
London Road
Sharp-street
St. Matthew’s
Byron-street
Canon Toole
J.nunn
Our
North Shropshire and Dorsetshire election notes
The report outlines results and implications from several constituencies. Leighton wins North Shropshire as a tenant farmers' candidate with 2737 votes to Mainwaring 2700, a 37 vote majority. Dorsetshire: Digby 3060, Fowler 1866, majority indicates partial representation by landowners. Additional notes cover Burnley nomination, Berkshires, Devizes comments, and Manchester contest between Jacob Bright and F S Powell with Powell stressing independence and church education positions.
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North Shropshire
Leighton
Stanley Leighton
Mainwaring
Dorsetshire
Digby
Capt
Fowler
Easton
East Suffolk
Burnley
Peter Rylands
Lindsay
Wroughton
Berkshire
Benyon
Darby Griffith
M.P. For
Devizes
Reading Mercury
Manchester
Jacob Bright
Powell
North-West Yorkshire
Irish voters split on Liberal candidate in ward meeting
Mr Bright faced cordial reception at ward meetings as Irish voters, about 5000, weigh support for the Liberal candidate. He urged amnesty for Irish prisoners and cautioned on Home Rule, while stressing education act disputes may be resolved without further parliamentary action. A vote of confidence in Mr Bright was unanimously passed.
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Powell
India
Bright
Stanway Jackson
R. Leake
J. W. Southern
Macollah
Golland
John Slagg
W. H. Bailey
Jas, Angus
Foreign affairs and incidents from around the world
The House rejects a second term bid for the President by 144 to 106. Britain and Germany refuse to urge Spain on the Cuban question. Bismarck improves enough to attend a reception but looks delicate. Antwerp stokers find seven gunpowder packages on a steamer. Melbourne reports widespread political meetings and unrest over the supplies vote. Sir W. Merewether is removed from Scinde. Turkey rejects a London claim about its dividend. A German women’s congress meets at Gotha urging medical rights and dress reform. Count ARNM stays in Florence. extradition treaty debated. A major coal mine explosion in Etienne, France leaves many dead or rescued. The Channel Tunnel talks publish a unified protocol. Jefferson Davis refutes charges of prisoner cruelty and calls for broad amnesty. A Cincinnati opera crowd endures a panic during a charity performance.
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American House of Representatives
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Spain
Grant
Prince Bismarck
Antwerp
Melbourne
Times
Agra
W. Merewether
Scinde
Turkey
London
Gotha
Count Arnm
Florence
Jabin
Etienne
Luxe Channel
International Committee
England
France
Paris
Jefferson Davis
Congress
Davis
Blaine
der Loras
America
Cincinnati
Opera House
Poor Relief Fund
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