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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 20, 1850
Page
5
A large meeting at the Free Trade Hall Manchester featured Sir Joshua Walmsley M P George Thompson M P and reform advocates from the National Reform Association. Speakers urged a representative system change and universal suffrage backed by Chartist support.
On Thursday night Sir Joshua Walmsley George Thompson Henry Vincent and Mr Mackay spoke to about 1500 electors and non electors at the Public Hall Rochdale where many members enrolled. The Reform movement gains traction with recent meetings at Holt South Creake and Yarmouth. Holt saw organized opposition breaking up the gathering.
The report shows customs duties totalled £22,194,600 for 1849, down from £22,477,609 the prior year. Inwards and outwards duties, vessel counts, and tonnage across foreign and coasting trade are detailed, with British and UK-dependency totals and Ireland relations. A separate note cites a Norris Castle explosion causing death and injuries after stored ammunition detonated in stables near the castle.
The Western Times records Rev James Suonu continues work at Bridgetown Chapel with renewed health as the Somerset nobleman sustains Protestant principles. It also details a parliamentary return showing yearly advertisement duty from 1833 to 1840, noting numbers and duties, and reports on a Lord Dudley Stuart led petition against sweating, a Hanover Square concert for Mrs Sewell, Westminster bridge plans, and Beaufoy's £3000 ragged school for 1000 children.
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