A Loyal English Protestant Urges End to State Church Alliance
Thomas Thompson writes to Lord John Russell urging the Premier to reexamine the Union between church and state amid fears of Irish priest endowment. He argues royal policy should pursue religious liberty, end imperial entanglements, and emancipate the church from secular control, calling Russell to be the nation’s liberator.
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Europe
House of Commons
Ireland
England
Mr. Shore
Gorham
Cashel
Chester
Merle D’aubigné
Baptist Noel
Thomas Thompson
Sketch of the Floor of the House of Commons
Jerrold's Weekly News notes a diagram of members and seats with labeled figures A to D showing the Speaker and Serjeant-at-Arms area. The illustration marks benches below the gangway and clerks table, highlighting where leading speakers sit and how daily reports derive material from house movements.
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House OF Commons
Jerrold’s Weekly News
Mr. AgHonby
Mr. Brotherton
Mr. Duncan
Col. Thompson
R Inglis
Mr. Roebuck
Mr. Wakley
W. Molesworth
Mr. Horsman
Viscount Duncan
B. Osborne
G. Thompson
Mr. Muntz
Mmen
The Ten Hours Agitation Meeting Aimed at Compromise
A private Manchester gathering of factory owners debated restricting hours of labor. A deputation plans to seek government compromise, proposing extension to eleven hours and abandonment of relay systems for females and youths under eighteen.
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Manchester
Glasgow Theatre Disaster Kills Sixty Five
A gas leak ignited by a match caused a fatal stampede at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow on Saturday night. Fifty-nine to sixty-five people die from suffocation in the gallery stairway amid crowded exits. most victims are working class.
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Theatre Royal
Dunlop Street
Glasgow
Garrick Hotel
Clyde-street
Hosital
Assassinations at Stanfield Hall Trial Details
The widow Emily Sandford known as Mrs James, confined a female child in Wymondham Bridewell to ensure attendance at Rush's trial for murder. If she recovers, the trial likely ends at next month’s assizes with Serjeant Byles and Mr Prendergast prosecuting. Rush plans to lead his own defense.
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Stanfield Hall
Rush
James
Emily Sandford
Wymondham Bridewell
Norwich Castle
Norfolk Circuit
Serjeant Byles
Mr. Prendergast
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John Russell
the Treasury, &c
Poundsford Park
Taunton
Reporters’ Gallery
Lord Lincoln
Goulburn
Robert Peel
Gladstone
G. Clerk
Stafford
Bankes
Newdegate
Herries
Mr. Disraeli
Mar Uis of
Granby
8Pooner
James Graham
Mr. Henley
Hudson
Lord G. Bentinck
Disraeli
Col. Sibthorp
J. Hume
Mr Biwring
Mr . Bright
Cobden
Mr . Ewart
M. Gibson
Mr. W. Brown
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