Pious talk and practical talent in a Victorian scene
The excerpt contrasts a working woman’s capabilities with fashionable idle daughters. It cites Mrs Ellis’s lectures praising capable wives who manage homes and farms, while Dickens and Household Words discuss architectural scale and costs of an immense exhibition hall. A Robertson and Hume anecdote ends with a pun on light from above.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duchess of Marlborough
Spain
England
Mrs. Ellis
Hume
Robertson
Gleanings and Fire Reports From 1849 London
A compendium of witty anecdotes and remarks from various writers, followed by Annual Return of Fires in London. It details fires in 1849, including major losses at Mark Lane and Southwark Bridge Road, Bermondsey outbreaks, club buildings, and overall fire statistics for the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Braidwood
London Fire Engine Establishment
Marklane
Southwark Bridge-Road
Bermondsey
Travellers’ Club
Athenaeum
Spitalfields
Rotten Park Estate Sold for £96000 Near Birmingham
The Rotten Park estate near Birmingham, long owned by the Noela of Worcestershire, was bought by Gillett the steel pen maker for £96,000. A periodical writer recalls a Lord Mayor's ball disrupted by a dispute over precedence between a watch-spring maker’s wife and a watch-case joint finisher’s wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotten Park
Birmingham
Noela
Worcestershire
Gillett
Births and obituaries span world to England and Ireland
The column lists multiple births from Hobart Town Van Diemen's Land to Over Darwen and Kuruman Missionary Station in South Africa. It also records numerous obituaries including Miss Many Newson Theobald of Norwich aged 38, and notes on other individuals such as Lord William Somerset and Marquis of Hastings with brief biographical details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobart Town
van Diemen’s Land
F. C. Trine
Over Darwen
R. P. Clarke
Kuruman Missionary Station
South Africa
Joan Frepoux
Motito
Ann
R. Morratt
Brighton
H. M. Wagner
Rafpaele Crocer
Jemima Mary Bacon Rank
J. Frank
Campsail
Yorkshire
Earlham
Norfolk
South Street
Bridport
T. Wallace
Heser James Palmer
Lacey
The
Baptist
Chipping Sodbury
Gloucestershire
F. H. Roleston
Daniel Kent
Sanau Ives
Southwark Bridge-road
Ann Mixouin
E. Denham
D. Denham
Southwark
ElLen Ive
James Ive
Ellen Bunnipag
Fleet Street
London
Ball’s Park
Hertford
Isa Bella Hankey
Grosvenor Square
J. P. Hankey
Clifton
Lord Willliam Somerset
Duke of Beaufort
Bristol Cathedral
Tomarton
Denmark Hill
Surrey
Frances Paynter
Mary Ann
J. Enocy
Cornmarket
Warwick
Society of Friends
R. Stare
Grimshaw-street
Freston
Morrison’s
Many Newson Theobald
Norwich
Hertfordshire
Bishop’s Stortford
Islington Sewer Accident Reported Friday
A sewer accident at Islington on Friday drew two workers toward a New River tunnel they were cutting and carried them away. The incident mirrors a Hungerford market event with two men lost to the water. A separate advertisement trumpets Hatst's Portable Galvanio Apparatus by Mr Halse, a noted medical galvanist, claiming safety and rejuvenating muscular power through galvanism at 99 Brunswick Square.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hungerford
Islington
Halse
Alse
Money Market and Commercial Intelligence
The stock market remains dull with Consols down and Exchequer Bills yielding less. Foreign shares are quiet while Russian and Dutch bonds show mixed moves. Western shares offer around 4 percent, with banks like London Joint Stock and London and Westminster paying solid dividends. Corn market remains dull with no price changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tugspay
Evznina
Paris
North Western
Great Western
Midland
London Joint Stock Bank
London and Westminster
Rai
Eeveree
Brazil
Eeane
Enane Equador
Sesees
Een Aenan
Granada
D.new
India
Exchequer Billa
Marshall Chief Cashier's Statement Dated January 16 1851
The Gazette records a financial notice dated January 16 1851 with Marshall as Chief Cashier and a sum of £36 425 869 appearing in the entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall
Also Mentioned on This Page
London Police
City of London
Dickens
Dambey
St. Petersburgh
Maloney
James Herring
Dumfries
Tahiti
Pomare
Cantors Fact iv National History
Gateshead
Lord D
O'Connell
Dublin
Mioney Market and Conmercial Intelligence
the Gazette
Bank OF England
Victoria
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