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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 29, 1873
Page
9
The Challenger dredge returns coral sponge and deep sea fish far below the surface. The specimens expanded their air due to water pressure, tearing them open, proving ocean deeps host unique denizens and illustrating nature’s adaptation.
The Hon C G Lyttelton will move the address to the Throne at the opening of Parliament. He is nephew of the Premier, eldest son of Lord Lyttelton, and born October 1842. He held Cambridge scholar status and is noted as major of volunteers and a cricketer. Mr W H Stone will second the Address. He is MP for Portsmouth, born 1834, son in law of the author of Friends in Council, and a Trinity Cambridge graduate. He won Plymouth in the general election, behind Sir John Elphinstone and Serjeant Gaselee.
A reflective column notes January 1822’s mild spell and roaring frosts, the early sap in trees, and a poetical homage to Wolfmonaths. It weighs modern author earnings, praising Lord Lytton, George Eliot, and Henry James’s forebears while recounting a heated clash between Charles Reade and a Swift plagiarist.
The piece portrays a self-centered portrait of Charles Reade praising his own abilities and literary virtues. It notes his belief that his work merges invention, labor, and condensation, while mocking self-praise as a questionable virtue and hinting at his famous maxim Never Too Late to Mend.
A figure in a Saturday issue misstates Hannay’s career linking him to a Liberal consulship in Barcelona in 1868. The writer notes Flannay’s 1857 Tory candidacy for the Dumfries boroughs and recalls that Disraeli led a Conservative government in 1868, aligning with a Tory Edinburgh Courant critique rather than Liberal advocacy.
The Pall Mall Gazette letters on Liberty Fraternity and Equality were written by Mr Fitzjames Stephen Q C who has declined the Liberal candidacy for Liverpool. Stephen a leading philosophical Radical favours disestablishment and would have been a parliamentary asset if elected. The letters will be issued separately by Messrs Smith and Elder.
Mr. David Morier Evans to serve as conductor of the new daily Hour. He previously acted as City correspondent for the Times and Morning Herald and later for the Standard. He authored The Commercial Crisis 1847 8 City Men and City Manners and Facts Failures and Frauds.
The Charity Organisation Society district committees handled 15 374 cases in the year ending December 31 1872 excluding 12 512 non resident applications. Of these 4 910 were dismissed 4 684 referred to legal and charitable agencies and 5 780 assisted by grants loans employment and other aid. Captain Tyler urges uniform platform carriage standards and extra porters for safety on passenger lines. The Times reports an extraordinary escape of six Communist prisoners from Port Louis fortress in Brittany by a self dug tunnel and low tide escape. Working men condemn the government at a Longacre meeting and plan a Hyde Park demonstration after Parliament resumes.
A report from a Gas-stokers Defence meeting states no reply to a memorial seeking clemency for five imprisoned stokers. Subscriptions total 2127. A memorial to the Home Secretary is in preparation. Also announced is The New Gas Company Limited offering 250,000 pounds in public subscription with patented methods claiming major labour and cost savings.
A collage of light social anecdotes and curiosities. Notes on horse training, oysters shipped to London, a London traders’ competition, witty quips about age and delusion, a Midl and county school pun, a carpenter’s bill joke, an Irish river flood anecdote, ink preservation with mustard oil, Paris bar masque poisoning, Swiss women’s day, a Georgia cotton improvement, and costly Vienna New Year gifts for girls.
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