Banquet Honors General Williams At Reform Club
Lord John speaks of a future army led by a Williams in a peace era. General Sir W F Williams attends a Reform Club banquet with 150 guests, decorations, and tributes. Williams may take six months’ leave from Woolwich to visit Nova Scotia.
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Eral Williams
Lord John
House of Commons
Reform Club
W. F. Williams
Kars
William Fenwick Williams
Hancock
Bruton-street
Alexander ‘Cockburn
Lord Fortescue
Teesdale
Sandwith
Churchill
Redhouse
General Williams
Williams
Woolwich
Nova Scotia
Entry of the Guards into London in 1855 parade
The Brigade of Grenadier Coldstream and Fusilier Guards totaling 3200 men entered London after the Crimea campaign. Crowds lined Nine Elms to Hyde Park as Queen Victoria and Prince Albert observed. The procession moved through Whitehall Pall Mall to Buckingham Palace, with cheers and laurel showers, and later inspection in Hyde Park followed by a grand review.
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Grenadier
Coldstream
Fusilier Guards
London
Aldershot
Nine Elms
South-Western
Grenadiers
Ridtey
Fusiliers
Walker
Coldstreams
Drummond
Lord
Park
House of Commons
Houses of Parliament
Whitehall
Life Guards
Trafalgar Square
Marlborough House
Buckingham Palace
Constitution Hill
Hyde-park
Prince of Wales
Theop
Duchess of Kent
Princess Mary of Cambridge
Prince Oscar
Sweden
Palace
Constitution-hill
Crimea
Park-lane
George
Lady Grey
Lord Palmerston
Evelyn Denison
Duke of Cambridge
Prince Albert
Grenadier Guards
Windsor
Dublin
The Early Closing Movement Heats Up Across Britain
The Early Closing Association pushes for reduced working hours, a Saturday half holiday, and earlier wage payments. Leaders, including Lord Stanley and Lord Shaftesbury, cite factory weariness and health risks, while railways and firms experiment with shorter Saturdays and Friday wage payments.
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Willis
Edinburgh
Lancashire
Yorkshire
Lord Campbell
Queen’s Bench
Duke of Argyll
Great Western
London and North-Western Railways
South-Western
Great Northern
Huish
London and North-Western Railway
London
Spon
Truman, Hanbury, and Co
Messrs. Spottiswoode
Price’s Candle Company
Chubb
Mechi
Cowan
Simon
Board of Health
Hampstead-heath
Crystal Palace
British Museum
A. Kinnaird
Lord
Shaftesbury
Bath and Wells
M.milnes
M.P
Sodor and Man
Mr. Liddell
Major Powys
Exeter Hall
Strand
Robert Grosvenor
Earl of Shaftesbury
Oxford
S. C. Hall
R. D. Grainger
Sanders
Tarlton
Mutiny of Militia at Nenagh Roils Town Streets
A serious riot broke out among the Tipperary Regiment of Militia at Nenagh. After a sergeant seized new clothing, a prisoner was sheltered and the guardhouse attacked. The mutineers demanded bounty payment, clashed with sergeants, and fired in the streets until regulars and cavalry arrived from Limerick.
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Tipperary Regiment of Militia
Nenagh
Summerhill Barracks
Pound-street
Landlan
Summerhill
Limerick
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