Nonconformist readers and the Daily News debate
A Liberal critic argues the Daily News caters to its broad class, downsizing Nonconformist and Convocation coverage while favoring racing news. He cautions against risked ventures like a Nonconformist daily and notes Sporting Life circulation, urging balanced reporting and broader reader interests.
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Daily News
The
Guardian
Sporting Life
Tam
House of Commons and Labourers Grievances
Arthur Clayden denounces parliamentary indifference to working people in 1873. He cites the Harris and Wheeler dismissal by a Highway Board, condemns official misrepresentation, and warns that high minded elites ignore mass sentiment while laborers face diminishing prospects and emigration pressures.
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Leamington
Union
Attenborough
House of Commons
Auberon Herbert
Highway Board
Harris
Wheeler
Labourers’ Union
Stansfeld
Nottingham
England
Mr. Gladstone
Arch
Brother Jonathan
Tom
Arthur Clayden
Correction on Gladstone Disestablishment Estimate
In a Scarborough letter dated June 7 1873 Meredith T Whittaker argues Sir J McDougall misquoted Gladstone on disestablishment costs. He cites Gladstone’s Ormskirk 21 October 1868 speech and earlier Commons remarks, asserting Disraeli, not Gladstone, used second hand statements about if church disestablishment occurred.
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Ormskirk
Gladstone
House of Commons
Church of England
Ireland
Mr. Disraeli
Mr. Gladstone
History of Reading School and its endowment details
The article outlines Reading School's 15th century origins under Abbot Thorne and Henry VII, the Elizabeth charter, and Laud's endowment. It covers the 1867 act reviving the school, the 13 trustees plan, site acquisition, and the 1871 opening, noting rapid early growth to about 200 pupils and addressing Nonconformist critique.
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Reading
Reading School
Abbot Thorne
Henry VII
Town Hall
Hospital
Almshouse of
Reading Abbey
Cholsey
Corporation of
Elizabeth
Archbishop Laud
Bury
Oxford
All Souls
St. John’s, Oxford
Thomas White
London
St. John’s College, Oxford
St. John’s College
Valpy
Schools Commission
Corporation of Reading
John Kendrick
St. Mary, St. Giles
St. Lawrence
Waterhouse
Prince of Wales
Lord Hatherley
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Faringdon
Meredith T. Whittaker
Scarborough
the Reading School
Farringdon
Mr. Clayden