Characteristics of the Age and Its Relation to Christianity
A review discusses Vaughan lecture series on the age from savage to historical, skepticism, materialism, contempt of the past, and religion. It covers philosophy, miracles, Eichhorn and Strauss, and the relation of religion to history and moral sense. Also notes Colman story and The Light of the Week prize work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fichte
Auguste Comte
Germany
Scotland
France
Fuerbach
Strauss
Eichorn
Cola Moniior
Frank Kim
London
A. Hall and Co
J. Younger
Partridge and
Gleanings of a Victorian Column News Briefs
Seizures of unsound meat total twenty two thousand pounds in Manchester over the past year. Eliza Ward in custody in London for biting Margaret Haddy’s ear and swallowing the piece. Community meetings planned in London to petition Parliament for gradual repeal of the Beershop Act. Edward Andrews, Sunderland Quaker, joins Anglican Church at Bishopwearmouth ahead of marriage in the city. Gun cotton dissolves alkali to yield mirrors. South Devon line tubes to be sold for old iron. Advertising curiosities noted in the Times and Gateshead Observer with tales of snakes and arrows. UK lighthouse total listed as 312. Sir Moses Montefiore in good health en route East from Marseilles. Brazil to curb slave trade, per New York Evening Post. British Temperance Herald cites deaths linked to drinking. Manchester Sunday schools count about 55,000 scholars. Stubbens finds his son Timothy has risen in position after assignment. Glasgow salt market shows fifty spirit-dealers among under 200 houses. Fresh potatoes, peas, fruit arriving from France. Mr Macready to sail to Boston, contributes $000 to riot victims’ families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Eliza Ward
London
Margaret Haddy
Edward Andrews
Joseph Andrews
Society of Friends
Sunderland
Tasso
Alfred-street
Gateshead
United Kingdom
Jewish Chronicle
J.sebag
Moses Montefiore
Marseilles
Moses
British Temperance Herald
Timothy
Gubbens
Stubbens
Glasgow
France
Macready
Boston
England
Biography of the volumes opening by its author head
The excerpt highlights the writer as the subject and describes the introductory biography as perhaps not the least interesting portion of the volume, emphasizing its role in framing the work.
O Brien and allies delay transport over common law claim
The Times reports Mr Smith O Brien and associates have raised a common law right to either be hanged or freed if not yielded. This nullifies tonight’s Spike Island prisoner removal as a troop of Lancers is recalled. A London Sunday trading bill seeks to curb markets, with police seizure of goods and returns for a fee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Statgz
Times
Smith O'Brien
Metropolitan act on sale hours and tax figures
The report outlines a metropolitan law restricting sale of cooked meat tea coffee and provisions to specific hours and places including steamers taverns and lodgings. It also presents income tax returns for 1847 1848 detailing sched D and E taxpayers and total receipts of 5 638 702 along with notable income brackets and counts.
Births and Marriages and Deaths Notice Column
Births listed in June include Mrs WILLIAM ATHERTON in Tavistock-square and Mrs H Epmund Gorney in Cromer plus Mrs Henry M Bealey in North Brixton. Marriages record multiple ceremonies from Manchester Wakefield Poole and London to Lymington and Hornleydown. Deaths note Dr William Wilson of Kelvinbank and several others aged 18 to 76.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Endsleigh-street
Tavistock-square
William Atherton
Cromer
H. Epmund Gorney
Upton-lane
Essex
Chryssell-road
North Brixton
Henry M. Bealey
Richmond Chapel
Broughton-road
Manchester
D. E. Ford
Horsefield
Miss Miller
Salford
West Parade
Wakefield
Poole
E. R. Conder
William Cuubb
Wilts and Dorset
Lymington
Ellen
G. Kemp
Lloyd-street Chapel
W. M‘kerrow
William Henry Barlow
Prescot
Caroline Wriigsky
Joseph Wingfield
Lincoln
Maze Pond
Southwark
Independent Chapel
Lowestoft
H. More
Samug. Porrer
Norwich
Matilda Jenner
Also Mentioned on This Page
R.vaughan
D.D. London
Jackson and Walford
Moffatt
M.P
Halse
Blackwell
Pimlico
Mr. Halse
Madame Tussaud
Napoleon Buonaparte
Brande
South Crescent
Bedford-square
WiLliam Raz Wison
Kelvinbank
Holy Land
Tredegar
Monmouthshire
William Pritchard Repgnts
W. Roberte
Edinburgh
Amelia Marian
G. Rosins
Kensington-garden-terrace
Gibson-square
Caroline Amelia
C. F. Varpy
Bugbrook
tHoMas Turland
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