Wicktow Perracs Case and Political Highlights
The Wicklow peerage hearing features Mrs Noward cross-examined by Sir Roundell Palmer, with her contempt detainment and the case adjourned for a week. Parliamentary notes recount Osborne’s hotel incident, Bristol representation, Livingstone letters, and maritime dispatches amid stormy conditions and post election events.
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Bristol
Broadmead Rooms
Robinson
Kirkham Hodgson
George Odger
LiVi Nestonge
Edward Sabine
Royal Society
Thomas Maclear
Cape of Good Hope
Livingstone
Ujiji
Lake Tanganyika
Zanzibar
Dr. Kirk
Atheneum
Missina Crry
Boston Stramsuir
Helvetia
Liverpool
Boston
Portland
Channel Squadron
Lisbon
Ben Nevis
Melbourne
Irish Channel
Old Ford
Edward Binks
Bow
Banks
Retrenchments and Oddities Highlight 19th Century Letters
The item cites varied snippets from British and American life. Prohibitory rules at Cambridge urge limits on pigeon shooting meetings for undergraduates. A Connecticut worker advertises “Going out whitewashing done in here.” Parliament backs postage cuts and a railway company adds hot water foot-warmers. A Durham Chronicle note recalls a judge unrecognized in plain dress at a cathedral service.
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Senate of Cambridge
Connecticut
Society of Arts
Douglas Jerrold
Jerrold
Charentes
Journal
Durham Chronicle
Bin
Bam
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Temperance Permanent Land and Building Society
J. Richardson
England
Madagascar
Antananarivo
Richardson
Curwen
Toy
Cranbrook
Zion
Lord Napier
Magdala
Ile
Bombay
Zoula
Commissariat
St. George’s-in the-East
St. George’s-in-the-Hast
London
Payne
Foy
C. W. Banks