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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 13, 1872
Page
6
In future The Nonconformist will be supplied post free at a reduced price of one guinea per annum for direct annual prepay subscribers. Those who pay half yearly or quarterly receive the paper on old terms. Half-yearly is 12 shillings and quarterly 6 shillings. Published by Arthur Mraut at 18 Bouverie Street Fleet Street London E.C.
The notice outlines advertising charges in the Nonconformist weekly. One line costs a shilling? each additional line sixpence, about eight words per line. Extra 2s 6d per ten lines. Reduction offered for educational series and other ads. The paper promotes its growth and wide circulation since 1872 as a favorable medium for advertisers.
In our issue this week a correction is printed regarding Reverend John Gritton’s letter. The seventh paragraph should state that each letter-carrier walking fourteen miles on weekday routes should rest on alternate Sundays, with the Post Office paying the substitute.
The piece surveys Gladstone era faults in policy from tax and education to parks and Thames embankment sales. It notes Scotch education debates, nonconformist protests, and Birmingham school funding gains. French and German moves include Thiers and Bismarck battles and Ultramontane backlash. It also marks Mazzini's death and Italian unity ideals in contextual Europe.
In a committee of supply discussion on the Army Estimates the issue centers on a defensive peace establishment. Critics argue the projected 15 million pounds this year plus 3.5 million for barracks will burden future generations, with possible further rises if reorganization continues.
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