Press Petition Aims To Cut Paper Taxes And Boost Education
A letter-press printers’ group across Liverpool Glasgow Carlisle Bath Newcastle and other towns pushes Parliament to repeal paper duties. They argue cheaper paper will raise book and newspaper demand aiding education and employment. The Dublin MP Mr Reynolds has signaled a bill on paper tax repeal. The piece urges unified public support from newspapers and readers to curb stamp duties on newsprint and ads.
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Liverpool
Glasgow
Carlisle
Bath
Newcastle
Reynolds
Lingdoth
Cromwells Statue Fund Seeks Public Support In St Ives
A land purchase near Blepe Hall enables Cromwell statue plans. A committee near St Ives seeks metropolitan and provincial help, with about two thousand pounds seen as enough to proceed, urging contact with Thomas B. Ulph.
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Oliver Cromwell
Henry Vincent
Cromwell
Blepe Hall
St. Ives
Thomas B. Ulph
Huntingdon
Friends of Freedom
East India
East India Company
India
the Tablet
Mr. Macaulay
Dickens
Sir Charles Napier
Paris
Marseilles
Absurdities in our law exposed by the Spectator
The Spectator laments legal forms that embolden false testimony and harshly treat conscientious witnesses. It cites Exeter Assize Court cases where injunctions clash with private conscience, parliamentary reforms on scruples, and the ill use of damages in divorce and seduction cases, pleading for justice over form.
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Exeter Assize
John Russell
House of Lords
James
Crespigny
Cave
Hawkins
Reckless Naval Expenditure and Idle Ships Questioned
A parliamentary mirror argues Britain keeps 200 ships in ordinary with over sixty idle for two decades or more. It calls for retrenchment, condemning bobbing yards and profit-minded contractors, and urges building ships only when needed to avoid waste.
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Parliamentary Committee On Naval
Neptune
Royal William
St. George
Waterloo
London
Nile
Clarence
Boscawen
Chichester
Worcester
Clyde
Hamadryad
Latona
Mercury
Minerva
Sirius
Thisbe
Venus
Forth
Seahorse
Dauntless
England
George Liddell
Mediterranean
Cape
Africa
West Indies
Nelson
Royal George
Her Majesty
Woolwich Smiths
Sheerness
Portsmouth
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