Wilks Addresses Education Board Contenders at Public Meeting
Mr Wilks, cheered loudly, argues for a public grounds campaign and a national system of education. He reviews 1847 funding battles, Bible in schools, denominational interests, and cost, urging ratepayers to back reforms to educate every child and save prisons and workhouses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Russell
House of Commons
Finsbury
Tom Duncombe
Liberal
John
Vaughan
Binney
Forster
Cheers
Wilks
Whately
Socrates
Jesus
Rome
Jerusalem
England
Fr. Wilks
Ture
Joan Grover
Tabrum
Morr
Royal movements and political dispatches abroad and at home
Updates from late November detail Hetws and Her Majesty’s return, the Empress and Prince Louis Napoleon’s arrival at Chiselhurst, Disraeli visits, and Lord Granville’s London scenes. Reports cover the Prince of Wales in Brindisi and Athens, church appeals, Home Office praise, Trades Union Congress, Arctic expedition notes, and political bribery inquiries in Norwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugdénie
Prince Louis Napoleon
Chiselhurst
Switzerland
Mr. Disraeli
Hughenden
Childers
M.P
Cunard
Algeria
Liverpool
New York
Dublin
Cardinal Cullen
Duke of Buckingham
Gravesend
Madras
Prince of Wales
Brindisi
Athens
Acropolis
Bengal
Ajesties
Canterbury
Prince
Iles
Society For the Propagation of the Gospel
Knollys
India
Edinburgh
Conservative Workingmen’s Association
Cross
Home Office
Trades Union Congress
Glasgow
Newcastle
Devonport Dock
Baffin’s Bay
Nares
Carey Islands
Discovery
Cape York
Board of Trade
Jane and
Mary
Downs
Mina
Rochester
Lord Truro
London
Woolwich
Russell Gurney
Southampton
Various Literary and Personal News from the Era
The Times notes new book titles and translations from authors including Longfellow and a Japanese publisher. It reports marriages in Toronto and wealth transfers in the publishing world, plus forthcoming editions of biblical texts. A public testimonial for Mr Joseph Soul, retiring from orphanage work, seeks 1,000 for his wife and daughter, with hopes for double that amount.
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The
Atheneum
Prince of Wales
India
Wade
Augustus Murray
London
Thomas Carlyle
Soun
Joseph Soul
Orphan Working School
Alexandra Orphanage For
Also Mentioned on This Page
New Testament Company of Revisers
Gloucester
Bristol
Southwark
Whitechapel
Henry
Thomas George Wainwright
Harriet Lane
Thomas
Henry Wainwright
Norwich
Tillett
Social Science Congress
Brighton
Congress
Trevor Lawrence
Mid Surrey
Court of Appeal
Kenealy
North Shields
Monk
Admiralty
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