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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 27, 1869
Page
8
Debates on temperance stretch as supporters urge continued pressure until fewer public houses and beershops remain. Speakers include Jacob Bright and Sir Wilfrid Lawson as three Alliance resolutions are unanimously approved.
Reports from Towse Himikta and Southwark discuss re election prospects for Ayrton and a Conservative challenge to Lord Bidnley in King's Lynn. Liberal bids in Tipperary and Glasgow Aberdeen universities outline views on tenure, education, and church questions with noted opposition and candidate lists.
Report says the scarlet fever outbreak in Bermondsey has grown so serious that authorities issued a code of sanitary precautions. A copy of the code is being left at every house in the parish to guide residents.
The Court is due at Windsor Castle about Wednesday. The Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales return to Marlborough House with their children from Chiswick. The Prince, the Duke of Cambridge and others hunted over Gunton preserves for three days, killing over 1000 head of game. Layard to replace Crampton as British Minister at Madrid. Ayrton moves to the Board of Works. Stansfeld to be Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Rumor of Vice-Chancellor James appointed Lord Justice. Woodward’s death not delaying Windsor Castle monograph. Postage stamp idea for printed matter proposed with single day use and date imprint. Govt may merge Excise and Customs. Dilke returns from Russia with inquiries on emancipation and rural education.
A series of incidents report a forged cheque case against Sir Eardley Culling Eardley in Guildhall, a deadly train collision near Auckland and Durham, and a fatal coal mine explosion at Newbury Colliery. Additional facts include a Brixton widow found dead with a gold watch and sovereigns, a London to Peterborough train derailment at Welwyn with fatalities, a Bottisham shooting suicide, a fatal boiler explosion at West Bromwich, and a Maidenhead magistrates trial involving Elizabeth Barty and Colonel Hickie.
In Bradford a woman testified she took a child amid grief for its parents and sought a priest’s help to return it, then told Mrs. Hickie of the location before a detective intervened. Separately at Manningham a burglary targetting Mr Angus Holden’s home yielded a stolen gold watch and 38 pounds, with no suspect found.
A poem-like report recalls clashes between High Church and Low Church factions led by a Doctor and an Earl. The State Church responds with royal authority as Exon's Dean and Chapter face pressures amid religious controversy and Premunire threats.
A woman named Gilligan in Shadwell is the first to be punished under the Habitual Criminals Act for hosting a den of thieves. She received two months in prison for a 10 fine default, with possible restoration of business after release. The piece notes the act’s reach beyond the sentence. The Irish Land Bill proposal from The Economist urges tenant improvements to be charged on the land and for state loans to fund such improvements, with buyout options for tenants who build up equity. It argues that continual improvement may justify eventual land ownership by tenants, a form of natural selection in landholding.
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