Debate Over Poor Law Education Reforms and District Schools
The piece argues for the Poor Law Amendment Bill's Education Clauses, endorsing district schools as a practical public education system for labouring children. It critiques opposition, supports Lord John Russell and Mr. B Wood’s amendments, notes Times criticism, and discusses Church involvement with paid chaplains and dissenters’ concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwood
Robert Peel
John Russell
Times
Lord John Russell
Grote
Isle of Thanet
B. Wood
Board of Guardians
Jess Tan
Lord Grenville Somerset
B. Wed
Sir Robert Peel
England
Colquhoun
Etek
Church of England
Bjeton
Lord Stanley
Ie Sale
Ward
Court and Fashion Visit to the British Museum
Royal visitors led by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert toured the British Museum in private, viewing manuscripts, the Alexandrian manuscript, Lady Jane Grey’s prayer book, and the Poictiers Bible. They examined the coin rooms, mineralogy and prints, and admired Rembrandt etchings before leaving at 5:25 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Albert
British Museum
Countess of
Mount Edgcumbe
Miss Devereux
Viscount Torrington
Major Keppel
Lord Alfred Paget
Edward Bowater
Buckingham Palace
Museum
Sir Henry Ellis
Jane Grey
France
Poictiers
Etruria
Europe
Rembrandt
Windson
Imaam
Muscat
Windsor
H. Wheatley
St. George
Hanover-square
Psnxnzy
Royal
George IV
Penley
Baggett Crewe Read
James Forrest
Prince Albert's Hussars
Read
Southampton
Lth
Hussars
Forrest
House of Lords
Mr. Cubitt
Knightsbridge
Albert Gate
Hydepark
la Belle Assemblée
Longchamps
New Surrey Magistrates and Westminster Monuments Debate
A. Wildey Robarts and others are appointed to the commission of the peace on the Earl of Lovelace recommendation. The Earl’s choice for lord lieutenant reflects well on ministers. Mr Hume fixes April 6 to bring a select committee motion on protecting national monuments at Westminster Abbey St Pauls and other public edifices and improving public access for moral and intellectual growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Surrey
A. Wildey Robarts
John Travers
Samuel Palmer
Alderman Humphery
John Easthope
Commission of the Peace
Earl of Lovelace
Hume
Westminster Abbey
St. Paul's
The Shrewsbury case of Josiah Mister for murder
A detailed account of Josiah Mister's 1840 trial at Hereford, his condemned status, and ongoing appeals for clemency. The report covers the judge Baron Gurney's stance, Mackreth's mercy petitions, prison conditions, and family efforts in Birmingham and Ludlow to obtain royal mercy before the scheduled execution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dudley
Leominster
Nodland’s Academy
Stourbridge
Hereford
March Assizes
Baron Gurney
Shrewsbury
Mackreth
Talbot Hotel
Josiah Mister
W. M. Mack-Reth
Dawson
Whinstone
Mr. Jones
Marquis of
Normandy
Jones
Mr. Slaney
Birmingham
Hereford Times
Thomas Wooding
Mister
Our Spring Assizes
Wooding
Su Newssary
John Mister
Bristol
Ludlow
Birmingbarh
Lord Normanby
Justice Coleridge
Angel Inn
D. Winstone
The Condemned Convict Marthew Fownes and Archibald Bolam
A Staffordshire Advertiser report notes Marthew Fownes due for execution on April 3 after a guilty verdict for murder and lack of reprieve. It records his denial of guilt, lack of family visits, and the prison chaplain's attempts at repentance. It also cites Archibald Bolam, banished for murder in Millie, now in Sydney as a convict clerk at Hyde Park barracks with a potential ticket of leave after years of servitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marthew Fownes
Buckeridge
Fowles
London
Staffordshire Advertiser
Archibald BoLam
Australia
Bolam
Millie
Sydney
Convict
Hyde Park
Newcastle Journal
Extensive Robbery at Windsor Castle Details
A large robbery at Windsor Castle targets silver plate and furniture. A porter in the stores department, earning about 18s weekly, is suspected after absconding. The theft includes a massive solid silver table, broken down from its case, and two silver angel figures from Hanover. Police and Lord Chamberlain officials pursue clues, with no definitive suspect yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor
Saunders
Buckingham Palace
London
Prentice
City of London
Charles II
William Iiii
Steed
Metropolitan Police
Hanover
Bonaparte
Marshal Mortier
Cumberland-lodge
Great-park
Koellmann
Themolog
Ledger
Gillett
Giddings and Whale
America
Arrival of Convicts and Brave Rescue At Sea
Forty male convicts arrived by Great Western train at Paddington in two prison vans bound for Woolwich to be placed on hulks before transport to New South Wales. A separate report recalls a man who saved a child from a river during emigrant ship bustle, and a Steyning burglar incident where a pistol was taken and money handed over after a startling confrontation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paddington
Great-western Railroad
West-of-England
Woolwich
New South Wales
John Briggs
Earl of Durham
Fatfeld
Stanhope and Tyne
Pape
Tyne
Paris
Liverpool
New York
William Getty
Tradeston
Glasgow Chronicle
Steyning
Newman
Sussex Advertiser
Anti Corn Law Meeting Hears Plea for Repeal at Crown and Anchor
The Anti Corn Law Association held its annual general meeting at the Crown and Anchor in Strand. Henry Warburton chaired as MPs and deputations from multiple districts attended while Sidney Smith read the report urging renewed petitions to Parliament and a large national petition to the Queen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crown and Anchor
Strand
Henry Warburton, Esq
M.P
Francis Place
Villiers
Ewart
Easthope
Robert Stuart
Milner Gibson
Ricardo
Thorne
House of Commons
England
Europe
America
Pye Smith
I Rior
R. Steuart
J. L. Ricardo
M‘gregor
Forster
United Kingdom
Wade
Friends of Liberty
Watkins
Pallaser
Robinson
Thornley
W. Gibson
R. Peel
Duke of Wellington
Gibson
Pearce
Wilson
Anti-Corn Law Society
Coates
Warburton
Paris News On Eastern Treaty And Marseille Plot
Paris dispatches report the eastern treaty draft to return to Baron de Bourqueney by midweek, amid ministerial rifts and Thiers tactics. A Paris Barriere du Maine riot follows a police summons at a Reform Party tavern, with arrests and no stated motive. Marseille clashes reveal a thwarted republican conspiracy, 21 arrests, and strong gendarmerie action. Spain and Madrid letters discuss regency politics and electoral disputes shaping the situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris
Baron de Bourqueney
M. Thiers
Pisbed
London
Mth
Alt
M. Bourqueney
Mehemet Ali
Goer
Chamber of Peers
Baron Mounier
Barriere du Maine
Seventh Arrondissement
Reform Party
Courrier Francais
M. Auber
Louvre
Guapa Loure
Pointe-a-Pitre
Guadaloupe
Council of Discipline
National Guard
Marseilles
Les Crottes
Villette
L’ Ascension
Boulevard Des Trois-Journées
Procureur
Daroi
Saint Louis
Vincent C
Susini
Massena
Procureur du Roi
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ness
History and Politics
the Convict
Windsor Castle
Anti-Corn-Law Association
Foreign Intelligence
Spain
Madrid
Chamber of Dept
M. Gamboa
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