The Evils of Apprenticeship in Willenhall North
Second report of the Children’s Employment Commission details harsh apprenticeship practices in Walsall area. Masters trap parish apprentices for premiums ranging from two to five pounds, sometimes housing and feeding them, while neglecting basic welfare. Testimony from surgeons, clerks, and laborers describes beatings, starvation, and repeated abuse, portraying a system akin to forced labour and systemic neglect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walsall
Sxor
Y Ter
Jeremiah Harthill
Henry Duignen
The
Union
Burton-on- Tresit
Uke
Willenhall
Inother
Thomas Lynn
Staford
Robert Jones Icksmith
Robert Jones
Jones
Inquest Concludes Northleach Prison Brutality Case
The inquest into Richard Jones's death at Northleach House of Correction ends with a verdict that he died from ill treatment, hard labour and insufficient food. The jury censures Northleach authorities for their conduct and calls for prison discipline reforms. The testimony recalls violent wheel punishments, damp cells, and depleted rations amid a harsh regime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Jones
Northleach
Cheltenham
Joseph King
Russell
Ann Russell
John Barton
Thomas Laury
Northreach
Harding
John Ralph Bedwell
Northleach Prison
Pines
Cheltenhamospital
Tchard Townsend
Elizabeth Jones
Hartley
Northleach House of Correction
Suffolk-street Exhibition of Pictures Second Notice
A scathing survey lists several paintings under review at Suffolk Street. It condemns works by G Stevens and T Prentis for waxy texture and artificial sentiment, praises Turner and Herring pieces, notes notable portraits and wildlife scenes, and comments on sculpture and a Nelson Monument fundraising appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Stevens
Mawkigh
Stevens
Pantheon
Prentis
Mr. Sponge
Madame Danoyer
T. Danby
St Domingo
Tal-y-boat
North
Wales
J. Wilson
F.turner
T. F.herring
Herring
Tattersall's
Shayer
Edwin Landaeer
Cosmode Medici
Don Garzia
T.F. Heapley
Tims
Rome
Lodor
C. Jusi
T. Peel
Mr. Stevens
T. Roods
Thames
Hungerford Market
W.E. Dighton
A. D. Fripp
R. J. Hammerton
Poole
Bigenius
The French Occupation of Tahiti Protest Meeting
A Exeter Hall gathering of British Protestants urged action over French seizure of Tahiti and the imposition of Catholic power, accusing France of coercing Tahiti’s government. Speakers, including Rev. Vaughan and Dr. Vaughan, condemned sovereignty by force and called for protection of British missions and Tahitians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friends of Protestant Missions
Exeter-hall
Tahiti
South Pacific
C. Hindley
M.P
London Missionary Society
Tase
France
Venus
A. Dopetit Thouars
la Place
Papeete
Dubuset
Reine Blanche
A. Dupetit Thouars
Kimo
Mure
Ruara
Utasu
Huoz
Tat
Vaughan
Britain
Hughes
D. Alder
Wesleyan Missionary Society
Pacific
Popery
Baptist Noel
Peters Farmlness
England
Africa
New Zealand
Scinde
America
Metropolitans Anti-Corn Law Meeting Reports Broad Revolt Against Monopolies
The Metropolitan Anti Corn Law Association held its annual meeting at the Mechanics' Institution in Chancery Lane with Henry Warburton in the chair. The Fourth Report shows subscriptions to the League fund reaching £1,100 13s 11d, branch growth to 76, and 634 lectures delivered while 3,597 petitions with 3,324,325 signatures were sent to Parliament to repeal the corn laws. Cobden praised the anti monopoly stance, urged larger fundraising, and pledged continued effort to mobilize London in the free trade cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Anti-Cornlaw Association
Mechanics’ Institution
Southampton
Chancery Lane
Henry Warburton
League
Smith
NETEO
Politan Anticorn-Law Association
Metropolitan Anti-Corn Law Association
National Anti-Comlaw League
London
Great League Fund
Council of the League
Free Trade Committee
Metropolitan Boroughs
City of London
Anti-Corn Law Association
Young Men's
West End
Metropolis
Westminster Young Men's
Office of the Association
Association
Anti-Cornlaw League
Villiers
Villiera
Manchester
Robert Peel
Great League
England
Fauxers Pace
Siosey Switn
Strand
A. R. Shaw
P. A. Taylor
Coates
Richard Cobden
M.P
National League
Hertfordshire
Buckinghamshire
Dorsetshire
Lawrance Heyworth
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Children's
Trapper Muapesa
Lisnox
Gazette Des Tribunaut
Lisbon
Supreme Court of Justice
Matto Lobo
Donna Adelaide da Costa
Julia
Emygdio
Narcissa
Polytechnic
Donna Adelaide
Dunkirk
Brothers of Mercy
Marvao
Quai de Boa Vista
Matto Lebo
Borstz-Duc
Gorinchen
Woudrichem
Hensden
Grave
Hague
Alps
CaNau
Provence
Suffolk-street
Wick Rocks
Bath
W. Carter
Henry le Palourel
E. D. Smith
P. Park
Chelsea Hospital
Duchess of Gloucester
Arran
Hoxoyrn
Ostend
Lucius O'Trigger
Ciudad Rodrigo
Gurwood
Mackie
Napier
Maxwell
Wellington
Ouseley Higgins
Andrew Barnard
K.C.B
Globe
Sir Andrew Barnard
Colonel Gurwood
Mr. Maxwell
G. G. Ousensy Hiccixs
Chapel-street
Grosvenor-square
Fitzpatrick
Hardwick
Grey
Raxton
Nelson
Commissioners of Woods and Forests
Robert Stopford
Greenwich Hospital
St. Martin In-The-Fields
St. Martin
Lord Nelson
Trafalgar-square
Trafalgar
Robert
Stephono
Office of Woods, &c
Earl of Lincoln
J. O. Pui
Spelman
Edward
Chapel Royal
Ireland
Dublin
Pavasta
Prussia
Berlin
Cologne Minster
Cognoscenti
Wixpson Castle
Cornwall
George the Fourth
Winchester
Prince Albert
Tucker
United Service Institution
Great Scotland Yard
Mrs. Noble
Merroronrian Free Hospital
Carey Street
Lincoln’s Inn-Fields
WJ. White
E. J. Chaner
the Duke of Cambridge
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