Emigration plan as a self supporting colonial policy
The author argues for a self regulating emigration system modeled on the United States. Land sales would fund immigration, securing permanent labor for colonies while expanding England’s markets. A small loan would start the process, creating a bridge from poverty to land ownership and national prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Republic
Congress
Europe
Union
Jean
England
New World
East
West Indies
Canada
Australia
Africa
Metropolitan Reform Dinners in Southwark and Camberwell
A crowded Bridge House dinner in Southwark celebrated the return of Alderman Humphery and D. W. Harvey with leaders like O Connell and Wakley present. Speakers urged reform, ballot, extended suffrage, and shorter parliaments, urging nationwide agitation and petitions. A Camberwell Reform Dinner at the Grove Hotel honored Lambeth MPs D Eyncourt and Hawes with about two hundred guests and notable figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridge House Tavern
Southwark
Alderman Humphery
D. W. Harvey
B. Wood
D. O'Connell
Grote
Pattison
Crawford
Hume
Hinde
General Johnson
Duncombe
Wakley
Attwood
Birmingham, &c
Daniel W
Commons
Lord J. Russell
England
Norwich
Camberwell
Grove Hotel
Camberwellgrove
Messrs
D'Eyncourt
Hawes
Lambeth
C. Buller
C. Lushington
S. Palmer
William A. Wilkinson
Royal Gallery of Practical Science at Adelaide Street
Visitors praise recent alterations at the Royal Gallery of Practical Science in Adelaide Street. The expanded Long Room features a second gallery and a broad display of natural history, domestic manufactures, and scientific apparatus including electrical experiments, gas regulation, and early telecommunication concepts.
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Royal Gallery of Practical Science
Adelaide Street
London
Adelaide-Street
Department of Science
Art
Department of Natural History
Britain
China
G. Smith
Ampere
Arago
E. M. Clarke
Palmer
Rsss
Pritchard
Attempted arson at Manor-house near Brackley
A night fire at the three hundred year old Manor-house near Brackley, Northamptonshire, razed the wood-house where a retriever was chained. The head gamekeeper’s family slept above as gunpowder and guns exploded amid the blaze. Bow Street sent an officer to locate suspects. a £100 reward is offered and a royal pardon awaits informants.
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Brackley
Northamptonshire
Tuaraore
James Henry Mitchell
West Indies
Mitchell
Ofgon
Bow-street
Goddard
Her Majesty
Frightful Accident And Lords Appeal Case In Peers
A man named Francis Cleave employed by patent pump maker Mr. Cracknell of Wapping street, was crushed when a London Deck swivel-bridge closed trapping his leg, feared amputated. The House of Lords heard Morris v Davis about a long separation and a disputed child with Austin’s mistress, with arguments likely to last days. Another case, Sheehy v Matthew Lord Muskerry, involves Irish property and conflicting high level opinions on ownership.
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Francis Cleave
Cracknell
Wapping Street
St. George’s
London
Wapping
House of Lords
Brovgar
Lyndhurst
Morris
Sheehy
Matthew Lord Muskerry
Ireland
Lord Plunkett
Sir Edward
Apprehension of a Gang of Coiners in Manchester Area
Police net tightens around coining ring at Lees street Allcoats cottage Fearns and others arrested for preparing plaster of Paris moulds and fusion metal. Four prisoners Thomas and Elizabeth Fearns Richard Singleton and George Allen committed for trial at the Liverpool assizes on charges of coining.
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Manchester
New Bailey
Diggles
Salford
Normansell
Rooney
Lindsey
Atkinson
Lees Street
Allcoats
Fearns
Richard Sizgluton
George Allen
Mr. Nuttall
Mr. Diggles
Welstesholme
Mr. Wolstenholme
Thomas
Elizabeth Fearns
Richard Singleton
Liverpool
City of London Election Petition Hearing For Palmer
A large Central Committee meeting at the City of London Tavern reviewed the Petition Committee report on the John Horsley Palmer election petition. The report advised prosecuting the petition against the writ and replacing Grote with Palmer, challenging the other three members’ elections and seeking a House ruling on Palmer’s validity or voiding the last election. A Finance Committee was formed to fund the petition.
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City of London
Central Committee
John Horsley Palmer
Thessiger
Talbot
Wrangham
Grote
Palmer
Post Office Reform Letter to the Editor
A correspondent argues for uniform prepaid postage and stamping machinery to cut St Martin's le Grand sorting and taxing time. He cites evidence on early delivery, box delivery, and receipts to improve security and efficiency, claiming six and a half times the work could be done in one eighth of the time, with benefits for commerce and public posting.
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Weekly Chronicle
Orde
St. Martin’s-le-Grand
Beon
Utiliensis I
Benjamin Critchett
Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry
Lombard-street
Clement’s-lane
Nicholas-lane
Mr. Hill
Wallace
London
Purcell
Dublin
Belfast
Hill
Presidency of
Madras
Orson
Hydrophobia and the Dog Tax Debate in England
An analytic critique argues hydrophobia is not rare, cites rampant dog nuisance in towns, wealthier owners keeping dangerous breeds, and poor treatment of working dogs. It urges strict dog taxation, removal of lax enforcement, and advocates surgical excision as the only infallible preventive, illustrated by cases, experiments, and continental practices.
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Eprrer
England
Salmoneus
Staines
Materia Medica
Monsieur Mazurier
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