Polish anniversary and trials mark a busy Kent Street meeting
The Polish anniversary was celebrated at the Tacts Society Hall Kent Street with Alderman Bilton in the chair. Polish gentlemen spoke for freedom, the hall displayed war implements and a Polish standard, a Polish band performed as Polish and other airs played, and the national anthem God Save the Queen was sung. The week also notes Ward’s murder conviction at the Central Criminal Court with a death sentence to follow, describing the judge’s warnings and the prisoner’s removal from the bar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aantsi
Tacts Society
Kent Street
Alderman Bilton
Ay Murper
Ward
Ea Criminal Court
Sar
Linehouse
Sturges Bourne
Messrs
Hector
Sagament For
Tne Ev
Det
Warneford
Gloucester
Broadclst
Storks
Ee Bank of Messrs. Hopkins and Co
Arundel
Canterbury Bank
Halford and Co
Alristts
Hosnouss
White Hart
Gunning
Rade
Batchelor
Dowding
Bath
City
Watt
St. Martin’s-le-Grand
Spitalfields Weavers
Burdett Coutts
Yialfields Weavers
Strand
Revory
House of Commons
Evans
Shrewsbury
St. Chad
Bruce Meole
Bruce
Mt Wonkie
Morning Advertiser
Ytextal Society
The
Colonial Society
Colonial Society Club
St James's Street
Wonfer
Duke Buccleuch
Roxburghshire
Lothian
Great Britain
County of
York
Earl of Arewood
A. R. Cockerell
French Institute
Pemberton
Maule
Treasury
Old Bailey
Kapallu
Beaumont Smith
Jenning Chronicle
Hackney Councu
Lushington
Drata
Sir Henny Freevixc
Sir Henry Freeling, Bart
Henry
Christian Carstadt
London
Hoes Lang
Moorpark
Surrey
General Post Office
Francis Wweling
T. Wakley
Ictoria Tavern
Chester-place
Hyde-park-square
St George Henry Freeling
Anne Beresford
Harcourt-street
Waterford
Dublin
Frederick Pollock
Samuel Long
William Swann
M. Manners Sutton
House Commons
Cambridge Advertiser
Jennny Wood
Colonel Wood
Natchez
Mametlea
England
United Kingdom
Bank of England
Wales
Traand
Bank of Ireland
Ie Weland
Victoria
Scotland
Sve
Ireland
The Wooden Leg divertissement at Covent Garden Theatre
A lively five minute comic piece titled The Wooden Leg entertains between the comedy and farce at Covent Garden, featuring a sailor’s tricked trial of his mistress’s constancy and a lively dance showcase by the Marshalls Gilbert Ballin and a corps de ballet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covant Garden Theatre
Scotland
Tamper
Covent Garden Theatre
Surrey Theatre
M. F. Pyet
T. J. Haines
John Bull
Shakspeare
Coriolanus
Olympic Theatre
Collins
Power
Mr. Collins
Zeddy the Tiler
National Baths
Westminster Road
Batty
Ireland
Astley
RepuiLpine
Covent-garden
Mercadante
Elena da Feltre
Norma
Lumley
Her Majesty’s Theatre
Milan
Signor Puzzi
Emigration and colonisation scheme for free passage theory
The author argues emigration is a component of colonisation that can be costless to the mother country if funded by colonial land sales. He outlines six conditions for a fair trial: proper land price, dedicated immigration proceeds, sound sale methods, ample surveys, uniform application, and secure funding through loans. He critiques auction versus uniform pricing and calls for parliamentary action to fix a plan and allocate funds for paid passages to laboring migrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Canada
United States
Australia
South Australia
Howick
Lord Howick
Secretary of
Secretary of State
Colonial Office
Tower Fire Inquiry Report Details Faulty Watch and Fire Risk
The board of ordnance reports the Bowyer tower fire likely began in the Bowyer tower area with unclear origin between the Round Table room, View room, or back staircase. It blames defective watch, unsafe workshop coupling to the armoury, and calls for better arson prevention, water supply, and upgraded iron mains for future safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Ordnance
Bowyer-tower
Board of Ordnance
Peel
Tower
Arnott
Bell
Bowyer Tower
Round Table
View-room
Gollings
Morris
Edwards
Knott
Nash
Lock
White-tower
John Lock
Smart
Royal Artillery
London Waterworks
J. Peer
the Ordnance
TL. A. Hart
Royal Engineers
A. Macbean
A. Ponnett
New Professors of Mesmerism and Somnambulism Deemed Real
A Manchester physician James Braid demonstrated that sleep can be induced without touch by fatigue of the eye muscles and sustained gaze. He linked the effects to physiological processes, arguing no animal magnetism involved. A separate City hall display by W H Halse tried similar mesmerism methods with mixed results and public skepticism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Braid
Manchester
Monsieur Lafontain
Atheneum
Manchester Athenæum
Braid
Monsieur Lafontaine
Chancery-lane
W. H. Halse
Lafontaine
Gold
Mr. Gold
Derby favourites and horse racing odds at Tattersall's
Sporting Intelligence reviews Derby favourites Lord of Holderness and Ballinkeele amid tight betting at Tattersall's with Passion the Oaks favourite at 7 to 1 and other odds listed. Also covers the North Star versus Brian two mile race, hare on Croydon railway, and foxhound activities with notable attendees and a fatal inquest into a six year old's death by accidental ignition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Rutland
Mr. Thornhill
Eusebia
Col. Peel
Chatham
G. Clark
Lord of
Osborne
Thomas
Bird
Dr. Allen
Barker
Sadler
North Star
Brian
Lim
Shilloth-bay
Carlisle
Roya
Earl of Home
Lothian
Earl of Elgin
Caledonian Hunt
Edinburgh Courant
Croypon
Croydon
Spa Road
Bermondsey
Charles Gardener
Redcross-street
Southwark
Rotherhithe
Greenwich and Croydon
Flockton
Turpentine Works
Penge-common
Sydenham
Staunton Wyville
Langton
Slawson
Gleason-wood
Heythorpe
Tusby
Holleston
Skeffington-highfield
Skeffington-wood
Laddington Reddish
Cardigan
Gardiner
de Burgh
Greene
Lord Gardner
Leicestershire
Duke of Montrose
Selby-hall
Northamptonshire
Melton
Lord Forrester
Alarmed Fire at Grosvenor Square Mansion
A blaze swept the drawing-room and structural timbers of George Henderson at No 55 Green Street Grosvenor Square on Monday night. Firemen battled the flames from 8 to 9 pm, discovering a large beam ignited from the adjacent No 56 kitchen, and extensive damage followed despite extensive brick removal and firefighting efforts. A separate court martial at Chatham barracks adjourned over the trial of John McGuin for pistol misconduct in Dover, with witnesses summoned and the accused declining defence, noting two years service and good character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green-Street
Grosvenor-Square
George Henderson
Grosvenor Square
Count-Manriat
Chatham Barracks
John M‘guin
16Th Regiment of Foot
Halifax
Lockett
Smily
Carley
2D Foot
O'Connell
Meredith
Robinson
Bond
Beaty
Johnson
Loftus
Lowrie
63Rd
Weare
K.H.P.E
Pipon
K.H
Dover
William Kain
Cannon
Mejor Pipon
J Hill
Royal clemency granted to well behaved convicts
Her Majesty announces royal clemency on the birth of a royal prince. Convicts who behaved well shall have their punishment remitted and those deemed deserving now on hulks at Deptford Woolwich Sheerness Plymouth Pembroke Cork and other prisons shall be granted liberty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Graham
Home Department
Deptford
Woolwich
Sheerness
Par
Piouth
Pembroke
Cork
Reading Gaol prisoner Cavanagh's gruel fraud examined
A surgeon at Reading gaol reports on Bernard Cavanagh's alleged use of water and altered gruel to feign abstinence. The physician notes the prisoner lacks any real control of excretory functions and deems him an impostor, whose defiance of hunger reveals his deception. Also noted is a Wakefield shipboard dispute over a deserter woman ending in a staged stand-up fight ashore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cavanagh
Bernard Cavanagh
Leeds Intelligencer
Lord Langdale
Court of Chancery
Victoria
Eaid Court
SY. Amer
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Yul
Phali
Astler Ealing
Ginal
Mather
Rill
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E. G. Wakefield
Sporting Intelligence
Dezain
Wakley
Lisson-street
Lisson-grove
Emma Boltwood
Mitcham-street
Newroad