London and the Corn Laws closing address recaps
The piece argues London must lead the Anti Corn Law movement, condemning monopolies and praising free trade. It warns that missteps risk ruin for workers, farmers, and merchants, urging a united metropolitan push to repeal the Corn Laws before Parliament convenes. It notes potential support from Peel's government and calls for organized public action across London and major cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Anti Corn Law League
United States
the Quarterly Review
West End
Petersburg
Dantzig
Hamburg
Amsterdam
France
Calais
Toulon
Oporto
Lisbon
Cadiz
Genoa
Trieste
Odessa
England
Marylebone
Wiltshire
Buckinghamshire
Con- Wetton
Anne
Metropolis
Common Council
Thich Ores
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Lancashire
Cheshire
West Riding
Midland
Horsley Palmer
Raikes Currie
John Abel Smith
Jones Lloyd
Masterman
Grote
Lord Ashburton
Baring
Metropolitan
Robert Peel
Quarterly Review
Robert Perl
Anti-Corn-Law League
Catholic Association
League
Tamworth
Prorogation ceremony marks renewed Parliament session
The House of Lords reassembled after prorogation and read Queen's commission to prorogue until February. Lords commissioners, robed, prorogued Parliament to the 2d of February next amid ceremonial display with royal spectators and officials present. In Portsmouth port, Archduke of Austria arrives by special train and plans visits, dining aboard Bellone before departure. Meanwhile park-keepers ordered to bar grooms from royal rides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Lords
Earl of Haddington
Lord Fitzgerald
Lords
Pulman
Commons
Hindley
M.V
W. Lee
H. S. Smith
Lords and Commons
Prince of Wales
Royal Gallery
Counsel
Portsmouth
Imperial
Archduke of Austria
London
Gosport
Bellone
Archduke
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Pavazza
Bellune
Edward Codrington
H. Parker
Earl of Lincoln
Her Majesty
Murderous attack and self inflicted wounds at tavern
At a Throgmorton Street tavern a 21 year old potman, William Cannell, shot barmaid Elizabeth Magnus, then attempted suicide with a razor. Magnus was wounded badly in the side and may not recover while Cannell, wounded, is under guard at St Thomas's Hospital and expected to be examined before the lord mayor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Magnus
Auction Mart
Throgmorton-street
William Cannell
Chapman
Cannell
Bishopsgate-street
St. Thomas's Hospital
Baker
Mr. Baker
Magnus
Canne
St. Thomas's
Bishopsgate Street
Harvey
St. Tomas’s Hospital
Inquest Finds Wilful Murder By Rees In Monmouthshire
The inquest resumed this morning returned a verdict of Wilful murder against William Rees and he was sent to Monmouth gaol to await trial at the next assizes. Rees, 26, waved his bat and cheered as the coach departed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherstow
William Rees
Monmouth
Liverpool Mail
St. Arvans
Rees
Monmouthshire
Merline
John Hunt
Waterbeach Fen
Cambridge
Prichard
Cottenham
Hunt
Newton
Waterbeach
Cambridge Independent Press
Sixmile Bottom
Cambridgeshire
York Hotel
Waterloo-road
Lambeth
Wm. Carter
Surrey
Louisa Caroline Smith
Waterloo Bridge
Westminster Bridge
Orricen
Metropolitan Police
Edward Haycock
Albanyheath
Guildford
Deadly blaze in Little Prescott street costs eight lives
A late night fire at a four story dwelling in Little Prescott street Goodman's fields near the Blackwall railway. From the 25 occupants of the building, two Dutch drop makers and Julia and Nancy Holland perished after leaping from windows. Firemen and constables battled the flames for hours, recovering seven more bodies, with nine lives lost in total and several injured as the structure burned nearly to the ground. The death toll rose as police and fire crews searched the ruins through the night and into Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minories
Goodman's
Prescott-street
Goodman’s Yard
Blackwall
Cook
Goodman’s Fields
Shackleton
Thomas Rutlege
H Division
London Hospital
Julia Holland
Nancy Holland
Pearse
Norman
Jeffery-square
Wellclose-square
Watling-street
Braidwood
Proudfoot
Carter
Mr. Braidwood
Julia
Moss
Holland
Summers
Paris
Barcelona
Presse
England
Toulouse
Montjuich
Barcelonetta
Ds Débats
Espartero
Lyons
Débats
National
Court of Cassation
van Halen
Spain
Star-Chamber
Dupotet
Persis
Gutierriez
Barcelonese
Pyrenees
France
Journal du Havre
M. Thiers
Gauche
M. de Tocqueville
M. Odillon Barrot
Ivry
Paris Tribunal
Versailles
M. Rothschild
Plombiéres
The
Universe
Nice
Curé
Vicaire
London and Birmingham Railway Adds Van Between Carriages
The London and Birmingham Railway company, following the jury's recommendation on the Mrs. Bye case, has placed a luggage van between the tender and the first passenger carriage on their trains to reduce fatal outcomes in future accidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London and Birmingham Railway Company
Appalling Fire Tragedy at Middlesex Inn in Tap Room
Coroner Mr. Baker presides over a distraught inquest at the Royal Standard over the blaze in a Middlesex inn. Victims include Ann Holland and her family, Proudfoot and Summers children, with rescuers and witnesses recounting flames, phials of Dutch drops, and brave heroism as the search for Summers continues. The inquiry adjourned to Friday as identification and further details remain unresolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
Middlesex
Royal Standard
Ann Holland
Julia Holland
Sarah Holland
Ellen Holland
Charlotte Elizabeth Proudfoot
Arthur Proudfoot
John Summers
Summers
Roger Shackleton
Younger
Pounee
Proudfoot
Prescott Street
William
George
Ann Shackleton
Holland
Cooke
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Hord
Aly
Neral
Pice Ft Dus Gbaine
RSS History and Politics
Weekly Chronicle
Lord Nelson
Bolton Moor
Ann Heywood
Robert Taylor
Manchester
Bolton
Hiram Holden
Mary Davenport
Workhouse Hospital
Elizabeth Macdonald
Mary
Molly
John Morris
Martha Mangnall
Morris
Foreign Intelligence
Madrid
Casa de Amortization
Catalonia
Esplugas
Rodil
Nacionales
Atarazanas
Arragonese
Gerona
M. Campos Y Avino
Munileur Parisien
Feanch
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