Emancipation Views Spark Mixed Reactions in Letter
A long letter discusses Jewish civil and political emancipation, praising broader suffrage while labeling some opponents as biased. The writer mocks religious hostility at Oxford and criticizes authorities, ending with a note about distributing the Comic Album and seeking a local agent for the paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iscatritk
Perditus
Favent
Cpcereus
Regus
Oxford
Hamppen
Oe C. A
Fielborn Hill
Oxford Street
At&t
Corppine Norton
Roy
Fragmented letter excerpts reveal Victorian era debates and notices
The text presents a collage of reader correspondence and notices from a Victorian weekly. It includes critiques of railway projects, commentary on society and law, appeals about education and language, notices about benevolent institutions, and local business announcements. It reflects a period voice with varied topics and multiple named individuals and places.
Weekly Chronicle seeks country agents for agency network
Six gentlemen are appointed to visit towns to form agencies for the country and call on news agents to arrange measures. The proprietors announce large expenditure on new Caslon type fonts to enhance typography and content, with fonts ready in a few weeks. Applications for agencies should be sent to the Publisher at 16 Catherine Street, Strand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Figaro
London
Charles Kemble
W. Strange
Paternoster-rew
England
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Aondon Mercury
London Mercury
London Mercury Remembrancer
Catherine-street
Strand
Shert
Brydges-street
Covent-garden
J. Labern
J. Twinine
CuEsxEy’s Assembly Roods
Feley-street
Portland-place
Buckingham
Vauxhall-gardens
J. H. Jewell
Charles Sloman
Ludford
Hern von Jael
E. Nelson
W. Willams
Fitzgerald
Green
Janson
Windsor
Broad’s
Tavistock-street
Weekly Chronicle
Tba
Artan
Tetine Oy
Messrs. Caslon and Co
Anti Corn Law Critics Grow Weary Ahead of Parliament
London readers note increasing unease among Corn Law advocates as Parliament nears. They denounce the policy as theft from the poor, claim landlords and officials plunder the nation, and question any industry benefit. The London Anti-Corn Law Association now lists eighty names, with MPs among them, and calls for action before Parliament meets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Anti-Corn Law Association
Molesworth Answers Leeds Interrogatories on Press Freedom
Sir William Molesworth defends democratic principles in his Leeds interrogatories response. The piece argues the ballot is not the sole battle, insisting the central fight is the Freedom of the Press. It urges arming the press for public use as a check on aristocratic control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Molesworth
Leeds
Oldham
Freedom of the Press drives reform in radical circles
The piece argues that the press freedom is the central national issue, with the Ballot secondary and the abolition of Stamp Duty on Newspapers urged. It notes debates among Radicals and Whigs, praises Joseph Hume, and cites O Connell and O'Malley figures, urging policy shifts and protests by Irish Poor Laws opponents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Radical Party
Church-rates Attack Prompts Cross-Sectional Reform Debate
Parliament, municipal officers, Presbyterians, Quakers, and even Churchmen join in opposing church-rates described as an abomination. Public opinion across the country pushes the Tory Church toward reform as voices of common sense grow louder against the levy.
English Ministers urged Ireland bills and a big English measure
Mr. Sheil states in a National Association speech that Irish Municipal and Church bills must be moved soon after Parliament opens and that Lords likely reject them. He cautions ministers to present a major English measure to regain public trust after being deceived by Whigs and O'Connell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheil
O’connell
National Association
Ireland
France's Defeat at Constantina Sparks Angry Outcry
The French court, press, and people denounce Marshal Clausel's expedition as a wasteful loss. Fatigue, rain, mud, snow, famine, and blunders mar the campaign, while France endures home struggles yet pursues a far distant colony to exercise its military spirit at the cost of blood and lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshal Clausel
Constantina
France
Africa
Death of Unidentified Man Found Drowned in Thames
An inquest at Falcon public-house, Upper Thames-street, before coroner Mr. Payne found the man unknown, found drowned near the Steel-yard wharf. Witnesses described clothing, a tobacco box, and possible fall from a barge or stairs. The verdict was drowned, with a plan to circulate a description across London to locate the owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falcon
Upper Thames-street
Payne
City of London
River Thames
William Freud
Sam
James. Browne
James-street
John Good
Sin
Bone House
Scotland-yard
City Intelligence on Mails Delays and Market Fluctuations
Disrupted continental mails slow commerce in the city, hurting minor merchants as bills may go unpaid. Markets are dull with Christmas holidays, yet Consols rise while Bank and Exchequer securities advance. Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch bonds show little movement amid cautious trading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Kingdom
Prem
India Bonds
Louis Philippe
Great Western
London and Birmingham
North Midland
Southampton
Greenwich
Birmingham and Derby
Birmingham and Gloucester
Manchester and
Leeds
Theatricals Pantomimes Open Seaon With Mixed Reviews
The piece surveys current pantomimes at Covent Garden Drury Lane Surrey Victoria and St James venues. It praises George Barnwell at Covent Garden and Miss Milwood Travestie while criticizing insipid subjects at Drury Lane and noting elaborate scenery at the Victoria. It highlights Robison Crusoe and Columbine as standouts and notes witty dialogue in The Parish Revolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Draymer
George Barniwell
Covent Garden
Milwood
Victoria
Richard Plantagenet
Robinson Crusoe
Mademoiselle Rosier
Columbine
St. James’s Theatre
Blechington House
Weber
Wreck of the Windsor and a plan for steam lines to England
The Windsor wrecked in the Gasper Channel with five feet water in the hold and fourteen in the hold next sounding. five missing boats saved some passengers but a servant drowned. Report notes insured cargo and ship in London. Also discusses new steam packet plans between New Orleans and England and notes merchant meetings to push transatlantic steamship construction and condenser-assisted engines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rix
Miss Blenkin
Windsor
London
New Orleans
England
America
Liverpool
Orleany
Agvet
Miscellany items from the Aberdeen era page
A wide miscellany notes royal appointments a dramatist to a post office clerkship reports on debts in a Glasgow firm and a ten foot statue of Lord William Bentinck plans for a homeopathic hospital in Bavaria and a prison conversion in the Isle of Wight. Also mentions typhus in Bradford and influenza in Aberdeen with many brief society and travel items and notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasgow Chronicle
William Bentinck
Salisbury
Foreign Department
Viscount Palmerston
Heberle
Monck Mason
Fanny Elsler
King’s Theatre
Bradford
Johanna Southcote
Sligo
Ireland
Robert Wilmot Horton
Ceylon
England
Robert Wilmot
Osmaston
Bath
Victoria Bridge Company
Dublin
Freeman’s
Denmark
Copenhagen
Hotspur
London
St. Sebastian
Prince Charles of
Oettingen
Wellerstein
Prince Charles
Eneas
Albany Barracks
Isle of Wight
Mehemet Ali
Syria
Palestine
Egypt
Glasgow
Feargus O'Connor
Peel
Reformers
Rochdale
Mr. O'Connell
Vienna
Bell Anderson
Bucharest
Berlin
Bunzlau
Greenwich
Earl
Dallets
Janes-street
Crotmon-Square
Buller
Hamburg
Nicholas
Prussia
St. Petersburg
Roseman-street
Clerkenwell
Halley
Royal
Prince Christian of
Will
Yates
Jim Crow
Hickstead
Crawley
Rice
Covent-gardens
Birmingham
W. Molesworth
Birmingham Journal
Pantechnicon
The
Meteorological Society
Lancashire
Wyre
Preston and Wyre
Manchester, Oldham
Austerland
Haslingden
Burnley
Aitte Rochdale
Mersey
Turton
Butler House Green
Goston
Manchester and Sheffield
Union
Lancaster
Preston
Bolton
Manchester
Cheshire
Staffordshire
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Fierce Egan
New Bond-street
John Ismay
Town and Country Magazine
J. Kinder
Little Dunmow
Essex
Ellen B
W. L. Gane
Old Bailey
Elenaria
M. L.B
Groras Virtus
Ivy-lane
OAK and North OF England Fire and Life Assurance Company
Kine William-Street
Hink Constants
York
Geo. Frederick Young, Esq
M.P
Wu Mean
Matthew Forster
Alex. Bannerman
Walbanke Childers
M. P
Sir James Eyre
Banker, Messrs. Coutts & Co
Koo Lumter
William Haigh
Joseph Bulkeley Johnson
Thomas Henry Kerfoot
John Norbury
John Parker
Edward Thomas Whitaker
James White
Thomas Marsh Nelson
James Jury
Farmina Stocx
Epuunnp Barrow
College of Surgeons and Apothecaries
Crew
Lamb’s Conduit Street
Morwaine
Lennon Bripax
Vstvor
St. Petersburgh
Pawlowsk
Gray
Sir Walter Scott
Lord Eldon
William Scott
Lord Stowell
Corona
Bank of England
Berrall
Reede
Finchley
Duvomfort
Pairomarugs
Bentham
G.S
Genzman Annuity Endowment Association
King Williamstreet
Londonbridge
Wispeach
Isle
Exy
Wisheach
J. Howard
Deary Lane
Middlesex
Joseph Hume
Orange Lodges
O'Connell
Lord Miltown
O'Malley
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