Drowning Toryism catches at a straw in Glasgow rant
A sharp critique of Sir Robert Peel's Glasgow speech condemns it as poor and evasive. The piece accuses the Tory aristocracy of hypocrisy and defends democracy, reform, and broader male suffrage while urging repeal of taxes on knowledge and expansion of representation.
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Glasgow
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London
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Times
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Post
Herald
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M. P
Garland
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William
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Parsons
Ireland
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House of Commons
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Ife
Jenny
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Senate
United States
America
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Redcer
France
de Toqueville
Jefferson
England
Sir Robert Peel
Molesworth Urges National Education at Grand Reform Dinner
Sir William Molesworth addresses the Birmingham Reform Dinner urging a government to elevate all social classes through education. He argues the masses gain power while ignorance fades, praising industrious classes and warning Conservative fear of educating the people. He calls for a robust national education system and broad diffusion of knowledge, criticizing Chancellor of the...
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Sir William Molesworth
Birmingham
William Molesworth
Financial distress erupts in City bank Esdaile and Co crisis
The Esdaile and Co bank on Lombard Street faced a run and sought Bank of England aid to continue. About 400,000 pounds were advanced to stabilize payments, with assets secured by other private banks. The firm plans to wind up, with accounts moved to Glynn and others. Markets show rising securities, rockier money rates, and scattered country stoppages while British and Continental bonds fluctuate amid broader banking stress. A horse race at the White Hart ends with a mare first and a six minute two second time, the winner later sold for seven pounds to a sporting host.
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Lombardstreet
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Thomas
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North Road
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Nathaniel Bamford
Bell Bar
Charley
White Hart
Clapton
Herts County Press
Cinderella and The Country Squire At Covent Garden
A theatrical review laments influenza dampening stages then praises Mrs. Almond and Giubilei in Cinderella with mixed notes on Wilson and Seguin. It shifts to Covent Garden's The Country Squire, lauding Farren's Broadlands and the suitor plots, then praises Queen's Theatre Hunchback cast led by Miss Clifford while urging better modern works.
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Cinderella
Almond
Miss Romer
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Wilson
Harris
Covent Garden
Braham
Leffler
Harley
Macintosh
Barnett
Balfe
Chas. Dance
Farren
Broadlands
Deaths and injuries after frost in London hospitals
The report lists admissions to Guy's, St Thomas's, London, and other hospitals after a frost, totaling 195 patients. Females numbered 63 with skull fractures and brain concussions common. most injuries affected limbs. Seven deaths occurred and 93 cases were due to intoxication. An unrelated Dorset note reports a rich spinster's unusual bequest to five single nieces with a marriage condition.
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St.Thomas’s
London
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Charingcross
Westminster
St. George’s
St. Bartholomew's
Weymouth
Dorset
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