Exclusion of foreign females from China and other notes
A column mixes social commentary on foreigners in China with reflections on the Methodists and political satire. It recounts a Paris fat market scandal, a Grenadier at Eylau, and verse demolitions while touching on Napoleonic era imagery and royal praise for Victoria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Sir Walter Scot
Paris
Napoleon
Maria Louisa
Faculty of Medicine
Luxembourg
Falstaff
House of Commons
Victoria
Nickleby in a dressmaker's show saloon and a public beating
Nicholas Nickleby visits Madame Mantalini with his niece Kate to arrange work for Kate. The scene reveals the prying, opulent dressmaking room, the bubbly rogue Mantalini, and tension between Ralph Nickleby and his ward. A separate scene shows Squeers flogging Smike at Dotheboys Hall, Nicholas intervening and assaulting Squeers to defend the boy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Wickleby
Nicholas
Dotheboys Hall
Madame Mantalini
Ralph
Ralph Nickleby
Demmit
Nickleby
Kate Nickleby
Miss Nickleby
Madame Mantalina
Montalini
Mr. Mantalina
Mr. Nickleby
Madame Man
Madame
Mantalini
Kate
Mr. Mantalini
Yorkshire
Smike
Squeers
Mrs. Squeers
Mrs Squeers
Nicholas Nickleby
Master Squeers
Greta Bridge
Fraser's
Yellowplush
Edinburgh Review
Lord Brougham
Press
George IV
Ensign O’donoghue
Belgium
Peter Plymley
Sydney Smith
John Russell
Spain
Glenelg
Spring Rice
Viscount Melbourne
Lord John
Lord John Russell
Church of England
England
St. Peter’s
Alfred de Rosaun
Pickwick
Jack Ryder
Vera Cruz
the Cat
Celburn
Waited Service Journal
North American
Hl. M.S
Sir John
Jupiter
Venus
Powell
Population Growth Estimates by Mr Poulet Scrope
Mr Poulet Scrope calculates the average population increase of these kingdoms at a thousand people per day, citing ongoing growth across the realm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene
Poulet Scrope
Arrival and Landing of the Earl of Durham at Quebec
The Hastings brought His Excellency the Earl of Durham governor-general and his suite to Quebec. A grand reception followed at the Queen's Wharf with guards, marches, oaths taken, and a proclamation. The event drew 1600 English troops, naval ships, and a regal pageant, amid a display of military pomp and civic ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec Mercury
Point Levy
Hastings
Earl of Durham
North America
Queen’s Wharf
71St Light Infantry
Grand Battery
Castle of St. Louis
Gulnare
J. Colborne
James Macdonald
Executive Council
Bath
Place d’Armes
Quebec
John Colborne
Messrs. Debartzch
Quesnel
Montreal
Countess of Durham
Schleup’s
England
Lord Durham
Atlantic
Durham
John George
Viscount Lambton
British North America
British America
Castle of
St. Louis
Lower Canada
Charles Butter
Great Britain and Ireland
Thomas Edward Mitchell Turton
G. Couper
K.H
High Commission
G. P. Bushe
A. Buller
E. P. Bouverie
F. Villiers
Coldstream Guards
S. Conroy
W. H. F. Cavendish
Her Majesty
52D Regiment Light Infantry
Cornet
C. A. Dillon
Her
78Th Dragoon Guards
Ponsonby
Royal Fusileer Regiment
E. Ellice, Jun
Chateau St. Louis
Aide-De Camp
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Eylau
Caulincourt
Lute
Vicenza
Byron
Sir Walter Scott
Lord Byron
Edward Lytton Bulwer
Mr. Grote
Hume
M.P
the Earl of Durham
Lam
Governor General
Charles Buller
Sabre St. Gery
Beaumont and Conserle
France
Duke de Nemours
Luneville
Moniteur
M. Fleichmann
Wurtemberg
Courrier Francais
Smyrna
Caramania
Mehemet Alli
Porte
Portucal
M. Julio da Silva Sanches
Porte-Feuille
Cape de Verd Islands
Porto Praya
St. Jago
St. Vincent
Mindello
Portugal
House of Braganza
Lisbon
Westminster Abbey
Poet’s Corner
Great Western
St. Edward
Lams Beru
Union Hall
Hubbard
Eliza Grimwood
Strand Theatre
Grimwood
Wellington Terrace
London
Duke OF Yorke
Duke of York
Lord Melbourne
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