AN HISTORICAL SEAL AND other curiosities
A fragment notes the discovery of a historic seal showing Mary Queen of Scots and the Duke of Norfolk, offered for £2,000 as a relic of national importance. The clipping also surveys anecdotes on Saxon ladies, La Fontaine, and Lord Brougham, with miscellaneous items on portable boats and domestic life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Queen of Scots
Duke of Norfolk
Germany
Dresden
Theokla
Wallenstein
Verona and Travel Memoirs in Tales of Europe Review
A critical note on Chateaubriand's Verona memoirs and a long tour narrative by G Robinson through Palestine Syria and Asia Minor. Excerpts praise restoration era politics and of Acre siege vivid ruin and historical portraits. Also mentions Damaskian works and Shakespeare edition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verona
M. de Chateaubriand
Bentley
Europe
France
Viscount Chateaubriand
Russia
England
Alexander
Esthenia
Livonia
Courland
Palestine
Syria
G. Robinson
Colburn
Smyrna
Egypt
Nile
Mediterranean
Damietta
Jaffa
Jordan
Aleppo
Asia Minor
Constantinople
Adrianople
Salonica
Thessaly
Athens
Ancona
Acre
Sidney Smith
Abdallah Pacha
Jezza
Kiahia Bey
Abdallah
Seraglio
Ibrahim
Gaza
Jerusalem
Hogg
Damascus
Costing of the Tap Tunnel Municipal Undertaking
Mr Walker reports to the Treasury details of the costly Tap Tunnel project. Public money expended totals £83,900 by Nov 2 with only nineteen feet six inches of work done in that span. Estimated completion costs rise to £614,000 including shafts and contingencies. original estimate vastly exceeded. A parallel wager about performances at Paris London Brussels Opera draws readers’ attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Select Committee
House of Commons
Brussels
Paris
Fielden letter warns Todmorden guardians on new poor law
John Fielden writes to the Todmorden Union board stating that the new Poor Law will begin on July 6 and urging guardians to resign if they carry out the act against the will of local ratepayers. He cites wage declines, threats of workhouse discipline, and vows to close works to avoid enforcing the law, urging collective action by his brothers and himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilberforce
LA Fontaine
Colasse
Astree
M. de la Fontaine
Hogarth
Lord Brougham
House OF Commons
House of Lords
Loch Foyle
Choo Sing Lang
British and Foreign School Society
Todmorden
Walsden
Todmorden Union
Langfield
Poor-Law Commissioners
Boards of Guardians
Rawson
Leicester
Gulston
Hall
Somerset-house
London
Joun Fielden
Board of Guardians
The
Treatment of the Poor in the New Poor-Law Worxnovses
Extract from the London Fever Hospital report notes record high admissions and deaths, with 218 total deaths and 79 surviving a week. Deaths largely from workhouse cases. five of February’s twenty deaths were workhouse patients, all but one dying within days of arrival. The Windsor Great Western Railway feature notes Windsor tradesmen’ s quick London trips, with a 12 mile journey completed in five minutes at 144 mph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Great Western Railway
Windsor
North Star
Southall
Slough
Reading Mercury
DREADFUL STEAMBOAT CATASTROPHE KILLS MANY
Report from New York papers details the Pulaski disaster off the North Carolina coast. About 150 passengers and crew perished after a boiler exploded, with only a few survivors rescued by nearby vessels and later by the Henry Camerdon. The Washington fire on Lake Erie also claimed many lives and damaged the new vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pulaski
Charlestown
Baltimore
North Carolina
Herbert
New York Inquirer
Wm. Robertson
Savannah
Dubois
Pearson
Mr. Lamar
Henry Camerdon
Davis
Noah Smith
Rebecca Lamar
Charles Lamar
Joseph Auze
Judge Rochester
Buffalo
Baltimore American
Major Heath
Weart
Norfolk
Burrato
Washington
Brown
Silver Creek
North America
Edmonds
Lake Erie
Buffalo Journal
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cook
R.A
Addiscombe
India
Charles
Portsmouth
Devonshire
Frances Jennings
Pepys
Evelyn
Lady Byron
Mr. Evelyn
Lavaliere
Lord Arlington
Clarendon
William Anderson
Smith, Elder and Co
Anderson
Shakespeare
Orr and Co
Chalmers
Simpkin
Marshall
Younc
Whitehead
Fielden
American Intelligence
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