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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 15, 1851
Page
6
A brisk Irish salon debate centers on salmon fisheries and private ownership. The Ballyshannon Bard and locals discuss nitric law versus public good, noting how strict protections clash with drastic fishing methods. They warn that evading law harms markets, river ecology, and social fairness across classes.
The article condemns the author’s views on governing Ireland, hints at despotism and brutal measures, and mocks the narrator’s reliance on Paddy Gallaghans and Johnny AM Gowans. It then endorses buying the book for readers unfamiliar with Erne-bound fishing, promising reflection and amusement for a broad audience.
A London Chronicle reviews Ty F W N Bayley’s The New Tale of a Tub and related works. The piece mocks the series as heavy comedy with overtly didactic aims, listing bawdy jokes and doggerel that supposedly hype juvenile readers. The reviewer condemns the poems as undignified and questions the books' educational value for Young England.
A satirical verse sequence lampoons Protectionist policy and the Corn Laws, praising Free Trade. It mocks Lord Stanley, Disraeli, and Peel while invoking agricultural progress and modern science as remedies for the farming class.
An article analyzes the Circle as a social form among the superior classes. It defines August Illustrious Distinguished and Select Circles with centres of royalty, dukes, great statesmen, or fashionable elites, and explains radii composition and distances. It contrasts Circles with terms like eeta and lots and references Court Circular andQuadrature attempts.
A bill in Parliament proposed by Mr Mowatt would create a public water supply under a ratepayer elected board. The metropolis would be divided into 18 districts with 72 commissioners, a paid executive committee, and powers to purchase existing water works, set rates, and ensure universal, high pressure supply for domestic, public, and ornamental use.
The document outlines a Construction Rate of 2d to 3d in the pound, payable by landlords but charged to occupiers, with options for perpetuity or thirty-year terms. It describes funding through government securities, divisions between public and private needs, and appeals to Quarter Sessions, plus provisions for appointing capital commissioners and rate recovery.
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