The Ballot Question in Reform Debate and Lords’ Stage Notes
Lord John Russell and colleagues sparred over the ballot and franchise expansion with MPs arguing for and against while referencing foreign uses of secret ballots. The House of Lords and Commons debated Mines and Collieries, Ireland drainage, and bond ed corn. The session closed with a verdict in Macready versus the Dispatch on libel.
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Mr. Ponsonby
Rome
France
America
Venice
Mr. Waxxey
Lord Wemstey
Warp
John Russell
Macready
Harmer
Dispatch
Common Pleas
Tindal
Middlesex
Gray
Platt
Drury-lane Theatre
Demagen
Drury Lane
Covent-garden
Mr. Macready
Bruin
Alderman Harmer
John Williams
Free List
Serjeant Wilde
Haymarket
Drury
T. Wilde
T. Wilde Said He Thought Mr. Macready
Fbe
Criise
Dumages
House of Commons
Weekly Chronicle
Her Majesty's
England
Ireland
Scotland
Ward
James Graham
Lord Palmerston
Robert Peel
Mr. Labouchere
Mr. Gladstone
Lord Stanley
Lord Howick
Charles Woods
Howarde
Cavendishes
Ponsonby
Poole
Lord Borington
Robert Grosvenor
Liberal Party
Geree
Richard Vivian
R. Vivien
Lord Stair
Duke of Leeds
Harcourt
Thomas Fremantle
Christie
Weymeth
Bernal
F. Berkeley
Monkton Milnes
Sheil
Lord Grey
Lord Durham
Lord Duncannon
Sir James Graham
Lord John Russell
Murphy
Cork
Byng
Grinsay
Sydney Smith
Fire at Mrs Darby's fireworks shop in Lambeth
About 4 15 PM on Wednesday a fire broke out at Mrs Darby artist in fireworks 98 Regent street Lambeth walk. Waterloo road and West of England engines arrived quickly and firefighters with police extinguished the blaze. The origin room and its contents were destroyed though the building was detached. Cause given as overheating of coloured matter used in fireworks. The stock and building were uninsured.
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Darby
Regent-street
Lambeth-walk
Waterloo-road
West of England
Reversionary interests and legal notices debated in 1842
A compendium of legal opinions discusses disposal of reversionary interests, tenancy notices, and creditor rights. It notes procedures for enrolled benefit societies, lodger notices, executor duties, and public notices, with references to classical cases and parliamentary debates on the Ballot and Reform era.
Time of Sunrise and Sunset in Great Britain and Ireland
Instructions for computing sunrise and sunset times by latitude with adjustments per degree, plus methods to derive high water times at major ports. Lists specific time corrections for Bristol Orkney Falmouth Hull Milford Haven Brighton Cowes Dover Dublin Holyhead Liverpool Port Glasgow Southampton and notes these towns govern many smaller harbours.
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Great Britain and Ireland
London
Bristol
Ork
Cove
Falmouth
Hull
Milford Haven
Brighton
Cowes
Dover
Dublin
Holyhead
Liverpool
Port Glasgow
Southampton
Debate on Ballot Reform Exposes Systemic Corruption
A historic discussion decries ballot abuse and insists reform is needed as leaders like Ward and Henry Berkeley reveal fraud, tyranny, and hypocrisy in the current voting method. The rhetoric likens injustice to a worn ballot finally worn smooth by persistent truth. The Bristol canvass sheet illustrates the manipulation.
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Ward
Henry Berkeley
Bristol
Lords Ashley Bill Passes Commons Harmony Celebrated in Consensus
The Lords Ashley Bill clears Committee and passes in the House of Commons without a division. The main clause bars all females from underground work in mines, deemed a national reform. The piece credits Ashley for concessions on related points and argues deeper social causes behind ignorance and immorality, urging broader changes beyond piecemeal limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Ashles
House of Commons
Lord Ashley
George Clerke
Scotland
Prussia
Labour Bills and Child Labour in Coal Pits Debate
The article critiques annual labour increases on families and argues against relaxing child work rules in coal pits. It notes nine year olds may remain employed until a younger child is admitted, and exposes distress across districts if compulsory idleness follows. It also questions 12 to 13 year old wages and apprenticeship mandates, urging fair wages and proper training.
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Lord Ashley
Scott
Walsall
Staffordshire
Arrival of the British Queen from New York at Cowes
The British Queen arrived from New York after a fifteen day voyage. The voyage included ice and icebergs with a noted fall in temperature. Passengers praised Captain Keane for handling the ice hazards. Reports on American finances and tariffs are mixed with notes on U S and English exchanges and a broad tariff bill under discussion in Washington.
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Cowes
New York
Ashhi
Sion
United States
England
America
Lord John Hay
Lord Ashburton
Great Western
Atlantic
Keane
Lancaster
Messrs Horsley Palmer
Ricardo
Paris
Amsterdam
Hamburg
Bremen
National Intelligencer
Committee of Ways and Means
House of Representatives
Bohea
Congress
West Indies
Pounce
P. R
St. Martinsville
Louisiana
South America
Mexico
Madeira
Statistical Society
Statistical Society of London
St. Martin's Place
Marquis of Lansdowne
Royal
Prince Alert
Marquis of
Exeter
Edward Bowater
Fletcher
Westropp
St. Pancras
Camden-town
Carter
Duke of Gloucester
Union-row
Walworth
Thomas Wrenn
James Miller
Weymouth-street
Kent-road
Coulthred
Shell
Clyster
Frang
Shelton
LDC
Thomas Wilkinson
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House OF Lords
Whonesday
Australia Waste Lands
Metropolitan Wooden Pavement Company
Ferrybridge and Boroughbridge Road
Charterhouse
Kilmington
Earl of Shaftesbury
Lord Wharncliffe
Earl of Snarresster
Commons
West Riding of Yorkshire
Messrs
Sharman Crawford
Hume
Ferrand
Dennistoun
Lascelles
Aldam
Thornley
Protheroe, &c
Billy
Robert Scotr
South Staffordshire
Warp and
Laxaten
Lord Ashl&y
Sudbury
Bell
Bungestone
Rivers
Perth
Lord Covarenar
Denbtas
Oelock
Earl of Siarraspury
Sreaneer
Leeds
W. Ps Ten
Giapstone
Belfast
O'Connell
Cend
Peer
Saaw
Protheroe
O'Gonneell
H.J. Baring
Sir Alexander Barnes
Sir Alexander Barnes With the Governor-General of India
Cabul
Governor-General of India
Board of Control
The
East India Company
India
D'Isxaer
Indus
Affghanistan
Taro
Alfphanistan
Russia
Nan
Herat
Afghanistan
Possessiona
Syria
Constantinople
Yas Pas
Asia
Hophouse
Duke of Wellington
Persia
Indian
Central Asia
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Count Nesselrode
A. Barnes
Lord Auckland
Tigris
Euihrates
Europe
Lo Auckland
Lord Jocelyn
Ler
Center Asia
Hoce
R. Peel
Mr. D'Israeli
Lord Joan Russet
Baronet
Bariire
W. Grapstone
Huffell
Linle
J. Sly—Fou
Tauntonian
A. B
L. M
Waterloo Bridge
Darnell
Informa Pauperis
Clericus
R. H
Gruie
Benefit Club
Saxony
Legh
E.N.M
Meteo
Ephem
Ruyton
Cache
Wigan
Metes
Higham Ferrers
St. Peter's
Frankfort-on-the-Oder
Tuuesday
Greenwich Hospital
Bridgenorth
Sidney Smith
Sir Robert Peet
Sir Robert
Tamworth
House of Parliament
Huligh
Mermot
Robert
Pitt-street
Dundas-equare
Liverpool Lane
Bellona Frigida
Maresine
Board of Trade
Sir Frederick Smith
Coconel Pasley
W. F
Case
Glascow
Miller
Glasgow
Alexander
J. H. Alexander
Theatre-royal
Bridewell
Shylock
the Weekly Chronicle
Loxnon
Ballof
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