The Colliery System and Cruelty to Children and Women
An overview of the official 1840s inquiry into child and female labor in British coal mines. It outlines ages and conditions, the use of apprenticeships, and widespread abuses. Witnesses describe early mine entry, nakedness and exposure, brutal discipline, parent pressure, and moral injury, with regional variations across England, Scotland, and Wales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Somersetshire
Mr. Fletcher
Lancashire
Cork Election Petition and Reform Debates T
Appointment of hon members to try Cork County petition against O Connell and a select committee chair chosen for the Touck System inquiry into worker frauds in Bradford. The Sudbury borough bill proposes barring burgesses from Parliament over bribery and corrupt practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tar
Cork
General Committee
O’connell
John Guest
Dickinson
Collins
Granger
Hugh Cholmondeley
Lawson
Lord Ashley
Bradford
Yorkshire
Sudbury
Suffolk
France
Paris
Versailles
Vitacy
San de Naples
Spain
Madrid
Count de Las Navas
Prince Albert
Epsom
Claremont
Downs
Earl of Roselyn
Ascot
Duchess of Richmond
Chichester
Duke of Richmond
William, Arthur
Sussex Lennox
Earl of March
de Ros
T. Cecil
F. Berkeley
P. Maitland
L. Peel
W. Tighe
Goodwood
Duchess
Dunpas
Beechwood
Herriot's Row
Edinburgh
Reid
Robert Dundas
Marsied
David Dundas
Catherine Whyte Melville
ScotLeTt
Skipsey
A. Smollett
Robert Peel
Execrox
Flintshire
E. J. M. Mostyn
Sergeant Wrangham
Austin
Mostyn
S. R. Glynne
Lyme Regis
James Powell
Robert Farrant
D. O'Connell
E. B. Roche
Brighton
Fleming Thomas Roberts
Liverpool
Chronicle
Court of Common Council
Charles Pearson
Sergeant Merewether
Pearson
Birmingham
Greenwich
Hull and Selby
Gloucester
Eastern Counties
St. James’s Park
Pate
Buckingham Palace
Hemburg
General Steam Navigation Company
Caledonia
Hamburg
Fire Department of the Sun Office
London
Aborizines Protection Society
Statistical Society
Willis
M. Guenepin
M. Vaudoyer
Jeffery
Woolwich
Horticultural Society
Chemical Society
Geological Society
Society of Arts
Royal Institution
Lindley
Botanical Society
Pontefract
Lord Pollington
Hertford
Lord Salisbury
Thos. Duncombe, Esq
Hircutx
Joseph Margetts Pierson
Hertford Reformer
Ware
Cooper
Baker
Ireland
Limerick
Cooghla
County Limerick
Lord Stanley
Walsh
Doon
Cappamore
Frightful Versailles railroad disaster deaths rise
France reports daily deaths and injuries from the Versailles railroad catastrophe. Madrid and London papers note royal travels, court duties, and public notices, as well as parliamentary committee actions, financial market quotes, and local fires and accidents.
Attempted acid attack on husband ends in prison
At the Central Criminal Court Sarah Dowdell aged twenty four was found guilty of feloniously throwing corrosive acid at her husband Charles Dowdell in Kent-road. He has lost sight in one eye and faces possible further injuries. Sentenced to three years hard labour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Wales
Yorkshire
Lancashire
Scotland
South
Wm. Pickard
West Riding
Edward Newman
Barnsley
Silkstone
William Flood
Margaret Westwood
Emroyd
Flockton
Charles Littlewood
Mary Holmes
Mealhill
Hepworth
Ebenezer Healy
Halifax
Susan Pitchford
Elland
Patience Kershaw
Mary Barrett
Lancashire and Cheshire
Betty Harris
Little
Bolton
Aed
Betty Wardle
Coa
East of Scotland
Jane Cumming
Agnes Moffatt
Sister
Margaret Ayes
Margaret Drysdale
Ellspee Thompson
Central Criminal Court
Aidle
Baron Alderson
Justice Coltman
Sarah Dowdell
Charles Dowdell
Kent-road
Bull Public House
Guy's Hospital
Clark
Wood
Marylebone
York
James M‘kenzie
Colonnade
Charles-street
St. James's
Kenzie
Suffolk
Pall-mall
Lang
James Sutherland
M‘kenzie
Mr. Long
Long
Susan Price
Islington
Worship Street
Staton
Kingsland
Drew
Stoke Newington
Taylor
House of Correction
Union Hall
Roncern
Henry Deathen
Red Lion
Walworth
Mysterious London Scams and a Crushed Newborn Mystery
A north countryman meets two strangers at London Bridge Wharf who deceive him and steal wealth. Separately a woman in Holborn Hill delivers a brown paper parcel containing a live male infant’s body to a grocer, triggering an inquest. investigators seek the culprits, with few clues as yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monument
Bank, &c
St. Martin's Court
Ludgate- Hill
London
Black Horse-court
Cox
Bennett’s Hill
Doctors’commons
Stephens
West London
Brooks
Payne
Trial of Daniel Good for the Manchester murder case
The Central Criminal Court opens with intense crowding to hear Daniel Good charged with murdering Jane Jones now known as Good. Proceedings include postponement requests, detailed identity and weapon evidence, and the case against Mary Good for harboring the suspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Good
Jane Jones
Bulloch
Lucas
Copeland
Thomas Wond
Adolphus
Waddington
Russell Gurney
Duke of
Sussex
Baron Alderson
Hurry
Hestot
Bodkin
Mary Good
Good
Denman
Columan Thomas Cooper
Pearance
Wandsworth
South Street
Manchester-square
Jones
Brown
Jane Good
Red Lion
Hammersmith Suspension Bridge
Woolwich
Putney
Kent
Hey
William Gardiner
Adelphus
Oehampton
Samuel Smith Dagnall
Collingbourne
Exeter
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Kington
Wal
United Kingdom
Joseph Ellison
Birkenshaw
Birstall
Joseph Cowthray
Nathan Llindley
Messrs. Day
Twobell’s Pit
Derby Range
Achild
Cumberland
Ess
George Elliot
Monkwearmouth Golf
North Durham
Ashington
Belmont
County Durham
Robert Pattison
Ister
Flatworth
Timas Roker
Jane ‘Ork
Preston Links
Tanent
Oll
Hars
Convance
Fordel
Margaret ‘Ton
Margaret Wolson
Spa
Carlops
South Wales
Monmouth
Richards
Battery Hatch
Hdustiwyn
of Monmouth
William Richards
William Jenkins
Gillidy Ene
Leired
Llanvalm
Ainly
Gloucestershire
Emhiepa Pang
Athing
Woodington
Isaston
Tarkersley
County of York
Leeds
Barley Dean
Somersetshire
Warwickshire
Derbyshire
Durham
North Wales
Ngland
Northumberland
South Durham
East Lothian
Mid Lothian
Pembrokeshire
Glamorganshire
South Staffordshire
Edward Oakley
Thomas Mavor
Callier
William Greenwood
Greenwood
Oldham
Law and Police
Central Criminal Court—Faripay