Tragic Bacup Chapel Crush Kills Three in Panic
A fatal crush at the Bacup Methodist Chapel followed a fear of a collapsing roof. Three people died and several were seriously injured as panicked attendees surged for the door while volunteers and police assisted. Victims named include Mary Ashwood, James Moorhouse, and Richard Low, with others reported severely hurt.
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Methodist Association
Bacup
Methodist
Newton
le Ft
Higgs
County Constabulary
Howarth
Richard Low
Broadclough
Ashwood
Moorhouse
Richard Law
Worrall
Rachel Ann Rushton
Lea Mill
Buck Inn
Henry Monks
James Cunliffe
Christiana
Whittaker
The Mercantile Panic and Bank Suspensions in 1847
A third meeting reveals Sanderson and Co faces bills running to about £350,000 since September with overall running debt near £1,000,000, to drop to £220,000 by year end. Reports note similar strains at De Jersey and Co in Manchester with assets £430,000 against £345,000 liabilities and instalment payments proposed. Barclay Brothers and Cohee also suspend with £450,000 liabilities.
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Sanderson and Co
Messrs. Sanderson
Mears
King William Street
London
Samuel Jones Loyd
Messrs. Sanderson Land Co
S. J. Lorn
Cheirmas
de Jersey and Co
Manchester
Germany
Holzauer
Moscow
Rochdale
Messie. de Jersey and Co
Thomas, Son
Lefevre
William Nash
Nash
Times
White and Co
Waterford
Wepxys
Barclay, Brothers, and Cohee
Reid, Irving, and Co
Mauritius
Fhat
England
Sunderland
Messrs. Barclay
Liverpool
Mocatte and Son
India
America
Ceylon
Calcutta
Madras
New York
Phillips
Kuspp and Co
Abingdon
Messrs
Brown and Todd
Stock Exchange
Hadlow
Oakley
Legal and Miscellaneous Correspondence Excerpts Wide Ranging
A Victorian notice column surveys legal points on covenants and privity, court remedies, and distress. It includes reader questions on marriage licenses, police conduct, property actions, drain disputes and a long appeal from London printers seeking charity support, with various local anecdotes and society items.
4A CALENDAR Sun sunrise sunset and tides in Britain
The excerpt gives methods to compute sunrise and sunset times across Great Britain and Ireland, using latitude and degree adjustments, plus high water times at major ports. It lists corrections for Bristol York Falmouth Harbour Hull Milford Haven Brighton Cowes Dover Dublin Holyhead Liverpool Port Glasgow Southampton and notes harbours of lesser note. TheWeek Sourway October 17 Twentieth Sunday after Trinity provides liturgical readings and astronomical notes for October, including year length, moon phase, and daylight changes with times for daybreak and twilight.
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Great Britain
Ireland
Sas
London
Dock Ten
Bristol
York
Cove
Falmouth
Hull
Milford Haven
Brighton
Cowes
Dover
Dublin
Holyhead
Liverpool
Port Glasgow
Southampton
Dau
Ireland hunger and the Irish subscription debate in The Weekly Chronicle
The Weekly Chronicle denounces selective church and public subscriptions for Ireland amid looming winter distress. It contrasts government charity with private aid, critiques newspaper coverage, and cites Irish murders driven by evictions, urging decisive action to protect landlords and end violence to restore Ireland’s path to prosperity.
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Ireland
England
Alady
Roe
Sealy
Rob
Scully
Tipperary
Orbuss
Hounslow
Cashel
Sairdale
Reading Spain and Italy for cautious readers
A cautious overview notes Spain’s volatile politics with Narvaez forming a temporary administration and corruption as a ruler, while Italy trends toward quiet but unresolved emancipation. France reportedly ships muskets to Rome’s National Guard, urging proof before use, and Byron’s lines are urged as a warning beyond Greece.
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Spain
Narvaez
Madrid
Duke de Valencia
Duke de la Victoria
Serrano
Espartero
Italy
Rome
Greece
Editorial Consolations From Cobden To Hunt And Prasilia
The article mocks Cobden and his Free Trade principles, contrasts him with Henry Hunt’s perceived vulgarity, and notes consolations from the Standard and Morning Post. It derides Cobden’s fall in Consols and ridicules the notion that blood or rhetoric elevates status, while lampooning the Duchess de Prasilia case and broader aristocratic treatment.
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Mr. Hunt
Henry Hunt
Robert Peel
Baronet
Peel
Hunt
Cobden
London-bridge
Morning Post
de Praalio
Newgate
Duchess de Prasilia
Letter from Frederick Douglass in New York Anti Slavery Standard
Frederick Douglass writes a candid letter in the New York National Anti Slavery Standard of August 19, criticizing the anti slavery movement’s internal safety concerns. He expresses regret for the issues raised and notes potential priety among eastern abolitionists regarding safety of friends Warrison and himself.
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New York
Frederick Douglass
America
Hannissuno
Gay
East
Warrison
In Harrisburg Mob Threatens Free Speech During Garrison Talk
Frederick Douglass recounts a violent antispeech mob in Harrisburg as William Lloyd Garrison spoke on slavery. Objects were hurled, pepper and rotten eggs spread, and cries of throw out the nigger echoed as the crowd blocked exit and assaulted attendees. Douglass narrowly escaped with aid from Black and allied supporters, noting Harrisburg’s mobocratic shame and vowing further effort elsewhere.
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Harrisburg
Dam
Court House
Thin Pee
Garrison
Garrison Wan Pete
Fan
Lavery
Himsif
Pamber
Rose
Petrigen
Messie
Douglase
Barneen
Harris Hurgad
Brent
Raven
Harriaburg
Mr. Petrigen
Wolk
Moch
Pillsburg
Frederics Dougrass
Cholera antiseptic debate and Bristol cholera notes
A letter to the Times from chemist Mr Herepath argues that chlorine gas offers a decisive chemical preventive against cholera, recounts experiences from 1832, and urges widespread fumigation of infected districts. He critiques popular disinfectants and outlines practical chlorine fumigation methods and distribution. The piece also notes new Whitecross Street Prison arrangements for prisoner classification and current confinement numbers.
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Herepath
Bristol
Times
England
London
Boards of Health
W. Burnet
Ledosen
Tam
Sir
Winnie Rempats
Wuairsenoss Atreet Parson
Whitecross Street
Ouberiffé’ Court
Iuray
Nselveo Debus
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