Alarming Fire at Battle-bridge Varnish Works Injures Three
A blaze at Mr Kingham’s varnish factory in Fifteen Feet Lane Battle-bridge seriously burned three people. Kingham and foreman Brazier were moved to North London hospital with extensive injuries. Hudgon avoided serious harm. Fire contained to the boiling house. total damage about £200. Kingham uninsured.
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King’s Cross
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Tme
Brazier
North London Hospital
Hudgon
New Electrical Exploding Machine For Quarry Work
In Dover Currs a new blasting device uses dry air inside a sealed box and dried calcium chloride to keep the atmosphere dry. A Leyden jar battery powers simultaneous explod ing of charges in each bore. The inventor, Mr. R W Thomson, claims simpler and safer operation than galvanic systems and foresees quick adoption in excavation and quarrying.
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Great Driffield
Little Driffield
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A. T. Cudworth
John Drinkrow
Gateshead
Senate
Halifas
Dnneavrut Mitzi
Hollins Mill
Sowerby-bridge
the Dale
Waterhouse
Friendly Inn
Halifax Guardian
Hereford
Fatan Arrhay
Childe
Grange
Wigmore Road
Palmer
Stevens
James Thomas
Malden
Kingston
Ewell
Manchester
Matthew Brady
Catherine
Borough Court
Elizabeth Clayton
Bradys
Newtown
Pat
Clayton
Reise
Repeal Association meeting notes and demand for action
Irish Repeal mob gathers after heat cools as John O Connell denounces George Gordon Bennett and the press. He outlines the drive for a Ireland parliament and warns of spies, prods fear in Ulster, and calls for peaceable but persistent agitation with plans for meetings at Clontarf Laughrea and Connemara. Reported rents and subscriptions listed.
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Dustin
Repeal Association
Liberator
Ray, Steele
Daunt
John O'Connell
M‘ardle
O'Connell
George Gordon Bennett
New York
the Times
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Mallow
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Boston
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North
Lord Londonderry
Ulster
Dublin Weekly Register
Aforning Chronicle
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England
Tara
Ireland
Morning Chronicle
Trish
Feargus O’connor
Mr. O'Connell
Laughrea
Connemara
Tipperary
Doheny
John Howley
Mr. Howley
Orange Party
Orangemen
Collegegreen
Mike Mahoney
Bay of Bealereagh
Mike
Divi
Faix
Father Mathew
Millia Beachus
Bedad
Mysterious Bridgeton death and influenza alarm across Glasgow
A Bridgeton tradesman family mourns a missing daughter found dead near Rutherglen bridge after a baffling disappearance. The Glasgow Guardian notes a separate obituary for a ten-year-old son of John Murdoch of Craigdaroch who died in South Australia under suspicion of murder later deemed unknown. The Glasgow Chronicle reports alarming fever and influenza progress with calls for soup kitchens and public aid, citing 1856 figures of fever cases and hospital costs.
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Glasgow
John Murdoch
Craigdaroch
South Australia
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Charles Edgedeth
Adelaide
Glasgow Chronicle
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Wright
M‘kinlay
Rebecca and the Welsh Toll War in Carmarthen Union
A Carmarthen led dispatch from August 30 reports unrest in South Wales with Rebeccaite tactics spreading from Llandovery to Llangeadock. It notes torching of stacks near Llandilo, toll-bar destruction, tithe resistance, and a mass mobilization claiming Rebecca’s rights, and includes Rebecca's poem defending the cause and warnings against authorities.
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Goring Thomas
Edwards
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Dynevor
Llandilo
Llangeadock
Llandovery
Rebecca
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Harris
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Cliddow
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Titse Mezetine
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London
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Capt. Evans
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Elliot
Alea
Edward Waters
Whitland Trust
Dynevor Park
Llandily
Trevor
Repecca
Mr. Welshman
Lord of Hosts
Cardigan
Pembroke
Miss Cromwell
Puseyite fears at Oxford college stir Protestant parents
Rumors that several Oxford authorities at the ancient college have embraced Puseyite doctrines spark alarm among Protestant parents of about 700 pupils. A noted master, Rev. Edward Coleridge of Exeter, is identified as a Romish-Puseyite advocate, linked to remonstrances against Pusey’s sermon. Controversy swirls over clerical influence, church allegiance, and potential reputational harm to the institution.
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Oxford
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Coleridge
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Post
Globe
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John Russell
Sons of Harmony
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Guest
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Dymock
Bagnisters
Middlesex
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Walpole
Shadwell
Arnold
City of London
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County of Middlesex
Brentford
Sir Robert Peet
Sir Robert
Wales
Wolverhampton Chronicle
League
Sidney Smith
Shoreham
Sussex
Horsham
Pulborough
Bognor
Chichester
Havant
Hants
Fareham
Gosport
Portsea
Isle of Wight
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Newbury
Maidenhead
Great Marlow
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South Hants
Fleming
Mr. Fleming
Hampshire Independent
Red Lodge
Southampton
J. Fleming
Parsons
Village youths tied up Irishman to fire in Laneham incident
Stamford Mercury reports Charles Parr Thomas Lane and others tied up a struggling Irish harvest worker in Laneham near Toxford, turning him toward a fire before the landlord halted the act with beer and justice likely to follow. Coventry Herald notes three men totaling 24 years and two older men ages 63 and 60 reaping for Mr Malin at Willoughby, a rare age mix in field labor.
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Malin
Willoughby
Coventry Herald
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