TC-JF, 28 Nov. MS: FC. Hitherto unpbd.

1. Discussing the Mannings' trial, the Examiner, 3 Nov., said of the defendants' lawyer: “How much worse was Mr Phillips's attempt to throw the suspicion of the murder of Lord William Russell on the innocent female servants, in order to procure the acquital of his client”—François Benjamin Courvoisier (1815?–40)—“of whose guilt he was cognizant!” Courvoisier was hanged. The Examiner, 24 Nov., reprinted from the Times a letter by Charles Phillips (1786/7?–1859; ODNB), barrister, enclosing correspondence between himself and Samuel Warren (1807–77; ODNB), barrister, vindicating Phillips's conduct during the trial. Rowland Hill (1795–1879; ODNB) introduced the penny post, 1840; such newspapers as the Examiner went free because of their prepaid stamp tax.

2. A series of articles on “Labour and the Poor” began in the Morning Chronicle, 18 Oct., prefaced by a note stating that it would provide “a full and detailed description of the moral, intellectual, material, and physical condition of the industrial poor throughout England” as the basis for legislation to improve the condition of the poor. Most of the articles were by Henry Mayhew (1812–87; ODNB), author and journalist, and continued till Oct. 1850, ending after Mayhew's disagreements with the Chronicle. He issued his articles in altered form as sixty-three weekly pamphlets, 14 Dec. 1850 through 21 Feb. 1852, then as London Labour and the London Poor; A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that WILL Work, Those That CANNOT Work, and Those That WILL NOT Work, vols. 1 and pts. of vol. 2–3, 1851, expanded to 4 vols., 1861–62.

3. John Ramsay McCulloch (1789–1864; ODNB see TC to JOFE, 22 Oct. 1820), statistician and political economist, and Richard Cobden as Saint Paul, both advocates of free trade and laissez-faire economics.

4. Dan. 5:27.