Shortly afterwards Gladstone is met by thousands when he visits Newcastle 1865 The Governor Eyre question. Following the supression of a revolt on the island of Jamaica the issue of the alleged cruelty with which the Governor of the colony acted becomes a cause celebre. Salt serves on the committee calling for Eyre's prosecution alongside John Stuart Mill , Herbert Spencer , Edward Miall , Thomas Hughes and John Bright Such is the importance of the Saltaire Mohair trade that when Titus Salt junior visits Constantinople as a tourist he is mistaken for his father and his arrival causes a sensation on the stock exchange. 1866 Saltaire Methodist Church begun 1867 Reform act giving the vote to many working men. Paris Exhibition .
Salt is urged to enter.
If the answers given to the questions of theImperial Commisioners, or if any of the facts, which experiment or experience has elicited, prove of benefit to the public, or should lead others to adopt, and enable them to surpass the result of my effort, I shall be thankful. For myself,I can enter into no competitive rivalry for welldoing, and the particulars and illustrations furnished of the establishment of Saltaire, are placed at the service of His Imperial Majesty's Commissioners on the distinct understanding that they are not given in competition for any prize, nor subject to the abitrament of a jury. Napoleon III was duly impressed and awarded Salt the Legion d'Honneur and thus Salt won - on his own terms. Death in Sheffield Workhouse of George White Bradford Chartist and Trades Union leader. Peter Bussey , former Bradford Chartist, dies at Horsforth near Leeds never having lived down his flight from from the planned insurrection of 1839.