Conflicted Corn Laws Debate Dominates Parliament
A flood of petitions prevails in Lords and Commons over corn laws with leaders urging revision. MPs discuss China policy, Clergy Reserves in Canada, and Ireland workhouses as debates extend into late hours with major divisions on beer bill and Irish voter registration.
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Duke of Buckingham
Duke of Richmond
Earl of Clarendon
Liverpool
Lord Mezovene
Lord Aberdeen
Commons
J. Russell
Exeter
Canada
House OF Commons
Monpar
Manon
Buissert
Helstone
Heathcore
Villiers
Pryme
Hume
Pembroke
China
J. Graway
J. Ruasery
Miles
Mires
R. Peet
Church of Scotland
J. Russey
General Assembly of Scotland
General Assembly
Goulburn
Excasquer
J. Russzui
Sheriff Evans
Pakincton
Cultate
Upper Canada
J. Russet
Howard
Stockdale
Admiralty
Ord J. Russell
Lord Seaton
Ireland
County Constabulary
Tuxspay
Lord Melbourne
Scotland
Earl of Aberdeen
Lord Duncannon
Peregrine Maitland
Huskisson
Bathurst
Church of England
Tuurspar
Monm24glz
Repeapath
Tuunsday
Chester
Crewe
Grand Junction
Paxmcton
Prymer
J. Russeit
Ar. CoLquioun
J. Russert
Everal
Mr. Pakington
Lord Stanley
Lord Morrett
Sibthorp
Whig pamphleteer Wade ridiculed in sharp editor's critique
A staunch critic assails John Wade's pamphlet Glances at the Times and Reform Government, calling it a poor Whig fabrication. The author mocks Wade's axioms, contrasts despotism and tyranny, and accuses the piece of misrepresenting political liberty while denouncing Whig leadership and ministerial conduct.
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House of Commons
John Wade
Great Britain
Times
Wade
Dr. Wade
Jack Wade
Jack
Himperer
England
Waders
Lord John Russell
Stroud
Downing-street
Balderdash
Prussia
Milton
Reform Ministries
William Lovett
Taxed Salt and Taxes Provoke Birmingham Letter
A Birmingham correspondent laments rising taxes and royal pensions funded by the people. He denounces the House of Commons for supporting a 21 000 pound transfer to Hanover and calls for a new constitutional order. The writer boasts strength, defies aristocrats, and urges unity among workers against misrule.
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House of Commons
Hanover
England
Zooks
Waterford
Critique of Universal Suffrage and Republic Claims
Axcuisatp Dashwoop denounces a Whig writer for conflating Republic with Universal Suffrage and mocks Dowing-street’s anti suffrage stance. He compares petition efforts to a flock of sheep and ridicules the notion England’s people demand universal suffrage. He closes with steadfast insistence on his view.
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Blockhead
Dowing-street
England
Dogs Bay
Jack Wade
Labour and the value of toil in a mid Victorian mind
A March 25 1840 speech laments that labouring people lack independent judgment and are swayed by countless factions and “mock friends” amid debates on work. It argues labor shapes food and life, denounces idle classes, and questions the utility of landowners clergy lawyers and beggars, asserting true labour sustains society.
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England
Scotland
Glutton and Servants Chorus on Labor and Wealth
A speaker denounces gluttony and idle elites as locusts and drones. He argues the rich live off the labor of the poor while workers toil to feed and clothe themselves. The letter condemns tyranny and oppression at home and abroad, urging the reader to reject the mighty and great. Yours truly.
Royal Drawing Room and Dukedom Grants in London Gazette
In the London Gazette March 31 notice the Queen schedules a Drawing Room at St James's Palace on April 9 and grants a duchy to Cecilia Letitia Underwood, creating the Duchess of Inverness. James Norton Smith appointed to the Corps of Gentlemen at Arms. Morice-square Chapel in Stoke Damerel, Devonshire, registered for marriages.
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House OF Commons
Tugspay
Govisurn
East India Company
India
Hants
Naples
Lanovuchere
Foreign Department
Houe
Austria
LaBouchère
Secretary of State For Foreign Affairs
Hume
E. KnaTcasaxy
Bridport
Wolverhampton
Mr. Villiers
J. Hosnovse
London
Mr. Crawford
Perceval
Hanover
St. James’s Palace
Arma
Howard Stockdale
Howard
PaKincon
St. James's Palace
Whitehall
Masgeu
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Cecilia Letitia Underwood
Arthur Saunders
Earl
Magea
Lord Fuley
James Norton Smith
Corps of Gentlemen At Arms
Smith
Gazette
Partnerships dissolved and insolvencies listed in trades
A long notice lists numerous partnerships dissolved across cities including Manchester London Nottingham Cambridge Derby and Bristol with many trades shown. Insolvencies and bankruptcies follow with dates March 30 to May 12 and place names such as Leamington Priors Abergavenny Leominster Leeds Manchester and Liverpool. Dividends certificates and Scotch sequestrations are noted with dates and locations in the same period.
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J. S. Darwell
C. Myatt
Manchester
W. Learmonth and Co
London
R. Widdowson
Nottingham
W. Turner
Cambridge
I. Bancroft
J. Woodward
Derby
J. Meatyard
W. Corp
Milford
Wiltshire
W. W. Alderson
Ferryhill
Durham
J. Webster
J. Wetton
D. Smith
W. Huskisson
T. Toney
Birmingham
Mercers
D.smith
J. and
A. Busgine
Jey
J. Hancock
Bristol
J. Robinson and Co
Wolviston
W. Dixon
B. M. da Costa
H. de Castro
Brook and Hanson
Huddersfield
W. Hayler
T. Gover
Chatham
Wilson
Ann Rebecca Hickman
Abergavenny
Monmouthshire
Victualler
Francis Collins
Leominster
Herefordshire
Scrivener
John Pincinton
High-street
Southwark
Bankrupts’ Court
Tarquand
Samugu Caappely
Lawrence Jane
Butcher
Groom
Abchurch-lane
Gate- Fith Richards and Thomas Mainwaring, Bridge-road
Lambeth
Clerk
New Broad-street Court
Rosger Youne
Scarborough
Yorkshire
Talbot Inn
Samuzlwhite
Leeds
Court House
John Smith
Commissioners’ Rooms
Joan Walcry Barton
Horatio Barton
Horatio Nelson Barton
Commissioners
James Barton
Commissioners’-rooms
James Wilson
Toxteth-park
Lancashire
Clarendon-rooms
Liverpool
William Batss
Wittiam Parampton
Court-house
H. Humphries
St. Bennett’s Hill
P. and
P. Pan
Silver-street
Golden-square
J. Stevens
Brighton
Carpenter
W. Spence
Dewsbury
J. Moore
Brighthelmston
Sussex
Lincoln’s-inn-new-square
M. Jackson
Sheffield
W. Thiance
King’s Lynn
Norfolk
C. J. W. Wharton
J. N. M’envoy
J. Wilson
Heaton Norris
J. Sutcliffe
Bradford
R. Leake
Prestwich-clough
J. A. Ewan
Preston
R. Musgrove
A. Pink
Somersetplace
Little Chelsea
J. Wilton
Hythe
Hampshire
G. Lansly
Ludgershall
W. Jones
Newport
Seaton’s
Arbroath
Stott and
Attack Upon the Woman Jarvis in Clerkenwell Mob
A Tuesday afternoon scene follows Mrs. Jarvis and her mother as a huge crowd attacks them near Hattonwall and Little Warner street. Police escort, stones and mud fly, violence concentrates on Mrs. Jarvis, and she and her mother are sheltered at the station before being sent home amid continued tumult. Also noted: four Virginia weddings yield a combined height of twenty five feet, hinting at giant grooms and brides.
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Reynoldson
Warner-street
Coldbath Square
Rosamon-street
Inspector Penny
G Division
Mrs. Jarvis
Crawford Passage
Coppicerow
Clerkenwell
Exmouth Street
Parry
Matthews Country
Virginia
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