11 Mar 1835
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Newspaper
Courier
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 11, 1835
Page
1
Notice from the Commissioners of the Navy to contract for clothing and bedding items. Items include trousers waistcoats shirts blankets and bed cases with delivery deadlines by September next. Tender details require deposits and performance bonds with conditions set at Somerset-place March 3 1835.
Notice that dividends on the stacks up to 31 December 1834 will commence March 23 and continue on alternate days. Scrip receipts should be sent to the office for registration before payment. Also advertisements for sale of a superior family house near Hyde Park between Grosvenor and Stanhope Gates and for a carriage property at Crawford Street Portman Square.
Reports from Madrid detail a Chamber of Procuradores vote against funding the Conservatorio of music, Queen Victoria plans to leave for Aranjuez on the 10th, and battles between royalist and Carlist forces with arrests in Cadiz. Rebels suffer losses as Christians gain ground near Guardo and San Sebastian.
Colonial Markets report firmness in British Plantation sugar and coffee with sugar up modestly and coffee demand rising for clean qualities. East India sugar steady. Dutch coffee demand dampened by Amsterdam sale. Rum steady. tea sales completed, private trade teas arriving. hysons rally at company sale. Cocoa prices amid gains. cotton and wool steady with higher activity. tallow dull. European bonds and loans quoted. Java import rule restricts woolen and cotton goods to Batavia, Samarang, and Sourabaya ports with certificates.
Notices cover Sir Thomas Troubridge seeking returns on Cinque Port appointments and Walmer Castle costs, Ramsgate Harbour papers for printing, Mullins on Ireland election correspondence, Sheil and others on Russia Turkey relations, and various committees and bills set for dates in March to May. Includes notices from Finn Sheil O Connor and others, with private bills and petitions listed.
The piece critiques Sir James Graham's influence and questions Lord Stanley's leadership, contrasting Graham with Stanley. It accuses Graham of inconsistency, notes his shifting allegiance from Whigs to a Tory alignment, and accuses him of backing a ministry he previously condemned. It also links currency and debt views to party alignments and mentions other journals and figures like Cobbett. Births and deaths are recorded: a daughter to Mrs. James Spittal and several deaths across Jamaica and Van Diemen's Land.
The King appoints Lords Wharncliffe Kempt Ryder Hyde East Ferguson Barnes and Reynes as commissioners to review penalties in the British army and assess if corporal punishment can be reduced or replaced without harming discipline. Also lists Feb 14 1835 appointments and insolvency notices. Local misdeeds include a Shoreditch church pocketing case with two women remanded for trial.
In the Lords the Earl RODEN moved for returns on National Education in Ireland with scholar counts and funding, while Lords CAMDEN and others debated Malt Tax repeal and possible agricultural relief. Wellington signaled government plans would come from the other House as Austria and St Petersburgh relations were touched in foreign affairs remarks.
The House of Commons adjourned to the Malt Tax repeal discussion with Lord Chandos leading the motion. Petitions from Lewes and Kent landowners pressed for repeal, while Lime and other peers urged relief for agriculture. Sir R Peel outlined tax policy as MPs debated substitutes, expenditures, and broader fiscal plans.
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