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Empire

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Apr 21, 1855

Page

12

Latest News From Sebastopol and Europe March 30

Reports from Sebastopol through March 30 describe continued Russian sorties repelled by allied forces and heavy bombardment near the Quarantine and Malakoff. Admiral Lyons blocks Russian ports as allied fleet readies to join a broader assault. other items note pardons in Austria, Turkish policy shifts, Spanish unrest, Baltic fleet activity, and a Dublin government loan announcement with market implications.

Sebastopol Malakoff Tower Sievernaia Lyons Vienna Chernaya Francis Joseph Constantinople Herbillon Bosphorus Kiet Impérieuse Watson Euryalus Chancellor of the Exchequer The Stock Exchange Treasury Chambers G. Cornewall Lewis Bank of England Gladstone

Napoleon at Windsor Reception and Decorated Rooms

Windsor Castle prepares for the Emperor of the French and Empress Eugenie with lavish renovations. The Queen's Closet serves as the Emperor's sleeping room while the Empress's Council Chamber is equally ornate. The Waterloo Chamber is renamed the Picture Gallery amid displays of royalty, generals, and statesmen from 1815.

Napoleon Windsor Windsor Castle Empress Eugenie Waterloo Alexander I Russias Pius VII Prince Schwarzenberg Duke of Wellington

Bank of England account and early trading in 1854 markets

The Bank of England accounts show weekly totals for April 7 1854 including issue department items and government debt. Market activity was subdued with Consols around 90, Turkish bonds firm, and railway shares trading with little volatility amid unfavourable Vienna news.

Bank OF England Sestbions Vienna India Government Securi- Rest Eecenence Seine

Markets Report Shows Mixed Prices Across Commodities

The April 19 market notes limited public sales, with sugar and coffee trading mixed. Wheat and oats fields show dull demand in various regions, while bread prices in the metropolis range from 9d to 10d per loaf. Cattle and meat markets display steady to firm prices, with brisk trading for prime beef and mutton amid abundant supply.

West India Cuba Mauritius Madras Brazil Duggent Essex Kent Harrow and Small Norfolk and Suffolk Lincoln Yorkshire Northumberland Berwick Burley Norf Surf Kingston Ware Poland Baltic Konigsberg Lugh Friesland Groningen Rostock Ukermark Brabant Zea United States Riga Petersb Mediterranean Odessa Indian Corp Mark-Lane London Scorch Wakefield Mannchester Ipswich Dusuiy Corn Exchange S. Dy S League Bread Company Catile— Sarrurierp Germany Holland Scotland Norfolk Suffolk Ecseanacase Warrecuapet Newgate and Leadenhall

Market News from Manchester and Liverpool Mills and Goods

Manchester reports a tolerably firm market for cloth and yarn with steady orders that sustain mill work for weeks. Liverpool closes with spirit and price hardening, listing 10 000 bales sold 1000 export 2000 for spec, with Sea Island and Legas varieties priced in. Legas notes flat tone and limited business in cloth-balls on April 17.

Manchester LiverPool Pernam Maranham Bahia Surat Sea Island Legas

Market Prices and Supplies in Ostend and London Reports

April 14 to 19 market notes list prices for livestock poultry and dairy goods including capons ducks rabbits hares guinea fowls and pigeons with Ostend butter eggs and French and English imports. Fish and vegetables cover salmon turbot brill cod soles oysters lobsters crabs herring and various garden produce with regional price ranges. Coals across English pits and towns are itemized with per-chaldron or per-ton equivalents and varying rates.

Covent Garden Regent’s Smithfield Huncerrogo Wairecuapel Ditto Taw Boroueu Sussex London Davison West Hartley Holywell Howard’s West Hartley Netherton North Russell’s Hetton South Hetton Stewart Hough Mall South Kelloe

Bankrupts and Sequestrations in London Gazette List

The London Gazette reports numerous bankrupts and sequestrations, listing names and addresses across England and Scotland. Notable entries include Charles King Witt of New Sarum Wiltshire grocer and Janet Robertson of Glasgow gas manufacturer, with officers noting annulments and repeated cases on April 13 and April 17.

Aldersgate-street City Thomas Billing Cambridge Cooper Charles Abbot James Street Longacre Victuarie John Wilson Davis Deptford Kent James Grant Birmingham Charles Hargreaves Michael Hargreaves Bradford Yorkshire Whitesmiths John Blakey George Blakey Keighley William Sutcliffe York Shire Sarah Nuttall Lower Tunstead Lancashire Joseph Gibb Blue Lion Yard Gray’s-innroad Charles King Witt New Sarum Wiltshire Robert Nicholson Kingston-upon-Hull Scorcy Janet Robertson Glasgow TrEsday Bankfurts Benjamin Newton Brighton William Holladay Janes Clemitson Watlingstreet William Lister Great Queen Street Lincoln's Innfields Matthew Richmond Steele Leicester Reinfeld Reichluser Red-lion-street Holborn Robert Wheele Bennett Westbromwich Walter and Joseph Horton Wednesbury Sidmouth Devonshire William Henry Hayward Devonport Charles Evans William Apstlin Augustus William Ord Gateshead Tyne Bodham Butler Wisker Castle-street Scorca Henry Burness Montrose Alexander Reid Thomas Duncan Ceres Fifeshire

Family notices and marriages from a Clapham and Manchester area

A collection of births marriages and deaths including Farlow Hollins Lindsay and de Vries Wills Thomson Bellhouse and several obituaries. Births April 17 7 Dudley Villas Clapham road Stoke-upon-Trent Ide hill Kent. Marriages at Walworth and Longsight. Deaths include Malcolm Phillips Stevens Soane Shaw with ages and addresses.

Birtus. Farlow Dudley Villas Clapham-road J. K. Farlow Hollins Qui-hill Stoke-upon-Trent M. D Hollins A Lindsay Ide-hill Parsonage Kent Henry Lindsay DE Vries—Wills St. Peter’s Church Walworth Geo. Ainslie Frits Klaren de Vries Grouw Friesland London Sarah John Wills Doctors’commons Thomson Bellhouse St. John’s Longsight Manchester J. P. Pitcairn Edmund Edmund Peel Thomson J. Kate Ward Wainwright Bellhouse Malcolm Palmer Terrace Holloway-road John Malcolm Virtue and Co City-road Phillips Grovehill Camberwell Charles Phillips Stevens Jane Maarianne John Robert Stevens Lansdowne-place Brunswick-square Soane Walton-place Chelsea Maria John Soane Sir John Soane Shaw Elizabeth Benjamin Shaw Kilburn Priory

Child’s head severed in Lincoln’s Inn Fields discovery

Police find a bound bundle on a doorstep containing a male child’s severed head, taken to St. Giles’s workhouse where a surgeon confirms brutal murder. The report includes warnings about counterfeit Du Barry Revalenta Arabica Food and notes injunctions against imitators.

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