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Newspaper
Empire
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 28, 1855
Page
12
Judge Coleridge notes the case turns on damages after a defendant admitted a promise of marriage and breach without lawful justification. Jury returns verdict for the plaintiff with damages set at £250.
From Vienna to London and Paris mixed dispatches describe a bloody clash in the Crimea where Russians were defeated. A telegram from Windsor says the Emperor will command the allied forces. Other notes mention Turkish reinforcements, bombardment of Malakoff Tower, and strategic shifts as Allies gain ground. London reports Lord John Russell leaving Vienna and ongoing parliamentary notes on budgets and taxes.
Parliament debated a government loan resolution amid budget adjustments and calls for direct taxation over consumption taxes. Seabastopol Inquiry members faced a rearrangement as Mr Ball was replaced by Captain Scobell after a contentious vote, 68 in favor, 81 opposed.
Bank of England issues show total liabilities and assets across departments with government and private securities. Money market quotes, railroad shares, and foreign stock activity describe Consols, Exchequer bonds, and India stock alongside a broad commodity scene. Agricultural markets in London and other towns report wheat, oats, barley, beans, peas, flour, and related prices with arrivals and weekly averages.
The Manchester manufacturing districts report quiet trade but firm prices for textiles with demand rising for finer yarns. Liverpool notes an excellent market mood with Surat and American cloth prices up about 4d per lb and 15,000 bales traded, including American, Pernam, Maranham, Bahia, Egyptian and Sea Island varieties, plus week imports. Leeps woollen cloth market shows little change with modest Tuesday activity and steady tone.
Comparative prices and stock levels at a regional market show beef from 4s 2d to 4s 6d per pound, mutton 3s 6d to 4s 0d, veal 4s 4d to 4s 8d, and pork 3s 10d to 4s 8d. Readings include April 23 1855 and tables for beef, mutton, veal, pork, and calves with regional Hay and fish market notes and varied commodities with regional price ranges.
The London Gazette entry enumerates bankrupts and sequestrations for various trades. Names include George Jessop Cliftonville Hove Sussex builder Richard Orgies victualler William Gittus Cambridgeshire draper William Fitch Upper Thames Street stationer and more across England and Scotland. Additional notices cover bankrupts annullments and sequestrations with a long roster of trades from bricklayers to bakers and shopkeepers.
The April notices list births at Thorpe Mandeville Lewisham Manchester Hornsey and other places for Browning Dipnall Hardcastle Hitchcock. Marriages include Shedden Plumbe Smith Boyes Stanfield Sladin. Deaths note Day Dewdney Reeve and Oliver with addresses in Kent Mayfair Kingston Bermondsey Mickleham and Jamaica Row.
A 33 year struggle with lung disease liver issues deafness and weakness ends in a revival attributed to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. The writer James Roggers thanks the provider noting restored lungs hearing and overall health after spending much on medicines. More details appear in De Barry's advertisements.
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