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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 31, 1786
Page
2
A reader identifies a desire to start a Sunday school in Market Town and asks for details on hours books used and regulations. They request information through the Evening-Pot for publication to aid in forming a proper plan and encouraging local efforts.
The article outlines the Commutation Act's impact, noting tea sales rose from about six million pounds to over 1.0 billion? pounds in a year, with duty paid changing market behavior. It argues the act reduced foreign payments, boosted domestic purchases, and kept a large balance within the kingdom, benefiting the economy and liberal trade principles.
Properties including farms and tenements in Wooblatch Coldbatch and surrounding parishes in Salop and Montgomery are to be sold by auction on Monday and Tuesday in May. Maps and details are available from Edward Powell and local offices in Bishops Cattle Charing Cross London and Salopian Coffee House.
The manor of Cudworth in Somerset comprising 896 acres of arable meadow pasture and woodland with bailings is offered for sale by private contract. It lies in a fine part of the county near Chard and Ilminster and may be viewed by contacting Abraham at Wiltlackington or Messrs Keat and Claridge at Fathaca.
The Lord Chancellor adjourned the House to Monday while coverage notes a Worcester bishop sermon, amid mass attendances by archbishops and MPs. Jamaica reports a Coromantee uprising near Clarendon with militia mobilization. other dispatches discuss naval affairs, Ottoman tensions, and Georgeana and Greenland weather and political shifts in Europe.
The notice lists performances for the evening at Prurt Lane including A Tair to Scansoxouca with Huazy-Buary and The Faint or tix Watt. Also billed are CorRant Garden The Disraase Moras and The Vine Unsasxp with additional acts.
Trustees of the Surrey Turnpike Roads met at the Royal Oak Inn Vallahall and voted to petition Parliament for powers to widen the road from Lambeth to the Magdalen Hospital area. The decision aims to improve traffic and reduce robberies by footpads, with forthcoming communication between Wells Hall and Blackfriars Bridge.
The State Lottery starts drawing on Monday February 6 1786. Meff Wenham and Co at No 11 Poultry London sell tickets and shares with varying numbers and low prices. All shares must be stamped by the Government and original tickets deposited. No business before eight or after eight except the Saturday before the drawing. Prizes receive the most money and exact memories and register books are kept.
A stock market brief lists prices and fractions for many securities. Entries include various bank stock yields with fractions and percentages, along with bonds annuities and South Sea stock notes. Also shown are Indian stock and Navy related securities, with specified rates and odd lots.
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