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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 16, 1849
Page
11
The excerpt argues self-control yields steady appetite management and lasting pleasure. It values duty aligned with temperance, warns frivolity and licentiousness dull the mind, and contrasts simple, calm joys with boisterous or vicious pleasures. It urges shunning strong excitement to protect natural sensibilities.
A summary of 19th century notes: France gives up the Marquesas but keeps Tahiti. The new British Commons should be ready early next year. Birmingham donates £1000 for the British Association. Russia reports £4,000,000 in mined gold last year. Various notes on church rates in Bicester, a monument for James Thomson at Richmond, and ironware shipped to California. Reports on Rossini’s insanity denial, Prince de Joinville selling French property, a new Philadelphia plague, and a warded Arden event. Additional items cover wartime ships, US grain imports, bread from wood proposed by Dr Percy, asthma treated with chloroform, and Wellington’s 80th birthday.
A sun disk displays a vast sunspot group visible without magnification through dark glasses. Jenny Lind departs the stage after a crowded performance as Alice in Robert the Devil, with regal spectators including the Queen and Prince. London church sales are listed among bankrupts’ assets this month. A Boston Chronicle quip mocks ladies education and domestic skills. May railway calls reach £1,000,000 with yearly totals above £9,000,000. General Taylor bans officers from dueling and bars restoration of those cashiered. Dublin’s Limerick Chronicle mentions possible new high commissioners for Irish encumbrance sales.
At the London Tavern shareholders denounced the Board amid chaos over Wisbeach scrip fraud and 2000 pounds deposits. The amalgamation with the Norfolk Company was approved by 7 966 majority from a stock base of over 604 220 to 114 600. A 38 member committee to nominate eight new directors was formed after resignations and the minutes show strong condemnations of directors and a pledge to pursue investigation recommendations.
An 1850s advertisement extols Brande's Enamel to halt tooth decay when a black speck appears and warns that delaying treatment invites pain. It praises galvanism as a cure, recounting Mr. Blackwell’s recovery after using a ten guinea apparatus and walking home unaided.
Births report a son for the wife of Rev W Inton at Barrowden Rutland and a son for Mrs Alfred Johnson at Basingstoke. Marriages record multiple nuptials including ministers from Llanelly Bristol and Hastings with named couples. Deaths note Anne Pors of Cotham Bristol, Cuaistorugh Rawson, Rev Robert Hangsis, Mrs Anne McLury King, and Samuel Maunder, with legacy references to Pinnock's catechisms and Maunder's dictionaries.
The stock market fell slightly amid settlement profit taking with a 1 to 1 3 percent decline since Monday. Exchequer Bills India Bonds and foreign securities showed firmer activity while railway shares remained depressed and bearishly inclined ahead of settlement. Sugar茶 and coffee markets hardened with cautious gains and stronger demand. rice and saltpetre unchanged.
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