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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 28, 1849
Page
11
A parliamentary notice records applications to Parliament for sixty new Railway Bills to be considered in the coming session. The announcements list the measures proposed by various railway companies and authorities, outlining their intent to seek authorization for construction consolidation and operation.
The column lists births noting a son to Mrs Richard Mullens and a son to Mrs Jongs in Portsea. Marriages record JoAn Blackie and Agnes Gouging, Rosa Gilmoun and W K Arundell, James Thomson and Eliza Hanchel. Deaths include R O Callaghan Newan, Sir Chamel Fores, James Ransom, and Rev Samtgn Joanson Farrar. the notice honors Ransom’s public service and Farrar’s early death in Rome.
The English Funds gain confidence with improved values and bets on Consols before months pass. George Hudson buys £55,000 in Consols. unfunded debt remains firm with Bank and India stocks. Share market modestly rises as confidence wanes in some operators. Bank of England lowers discount rate to 2 percent. New London Mutual Life and Guarantee Society prospectus promotes fidelity and life assurance under a united framework. Produce markets turn stronger after a flat start. Assam Company estate sale shows rising leaf prices and improved demand for tea trading.
Provisions, cotton and metals have fallen, but tallow spirits rice oils and cochineal stay firm. Colonial wool sales set for next week. Foreign hops unlikely at current prices though 800 bales from 1849 growth were exported to England and Germany, lifting American hop prices. The Mary Sparks and John Bibby brought teas to St Katharine's Docks with about 25 000 packages.
A sequence of bankruptcies and sequestrations is recorded, naming debtors such as Rogpins George Joan Alford Essex innkeeper Bowes Isaac Abingdon Elizabeth West Henry Rotherhithe and many others, with December 1 January 5 filing dates and corresponding solicitors. The notices include multiple trades from victuallers to tailors carpenters perfumers and manufacturers, with addresses in London Westminster Bristol Dorking Manchester Birmingham Leeds and more, plus references to Scotch sequestration and a marriage chapel notice.
A sequence of bankruptcy annulments and sequestration notices items names Harwood Joan Dary Liverpool ironmonger and many others with December and January dates and solicitors. The list includes Bripess Henry Oxford Street cabinet maker Edward and others, plus dividends to Ryder and Dove with dates and locations.
Butchers report a fair supply of foreign stock and decent Beasts from grazing districts, but overall sluggish beef trade with prices down from last Monday. Sheep show slight uptick in numbers with prime old Downs selling steadily, other breeds slow after Friday’s price dip. Calves small in supply command steady prices. pigs demand improves at full currencies.
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