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Newspaper
Patriot
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 27, 1837
Page
8
Sheriff’s Court depicts a long dispute between a bonus and drug dispenser and a butcher for 18s 5d. The trial features comic exchanges over a pig raffle and medicine ledgers. Jury returns verdict for the plaintiff after hours of evidence.
Two fashionably dressed young men named Blake and Johnson were charged at Marlborough Street police office with ripping knockers from Regent Street shops and tearing shop ornaments. The men admitted to a knocker found on one of them and gave false names. After apologies and show of contrition, they were released on their own recognizances.
A reflective travel sketch contrasts London and Paris from St Pauls with a clear calm day and dense smoke veiling the city. The observer notes Pope-like spires around the cathedral, the formal English guides, and a shopwoman offering two pence for her services while clerical rules govern fees.
In Boston, four Liberal candidates are elected amid Tory efforts against reform. Churchwardens pushed a 6d rate but an overwhelming vestry majority adjourned the matter for six months. Storms across Northumberland and Durham, including Newcastle and Glanton, caused fatalities and cattle losses.
Lists of bankrupts with surrender and court dates across Hastings Cardiff Shrewsbury and Manchester plus assignees solicitors and official conductors. Also dividends certificates scotish sequestration and various trades from tea dealers to ship chandlers and woolstaplers named.
London markets report moderate arrivals of English grain for July 26 at the Corn Exchange. Oats show a large supply while Foreign Wheat remains available. Weather remains extremely favourable and the corn trade is very dull with prices tending downward as traders resist price cuts and buyers stay away in expectation of lower rates.
Barley eased in trading while oats flooded the market due to a new duty. The heavy trade kept prices near Monday levels. Beans and peas showed little activity with prices slightl y lower in today’s sessions.
Salmon and turbot supplies were plentiful with prices rising to 10d to 11d for large fish and 6d to 8d for small. Poultry and game showed steady prices with leverets 5s to 6s 6d, geese 48 6d to 6d, ducks 2s 6d to 2s 9d, fowls 4s to 5s 6d. overall supply moderate and trade steady. Potatoes priced as at Covent Garden Market and in the Borough.
In Smithfield Haymarket and Regent's Park buyers showed steady demand for upland meadow and rye grass hay with prices ranging from 85s to 135s per load of 56 trusses. New hay and clover hay also traded around 90s to 192s with straw in the 40s to 46s per load of 36 trusses. Old meadow and clover hay at Portman Haymarket sold between 75s and 128s.
Reports from hop plantations are more favourable with the duty rising to £200,000. Vermin declines and rains have given bines a dull earthy look. No significant trade activity as prices stay nominal with varied regional rates for Kent Pockets Sussex and East Kent hops.
Prices for Wheaton Bread in the Metropolis run from 84d to 9d per loaf and Household bread from 7d to 8d per 4 pounds.
The Liverpool cotton market shows a fair week of business but heavy imports keep prices barely supported. Demand remains firm for Brazils Pernams Bahias and Surat while Egyptian stays hard to move. About 2,000 bags sold at yesterday's full prices with 1,200 American and 100 Bengal for export and 200 American for export today.
Down Teggs range from 6d to 1s 1d for fleece types. Ewes and Wethers quoted Os 10d to 3s 11d. Leicester lines show Os 11d to 1s 6d, Leicester Wethers at 9d to 4d to 4g. Flannel wool ranges Os 9d to 1s. Pak combing listed Os 16d to 1s 6d.
Prices of tallow and soap items listed with distribution in 1836 1837. Figures for Yellow Russia and town tallows show ranges from 33 to 140 shillings per lot. Soap prices include Yellow Soap Melting Stuff Mottled and Rough varieties with varied pence per pound and per cwt.
Leather prices listed for Perth and English hides with ranges for raised butts calf skins and other hides. Foreign hides and bark rates shown per load or per ton, including English and Dutch bark and various sea and country prices. Raw hides and sheep skins prices under market, with rates for calf, lambs, pelts, and downs in pence and shillings.
Market close coal prices list by brand and location. Carrs Hartley 20s 3d Leazes Main 17s Picton 18s 3d Russell High Main 18s 4d South Hartley 19s 3d Tanfeld Moor 21s Willington 21s Wylam 20s Heaton 2s 9d Hotspur 20s Killingworth 21s Belmont 22s Braddys Hatton 22s 6d Haswell 22s 9d Hatton 23s 3d Lambton 22s 9d Russell 22s 6d Stewart 22s 9d Hartlepool 22s 6d Butterknowle 18s Adelaide 2s 9d Barrett 21s 6d Clavering 20s 3d Tees 21s 9d West Tees 19s Selby 17s.
Wednesday July 26 market notes show tea sales meeting strong demand with most varieties selling at last sale prices except lower Yoong Hysons. Coffee trading quiet with Ceylons softer while large holders push for previous levels. Jamaica arrivals awaited as 1000 casks expected. Sugar market flat with no further reductions. Pepper in good demand with other spices holding firm prices.
On Monday the 24th inst the ceremony took place at the Baptist Meeting-house Kings road Reading. Reverend J H Hinton performed the nuptials uniting Samuel Collier and Jane Davies eldest daughter of Mr Jeremiah Davies both of Reading.
Beaths announces the deaths of Mary, aged 65, widow of Thomas Pellatt, and daughter of the late Baring of Exmouth Maitland, and Alexander Ma, aged 77, formerly of Peckham Surrey, with note of a 24th inst Rectory Whitechapel death of Daniel Mathias aged 68 Rector.
London printer William Tyler issues a notice from Bolt Court Fleet Street stating advertisements are received and communications for the editor should be addressed post paid. It notes orders for The Patriot are accepted by all dealers in newspapers and booksellers in the United Kingdom.
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