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Newspaper
True Sun
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 18, 1834
Page
4
A critical essay from The Spectator argues whether the Commons should yield to the Lords or compel reform. It outlines milder constitutional paths, including creating life peers, abolishing hereditary legislative power, and electing a portion of peers to a new upper house to avert future clashes.
The article revisits tithe collection in Ireland, arguing that under pressure and potential military enforcement tithe could be collected to the land and tenant resources, while contrasting government duty to enforce the law against clergy and the public purse. It critiques the church's finances and mocks relics of a reforming zeal.
From the Examiner story discusses a German magic tale where a man owns a talisman that grants every wish, shrinking with each use until it vanishes and the owner dies, illustrating a perilous cost of power.
A critical piece argues that unchecked power harms governance as it criticizes the Lords for defeating the Irish Tithes Bill and portrays the Irish Church as doomed. It suggests the land tax would replace tithes and praises peasant resilience, excerpts a morbid anecdote about a self-inflicted beheading to illustrate unintended consequences.
A critical review of the King's Speech, arguing the measures praised and proposed are the Premier's work. It condemns Parliament for neglecting justice, lauds only the Poor Law Amendment Bill, and lambasts the Whigs for retrenchment claims while taxes rise. It laments the session as weak, indolent, and beholden to Althorp.
The passage critiques cabinet delays, blaming early inaction and late hurry for a bill’s six month demise. It argues ministers faced personal obstacles, failed to remove blockers, and pursued a scrambling, crude approach justified as urgency, likening it to a brain knocked out.
A historic newspaper column condemns the House of Lords and Commons with satirical references. It compares the Commons to Trinidad monkeys crossing streams by tails, describes disdain for water, and notes His Majesty’s dismissal of the Lords and Gentlemen to their counties.
A Morning News critique accuses the Whig ministry and subordinates of withholding royal speech copies from major papers while aiding evening journals. The piece questions Lord Duncannon's fitness as Home Secretary, denouncing press manipulation and urging accountability for official interference.
The Spectator laments the session of the Reform Parliament as largely unproductive. It notes the Central Criminal Court establishment, abolition of the House Duty, and Poor Laws amendment as modest gains, while criticizing ministerial preparation and interparty unity. It predicts bolder, more direct action next session and the potential passage of reform begun by Earl Grey. The piece also welcomes a shift away from conciliatory policy toward principled confrontation with the Lords.
The article argues rational methods will be attempted by the nation’s High Council to streamline voting, record keeping, and legislative procedures. It anticipates next year bringing beneficial alterations that improve national affairs and warns ministers and Parliament must be constantly watched and held to account by the people.
Elizabeth Catnites faced magistrate for damaging clothes by throwing a bottle of vitriol from a window in Willow-walk. She claimed the bottle fell accidentally, but the magistrate found intent and ordered payment of 19 shillings to the injured party, with default leading to imprisonment. The report also covers further Thames police cases including a sharp rebuke to steamship captains for excessive speed on the River Thames and related prosecutions.
The South Australian Colony Bill passed almost unchanged. The main change, urged by the Duke of Wellington, allows the crown to adopt a different system if the colony’s inhabitants do not reach twenty thousand within ten years. The piece notes shifts in Lords’ stance on the Irish Tithe Bill and critiques ministerial treatment of the Duke and other figures.
The notices list creditors meeting details for several trades and locations including J Goulding woollen-draper Basinghall Street G Palmer Southampton tailor and G Mitchell Bury Street St James's tailor. Also noted are W Skeath Davies Street Berkeley Square Ve o SMDRNUBS G Adnam Brighton commission agent and J Winch Kingsland Road licensed victualler E J Everett and Co Heytesbury clothiers.
Birth notices record several named families and dates including a daughter born to Major Okshnery on the 13th at Cheltenham, a child to W Howell at Kay, and a Freemantle birth at Swanbourne. Marriages note William Brougham Eny MP to Emily Frances Taylor on the 12th at St George’s Hanover Square, plus several other clergical nuptials at St Marks Kennington and Clapham Church with listed spouses and residences. Public notices conclude with obituaries and local parish details and a printer name and address at the True Syn Office, Strand London.
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