Bank of England power spurs currency debate in Times text
The article vents fury at Bank of England control over currency and government finance. It denounces coinage restrictions and paper money, mocks Bank directors, and calls for national paper money to replace Bank issued notes and gold standards. It cites reform era debates and a Vienna dispatch on Bosnia amid broader fiscal alarm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times
Eschegaer
East India Company
Stock Exchange
Bank of England
Peet
Egypt
Witness list reflects push for centralized police force
A Globe report cites a committee push for a centralized police system and lists witnesses from various social ranks. The witness roster includes magistrates, churchwardens, and other officials, with mixed notes on their evidence and standing in different parishes.
London Market Reports Spanish Bonds Fall Amid Spain Crisis
Eleven o clock updates show Spanish Cortes recognition talks, Spain financing strain, and bonds sliding to around 44 1/2 with Portuguese Regency Bonds near 84. Consols dip to 90 1/2 as English and foreign securities languish. A London bondholders meeting at the London Tavern seeks crisis measures. A Dutch mail is due.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Cortes Roads
Madrid
East India Company
East India Dock Company
St. Katherine’s
London Docks
St. Katherine’s Dock Company
Flanders
Antwerp
Halifax
Bermuda
Prince Edward’s Island
St. John’s
New Brunswick
Quebec
India
London
State Paper Office criticism and public misgivings
A correspondent denounces the State Paper Office for mismanagement and unhelpful staff arguing that access to papers is blocked by irrelevant bundles and a clueless porter. The note urges proper organization or shutting the office as a public waste. It references the Builders Strike and criticizes union agitation funded by tradesmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Paper Office
Secretary of State
Acquittal in Brussels Court of Assize
The Brussels Court of Assize has acquitted all accused in the Brussels excesses after 288 questions, with the foreman declaring no guilt on any item. The President urged calm as the prisoners were freed, and a relief subscription was opened for their return home. Also reported are royal movements from Ostend to Courtray and ongoing Luxemburg plots tied to Dutch relations.
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Court of Assize of
Hainault
Abts
Wenckelmans, &c
Brussels
Ostend
Arlar
Luxemburg
Vienna
Holland
Belgium
Rothschild
Hay markets and commodity prices in Hungerford market notes
Markets report abundant hay and straw with scarce buyers and firm prices. Imperial weekly average prices for wheat oats barley rye peas compiled. Hungerford market also lists cheap fish vegetables fruits and cheap beef mutton and pork. Coal market shows unaltered prices with limited arrivals and varied per ton rates across towns.
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England
Wales
Hungerford
Colonial Markets These Days Show Dull Trade and Stable Prices
The market report notes no new features as business remains very dull. Imports are steady, sugar price stable, and prices for B.P. are freely sold. Jamaica stock similar to last year with assorted goods like Mocha and PimeNnto showing varied prices. Several lots and per unit prices are listed for items including CochingaL and Ginerr with multiple lots sold at differing rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. P
Corre
Jamaica
PimeNnto
Cochingal
Inpico
Ginerr
P.Y.C
Shipping Intelligence from this Day’s Ports and Arrivals
Shipping news lists arrivals at Avonmouth and other ports including the Reindeer from Halifax and the James from Smyrna, with boats from Archangel and St. Petersburgh. the Brack, Voyager, and Catherine from Archangel. Oscar from Archangel. John Guise from St. Petersburgh. Sarah Denniston from Demerara. Minerva from St. Petersburgh. St George from Jamaica and Cuba. New Thomas from Vera Cruz. Caledonia and Pilot from St. Petersburgh. Tagus from Fowey. La Prosperite from emel. Sta Tira from Jamaica. Agnes from Havannah.
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Ercibheyy Famoura
Ava
Reindeer Packet
Halifax
James
Wallis
Smyrna
Bristol
Brack
Thompson
Voyager
Grogier
Catherine
Stoddard
Archangel
Gloucester
Ave
Oscar
Orr St. Ives
John Guise
M‘fie
St. Petersburgh
Liverpool
Aus
Sarah Denniston
Demerara
Paperiors Anderson
Minerva
Williams
Aterford
Rapid
Miller
London
Cork
St. George
Garnett
Jamaica
Cuba
Ursula
Jollin
Imn River
London and Birmingham Railway Half-Year Meeting Report
A half year meeting of shareholders at the City of London Tavern chaired by J Solly reviewed the report. Directors contracted for twenty one miles from London and Birmingham with costs around 6010001 to be completed in two years, expecting eighty miles contracted by year end. Receipts totaled 71735 27 with expenditures 207116 03 9, leaving a positive balance of 1646191, including 600001 in Exchequer Bills. The whale plan was deemed likely to succeed and directors were elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of London
J. Solly
London
Birmingham
General Post Orrick Notice Change in Bahama mail schedules
An official notice at the General Post Office states that Bahama Islands mails will be made up in airs first rather than the third Wednesday morning. The Kentish Gazette notes the improving weather and a promising harvest season with grounds recovering from blight and vermin damage. The duty remains high at 118,000.
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General Post
Orrick
General Post Office
Bahama Islands
Kentish Gazette
Tailors Case in Sheriff Court Over Credit Terms
In the extractions from a sheriff court session, Edmunds and Hodgskinson and the Rev J Harris known as Christmas Harris sue for 171 pounds 10s 6d for clothes supplied in January. Merricks testified he measured Harris at the Grafton Coffee house for garments, but credit terms were disputed. The jury was directed to verdict for the plaintiffs with legal questions reserved.
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Sheriff's Court
Lion
Edmunds. Harris
Smithson
Messrs
Edmunds and
Hodgskinson
Maddox-street
Hanover-square
J. Harris
Church of England
Christmas Harris
Henry Merricks
Edmunds
Grafton
Newportmarket
Shiers
Bow Street Police Notes of The Day in London
A report from Bow Street covers multiple petty crimes and public nuisance incidents. John Warren faces remand for stealing pastry from 87 Long Acre after a pursuit by a servant and constable. two accomplices escaped. William Robinson and James Smith are committed to hard labor after an attempted pocket pick in High Street, St Giles. Rosina Olive, once fashionable, is found in distress in Marlborough Street and remanded to workhouse after failing to secure assistance. historical notes on her decline and bond with Mr. Squibb. John Ryan, Irish labourer, is fined five pounds for a brutal street assault on John Henry Mann at a Marylebone pub, with immediate imprisonment upon nonpayment.
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Bow-Street
John Warren
Etenning
Long
Henry Smithers
Minshull
William Robinson
James Smith
St. Giles's
Smith
Robinson
House of Correction
Marlborough Street
Rosina Olive
Olice Constable Lloyd
C Division
Marborough Street
London
Queen-Square
Brura Assay
John Ryan
Messrs
White
Thomas Richardson
Norton-Street
Mann
Burrel
Greek turmoil and Allied intervention discussed
The Flamer steamer arrives from the Mediterranean with mails after stopping at Patras Malta and Gibraltar as epidemics ease in Spain. Greece remains disordered with Regency divisions and Bavarians resented. Mavrocordato absent harming governance. England and French fleets at Vourla, Tri coupi recalled. Espoir heads to Lisbon with specie. Church vandalism reported at St George's New Mills. Harvest prospects praised in Derby Mercury and Sheffield Iris.
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Mediterranean
Patras
Malta
Gibraltar
Spain
Levant
Vourla
Greece
Maina
Mavrocordato
Councils of
M. Tricoupi
London
His Majesty
Espoir
Lisbon
The Play Goer Haymarket Bucekstone's Amusing Comedy
A Mayhew era review covers Bucekstone's new comedy at the Haymarket. It centers on five married couples led by timid Mr Coddle and the jealous Mrs Lynx with contrasting temperaments. Mistaken identities and a planned dinner escalate suspicions until truths emerge, ending in forgiveness and a general kiss amid lively dialogue and strong performances by Farren Glover Faucit Clifford Buckstone.
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Samuel Coddle
Mr. Farren
West Indies
Vining
Henry Dove
Mrs. Clifford
Merry Dove
Mr. Buckstone
Lionel Lynx
Coddle
Lynx
W. Farren
Glover
Faucit
W. Clifford
Buckstone
King’s visit and royal levee greet Bombay governors and foreign dignitaries
His Majesty arrived from Windsor Castle with an escort and granted an audience to Governor Robert Grant of Bombay, awarding knighthood. Belgian Minister Van de Weyer met the King as Vincount Palmerston introduced him, and a levee followed with appointments and presentations to peers and officials including Lord Auckland, Viscount Melbourne, and Sir Charles Doyle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milne
Lord Auckland
W. Parker
Admiralty
R. Grant
Bombay
Windsor Castle
Robert Grant
M. van de Weyer
Vincount Palmerston
Robert Chester
William Parker
K.C.B
His Majesty
S Woods
Auckland
Earl of Gosford
General Finch
Royal Navy and Shipping News Update
From our own correspondent the Rose 18 guns under Commander Barrow sails for the East India station. The Romney troop-ship bound for Scotland with the 77th Regiment anchored at St Helens, then sailed. The Maitland flag-ship sailed to Scotland, the Rolla 10 guns proceeds to protect the fishery, while the Hawk arrives from Dartmouth and heads to Dublin and Cork. The regatta concluded with lively scenes, praised Captain John Little for expert management. Lloyd's Register and British Shipping news describe the unification of societies into one registry aiming to accurately describe mercantile marine conditions and promote sturdy shipbuilding across the empire.
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Rose
Wm. Barrow
East India Station
Romney
Spithead
St. Helen's
Scotland
Mr. Wood
R.N. Commanding
St. Helen’s
F. (., Maitland
Ady Maitland
Aus
Ava
His Majesty’s
Rolla
Glass
Hawk
Revenue Cruizer
Dartmouth
Dublin
Cork
Aea
John Little
Lloyd’s Register
Idoud’s
Society For
Lloyd's Register For
Lloyd’s
Eral ‘Shipowners' Society
X. Efieie
Mixed historical notes on law, empire, and society
A curio-filled survey: Carey on England's Chancery faults, Burke anecdotes, Windsor banners, Burmese drawing room rites, and scattered jottings from Crawford’s Embassy. The piece blends legal critique with colonial curiosities, royal ritual, and period social commentary across diverse topics.
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Lord Glengall
St. Saviour
Southwark
St. Luke
Christ Surrey
Day
Old Horse Patrol
Thomas Bryan
Work Road
Lambeth
John Field
Mint
Mr. Powell
Henry Kent
Morning Post
Henry Woodtho
William Routh
John Bonham Carter
Thomas Morris
Abraham Gall
Richard Swift
St. George’s
Middlesex
J. G.meymott
Churchwarden
Surrey
Joseph Myatt
Edward Hawke
Deptford
John Wilmot
Isleworth
Wm. Adamson
Stoke Newington
John Mandeno
Farmers’ Society
Ethnalprea
Richard Thomas
James Davis
Peckham
James Cooper
John George Storie
Camberwell
Thomas Ebb Gilbert
Union-hall
Lambeth-street
Hatton-garden
Thomas Venables
All Saints
Poplar
George Paul
Peter Page
East Sheen
Thomas Burford
Lawson Holmes
St. George's-in
Bosnia
Porte
Austria
The
Gary
Morning Herald
Estcourt
M.P
Sirce
R. E.atstick Adair Roe
Port
V. Ballantine
J. Hate
Lagistrate
W. Hoskins
Yard
Union Hall
Hedgeran
Old Bailey
Colonel Clitherow
Magi
Brent Filey
Mord
B. Stalfield
Es Omas Young
Stalwood
Celthorpe
St. Leonard, Wick
A. S. Laing
H. Wedgwood
Marylebone
C. K. Murray
Serj
Arabia
Strate
Hacks
John Clark
Acton
Deebone
Newcut
Operative Builders In Union
John Farley
Builders’ Union
Lambton Primrose
Butterknoul
Cowper
Hartley
Walls-end Bell
Robson, and Co
Ditto Bewicks and Co
Lya Dd
Ditto Clarke and Co
Ditto Gosforth
Ditto Heaton
Ditto Hillda
Smithfield
Hay
New
Nsveensaveseseetesseeeers
Sane Waseseee
Earenee
Whitechapel
Shipping Intelligence
London and Birmingham Railway
LAW Intelligence
Police
Falmouth
St. George's Church
New Miilis
Derby Mercury
Chesterfield
Yorkshire
Portsmouth
Carey
Court of Chancery
Monigen Martin
British Colonies
S . Waren Palace
Crawford
Burke
George Selwyn
Otranto
Wellington
St. George’s Chapel
Windsor
Jess
Western
Todia
Cochin
Tades
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