Parliament investigates royal pension and reform measures
The House of Commons debates royal pension legality and the Leopold grant, noting funds paid to the Exchequer and the pensioner’s debts. Two committees are formed to probe election expenses and voter lists, while foreign press actions and French parliamentary clashes are reviewed for wider implications.
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Leopold
Claremont
Marlborough House
Lyopop
Cosgett
Huntingdon
Westmorland
Heme
England
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
Warp
House of Commons
Calumny and Parliament in France Debate
The scene in the French Chamber features M Capet accusing the Interior Ministry of funding Figaro to smear liberal deputies. D'Arcout deflects, asking what right a deputy has to question the minister. The exchange highlights perceived corruption and the dignity of the chamber, with a Paris report promised for today.
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M. D'Arnout
Interior
M.caser
France
Figaro
M. Capet
MM. D’arcout
M. D’arcout
Paris
Enclosure of Lands Commons Debate Moves Select Committee
Lord ElLenson proposes a select committee to study enabling enclosure and access to common lands and waste grounds while opposing a new bill. The piece argues commons rights aid the poor, notes the differing incentives of capitalists and laborers, and cites Dicas v Onwhyn to critique libel law and urge reform.
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Lord ElLenson
House of Peers
Dives
Obsolete libel law condemned as crime against reading
The author laments a harsh ex post facto libel law that would criminalize lending or selling any publication deemed libellous. He condemns the statute as barbarous and calls for immediate repeal to restore freedom in private and public life, arguing that every tradesperson could be punished.
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Dicas
Public outrage over harsh sentence for selling harmless hand bill
A reader laments the twelve month Newgate sentence for a poor man with a wife and several children who sold a stupid harmless print. The writer contrasts his punishment with thieves and housebreakers who receive only nominal sentences and urges public mercy to aid his starving family.
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Reeve
Newgate
Financial market snapshot amid Franco Iberian news and dull trade
Eleven oclock reports subdued mood in money markets with Consols around 89 percent and foreign funds showing activity as Spain and Portugal reforms lift sentiment. Prices list Portuguese Regency, Spanish Cortes, Russian and Brazilian securities. no major gains in colonial produce. At one to four oclock Consols drift from 80 to 99, Exchequer Bills and India Stock firm, awaiting Friday budget before clear valuation. Singapore papers offer little insight beyond European intel.
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France
Lord Grey
Consels
Cortes SD
Spain
Portugal
Gore
India
French Papers Review Describe Savoy Irruption Fallout
The latest French papers report little news beyond the Savoy irruption and Madrid’s finance woes. Paris expects Cortes to shape governance without a manifesto while Vienna proceedings lack interest. Petersburg despatches reach to late last month as Emperor hosts a New Year ball for thirty thousand. Bourienne arrives at Caen as Deputies’ Chamber yields no notable events.
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Savoy
Madrid
Paris
St. Petersburgh
M. de Bourienne
Napoleon
Caen
Normandy
Chamber of Deputies
Neutrality proposals for entrepots in maritime cities
The Mercure reports an imminent government bill to declare neutral certain entrepots in port cities allowing foreigners to import and export merchandise without formalities or duties until goods are sold for consumption, transit, or re export. Vienna markets note bond prices and bank shares with prices and dates.
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Brussels
Fes
The
Mercure
Bevatan Fonds
Rothschild
Vienna
Servia
Kragujewierz
M. Davidowich
Milosch Toelgrade
Meyssenberg
Algemeine Zeitung
Burslem Society Forms to Protect People Rights
The Burslem Political Union has ceased, replaced by the Burslem Society for protecting the rights of the people. Its first meeting was held in the Assembly-room, with weekly reading sessions and monthly business meetings planned. a liberal subscription was opened to cover unresolved accounts of the late union. At Red Lion Square Sheriff Court a tailor sued an auctioneer's apprentice for 17s 0d for trousers with silk linings and padded calves. The sixteenth year old defendant faced minority defense, but the jury awarded the tailor the full amount.
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Stafordshire Ercury
Sheriffs Court
Red Lion Square
Carnival politics and press attack in Paris critique
From Fes, Feb 10, the correspondent reports a disillusioned carnival season as ministers prize the press mask, while M. Cabet faces a hostile Chamber. He notes organized attacks on independent journalism, duels averted by conciliatory amends, and swift rejection of widespread reform petitions, signaling tightening censorship and political maneuvering.
Markets this day at corn exchange report
Market noted ample samples of Wheat Barley and Oats with Wheat mainly from Essex damp morning not harming quality Dealers showed little buying activity with limited transactions to noon Oats posted the strongest sales Flour available but demand weak Prices for Wheat Barley Oats Beans and Peas remained at last Monday levels No bonded corn inquiries Arrivals listed Wheat Barley Malt Oats Beans Peas Flour with figures garbled in places
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Essex
Leigh
Market prices and supply at Newgate and Leadenhall
Veal and pork scarce with pork quality high but veal poorer. Beef and mutton abundant and good. Morton and beef trades active. Last Saturday prices set today figures. Game nearly finished with few turkeys and hares. Poultry limited and market dull. Butter and eggs light. Listed prices show beet 38s 10d to 4m Od. veal 58 2d to 5s dd. mutton 4s Od to 48 2d. pork 38 Od to 4s . 2d. geese up to 7d. ducklings 3s Ode. chickens 2s 3d to 2s Od. turkey pallets 9s Od to 10s Od. pigeons 6d to 7d 4d. rabbits 9d to 1s Od. continuous market notes indicate dull trade and unaltered prices.
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Newgate and Leadenhall
Encouragement of Literature Among Friends
A person asked to subscribe to a new publication declines but is urged to support literature anyway. The interlocutor replies humorously that he and a companion already support literature by subscribing to the Penny Magazine between them.
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Paisley Advertiser
Appointment and dissolutions in 19th century trades and offices
The Lord Chancellor appoints C W Wt of St Araph Flint for extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. CERTIFICATES list innkeepers carpenters wool-staplers corn-factors nurserymen upholsterers grocers builders tailors and more. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED names include fustian manufacturers millers trimmers coal merchants nurserymen and other trades across England with several firms in Manchester London Dover Nottingham and Norwich.
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C. W. W.tt
St. Araph
County of Flint
Gent
High Court of Chancery
G. Graves
Cumberland
W.moss
Monk Sherborne
Southampton
S. Bottomley
Huddersfeld
Yorkshire
F. Balkwill
Plymouth
J. C
Stead
Mark-lane
J. Thomason
Manchester
R. and
W. Crabtree
Burnley
Lancashire
D. Green
H. Stretton
Leicester
Trimmers
R. J. Marsh
S. T. Selk
Middle-wharf
Great “Scotland-yard
Whitley
P. Brames
T. Milne
Fulham
T. Brissenden
T. Hodges
Tanbridge Wells
G. and
T. Hankinson
Masclesfield
Norwich
Goldsmiths
R. P
T. Gee
Bristol
R. Gilling and Co
Cheddar
Somersetshire
Sandhills blow into village as manor lords act to hold back sea
Yesterday two Thornliebank youths Duncan Stevenson and Alex Shaw faced trial before Sheriff Dunlop on charges of molesting new workers hired by Messrs Crum at Thornliebank Field. Witnesses testified old apprentices formed marching groups at meals, blocked the workshop and hissed and groaned at the newcomers to force employers to accept union terms. The sheriff ruled the conduct clearly illegal, denounced intimidation, and jailed the prisoners for two months in Bridewell.
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Southport
Staffordshire Mercury
Duncan Stevenson
Alex. Shaw
Thornliebank
Sheriff Dunlop
Messrs. Crum
Thornliebank Field
Cram
Bridewell
Paisley Advertiser
Births Marriages and Deaths Notice from London Publication
Birth notices record several births including a daughter in Hammersmith to Mrs. Watos, a son to the wife of Scard in Ken-green, and sons to the wives of Lee at Eltham and Kingston in Portman Square. A Cork birth lists a daughter to J L Kingston. A marriage at St Marys Bryanston Square unites George Lowth with Emma Caroline Watkins. A Scots Edinburgh marriage links Stewart Bayley Hare to Mary Anne Macconnachie. Died notices include Thomas Robertson of the Strand aged 61 and F Cressmelly Esq. aged 86.
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Gracechurch-street
Bosier
Sone
Ropert-street
Coventry
Messrs
Clayton and Eaton
Lancaster-place
Strand
Mir
Cannan
Lothbury
George Bayley
Rotherhithe
Lacy and Bridges
King’s Arms Yard
Coleman-street
Kitchener
William Fry
Bristol
Cook
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Gillard
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Wakefield
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Leeds
Flower Broad-street
London
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Stockton-upon-Tees
Durham
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Miller
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Abbs
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Wilson
Sunderland
Gerard Cowell
Manchester
John Acton
Ian
Wigan
Commissioners’ Rooms
Adlington
Gregory
Faulkner
Bedford
Row
Leigh
James Butterworth
Rochdale
Woods
Gundy
Bury
Norris
Allen
Anthony
Great Ormond-street
John Broadberry
North Collingham
Nottinghamshire
Clinton Arms
Noo
Newark-upon-Trent
Lee
Milne
Arry
Morris
Mitrecourt
Temple
James Tench
Wribbenhall
Worcestershire
Scrivener
Talbot Inn
Stourbridge
Stevens
Wood
Wilkinson
Satchell
Little Saint Thomas Apostle
Queen-street
Cheapside
Flint
Stafford
George Thompson
Huddersfield
George Inn
Wavell
Halifax
J. E. C. Bentley
Wigmore-Street
Cavendish Square
R. Topham
Dockhead
Bermondsey
J.T. Walker
Oxford
G. Duckworth
Fleet-street
J. Lowe
Leamington Priors
Warwickshire
Crown Hotel
W. Roberts
Churwell
Yorkshire
C. Pope
St.Philip and Jacob
Gloucestershire
W. Booth
Liverpool
Clarendon-rooms
C. Palfreymap
J. and
W. Thompson
Rawden
Stone
Hammersmith
R. Watsos
Ken-green
E. Scard
G. Lee
Eltham
Gloucester-place
Portmassquare
J. Kingston
Glebe
Macroom
Cork
J. L. Kingston
Tos
St. Mary’s
Bryanston Square
George Lowth
R. Lowth
Emma
Caroline
Daugter
T. Watkins
Pennoyce
Old Meadowbank
Colles of Justice
The
Thomas Robertson
Beco
Cressmelly Esq
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Hosier-lane
Tinglate Nestor
Ase
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Borough
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U Z. Delcroix
New And-Street
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