The Jack Snipe of the Mainistay in Contempt
A satirical piece likens Irish government finance to a jack snipe. It ridicules the Irish Secretary’s repeated promises and charges while discussing land tax, sinecures, and pension lists. It denounces the Church of England as a yoke and links religious power with injustice and extortion in Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Examiner
Mainistay
Roas
Trish Tithe
Parliament
Ireland
O’connell
Tur Berch Question in Times on Dutch King’s conduct in Netherlands talks
The Times critiques the Journal de la Haye for defending the Dutch King against charges of placing personal ambition over national interests in negotiations linked to Belgium Luxembourg and the 1831 settlement. It argues the king obstructed peace, used delaying tactics, and required German consent as a pretext while not sincerely accepting the arrangement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
TIMES
Journal de la Haye
Holland
Netherlands
Belgium
Lopes
Luxemburgh
Hague
England
Russia
Turkey
Spain
Portugal
Grand Duchy
Austria
Prussia
The Lippe Law and Lyons Workmen Strikes in France
A dense critique reviews the Lippe Law's flawed jury outcomes and harsher punishment for the True Sun. It then analyzes Lyons textile associations, Mutuellistes and Ferandiniers, amid a massive strike over plush and shawl wages, depicting working-class organization, republican influence, and calls for cheaper governance and provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
Spectator
Lyons
France
Doctrinaires
Juste Mifieu
le Courrier de Lyon
Courrier de Lyon
Sanguinary
Lst
Royal Exchange
Société Mutuellists
Ferandiniers
Ferrandinemakers
Society of Mutuellistes
Freemasons
2 Echo de la Fabrique
Society of the Ferandiniers
Mutuellistes
Saint Etienne
Society of the Rights of Man
Hecho de la Fabrique
Echo Des Travailleurs
Juste
Paris
Echo de la Fabrique
Mutu
Imprisoned Barrett Condemned for Attacks on Press Liberty
The passage condemns Barrett's imprisonment as an assault on press freedom. It argues his action harmed his own reputation as a public writer and that imprisoning him harms rights of the subject, labeling the move autocrat in tone and urging universal condemnation of such actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suw
James
True Sun
Voice of the Million
Morning Post
The
Times
the Chronicle
Barrett
Dublin
O’connell
Westminster Free Trade Debate Angered Reviewer Refuses Challenge
A sequence of Westminster discussions prompts the True Sun to challenge the reviewer. The reviewer offers brief notices and avoids direct engagement, claiming the debate has grown lengthy. The True Sun insists on continuing in True Sun columns, offering to adopt the reviewer’s creed if not refuted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster
Rue Sun
The
True Sun
E ‘True Sun
Mining Intelligence Summary of Copper Ore Sales
Average Standard 113 13s per unit. Average production 73 per ton. Total ore 2504 tons copper 184 tons. Total value 14307 13s 6d. Copper ore to be sold at Truro on February 27. Consolidated Mines 663 tons United Mines 317 Great St. George 250 Fowey Consols 196 East Crinnis 154 Lanescot 109 Cardrew Consors 88 Wheal Trannack 18 North Downs 15 total 1790 tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truro
Consolidated Mines
United Mines
Great St. George
Fowey Consols
East Crinnis
Lanescot
Cardrew Consors
Wheal Trannack
North Downs
Redruth
Court of Chancery yearns for clerical speed on orders
In a Friday session Sir E Sugden reported an order was issued to pay money into the court but clerks failed to draw it up before the deadline. The Lord Chancellor noted two registrars were ill, others overburdened, and pledged to maintain the full clerical staff despite calls to reduce it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Sugden
Fry
House of Commons
Lord Chief Baron disposes of four exchequer bills
The Lord Chief Baron sat with a London Common Jury and disposed of four actions upon bills of exchange with no public interest. He rose at 1:30 to attend as a Lord of the Privy Council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court OF Exchequer
London
Privy Council
Middlesex Adjourned Sessions Guilty Plea in Telegraphic Assault Case
Edward Archer, described as a broker and “Legal Adviser of Paddington,” faced trial for assaulting Martin Hussey amid a sequence of debt letters and false legal advice. A witness recounted refusals to acknowledge debts, threatenings, and a mop-handle beating. Archer was found guilty and ordered to pay 5 pounds to the Crown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paddington
Faddington-green
Crown Office
King’s Bench
Coining cases and street assaults in London notices
Police arrest James Hunt, John Miller, John Peapall, and Isabella Shepley for coining at No 10 New Pye Street, with Mint officials to attend. Other items report assaults on Mr Finch at Walworth Common, toll-collectors Marsden and Tickner fined, Duke of Gloucester cart notice, wool theft reexamination, excise fraud by William Osborne, and a disorderly assault at Southwark Town Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apparenewston
James Hunt
John Miller
John Peapall
Isabella Shepley
No. 10
New Pye-street
Mint
Finch
Walworth Common
Thurkell
Bermondsey
Walworth
Aelesband
John Marsden
Henry Tickner
Marsh-gate
Lambeth
Gregorie
Farrer
Messrs
Steadman and
Vernon
Westminster School
Marsden
Tickner
Marlborough Street
Byers
Dyer
Duke of Gloucester
Co. Higgins
Col. Higgins
Royal Highwess
Higgins
Lambeth Street
Borneries
John Bell
Galley Quay
Pickford's
Messrs. Dutton
Leeds
Lea
London
Liverpool
Wooler
Norton
William Osborne
Scotland
Limehouse
Poplar
Southwark
Joseph Biggs
William Westwood
Escape of a Lion and Tigress at Wombwell’s Menagerie
A London era report recounts the escape of the lion Wallace and a large tigress from a caravan near Worksworth on a Tuesday night. The lion killed a cow and wounded two others before being recaptured. the tigress killed a woman and a boy, was wounded, and died the next day after an inquest returned an accidental death verdict. Mr Wombwell aided promptly, arranging funerals and promising to cover damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wombwell
Lion Wallace
Worksworth
Newhaven Fair
White Lion Inn
Warwick
Northampton
Brutal assault case in Borough market involving two prisoners
Mary Barton, 18, servant to widow Yeams in Borough market, testified that fellows Biges and Westwood often mocked her with obscene language and indecencies. On Friday the 14th she was attacked as she returned from an errand. Biges muffled her and Westwood pulled her clothing over her head, then molested her. She escaped, later identifying them to officers. warrant issued and prisoners committed for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Barton
Jaly
Yeams
Biges
Westwood
Royal Navy dispatch from Portsmouth on Scylla and ships in the Med
The Scylla under Commander Hargood returns from the Mediterranean after four years. A flotilla including Raleigh Meteor Mastiff and others remain at Malta and Corfu while Beagle and others survey South America. Capture reports include the slaver Ross and the Maria da Gloria with hundreds of slaves. Losses on the French coast rise to forty seven ships in December. Appointments rename Grey to Scout and Hargood to Scylla with several promotions aboard various vessels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Scylla
Hargood
Mediterranean
Malta
Pulteney Malcolm
Toulon
Raleigh
Gibraltar
Meteor
Volage
Corfu
Scout
Tripoli
Champion
Alexandria
Reignin
Tunis
Algiers
Pelican
Gape
Spithead
Isis
Polkinghorne
Sierra Leone
Gambia
Forester
Miall
Cape of
Barbadoes
Wasp
Burney
Grenada
Victor
Russell
Tobago
Cockatrice
Rees
Buenos Ayres
Rio
Monte Video
Beagle
Fitzroy
Dasson
Hindon
Cambridge
Armstrong
Plymouth
Cape Corn
Sounding
Rio Plata
Valparaiso
Falkland Islands
Straits of Magellan
South America
Daniell
Ross
Tropic
Havannah
Snake
W. Robertson
Rio de Janeiro
Maria da Gloria
Edinburgh
J. R. Dacres
France
Paris
Lowry
Beachy Head
Fes
Thunderer
W. F. Wise
C.B
Cork
Spike Island
Parke
Marine Artillery
Nimrod
M‘dougall
Oporto
Lisbon
Dee
Athol
Tapia
Carron
Colum
Falmouth
Mary
Beachcroft
van Dieman’s Land
Pembroke-yard
Hon
G. Grey
W. Hargood
W. Woodrife
Ralph Hay
T. Hills
G. Glasson
R. Cotter
J. Brookes
A. Sanderson
J. C. Barlow
W. Storris
J. Maling
Long
Thomas Wemyss
Salamander
Tyler
Mr. Lavie
Multiple Births and Obituaries From London Notices
A dense obituary and birth notice snippet lists numerous marriages with births on various dates across 1st to 20th inst., naming Brakspear, Ward, Manderson, Hallett, Heawood, Wade, Duncombe, Frock ton, Mang nell, Knight, Lamport, Lamport relict, and others. Died notices note Phoebe Solomon, Mrs G. Nicholl, Eleanor Yate, Wm Barber, Mrs Sarah Browning, Wm Acton, Lucy Esa, Thos Bird, and Mrs Kingsford with ages and locations such as Chatham, Arundel Street, Panton-square, Newington-green, Camberwell, Hereford, and more. The item ends with the printer and publisher details for True-Saw Office, Strand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. George’s
Hanover Square
R. H. Wade
Harriet
T. Duncombe
Copgrove
Yorkshire
Cranford
Thomas Frockton
Horselydown
Charlotte Mangnell
Christ Church
St. Marylebone
George Knight
Bridge-street
Farnham
Sustey
Lamport
Thomas. Lamport
Chatham
Kent
Phoebe Solomon
Saul Solomon
St. Helena
Arundel-street
Panton-square
G. Nicholl
Bushy Herts
Eleanor Yate
G. Hemming
Little Paradon
Sox
Lucy
R. Esa
Admiral Lechmere
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Contemporary Press
True Bun
Westminster Review
Calvin
Mining Intelligence
Devon
Friendship
North Crebor
Charles Town
LAW Intelligence, Fre
Court OF Chancery
Bewdley
Pollock
Allport
James Scarlett
Worcestershire
Middlesex
Police
Queen Square
Europe
United States
New Orleans
M. A
Allée Des Veuves
Royal Navy, &c
H. T. Salmon
Oxford-street
Wax-Chandler
Basinghall-Street
It J. Jay
Welbeck-street
Cavendish-square
Il Hivinend
Henley-on-Thames
W. H. Brakspear
John-street
Bedford-row
J. Ward
Musselburgh
J.R. Manderson
Hon. Company
Charles Grant
John: Ager
Patrick Grant
Strand, Lordos
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