Debate on Malt Tax and Tax Alternatives in the House
Sir W Indlay moved to form a committee to consider repealing the malt duty. Sir William proposed substitutes and objections to the current system. Benett and O Connett urged a property tax as a remedy, while Sir Rupert Peer warned against its inquisitorial nature. The discussion covered gin taxation, illicit distillation, and the impact of taxes on rural life and beer demand, with speeches criticizing the broader fiscal policy and the demoralization of agrarian communities.
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W. Indlay
William
Mr. Benett
O’connett
Rupert Peer
Sir Rosert
Willliam Ingilby
Rosert
Consett
Bariie
Debating finance and political fault lines in Britain and France
The discussion covers moving taxes toward a productive property levy, national faith amid debt policy, and rifts between Whigs and Tories in Dudley. It notes Marylebone contests, potential dual candidates, and calls for unity among Radicals. A French scene follows with proposed suppressive measures, arrests, and Paris unrest warnings.
Magistrates Seek Rate Relief for North Riding of York
A report notes magistrates of the North Riding of York petitioning the legislature against the county rate’s heaviness and seeking relief. It mentions the Coachmakers Benevolent Institution and a trustee inquiry into funds from a Long Acre bequest and subscriber money from 1829. A benefit for Mr Tyrrell is announced at a city theatre with H Kemble as Jack Adams in Jerrold’s Mutiny of the Note.
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North Riding of
York
Coachmaker’s Benevolent Institution
Long-acre
Tyrrell
Church-street
Portman-market
Royal Pavillion
H. Kemble
Jack Adams
Mr. Jerrold
Serteely
France faces vitiated policy and vine protest in Bordeaux
Paris dispatch reports a large Bordeaux assembly of vine proprietors denouncing Thiers and the new customs and indirect tax regime. The petition urges regional tax reform or separate customs for north and south, warning of ruin to vignicultural property and urging government action amid growing public agitation.
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Paris
Memorial Bordelais
France
Bordeaux
M. Thiers
Borpeaux
Fes
Watis
Vines
Douaniere
la Gironde
Carbonari
M. Barthe
Chamber of Peers
Peyronnet
Poissy
Carbonari Club
la Gazette de Tribunaux
Sergean de Ville
Gazette de Tribunaux
Gazette
Tribune
National
Courrier Francais
Lyons
Ainsi
Madrid
Martinez de la Rosa
Gareli
St Joan and Sr Marcarer House Tax Debate Summary
Mr Birch notes that Sir Samuel Whalley supported not separation of parishes and urged opposing only the house tax repeal. He claimed Whalley stood with Colonel Evans for constituents' needs but was not backed by Sir William Horne, warning that repealing only the window tax would leave house taxes and please the nobility and gentry with lighter assessments.
Money Market Reopens As Debates On Repeal Move Markets
City notes from this day report renewed activity in the money market following last night's debate on repealing the mail duty. Consols steady around 90s, Spanish Cortes near 32, Portuguese Regency around 72. News from Singapore, Lisbon, Hamburg, and France arrives. traders cheer Sir Ingilby’s defeat and expect repeal of house and window taxes.
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Tex O'Crock
Stock Exchange
Cortes
Singapore
France
Lisbon
Holland
Hamburgh
W. Ingilby
Lloyd’s Books
India
Law Intelligence Daily Court Proceedings Summary
This day an appeal was opened from a Master of the Rolls decision in Clifton Cockburn's case. The Vice-Chancellor heard petitions by order in the morning. The King's Bench sat on its last day, with a special jury trial of limited public interest, and in Common Pleas Whitborne v Pettifer ended in compromise after the jury failed to agree.
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M. Augustin Giraud
M. Giroup
M. Bartue
Chamber of Peers
Tribunal of Correctional Police
Paris
Tuileries
Rastorino
Court OF King’s Bench
Whitborne
Publican sued for assault in Piccadilly house case verdict
An attorney sues a Piccadilly publican for assault at the publican's house over a disputed account with a client. The jury returns verdict for the plaintiff with 201 damages. The defendant had died about a fortnight earlier after a brief illness.
Richard Mariner Indicted for Assault on Coal-Whipper Captain
Richard Mariner a coal-whipper pleaded guilty to assaulting Robert Miller the captain of a coal-whipper gang on the 5th instant. He had been imprisoned three weeks with a wife and six children depending on him. He was sentenced to six months at Giltspur Street Compter. The Recorder urged parish officers to support the defendant's family and hoped the punishment would benefit the crew. The court adjourned.
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Richard Mariner
Robert Miller
Giltspur Street Compter
The Crime of Poverty In The Queen Square Area
Police report two cases of homelessness and vagrancy in Lambeth and Marylebone. A young man Joseph Richardson, from Bath, received fourteen days at the House of Correction after wandering with no home or money. A ten year old boy, recently released from prison for sleeping rough, was sent to Marylebone overseers. A porter named William Warner was robbed of a carpet bag with clothes and a desk at Aldgate after being lured inside a tavern by a traveller.
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Queen-Square
Joseph Richardson
White
L Division
Waterloo Road
Lambeth
Newcut
House of Correction
Mr. White
Marylebone Parish
Colonial Markets This Day Afloat Prices Stable
Mauritios Sucar public sale moved 3,430 baga at 57s to 57s 6d for yellow and 1s to 64a for brown washed, 6d lower. Cocoa sold 19 barrels and 334 bags of Trinidad at 39s 3d to 47s, former prices. Corree included 91 casks 36 barrels and 71 bags of British Plantation at 76s to 82s for good ordinary.
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Mauritios Sucar
Trinidad
Corree
Oxford Convocation Names Public Examiners and Appointments
In a February convocation Oxford approved Public Examiners in Literis Humanioribus Jenne and Head, in Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis Johnson. New College scholar Agnew named Saturday. John Williams appointed Baron and sworn at Lincoln's Inn. Talleyrand and Baron Bulow met Viscount Palmerston at the Foreign Office. Colonel Evans sets repeal window tax motion for May 15.
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Oxford
Jenne
Pembroke
Head
Merton
Johnson
Queen’s
T. R. Agnew
New College
John Williams
Common Law
Lincoln’s Inn
Prince Talleyrand
Baron Bulow
Viscount Palmerston
Foreign Office
Colonel Evans
Paris and Lyon unrest and work stoppages ease
Letters from Lyons dated February 24 report most looms active in Lyon and La Croix Rousse while most manufacturers refuse concessions and workmen return individually. Eyraud the police agent’s death remains a loss for his family. Other dispatches note tranquillity returning in Saint Etienne and arrests of alleged assassins and agitators in Bayonne and Paris.
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Paris
Fes
Lyons
la Croix Rousse
St. Etienne
Eyraud
German Papers ReportVienna Congress Critique and Berlin Student Arrests
A Heidelberg pamphlet argues that German princes gain little from intervening in internal affairs and warns of dangers to the German confederation’s independence, while liberalism faces attack. Berlin notes reveal over sixty student arrests linked to a Burachenschaft movement, with a commission led by Counsellor D. investigating. Cassel court overturns police censorship on a forthcoming journal, declaring no legal basis to prohibit publication. Also reports on naval movement at Ancona and grain duties shifts in the Black Sea.
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Nuremberg
Fes
Heidelberg
Vienna
Berlin
Committee of Bagnaty
Burachenschaft
Spandau
Potsdam
Hesse Cassel
Superior Court of Appeal At
Cassel
Ancona
Finisterre
Toulon
Black Sea
Odessa
M. Grasselini
Naples
Allgemeine Zeitung
Marylebone Election and Military Movements Report
The article notes a split in the Pancras Whig side over Sir John Cam Hobhouse’s election and hints Sir William Home’s possible stance. It details Half year troop movements of Grenadier Guards Coldstream Guards and Fusiliers among Brighton Windsor Westminster Portman-street Knightsbridge and related Barracks. It also lists creditors meetings births marriages and deaths with multiple names and places, including Lincoln’s Inn Fields P street and St Pancras Church.
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Tower
Windsor
Grenadier Guards
Jodree
Westminster Barracks
Portman-street Barracks
Lambert
Tower of London
Coldstream Guards
Sir William Gomm
The
Millman
St. George's Barracks
Knightsbridge
Kensington
Magazine
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Bolanos Mining Company
Averse Ora Brazilian Imp. Min. Co
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Casa Branca
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True Sun
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George Warner, Eay
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Ranphier
Joseph Warner
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Stivichall
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Hood
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George Lee
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Joseph Nash
Reigate
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Anne
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Harlyn
Cornwall
William Rouse Peter
67Th Foot
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S. Stephens
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Treggenni Castle
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F. F. Redicson
Bengal Civil Service
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John Ager
Patrick Grant
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