08 Jan 1833
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Newspaper
True Sun
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 08, 1833
Page
1
A collage of Victorian era ads and notices includes steam navigation packets from Hamburg to Ostend and Calais sailings, a new panorama titled Two Views of the Falls of Niagara, and retail pitches for Atson's Wine and Walter's Anniseed Pills. The items highlight shipping schedules, exhibition openings, and medicine vendors with prices and locations across London.
An 18th century advertisement promotes Enowy's Pills as the all sufficient medicine for mankind. It lists the National Institution of Health at No 40 Seymour Street London and numerous city agents, warns against spurious Beccy’s Pill sales, and urges readers to ask for the pamphlet for free distribution. Also notes a Liverpool Corn Exchange Friday events report with grain prices and market activity.
In a late Edinburgh Town Council meeting the Lord Provost announced a forthcoming Parliament Bill to reform the Scotch burgh system. He urged councils to decide changes and communicate with the city’s Members, who are expected to respect their recommendations. A Committee was formed to study the subject and assist in promoting the reform.
The Paisley trade shows unusually favorable conditions with full winter employment in weaving and a strong spring rebound. Jaconet harness dresses, Canton shawls, and silk mills are active, with higher wages and prices for weavers. Rich Indian imitation goods also see brisk demand, and patterns promise widespread work and higher earnings. overall outlook remains positive as Parliament approaches. A separate note reports Captain John Gordon’s leg injury healing after being struck in Stricheo, and a Deptford fire destroys Mrs Harrison’s Downing Street home with losses around 400 to 500 pounds.
Wren, found guilty of setting fire to a rick at Uckfield, was executed at Horsham after the Lewes Assizes. He maintained innocence to the end, showed calmness in the chapel, and to spectators urged good lives while declaring his innocence. Before the end he spoke of innocence and prayed to God, as the crowd watched. His past included multiple imprisonments and a pistol shot to the neck in a baggage-w wagon robbery attempt.
On Monday’s limited announcement demand for cotton rose, with Uplands and Alabamas in strong favor. Market closed with a general rally of 4d per lb across American and Brazil descriptions. Weekly sales reached 20,336 bags, while today’s activity included 3,000 bales across options from 82d to 9d, 600 Brazils in Pernams at 8d to 63d, Tid. to 8d, 200 Surats 43d to 54d, and about 1,500 American descriptions ranging 631. to &d.
Mary Casey, a widow, writes to the Register via the Independent Journal alleging Archdeacon Magee of Wicklow forced a 3s 4d tithe demand on her, despite having no tithe before, and even threatening to take her bed covering. The letter also references local persecution claims amid election tensions, a Dun-carvon verdict of unjustifiable homicide, and a Bonmahon firearm accident causing a servant’s fatal injuries.
A letter from ONE OF THE UNREPRESENTED argues reform will lead to universal suffrage. He claims educated minds outside Parliament possess political wisdom, urging the Legislature to heed public will and remove press taxes that hinder informed debate. The piece asserts reformers must prepare for universal suffrage and warns against aristocratic resistance.
Cholera outbreaks in Knaresborough have caused eight deaths, one recovery, and ten under treatment since last Sunday week. In Gorton, Hibbert killed Horsfall with a throat grip during a football fight, leading to a charge of manslaughter against Hibbert. he has been committed to Lancaster Gaol.
The article discusses the Times and Examiner exchanges over political openness and the franchise. It argues non electors should influence the electoral body, supports gradual expansion of the constituency, and warns against secrecy and intimidation in politics.
Sporting Intelligence notes attendance up yesterday at Tattersalls with Prince Llewellyn strong at 12 to 1 and various backings for Revenge Glaucus and others. Closing prices list many horses with odds, top stakes and heavy bets on Glaucus, and signals a record 2-year-old stakes entries at Newmarket York and Doncaster for next season.
The Patriot cites a claim that 800 MPs favor abolishing colonial slavery. A Bungay traveler reports a man hanged near Brooke who was revived, then thanked his rescuer. Norwich Mercury notes Berlin battery trials at Spandau and a coroner's inquest into William Facey’s death. Henry Howard critiques secret ballots as a risk to reform.
An extra sheet from the Buffalo Journal and Bulletin describes a Wednesday night fire that swept a two story wooden building near the Exchange on Main Street and burned from Exchange to Pearl. The blaze, aided by wind and failing walls, caused about 150000 dollars in losses, menaced the city, and led to looting with numerous prisoners examined. The incident is suspected arson, coinciding with the three year anniversary of a previous great fire.
A Hamilton Wesleyan report outlines the Red River Settlement in Hudson's Bay Company territory. It lists a 1331 summer census: 2427 total population with Catholics 1242 and Protestants 1185, 465 families, 452 dwellings, 375 outbuildings, and farm stock including 256 horses and 1856 pigs. The letter notes healthy climate, cheap goods, and affordable labor, with expectations of thousands of sheep and expanding farming.
Mr Kin Loch M P for Dundee recalls a curious link between his 1819 cited trial for reform and a 1832 welcome by Sheriff L A my. He compares his exile to France with later political acceptance, noting the same sheriff proclaimed him outlaw in 1819 and then supported his selection in 1832, drawing a vivid contrast in Dundee progress.
A large meeting at Gray's Inn Road heard a report from the Committee on uniting the Institution of the Industrious Classes with the Equitable Exchange Bazaar. The motion to adopt the report passed by a large majority, with several speakers endorsing the union and details, before adjournment.
An inquest at the Flask Ebury-square into the death of Mrs Joanna Morgan 43 with three children and another on the way. She died after severe vomiting and a attempt to self medicate with poison. Verdict aberration of mind. Also reports a fatal mill accident at Battersea where Thomas Beale was decapitated by a wheel after slipping into the gear. his remains were scattered among machinery. The mill engine house was shut down and authorities recovered the body parts.
An inquest at the Sheffield infirmary examined Jesse Fretwell, aged 18, amid riot disturbances on December 34. The coroner and jurors questioned witnesses including Thomas Dune and John Ward about mob control, yeomanry force, and firing with ball rather than blank cartridges. Surgeon W Overend declared the wound caused Fretwell’s death. the jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide in the earlier instance.
An account from a Finsbury dinner recounts an attempt to save Hunton the Quaker from death by bribing the press. Mr Cobbett refused a 50 pound bribe and remarked that forgery warrants death, though Hunton would still be executed. funds spent to save him reportedly reached about five thousand pounds.
A garbled 19th century style account describes natives visiting land near Langley Gate and attacking a man named Gand with spears. He falls, is wounded, and resists with arms raised as a general assault unfolds. The text mentions an aftermath and references a Turkish ambassador and prison at Newgale in unclear context.
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