An 19th Century Sales and Notices Snippet
Fragmented OCR reads like a London ad page listing life office products ROYAL UNION LIFE AND UNITY OFFICE 1825 and updated acts, a Strand information hall ad, a Dublin Steam parcel note, a London book catalogue notice, and Cape wine prices at George Henerey Co Gray's Inn Wine Establishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Union Life and Unity Office
Act of Paris
William IV
Lancaster-place
Strand
Cape
East India
George Henerey and Co
Gray's Inn
High Holborn
United Mexicans Mining Company Meeting in London
Proprietors of shares met at the City of London Tavern to receive the Court of Directors report on affairs. The Marquis de Rayas allegedly retained company property worth about half a million dollars despite fair claims. The British minister at Mexico, Sir Edward Pakenham, pursued justice without success. Directors urged applying to the Duke of Wellington to press Mexican authorities for redress for British shareholders. The recommendations were agreed, and the meeting adjourned after other business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of London
Easthope
Marquis de Rayas
Mexico
Pakenham
Court of Directors
Duke of Wellington
Jamaica Colony Scene and Opposition to New Labor Plan
Jamaica reports through January show improved worker willingness on several estates to adhere to the old labor hours. The House of Assembly debates the inquiry report on the new system, rejecting a motion to amend the clause blaming Baptist missionaries for plan failures. The governor seeks access to correspondence, but the Assembly, via a board of commissioners, defends its denial and maintains a clerk’s limited access under existing rulings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
House of Assembly
Abbott
Commissioners of Correspondence
William I
Board of Commissioners of Correspondence
Riot destroys Sheffield Medical School and more
A Sunday Monday riot in Eyre Street Sheffield led to the complete destruction of the medical school after a intoxicated couple quarrel and a murder claim. Mob violence escalated as crowds burned furniture and books, with fire engines blocked and troops called to quell the chaos. The Medical Hall in Surrey Street also faced attacks but with limited damage due to timely intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medical School
Eyre Street
Sheffield
6Th Soulskilling Dragoons
Medical
Surreystreet
Sir William Rae Rumour of Bench Appointment Revealed
Parliament House gossip says Sir William Rae may be raised to the bench after a resignation by a senior judge. Rae, former lord advocate for twelve years, declined promotion citing lack of required qualifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ray
Parliament House
William Rae
William
Miliary Asyum
Military Academy
Military College
Greenwich Hospital
Chelsea Hospital
Haslar Hospital
Ply Mouth Hospital
Naval Asylum
Navy
Newgate
Milbank
British Museum
Sion College
Lord We's Charity
Parker
Ken- 3
Stepney Causeway
Ashley-place
Kay
Limehouse
Thiroack
Murder in Argyle Place Coroner Inquest at Cromer Street
Coroner Stirting and a jury examined witnesses over the death of Henry Jenkins at the Boot public house Cromer street Brunswick square. Georgiana Clarke is charged with murder and a verdict of wilful murder was returned against her based on testimony of stabbing during a dispute over a sausage frying incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stirting
Boot
Cromer-street
Brunswick-square
Henry Jenkins
Eged
Georgiasa Clarke
Hatton-garden
William Dunston Stanley
St. Pancras
Zion-terrace
Argyle-place
No. 1
Dr. Jones
Georgiana Clarke
Clarke
Davidson
Wilkins
Tanley
Jmargeeny Campbell
Stanley
Tam
Phoebe Davidson
Phoebe Davideau
Jenkins
Wm. Jones
Judd-street
Mr. Jones
Mr. Jenkins
Mrs. Jenkins
Elizabeth Wilkins
Speldhurst Street
Lee
Beadle
St. Pancras Parish
Jasley
Court of Directors selects Heytesbury as Governor General of India
A late meeting of the East India Company Court of Directors at the India House unanimously agreed to appoint Lord Heytesbury as Governor General of India, pending confirmation by the Board of Control. Swearing-in will occur after confirmation, with no premature entertainments planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East India Company
India House
India
William Bentinck
Lord Heytesbury
Court of Directors
Board of Control
British plan to dethrone Maharajah Munn Singh in India
Dispatches from Bombay report the planned October expedition against Maharajah Munn Singh of Joudhapore. The uprising traces to a long contest over the Odeypore princess and succession, with treachery in Meer Khan’s camp ending in a massacre of forty chiefs and Doukul Singh's flight. The British stance remains unclear.
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Balfour
Bee
Bombay
Maharajah Maun Singh
Joudhpare
Joudboure
Doukul Singh
Joudbpore
Munn Singh
Musnad
Pakwin Thakoor Sewaie
Joudhpore
Maun Singh
Marwar
Ranee
Khetree
Abbye Singh
Jyepore
Odeypore
Kishna
Kuomarie Raee
Mann Singh
Meer Khan
Meer Kahn
Deukul Singh
Steam Communication With India Eyed by Merchants
The letters praise Captain Wagborn and the Board of Control for a planned steam link to India and China. Liverpool is named as the likely port, with Wagborn long identified with the project. The writer vows to present details to Liverpool merchants and to pursue a faster, regular Asiatic steam service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Asia
Wagborn
Board of Control
Liverpool
London
Cornhill
China
Thomas Waghorn
Steam route to India urged by private merchants
India Board hears private merchants in Calcutta and Liverpool favor a regular steamship link to India via the Red Sea. A private company may transport passengers and letters England to India, with government support limited to initial four years. Postmaster General allows same postage as current routes. The Gazette notes Board of Control expansion and a close vote on Sir Robert Grant’s Bombay presidency appointment.
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India Board
Calcutta
Liverpool
India
Red Sea
England
Alcatta
Malta
Cape
Ellenborough
Thos. Waghorn
Board of Control
Cannon-row
C. Grant
Robert Grant
Presidency of
Bombay
Meeting of Sackville Street Medical Society elects Stanhope president
A meeting in Sackville street chose Earl Stanhope as president for the next session. Secretaries named were Dr. Sigmond and Dr. Cadelt, with professors of materia medica botany and chemistry. A lecture on plant organization was given and specimens of local flora shown. A Vienna plant Bailota laxata discussed for rheumatism. differing views noted, with optimism for testing its effects. The society’s annual report was read and found satisfactory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sackville Street
Everett
Earl "Stanhope
Sigmond
Cadelt
Byes Gilbert Burnett
Thomas Everett
Bath
Hanna
Ryan
Vienna
Siberia
Newt
James Johnson
Glasow Banquet Honors Dr Bowring At Free Trade Rally
In Glasgow a banquet in Assembly rooms honored Dr Bowring with the Lord Provost chairing. Bowring praised his Kilmarnock district election, urged free trade, and contrasted reformist Britain with Tory resistance. He urged France England mutual commerce over war, and warned Tory opposition to commercial reform, closing with praise of Earl Grey and the Reform Bill of 1833.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friends of Free Trade
Bowring
Kilmarnock
Robert Peel
France
England
Earl Grey
Murder at East Retford Verdict in Willful Murder Case
After four sittings a respectable jury returned a verdict of willful murder. Edward Taylor as principal and Mary Ann Lindsey as accessory were charged in the killing at Sutton-row Retford. A quarrel between Lindsey and Jane Taylor led to the elder Taylor attacking, with the knife found matching the wound. The incident stains Retford as a disgraceful scene and features three Taylors with no relation among them.
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Edward Taylor
Mary Ann Lindsey
Lindsey
Jane Taylor
Mountebank Jin
Edward Talor
Sutton-row
Retford
Taylor
Boston Herald
Impartiality and Justice Move Brussels Machinery Law
A Brussels Papers note cites a recent law allowing foreign machinery imports and claims it spurs a power loom factory. It contrasts two ways to confront partial evil by universalizing it. The piece critiques impartiality and justice as popular names for such a approach. It also reports long-lived deaths and a fatal accident in Herefordshire and London, plus a Spanish chess anecdote praising chivalry and manners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Westminster Review
Lonckvity
Treville Township
Herefordshire
Ann Evans
Tralee
Judith Brew
de Mexer Caracter
Great Church Meeting at Bir mingham Diocese
A large Birmingham gathering of about 3000 members, including the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry and many nobles, urged church building in the Coventry Lichfield diocese. They pressed for better accommodation for the poor to curb crime, and discussed forming The Diocesan Society for promoting church expansion with parishes, committees, and funding plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Lichfield
Coventry
Earl of Dartmouth
Earl of
Aylesford
Earl of Bradford
Viscount Clifford
Salop
Stafford
Denbigh
T. Wrottesley
Dugdale
Yawkes
Messrs. R. Bedford
iBray A. Clive
E. Burn
Ww. Marsh
T. Mosley
J. Garbett
Dr. June
J. Leigh
H. Portney
Uge
Rorae
Rizhs
Church of England
Coustre
Establishe! Church
Earl of Aylesford
Cari
Tee
Treggurer
Litchfield
Salup
Salap
Shropshire
Hereford
Lord Kenyon
Duke of Sutherland
Bridgewater
Thasely
Sud
Litchfeld
Hodson
Building Society of London
London
Pattahes
Anilesia
France
Marylebonne
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Soa Rungute
Bel-Ch. Fawcett
Brooks
Ce Gunday
Robert Bept
Literary Advertiser
Aldine Pesca
Hall of Information
Ieee
Hall of Universal Information
Exeter Hall
United Mexican’ Mining Company
Colonial Intelligence
New-Road
Prince of Orange
Rez
EAST INDIA_HOUSE
Governor General OF India
East Indies
Medico-Botanical Society
Glasgow
DR. Bowring
East Retford
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