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Newspaper
True Sun
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 06, 1834
Page
12
The note reports high water times at London Bridge for tomorrow with morning at ten minutes after twelve and evening at twenty seven minutes after twelve. The correspondence section notes an error in a letter from T Parkin and a misdirected postscript from Dudley causing an incongruity reader will notice.
Extracts show hopes for M. Capet on appeal against his harsh sentence and civil rights ban. The piece condemns the verdict as cruel, notes jury remorse, and discusses political tensions in Bordeaux and Paris. It cites ministerial plans on tariffs, public protests, and the threat of rebellion, with wide European updates and press independence debates.
A London edition notes a te a trade dispute with the East India Company, with sales postponed and losses estimated at 2000 pounds. Market prices drift, Consols at 9134, Portuguese 66 66, Spanish Cortes 31 4, and Lloyd’s reports modest arrivals from Margate while wind and tea gale interest continue.
The report notes 45H for 50 for ee Two-and-a-Half per Cents and 963 for the Fives as markets remain subdued. A postponed tea sale and a slow market are mentioned alongside shipping news from the Euphrates and Eucharis with arrivals from Charleston and Martinique. The General Post-office states mails to Hamburgh will be made up on set days by steam vessels from the Thames. Freeling signs as secretary.
Rolls Court heard the case of Griffiths executors v Shackell and others concerning a Coppico row printer’s ink business. The testator’s son-in-law Shackell claimed one third of profits and capital. executors and widow argued only profits per co‑partnership terms. Master to take accounts and arrange sale of goodwill and premises. Court left Shackell with one third of profits from start of partnership, denied share of capital, and allowed bidding or carrying on business elsewhere.
This day two lads Walter Spracket and Andrew Dean were charged with stealing wood owned by the King. They were discharged for felony but fined five shillings each for unlawful possession. Kettrick was fined ten shillings, Gould discharged. All imprisoned for nonpayment. Also Robert Pratt, a servant to Mr. Rees of Lambeth, committed for feloniously stealing eighteen chain wheels.
Assizes at Northampton before Chief Justice Tindal hear Austen Perkins aged 42 charged with firing straw on William Bate esq property to frighten his master into avoiding threshing machines. Wind spread flames destroying barns stables hay ricks and a dwelling. Defence claimed only to frighten. Jury found guilty. Judge offered no hope of reprieve and left to execution.
Market notes record prices for Shaw Potatoes and various meats and fowls, with hay and straw values and scarce supplies. Coal prices per ton are listed from multiple companies, noting 24 new arrivals and general market ease under fine weather, with duties on foreign corn and weekly averages provided.
A natural history enthusiast in the Gard department found in a grotto near Riviere in Milan an antediluvian fossil head. It appears not to match any living species in the region. The specimen is well preserved and about eight inches long.
A miscellany of poems and aphorisms dated March 1 1834 by John Atkinson and others. It blends a sonnet praising Knowles with short moral maxims, quotations from Hazlitt Burns and Lucian, reflections on virtue and indifference, a charitable construction note, and a lilting vignette about roses on graves near Barnes. It includes literary allusions to Shakespeare, Falstaff, and Dame Quickly and ends with a science note on buoyancy from Lardner’s Cyclopaedia.
Peregrine Bingham Planned inquiry trip to New Romney prompted a unanimous town assembly resolution declaring the Municipal Corporation Commission illegitimate and refusing information, charters, and records. Bingham canceled his visit after the town’s stance was conveyed to the commission office.
A special Governors meeting reviewed a December report on disputes among hospital medical officers tied to the hospital’s medical school. The committee blamed the school’s control and property ownership, urged equal access for all hospital doctors, and suggested moving or restructuring premises, with lectures limited when duties require. The report, praised for the officers’ character, was ordered printed and distributed.
A Liverpool deputation including Viscount Landon and Mr. W Ewart met Viscount Althorp to discuss procedures for recording individual votes in Congress. The Leicester Chronicle notes thirty beer sellers faced town-clerk notices to buy their freedom or cease business within the borough, while Southampton institutions report quarterly finances and defaulters. A Manchester Guardian item details a suspected murder of a six week old by vitriol, with an inquest and coroner dispute over the verdict. The father fled as inquiries continue.
Lists of creditors meeting locations and names including A Adams Mare-street Hackney linen-draper B Lamb Stone's-end Newington corn-dealer T Hammond London-wall farrier R Wilson Lawrence Pountney-hill wine-merchant and others. Also notices for Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors with prisoners to be heard at the Court-house in Lincoln's Inn Fields on Tuesday March 23 at nine, plus names and addresses of debtors and visitors.
Births announced in Lincoln's Inn Fields and Brighton with names W Rus sell Brandreth Russell Law. Marriages include James Thorne to Maury Anne Porch at St Andrew's Undershaft and Thomas Robinson to Harriet Steers at Pancras New Church. Deaths note Elizabeth Caunter and Evina Laura Westby among others. multiple local notices across Pentonville Islington Bromley and Stratford Place.
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