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Newspaper
True Sun
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 06, 1834
Page
8
The notice reports forecast high water at London Bridge for tomorrow with two daily levels listed: morning ten minutes after twelve and evening twenty seven minutes after twelve.
The Paris papers hint at M Capet’s appeal chances against a harsh sentence with civil rights ban for two years after release. The write up covers the penal code provisions on voting, eligibility, juror duties, and testimony, amid French unrest, ministerial resistance, and calls for reform. It notes Paris calm, Turkish and Spanish dispatches, and reaction to prefectural orders while praising or criticizing j udicial actions and police tactics.
The London market reports a heavy start on the Stock Exchange with Consols at 9?4, Portuguese 68, and Spanish Cortes 32¾. The tea dispute between trade and the East India Company dominates talk as the sale resumes and is postponed. A trade deputation meets the Court of Directors. losses to the Company and Revenue around £2,000 yesterday.
The market is languid with shares and tea sales postponed to ten and two. The Euphrates from Charleston was offered off to Hamburgh and the Eucharis from Martinique reports tranquility in the island. General Post Office announces mails to Hamburgh by steam, every Tuesday and Friday, by command Freeling.
In this session of Rolls' Court at Woodfall and Clowes executors of Griffiths face Shackell son-in-law in a dispute over co partnership profits and capital. The judge orders a master to account for capital and transactions from formation to death and to oversee a sale of trade goodwill with Shackell allowed a one third profit share but no extra capital or compensation.
Two youths Walter Spracker and Andrew Dean were charged with unlawfully possessing King’s wood in Hyde Park and were fined five shillings each after magistrates discharged them of the felony. Two more youths Kettrick and Gould faced similar charges. Kettrick was fined 10s 3d while Gould was discharged. All unable to pay fines, they were committed to the House of Correction. Also Robert Pratt a Lambeth servant was committed for feloniously stealing eighteen chain wheels from his master.
At Northampton on March 5 Chief Justice Tindal presided over the arson case against Austen Perkins a 42 year old labourer charged with firing straw belonging to William Bate The fire spread to a dwelling house granaries stables and hay ricks The prisoner gave no defence claiming only to frighten his master The jury found him guilty and the judge said he expected the prisoner would be left for execution
Market notes list Shaw Potatoes and other produce with prices, hay and fodder figures, live poultry, game and fish, plus a brief on foreign cork duties. Coal market reports vessel arrivals, mixed prices for various coal suppliers, and close-market prices across multiple collieries.
A natural history enthusiast in the Gard department recently uncovered in a grotto near Riviere in Milan an antediluvian fossil head. The relic does not match any known living species in the region. It is well preserved and measures about eight inches long.
A long excerpt from a 1834 miscellany contains quotations and essays on virtue indifference belief and sociable morals. It weaves literary references to Hazlitt Burns Rousseau and Chaucer with anecdotes about ministers and public life. The piece comments on metaphysics virtue and social behavior through brief maxims and dialogues.
Peregrine Bingham, a Corporation Commissioner, planned a visit to New Romney on the 14th to inquire. The town’s Common Assembly unanimously resolved to withhold information and refuse production of charters and records, citing improper constitution of the Commission. Bingham then said he would not officially visit New Romney.
A special meeting of the London Hospital Governors reviewed a December report on dissensions among medical officers. The committee blamed the hospital school building and proposed equal access for all medical officers or buying the building’s assets for hospital control. They also urged restricting pupil lectures during hospital duties and ordered printing of the report for distribution.
Fragmented death notices and obituaries listing names and places such as Pentonville Cloudesley Bromley Stratford place Yorkgate and King's College. The text includes widowhood dates ages and family connections with varying punctuation and misspellings. Published by John Ager for Patrick Grant at the True Sun office in Strand London.
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