Court of Common Council debates municipal reform for London
A court session on forming a committee to study the city’s municipal institutions and prepare a report for the Commissioners on municipal reform. debate covers privilege, ward constables, and whether the court should preface the commissioners with a deliberate corporate opinion.
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City of London
His Majesty
Figgins
Court of Aldermen
Court of Common Council
Galloway
Dixon
Municipal Corporation
In Uite
Pearson
Charles Pearson
Corporation of
London
C. Pearson
Corporation of London
Commons
Tickner
Alderman Winchester
Pewtress
R. Taylor
Ashurst
Alderman Brown
P. Laurie
C. Marshal
Westwood
Wood
Hall
Blackett
Third Edition City News Briefs In Brief Form
City desk reports the nine o clock true sun office edition hits streets today with standard front page briefs and notices. Local items include civic updates and minor notices prepared for today’s edition.
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True Sun Office
Closing Prices and Foreign Funds Reported in Market Update
A market brief lists closing prices for Bank Stock and India Stock on 217 Bank St and 256 Consols for Acc. Ditto Bonds, plus various Consols, annuities, and bonds. Foreign funds include Austrian 5 percent, Portuguese 5 percent, Belgian bonds, Brazilian and Chilean issues, Danish and Dutch yields, French and Russian securities, with several reg. scrip and old/new annuity notes noted among listings. The item notes multiple bond and stock listings with a focus on conversions, redemptions, and ex-dividend statuses.
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Bank St
India
Ditto
New
South Sea
Ditto New Ann
India St
Buenos Ayres
Knighthood and military promotions from the King
The Gazette notes the King knighthood for Eaton Travers, Captain RN, and appointments in the War Office and Lord Chamberlain's Office. It lists numerous regimental purchases and exchanges across the British Army, from March 7 to March 12, with officers of many regiments named and positions updated. Also declared insolvencies and bankruptcies announced for multiple tradespeople and merchants, with forthcoming court dates and official assignees.
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St. James’s Palace
Eaton Travers
John Bathurst Schomberg
Henry John Woollaston
War Office
Sd Regiment of Light Dragoons
John Manby
Purchase
Baring
William Ponsonby
Mauby
16Th Light Dragoons
WH. Sperling
Osten
Lieut
J. Deverill
Sperling
Cornet
M. Clerk
Deverill
J. Rodon
1St Regiment of Foot
T. Brooke
T. Gordon
Foot
J. Harcourt
Uth Light Dragoons
Brady
9Th Foot
W. V. Ballard
Hosken
14Th Foot
Hon
K R. Boyle
H. Johnson
16Th Foot
C. Mudie
38Th Foot
Carr
25Th Foot
L. 8. Dickson
A. Mackenzie
R. Care
Sith Foot
Mudie
39Th Foot
Jobn Hale
Linyd
A. Gordon
Greville
Arthur Harve
Charles Lane
H. Rainey
Birch
R.D. Kelly
Royal Military College
Rainey
50Th Foot
J.A. du Moulin
Young
95Th Freet
H. Bayly
Wake
J. Stewart
Bayly
A. EF. Burmester
Macdonald
W. W. Ladder
Burmester
Lord A. Lennox
W. Osborne
C.F. Murray
Galwey
J. Loftus
Murray
T. Young
Hodson
M.D
G. Williamson
A. G. Fullerton
C. B. Dawson
Flogging of a Priest Prompts Irish Repeal Debate
In the morning sitting, Mr. F O Connor presents petitions from Cork Waterford and Limerick counties for tithes abolition and for repeal of the Union. He notes a Roman Catholic priest flogging as a case showing coercion cannot stop repeal agitation and urges detailed discussion in Parliament.
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House OF Commons
F. O'Connor
Cork
Limerick
Windy Harbour
Dublin
O’connor
Ireland
O'Connor
Irish Debates On Cholera Relief And Landlord Apathy
In a heated session, arguments center on a clergyman’s ordeal and broad claims of conspiracy. Mr O Connor defends liberty and resists threats while Mr Jephson critiques letters about Skibbereen cholera relief and landlords’ alleged apathy, presenting letters from Dr M Carrthy and Sir W Becher to counter the charge. The House adjourns to Monday as motions await fuller proof.
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Mr. O'Connor
Stanley
O’connor
O'Connor
Jephson
South of Ireland
Skibbereen
Mr. Jephson
Hon
M‘carthy
Feargus O’connor
M'Carthy
Skibberreen
Lown
W. Becher
William
Sir William
F. O'Connor
Lords Evening Debates on Dissenters and Church Protection
The House of Lords met this evening with the Earl of Shaftesbury on the Woolsack. Petitions were presented by Lords Kenyon Ripon Sefton Dacre and others from Dissenters seeking separation of church and state and relief against grievances. Districts including Lincoln Manchester Salford Pendlebury Southport St Helens Derby Ashby de la Zouch Swansea Stratford upon Avon and others are cited. The Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry spoke for Derbyshire and similar counties on protection to the Established Church and sabbath observance. The house adjourned afterwards.
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House OF Lords
Earl of Shaftesbury
Lord Kenyon
Earl of Ripon
Lincoln
Earl
Earl of Sefton
Manchester
Salford
Pendlebury
Southport
St. Helen's
Lichfield
Coventry
Derby
Lord Dacre
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Norfolk
Cambridge
Marquis of Laxspawne
Earl of Durham
Swansea
Stratford-upon-Avon
Parliament Evening Sitting Highlights Temple Church Land Bill
The Speaker resumed the chair at 5 15 pm. Mr O Callaghan moved to enclose common and waste lands in Temple Church parish County Tipperary. Read first time, ordered to read a second. Mr Harvey gave notice to call the house on April 10 before Pension-list discussion. Other notices included births deaths marriages registry and returns on road trusts and salt monopoly in Ceylon.
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O'Callaghan
Temple Church
Tipperary
D. W. Harvey
Pryme
Harvey
Cambridge
House
Cartwright
Stony-Stratford
Dunlop
Kilmarnock
Ceylon
Wilbraham
R. Wilmot Horton
Hon. East India Company
Halcombe
Warwick
William Brougham
His Majesty’s High Court of Chancery
Bank of England
Debate on Corn Laws and free trade in Parliament
Lord Darlington and others push for ending corn laws to free trade, arguing protection harms agriculture and industry. Speakers discuss price stability, foreign competition, and the benefits of intercontinental commerce, contrasting landlord interests with manufacturers and workers in a period of reform.
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England
Wales
Lord Darlington
Hume
Burgh
Forfair
Goulbourne
James Graham
James OE
Ewart
Middlesex
Baronet
Bos
America
East
West Indies
Lord Chatham
Americas
Bates
United States
France
Bart
Thea
Dupin
Europe
Garnier
Big Con. MiGoe
Lord Darlingon
Mr. Canning
Ccn
Hear
Ireland
Earl
Poulett Thomson
Cumberland
Thomson
Earl of Darlington
Poule' Thomson
P. Thomson
Admiralty
House of Commons
Friend
Friend Hadeen
Surrey
Canning
Essex
P. Thompson
Oliver
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Old Bailey
John Bropes
Bishopsgate Street
East India Company
Chartered Gas Light Company
Ishopsgate-street
Real Dal
the Gazette
William Hardcastle
Beaufort-place
Chelsea
George Stocker
High-street
Whitechapel
Gaven Black
Gutter-lane
Cheapside
Brandts Parry
Brunswick-place
North Brighton
James Cawthron
Bolingbroke-row
Walworth
Joseph Mulliser
Northampton
William Glen Matthie
Liverpool
Ankrupts
William Greenwood
Farringdon-street
Lloyd
Crown-court
Graham
Copthall Buildings
David Hardie
Commissioners’rooms
Hadfield and Grave
Johnson and Weatherall
Temple
John Tapley
Jun
Torr
Devonshire
Half Moor Inn
Exeter
Attornes
Messrs
Berkeley
Lincoln’s Inn
Bush
Trowbridge
Wilts
Thomas Taylor
Cowley
Oxfordshire
Baker
Mary Bartram
Oxford
Robertson
Miller
Ely-place
Holborn
Robert Poosonby Staples
Court of Bankruptcy
Baxendale
Tatham
Upton
Johnson
King’s Arms Yard
Coleman-street
Abbott
King’s Armsyard
Richard Moore
Old Bond-street
Linen-Draper
Barradaile and
Ashmore
King’s Arms-yard
Groom
Abchurch-lane
George Wintle Roberts
Finch-lane
Bowden and Walters
Aldermanbury
Green
Samuel Allen
Birmingham
Radenhurst
New Royal Hotel
Whitehouse
Rawlinson and Mole
Imperial Parliament
Memuen
Colchester
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