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Newspaper
True Sun
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 17, 1834
Page
3
Entries closed for the Newton Gold Cup and related events. The St Leger Stakes, Borough Cup, Shrigley Cup, and Two Year Old Stakes are named with sponsors, ages, weights, and distances. Horses include Billinge, Fearnhurst, Theodore, Caliban, Juliana, and more. Details outline the prize values, handicaps, and conditions for each race across two days.
The Liverpool Trade Cup at Aintree lists acceptances including Chancellor Pickpocket Independence Physician Giovanni Speculator Mona s Pride Lady Stafford Caird Prince Llewellyn Freney Despot Mowbray Hill Westport Controller Charmer Theodore Satan Dancing Master Catherine Stenton Quartetto Fitzdicter Primendorf Rousseau Algiers Languish Lockington Lady Fulford Titus Rust Malibran Mishap Lustre Miss Patrick Polander Inheritor plus thirteen forfeit. Holderness Hunt Races set for April 3-4 and Craven Meeting stakes near 25,000. The turf season opens next Wednesday at Warwick with many fixtures through October across multiple tracks.
The notice lists hound appointments across multiple hunts with meeting locations and times including Callington Newbridge and Moxhunt Woods. It also reports a Worcestershire or surrounding regional steeple chase at Isiidge Steeple Chase where Deceiver won after several falls, following a Derby colt Emigrant contest.
Parliament discusses second readings on the Dumbarton Road and Langley Enclosure Bills, with petitions from Dumbarton inhabitants and Southampton interests. It debates floating bridge plans for the Itchen and concerns over navigation, while addressing church patronage and civil rights amid shipwreck and maritime insurance concerns.
The discourse centers on whether Scotland should maintain an Established Church and the political balance around patronage. Petitioners argue for change while supporters emphasize the church’s intrinsic strength. Separately, Hull and London tea trade petitions urge a fixed tea duty or revenue method improvements, with calls for relief in wool duties and reform of collection.
At the corn exchange attendance was fair but trading dull with little demand. Wheat declined 1s per quarter. clean Harley and Oats sold well while inferior sorts lagged. Malt, Beats, Peas and Flour slumped. town prices for flour 40s to 48s. Arrivals list Wheat Barley Malt Oats Beans Peas Flour and mixed totals given. At Smithfield beef and sheep markets, quality was high but prices steady to lower, with beef about 4s to 4s 4d, lamb around 7s 6d, pork plentiful and high veal. Various notes on local officials, inns, and charitiy inquiries are included.
A review of Captain Frederic Chamier's three volume work on 18th century Polish Russian history. It notes the author’s praise worthiness, the story and Polish characters, and the difficulty of names while praising the autocrat’s approval and Moscow presses demand. It also cites The Sea Service and The Lady's Shopping Manual as companion works with praise and useful lessons in navigation and domestic economy.
A large Anglesey county gathering at Beaumaris Shire Hall, led by High Sheriff C. H. Evans, endorses a petition to Parliament urging repeal of malt tax and noting corn law concerns. QC Fuller Meyrick and Wm. Bulkeley Hughes emphasize agriculture's crisis and defend peasant integrity amid broader tax relief discussions. The meeting unanimously approves the petition yet notes limitations on some proposals.
Mr Williams read the prepared draft as five members present. the petition was unanimously adopted and arrangements made to bring it into general circulation for signatures.
The Irish Crown Solicitor returns expenses of 7027 9s 4d for the Barrett libel case. Critics call the prosecution imprudent, costly, and politically motivated, arguing it offered little public benefit and urged reform of Crown prosecutions to curb waste and influence. Spectator notes the inflammatory effects and questions the value to peace and governance.
A compilation of literary snippets and a maritime whale encounter recounting Burns and other authors, with commentary on acting and taste. The shipboard whale tale details a spermaceti whale ramming a vessel, pumps, and survival measures, preserving period tone and nautical peril.
A. M. Carthy of Skibbereen writes to the editor denying writing to Mr Jephson and clarifying that local cholera statements align with government minutes. He notes Major Miller, inspector-general of police, was sent to substantiate evidence at a Skibbereen court-house meeting, with minutes to be published.
On Monday last at eight o clock the extreme penalty of the law was inflicted on W Rose aged seventy four, convicted at our last assizes of murdering a woman unknown believed to be his wife in November at Hurstbourne Tarrant. He died without fear or remorse, led to the scaffold with a firm step. The condemned man, a Kent native described as stout and gypsy-like, had long worked as an itinerant spice seller and carried a pedlar pack with spectacles at the time of the crime. Hampshire Telegraph reports.
Shipping intelligence reports arrivals at multiple ports. Vessels include Ida from St Domingo Plymouth March 15 Nagles Packet from Palermo Henry Brougham from Palermo Triumvirate from Gallipoli Matilda from Bordeaux Pike from Lisabon etc Archangel from New York Amici from Tarragona Swift from Cadiz York from New York Clype from March 14 Swallow from Marseilles Lusitania from Oporto Alkmer Lord Hawkesbury Catherina Market Maid Earl of Clancarty Mary Dart and Search from Rotterdam all listed with origin ports and arrival dates.
The Commons Select Committee divides into four sub committees on Highways and Public Buildings, Finance, Criminal Prosecutions, and Miscellaneous. Petitions against the tithe system in Ireland total 63 with 41 933 signatures. Repeal of the Union petitions reach 42 with 260 260 signatures. Malt tax opposition this session totals 80 petitions with 15 359 signatures. A brutal pig attack in Shrewsbury follows, with pigs killed and mutilated. St Johns Newfoundland reports opening of the General Assembly's third session, Speaker chosen, and Governor lamenting failed fisheries seed potato distribution. Governor urges militia readiness and notes past town disturbances.
The Oxford Journal reports a rise in wool prices alerting farmers who are selling wool or preparing sheep for sale. Sheep are described as being transported toward London in flannel waistcoats and Ramnel to protect their flesh from cold exposure.
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