Punishment of Incendiaries and Church State Clash
A parliamentary note argues for revising arson laws to scale penalties by guilt, favoring humane, rational punishment. It contrasts English law with France and laments executions, prosecutions, and juror responses. The piece links reform to broader conflicts over church and state and urges Dissenters to unite for change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
Morning Herald
Lloyd
Stockport
France
Normandy
England
Patronage Row Over Deanery of Down Appointment
In The Spectator, a dispute erupts in Parliament over the appointment of a Plunkett family member to the Deanery of Down. Critics accuse the government of flagrant patronage and improper spoils, alleging a breach of reform promises as Sir Robert Peel's cabinet is pressed to revoke the grant and transfer preferment to a man of equal value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
Spectator
Yue Hannipats
Plunkett
Down
House of Commons
Goulburn
Ecclesiastical Commission
Dean Knox
Lord Plankett
R. Peel
Robert
Bean Plunkett
England
Lord Plunkett
Earl Grey
Dissenters push for severing church and state links
From the Examiner report on Manchester and Edinburgh Dissenters pressing for church state separation. It cites Lord Grey, Lord John Russell, and Earl Grey, noting reactive public sentiment and calls for emancipation of religious truth amid political reform debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Councianp
Manchester
Edinburgh
Nottingham
Lord John Russell
Moliere
Mascarille
Lord Grey
Mascaville
Johns
Duke of Wellington
Earl Grey
John Taylor
Lord Chancellor and colleagues judged by 1831 33 workload
The article reproduces a Contemporary John Bull summary of a motion by Mr. Lynch listing equity court workloads from 1831 to 1833 under Earl Grey’s administration. It notes 32 Lord Chancellor causes, 931 Vice-Chancellor, 1,799 Master of the Rolls sessions, 181 appeals, and counts across demurrers, exceptions, and directions. It casts the Chancellor’s pension raise in a satirical light and argues the division of business is revealing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bull
Lynch
Equity
Earl Grey
Rade T Bee
Vanes
Lord Brougham
Extraordinary silver Virgin and Child statue on display in France
An obscure artist Chauvel of Marseilles created a colossal sheet silver Virgin and Child. The piece, praised for grace and simplicity, is bound for Notre Dame de la Garde chapel and will first tour French industry exhibits this spring. In Maidstone Assizes James Ward, 85, Greenwich pensioner, is tried for the murder of John Bailey at Greenwich Hospital on January 23. The tragedy occurred in cabin No 13, Ward confessed with a knife, was sent to the strong room, then declared insane. Verdict: acquittal on insanity grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauvel
Marseilles
Notre Dame de la Garde
Arthenaum
Maidstone Assizes
James Ward
Greenwich
John Bailey
Greenwich Hospital
James Connor
Souther Pensioner
Connor
Bailey
Gladstones
Maidstone
William Beatty
Richard Dobson
Justice Gauselve
Game Laws and the Morals of Agricultural People
From the Morning Chronicle an abstract argues that game laws burden landowners while penalizing labourers. It cites 3204 commitments in England and Wales for game-law offences in the year ending Oct 31, 1833, with Norfolk shows of Bury Saint Edmunds Norwich Castle Swaffham Devizes and Winchester cited as examples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morning Chronicle
House of Commons
England
Wales
Norfolk
Bury Saint Edmund's
Norwich Castle
Swaffham
Devizes
Winchester
England and
Aberystwyth Wy
Tees Abingdon
Lincoln
Altwick
Causerness
Little Dean
Maidstone
Marlborough
Beaumaris
Monmouth
Brixton
Northampton
Northleach
Bury St. Edmund
Norwich
Cardigan
Cambridge
Nottingham
Carlisle
Oxford
Carmarthen
Peterborou
Chester
Sessees
Petworth
Cold-bathfields
Preston
Corwen
Reading
Derby
Ipon
Ruthio
Dorset
Eee
Hexham
Swansea
Kingston
Kirkdale
Kirton
Wisbeach
Knutsford
Woodbridge
Orcester
Lawford's Gate
York Castle
Leicester Gaol
House of Cortte
Leicester House of
Literary life dedication to the King approved in 1834
Mr Galt plans to publish his literary life and miscellanies by subscription before going to Canada. An letter from Sir Herbert Taylor quotes the King’s ready acquiescence and gratitude for the author’s merit. Windsor Castle March 12, 1834. The King expresses interest in supporting the publication and notes the author’s contribution to the country’s literary character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Herbert Taylor
Windsor Castle
Skeletons Found in Bucks Gravel Pits and Chelsea Tax Protests
Skeletons unearthed in Stowe parish Bucks including a colossal one with an ancient gold ring. Chelsea eves Association met to discuss repeal of house and window taxes and condemned recent illegal distraint on Mr Phillips. Clerkenwell parish reactions attacked Sturges Bourne's Act and a National Gallery note praises Corinthian columns reuse and a proposed direct street link across London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stowe
Bucks
Chelsea Eves Association
Wellington Tavern
Southstreet
Kin 'S Road
Chelsea
Phillips
York-street
Westminster
England
Killips
Chelsea Friendly Association
Co. Evang
House of Commons
Crenkenwell Parisa
Aylesbury-street
Sturges Bourne
Clerkenwell
Guardian and Trustee Boards
Whitehall
Tottenham-court-road
London
Artists' College Advocates Plan to Aid Distressed Artists
An adjourned meeting at the Freemasons Tavern in Great Queen Street outlines the Artists' College project. It proposes a 100 artist capacity building on five acres near the Post Office, funded by voluntary contributions with 10 guineas making a subscriber a life governor and 50 guineas a presidential eligibility. The report seeks Sir John Soane's advice, authorizes fundraising through art sales, and forms a committee led by Benjamin Bond Cabbell to support sculpture painting and architecture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Artists’ College
Freemasons’ Tavern
Great Queen Street
Benjamin Bond Cabbell
F.S.A
John Soane
Havers
H. Stebbing
Robertson
G. Clint
Good
Brockedon
Douglas Guest
Messrs
E. H. Bailey
R.A
J. Boxer
R.W. Buss
B. B. Cabbell
A.R.A
S. Clint
A. Cooper
R. B. Davis
W. Denis
B. Good
T. Havers
G. Hawkins
H. J. Knapp
T. Lapton
R. Pickersgil
C. E. Wagstaff
W. F. Itherington
R. Woodman
D. Gueat
Royal Navy Dispatches From Portsmouth and Mediterranean Station
Royal Navy notices from Portsmouth reveal Edinburgh sailing for Plymouth and the Mediterranean, Seaflower protecting Guernsey fisheries, Charybdis joining the Africa squadron, and Belvidera headed to the West Indies with consular assignments. Outward-bound merchantmen set for Madras, Bengal, Bombay, and the Cape. Columbine paid off after four-year service with no sickness. John Stewart lost near Barbados with heavy cargo. Barbadian currents urged lighthouse construction. Spithead arrivals report manpower shifts and new naval appointments across the dockyards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Edinburgh
J. R. Dacres
Plymouth
Mediterranean
Lieut. Morgan
Guernsey
Jersey
Lieut
Mercer
Warren
Africa
Falmouth
Lisbon
Cape
C. B. Strong
West India Station
Mr. Chatfield
Guatemala
Lord Sussex Lennox
Port Royal
Spithead
Belvidera
Victory
Royal George
Excellent
Revenge
President
Tyne
Rainbow
Nautilus
Espoir
Sparrow
Favourite
Malta
England
Barham
Spain
Raleigh
Gibraltar
Firefly
Isis
Sierra Leone
Columbine
Sheerness
H. O. Love, Esq
Fountain Hotel
John Stewart
Williamson
Demerara
London
Cobler’s Rock
Barbadoes
Wanderer
Glasgow
Isabel
Liverpool
van Diemen's Land
John Pirie
Havannah
Katherine Jackson
New York
William and Henry
Constantinople
W. Hargood
C. Ross
C.B
Hamoaze
San Josef
Canopus
Racehorse
Reynard
Viper
Robert Scallon
Chatham
H. W. Ball
Portsmouth Dockyard
Vice Marshall
R. H. Elliott Messie
G. A. Hine
P. D. White
J. Brown
R. Martin
The
W. G. B. Estcourt
J. R. Drummond
John Shaw
Vernon
T. Brenan
Isiv
Jonathan Gain
J. A. Pritchard
Ocean
Royal Marines
J. M. Pilcher
R. M. Meheux
R. C. Spalding
Royal Naval College
Paris firm forms to speed stage coach travel
Paris company forms to accelerate travel with a lighter vehicle called a réloce. Four coupées with three seats each priced at 1 fr 10 c post and Sfr for subsequent legs. Operations to start next month. A lighter vehicle planned for Calais and Dieppe routes. A price card for refreshments aims to curb suspicions of imposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Calais
Dieppe
John Bull
Notices of Motions in the House of Commons
The schedule lists motions and debates for March 17 to March 21, including Mr Cobbett moving Abolition of the Blalt Duties and various grants and committees on church rates, parish government, postal charges, licensing, and libel law. Also notices on chimney sweepers, Irish affairs, and the House of Commons offices and fees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cobbett
Committee of Supply
Blalt
Baring
British Museum
C. Ferusson
Captain Ross
Maberley
Dir. Divett
England and
Wales
Col. Evans
England
Craven Berkeley
Cheltenham
Sir R. Inglis
Lord Ebrington
Coventry
Tooke
Lynch
Halcomb
Wesleyan Methodists Seek Civil Rights in Leeds Petition Drive
Leeds Methodists consider joining broader dissenters in demanding equal civil rights, inspired by Manchester and other towns. The piece notes active ministerial involvement, recent large gifts for a new Wesleyan chapel, and urges Parliament to recognize public support for religious causes rather than assume apathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leeds
Manchester
Whitehaven
Holmfirth
Leeds Methodists
Leeds Mercury
London University branch medical aid project anniversary
North London Hospital displays a London University medical science branch aiding the Pancras district. At a Freemasons Tavern anniversary, Lintott reads a report on the dispensary opened in 1828 in George Street Euston Square aiding 7149 neighbours. Building for 130 patients costs 4356 with 2000 still needed. donations totaling 500 contributed. remarks by Hobhouse Warburton Thomson and others. Duke of Sussex and Lord Chancellor absent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London University
St. Pancras
Freemasons’ Tavern
Great Queen Street
Ebington
House of Commons
Lintott
George Street
Euston Square
John C. Hobhouse
Warburton
M.P
Thomson
Duke of Sussex
Liverroon to New York packets and cotton market notes
Inland and overseas shipping items report no foreign arrivals at Liverroon, arrivals of the Roselle from sharente, and the York and Gratitude to Barbadoes. Liverpool cotton market slides but firming today with imports 32,413 bags and sales 9,460. London and Barcelona freight news note Barcellona steamship venture and Palma route, with a 240 ton vessel from Seddon and Ledley built in Liverpool, powered by 50 hp engines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverroon
Eugenine
Holyhead
York
New York Packet
Barbadoes
Roselle
Sharente
Liverpool
Alabama
Orleans
Brazils
Sea Island
Surat
Bowedy
New Orleans
Pernams
Bahia
Shi
Maranham
Smyrna
Tian
Sid
Ireland
Barcelona
Balearic Islands
Palma Ao
Seddon and Ledley
Fawcett, Preston, and Co
Palma
Mining Prices and Totals for Truro Area Mines
Mining intelligence shows average standard £110 163 or £6 2s per ton with copper 238 tons 15 cwt yielding £18,947 2s 5d. Last sale averaged 109% with 16s produce 8 copper. Mines listed include Tresavean Poldice Wheal Unity Jewel Pembroke Fowey Consola Levant Carharrack Marden Tolgus Polgooth Edward totaling 2906 tons. Foreign mines shares remain low in spirits this week.
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Truro
Tresavean
Poldice
Redruth
Resistian
Caro Brae
Darlington
Wheal Trenwith
Erland Mines
Formation of a Statistical Society in London
Saturday afternoon a large meeting at the Horticultural Society room in Regent Street formed a committee to establish a Statistical Society of London for collecting and classifying facts about society. Marquis of Lansdowne chaired. MPs and notable scholars attended. The Maidstone Assizes heard a damages case where a farmer sued over dogs injuring sows. a humorous counsel mocked the evidence as the jury found for the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Statistical Society
Horticultural Society
Regent-street
Statistical Society of London
Marquis of Lansdowne
Rice
M.P
Goulburn
Abercrombie
Ai.p
Sommerville
Birkbeck
Bourne
Babbage
Malthus
Hallam, Brunell, &c. &c
Spring Rice
Maidstone Assizes
Cheede- Tuan
Harmon
Morden
Sergeant Spankie
Kent
Births and Marriages in Early 19th Century Notices
Births announce the 12th and 13th of the month for multiple families including Mrs. Willement at Green Street and Mrs. Dickinson at Kilbourn plus a Kentish-town birth. Marriages record unions at Blatherwycke Gretna Hall and Temple Place Blackfriars road involving Louis Braham Sophia Solomons and others. Died notices list R Power Digshroote House and Hakewill Yorke Hanbury and others with locations in Baker Street Newcastle Street and Braton Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. de Castro
Eng
Willement
Green-street
Grosvenor-square
Kilbourn
J. Dickinson
Kentish-town
J. J. Welsh
Blatherwycke
Gerard Noel
William Henry Hoare
Lord Barham
Sophia Lilias
S.‘O’brien
Blatherwycke Park
Northamptonshire
Gretna Hall
C. Schrader
Harriet
N Hopkins
Over
Bucks
Baker-street
R. Power
Digshroote House
Braton-street
Charles Yorke
Ibis Ee New Cross
Arrey
T. George Sinclair
Thanistow
Igo Wigram
Donderry
Publication note fragment from London legal ad
Fragmentary OCR shows a notice mentioning JOHN and PATCR GRANT, with an address at Free or Gee and No 866 Strand London. Details are unclear due to damaged text but indicate a legal or publishing notice origin in London.
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John” i
Patcr Grant
Strand
London
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Contemporary Press
Bedlam
John Russel
Ley
Lord Chancellor
Mr, Galt
Royal Navy
Wesleyan Methodists
North London Hospital
Mining Intelligence
Botallack
Eute
Basinghall-Street
He T
Smith
Johr-street
Blackfriirs-road
Hackneyman
F. C. L. Kiingender
Hackney
J. Middiemist
Shepherd's Bush
T. James
Bishop Agate-Street
R. Moore
Bath
Linen-Draper
Ashenden &T. C. Baker
Sittingbourne
Brickmak
Austin-friars
EL T. Gooch
Crawford-street
Marylebone
H. Ingram
Lower Thames-street
J. Robson
Newcastle Upon Tyne
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