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Newspaper
True Sun
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 17, 1834
Page
7
Entry list closes for the Newton Gold Cup and Borough Cup races with two mile events and a one mile thirty three quarters handicap sweepstakes. Notables include Sir J Gerard's Trepidation and Lord Wilton's Chancellor among many four year olds and several 2 year olds entered for the St. Helen's and Golborne Stakes. The meeting features St Leger Stakes and multiple prizes totaling around 100 sovs with added stakes.
List of accepted runners for the Liverpool Trade Cup at Aintree with weights and ages led by Chancellor Perseverance Pickpocket Todependence Physician Giovanni Speculator Mona's Pride Lady Stafford Caird Prince Llewellyn Freney Despot Mowbray Hill Westport Tat L0lb Controller Charmer Theodore Tat Sib Satan Dancing Master Catherine Stenton Quartetto Fitzdieter Prithendorf Rousseau Algiera Languish Lockington Lady Fulford Titus Rust Malibras Mishap Lustre Miss Patrick Polander Inheritor and thirteen other forfeits. Holderness Hunt Races fixed for April 3-4 with almost 25000 to be run at Newmarket Craven Meeting. The Turf notes season opens Wednesday at Warwick with many fixtures listed for March to October across venues including Newmarket, Liverpool, York, Epsom, Ascot, Doncaster and more.
A long list records hound meet dates and venues across many estates in East and northern counties, with entries for Foxhant Woods Cock Ringmer Hart field Lagg's Heath Chisbury Welford Woods Whit ley Scar Merrick Alleaby Wind mill Stockton Forest Easingwold Road Cop grove Sawley Hall Malfe past ten Wild Wood Edmondsley Hordon Upeall Wentbridge Sprottre Helmsley Hart born Village Kennel Dinton Bishop's Caundile Essington Wood Hog Lease Hare and Hound Sway Ower Bridge Wartime racing notes include Wesengton Bridge four miles of epee in neighbourhood of Bawiry and a Derby colt Emigrant in training for Epsom.
The House of Commons debated multiple bills and petitions including Dumbarton Road, Southampton and Stoken Bridge road projects, Langley and Dunsford enclosures, and a floating bridge on the Itchen. Lord Chandos opposed the Itchen scheme citing navigation disruption. Labouchere and Robinson argued the company altered plans for public benefit. Shipwreck and church patronage issues were also raised amid debates on civil rights and church-state relations.
The discourse centers on the question of an Established Church in Scotland and the strength of factions supporting or opposing it. Petitioners argue for church integrity as foundation, while opponents highlight patronage and public sentiment. Additionally, Mr Hutt presents tea trade petitions criticizing wool duties and calls for revenue collection reform with a fixed duty.
Markets note steady but shaky demand with wheat down and beans dull. Smithfield shows strong beef and sheep sales with high lamb prices and plentiful pork, while Norfolk cattle fall due to low prices and potential railway impact on pig stock.
A long mixed set of items reports social events at Carlton Gardens and Brading Isle of Wight, charity investigations in Hertford, insolvent debt rules, property sales, Drury Lane theatre fire precautions, theatrical anecdotes, golf decline in Leith, reform arguments, and scattered quotes from period writers. Names include Mr Secretary Stanley, the Vicar of Brading, and Messrs Macauley and Carlyle, with references to the Globe, Examiner, Western Times, Scotsman, and Oxford University.
A long review notes Chamier editors and the work’s Russia Poland history, national character, and Polish characters, praising engaging description while warning about denigrating name spellings. It also covers The Sea Service and a Mercery Manual, commending Limbird reprint and practical domestic guidance for workers and households.
A large Anglesey gathering at Beaumaris Shire Hall chaired by High Sheriff H Evans considered petitioning Parliament to relieve agricultural distress. Speakers advocated repealing malt tax and addressing corn laws, arguing taxes hurt farmers while commerce boomed. The motion endorsing a petition was carried unanimously, as clergy later pressed for action on the Beer Bill’s harms.
Mr. Williams read the prepared draft, the petition was unanimously adopted, and arrangements were made to place it into general course of signature.
The Irish Crown Solicitor reports expenses of 7021 pounds 93 shillings 4 pence for Barrett libel prosecutions. Critics decry the cost as needless and politicized, arguing no distant witnesses or heavy evidence were required. They urge reform of Crown prosecutions and call for scrutiny by a Commons motion. Spectator.
Dr A M Cart hy of Skibbereen states he did not write to Mr Jephson about cholera and that O Connor’s statements were supported by a government backed meeting at the Skibbereen courthouse on March 5. Major Miller, inspector general of police, led the inquiry and his minutes may be made public.
On Monday last at eight o'clock the seventy four year old W Rose was executed for the murder of a woman believed to be his wife at Hurstbourne Tarrant. He faced the scaffold without fear or emotion as clergy prayed, the prison ritual continuing despite his indifference. He had long been an itinerant spice vendor from Kent and carried a pedlar's pack including spectacles at the time of the crime.
From Lloyds maritime report dated March 15 list of arrivals including Ida from St Domingo Pignouth Naples Packet from Palermo Henry Brougham from Palermo Triumvirate from Gallipoli Matilda from Bordeaux Pike from Leghorn Thomas from Venice Archangel from New York Amici from Tarragona Swift from ACIZ York from New York Swallow from Marseilles Lusitania from Yorks River Alkmer from Rotterdam Lord Hawkesbury from Ostend Catherina Market Maid Earl of Clancarty Mary Dart Search from Rotterdam all detailing ports and origins with several ships reported on March 15
A Commons Select Committee divides into four sub committees to study highways public buildings finance and criminal prosecutions amid large petition signatures against tithes Ireland and the Union repeal. In Shrewsbury a rare brutal act mutilates Mr Beech’s pigs. Newfoundland notes the Newfoundland General Assembly opens amid ship fisheries concerns and militia calls, with governor urging police support and improvements to savings banks roads and schools.
An observer recounts a near disaster at sea as a massive sperm whale rams a ship. The creature’s ferocious charge, repeated blows, and the crew’s desperate pumps and evasive maneuvers frame a dramatic encounter with nature.
The Oxford Journal notes a wool price advance causing alert among traders and sheep movements. The fragment suggests buyers and sellers watch markets closely as wool scarcity or cost shifts affect trade.
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