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Newspaper
True Sun
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 22, 1834
Page
3
A lengthy debate scrutinizes the Ordnance store system noting immense perishable stock, wasted funds, and high civil costs. Calls for contracting, better stocking limits, and centralized management aim to curb losses from muskets, gunpowder, accoutrements, and barracks expenses while preserving essential military needs.
Debates on new Exchequer arrangements center on whether two officers should jointly head departments or a single chief with an assistant. Herries argues against two officers per office citing risk of fraud and weak control. Graham defends single cheque as safer, with penalties for neglect and removal by Parliament. Smuggling Act Amendment Bill rejects jury trial clause. other bills pass as House adjourns.
The Gazette notes St James's Palace on March 19 1834 confers Knighthood on Liard Conta Lorenzo Moore Companion of the Bath and Military Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. War-office actions on March 21 detail multiple officer promotions and purchases across regiments including the 7th Light Dragoons 2th Foot and Royal Artillery.
A long historical bankruptcy notice lists individuals including James Cook of Narrow-street Ratcliff biscuit-maker and Henry Grimsdale innkeeper of High Wycombe, with scheduled surrender and court dates in March and April at various bankruptcy courts as well as superseded entries for Isaac Brightwen and Edward Godge. It details numerous debtors and venues with attorney notes and firm names across London and provinces. The fragmentary entry also mentions John Smith coach-proprietor and Frances Miller victualler among others with dates in April and May and lawyers in Cheapside, Regent-street, and Liverpool jurisdictions.
Dividends scheduled for April and May cite creditors and locations in Preston, Newcastle, Sheffield, Oxfordshire, Lambeth, Cavendish Square, and more. Certificates list Shrewsbury, Sheffield, and Manchester trades. Partnerships dissolved include firms in Gray's Inn, Congleton, Marylebone, and Liverpool-area trades, with numerous names and addresses.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar from returns for the week ending March 1, 1334 is thirty shillings per cwt, excluding Customs duties paid or charged on import into Great Britain.
Law intelligence notes two chancery appeals. Morgan v Rhodes seeks a lease execution for Hoxton premises. judgment postponed. Green v Green involves an injunction to halt ejectment at Gloucester Assizes over entail versus fee simple family settlement. Trial scheduled. Lord Chancellor suggests entering judgment now, with merits to proceed later.
The Atheneum reports on the Middlesex adjourned sessions dated March 21 in the Prosecution of John Parish D Ephraim Robert and Joseph Bond. A proposed respite of recognizances on illness was refused. Bail is set double the forfeited amounts with total bail per bond at 960 and Ephraim Bonds 2000 extra, Sheriff estreat 401, while indictments remain.
At Surrey Sessions on March 21 before a full bench, George Longley Joseph Powell and Edward Haylock were indicted for feloniously stealing from Benjamin Kitchen a countryman at Christchurch on February 14, totaling 113 sovereigns and notes. The trio allegedly substituted a roll of farthings for the sovereigns while pretending to help recover the money. The jury found all three guilty.
Two seamen sworn an Antwerp affidavit recount the Datusia shipwreck from St John’s New Brunswick December 1833. After eleven days at sea with dwindling rations and threats of sacrifice, survivors were rescued January 18 by the American brig Wm Thatcher and landed at Antwerp. The Lord Mayor provided aid and sought a ship for them.
Inspector Jones reports a Regent's Park landlord chained a Newfoundland, starving and maiming the dog. Neighbours heard howls, a mob broke in and found the animal emaciated and badly injured. The landlord laments legal limits to punish cruelty and urges action.
An adjourned Manchester meeting discussed petitioning Parliament for a repeal of the Union between England and Ireland, abolition of tithes, and new Irish car laws. Speakers urged reform measures, local legislatures, and a general reconsideration of Ireland’s burden, with protests against absentee landlords and calls for emigration schemes.
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