Fares and notices from the Port and London streets
A collage of shipping notices, product advertisements, and medical cures. Items reference a voyage to Oporto, sales of reversionary property around Oxford Street, and various patent medicines including Reading Sauce and Lefay’s Grande Pommade. Also mentions J. Lefay’s medicine in Whitechapel and Stirling agents in London.
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Holborn Bill
Edwards
St. Paul's Churchyard
Barclay and Sons
Farringdon-street
Butler
Cheapside
Sutton and Co
Bow Churchyard
Stradling
Gate of the Royal Exchange
Sanger
Oxford-Street
Norton
Lowe
Blackfriars’road
London
Ross and Burton
Hull
Mawhood
Liver
Harris
Northampton
Stevenson
Derby
Sutton
Nottingham
Tucker
Worcester
Prockter
Cheltenham
Mares and Co
Maidstone
Cook
Ipswich
Cooper and Cross
Bath
Hobbs
Cambridge
Mustell
Brighton
N.B
Wray
Holborn Hill
J. Lefay
Stirling
Whitechapel
St. Paul's
Berclay
Farringdon
Harvey
Great Surrey
Blackfriars-road
Sutton’ and Co
Bow Clurch-yard
Stradng
Royal Exchange
Hannay
J. W. Stirling
Dutch steamer Curacoa sails for Holland and other naval movements
The Curacoa sails to Holland on Thursday. On Saturday the Industry, a naval transport, sails for Pembroke with stores. The Pylades is to be docked. Lighters Louiea Baillie with Mr Sandford MP for Somersetshire his family and servants sail Madeira for health reasons. Alfred Ford, Professor of Chemistry, travels to Demerara to study sugar manufacturing improvements. The Pique is to be armed. A private boat contract at the dock-yard contrasts with government boat orders. Mr Body conducts timber seasoning experiments to reduce dry rot. Weather and arrivals noted through Oct 27-30 with several ships arriving and sailing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curacoa
Holland
Pembroke-yard
Hamoaze
San Josef
Falmouth
Drake
Louiea
Baillie
Mr. Sandford
M.P
Somersetshire
Madeira
Bloomfields
Creeveees Deere
Hort
Bloomfield
Vernon
Body
Lyra
Archangel
Cato
Crossman
Belfast
Susan
Pile
St. Michael's
Robert
Ellen
Graham
St. Petersburg
Providence
Mowbray
Leghorn
Maria
Garrod
Ormouth
Minx
Porrett
Malaga
London
Active
Ipswich
Terceira
Goodwill
Goodridge
William Dodd
Sierra Leone
Hleven
Duel Threats and Fireman Corps Featured in Paris
The Belge of Brussels notes an Amazonian towman challenged an adversary with pistols in a public house, who refused the duel and left amid taunts. The piece then surveys Paris firemen, Pare s d sapeurs pompiers, their blue uniforms, brass helmets, and equipment, their duty at theaters and state buildings, and their readiness guarding all great sites.
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Brussels
France
Paris
Pars
United Service Journal
Memorial meeting for Rev Dr Richards at St Martin's Irish
A parish gathering at Robson's Rooms St Martin's Lane resolves to present a memento to the Rev Dr Richards recent rector of St Martin's Irish. Notables present include Lord Carrington and Sir E Cust. Subscriptions total around 2341 with major gifts from the Duke of Northumberland and others. The meeting notes his work clearing the National School debt aiding the parsonage and parish church projects. A committee is formed with Sir C Trotter Mortimer Drummond and others to carry forward the tribute.
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St. Martin's
Messrs. Robson
St. Martin’s-lane
Richards
Lord Carrington
Datelish
Lord Mayes
Gentleman
Deville
Dr. Richards
National School
Burleigh-street
C. Trotter
Mortimer Drummond
Thomas Cocks
Bouverie
John Squire
Robert Dalgieish
E. Cust
Robson
Gas monopoly sparks push for gas price reform
The piece argues gas is a basic need and calls for competition to replace monopolies. It contrasts prices in London under the old system with those in districts where competition exists, urging inquiry into why Imperial and Chartered Gas charges were nearly double and suggesting cheaper options with new companies.
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Commissionera
City of London
Commissioners of Sewers
Equitable
London
Imperial
Chartered Gas Company
London Gas Let Company
Gd. Bed
Argand
Imperial Gas Light Company
Grosv Enor- Place
A.d
Imperial Company
Temperance Society Meeting Details At Jewin Street Chapel
A large temperance meeting at Jewin Street chapel heard shocking anecdotes on drink’s harms from a society delegate. Examples included a Strand physician reporting a baronet’s wife dying from alcohol linked illness and a nobleman forcing two lunatics in straitjackets to vow abstinence. The talk noted 91000 temperance members in New York and urged government cooperation to curb drinking in the army and navy. Friends society members urged attendees to sign pledges against ardent spirits as the gathering closed.
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Jewin's Street
Pilkington
Carr
Strand
Buckingham
House of Commons
Commercial Intelligence From Across Europe Amid Famine and Trade
Commercial accounts from Russia describe famine across Penza Saratoff and Kursk provinces with crop failures and emigration, while prices stay high and grain imports rise. Reports from Stockholm Naples Leghorn and Oran track grain stocks cholera impacts shipping and quarantine. A Weymouth shipwreck near Nieuport claims Captain Boult wife and son drowned. several survivors.
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Russia
Baltic
Stockholm
Leipsick
Florence
London
Paris
Gallipoli
Breslau
Poland
Naples
Marseilles
Liverpool
Leghorn
Black Sea
Odessa
Oran
Ostend
Providence
Weymouth
Boult
Stockton
Weymoth
Nieuport
Madrid’s ancient beginnings and harsh winters
The article notes Madrid first mentioned in the tenth century as the Moorish town Magerit and highlights its high winter cold due to 2,000 feet elevation. It also remarks on Madrid’s challenging vantage for a general view from its plate-like setting. A separate report recounts Jean Guibert, forty, who leaped into the Seine at Nogent after stripping his clothes and declaring a fatal philosophy, disappearing before rescue.
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Madrid
Magerit
Geneva
Brockeden
Byron
Jean Guibert
Seine
Nogent
Galignani
The Abolition and Reform Toasts at Glasgow Meeting
A Glasgow gathering continues yesterday's discussion with speakers proposing to abolish sinecures and pensions, reform Scotland's justice administration, and promote freedom for the negro. Speeches praise British liberty, free trade, and international harmony while condemning despotism and urging universal suffrage and knowledge access.
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Marjoribanks
Douglas
Scotland
Speirs
Elderslie
Baillie Fleming
Free States
North and
South America
North America
Thomas Davidson
Noah
Britain
Fox
Pilt
Scoland
Reform meeting extols parliaments reform and Poland aid
At a Glasgow gathering Lord Durham and speakers praise the Scottish Burgh Reforms Bill and the Slavery Abolition Act. They urge continued parliamentary reform, and honor Poland’s struggle for independence while pledging improvements in taxation, monopolies, and universal suffrage. The crowd Cheers for Earl Grey era measures and the aim of broader political rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Chieers
W. Bantlemene
Cheera
Goriéal
Gail
Yaaa & Elaredl
Notoria
Earl “Grey
House of Lords
Wse
Hume
Mr. Hume
Joseph
Baillie Hendry
Paisley
Poland
Sian
Thinidoan
Wesan
St. . Petersburgh
Lord Durham
Glasgow
Earl Durham
City Finances and Court Urges Fiscal Restraint
The Court of Common Council discussed the Finance Committee report on actual receipts and expenditures for the quarter ending the 10th, and projections to January. It noted a potential ordinary surplus of 11,750 but a remaining shortfall after repaying advances and extraordinary demands, with large debts maturing 1837 1838 and only 89,166 2s 6d capital to offset a 110,000 burden. The committee warned of ongoing revenue declines from old dues and urged strict adherence to the 53d standing order to avoid extraordinary projects and preserve funds.
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Court of Common Council
Committee of Finance
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Oporto
Teargh Ste
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Burday
Orelock
Messrs. Wilcox, and Anderson
Aam Ship Company
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AO Lafont
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Himself
O'Connell
Cobbett
Mes
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Guardian
True Sun
G. Berger
Holywell-str
ESSRS
Elgood
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Portman
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Inn-lane
Gray's Inn Art
Wimpelestreet
Cocks F Gnd Sons
Qoany
J. Cocks
Reading
Plymouth
Naval News
ST. Martin’s-In-The-Fields
Yerovra
Duke of York
Sherbourne Journal
M‘killigan
Horticultural Society
Lindley
Lorp
Glascow University
Youn
Temperance Society
Commercial Intelligence
Pau al
Wae
Weir
I. Nee Ie
Willian
Craig
England
Europe
Earl of Durham
Ieat
Duncan
Itm Boyle Gray
Franklin
Washington
Jefferson
Gray
Kennedy
Hell
North
Frefer
Earl Grey
Belgium
Spain
Portugal
St. Petersburgh
Rome
Beith
City Finances
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