Beaux Arts Beauchamp Plate Ads and London Packet Schedules
An 1832 advertisement fragment promotes Perkins hatter services in Old Compton Street while detailing General Steam Navigation Company sailings from London to Hamburg Rotterdam Ostend Calais and Boulogne with various ship schedules. Also promotes Beauchamp's British Plate as a durable silver substitute and lists select mail and coach routes, fares and notable inns across the British Isles with emphasis on speed comfort and connections.
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F Perkins
Old
Compton-street
Soho-Square
N.B. Perkins
India
General Steam Navigation Company
Lombard-street
London
Hamburg
Hamburg With His Majesty's
Rotterdam
His Majesty
Calaia
Boulogne
Hamsgate
St. Clement
Holyhead
Birmingham
Clark's
Corwen
Spencer's
Devonport
Clench
Exeter
Elliota
Bath and
Exeter Mall
Piccadilly
Riley
Lork House
Bath
Stroudwater Mail
Bristol
Townsend's Bush Lim
Manchester
Edinburgh
Glasgow
York
Liverpool
Leary
Norwich
Ipswich
Watson
Ottee
Hull
Lincoln
Yorkshire
Dovor
Paris
Lacy
Liverpool Railway
Packwood
Niblet
Brighton
DART
Robert Snow
Comsnon
Camden
Riegate
Canterbury
Cheltenham
Ross
Abergavanny
Ceres
Naylor
Plough Hotel
Agramens
Nottingham
Derby Times
Shrewsbury
Oxfordshire
Ben and Chickens
Rocket Bay
Portsmouth
Nance
Fountain Hotel
Isle of Wight
Guernsey
Jersey
Plymouth
Exeter Herald
Norfolk
Messrs
Worthing
Chelmsford
French
Tex
Mt Titec
Guildford Union
Faulkner
Sc. &c
W. Chaplin and Co
Press war in Blackburn as Conservative paper battles Liberal Gazette
The Alfred Newspaper from London aims to crush the Blackburn Gazette by printing in Blackburn with local matter at low cost, while Joly’s Blackburn edition incurs minimal expense and attracts ads at half price. A Frankfort patriotic association vows to shun aristocratic journals, while a fishing boat Ocean of Warner's firm sinks in a south gale with all hands lost, including a captain, two sons, a brother-in-law, and seven others. Mrs Warner and five children mourn.
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London
Alfred
Blackburn
Blackburn Gazette
Joly
Lancaster Herald
Frankfort
Ocean
Warner
T. Hammond
Nancy
Norwich Mercury
Huddersfield Creditor Meeting Reveals Concealed Sum
Alexander Black, a Huddersfield coin dealer, faced a creditors meeting after bankruptcy discoveries show unentered transactions and a hidden 281. He confessed to concealing 281 and, under risk of York Castle, revealed a parcel containing 4000 in Bank notes. Creditors expected about 13 shillings per pound. Twelve years earlier he fled Nottingham in debt and was later caught in Ayr with 800 in the bank. creditors previously recovered 20s per pound.
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Alexander Black
Huddersfield
York Castle
Black
Nottingham
Ayr
Creditorg
Leeds Intelligencer
Husband Attacks Wife with Razor in Kent Road House
Six o'clock Saturday morning screams from 14 Craig's Place Kent Road lead to Mrs. Ludlow fleeing with a child claiming her husband James Ludlow a law-writer tried to cut her throat. Neighbors restrained him, a surgeon bound a neck wound, and he was later sent to an asylum.
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Sumpter
Craig’s Place
Kent-road
James Ludlow
Death by hydrophobia follows dog bite at Carlton
The Nottingham review reports Reuben Parker of Carlton died of hydrophobia after a dog bite by Mr Bell’s dog near Easter. Handley, who witnessed the bite and was also bitten, hanged himself in despair after learning of Parker’s death. both men suffered grave illness and mental distress.
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Carlton
Reuben Parker
Young Handley
Carlton-hill
Parker
Nottingham Review
Abolition Plan for Tithes Promoted in Ro millyian Fashion
The proposal urges ending tithes by requiring landowners to buy tithe rights at land values and discharge interest at four percent, with proceeds redistributed to streamline church property, trimming useless limbs and funding essential branches while preserving core church structure.
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Sir Samuel Romilly
Teazles Produce Notable Harvest Boosting Cloth Makers
In a Gazelle update a correspondent reports teazle crops are now more generally harvested than in two decades, with prices about half of three months ago. Factories annually consume 7 000 to 12 000 pounds of teazle, a natural product used to raise wool fibers on cloth, a purpose not yet matched by substitutes.
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Nicholson
Messrs
Russell and
Chapman
Lord Tenterden
Tower Hamlets
National School
Whitechapel
St. Mary
Isareeee
Christchurch
Spitalfields
St. Leonard
Bromley
St. Anne
Limehouse
St. Paul
Shadwell
St. George
Middlesex
St. John
Wapping
Aldgate
East Smithfeld Liberty
Trintity
Minories
Ratcliff
All Saints
Norton-falgate
Christe Ucdhe Spital
Russell
Mor
Tithes and taxation in a Hertford critique
A reader recalls a Hertford Paper observation asserting that production costs drive prices and government taxes alter farmer profits. The argument shows a 10s bushel of wheat yielding 18d to the parson at market, while at 7s 6d the clergyman’s take drops to 9d, blaming tax shifts for clergy gains amid national distress.
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Hertford
Lam
Enrawn commentary on Irish taxation and church lands
A Northern Political Union entrenchment addresses Earl Grey lamenting Ireland's taxation and tithes. The speaker denounces English debt, calls for repeal of onerous taxes, and argues church revenues now subsidize aristocracy while Irish tithe funds are linked to bloodshed.
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Earl Grey
Lorp
England
Europe
Spain
Algiers
Constantinople
Vienna
Poland
Fugland
Ireland
Juggernaut
Swindle Gang Circulates London Purchase Scam
A London swindler outfit targets country tradesmen by posing as regular buyers. A Devonshire shoemaker received a letter demanding low wholesale prices for many shoe types, with promises of payment via post master or country banker orders on demand. The note claims to ship boots to the West Indies and ends with a cordial offer to assist, urging readers to beware.
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London
Devonshire
West Indies
Nicholson
Commercial Gazette
Trial of Tithe Prosecutions Advances in Limerick
An express from Limerick reports pending tithe traversers trials. The Crown offered a nominal sentence for guilty pleas, which the traversers refused. Named defendants include John Reedy Patrick Carey Richard OShaughnessy J D C Mahony Daniel Fitzgerald John Hasset John Dowling and Richard Maume. The Grand Jury had not found the bills at departure time.
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Limerick
Colonel Gossett
John Reedy
Patrick Carey
Richard O'Shaughnessy
J. D. C. Mahony
Daniel Fitzgerald
John Hasset
John Dowling
Richard Maume
Colonel Stanhope for Tower Hamlets oration appeals to voters
A letter to the editor defends Colonel Leicester Stanhope as a liberal candidate for Tower Hamlets. The writer praises his life of liberty, cites battles over press and emancipation, and notes his clashes with Lord Byron as principled rather than personal. The piece argues for Stanhope’s integrity amid aristocratic birth.
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SEN
Sig
Bentham School
Leicester Stanhope
Earl of Harrington
Tower Hamlets
Earl of Harrowby
Ireland
Dublin
India
Greece
England
Milan
Italy
Bentham
Stanhope
Byron
Peter Gamba
Lord Byron
Lord B
Mr. Bentham
Southwark Friends Rally Behind L B Allen Candidate
A Southwark meeting at Mrs Page Windsor Castle Great Suffolk Street praised L B Allen. John Longmore chaired as supporters touted promises from fifty electors and Allen thanked attendees while backing the government amid war concerns. Strong resolutions in his favor were unanimously adopted.
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Times
Friends
L. B. Allen
Southwark
Page
Windsor Castle
Great Suffolk Street
John. Longmore
Allen
Barnes
Mr. Allen
Whitmore
National Political Union Meeting Urges Expanded Franchise and Rent Fund
Dublin National Political Union met chaired by Mr Kelly with Mr Gahagan as secretary. Mr O Maher’s letter was read urging increased efforts and outlining aims. Debate covered admitting late churchwardens, funding from national rent rather than Conservative money, and amalgamating Protestants and Catholics to bolster Ireland’s independence through broad franchise and lawful action.
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Dublin Express
National Political Union
Kelly
Gahagan
O'Maher
O'Connell
Doryer
Tharyer
Dwyer
O’connel
Cloney
Barrett
Ireland
True Sun Support Endorsed By Irish Assembly Meeting
A Dublin assembly echoes gratitude to the True Sun newspaper as a key Irish voice. Speakers urge unity to pressure reforms, denounce English press rivalry, and call for lawful, merit based action while criticizing government misrule. Revenue readout noted. meeting adjourned after thanks to the chair.
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Grangy Heytodia
National Union
Ireland
Cabal
O'Connell
Trishman
True Sun
Gallaghan
Dwyer
Scraps from Corbett The Tyne to Newcastle
The writer journeys from Hexham to Newcastle by post chaise, praising Tyne valley beauty, farming life, and stone-built towns. He notes Newcastle as the London of the North with uniform local folk, comments on potatoes and turnips, and describes Sunderland lime burning, pitmen wages, and the Dean and Chapter of Durham as powerful landowners who have taxed Londonderry heavily.
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Tyne
Hexham
Newcastle
Thames
London-bridge
Isis
Hieregrscon
London
Kensington
Barn-Elm
Alster
Morpeth
Northumberland
Dureham
Dr. Dreaven
Sunderland
Gladd
Epsom
Surrey
Scotland
Dean and Chapter
Durham
South
Shields
Londonderry
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Beauchamp
Day
Martin's
Tion
THE
True. Sin
Northern Political Union
Gord Byron
Hackney
Shoreditch
Shore- Wich
Solonel Stanhope
Dublin National Political Union
Corbett
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