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Newspaper
True Sun
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 04, 1834
Page
3
A caustic critique denounces a city address to the King praising Queen Charlotte and her trip. The piece mocks the style and targets the aldermen for servile adulation, noting the extravagant language and supposed public virtue cited in the homage.
The French mail arrives with Spanish Stock up two percent from Paris, price 48, buoyant after Times confirms last Saturday's express. Markets show little business, Madrid news awaited, while Spanish legislature and military moves draw mixed attention. Smuggling rumours, duty notes, and Leeward Island packet updates follow as money market shows languor with consols near 90.4 and Portuguese stock at 78 amid liquidity shifts and a new loan talk.
Sporting news notes Pontefract Stakes of 25 sovs net with 32 entrants. Horse Miss Wilfred from Mr. St. Harrison carries 7st 0lb as a 4 year old, amid other contenders including Parlett's Figaroos Lottery and Shepherd's Revolution. Sweepstakes offer 30 sovs for 3 year olds with seven starters. Amarath of Duke of Cleveland walked over to win.
A combined report from Warwick and Ashford race days lists multiple events including two-year-olds sweepstakes of 25 sovs each with eight entries, and Avon and Warwick cup stakes of 110 sovs with four miles. Notable runners include Purity, Trim, Amadon, Revenge, Uncle Toby, Juliana, and Coquette, with plates and heats held over distances up to two miles. Entries include Lord Grey of Grody, The Yeomanry Plate competitors, and other named horses such as The Ghost, Robinette, Victoria, and Blue Kellar among several others in the fields.
Downs Sept 2 to Liverpool and nearby ports report numerous arrivals including Britannia from Jamaica Holies Mt Arthur from St Vincent, Prince Regent from Malta, Mars from St Petersburgh, and Alleghany from Virginia with several other ships arriving from Leeward Islands Lisbon Montevideo Smyrna Cephalonia and Demerara through Sept 3.
Market reports show weekly averages for British corn against duties, with wheat at 40s 4¾d and oats 22s 8½d. Hungerford Market notes scarce fish, strong prices for beef and mutton, and plentiful poultry. Coal market lists vessel arrivals and coal prices per ton across multiple firms, with notable figures from Adairs to West Hartley.
Imports light as coffee maintains the rise with 71 casks of B. P. sold between 52 3s and 85s for ordinary to good middling. Grenada cocoa 35 bags at 46s to 483 6d. Jamaica rum 61 casks at 12s to 170s. West Indies packages 240 at 6d to 64d. Pimento 157 bags partly sold at 43d. sugar by B. P. sold freely at full prices. Mauritius 2211 bags at public sale all sold from 44s to 4s 6d.
Maria Hunt, a nurse, admitted stealing 7s 6d in silver and 2s in copper from her mistress Mrs. Susannah Bowring of Willesden. The chair recommended leniency and sentenced one week’s solitary confinement. Eliza Smith indicted for stealing a hat from Thomas Farley in Oxford Street. found guilty and given fourteen days. Duplicates for several umbrellas were found on her person.
At the Old Bailey the sessions began before the Lord Mayor and judges. The report criticizes court alterations as injudicious, requests reform before the next sessions, and notes Baron's suggestion to bring in a table for bar accommodation. James Ashley, 21, faced a guilty verdict with mercy recommended for robbing a young woman in Hammersmith on June 20, including five shillings, a gruff-box, and other items.
Charles and Henry Wallis, brothers, were charged with stealing two cotton shirts on June 3. James Easton, a cow keeper’s apprentice, displayed the shirts later, near a core shed, and was found with a handkerchief later offered for sale. The constable confirmed the thefts. The jury found the Wallis brothers guilty. A second case named John Weaver, indicted for stealing a hammer from Archibald Layton, involved a workman’s testimony of suspicious behavior.
A paused inquiry recounts a troubled case where a prisoner invited to tea at a witness’s premises is accused of stealing a hammer found on his person. The jury acquits after a rambling defense, with notes on related theft charges and embezzlement involving Mrs Canham and her syrup business.
Witnesses, including tavern-keeper Thomas Reid and surgeon George H. Butler, attested to the prisoner's character. The jury, after noting missing entries in the establishment's books and questions of clerkship, acquitted the man charged with misappropriating funds from his mistress Mrs Canham and associated accounts.
A reader named Charles Pitt criticizes a clause in the Central Local Act as unworkable asking if the statute allows indictment only after recognizances are entered by a magistrate. He questions the legislation’s logic and seriousness and signs his letter to the editor.
An advertisement for Forster seeks public sympathy after a term of imprisonment on a common informer's testimony later contradicted by five to six respectable tradesmen. The piece links Mr. Oastler of Huddersfield in a campaign against Sir John Ramsden over alleged public funds misappropriation.
Vienna stages feature Demoi selle Maschinka Schneider as Rosina in Der Barbier to universal applause while Kapellmeister Pott and Madame Schroeder Devrient star in operas across Vienna Berlin and Dresden. Detailing concerts and debuts from Lerpsic Munic Prauust and Hampuren, the report highlights new overtures, premieres and notable singers including Madame de Méric M. G. Martens and M. Julius Rietz alongside orchestral works by Muller and Weber.
A correspondent describes Bartholomew Fair turmoil in Smithfield sparked by a group called Lady Holland's Mob. The Lord Mayor proclaimed the scene, while authorities limit the fair to ancient bounds to curb abuses. The piece traces hostile ties to past Commonwealth actions and notes the fair’s decline alongside civic restrictions.
Fragmented OCR notes warn ministers about cholera spread in northern England. Reports claim several deaths in towns and urge strict vigilance, with advice against neglect and urging immediate sanitary measures to prevent a larger outbreak.
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