Times debates union dissolution amid labour tensions
The Times weighs in on the Builders Union dispute urging masters and workmen to dissolve current unions and retreat to previous positions. It calls for reconciliation, contends the compromise favors masters, and signals upcoming grand music meetings with anticipated full coverage. Also discusses Chancellor remarks on fidelity and public trust. An official notice confirms the death of Donna Francisca wife of Don Carlos of Spain at Alverstoke Rectory Gosport due to a bilious attack with inflammatory end.
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City Money Market Report From The French Mail Date
Eleven o clock and twelve o clock notes show a steady London money market with Consols at 90 43, Spanish 49 4, Portuguese 81 3. Reports from Bremen indicate higher colonial coffee prices and scarcer sugars. Disturbances in Boston Charlestown targeted a Catholic convent while cholera declines in New York and Montreal with rising emigration at Gross Isle. Prices and quotations remain largely unchanged by afternoon, with Consols 90 33 and India stocks at 25 6.
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Shipping News And Local Ledger Items From Lambeth
Shipping intelligence lists arrivals at Downs Liverpool and other ports with vessels from Jamaica Dominica St Vincent Corfu and Odessa. A Mountain Sylph notice is postponed. A Lambeth butcher learns a customer cut ties after subscribing a guinea to the funds of the operative builders.
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Market Report From Newgate and Leadenhall
The morning market showed strong butcher turnout and steady demand with beef and mutton selling well. Lamb was scarce, veal and pork held last week’s prices, and game declined though partridges remained abundant amid heavy eggs and butter markets. Prices: pigeons sixpence per dozen. hares four and sixpence to five shillings per brace.
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Hungerford Market Prices and Coal Market Roundup
Short supply of hay beef and mutton and assorted prices for vegetables fruit fowls ducks geese pigeons rabbits hares leverets grouse partridges pheasants and fish oysters herrings and more. Coal market largely steady with scarce business and numerous vessel arrivals and varied ton prices across multiple collieries.
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Colonial Markets Through The Week Surplus Goods Sell Slow
Colonial markets show little change week over week with higher prices for some items. B P sugar and coffee rise, Mauritius and Havatinah sold at firmer or unchanged quotes, Spanish Indigo slips slightly, tallow up, tea softer, no broad shifts in other groceries.
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Post Office Robbery Trial At Old Bailey
In the Old Bailey case, Thomas Goodwin aged 32, Benjamin Swabey alias M Sweney, and John Ward were tried for stealing a post sent letter containing 31500 in bank notes and 4500 in bills of exchange for Walker and Co. Crown evidence traced the note and bank funds through several hands, leading to Ward and Swabey’s arrest. The trial featured multiple witnesses from the post office and police, with the jury finding all three guilty.
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Prisoner’s Brother Presses Go-Between to Tell Truth
The Post office staff express regret as Goodwin and the prisoner’s brother discuss the case. Later, at the prison, the brother-in-law of M Sweeney urges truth, emphasizing the go-between role and denying responsibility for identifying the right man. He refuses, saying he cannot betray his friend.
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Royal George and Thalia Move Toward Commissioning
From Portsmouth correspondent: Royal George and Actzon 25 guns paid off and ordered to re commission. Thalia arrives from eastward with Rear-Admiral Campbell to relive Warren at the Cape. Buzzard sails for Cape and Arica. Port wine bottle from Royal George wreck opened, cork spoiled, with oysters and shells. Water Witch and Galatea race near Eddystone Light. about 40,000 exchanged owners. Weather fair, wind SW. Court of Requests note clarified by Commissioner Dubois on written debt promises after trust.
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Paris Correspondent Notes on Times Chronicle Feud
A Paris observer reports the Times Chronicle quarrel attracting Bourse attention. He praises Turnbull Maberly and Irving while detailing Madrid visits and dispatches, editorial snubs and the rise of foreign correspondents backed by money. He cites ministerial bulletins from Bayonne and Madrid, mentions Jarreguy battles, and notes Gerard's gout and the King of Holland’s loan.
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The West Indies Apprenticeship Uprisings Across Colonies
A Chronicle report summarizes August updates on the apprenticeship system in Caribbean colonies. It notes widespread quiet or orderly work in Antigua Bermuda Barbados St. Christopher's Tobago and Trinidad with some unrest in Grenada and St Vincent and provisional martial law considered. Reports from Jamaica Demerara Berbice and Essequibo are incomplete.
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The Builpers Strike List of Unemployed Workers
A correspondent provides a corrected roster of building trade workers out of work up to last Saturday. Carpenters 543 bricklayers 130 masons 148 plasterers 200 painters 187 smiths 49 stone sawyers 73 wood sawyers 118 bricklayer s labourers 724 stone masons 174 power masons 8 miscellaneous 21 total 2380.
Extraordinary Affair near Hayes Common in Kent
A correspondent reports hearing a pistol shot and a cry for help as a young man was forced toward a carriage by four men. A bystander intervened, a tall gentleman with a pistol pursued and two others were captured, a card reading Henry J. Davies was found, and the youths were said to be taken toward Westerham. Police were alerted for inquiry.
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Public Dinner at Chatham for George Stephen Byng MP
A large and respectable crowd of Chatham electors dined at the Sun Tavern to honor George Stephen Byng Esq. The room displayed Reform era colors and slogans. Byng praised cheap, good government, while some guests jeered Tory lines and the chairman faced mixed reception before Byng departed for London around 10:30 p.m.
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Operative Builders' Union Meeting at Pimlico
A Pimlico area committee of inhabitants and tradesmen held a meeting at the King's Arms to receive subscriptions and discuss opposition to master builders. Painter Mr. Fletcher refuted claims of 3000 signatories and warned of impostors posing as committee deputies. He said restored workers would face shunning but no intimidation. Other speakers urged perseverance, thanked the True Sun for coverage, and adjourned after votes of thanks to the chairman and secretary.
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Circular notices and local tales from Stapleford to Lancaster
A barren apple tree in Stapleford blooms abundantly. Stratford-on-Avon elected Benjamin Townsend mayor for the coming year, and alderman John Mills has died at Cowes. Thompson promotes a dinner and supper establishment opposite Drury Lane. The Anti-Track Society pursues numerous informations in Staffordshire. Gainsborough votes two pence in the pound rate for church expenses. Beer Act amendments empower police to enter licensed beer shops from next month. The Witt-Tatham trial ends at Lancaster assizes with a verdict for Mr Wright on the will's validity.
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Reminiscences and Notices in a Mixed Review
A collage of brief excerpts covers literary curiosities and political snips. Louis XVI and Malesherbes figures appear, alongside critiques of proverb use, Montserrat chancery nuisances, German table customs, and Italianate cultural anecdotes. The piece blends Reminiscences of the Rhine with reflections on Puritanism and Asia Minor lore.
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