Hippodrome Season Proceeds Amid Races and Concerts
Public days announce fourth meeting of 1837 at the Hippodrome near Kensington Gardens with races for Gold Cup, Handicap Plate and other stakes. Hackney coaches and cabriolets to be tired at the naval, last races of the season likely. entrances at Porto Belionne. Plus notes on British Scientific Association Liverpool meeting and Athenaeum reports, concert programs at Haymarket, and advertisements for Brandy and silverware.
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Hippodrome
Bayswater
Naval
Porto Beliolene
Kensington Gardens
British Scientific Association
Liverpool
Atheneum
Athenum
Report of the Ladies Committee on female Emigration to Van Diemen’s Land
The document presents the Ladies Committee findings on female emigrants aboard the Sarah, noting rapid dispersal after landfall and high demand for their services. It praises the ship’s women as industrious and skilled in cooking, washing, and general work, and warns against sending very young girls from reform schools or workhouses. The committee urges excluding girls under seventeen from emigration to protect virtue and public welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Lords
van Diemen’s Land
Ladies’ Committee
Ladies” Committee
Sarah
England
Complaints on coach-office extortion reach the Lord Mayor
The Lord Mayor pledges action against widespread coach-office extortion, detailing prosecutions for overcharging two pence on parcel carriage and urging victims to insist on refunds and penalties. He cites past convictions, urges monthly notices, and notes bartholomew fair robberies amid broader enforcement efforts.
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Is Lordship
Ts Sd
Fenders
Lord Meyer
London
Fraudulent dealer in watches and chattels exposed in London
Williar Friedlander of Cambridge Heath is charged by City officer Roe with obtaining a gold watch by a false pretence. The case involves a German bill of exchange, Mackie and Co., and Gotz of Leipsic. Several witnesses describe shopping, renting a counting house under misrepresented names, engraving bills, and other swindles. The prisoner, who used multiple aliases, faces multiple charges and was remanded for trial.
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Gret
Pasaid
Jackson
Strong
Friedlander
Porter
Hackney-road
Pridgsner
Head
The
Star
Gracechurch-street
Mesars
L. M. Gotz
Andrew Mackie and Co
Alexander Pisani
Hamburgh
Alderman Winchester
Williar Friedlander
Cambridge-heath
Occ
Lime-street
Roe
Bernard Lawley
Thomas Field
Field
Ludwig
M. Gotz
Leipsic
William Friedlander
Andrew Mackie
Mackies
Bouss
Prisoer
Tobn Edwards
Finsbury Chambers
Jrst
Mr. Mackie
Adolphus Newman
Poo
Terrace
Gotz
Joseph Lawrence
John Cain
Queen's Head
Red Lion Passage
Red Lion-square
Thomas Lloyd
Worship-street
Finsbury-square
Lloyd’s Row
Old Broadstreet
City
Deacon
Rogers
Lloyd
Platt
Owell-Green
Robert Braggie
High Holborn
Young and Luxmore’s
St. Martin’s
Futty
Smith
No. 8
Little James Street
Gray's
Ball
Ball’s-pond
Jslington
Ito
Mr. Rogers
Mr. Ball
Nesbit
Lazarus
Houghsditch
Rogera
Sang Froid
Assault charge over road diversion at Maryland Point Stratford
Joseph Lees a surveyor faced a charge of assault on Braithwaite engineer to the Eastern Counties Railway. The dispute, rooted in a diverted turnpike road over Manby’s field, involved Chancery injunctions and trespass actions. A staged “gentlemanly assault” was planned to test magistrates, but the court postponed adjudication to seek opinion on the alleged assault.
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Lambeth-Street
Joseph Lees
Messra
Norton and Garford
Braithwaite
Eastern Counties Railway Company
Maryland Point
Stratford
New Road
Manby
Lees
Court of Chancery
Wutc
Dacre
Potato Robbery Trial in Paris Court
In a Paris police case, Madame Paquet accuses Bourdon of stealing two flannel jackets and two shirts amid a potato dispute. Witnesses recount a pursuit for a thief on stairs, revealing a bundle with Paquet’s garments. Bourdon denies the theft but is found previously convicted and sentenced to fifteen months imprisonment and five years surveillance.
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Roygrdon
Sal
Madame Paquet
Hill
Monsieur Joubert
Madame Puquet
Tate
English rowdy frolics shock Interlaken crowd
From the Helvetic, Swiss paper, six or seven Englishmen in Interlaken staged a drunken “box” spree after a hotel dinner. They knocked down locals, tore epaulettes, and attacked a gendarme. Carabiniers ended the riot, prisoners were jailed, and a British envoy potential complaint looms as justice proceeds.
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Interlaken
Switzerland
Richard
Aarmable
Gerber
Tioe
Maller
Widoight
Jill Justice
Executive Council
Berne
Melvetle
A Freemans Privilege Court Row in Sing Sing
The defendant Phalambot faces charges of getting drunk beating his wife and insulting public agents enforcing the law. He retorts that he lives in a free country and questions meddling in his drinking, insisting payment for his wine. The exchange highlights tension between personal liberty and public order.
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Phalambot
Fragile Faith in Money and the Newspaper Mind
A Boston Courier piece mocks penny dreadfuls and ads, lampoons hair loss and the era’s advertising style, and notes readers chasing “the heavy sinking gloom” by devouring newspapers. It highlights quips about money demand, youth, and the perils of mocking English and Macassar oil in daily reporting.
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England
John Clark
Oearge
Bostom
Falstaff
Brighton Caule
Algo
N. H
Timothy Toffer
Forscoth
Boston Courier
Angling Extraordinary Ends in Kendal Angling Case
John Scott, cabinet-maker and member of Kendal Angling Association, is stated to have killed at least a certain quantity of trout with the rod during leisure hours between February 4 and August 30. The Westmorland Gazette reports the unusual fishing incident in this historical notice.
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John Scott
Kendal Angling Association
Westmoreland Gazette
Warwick Races and Paris Races Reported amid Aquatics Events
Warwick racing items include the Toss The Gay Stakes and Leamington Stakes with multiple entries and weights, plus the Yeomanry Plate and The Queen and Woodcote fields. Paris races note the Arrondissement Prizes won by Esmeralda and Lydia, with acknowledgments of other entrants. Aquatics cover a Hungerford market purse rowing event with eight pairs, heats, and a grand heat result.
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Warwick
Mr. Rawlinson
Chaddington
Wreford
Wisdom
Pba
Eto Swha
Mr. Bowler
Lord Warwick
J. Coleman
Queen
Stanley
Woodcote
Watson
A. Horton
Paris
Sonpay
Duke of Orleans
Esmeralda
Lord H. Seymour
Donna Maria
Lydia
Nat
M. Lecomte
Brazile
Huncesworp
Hungerford Market
Swan
H. Maynard
T. Cooke
C. Hill
W. Jones
T. Worthy
G. Bancroft
A. Tough
J. Becket
The Affairs of Algiers andLondon Firefronts 1832
Reports from Le National detail Captain Allegro's return with the Emir’s reply, trade protection promises, and Mechouade fortifications at Tlemecen. Other items describe fires at Kensington and St Bride’s, a Rome cholera update, a fatal accident near Lincoln’s Inn, and a violent Smithfield disturbance by Irish laborers with arrests and bail.
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B. Pope
Nether Stowey
Somerset
Kensington
Stark
High-street
St. Bride’s Cuveen
Fleet Street
Amcutous
Rome
Augsburg
Bologna
New-road
Euston Square
W.hi Booth
No.6
Rosgery
Charles Gould
Beard
Mount Pleasant
Gray’s Inn-lane
Middlesex
House of Correction
Tal
Barth
Mr. Jones
Paul Clifford
Paul
Ellis
Roberts
G Division
Patrick
Dermot
Phelim Flynn
Hatton-garden
Paddy Flynn
Bis
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Bell-green
Sydenham
Kent
Cart Lodge
Ac. &c
Thomas Dean
Michaelmas
Mary
Perry-street
Suthend
Blackreath
Dover Castle
Broadway
Deptford
Half Moon
Borough
Garraway's Coffee House
Sweet and Sutton
Basinghall Street
Wright and Son
Blue Stile
Greenwich
Pal Mall
coTrie Hall
Haymarket
Peake
Blanche
Jersey
John Barnett
Miss Romer
Reese
Mr. Frazer
Miss Poole
Mr. E. Seguin
Leoni Lee
Albemarl
HITS
J.T. Befits & Co
Smithheld Bary
Shaw
T. Cox
Hentity
Lewis
London, TH
Ursday Y
Sun, Price
Police Intelligence
Whetham
Bartholomew Fair
St. Bartholomew Fair
SmithGeld
St. Jola-street
Giltapor- Street
Richard Marchant
No. 12
Brill Terrace
Somers Town
Anthill
St. John Street
Edwards
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
White
Gregory
King
George Williams
Powell
Migt
Kioy
John Bowman
Thompson
Shadwell Dock
Dally and Parker
Hutchison
Worcrater Street
Shadwell
Dalby
Wishead
Ballastine
Bowman
le President
Montesquieu
Faubourg da Temple
M. le President
Henry
Marie
Montesquieu Saya
Jenkins
E Division
Sahe
the World For
Sporting
Algiers
Osan
Acc
Allegro
Tlemecen
Bugeach
Morocco
Abd-el-Kader
Oran
Caraigeral
Atcieks
France
Bleda
Coleab
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