Spanish liberal reforms and French hostility in Madrid
The article argues that French Doctrinaire press fears liberal advances in Spain and urges backing the Cortes over the Ministry. It condemns debts sanctioned by a faithless monarch, warns against setting a precedent of regressive finance, and praises Spanish reformers as true liberty worshippers. It notes German papers criticizing British policy in the East and questions Lord Palmerston's foreign stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cortes
Friends of Liberty
Spain
France
Madrid
Finance Committee
Ferdinand VII
Fountain Head
Allgemeine Zeitung
St. Petersburgh
Canninc
East
Porte
Russia
Lord Alnerston
Revolt across Syria and European posturing amid press laws
Dispatches describe a widespread Syrian uprising fueled by foreign agents and local governors, with Mehemet Ali implicated in the intrigues. In Europe, Pedro’s health, the Spanish Cortes decree, and naval strategic moves in the Baltic and Black Sea loom as powers threaten autocracy. Manila trade shows rising vessel counts and silver imports as Pactoli rice export terms unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Syria
Naplousi
Jerusalem
Djebel Kalil
Palestine
Galilee
Ibrahim
Abrahim
Abon Ghos
St. Jean d’Acre
Mehemet Ali
Unions and violence debated amid public unrest
A period piece discusses bias against Trade Unionists, noting anti union outrages are highlighted while misconduct by non unionists is overlooked. It recounts a Bow Street case where Irish laborers James Bryan and Michael Bryant assaulted Martin Keefe after a dispute over a signing document. They were fined and released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bow Street
James Bryan
Michael Bryant
Martin Keefe
Lincoln’s Inn-Fields
Finances and Racing News From Don Pedro Illness to Doncaster Races
The city reports a Lond on money market at lower prices with bonds shifting as news of Don Pedro’s ill health circulates. Cortes bonds of 1820 1823 deemed legal. others rejected. Stock quotes steady. Doncaster racing results include Muley Moloch Tomboy and Bran winning respectively in notable races with several favorites listed and purses detailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Don Pedro
Gold Cup and Miscellaneous Races At Windsor Meeting
Wednesday program lists Gold Cup subscription races with 100 sovs each and 30 sovs added, three miles. Winners include Lord Darlington and Sir Rowland Hill with Lady Stafford. Winters Stakes for non thoroughbred riders heats twice round. Other entries mention Miss Charlotte, Harriet, Fack-d-Lantern and Tiara with various weights and holders noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Darlington
Russell
Rowland Hill
Lady Stafford
Painter
Cydnus
Mr. Giffard
Miss Charlotte
Mose
Ceeseeseeseetereres
Nanney
Harriet
Phillips
Insolvent Debtors Court Opens Amid Routine Motions
The court, before the Learned Chief Commissioner and Mr. Commissioner Bowen, sat for token motions of no public interest and adjourned at half-past eleven to ten o'clock tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowen
Unmanly Assault and Robbery Report at Guildhall
Police reports from Guildhall detail John Dickinson fined for brutal assault on a 16 year old girl named Mary Ann Hill after she rejected his advances. The case cites a serious leg injury and blood loss, with Dickinson weeping as he faces punishment. Also covered is John McAffray, Chelsea Hospital pensioner, argued drunkenness but discharged after threats to smash Chelsea pub windows. An extensive robbery at 107 Gloucester Place Portman Square notes loss of plated ware including spoons forks waiters a dagger and scales valued at £100-£200.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guildhall
John Dickinson
Mary Ann Hill
Cheapside
Alderman Kelly
Queen Square
Brio Pexsioner
John McAffray
Chelsea Hospital
Gregorie
Jews’row
Chelsea
Caffray
General Eliot Public House
Mr Caffray
Robert Royds
Gloucesterplace
Portman Square
Penn
Bucks
St. Paul’s
London
Prior
Burke
Valenciennes
Curtis
Shipping Intelligence Brief From Lloyds Data
Shipping news lists arrivals and origins for vessels at various ports. Spotted entries include Espoir from Lisbon, Sprightly from Villa Viciosa, Harriet and Jane from Cadiz, Ark from St Petersburgh, Patinurus from Jamaica, Brisk from Smyrna, Union and Moyse from London, Arab from Tortola, Arrow from Pernambuco, and multiple ships from Smyrna, Dantzic, Memel, Riga, and Antwerp with dates Sept 16 to 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd’s
Falmouth
Sever
Espoir
Lisbon
Orr Fatmouth
Sprightly
Livingstone
Villa Viciosa
Scilly
Harriet
Jane
Howie
Violet
Ross
Cadiz
Bristow
Ark
Clark
St. Petersburgh
Liverpool
Jamaica
Mitrorp
Brisk
Ivy
Smyrna
Dupin
Union
Richards
London
Menepen
Moyse
Cork
Doyle
Tortola
Waterloo
Bell
Orr Conk
Arrow
Hutchinson
Pernambuco
River
Triest Harrenburyg
Dantzic
Malvina
Riga
Jono
Maria
Memel
Dover
Antwerp
Belfast
Calais
Shopkeepers of St Pancras Unite With Operative Builders
Last evening a large meeting of eastern St Pancras shopkeepers and tradesmen supported the Operative Builders in their dispute. Chairman Mr Mower presented plans for consolidating committees and possibly a grand metropolis meeting. Resolutions urged action against disturbances and urged unity, with a liberal weekly subscription signed by several tradesmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Pancras
Friend At
Platt-terrace
Mower
Friends of the
Operative Builders
Adams
Gillet
Messrs. Murphy
Fenner
Hartley
Cooke
Central Committee of
Mastership of the Rolls and medieval edicts scheme
The article notes a promise of the Rolls upon a prior decision, questions if a new premier alters the engagement, and cites a September Monthly Magazine piece. It discusses Sir William Horne, a Puisne Judgeship, and Lord Melbourne versus Lord Grey in a turf language of engagements. It then presents a bishop’s edict from Angour mandating abstinence from servile work on festivals and Sundays, forbidding barbers from shaving, bloodletting except in peril, and mills from grinding, framed as ecclesiastical punishment and penance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Horne
Lord Melbourne
Lord Grey
Mportant
Bargiers
Anjour
God
Christ
iMonthly
Markets and Smithfield Widespread Slump in Prices
Market notes show good wheat and oats demand evolving, barley quiet, and beans steady. At Smithfield the week ends with weak trade, prices cut across beef and mutton, veal and lamb down, many animals unsold as heat suppresses demand. cattle and sheep totals and livestock counts listed for the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithfield
Reform and diplomacy drive French politics forward
Paris dispatch discusses Marshal Gerard’s reform pledge, press tolerance, and a verdict against a National editor. It notes Austrian and Turkish diplomatic moves, Bayonne incidents, and Madrid news. Mentions Prussia, Talleyrand, and potential Spanish shifts with Mina and Redil amid evolving royal policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arias Gerard
France
Marshal Gerard
le National
Gerard
Plengouin
M. Marie
M. Plangentin
Compiegne
Austria
Ancona
Metternich
Spain
Naples
Bayonne
Pozzo di Borgo
Algiers
Frederick Wiliam
Prince Talleyrand
Vatencay
Madrid
Earl Grey
Paris
P.S
Mina
Redil
Quesada
Nou
Falmouth Dispatches Report Don Pedro Sinking Grief
The Espoir brought the Lisbon mail with conflicting updates on Don Pedro’s condition, private accounts warn of imminent danger while official bulletins are upbeat. Madeira’s garrison, recently moved to Lisbon, suffered a deadly fire killing hundreds and a French squadron mutiny over pay. Passengers include Latour Chapereza and Senor D. F. Cameo. The Tropic and Favourite, Jamaica and Memel, and His Majesty's ship Pike were noted arrivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Espoir
Lisbon
Don Pedro
Madeira
F. P. B. Latour
J.D. Chapereza
Senor D.F
Jamaica
Memel
Pike
Hops bring better returns as harvest improves at Maidstone
Hops have fallen in weight less in Maidstone with late picks ripening, raising expectations for duty bets between 155000 and 1650001. New hops show fine samples and steady sales, while old hops stay scarce. The corn market slows with prices down slightly. wheat bids range 13s to 46s a quarter, barley 363, oats 208s and 21s, beans 343.3, peas 393.
Colonial Markets Today Afloat In Mixed Goods Prices
Sucar sales hold firm for good sorts while low brown varieties ease. Corres reports 519 casks 59 barrels and 25 bags Jamaica sold around 87s 6d to 88s per cask or bag. Coffee trades down 136d. Cocoa sells 196 bags Trinidad at 46s to 54s 6d with some finer lots at 56s. Pimento 246 bags range 440 to did. Cotton 1,000 bales chiefly Surats maintain prior levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. P
Corres
Jamaica
Trinidad
Tattow
Wolverhampton Wheat Prices and Grain Market Report
Market bulletin notes unusually large wheat supply with last week's prices holding. Old fresh thrashed malting barley dearer. beans, oats, and other trades largely steady. Lists per 72 pounds old wheat 6s 10d to 7s 2d, new 6s to Us, malting barley 53 6d to 5s 9d per 38 quarts, oats 15s to 18s per 196 lbs, beans 17s to 18s per 196 lbs, malt 7s to 7s 6d per bushel, tares 9s to 10s, peas 15s to 16s, fine flour 30s to 33s 8 1/2d, second ditto 26s to 27s per 224 lbs.
Townley letter defends editor amid Tradesmen's Union dispute
R Townley of 6 Cursitor Street writes to the editor of the True Sun defending the editor's general conduct in a Red Lion square Tradesmen's Union meeting report. He clarifies that he did not enter into capital and labor merits and questions any false premises attributed to the editor's opinions. He asks for insertion of the correction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen's Arms Tavern
Red Lion-square
Tradesmen's Union
R. Townley
Market Report on English and Irish Wheat Prices in Birmingham
Birmingham market notes English Wheat overdone with unsold lots. Irish new Wheat appears inferior with price limits at English levels. Beans dearer. malting barley and oats hold prices. Old Wheat, new Wheat, Irish Wheat, matting barley, grinding barley, malt, oats, beans, peas, and flour prices listed by weight.
Balloted Birmingham Festival Seats and Paradise Street Books
A note on Birmingham Musical Festival seating by ballot and the relocation of the books to the School of Medicine in Paradise Street. The rest recounts D Israels Curiosities of Literature tale The Story of Cat King about a Zealand governor and a vengeful wife leading to a fatal justice by Charles the Bold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
School of Medicine
Paradise Street
Paradise
Cat
Zealand
Burgundy
Charles the Bold
D'Israeli
Transylvania Diet gains influence amid church reform demands
Reports from Transylvania show the Diet taking a sterner stance, pressuring for civil reforms and an end to church fiscal abuses. Protestants and Calvinists, over a third of the region, seek broader rights and reduced ecclesiastical patronage drains. In Lyons a storm floods streets and stores, while a London cab confession highlights a cabman’s honest return of a lost pocket-book with a large banknote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Steam Navigation Company
London
Rotterdam
Belfast
Calais
Attwood
Antwerp
Transylvania
Mnuch
Hungary
Lyons
Rue Marcel
Grand Cote
Alexander
Pentonville
First Lord Mayor's Water Procession and Legends
A miscellany of notes recounts the first Lord Mayor's water procession under John Norman in 1453, local sights in Penn Bucks with two tall firs visible from London, and historical curios about fairy lore, eye care, and Birmingham reading towns. It also includes reflections on ignorance, reforms, and public figures of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Norman
Curtis
Birmingham
Kendal
Bridgewater
Manchester
Tait
Earth
E. B. Bulwer
London
Sir Andrew
Lord BroveHam
Lord Brougham
Washington
Franklin
Talleyrand
Lord Durham
Richard
Anne
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Chamber of Peers
Times
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Island
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Ultimo
Manilla
Pactoli
Mauilla
Curoniece
The
Albion
True Sun
Chronicle
Macfarlane
Barbarossa
Frederick
East India Company
the Times
India
Consols
Sporting
Doncaster
Duke of Cleveland
Orde
Tomboy
Ridsdale
Lot
Coriolanus
Silenus
Quintus
Mr. Greatrex
Burden
St. Eger
Sir E. Baker
T.V.C
J. Scott
Pilgrim
Mr. Watt
Bubastes
Powlett
Langar
Circle
Walker
Shrewsbury
LAW Intelligence
Police
Shipping Intelligence
Maidstone
Wolverhampton
the True Sun
Theocritus
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