29 Sep 1836
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Newspaper
True Sun
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 29, 1836
Page
1
The fragment lists the first meeting of the season for the Estern City Glee Club at Johnson's Tavern in Bolt Court and details a public auction of the Church House Farm near Colchester. It mentions properties, dates, and locations, plus several publishers and forthcoming titles.
The Attorney General's opinion from Bristol concerns borough ward divisions without a mayor's ward. It says appointing assessors for the whole borough is a nullity, that the Mayor's ward is the councillor's ward, and that a legal revision may still occur by the Mayor alone. It advises two opposing-party assessors and notes political opposition to Dissenters and church rates.
A Morning Chronicle correspondent recalls a Wear Somerset Reform dinner where peers faced public anger over their conduct. Speaker Sanford announced opposition to Peerage reform, triggering a wave of loud disapproval. Leader and Sur Swridgewater argued passionately for reform while ballots backed protection and responsibility. The piece notes a broad, agriculture-dominated audience signaling liberal momentum.
Bethnal Green correspondent notes that in Dover several residents faced distraint and sale of goods for church rates with heavy costs. If goods were legally distrained, aggrieved parties may apply to a magistrate to recover treble the taken amount plus costs under 57 Geo 3 and related acts, as cited by the writer to curb abuses during the current crisis.
The author argues against church rates and the state church system in Ireland, contending they infringe civil and religious freedom. He attacks clerical privilege, cites expediency and history of persecution, and calls for disestablishment and tax relief for Protestant Dissenters to ensure equal civil and religious privileges.
Letter to the Sun editor urges a trustfund for the Doreet labourers who will return soon. It suggests creating a fund to support them through the rest of their lives, to be held in trust and not basic monetary distribution.
A letter from a distressed laborer condemns a leading firm for seven to eight months' work each year under a harsh boss system. He laments fifteen shillings weekly for a married father of four and urges dignity, self improvement, and avoidance of drunkenness to raise the laboring class's standing.
A large Westminster meeting at Castle-street discusses the new Parliament Act empowering the Court of Requests to decide on claims under 10. The chairman praises the act, a 240 member commissioners body, and a committee will draft rules before the October 30 activation, aiming to extend the powers to other London courts.
In a magistrates session at the workhouse, Mrs Hards, wife of Mgr Gabriel Hards of the Royal Household, pleaded for aid for herself and three starving children. She described desertion by her husband, noting his royal household role and substantial income. The bench ordered a warrant for Mr Hards’s immediate apprehension for desertion.
The Coventry MP Mr Williams addresses constituents at St Marys Hall after a balcony speech from the Half Moon Inn. He proclaims a faithful, open account of his parliamentary conduct, invites complaints, defends his time in the Commons, criticizes Lords, and urges reform, suffrage expansion, and unity among reformers. The meeting approves a resolution praising his support for liberties and reform.
Last week a lecture before Finsbury Mutual Instruction Society argued fiction aids moral instruction and social improvement. Citing Shakespeare, Harriet Martineau, and other authors, the speaker warned against dismissing fiction and urged working classes to explore Bulwer, Scott, Godwin, and Cooper to elevate imagination and industry.
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