Magistrate advises on sea wife case and smuggling trio
In a Thames office session Capt Crawford sought help to regain his wife and property after she eloped with Irish laborer Edward Smith aboard a Sunderland packet bound for London. The magistrate warned the case hinges on whether money and goods came from the wife, allowed seizure on arrival, and judged the wife unpunished for theft. Separately German seamen Christian Henson and Henkel Berengen pled guilty to smuggling five pounds of tobacco. a captain explained limited English. All prisoners fined 100 pounds to the Crown, with leniency from Customs for immediate payment, and released upon paying 10 shillings each.
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Cheval
Reform Party
Thames
Crim. Cox
Ecopement
Rosaery
Crawford
Sunderland
Braderip
Edward Smith
Sunderland Packet
London
Jeterip
Broderip
F. Broderip
Christian Henson
Henkel Berenggen
Ballantine
Brederip
Ironheart
Board of Customs
Ios
Second Court Martial of Private Hutchinson for Desertion
Private Hutchinson of the Scots Fusileer Guards faced a district court martial on two charges of desertion and theft of boots after absencing from St George's Barracks on August 25 1834 and surrendering on September 19 1834. He protested the hurried trial claiming lack of notice and absence of key witness Sergeant Duff, while the Adjutant confirmed the War Office route showing nineteen days absence.
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Hutchinson
Scots Fusileer Guards
St. George’s Barracks
Charing-cross
Bowater
London
Taubman
St. George's Barracks
Westminster
Infantry
Windsor
Atchinson
Duff
War Office
Knightsbridge Barracks
Revising Middlesex Revising Barristers Court List
At Whitechapel School Rooms the revising barristers Mr Coventry and Mr Keen heard claims to vote in St John’s Wapping. Mr Edward Sporr urged a parish clerk rightful vote. debates on whether the office qualifies as a freehold under the Reform Act, with several local voters discussed in Mile End Old Town and Poplar.
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Coventry
Keen
Whitechapel
Middlesex
ST. John's
Wapping
Edward Sporr
House of Commons
Job Kentish
Peckwell
Kentish
Paris
Sporr
Courtney
Mile End
Old Town
Davison
Rochester
Grover
Poplar
Knightsridge
Baker
Mile-End
New Town
Prisoner Hutchinson Receives 300 Lashes at Barracks
Captain Taubman testified on the prisoner’s character noting Hutchinson had lately suffered 300 lashes at St George's Barracks Charing Cross as per a Court Martial here. Hutchinson appealed for mercy, asking not to weigh that evidence, court adjourned and prisoner sent to guard room. Colonel Bowater attended remotely and left after proceedings.
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Taubman
Hutchinson
St. George’s Barracks
Charing-cross
War Office
Bowater
Cobbett Lectures in Dusty Ireland Stir Interest and Controversy
From Dusty Ireland, Sept 25 1834, Mr Cobbett began lectures in a compact theatre to a packed audience including members of many parties. He defended Ireland’s need for poor laws and outlined causes of distress including religion and union, warning against tithe coercion and potential agrarian unrest. He outlined future Irish stops and noted Protestant landlords backing tithe collection amid strong anti church sentiment.
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Cobbett
Oldham
Movement
Juste
Ireland
House of Commons
O’connell
Mr. O'Connell
Cork
County of
Mayo
Clendioning
Archer
State of the Poor in Ireland Described in Harsh Letter
Mr Cobbett’s Register prints a Dublin scene with over a thousand laborers living in dire poverty. A letter from Sept 22, 1834, details squalid food racks, mendicity houses, and begging carts delivering broken victuals. It claims waste, harsh conditions, and compares death rates to Indian armies.
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George
Turvill
England
Ireland
A Sinecure State Physician and Quack Remedies Critique
The piece denounces the statesman’s physician as a sinecure while condemning Peel’s Currency Bill and other political nostrums. It condemns free trade and Irish measures as harmful quacks, mocks Whig economists, and critiques the Clerkenwell illegitimacy case tied to the new bastardy law. It also rebukes Rotch for misrepresenting a judge’s remarks and highlights the law’s harsh effects on mothers.
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Morning Herald
Peel
Mercury
Quacks
Ricardo, Huskisson, and Co
England
Ireland
Wellington, Peel, and Co
House of Lords
Poulett
Thomsons
Althorp, Brougham,and
Macistertat
Middlesex Sessions
Clerkenwell
Rotch
Mountain Sylph Opera Season At The Theatre Royal
An advertisement notes the New Grand Opera of The Mountain Sylph to be staged this evening at the Theatre Royal Lyceum and English Opera House. It lists the overture and music credits and a cast including Miss EK Romer and Dame Gonrle, with detailed performer names and roles. It also reports the Master Bakers Union meeting in Lincoln's Inn Fields and supporting worker rights, recording a subscription of 72 pounds 5 shillings 6d paid to Bir Styles, secretary of the Operative Wilders' Union, dated 29th Sept 1834 at Hercules Pillars Great Queen Street.
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Theatre Royal
Lyceum
English Opera House
Mr. Donald
Wilson
Christie
Mr. Ox
Hela
O. Atkina
Bolia
EK. Romer
Dame Gonrle
Mrs. Griffith
Jessie
Somerville
Perative Builders Union
Hercules
Pillar
Great Queen-street
Lincoln’s Inn-fields
Hutchins
Long-acre
Hambleton
Pulteney-street
St. Giles's
Mackness
Drury-lane
Anderson
Claremarket
Styles
Cleveland-street
Rolf
Turner
King-treet
Cooke
King-street
Seven Dials
Bir
Operative Wilders' Union
Hercules’ Pilars
Great Queen Street
Publication notice for Weekly True Sun October issue
The Weekly True Sun announces its October 5 issue will publish the new Beer Act digest and references to the former act to aid beer shop keepers. It reports a public meeting of licensed Brewers and Retailers at the London Mechanics Institute on Sept 30 and notes office contact at 366 Strand.
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Trus Sun
True Sun
London Mechanics’ Institution
Newmarket First October Meeting Trials and Stakes
Racing at Newmarket begins with The Trial Stakes and The Holt Stakes for two year olds. Gondolier wins by a length with Florin and Flame close behind. multi-horse betting and odds quoted. St Leger week notes include Chaivart favorite but no odds, and a large field expected for the B C Plate. The Edinburgh theatre closes its summer season as Mr Murray plans winter plans.
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Newmarket
T.Y.C
Col. Peel
Lochinvar
Sat Lalb
Paris
Mr. Greville
Gondolier
Holt
Duke of Grafton
J. Day
Lord Orford
Whisker
Elizabeth
Sir M. Wood
Cscsaneces
Duke of Rutland
Lamplighter
Gen
Grosvenor
Phantom
Ssesevsee-Ceeseee
Hisker
M. Wood
Robinson
Mr. Yates
Bentley
Lord Orford’s de Paris
Olympic
Agat Bentley
Agat Paris
Agat Olympic
Erneston House-Roous
Chaivart
Odda
Agat Lord
Law on support for parents sparks parish debate in London
The Mansion-house cage debate centers on whether a son must pay two shillings sixpence weekly to support his destitute father under the Poor Law Act. Critics question if the law applies to all or only the poor, calling for equity between classes. The piece notes a recent court-martial of Hutchinson, public figures' responses, and political shifts as Alderman Winnchester becomes Mayor.
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Sinecurium
Department of State Affairs
Hutchinson
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Duchess of York
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Camberwell
Mary Clinton
Bodmin
Guildhall
Penguin
R. B. Edyvean
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Nicholas Every
St. Veep
William Phillipps
Lanivet
Digory King
John Wallis
Robert Flamank
Evenport Telegraph
Lreland
Madras
Bengal
the Contemporary Press
Eee Indix
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Lm Bi
British Iron Xtrial Mining Co
Tee 3Ining Company
Ccsceeve
Columbian Mining Co
Canada Company
Provincial Bank of Ireland
New General Steam Navigation Company
Ebh
Real del Monte Mining Company
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Tilbury
Percirel Paer
Wrench
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Aylett
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New York
High Watre
London Bridge
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Mr. Biggs
Chantilly
Lichfield
Lord Berners
Edinburgh
Murray
Crue
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Hurcainson
Horse Guards
Herald
Alderman Winnchester
Admiralty
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Valencia
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