Proposals to Extend Trade Lectures and Registration Efforts
A 1844 London letter urges Free Traders to spur self qualification and mobilize unpaid Registration Agents to counter Clerical and Paid opponents. It suggests ministers or dissenters lecturing on food monopolies and commerce civilising the world, aiming to ready public opinion for the League’s visits and accelerate the movement through broader channels beyond public meetings. The author signs Cotton Twist from London, April 26, 1844.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of England
League
Weekly Mretine or THE Anti Com raw LEaguE meeting report
Crowded Co ventgarden gathering led by Hon. C Villiers MP as he plans a corn laws motion next month. Ewart Elphinstone and Moore spoke on sugar taxes and free trade. Greenwich Anti Corn-law League deputation heard Cobden call for taxes at the customs for Queen's revenue, not to raise corn prices. A large subscription followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coventgarden
C. Villiers
M.P
Ewart
WSP
Dumfries
Elphinstone
Caen
Normandy
London
West India
Moore
Lord Kinnaird
Greenxwich
Admiral Dundas
Colonel Thompson
Cobden
League
Edward Aatchbull
Court Refuses Rule In Monoway Harton v Macrkapy
In a bail court session Judge Coleridge refused a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted in Harton v Macrkapy. The action, for about £19, involved salary and extra services at Drury Lane, with claims of deductions and lack of notice. The judge found the case did not plead unliquidated damages and thus denied the motion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monoway
Harton
Sheriff's Court
Coleridge
Police Reports of Abduction and Attempted Suicide in London
The report covers George Huggins jailed for stealing tools and attempting suicide in Kentish Town, plus the Clerkenwell abduction case of Miss Louisa Wortham under wardship. It also details an alleged attempted murder by William Winfield in Lambeth, a razor threat at Battersea, and an indecent assault case against a man named William Naylor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wandsworth
Murpzer
David Winfield
Brook Cottage
Brook Street
Lambeth
Poynter
Charlotte Winfield
Battersea Fields
Putney
Roehampton
Daniel Good
Persans
Mr. Paynter
William Naylor
High-street
Oxford
Laman
Bent
Nine Elms
Aylmer
Marriage at Gretna Described In Questioning Testimony
Testimony recounts a hurried Gretna marriage to a clergyman by an innkeeper named Mr Linton. The bride Miss Wortham describes being led from Gerrard Street to Birmingham and then to Gretna, with no prayer book or surplice. She recalls being frightened by the train journey and her lack of consent. The case proceeds with further evidence and remand to Tuesday for more testimony to establish Miss Wortham's title to property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clerkenwell
William Burton Newenham
Louisa Frances Wortham
George Dann
Bell
Berdfurdrow
Gretna Green
Gretna-preen
Blackheath
Furnival
Mousseline de Laine
City Road
St. Luke’s Hospital
Easton Square
Mr. Combe
Miss Wortham
Charing Cross
Furnival's Inn
Birmingham
London
Carlisle
Gretna
Misa Wortham
Linton
Mr. Humphreys
Gerrard-street
Mamme
Gerrard Street
Euston Square
Esther Downing
Transportation sentences list and a London juvenile case
The article lists transportation sentences across multiple durations for numerous individuals including Captain W. Simpson W. H. Barber and J. Fletcher with fifteen years for some and fourteen ten seven year sentences among many. It also notes imprisonment with hard labour varying from two years to six months and a death sentence for Mary Farley. A separate Clerkenwell case covers a fourteen year old Doyle threatening his mother with intent to murder, culminating in two months in the House of Correction after prior convictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Amerford
C. Freeman
J. Clark
J. Smith
Z. Kerr
T. Bullen
T. Wanklin
T. Clark
E. Leaver
Ann Turner
W. Saunders
W. Hatch
John Kebble
James Kebble
W. Brown
J. Brown
Mary Farley
Clerkenwell
Thureday
Doyle
House of Correction
Woodstock Election Harsh Relentless Against Duke of Marlborough
In Woodstock town hall on Monday the nomination for Woodstock’s parliamentary representative centered on the Hon J Winston Spencer Churchill called the Marquis of Blandford and opposition figure Mr Humfrey. Humfrey denounced Duke of Marlborough's alleged tyranny over tenants and poor, citing notices to quit, pension cuts, and park fines, vowing to emancipate the borough. Blandford echoed reform aims, while Humfrey urged voters to assess his rival by deeds, then Blandford was elected amid cheers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodstock
Alderman Morris
J. Winston Spencer Churchill
Marquis of
Blandford
T. Robinson
Blenheim
Bowles
House of Blenheim
Duke of Marlborough
Labbeius Charles Humfrey
Commons
North
Lord Blandford
Humfrey
Tom Bounds
Dom I
House of Marlborough
Smallbones
Marlborough
Dukes of Marlborough
Whately
Harria
Harris
Timothy Slingo
Slingo
Margate
Wilkes
Panch
Punch
New Woodstock
Oxon
James Elliott
Blenheim Park
Oxford
Thomas Wilkes
Blenheim-park
Elliott
Mr. Humfrey
Holloway
Mr. Holloway
Mr. Hamfrey
Bartlett
Carme
Mr. Southern
Graham
Blenhiem
Duke
Southern
Jardine
Duchess of Marlborough
Woodstock-park
Wooton-steps
Earl of Harborough
Castle
Mr. Whately
Mr. Castle
Marquis
Walesby
Banda
Maranis
Bey
Dean
Repeat Association meeting and Irish franchise notes
The April 23 meeting chaired by Mr. N Maher MP discussed the rent of the week around £275 to £280. Speakers included Messrs. Smith O Brien and D Brown, with J A O Neill retracting a motion amid applause. The Satsa Registration Bill faced doom. it is seen as abandoned due to insufficient time. Reports on the Earl of Dunraven's property fire and vandalism mention two stables set alight and broken church glass with gunpowder traces. Suspects include James Regan and two women, Mary Regan and Mary Burns, under suspicion of involvement in the conspiracy. Mr Serjeant Merewether elected recorder of Devizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Maher
Messrs. Smith O'Brien
M.P
D. Brown
M. O'Vonnell
Satsa
Earl of Dunraven
Adair
Lord Dunraven
James Regan
Mary
Mary Burns
Serjeant Merewether
Devizes
Ludlow Bruges
Report on Joint Stock Companies First Report and Findings
A select committee reports on the law governing joint stock companies excluding banks. It reviews the 1837 Letters Patent Act and examines ten cases across seven insurance and three mining ventures. It outlines deception methods, fraud patterns, plunder totals, victim profiles, and the systemic impediments to prosecution and recourse for investors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellenden Kerr
Committee of Privy Council For Trade
Bank of England
Bond Fide
London
Edinburgh
County of
Middlesex
Victhos
Vem
Ita
Will Forgeries Trial Summary of Barber Fletcher and Others
In a high court session, William Saunders pleads guilty to forging a will linked to Mary Hunt. Barber Fletcher and Lydia Saunders face related accusations as misled by Fletcher. Barber defends, alleging deception by Fletcher in stock ownership claims tied to Anne Slack of Abbots Langley, with substantial debate over handwriting and age, and potential appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron Gurney
Willi
Justice Maule
Winnie
Illiam Saunders
Phinn
Tierar
Ston
Hfe
Saunders
Straight
William, Saunders
Mary Hunt
W. Joliffe
Cornwall Joliffe
Mr. Wilkins
Barber
Saunders Hag Jas
William Henry Barber
Joshua Fletcher
Lydia Saunders
Georgiana Corey
William Saunders
Mr. Straight
Fletcher
Eima Slack
Foskett
Anne Slack
Abbots Langley
Miss Slack
Mr. Baxter
Abbey’s Langley
Emma Slack
Baxter
Lincoln’s Inn-Fields
Bie
Tex
Sager
Lani
Herts
Tun de Bevester
Croydon Ascars
Slack
Fletcher Byent
Abbots Langlesy
Sto Shack
Sherat
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Cotton
LAW
Diarylebone
Roppeny
Aggs
Faruen
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