The Pension List Debate and a Call for Reform
The article defends a parliamentary inquiry into the pension list as a response to public unease. It argues eternal justice requires impartial support and criticizes royal rewards as misaligned with national utility, urging strict checks and a separate fund for pensions from other civil expenditures.
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Eternal Justice
Robert Peel
Dives
Lazarus
Somerville
Farady
Reform
Lord Althorp
Lord Stanley
Lord Spencer
Sir Robert Peel
Times
Standard
Post
Lord Chandos
Lord Sandon
Sibthorpe
George Sinclair
Ward
Harvey
House of Commons
Committee of Enquiry
Post-Office Abuses and Hill Reform Controversy
A reader critiques the Postmaster General and supports Mr Hill's postal reform, arguing current revenue figures are uncertain and that penny postage could boost commerce. The letter defends Hill’s plan, cites metropolitan data, and urges simpler sorting, stamp duties, and better governance to lower costs without harming the system.
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Siz
Lord Lichfield
Pxat
Peter
Paul
Mr. Hill
Hill
United Kingdom
Rowland Hill
Dukes of Grafton
Marlborough
Schomberg
West Indies
France
St. Martins-le-gracd
American Crisis and Mercantile Fluctuations
The piece argues mercantile cycles stem from delayed market intelligence. Producers overextend after summer surpluses, causing a glut signaled by falling prices. Rapid circulation of mercantile information on prices and rents could reduce alarming fluctuations, though not prevent them entirely.
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British and Foreign Review
No. X
Objection Over Times to Mercantile Fear Expressed
A reader letter compares past objections to faster wagons with current postal reforms. The writer cites Mr Palmer, a country theatre manager, praising bold post office improvements and urging commissioners to heed practical voices over theoretical fears.
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Palmer
M.P
Twenty seven lives lost in Springwell colliery blast
From the Newcastle Journal. A Northern England colliery explosion at Springwell near Wreckington, four miles from Newcastle, killed twenty seven men and boys out of twenty nine workers in the Hutton seam area. An inquest at the Springwell Inn returned an accidental death verdict, with several bodies recovered and two boys surviving.
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Newcastle Journal
Springwell
Wreckington
Newcastle
Lord Ravensworth
Hutter
Thomas Hedley
Alexander M‘creec
George M'Cree
Edward Price
Robert Price
George Hunter
William Fenwick
Mark Fenwick
George Ridley
Todd Wakefield
Thomas Weir
Andrew‘Awffick
Joseph Ramsay
James Bredling
George Simpson
William Hunter
Overman
Henry Gray
James Simpson
Lid Robson
Forster Banka
James Henderson
Joseph Mason
Joseph Richey
Luke Richey
Samuel Hood
Robert Puncheon
George Liver
Micheel Hall
Chester Ward
Thomas Maughan
Springwell Inn
Thomas Mason
Nicholas Wood
Lord Ravensworth and Partners
Geo. Southern
C. Stee
Iterula
Thomas M‘nay
John Teed
William Potts
Public meeting backs ballot and reform in Bloomsbury
Residents of St. Giles and St. George meet at the Angelina to consider petitioning Parliament for the ballot household suffrage and triennial parliaments. Edmonton notes an Eclectic Day School pupil examination at the Angel Inn with clergy present. A City of London Discount Association ad promotes shared discounting for merchants, promising higher interest on deposits and safer gains as a joint stock company.
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St. Giles and St. George
Bloomsbury
Angelina
High Street
Eclectic Day School
Edmonton
The
Angel Inn
R. D. Markham
City of London Discount Association
London
Skarea
Stevr
Court of Chancery case over estate receipts in Leigh assignes dispute
In a complex Chancery matter the plaintiffs led by John Moss and others seek an account against Joseph Leigh and the executors of Oxred and Tate over receipts from the bankrupt John Leigh, with the suit postponed for party amendments. A separate Exchequer action concerns Eagle Insurance versus Atlas Sun Had Promoter Union offices over a life policy on John Cochrane, culminating in a favorable jury verdict for the plaintiff. Transportation sentences were handed to several prisoners in the Central Criminal Court after a crowded session.
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Orred
Jseph Leigh
Orrred
Tate
Court OF Queers Breech
Rawlings
Dessorough
Richards
Cochrane
Eigle Company
Atlas
The
Sun
Had
Promoter
Union
Sun Office
Lord Denman
Rerp
Binney
Bisney and Co
East India Company
Farnley and Co
London
Spuinst Binney and Co
Central Criminal Court
Daniel Gilbert
Bank of England
Yorkshire District Bank
Commercial Bank
William Harrison
Leda
Leeds
Bull and Mouth Inn
Alderman Harmer
James Walton
Michael Mullins
Thomas Brown
F. Hayward
C. Mahoney
J. Watts
W. Moss
J. Tyre
G. Carter
J. Reynolds
D. Gilbert
E. Marshall
Amelia West
Conspiracy against the French King's life reported
Reports from Paris describe a suspected plot against the king with arrests in Boulogne sur Mer and Paris. Hubert, linked to the Neuilly conspiracy, allegedly aided by English contacts, is detained as authorities pursue further leads and question magistrates and others.
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Paris
Boulogne-sur-Mier
Conecquenea
Officers of Justice
Messager
Boulogne
Hubert
Neuilly
England
Customhouse
Tll
London
Birmingham
France
Snelling
Steigler
Gazette
Courrier Francais
J Arnal
Seversl Asrests
Moniteur Republicain
Courrier
Court of Assises
Journal de Paris
Dublin post-office threat case and London forgery trials
The report covers Michael Hughes formerly a Dublin letter-carrier charged with threatening Lord Lichfield and committed to prison for want of sureties, later discharged on recognisances. his disheveled state and health issues noted. It also describes John Mitchell charged with forging checks to defraud tradesmen, remanded for further cases, and a gang led by George Penn et al. facing multiple forged-note prosecutions in Lambeth Street.
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MicuaAn
HusHas
Michael Hughes
Dublin
Lord Lichfield
Tathillfields
Min«hall
Hiss
Tothill Fields Gawl
Marlborough Street
John Mitchell
Chimbora
W. Capper
Lixen-Paper
Oxford Street
Messrs. Coutts
Devonshire-street
Queen-square
Chambers
Lambeth Street
George Penn
Joseph Howard
William George Estell
Mary Ann Jones
Bank of England
John Hardwick
Lea and Sheilds
Daring Robbery on Lincoln’s Inn Fields amid Night
Edwin Meade of Gloucester Street, Queen Square, was robbed near the College of Surgeons on Lincoln's Inn Fields. A shabby gentleman snatched his silver hunter watch and escaped after snapping the guard-chain, leaving Meade unable to call for help. Smithfield cattle show closes with top merit and prizes. John Thomas Staith wins first prize for a four year ten month Hereford ox. Earl of Leicester earns second for a four year Durham cow. Sir Charles Kreverity also receives prizes.
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Edwin Meade
Gloucester-street
Queen-square
Lincoln
College of Surgeons
John Thomas Staith
Portland
Crewland
Lincolnshire
Hereford
Earl of Leicester
Seter
Kensington
Smith
Uineas
Charles Krever
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