Corn Law Agitation Spreads Through Britain and City Meetings
A Dundee Chronicle summary notes widespread action against corn laws with public meetings in Sheffield Leeds and Leinster. Delegates demand total repeal and free trade arguing restrictions raise food prices and hurt workers while industry suffers abroad. Subscriptions and petitions are planned.
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Ermingham
Birk
Common Council of London
Great Britain
Commons House of Parliament
Dundee Chronicle
Counsil
Messrs. Baxter
W. Wear
Hanley and
Shelton
W. Ridgeway
John Prichard
Ridgeway
Sheffield
Town Hall
Paradise Square
Ebenezer Elliott
Colonel Thompson
William Ibbotson
House of Commons
Thompson
Elliott
Leinster
Rotherham
St. Pancras
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Saint Pancras
Middlesex
United Kingdom
Brussels
Bread Prices and Corn Law Debates Spark Market Talks
The market shows wue price at 1 the Dosen market lower this week due to inferior grain quality and general unease over supply. Paris bread costs far less than London, while France restricts grain exports. Sir Robert Peel may back a corn law modification as a parliamentary opening looms.
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Paris
London
France
England
Robert Peel
House of Commons
Zen Towns
Morning Post
Farr
Bermere
Claydon
Suffolk
Essex Herald
United Kingdom
Isser Herald
Corn Exchange
Mark-Lane
Mowpar
Mark-Jane
Ireland
Willers
Stroud Meeting Reads Home Secretary Corn Law Letter
At a Stroud anti corn law meeting on the 23rd instant a letter from the home secretary read from Whitehall dated January 21 1839 urges moderation and a fixed duty while opposing constant law changes. The note notes support for 1829 law but favors steadier policy. It states intent to vote accordingly in Parliament.
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Stroud
Stanton
Home Secretary
Whitehall
London
House of Commons
J. Russe
Dreaprot
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
James Allen
Champion, Fisherwick, and Co
Islington-fields
Murper
Humphries
Morough
Newport
Ryan
Mahony
Nenagh Guardian
Gale
Paddington Canal
Montreal
Swanton
M‘coqrd
15Th
71St
Coldstream Guards
Missisquoi Bay
Campbell Sweeney
Montreal Cavalry
Canada
Liverpool
Joseph Narcisse Cardinal
Joseph Duquette
Cardinal
Chateauguay
House of Assembly
Duquette
J Colborne
Lepailleur
Ducharne
Martin Woodruff
Prescott
Pierre Hector Morin
Achille Morin
Guillaume Levesque
T. P. Decoigne
R. D Leblanc
Joseph Pare
Jos
J. Hebert
Francois Trepannier
Jun
Jos. Duzois
Sen
J. Hemelin
Levesque
Walker
Detroit
General Scott
Cleveland
Buffalo
Windsor
Upper Canada
John Bostwick
Henry Sherwood
Loxpon Corporation
Francis Palgrave
Eliza Norman
Middlesex-street
Somers
North London Hospital
London market reports and political notes of 1838
The column lists sales figures and market prices, noting 4,000 haggs to buyers and 800 to speculators with 500 new hovydes. It covers Irish politics, including Lord Clements's death, Lord De Vesci’s election, and Mr O Connell’s dinner at Abbey Street. Also reported are a drowning heart failure of Lady Dalhousie, fire insurance totals, copyright extensions, and a note on Sir John Eltey’s death and other local incidents.
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de Vesci
Lord Farnham
Mrtrovorrran
Dupiim
O'Connell
Ignatius. Callaghan
John Guthrie
Epinparcu
Lady Dalhousie
Lord Dalhousie
Canada
London
Leo
Corymcut
Frankland Lewis
G. Cornwall Lewis
Westminster Hall
Maule
Carlex
Court of Exchequer
Baron Bolland
Waxtey
James Dowcombe
Wakley
Joan E.tey
Waterloo
John Eltey
Amesbury
Wilts
Epward Cuathreto
Orrin Smith
Judd Street
Suppen Dearu
Cornelius Hickey
Cooper
Tipperary
Nenah
Demerara
Hoxtox
W. Rushbrook
John Bull
Bull
Droxkenness
Burrill
Cleveland Street
Fitzroy Square
Courtier To Pawnbrokers Informs At Fleet Street Sale-Book
Henry Williams of Rosslyn Street Hampstead pressed Mr Gray pawnbroker Fleet Street for the pledge sale-book payment of one penny under the act. After a long wait the court fined Gray 71L for unreasonable delay. At Bow Street William Thorn and his mother Hannah were charged with stealing bank notes. they were committed. In Marylebone a girl twelve admitted stealing bread and two pieces of mutton. mother blamed smallpox. Marlborough Street reports a drunk young woman dismissed after a bridesmaid reference.
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Guildhall
Henry Williams
Rosslyn-street
Hampstead
Gray
Fleet-street
Williams
Manu
Alderman Gibbs
Alderman Lainson
Bow Street
William Thorn
Hannah Thorn
Peirse
Bank of England
Peacock
Benjamin Aislebie
Robert Butler Whiteside
Aldgate
Thern
Marylebone
Sarah Dudley
Fielder
Brewer Street
Somers
Mr. Hardwick
Marlborough Street
Ann Dempster
Niobe
Mr. Chambers
Miss Ann
Safaniety of Eighteen Shillings per Hundred
A fragmented review announces a work titled Law Agitation and Its Causes and Consequences by Banyr7r Buaxg. It lists London publishers G. Mann and other booksellers at Cornhill Fleet Street Strand and Southgate, indicating wide distribution and sale by booksellers.
Money Market Report from City Post Office Weather Delays
Severe weather delays inland mails at nine this morning. Consols open 92 3 4 for Account and 92 3 4 for Money. Exchequer Bills 64 66, India Bonds 61 63, Bank Stock 202 203, Foreign markets show inactivity. London railway and bank shares quoted with minor premiums and discounts.
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India
London and Birmingham
Great Western
Brighton
Blackwall
Greenwich
Southampton
London and Westminster Bank
London Joint Stock Bank
Insolvents and bankrupts listed in London Gazette notice
Insolvents include Thomas Greer Abchurch street City bill broker Robert Selby Flixin and William King Conduit street Hanover square Middlesex tutton manufacturers William Harrisin Ebenezer place monet tailor Thomas Cooper Lewes Sussex coke and gas manufacturer Bankrupts include William Edwards Wentworth street Shaftesfields Middlesex cabinet maker Frederick Forman Gilbs Liverpool merchant Thomas Wood Alnwick Northumberland irosmonger Certificates Feb 15 Samuel Saunders Devonport carver and gilder James Grove and George Grove Alded row Birmingham maltsters Robert Duncan Wilmot Liverpool merchant Anne Stiles Gower Street Bedford Square Middlesex boarding and logging house keeper Charles Henry Rowe Cheltenham woollen scraper Henry Squire Shrapnel and Mitchell Jousiff Birningham grocer Henry Wade Smith Greenwich builder Joseph Tratt Benners street Oxford Street John Green sen John Green jun and Charles William Green Hayle Mills Kent paper manufacturers Benjamin Binyon Manchester tea dealer confectioner aga iunkeeper Frederick Sherwood Cornwall Road Lambeth builder Joseph Guibert and Mary Evans St James place Clerkenwell jewelers
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London Gazette
Frmway
Thomas Greer
Roert Selby
William King
Hanover-aquare
Middlesex
William Harrisin
Ebenezer-place
Thomas Cooper
Lewes
Sussex
William Edwards
Wentworth-street
Shtaffelds
Frederick Forman Gilbs
Liverpool
Thomas Wood
Alnwick
Northumberland
Henry Squire Shrapnel
Mitchell Jousiff
Birninghal
Henry Wade Smith
Graenwich
Joseph Tratt
Benners Stree
Oxford Street
John Green
Charles William Green
Hayle Mills
Kent
Benjamin Binyon
Manchester
Insolvency Notices and Bankruptcies in London and Regions
Insolvent stock broker Thomas Carter of Throgmorton Street and various others are listed as bankrupt or insolvent. The notices include Thomas Ford builder Liverpool, William Hancock bookbinder Glasshouse Yard Aldersgate, John Lanner Bristol victualler, and additional names across London and counties with trades from printers to coal merchants. Certificates dated Feb 19 reference J Bratt of West Bromwich and Staffordshire.
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London
Thomas Carter
Throgmnorten-street
Bankroupicy
Thomas Ford
Liverpool
Bankkrupi3
William Hancock
Glasshouse
al ‘Oregate
John ‘Lanner
Bristol
John Day
Cavanry
William Sutton
Buntingford
Hertfordshire
David Black
Luke Long
Tonbridge Wells
Victualler
Simeon Charles Warner
Walworth-road
J. Bratt
Weat Bromwich
Staffordshire
Advertisement notice details from 1839 Strand publication
Printed at No 937 Strand Middlesex by Joan Norais of 68 Fetterlane St Andrew Holborn London for the Proprietor by Chartes Peyny at No 837 Strand. Advertisements and communications requested to be sent Sunday Feb 3 1839.
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Strand
Middlesex
Joan Norais
Fetterlane
London
Chartes Peyny
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Mirror of the World
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Hope Leslie
Mohicans
Lionel Lincoln
F. Coorg
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Universal Family
Herbert Mayo
F.R
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King’s College
Thomas Holloway
H. Mayo
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Hanover-square
Holloway
B. C. Brodie
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Boston
Boston Transcript
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Hoezital
John Aylenstein
Rhoda Grason
Rhids
Philadelphia
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Elzabeth Duchess
Countess of Sutherland
Bath
George Grenville
Duke of Sutherland
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Durrobin Castle
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Aed
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Andé
Rose Mackenzie
Benj. Peach
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Joseph Smith
Society of Gray’s Inn
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John Christian Eggbresht
Campstead
Wilso Beechey
R.A
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H H Milman
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Gord Anson
George Gregory
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