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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 28, 1855
Page
6
The division was taken for the resolution with the ministerial majority supporting it. The minority greeted the result with loud cheers as the vote concluded.
Rhoda Allsop sues builder Thomas Sargeant for breach of promise of marriage begun in 1852 with letters urging marriage. After years of correspondence and a wedding ring gesture, illness and other engagements delayed plans. Sargeant later married another in February, prompting this suit for damages.
The case centered on an engagement where the plaintiff objected to the marriage due to alleged Lodger presence and alleged demands for mahogany furniture and carriage. Witnesses denied these terms but the court found in favor of the plaintiff with damages awarded, noting mature parties behaved businesslike and that a broken engagement was better than ongoing incompatibility.
British funds closing prices reported with notes on foreign stock, meat, and grain markets. Markets show slow sales of foreign wheat from Spain and steady barley, oats and peas with small price movements and limited demand. beef and sheep trade described as modest with some advances in certain lots.
A compact list of international currency yields and bonds showing percentages for Austria Belgium Brazil Buenos Ayres Chile Denmark Dutch Granada France Mexico Peru Portugal Russia Sardinia Spain Turkey and other regions. The table indicates per cent rates and notes deferment or passive status for several entries.
Report from London markets notes wheat supply by land carriage was short, barley beans and peas from the fear counties moderate, fresh oats arrivals very trifling with no Scotish and Irish imports somewhat larger than previous dealings.
Market reports a scanty meat supply with fair business for season, prices for beef and mutton varying from inferior to prime cuts. Potatoes and provisions trade mixed with higher hay prices, limited tea activity, and sugar plus coffee markets showing firmness and limited sales.
The London Gazette dated July 20 1885 lists numerous bankruptcy notices and sequestrations in Britain. Names include Muller Fallows Williams Miers Reece and Co Thomas Phillips Welle and Son Stornes Chidley Weller Tedees Randall etc with addresses around Basinghall Street London and district courts in Bristol Exeter Leeds Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne Dundee and Glasgow. Court dates span August 4 to September 8 with actions for pawnbrokers wine merchants engravers and other trades.
OCR fragment mentions Glasgow locations and street names such as Hall street and Duck's Mead Tete. It references The Globe Hotel and various personal or business names like Wilson, Whyte, and Basten. The legible bits show a local notice listing places, streets, and vendors without a coherent narrative.
Fragments list births marriages and obituaries with dates and names. Entries mention Lt Wemyss of the 98th Highlanders, Rev Henry Watson Bernard, Captain Charles Thobold, Major General William Henry Cornwall, Lady Louisa Molyneux, and others with places including Grenada Madrid Brighton and Oxford.
YCOULAR and EDWARDS (late Sarti) offer sculpting and marble masonry for military and naval monuments tombs and church works. They model and execute figures for cemeteries and churches from their Dean Street Soho workshop. They also run plaster figure manufacture and artificial stone works at 01 and 92 Dean Street with estimates for Italian style mansion and grounds decoration.
Visitors to Gravesend are informed that the Assembly Rooms have been redecorated and are now open with promenade concerts and refreshments. The notices mention French music and light refreshments, with a focus on the newly opened venue.
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