King's Death Marks End of Era and New Queen's Reign
A royal dispatch chronicles King William IV's death after a long illness and praises his natural kindness and reforms. It notes Queen Victoria's public debut with timidity and poise, pledging to protect civil and religious liberties, while condemning a Times attack on the Duchess of Kent as vile and unfounded.
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Jordan
Ming
Lord Grey
Lord Melbourne
Robert Peel
William
Esau
England
Arap
Kensington
Privy Council
Duke of
Sussex
Duke of Cumberland
King of
Hanover
Times
Duchess of Kent
Morning Post
Standard
Conservatives
Great Meeting of the Birmingham Political Union
The first public gathering since reorganization drew about a hundred thousand at New Hall Hill Birmingham. Mr Attwood led the procession and spoke from the hustings amid cheers for the King as thousands united in prayers for his welfare.
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Birmingham Political Union
New-hall-hill
Union
Mr. Attwood
Birmingham
Lond
Cher
Géorge Frederick’ Munts
Esquirs
Muntz Attwood Lead Birmingham Reform Meeting in Support
The Birmingham Political Union hall resounded as Mr Muntz and Mr Attwood spoke to a crowded audience defending reform, denouncing boroughmonger misrule, and urging immediate relief for the industrious classes. They backed sweeping remedies including repeal of corn laws and broad parliamentary reforms.
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Muntz
House of Commons
Birmingham
Attwood
Grey
Peél
Birmingha
Pan Zoum Vo
Napoleon
England
James Tr
Mounslowheath
London
Hounslow-heath
Mark
Hare
Birmingham Political Union
Victoria
Commons House of Parliament
G. RB. Douglas
J.C. Salt
P. H. Muntz
Pierce
Aaron
Dager
Ards
Ifs
Proclamation at Temple Bar in Elizabethan to Georgian Firmities
A historical note traces the Temple Bar proclamation ceremony from its origin with William and Mary in 1639 through later restorations by Sir Christopher Wren after the Great Fire. It details pageantry, city officials, and the statues and inscriptions on the gate marking royal proclamations and municipal authority.
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William and
Mary
England
Temple Bar
West Cheap
Saint Paul’s Cross
Wood-street
Yade
London
Christopher Wren
Queen Elizabeth
James the
Charles the First
Charles the Second
Bushner
Samuel Starling
Richard Ford
George Waterman
Proclamation at Mansion House Sparks Privy Council Meeting
A Privy Council summons prompted a swift special court at the Mansion House with city aldermen admitted while strangers were barred. The timing and charter compliance are questioned as old Guildhall records are moved to the Mansion House for review amid the Queen Victoria anniversary context.
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England
Victoria
Privy Council
Guildhall
Durham Peerage and Durham's Diplomacy Highlighted
The notice details Lord Durham, formerly John George Lambton born 1792, his marriages, and rise to Earl of Durham in 1833. It praises his integrity and reform zeal in the House of Commons, his ambassadorship to Russia, and anticipates his 1835 career as ambassador plus possible later roles in the Home Department and House of Peers.
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John George Lambton
Hareriet Cholmondeley
Earl Grey
House of Commons
Earl of
Durham
Imperia
Russia
H Wission
Lambton
Lord Durham
Stockholm
England
Elu
Hom Department
Palmerston
House of Peers
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