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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 30, 1844
Page
4
Members clash over a motion to relax corn duties for colonies including Canada and Australia. Critics warn it risks English agriculture and panics among farmers, while supporters argue colonies deserve equal treatment and India must be compensated for disrupted imports. House adjourns amid divisions.
A long reader correspondence item discusses wills contracts leases taxes and penalties with many named readers and authorities. It covers proving wills at Doctors Commons damages for failed loans and beliefs on liability rights under public acts and court rules. Names include A B G B H and O Connell alongside references to the Archbishop of Canterbury and Liverpool area topics.
Royal household plans show Buckingham Palace departure for Windsor on Wednesday or Thursday with a return around the 15th or 16th. Meanwhile the Countess of Uxbridge dies at her York Street residence. the piece notes social and political briefs, including police hats, medical relief discussions, and an inquest into an alleged child murder at Shandwell.
This notice explains calculating sunrise and sunset times for Great Britain and Ireland using latitude, with adjustments per degree from 61 degrees, and adds or subtracts minutes for various harbours from the London Dock high water time. It then lists calendar notes, religious lessons, lunar age, clock offset, day length, twilight times, and frequent weather forecasts for April, including tides and celestial observations.
A leading paper praises the current Government for resisting backbench pressure and opposing a hurried Eleven Hours Clause. It warns the Ashley Ten Hours effort may reopen debate after Easter, urging master manufacturers to engage with workers and explain how tariffs, trade, and wages intertwine with production costs.
A parliamentary debate centers on placing Austral Asia Southern Africa and India on equal footing with Canada for Home Market corn supply. Criticism of Gladstone and Stanley and a near empty House show a cautious stance on extending colonial wheat privileges amid risky prospects and fluctuating political support.
By the death of the King of Sweden, Marshal Soult has become the sole survivor of all the eighteen marshals of the empire created by Napoleon in 1804, at the camp of Boulogne. Death of Sir Joan Gisnoxs, Bant. This respected baronet died on Tuesday last, at Stanwell Place, his seat near Staines, in the 71st year of his age. He is succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, now Sir John Gibbons, born in 1841, who has been twice married, first in 1824, to Miss Watson, daughter of Sir Charles Watson, Bart., and secondly in 1828, is Miss Cotton, daughter of the Rev. A. Cotton, of Girton, Cambridgeshire.
The National Anti Cornlaw League held its weekly gathering at Covent Garden Theatre. Speaker Thomas Gisborne argued for years of manufacturing gains to farmers and lambasted tariff fallacies, with Mr Bright detailing the carraway seed example to refute free trade claims. The crowd heard testimonies on duties, trade, and landlord rents before adjournment.
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