Great Westminster Meeting Demands Cheap Bread and Sugar
A Westminster gathering denounces monopolists and taxes, demanding repeal of corn laws, cheaper bread sugar and timber, and calls for broader reform. Speakers including Sir De Lacy Evans and OConnell lash landowners, urge working and middle classes to unite, pledge to press charter reforms and free trade.
Meeting backs repeal of corn laws and free trade appeal
A public assembly denounces West India profits from slavery and presses ministers to abate monopoly in corn sugar timber. Resolutions call for repeal of laws affecting life’s necessities and pledge future candidates to support free trade and cheap bread. Petitions to Parliament are to be presented with Earl Fitzwilliam and Westminster MPs carrying them.
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West India
West Inidia
Prout
Wade
Earl Fitzwilliam
House of Lords
Westminster
House of Commons
Anderton's Head
James Harmer
Otel
Fleet
Haymarket
Institute
Medsg Oyal
London
Mr. Landers
Burrup
Edmonds
Thartsease
Bridges
Teaf
Curtis
Foster
Gaines
Collington
Fairbairn
Xy. Willmers
Nockwell
J. May
Aslee
England
Hemmings
J. Gavin
Willmer
Mr. Welch
Brides
Dickson
Catleash
Royal Naval
Royal Naval School
London-tavern
Bishopsgate-street
Lord Prudhoe
Cadogan
George Cockburn
Royal Navy
Prince Albert
Messrs
Hobbs
Atkins
T.ooke Fitzwilliam
Jolley
Hawkins
Sicilian Sulphur Export Duty Reduced in 1842 Decree
Royal decree published in The Gazette of the Two Sicilies reduces sulphur export duty from 20 to 8 carlins per quintal effective January 1, 1842, as part of a move to boost the Sicilian sulphur trade. Also reports Russian and French affairs, Spain’s regency under Espartero, and assorted international notices.
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the Sicilies
Two Sicilies
Council of State
Kingdom of
Sicily
Russia
Teflis
Constitutionnel
Circassia
Kamill
Cheskei
Warsaw
Poland
Grand Duchy
Siberia
Steam Navigation Biz Grinds London Gravesend Fares Rise
Seventeen steamers shuttle Gravesend to London daily with varied fares from 6d to 2s 6d while Blackwall services charge 8d. Greenwich routes fall to 6d, pier toll swallows a third, and Woolwich gains hastened boats as crowding alarms rise.
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London
Blackwall
Staal
Bridge
London-bridge
Chelsea
Ofincian Assianers
Peter Hargis Abzorr
Guildhall
Turner
Abbott
Messrs. Barclays
Brunswick Square
Toxteth Park
Liverpool
Yates
Messrs. Wright
Alliance
Copper Bottom
Wheel of Fortune
Wear Devonshire
Cornwall
Adelaide Gallery
Court of Chancery
Patent Cork Manufacturing Company
General Steam Navigation Company
Colonial Trust Company
Central America
Court of Bankruptcy
Radley’s
Bridge-street
Blackfriars
Radley
Duchess Dowager of Beaufort
Lady Ashley
Mary Farquhar
Ladymayoress
Edkins, Esq
Howe
Dale
Marlborough-house
London City Mission
Exeter Hall
Wm. Evans
Garwood
Principality of Wales
London City
Greenwich
Wandsworth
Fairlop
Hippodrome
Guy's
St. Thomas's
St. George’s
Bartholomew’s
Royal Free Hospital
Ely
Durham
Hereford
Canterbury
Peterborough
Winchester
Lincoln
Norwich
Byrthe
Baptist Noel
Leifehild
D. Stowell
Se. 7 Peace Society
Friends’ Meeting
Houndsditch
Charles Hindley
Harry
India
China
Mehemet Ali
Egypt
Harrison
Society
Europe
Duke of Wellington
Queen Victoria
Lord Palmerston
Mr. Ladd
Church of England
J.J. Gurney
Campbell
John Woodwork
W. Richards
J. S. Buckingham
Lee
Pye Smith
Hargraves
Home Missionary Society
Thomas Wilson
England
Wales
Croydon anti terror altercation ends as crowd assault teetotal lecturer
A fracas in Croydon arose when a teetotaller attempting to lecture on dram drinking faced a hostile crowd. The lecturer fled after being pummeled and coat torn, taking shelter with Mr Bancesgrove. police escorted him to the railway station amid groans. In Macclesfield a published protest on church rates follows distress warrants and goods seizure. In Plymouth the steamship departure drew public cheers as ships gathered offshore. In Weymouth a beached leather case with Bank of England notes is investigated and returned to the Bank. In York an archbishopric visitation ended with injunctions read and a gathered civic audience observing proceedings.
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Croydon
Aris
Leelur
Herror
Bancesgrove
Culpepper
Macclesfield
Samuel Jesper
John Metcale
Richard Wilson
Plymouth
Henry Dundas Trotter
W. Allen
Mount Wise
Cremull-paint
Bisa E Idata &c
Wreath
Ca Kali U.B
Belleisle
Coup Nicolis
W. Henderson
K.H
Bellerapis Vea Austen
Trinctile
Colliute “Peat
Albert
Wilberforce
Cape
Lily i
Weymouth
George Trent
East Burton
Uel
Hoy
Bank of England
Aomuisea
York St
York
Beity
Corbett
Todd
Wark
Harcourt
Charles Hawkins
H. 3
Residentiauries
W. Preston
Barnes
Cr. Ee Poly
le Shoul
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Hon
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M. Dufaure
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Passy
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Martin du Ord
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Namur
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Hipartero
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Flower of Yarrow
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