| Description | Containing details of: congratulations on births of children; Graham Steamboat crossing Humber; funeral of Duke of York; additional troops ordered for Portugal; militia likely to be called for home duty; Westminster anniversary; political matters; Catholic emancipation; Haggard appointed Ecclesiastical Judge to Archdeaconries of Ely and Colchester; Levees held by lord Chancellor on Saturday evenings; social gossip; new buildings at Cambridge; proposed King's College in London (£35000 subscribed 'it is not intended to lay the foundation stone till the subscription reach £100,000'.); new United Service Clubhouse facing Pall Mall, near entrance to Carlton Palace, University Club 'builds in the same direction', (Jul 1828); York Musical Festival; architectural improvements in London (entrance to Hyde Park; Constitution Hill), (6 Dec 1828); The King's 'legs are astonishingly thin, quite like those of a Robin-redbreast in comparison to the superstructure they have to support....late illness...diminished his circumference 18 inches', (6 Dec 1828); Windsor Castle a truly royal residence; Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports; The Speaker married to Mrs Purvis ('The death of her husband has...put an end to a connexion which...has long subsisted in an unmatrimonial way') (6 Dec 1828) Dec'd. Archbishop left £160,000; successive weeks of frost have left Thames unnavigable; carpet warehouses and paperhangers in London, (25 Jan 1829); rebuilding in the Inner Temple; measures of conciliation in respect of Roman Catholics; York Minster to be restored at cost of £150000 ('the pillars...much injured...springing from an act of an individual who is called Insane'.); Irish freeholders; Sir Jacob Astley will have difficulty in carrying through a divorce; Sir Robert Peel's speech to 3300 at Harrow.(22 Jan 1837) 'You may I trust, live to rebuild your village, and enjoy it in its renovated character...' |