Prologue and a Summer Ramble by The Idler
An Idler letter from The Cloisters journal, May 30 1860, reflects on Greenwich park and the Thames, contrasts past and present London and naval life, and shares a narrator’s ramble through memories and observations of sailors pensioners. It blends self deprecation with social critique and a wish to learn from the city’s changing face. The piece ends with a dream of becoming an Admiral and a note of personal, modest satire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Bvrrer
Afr
Thackeray
Mr. Dickens
Messrs
Moses and Son
Greenwich Park
Thames
Henry VII
Elizabeth
Greenwich
Henry VIII
Anne Boleyn
London
Tower
Dane
John
York-place
South-Eastern Railway
Max
Greenswich
Hospital
Croup
Navy
Portsmouth
Tom
H 1Shing
Maan Duff
Bermuda
Blackall
the Idler
Remarkable discovery of a powerful sedative
The Journal de Chimie Medicale reports Dr Field testing a nitrated oxide sedative on neuralgia patients after a homoeopath's trial. A drop in ninety-nine drops of spirit led to reactions, then quick relief in a neuralgia patient and later headaches and dental neuralgia relief. Galignani's Messenger notes the sedative’s success and cautions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal de Chimie Médicale
Field
Dr. Field
Galignani
Robins Nest in Colwich School Inspires Student Honor
A robin built a nest in a Colwich Staffordshire boys school during Easter holidays. The 100 plus pupils pledged to let the bird lay and hatch its eggs, and for five weeks the window remained open. The mother counted five chicks, releasing four before one remained with the brood to be welcomed again. The scene ends with the bird not returning since the fifth chick’s release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Sparrow
Colwich
Staffordshire
Great Dinecrons Return from New York to Milford Haven
The article discusses commerce with England visible in Paris with English porcelain, plans to substitute lighter coins using nickel copper alloys, and a cultural critique on English social tastes. It mentions Swiss and Belgian coinage experiments and notes on fashion and social expectations among English gentlemen and ladies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Milford Haven
England
Paris
France
Cubs
America
Switzerland
Belgium
Ailver
Romeo
Juliet
Tyburnia
Charity School Children Move to Crystal Palace Event
The annual Charity Schools gathering in St Pauls Cathedral will end there and relocate to the Crystal Palace on June 6. Handled by Handel Orchestra with expanded seating, the event will feature special trains for children and a larger, color-graded display. A subsequent June 8 to 10 fancy fair in the Central Transept supports Warehousemen and Clerks Schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charity Schools of
Metropolis
St. Paul's Cathedral
Crystal Palace
Palace
St. Paul’s
Alderman Finnis
John Storwart
Baptists and the Law Courts Nor wick case on communion
The Rolls Court ruled on the 1746 deed of trust for St Mary’s Coslany Norwich, allowing open or strict communion by full church members. It held that each Baptist community may regulate its practice, rejecting the petition to constrain non Particular Baptists from communion. The information was dismissed with no costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Gould
Rolls Court
Norwich
St. Mary's, Coslany
St. Mary, Coslany
Congregation of
Particular Baptists
Baptist Church
Particular Baptista
John Bunyan
St. Bfary’s
Coslany
Jesse
Tombes
Bunyan
Kiffer
Ivemey
St. Mary’s
City of
Sailors Orphan Girls Society Meeting At Exeter Hall
The annual meeting of the Sailors' Orphan Girls' Society at Exeter Hall chaired by Captain Maude in absence of the Earl of Shaftesbury. report shows income rising from 1,077 to 2,8640 with legacies and donations from Earl Manvers Captain Hand Miss Boyman Miss Yallop and Miss Morrison. Balance on hand 7,300. Hampstead establishment reported illness free. multiple resolutions adopted praising the society and pledging funds. speeches by Mr P F O'Malley Q C Rev J H Morn and others urging support for sailors' orphans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exeter Hall
Earl of Shaftesbury
Maude
Earl Manvers
China
Captain Hand
Miss Boyman
Camberwell
Miss
Hampstead
Fismotrye
Wiirtow Al‘Cart
P. F. O'Malley
Q.C
Jim
England
Great Britain
Europe
J. H. Morn
Joserm Parse
Old England
BE. H. Broxegstere
Americans Kidnapping Negroes From Jamaica Case
Jamaica reels over a slave trafficking case tied to an American ship the Alice Rodgers sailing from Montego Bay to the United States. Two Jamaican boys were allegedly taken aboard the vessel, sold in Norfolk Virginia, and the captain arrested. Rumors of mob violence swept Montego Bay as the captain faced U.S. charges. mothers deny complicity while a third boy may have been seized similarly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West India Mail
Jamaica
West India Islands
America
Alice Rodgers
Montego Bay
United States
Wessel
Philadelphia
Norfolk
Virginia
W. L. Montague
Gun Point Wharf
Hampton
Monthly mores of politics and temper in Britain
In a prose aside from Blackwoods Magazine, the author folds social behavior and political temper into a calendar. He notes November to January breed quarrels and dire forecasts, February remains combative yet sprightly, March yields irony, April and May soften into conciliation, June fades from politics, July and the grouse season sustain the body politic, while August to October curb legislation. The piece blends wit with reflections on public discourse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Nature
Father Thames
Lords
Commons
Rome
Republic
Britain
Blackwoods Magazine
Law and Alice and the Essex Alehouse Case
A Wednesday action before Lord Chief Justice involved a London underwriter Mr William Fenn of Old Broad Street with liabilities said to exceed 20000. An Essex innkeeper faced a gaming fine after players were his friends and stakes small, with appeal and a knotty licensing question discussed before the court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Fenn
Court of Queen's Bench
Essex
May
David Barclay
Combe
Southwark
Molesworth Square
New Skin Market
West-terrace
Guy-street
W. Edwin
Middlesex Sessions
Tuz
Boroteu
LiveRroor
Martin Mors
New Orleans
Liverpool
Mersey
Philander Hall
Daniel Devonport
Northern Hospital
Hall
Devonport
Ay Tencing
Marine Board
Bristol
Irvin
Jasper
Valparaiso
George Hannam
Board of Trade
Mercantile Marine Act
Hannam
Multiple Casualties and Crimes Reported Across Regions
A fire gutted the steamship Gannet off Bermondsey. Alfred Porter Fowler died in Brompton from allegedly negligent medical treatment. A Bristol and Exeter train collided with a timber wagon, passing through a 18 inch tree without injuring passengers. Essex clerk W. Gibson died of a paralytic attack in court. A Canphasy youth killed by overbalancing while bird nesting. Captain Richards’s son died after a fall from horse at a Warwickshire Militia review. Liverpool watchmaker Tos Russat hanged himself at home amid brain illness. Weston-super-Mare station incident left Watkins and family at risk after being struck by a moving carriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bermondasy
Alfred Porter Fowler
Brompton
Chatham
Bristol and Exeter
Moncx
Chelmsford
W. Gibson
Essex
Sessions Court
Richards
Cotoxil
Warwickshire
Tos. Russat
Liverpool
Marine Crescent
Waterloo
Weston-super- Mare
Watkins
Bristol
Distressing accidents and inquests reported at sea and land
A chaotic roll of injuries and deaths across towns and ships. Reports include a severed shoulder and broken thigh after an explosion and derailment near King's Cross, laboratory blasts at an apothecary, ship gig capsizing off Helensburgh, and a fatal opium overdose amid rheumatic fever. Coroners, doctors, and police examine causes as volunteers and militiamen clash in Hamilton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King's Crass
Troves
Surrey
Thames
Standay
Union-street
Borough
Woolwich Dockyard
Brown
Lewisham
Firth
Helensburgh
Hogue
Lennox
Taylor
Queen's Hotel
Dra. Skean
Walker
Minton
Clewer Court
Windsor
J. P. Harper
Hamilton
North Cork Rifles
A. P. Fowler
Chatham
Brompton
T. Hills
Mr. Hawkins
Q.O
G. B. Acworth
W. Burton
Mr. Wates
Professor Taylor
Guy’s Hospital
Ain
Martin
Burton
Sicilian Insurrection Proclamation Denied by Mazzini
The article notes a purported proclamation urging Sicilian insurrection in the name of the Sardinian monarchy attributed to Giuseppe Mazzini, which Lamron says he did not author. It also recounts a tale of a wolf vs ram battle from Tre Moniteur de la Cole d Or and discusses historical methods of amputation from Albucasis through Ambrose Paré, highlighting crude techniques and their dangers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Hildanus
Guido di Gamlico
Botalli
Ambrose Paré
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Ohe
Evler
the Crystal Palace
the Baptists and the Law Courts
North Midland
North- Western
York
Sailors’ Orphan Girls
Law and
Alice
Dundalk
Phenix
Fitzmaurice
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