21 Dec 1840
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Newspaper
Courier
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 21, 1840
Page
1
A dense OCR page fragment advertising assorted goods and medicines. Includes assurances on lamp oil and anchovy essence from Burgess and Son, Barclay’s asthma candy, Grampton’s pills, and other health tonics. Also features notices for Sperm oil alternatives and a long moralizing health section with promotions and cautions.
Lord Nugent questions a letter signed William Tooke alleged to be from the Morning Herald. Tooke admits writing the letter but disputes misattribution and defends his conduct as chairman of the Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. He denies any improper influence and defends his integrity and public service in Finsbury.
The piece criticizes the Poor-law Commissioners for delaying vaccination in England and Ireland, noting rising London deaths from smallpox as it remains unaddressed. It also recounts a circular urging ventilation of poor houses and discusses eastern affairs via Constantinople, Syria, and allied diplomacy.
The Governor of Jamaica opened the House of Assembly session on the 27th, defending existing laws as aligned with the mother country and urging improvement where possible. He urged prison discipline reform, discussed reconciliation courts akin to Norway, noted growing labor relations progress, and recommended militia reorganization.
In Nantes the Napoleon translation anniversary featured Napoleon in the title role with a loud reception while Hudson Love’s portrayal drew mixed emotions. Westminster Academy presented exams at Westminster Theatre with praise for the master C Williams and pupils who recited poetry from memory and staged L Organibur a French comedy and The Children in the Wood.
The Madrid Gazette describes four regency meriess and a minister of finance exposition on selling national property, payment in thirds via Five and Four percent funded debt and non consolidated stock. It notes a Sultan firman ratifying Spain’s commerce treaty with the Sublime Porte and discusses Espartero’s stance toward press intimidation amid Exaltado election outcomes. Public reception of the financial measures is noted.
A young woman killed herself by charcoal after being abandoned by her fiancé in London. A Thames police diver found a floating body of a woman on ice near College Wharf. Reports also narrate a brass cannon recovered from Chosan with Elizabethan marks, a fatality by apoplexy at Bromley, and a coach crash injury leading to amputation, plus a priest dying during a baptism in Tredegar Square.
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