30 Oct 1840
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Newspaper
Courier
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 30, 1840
Page
1
A fragmented OCR passage describes the Era newspaper office in Dublin, various periodicals and magazines for November, and listings of books and maps. It notes prices, publishers, and featured contents, including literature, histories, and educational works.
Testimony details a naval dockyard blaze aboard HMS Camperdown with witness accounts from Henry Henty and inspector Pearce. Fire progression, lamping, and resin matches are examined as officers recount go down to investigate the midshipman’s berth and potential causes.
Readings from Alexandria dated October 7 describe British naval actions against Beyrout and Seide. Soliman Pasha refuses surrender, asserting immovable walls and ruined hopes of Ottoman defeat. Seide falls after five hours of bombardment. 2,600 Egyptians killed or captured. English, Turkish, and Austrian forces coordinate to seize the town. Maronite and Druse uprisings linked to Ibrahim Pasha’s influence.
The Magdeburg and Leipzig gazettes publish a Danube bank correspondence dated 14th inst claiming a first order European sovereign may abdicate to imitate a king. Some reports instead say the monarch will share sovereignty with his brother as co Regent to act with vigor amid tension. The Paris National notes the Austrian emperor, frail in mind and body, may be displaced by a younger brother Archduke Francis Charles Joseph, who has three sons and a daughter. The King of Holland retires with a fortune of 168 million en. Britain’s Christina savings are hinted at, Paris National mentions.
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