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Newspaper
Empire
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 22, 1854
Page
5
A man tried by the Court of Assizes of the Loiret for the murder of a pedlar admitted killing him but claimed the victim attacked him with a fork and threatened his life. The jury found him guilty and the court condemned him to death.
The Magdalena brings 14 passengers including ex Governor Latrobe from Melbourne amid Barbadian cholera devastation with mass deaths and prisoner releases. Reports outline discontent in Port Royal and muttered plans to disband police, a large mortality toll, especially among whites, and damage from a St. Juan fire. Australia comments note gold stocks steady, high bank rates, good harvest, and defending harbours amid war with Russia while Croesus docks at Sydney.
Reports from Rangoon extend to May 22 with losses from a hurricane and the Clarissa mutiny and killings aboard. English-Indian news note gold production in New South Wales around 3000 ounces weekly and fears of transport to England amid war. China riots in Macao and Chinese districts escalate with plunder and murders as authorities deploy troops.
At Wexford Assizes the surviving children of Mr and Mrs MacSweeney received 5000 pounds from the Great Southern and Western Railway for the death of their parents in the Straffan crash last autumn. This is the largest railways damages verdict in Ireland.
A stage collapse in a Duthie and Cochar yard injures nine people including two bosses. Kossuth tours Scotland with secretary and aide de camp, praising Stirling’s scenery and Bannockburn memories. Breeding pandas report few deaths and rising fry, while a Paisley shawl firm faces a damages suit over a misrouted telegram. A Greenock man paralysed tracks an officer, survives a week by cherries, beans, and whins with a linnet’s aid. Edinburgh Protestant Society seeks Macaulay’s reasons on chaplain funds. he explains his abstention and defends his past voting record.
The piece discusses a proposal to preach 2,000 open air sermons to Roman Catholics in Ireland as a distinctive outreach beyond existing societies. It cites Dr Steane praising education and tract distribution while questioning the net effect, noting that in the south and southwest only about 140 sermons were delivered.
In High Wycombe 96 voted for a church-rate while 266 opposed it. Beaconsfield saw strong opposition with no poll demanded. Woburn saw the rate fall as no seconder emerged. Wicas-Wizan roils over church-rates amid six hundred delinquents and magistrates’ orders. Vestry meetings defeated accounts approval and tax rate plans. Choler a scare hits Durham and Liverpool with cholera deaths and workhouse hospital transfers. Harvest prospects loom as winter grain outlook dominates the Herald’s forecast.
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