West Indies and worldwide 1840s dispatches drift
The Medway arrives seven days ahead of mail due at the General Post Office carrying gold and silver freight valued at 1.8 million dollars, including 1 million from Mazatlan via Panama. Reports from California note abundant ore but widespread dysentery amid a San Francisco exhibition of quartz gold. Nicaragua and British Guiana news include unrest, earthquakes, and political sessions. India and South America updates describe drought, uprisings, and naval movements as empires navigate regional shocks.
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Medway
General Poast
Mazatlan
Panama
Champion
California
San Francisco
Nicaragua
Havannah
America
Valparaiso
Indiana
Valdivia
Chillan
Republic of Bolivia
Oruro
Jamaica
Havana
Triwipap
Guiana
British Guiana
West India
Antigua
Hayri
Aux Cayes
Port Riviere
Dan Marie
Gattows Scaffold Crowd and City Notices
The report notes a Thursday crowd at a public execution with some thieves among the onlookers and a pocket-picking incident. It also covers Hull Savings Bank fraud inquiries, a push to repeal the advertisement duty, a cholera era marriage surge in 1849, and a poaching method using chloroform in Windsor Great Park.
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Tuurr
Gattows
H.'L. Taylor
Sidney Herbert
Hull Savings Bank
Yorkshire Gazette
Rerran
Dory
Ewart
House of Commons
C. Wood
London
Middlesex
Surrey
Norfolk
Herefordshire
Leicestershire
Nottinghamhire
Derbyshire
Cheshire
Lancashire
West Riding of Yorkshire
Cumberland
Bristol
Wolverhampton
Liverpool
Leeds
Hull
Bath
Birmingham
Sheffield
Manchester
Stockport
Halifax
England
Windsor Great Park
Treland Encumbrance Sales Provoke Dense Petitions
Dublin report notes over 400 petitions filed within January 24 to 31 seeking estate sales under commissions. Named inheritors include Lord Jongford Hon Philip Bowverie John Dillga Croker the Earl of Carrick Richard Clifford Isabella Jane Martley and others as investors eye moderate-price purchases. The piece also covers a proposed Romish University plan and Dublin political turmoil over Mr Reynolds Lord Mayor eligibility with court rulings and council maneuvers.
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Tas
Lord Jongford
Portoree
Philip Bowverie
John Dillga Croker
Carrick
Richard Clifford
Thomas Reach
Isabella Jane Martley
Harl of
Kingston
James Cullen Mahon
David Plunkett
Lord Plunkett
Mary Jones
Lord Campbell
Dublin
The
Morning Chronicle
Carnorso
Queen's Colleges
M Hale
Romish
Bandon
Richard Devereux
Wexford
Cantwell
Tablet
Taane
Ulster
Tur Cass
Joan Reynoups
M.P
Wanehab
Reynolds
Corporation ‘of
Royal Exchange
Timothy O’brien
Queen's Bench
Juvenile Offenders in 1847 Prisons and Refuges Noted
Parliamentary return shows 11,196 juvenile offenders in 1847 with 11,100 in England and 95 in Wales, rising to 11,766 in 1848. Highlights include 17 charitable refuges for temporary post prison care and lists of counties hosting facilities. Also notes 1,176 juveniles under sentence at July, extensive thirteen-page returns on convictions. Later item details the Queen Dowager's furniture sale and 20,000 ounces of plate, jewellery bequests, and Bushey House purchase.
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Monckton Milnes
England
Wales
Chester
Devon
Gloucester
Lancaster
Middlesex
Norfolk
Nottingham
Somerset
Surrey
Sussex
Warwick
York
Owen
New Bondstreet
Bushey House
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West Indies
Buenos Ayres
River Plate
Vid Rio
Southern
Rosas
Bydra
Napoléon
Platn
le Prédourig
India
Overland
Indian Mail
H. Lawrence
Sikim
Sikkur
Campbell
Hooker
Darjeeling
Madras
Bombay
Arthur Georgey
Clagenfurth
Philosophical Society
Carinthian
Vilagosh
Prince Lichnowsky
General Auerswald
Bavaria
Frankfort
M. Victor Hugo
Tion
Lyons
Ladislaus Teleki
M. Pulssky
Journal
Des Débats
le Napoleon
Europe
Corresencene
Mazzini
Ledru Rollin
Struve
Pulszky
Des
Treland
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