Crellin Gretna marriage scandal unfolds in court
Miss Crellin testifies of being pressured into a Gretna Green marriage to Mr Gill after coercion by Jones and others. She recounts misused funds, coercive assistants, and a forced union alleged to be void, with Mrs Chamley corroborating and detailing the party’s plot and flight. The case includes alleged deception, a forged Gretna certificate, and questions on her property. Prisoners are remanded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogerson
Dublin Packet
Jones
M‘gill
Miss Crellin
George and Vulture
Houghton-street
Mrs. Chamley
Martin
Quick
Mr. Quick
Mrs. Jones
Mr. Martin
Mrs. Clayton
Mr. M'Gill
Mr. Rushton
Gretna-green
Tom
Sanerer
Mr. Grocott
Snowball
Grocott
Gretna
Mr Gill
Miss Crew
Berry-street
Adelphi
St. Ann’s
Iss
Crellin
St. Ann's
Busineuch
Miss Crelin
R. M‘gill
Rushton
Insolvent Debtors Court Sits Amid Heavy Backlog
The Insolvent Debtors' Court sees substantial business with hearing orders issued until May 14. Bail cases fill most days as commissioners Harris and others work across several circuits. On Thursday the sittings resume with at least fifty-one bail cases set, reflecting the large number of schedules and cases historically heard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris
French Disarmament Steps Stir Toulon Harbor
In Toulon a minister of marine despatch orders immediate dismissal of seamen with 36 months of service, signaling disarmament moves. The Belle Poule readies for sea under Prince de Joinville by early May as part of wider European naval shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toulonnais
Toulon
Prince de Joinville
Spain
Madrid
Americans free Hogan after night escape and chase for Sir Allan M Nab
Report describes Hogan’s escape into Canada before habeas corpus hearing and Sir Allan McNab’s perilous progress to England. Citizens pursued him from Lockport. meanwhile New York money markets ease while Pennsylvania resumption bill looms. New Orleans bank panic spreads, notes rejected, market paralyzed. Dickens visits Philadelphia. Florida senate debate on repudiating debts. Mexican engagement near Matamoros ends in rout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hogan
Canada
M‘leod
Lockport
Caroline
Allan M‘nab
England
Albany
Allan Little
London
Congress
New York
Paris
Amsterdam
Hamburgh
Bremen
Pennsylvania
Nicholas Biddle
Joseph Cowperthwaite
J. Andrews
Court of Common Pleas
Orleans, Exchange, and Improvement
New Orleans
Orleans
Exchange
Improvement
Atchafalaya
Exchange and Improvement Banks
Washington
Charles Dickens
Philadelphia
Senate
Florida
Andrews
Zabriski
Matamoros
Texas
Turbulent Levant News and Greek border tensions
Reports from Constantinople and Smyrna detail Turkish councils over Syria dispatches and a potential replacement of Omar Pacha. Greece plans troop movements toward its frontier amid fears of Turkish reinforcements, while Ipsara pirates are pursued by French forces. Malta trials conclude with a not proven verdict, and Ionian finances seek debt relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Bgyrz
Levant
Marseilles
Thoreday
London
Yonian Isles
Constantinople
Alexandria
Smyrna
Greece
Malta
Syria
Phenix
Porte
England
France
Russia
Mavrocordato
Newa
Ipsara
Lasusse
Pacha
Acheron
L'Echo de L'Orient
Rapine
Egypt
J. L. Stoppart
Alexandris
Patras
Malta Times
Thessaly
Asia
Corfu
Legislative Assembly
Metropolitan Hospital Suppers and Banquet News
Public suppers at Christ's Hospital facility closed after eight Sundays with Easter end. Notables attended including the American minister and nobles. Easter anthem won annual prize. German language urged for mercantile advantage. Mansion House banquet followed with toasts to Queen, Prince, and ministers. Prussian minister praised relations. Also reports on Van Diemen's Land Company meeting, assessing colonial farming, stock, and finances. and the Ball MeEpicat Association discussing medical reform delays and licensing issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuaist
Lord Sandys
Dudley Stuart
Lord Sandon
Cornwall
Stopford
Christopher
Gore Ouseley
John Masterman
M.P
W. H. Brown
Christ's Hospital
Mansion House
Duke of Cambridge
Prince Albert
Prince of Wales
Salisbury
R. Peel
Jord Wharncliffe
Lord Wharncliffe
Lord Denman
Francis Scott
Laurie
Wilson
van Diemen’s Lanp Company
Old Broad-street
William Burnie
Gibson
Knight
Ebsworth
Helme
Balls MeEpicat Association
Exeter Hall
Webster
James Graham
Home Secretary
Company of Apothecaries
Medical Reform and Charities Chronicle at London Hospitals
A reform bill debate centers on uniform medical practice with Dr Marshall Hall noting a government plan to create 200 fellows at the colleges of physicians and surgeons. The report surveys Christ's Hospital, St Bartholomew's, St Thomas's, Bridewell, and Bethlem hospitals detailing admissions, discharges, finances, improvements, and appeals for renewed public support to sustain ongoing renovations and charitable work.
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Grant
Marshall Hall
Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons
Association
Boards of Guardians
Roya
Eeerseere
London
Hertford
Grey Friars
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
St. Thomas's Hospital
Southwark
London Bridge
Bridewell Hospital
Inquest Into Death of Destitute Boy at Edmonton
An inquest resumed at the House of Correction Cold Bath Fields into the death of John Marshall aged about ten. He had been committed for vagrancy and died after distress from hunger and lack of nourishment. Testimony details mistreatment concerns and magistrates handling of destitute cases. The coroner urged law changes while noting prison care contrasted with workhouses. A verdict attributed death to exhaustion from want of proper sustenance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DHE
Wakley
House of Correction
Cold Bathfields
John Marshall
Morley
Edmonton
Coroner's Court
Richard Lambert
Allen
Stephen Allen
Wakefield
Mr. Wakefield
Shoreditch
Birmingham
Dominica
England
London
Mr. Chesterton
H. Wakefield
Peckham
Edmonton Union
Marshall
British American Land Company
London Tavern
Bishopsgate Street
G. R. Robinson
Sherbrook
Lower Canada
Lord Stanley
Angus
Hamburg
Craufurd
Lake Ontario
Poynder
Scott
Penrhyn
Eta
PROVINCIAL NOTES ON THEATRE AND CRIME PAUSES
Birmingham theatre Cherry and Fair Star offered holiday fun with Harper and Signor Bernaskina. Brighton police break up coiners den at Egremont street. two men Joseph Lee and James Smith held for trial. Liverpool town tale reports a wealthy widow courted by a bold Hibernian who pursues marriage with persistence and a church visit amid comic misadventures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Solomon
Brighton Police
Elmes
Messrs
Crowhurst
Elphick
Haviside
Joseph Lee
James Smith
No. 3
Egremont Street
Liverpool
Lothario plot and Gretna Green marriage tale shocks Manchester
A dramatic tale from Manchester recounts a plot by a suitor and companions to abduct and drug a lady, taking her to Gretna Green where marriage was alleged. The woman later recalls little of the events, while observers hint the long robes may pursue charges. The piece shifts to Henry Hunt monument plans and a vast Chartist gathering, then details a devastating amphitheatre fire in Great Bridgewater Street and a Stockport assault by Irish soldiers, with widespread damage and ongoing inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Listess
Fair Lady
Pqse
Lancaster
Gretna-green
Gretna
Tithan
Manchester
Henry Luyt
Henry Hunt
James Scholefield
O’connor
Scholefield
Peterloo
Feargus O'Connor
Cooper
Salford
Batty
Great Bridgewater
Bridgewater-street
Wells
Messrs. Brougham and Co
Messrs
Boyle
Glasgow
Stockport
Coghlan
Killroy
Moore
Prisie
Barra
Nambers
Delicate Arrain The Dublin Monitor reports a proposed marriage pact
A Dublin Monitor clipping reproduces a contested agreement by Robert Percival Brereton to marry Catherine Flanagan within a week of his wife’s death or divorce, with a £1000 bequest if he fails. It notes the document’s legal form and promises, witnessed in Dublin on December 20. The page also mentions an elephant shipped from Ireland to Scotland, Irish discontent with policy changes, and a meeting led by John Jacob in Mountmellick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Catherine Ylanagan
Robert Perceval Brereton
Her Majesty's Royal Navy
Catherine Flanagan
Percival Brereton
Rupert Percival Brereton
Henry F
Terrace
78Th Highlanders
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Zoological Society of
Athens
Ceylon
Ireland
Per
Robert Peel
Cork Examiner
Journal
House of Commons
St. Stephen’s Chapel
London
Chronicle
John Jacob
Mountmellick
Jacob
Jacobé
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the Weekly Chronicle
Foreign Intelligence
Portugal
Falmouth
Gibraltar
Cadiz
Lisbon
Oporto
Vigo
Jena
Africain
Tagus
Brest
Vienna
Saldanha
Metternich
Baron Mareschal
Baron Moncorvo
Lord Aberdeen
Rome
Holy See
Monsignor Cappaccini
Bologna
de Palen
Air
John Levick
Maite
Antonio Mattel
Court of Special Commission
Bruno
Maltese Times
Algiers
British India
Suez
Bombay
United States
Patrick Henry
Delano
Oxford
John Sheridan Hogan
Upper Canada
Leonard
the Metropolis
St. George’s Fields
UML Byu
Bethiem Hospital
Cubables
Ceis
Pital
Hos
Sasathlaceres
Bethlem Hospital
United Kingdom
St. George's Fields
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