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Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Apr 02, 1842

Page

3

Wild gathering and church row described in Kilkenny prose

Eyewitness account from Kilkenny Journal describes women in white at a worship gathering and families abandoning kin to join a so called wild society. Mr Jacob and companions are escorted away amid jeers as a Cork assizes clash erupts between the Munster bar and Baron Lefroy over court adjournment.

Riends Jacob Oies Fanny Mr. Jacob Society of Fiends Kilkenny Journal Cork Assizes Baron Lefroy Munster Bennett Benntt

Tremendous hurricane hits Scotch towns and ships

A Friday gale grew to a hurricane tearing Scotland and nearby waters. The Scotland bound for St John’s broke loose at East India quay, colliding with a schooner and Skylark, with several vessels ashore near Cartsdyke. In town, chimneys and ropeworks fell, a child killed, others injured, and factories damaged. Wexford and Precursor drifted aground. meteoric lightning and snow followed in other towns.

Scotland St. John's N.B East India Quay Yanchor Jammels Point Cartsdyke Oban Packet Girvan Wexford Cardross Dumbarton Greenock Port Glasgow Messrs. Leitch and Co Mearns-street Se Mount Gauroch Gairloch Roseneathdut Gallowgate Gankirk Daniel Mallin Ireland John Arthur Highlands Alexander Stark Daniel Macpherson Wexander M‘phee M‘leroy Hamilton, and Co Catherine Street Calton Kelvinhaugh Advinhaugh Te Bridge Cathcart Barch Blackland Mill Wright High-street Observatory Dumfriesshire Galloway Eacre Glengolly Ballindalloch Estate Grant Aberdeen Herald Caledonian Mercury Urday High Court of Justiciary Gordon Robertson Mains of Wilton Culeamond James Spence Millhddom Insch James Walker Sublair Forgue Aberdeenshire Wm. Middleton Cullamond Lord Mackenzie Lord Cockburn Maitland Robert Per. Craufurd Walker Hector Spence Pond John Gordon Wang Sperke Pannels Ben Iene

Mesmeric Phrenology The Last New Humbug

At a London Phrenological Society meeting Dr. Elliotson presided as Mr. Henry presented two skull casts from the Columbia River Indians showing flattened foreheads. Skeptics questioned brain loss versus displacement, while mesmerism and phrenology were linked to varied experiments by Mr. Atkinson revealing cases of sleep, reading, and clairvoyance under hypnosis, with witnesses including Archbishop of York and Earl Grey’s son-in-law.

London Phrenological Society Elliotson Henry America Drew Columbia River Atkinson England Collyer Gardiner Hampshire Mr. A Churchill Noden Kirby Archbishop of York Devonshire Bulteel Earl Grey

Collision off Greenwich injures two steamers Nymph and Aurora

A Tuesday evening river collision near Greenwich between the Woolwich steamer Nymph and the Richmond steamer Aurora tore away the larboard paddle box and smashed the wheel. Passengers cried out as the vessels failed, but Thames police inspector George Webb aided the evacuation to the Isle of Dogs and London. An inquest at the Feathers, Westminster, returned a verdict of wilful murder against Jane Anscombe for the death of a newborn found strangled in a dusthole at Great Queen Street. Additional reports note a German suicide by arsenic in Whitechapel and a near-miss on a road improvement near Plinlimmon Hill.

Greenwich Woolwich Aurora Richmond London George Webb Thames Higgs Great Queen-street St. James’s Park Mary Hurst Wood New Lodge Woodhatch Reigate No. 13 Great Queen Street Jane Anscombe Witness Parliament Street Cordus High-street Great Garden-street Whitechapel Aberystwith Plinlimmon-hill

Funeral of the Earl of Munster in Hampton church

The funeral of the Earl of Munster took place on a Tuesday morning with a solemn procession from Belgrave Street to Hampton Court. Mourners included royal family members and nobles. the service at St Mary’s Hampton followed a formal burial in the vault amid a crowded church and public viewing.

Earl of Munster Cottège Belgrave Street Hampton Fitzelarence Earl Duchess of Kent Duchess of Gloucester Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Duke of Sussex Sophia Matilda Beltave,square Knightsbridge Fulham-road Atney- Bridge Wimbledon Kingston Hampton-green Hampton Court Earl of Munster Frederick Fitzclarence Adolphus Fitzclarence Lord de Lisle Earl of Errol Frederick Gordon Wyndham Horace Seymour Toy Inn Cameron Ing Wyndham, &c Church Gate Richmond Moreley Twickenham William IV Upper Lodge Bushy Samuel James Goodenough Carlisle J. Harbour R. Roades George Earl of Munster Fitzclarence Windsor Castle Ferdinand of Wirtemburg Earl's St. Mary’s Insperimus James I Edmund Pigeon Richard II Heston Isleworth Twickean St. Valerie Picardy Edmund College of St. Mary Winchester William of John White Henry VIII Christopher Wren Bell Inn King Duke of Clarence Bushypark Glenbervie John Woolmore Elizabeth Seymour

The Lass of Albany and the Murdered Sisters Tale

A dense literary miscellany reviews poems and tales from the Bentley and Miscellany sphere. It features Robert Burns's Lass of Albany ballad, a vivid Meo Varrone murder episode with Nina, secret-society reflections, and the Gen. Malvern election scene.

Earldom of Munster Veteran Soldier and Royal Society Note

The late Earl of Munster, a long serving cavalry officer, held commissions from 1807 to 1841 and saw action in Portugal Spain India and France. His stewardship at Windsor and role with the Royal Asiatic Society recalled with respect as colleagues plan successors and continue his Mahomedan lore work.

Munster Earl of Munster Guards 14Th Light Dragoons West India Regiment 6Th Dragoon Guards Coldstream Guards John Macdonald H. Taylor William IV Horse Guards Marquis Conyngham Windsor Castle Lord Munster Peninsula Marquis of India France Royal Asiatic Society Wilson Society Grafton-street Gore Ouseley Sprenger Peputaliets

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