Distress and unemployment sweep English towns in 1841 survey
A survey across Bolton, Manchester, Notts, Derby and Wiltshire records steep wage cuts, rising relief costs, and thousands unemployed. Beds scarce, idle mills, empty shops, and widespread poverty echo across Bolton, Ashton, Oldham, Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester with workers facing reduced earnings and home hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bolton
Stockport
Calne
Board of Guardians
Ashton-under-Lyne
Bury
Oldham
Wigan
Lancashire
Spitalfields
Bethnal Green
Loxpon
Morning Herald
London
Leicester
Leicestershire
Saxony
Hinckley
Derby
Nottingham
United States
Mansfield
Wolverhampton
Sheffield
Wiltshire
Sherston
Pinkney
Easton Grey
Codford
Shrewton
Swindon
Uphaven
Wilsford
Dorsetshire
Dundee
Dreadful Explosion of a Steamer at Greenock
A Glasgow newspaper recounts a devastating steamer explosion at Greenock. Eighteen killed including T M Queen and Daniel Sinclair, with many injured. Eyewitness accounts describe a massive blast, wreckage scattered, and bodies recovered or lost. investigators attribute high heat and water shortage as causes and warn against high pressure engines on Clyde steamers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasgow
Helensburgh
T. M.queen
Daniel Sinclair
Wm. Laurie
Paisley
Gareloch
Peter M.lintock
James Johnstone
Greenock
Tarbert
Lochiemond
Jacob Laird
Row
Laurie
Gilchrist
Wm. Baunatyne
Bogle
Mr. Hedderick
Caddenhead
Miss M'Kellar
Chas. M‘quarrie
Lachlan Cameron
Duncan Kennedy
James Stenhouse
John M‘neil
George Leck Painter
Alexander M‘coll
David M‘alpine
Duncan Cameron
Crawford
Garelock
Rowland
Clyde
Debt and assets gap at Tweed bank scandal
The Tweed bank is expected to pay 10s 6d in the pound. Liabilities are £275,000 and assets £145,000. In separate items, new wood pavement in Woolwich dockyard features tongue-and-groove blocks for a solid, interlocked surface with removable blocks for utility access. A coroner’s inquest in Gray's Inn Road reports a death by possible laudanum with a verdict of temporary insanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tweed Bank
Durham Advertiser
Woolwich Dockyard
Suirpz
Wakley
M.P
Calthorpe Armes
Calthorpe-street
Gray’s-inn-road
Jane Beal
Emma Chamberlain
Gough-street
Henry
Shannon Navigation Levy Totals and Irish Counties List
The Shannon navigation levy totals £ 70,615 for the counties listed including Limerick Clare Tipperary Galway Roscommon Mayo and others with additional proposed sums of £ 195,719. A public meeting at the London tavern in Surrey discussed the Licensed Victuallers School funds noting long-term decline in subscriptions and the need to restore prosperity. The Income Tax faced widespread opposition in public meetings in the metropolis and provinces, urging Sir Robert Peel to moderate the policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shannon
Ireland
Limerick
Limerick City
Clare
Tipperary
Galway
Roscommon
Lags County
Westmeath
Longford
Leitrim
Mayo
Igo
VicTuarters
London Tavern
Charles Barclay
Surrey
Blake
Robert Peel
Alliance clubhouse dispute ends with verdict for plaintiff
In the Home Circuit a builder sued for 52 pounds 15 shillings and nine pence for work at the Alliance clubhouse Pall Mall. The jury found the defendants Mr Emly and Mr Hastings liable, concluding the committee had ordered the work and that they were present or bound by agreement. The case reflects club governance and financial liability in 1838.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alliance
Pall-mall
Emly
Thesiger
Mr. Hastings
North Wales
Townsend Mainwaring
Denbigh
Three Boars’ Heads
Bull
Myddleton
Baron Parke
van Hoyle
John Mills
Charles Haigh
Spotland
Rochdale
Brandt
Green
Hoyle
Mills
Child of Pau Reports Life After Funeral Ordeal
A Pau memorial tells how a child believed dead from a spasm suddenly cried out during funeral preparations and soon after began to recover, bringing joy to the grieving parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pau
Robbery byTwo Women and Other Court Docket Pieces
Police records recount two women Cook and Archer jailed for a daytime pocket theft on James Adams, plus a separate Chelmsford fraud case with Saxon coin forgeries, and a drunken love-sick man Thady Conolly in a St Giles court scene. Brentford and Lambeth proceedings cover a highway robbery with handkerchief theft and a ditch assault, with suspects committed for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danie
Cook
Archer
Alderman Hooper
James Adams
New Broad Street
City
Little Moorfields
David Solomons
Hannah Sampson
Sheffield
P. Laurie
Chelmsford
Central Criminal Court
Lambeth Street
Brentford
William Bushell
Henry Hick
Heston-lane
Hounslow
Henry Pullen
Marshall
Heston
Daniels
Lamage
Hick
T. Twining
Central Criminal
Marlborough Street Swindle Targeted Brewers and Tradesmen
Mr Sparkes Hall of Regent Street faced a scheme where canvassers offered a bogus work called The Watering Places of Great Britain. Traders were billed for unsigned copies after signatures were forged. The publisher was later found non est inventus and legal action spread across tradesmen, with about 8,000 names affected and many choosing to pay to avoid costs. The case was publicized to warn others and prevent further fraud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparkes Hall
Regentstreet
Maltby
Great Britain
Robson
Sorymer
Lincoln’s Inn Fields Chambers
Fry
Cundell
Old Bond-street
Tilt
Fleet Street
Lang
Haymarket
London
Hall
Paddy Whelan in a Punch-House Disturbance
In a Dublin bench scene Mrs. M Nulty complains of Paddy Whelan’s unruly drunken behavior as he harassed her in a punch-house on Liffy-lane. Police Constables 187 D and 214 D recount his capers. magistrate fines him 7s 6d or a week’s imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paddy Whelan
Burton
Liffy-lane
Bryan Boroo
Evra
M‘nulty
Paddy
Pathrick
Polis
Where is my wife’s piano and home gone over tax
A distressed poem laments heavy taxes under Peel and a burdensome levy aimed at ruling the Queen. The speaker recounts repeated seizures of furniture, books, and beds, drastic measures, and eventual homelessness in Hoxton, ending with poverty and time in a workhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peel
Newgate
Brute
Hoxton
Also Mentioned on This Page
Yorkshire
Manchester
Hearne
Butchers
Drapers, &c
Saasennedt
Oxford
Maxmotts
Justice Patteson
Benjamin James
Sarah Sophia Fleming
Chepstow
W. H. Cooke
Hanmer
Keating
Edward Jones
Jones
Therisoner
Sarah
Chepstow-castle
Queen Squaebb
Hocussise
Rosine
Thomas Grant
Mary Anne Peet
William Smith
Slough
Berks
Knightsbridge
Life Guards
Peet
William IV
Suttle
King’s Arms Public House
Orchard Street
Westminster
King’s Army
lInspector Forbes
Orchard-street
James Doran
George-street
Chelsea
Pimlico
Grosvenor Canal
Emma
Swain
Elysium
Clareeswell
Tanvy Conolly
Thady
Thady Conolly
Ellen O'Hagarty
Thaddeus Conolly
Mrs. O'Hagarty
Misther Conolly
Buckeridge Street
St. Giles’s
Cenghier
Hanner
Thady Connolly
Marlborough Steebet
Dublin
R. Peel
Hox Son
Croker
Feargus ’Connor
Buckingham
Garter
Star
Yy al Ferrand
Villiers
India
Cahool
Hardinge
Rutland
Cabool
Caron
Charleson Wa
Aueriog
Charles Meee
Charles Mathews
Tate Wilkinson
York
Es Lon
Thomas Campbell
Mosnea
Britannia
B— Hus
Pirab
Pai
Aig
Janel Wut Fc
Srefi
Baker
Enterprise
Charleston
Gulf Stream
Plant
Home League
Portsmouth
Sey
Fisher
John Owen
Hunter
Jame
Houston
Utoe
J, Owen
Fecit
Lampshire Telegraph
Lacan
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