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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Apr 04, 1847

Page

7

London Theatrical Fund Second Anniversary Dinner Address

Crowded London Tavern marks the second anniversary dinner of a theatrical benevolent fund. Mr. Buckstone and Mr. Dickens speak on aiding aged performers and preserving English drama against declining patent theatres. Donations include £100 from the Queen and £10 from the Duke of Devonshire.

Leamington Bank Robbery Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict

Kes Covar presided as William Odson Blayney and co defendants faced charges for the Leamington Bank robbery dated July 4 1845. The case traced parcels notes and misposted money with testimony from post office clerks bankers and London witnesses. Blayney was found guilty and sentenced to ten years transportation with judges noting the crime was clearly proven.

Midland Waxwick Kes Covar Justice Patteson William Odson Blayney Lange Leamington Bank George Blayney Jennings Myers Waddington Mellor Miller O’brien William Hudson Blayney Warwick and Leamington Bankin Company Leamington Southam Sousham Francis Smith Edward Wells Wysee London Wynne Southern Heath Deak Bath Street Middleton Regent Street Newbold Street Oldham Bridge Church Street Coventry Road Portland Street Dele Street Kenilworth Road Bidswood Elisha Blayney Kenilworth Thomas Heath H. Summerfield Elisha Post Office Daniel Forrenter Roby Boulogne George Thomas England Mansion House George Buyney Bower Plumtree Court Shoe Lane City of London Elishe Leicester Nottingham Carroll Smithfield Witness George Talbot Court Archer Scroggins Loam Blayney George Blarney Bellein Bride Lane Tream Daniel Forrester Minuteneas

Seville Senora and Spaniard Drama at a London Hotel

A Spaniard and a Senora ran afoul of theft and deception at a London hotel. Jewellery vanished, cash vanished, and even a matador dress’s gold buttons were cut off. The Senora swindled the Spaniard, who appeared heartbroken and penniless after to seize a possible mother reunion. A Portuguese host and a benefactor aided the Spaniard’s return to Seville. The pair’s romance and flight ended with unmet promises and a warning about the Senora’s bold dancing career in London. Later, the Zoological Society announced public admission to their gardens on Mondays and Tuesdays throughout the year with seasonal exceptions.

Nassau Seville England London Regent's Zoological Society Regente Park Nogpen Kildareaasizes Catherine Colgan Margaret Foran Athy Joshua Walmsley James Welsh Sir Joshua Walmsley Sir Joshua Society of Friends Joaboa Onda of Liverpool

Euclid colt in sight at Newmarket Handicap betting

Sporting intelligence covers racing odds and bets for Newmarket events, detailing the Euclid colt retreat and price moves to 7 to 1, Planet and Epirote prospects, and sums wagered on various races including the 2000 Guineas and Derby. It notes prices, stakes, and late activity, plus a rowing club's early season scratch match results at Putney to Hammersmith.

Tattersall Euclid Sting Planet Duloet Panch Epirote Glentilt Liberator Mr. Martin Newwanxer E. Russell Gregory C. Monck Orford Stradbroke Lynceus Wigram J. Hawley Humdran Cuthbert Queen of Tyne Anson Tom Tallock R. Neville W. Scott Sir Tatton Sykes Mr. Gregory John Day Mr. Moore Moastyn'a Gully B. Green Mostyn Irwin Wilson Skerratt Hill Lord Eglinton Bowes O'Brien the Literator Mostye Colonel Anson Holmes Pedley Jobs Scott Vanish Tom Tulloch Newmarket

The Poisoning Case At Bury Court Sentences Widow

Catherine Foster was condemned for murder after the court found she prepared and served poison that killed her husband on October 18. The judge denounced the crime, ordered her life forfeited on the scaffold, and urged mercy at the Redeemer’s throne. The scene closed with her calm acceptance and removal to a dark cell.

Bury Bury Sr. Epwexn Catherine Foster

Death of Horsilte in Rue St Germain I Auxerrois

An elderly man named Horsilte, long poor and living in a garret on Rue St Germain I Auxerrois, was found dead among straw. Neighbors had aided him previously. A stash of wealth, including 7,000 livres in money, a 500 franc note, and various jewelry and plate items, was found with him.

Horsilte St. Germain I'Auxerrois

Money Market Fluctuations and Funds Decline

The English funds fluctuated with little clear cause as Consols opened near 93 and drifted down to around 68 percent, aided by light sales and heavy market tone. Exchequer Bills moved near par, while foreign securities leaned lower and railways softened. premiums on gold showed Paris and Hamburg pricing gaps, with daily settlement and Sinking Fund activity shaping near-term demand.

Paris Bock Chilfon Ecuador Venezuela Emperor of Husala Bank of France Consola Serlo India London Hamburgh Wepmzspay Consois Tavesoay Evenixa Stock Exchange

Royal notices and promotions fill Downing Street Gazette

The Queen appoints Rev T England to North Lew Rectory and Rev J Taylor to Menzie Parish. Military promotions across regiments follow, including officers in the Horse Guards Dragoons and various Light Dragoons. Dissenters' marriage act notice, insolvency examinations, and bankruptcy listings detail April and May proceedings.

G. H. Bart Island of St. Christopher Orries Royal Regiment of Horse Guards A. F.C. G. Lennor C. H. Cust O. A. Fitzgerald Lori A. F. C. G. Lennox Dragoon Guards A. Nugent J. Conolly G. L. Robson Capain Purchase Nugent J. J. Thomas Robson A. W. D. Burton Cornet Thomas 41Th Light Dragoons W. S. Sandes Forrest L. Alexander Sandes EB. A. Cook Alexander Light Dragoons H. Madox S. Stawell E. Pole Madox R. Needham Pole T. H. Clifton Needham J. A. Digby Leutenant Cufton C. Goring Digby 34Th Light Dragoons A. Need 16Th Light Dragoons Hillier 44Th Foot 1St Regiment of Foot H. W. Tuer Kennedy 4Th Foot J. W. Percy Wollaston O. ¥. Cocks Ensign Percy Frank Corbett Enago Twigg M. C. Wall Sears James G. Clarke Campbell J. H. Chambers Macan D. J. B. Lennard Chambers H. R. Wolrige Clarke C. F. Campbell O'Toole 68Th Foot H. V. Jones T. W. Storer Carmichael D. S. Collings Barton Sth Dragoon Guards Baxter Coleonel H. Madox 12Th Light Dragoons Unarracuan J. White L. A. Pale 11Th Foot H. L. Herbert Great Thoroton Street Kingnes Upon Hull W. Driver Weston Street Southwark J. Milner Holborn Bill J. Ball High Street Stratford le Bow West Haw Essex Carman G. Chantler Compton Street Brunswick Square R. Haee Ebrington Street Plymouth W. Peahse Axminster Devonshire T. Clark Horsefair Birmingham T. Williams Spring Bank Kidderminster Worcestershire Apt. Bankrupts Court of Prey Hasinghall Street BE. Marshall Clifton Street Son Street Finsbury Wreter Asalguee Edwards Frederick's Bochswan Basinghall Street W. Bonds D of Cornwallic Houss Creek Road Deptford Kent Ucenred Victualler Groom Abchurch Lane Lombard Street Messrs Symes Belcher Spicer Great Marion Buckinghamshire G. A. Soar Great Marylebone Street St. Marylebone Fesd Graham Coleman Street Messrs. Bicknell and Co Conmaught Terrace Edgeware Road J. Haly Surrey Sirest Strand Manchester BR. P. Hobson George Street Armstrong Staple Bedford Row London Messra Weatherhead and Co Bingley Bond Leeds J. Burrows Hucknall Huthwaite Nottingham Ahire Farmer and Publican Town Hall Sheffield Freeman Queen Street SheMeld Stevens and Co Queenstreat Cheapride God Jessop Alfreton Chappel Hunslet Isrignee Watesworth and Co Gray's Inn Smith Leeda W. Hodgeox Halton Lcensed Victualler Jacques Land Co Bly Greaves Liverpool Can Susigeen Bird Livercourt South Castle Street Liv Chester and Co Staple Inn Avison and Ebenezer Pickering Yorkshire Union Portishead Somersetshire Jones Jun Shepperton Place Islington Carpenter T. Hadler Bath Street Gravesend Farrier T. Rippon Moulsham Chelmsford Aszex C. Nash Wigmere Street W. Kohler Hathbone Place Oxford Street W. Simons Whittaker Street Pimlico H. Richards Milton Street Dorset Square Allsw W. Dawson Leake Lincolnshire R. Robinson Newtown Row D. Lear Grantham H. Smitheman Wolverhampton Street Dudley Constable W. Hickin Bilaton Newtown Staffordshire W. Towill Kennford J. Williams Newbridge Cardiff Glamorganshire W. Danson Clifton Crescent Birkenhead Cheshire Ee Rickard Southgate Street St. James's Bath Court of Bankruptcy H. Jones Grosvenor Road Ollman Asignee Whitmore Basinghall Atreat Shaw Fish Atreet Bi H. J. Cock Hedgerow High Wireghiington Linen Apriac By Masignee Coleman Treet Messrs. Hardwicky and Co Ball J. Barlow Waterloo Street Motteram and Knowles Birminham Andrew Birrell Salford Cazenove Johnson and Co Temple Snowball R. Macoun Bolton Lancashire Cotton Spioner Frater Bristol Hutton Mesars Brittan and Sons J. C. Humby Blackfriars Road Bond and Morgan Shaw ‘Manufacturers J. Kirkpatrick Newport Lale of Wight Southampton C. Bartlett J. Gale and Son Love Jane Shadwell J. G. Ufford Highbury Brewery Holloway W. Smith Abergavenny Monmouthshire Rigmalden

Fragmentary listings of tradespeople and dissolutions in April notices

A scanned OCR fragment lists numerous names with occupations and April dates, including ship owner, linen drapers, wool merchants, tailor, bakers, farmers, factor, coachbuilder, coal merchant, stationer, and more. It also records partnerships dissolved across various firms such as bottle companies, coach builders, grocers, miners, and ship brokers, plus Scottish sequestrations of several Glasgow and Dundee trades.

W.C J. Esling Banham Norfolk Hadley and Drake Woolwich Nowdrapers Tilbury, Son, and Clarke Gloucester Place New Road Smith and Chapman York Blagrove and Rust Margaret Street Cavendish Square Musictane Croker and Stowe Bridgewater Someretshire Cost Milnea and Ark Haslam and Paddy Southampton Row Bloomsbury Read, Hoggins, and Co Duke Street St. James's Whiteside and Powell Liverpool Autten Oxford Street Coggan and Jones Bread Street Hill Recombe Sidebotham Harplane W. Chadwick Warren and Fowler Old Street Road W. Black and Co Devanha Aberdeen W. Copland W. Reid and Son Leith J. Craig

Local trades and partnerships listed across London and beyond

A historical notice lists multiple tradesmen and shops in various districts such as Walworth Bermondsey Southwark and Westminster with April dates for licenses and registrations. It includes names of bakers butter merchants butchers drapers linen goods brokers and brewers along with a long section detailing dissolved partnerships among firms like Arnold Fairclough Lightfoot Daines Corbet Mellor and Sykes and many others across England and Scotland including Glasgow Liverpool Birmingham and Plymouth. It notes Scotch sequestrations involving Grainger Clark Macaulay Maclean Kinlochspelve and Macaulay with April dates.

En Hallett Parker Thornton Street Dock Bermondsey Deo Essex Friars City Rherthant Southwark Surrey Neep Calebister Payne Nag’s Head Bigh Street Camber Pbridge W. Dawley Green Shimalt Shropehics Victusiles J. le Dawley Green Shropshire W. G. Grossmith Romsey Extra Southampton J.lefpold Birmingham Mushc Collar J. Tummis Newcastle Lyme Staffordshire Vion BT Bt T. Arnold Filgh Street Shoreditch Aiiversmiths Fairclough Front Liverpool Wlosford Breatley and Shaw Mirdeki plasterere—Lightfoot and Unbank Nottingham Borovett and Leslie, Allen Daines and Perry Halkin Street West Corbett and Horton Wednesbury Mellor and Sykes Huddersfield Yorkshire J. Banks and Co Wigan Lancashire Chymizis and Drugg Sts Shotton, Bouts Bhotton Warner's Yard Mincingane Regarda R. Shotton R. Harris Sam Salvador House London Hasleburnt and Greaves Sheffield Taylor Lloyd Wombridge S. Harwood and Co Taller and Carter Cambridge surgeons—Garnet and Mowbray Paternoster Row J. Lindop, Son, and Co Cannon Street Ingo, Doeg Haswell Newcastle Upon Tyne General Commission P. Marrow and Co W. W. Worthington Whitgreave and Stroughbarm Walsall Wilkinson and White Last and Palmer Ware Hertfordshire Alteroies Bewhy and Cock Plymouth J. M'Intyre and Co Glasgow J. Finlay R. Grainger J. and W. Clark J. Macaulay Chemlat Maclean Kinlochspelve, Mall, Argyle Doctar of Medicine

Queen approves Don Julian Melendez as Peru Consul General

The Queen approves Don Julian Melendez for the post of Consul General in the United Kingdom representing the Republic of Peru. The notice also lists various military appointments and promotions across the British forces, including cornet, lieutenant, and captain by purchase, in several regiments. It records other official actions such as deputy lieutenant appointments and notes sugar price postings, bank and government securities data, and medical advertisements.

Forgton Orrica Don Julian Melendez United Kingdom Republic of Peru Crown Orrica County of Bedford Charles James Fox Russell William Austell War Covics 3D Dragoon Guards R. H. Lonsdale Cornet Purchase St. George 17Th Light Dragoons 4Th Dragoon Guards T. B. Williams Baker J. M. Webb Williams 4Th Light Dragoons C. B. Molynear J. W. Wallington A3rd Foot Bright 26Th Foot C. Kent C. Davies 35Th Foot H. 5. Bowman Leutenant M. V. S. Morton 4Th Foot Heutenant Glubb RL. Warren Morton Cooper 48Th Foot A. Green Bromley C. Sykes Vies Green W. H. Carnes Sykes 6Th Foot J. C. Hawkes Coates D. St. Rosa Hawkes A. E. M'Gregor Fell 79Th Foot T. B. Butt M'Neal G. M. Miller Butt J. Webster J. Borrow Mentepanta R. H. Walters bSth W.M. Mill R. F. A. Lavers T. de C. Hamilton O. Fitzgerald G. J. Carey Blanett J. Harvey Borrow J.S. Warren W. C. Bruce F. Sm G. L. Studdart M. BH Steele Carey J.C. G. Kingaley Beot Harvey. Starr C. Peters White Beaver W. H. Paynton 44Th Foot Orvice Ogowance Royal Engineers G. C. Baillie Simmons J. Liddell Pembrokeshire W.H. B. J. Wilson Warrivary W. Canning Handsworth Stafford E. Oldham Stockport Chester G. A. Smith Newcastle Upon Tyne High Court of Chancery Britain America Mauritius East Indies Paflaeen Grocers’ Hall Enry Bicesell Grocers’ Company

Generative Debility and Restoration Remedies Advertised

An 18th or 19th century advertisement promotes Generative Debility cures with Part I and Part II guides, Cordial Balm of Syriacum, Concentrated Detersive Essence, Purifying Specific Pills, and medical consultations by Perry. It claims remedies for venereal infections, impotence, weakness, and marriage-related concerns, with prices and addresses in London. The piece emphasizes secrecy and personal visits at 1s Berners Street Oxford Street.

J. Brodie and CO Montagne Street Russell Square London Dence Sherwood and Co Paternoster Row Gordon Leadenhall Street Purkess Brodie Johnstone Cornhill Messrs. Hrodie and Co Samuel Lamert Bevrorp Sghaux Loxpon University of Edinburgh London Hospital Medical Society Gilbert Paternoster-row Hannay and Co Oxford-street Starle Tichborne-street Landenhall-street Newton Church Street Haie Bedfor Street Bedford Square Gestampa J. L. Curtis and CO Sergeans Frith Street Soho Square Svante Raper Nava Chronicle Maxroop J. L. Conti Corria Ox United Service Gazette Strange Hanusy Oxford Streets Mann Sawler St. Ann's Square Chester Philip South Castle Street Liverpool Campbell Argyle Street Glasgow Robinson Greenside Street Edinburgh Tno Meters. Curtis and Company Faith-Street Sohos Anthar L. Perry Hanoay and Co Leadenhall-street Purkiss Compton- Street Soho Messrs Perry Berners-Street

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