Destruction of an Army and European Escape Report
A biased editorial laments the Afghan disaster, denounces General Elphinstone and Lord Auckland, and questions British leadership. It cites losses at Cabul and Jellalabad, criticizes military choices, warns of imperial risk, and urges decisive action to restore reputation and secure India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jellalabad
Cabul
Lord Auckland
Elphinstone
Lord Keane
Shab Soojah
William M‘naghten
India
Scotland
Tom
Sale
Aidren
England
Sillen
Robert File
Jelilabad
Commons
Tibol
Burdon
Itlalabad
Moscow
Afghanistan
Royal Drawing Room Shows Off Court and Bath Investiture
The Queen and Prince Albert lead a grand procession from Buckingham Palace to St James's for a formal drawing room. A later ceremony at Buckingham Palace installs several officers and knights grand crosses of the bath, including Wellington, Cockburn, and Murray, with royal lords and ambassadors attending. A separate Windsor event marks the laying of a new church stone in Clarence Crescent, Windsor, with thousands assembled and the national anthem sung.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Albert
Life Guards
Buckingham Palace
St. James's
St. James’s Street
Piccadilly
HER Majesty
Eee Order OF the
Order of the Bath
Mr. Hunter
Duke of Wellington
George Cockburn
Lord Heytesbury
Sir George Murray
Picture Gallery
Royal
Duke of Sussex
Order
Sir Howard Douglas
Bart
Bath King of Arms
Howard
Sir John Talbot
Algernon Greville
Albert William Woods
Sir John Wilson
Sir William Woods
K.H
Mr. Woods
John
John George Woodford
Charles Richardson
Arthur Farquhar
Minirang Cavaca
Windsor
Regiment of Royal Horse Guards
Bouverie
72D Highlanders
Arbuthnot
Clarence-crescent
Eton
Dr. Hodgson
W. More
W. Canning
Dr. Hawtrey
J. Gosset
Edward Coleridge
W. G. Cookesley
G. J. Dupuis
T. Carter
J. C. Evans
J. Ludlow
W. H. Biedermann
R. Govett
S. Hawtrey
H. J. Cooper
J. Gore
W. L. Rham
N. Brown
F. Vayles
W. Bowyer
R. M. Boulther
W. Ward
W. Moor
J. Adkins
J. H. Clayton
French Algeria Debates and Spanish Affairs Dominate Paris
Paris papers report Chamber of Deputies and Chamber of Peers debating Algeria funding with 80 000 recruits and 88 million francs in expenses. Abd el Kader strikes near Tlemcen. European royal marriage prospects shift among England France Austria. Spain mobilises national guards while royal marriage rumors unfold and public debates on taxation and elections continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris
Papace
Algeria
Africa
M. Kiers
Mediterranean
England
M. Thiers
Algiers
Marshal Soult
Chamber of Peers
Chamber of Deputies
Spain
Tlemecen
Abd-el-Kader
Morocco
Constantine
Count de Salvandy
Presse
Izzet Pacha
Constantinople
Bayonne
M. de Mallevilles
Madrid
Don Carlos
Laureano, Sanz
Juan Palarea
Francisco Armero
Ortovar
Prain
Isabella the Second
Bavaria
F. Fageot
London
Vienna
Austria
Berlin
St. Petersburgh
Duc de Bordeaux
Olga
Russia
Fauxbourg St. Germain
Henri de France
St. Petersbugh
Ems
Hanover
Agnes
Andault Dessau
Frederica of
Dessau
Frederick Louis Charles
Prussia
Blackstone
Lords Commissioners
Her Majesty's Treasury
United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland
Hieuam
National Debt-Office
Duncombe
House of Commons
Sir George Arthur
Bombay
Court of Directors
India
Wigan
Thomas Cotterall
Hildyard
Crosse
Greenall
Cockburn
John Warrington
Ralph Woodcock
Joseph Welsh
Standish
Anthony Lefroy
Luke White
Mr.White
Lefroy
James Dogherty
Horsley Palmer
Matthias Attwood
M.P
Perkins
Stewart
Pepys
Exchequer
Downing
Eee
The Pretty Girls of Stilberg vaudeville noted
A lively one act vaudeville at Stilberg House drew loud applause. Midlfe Celeste and cast mocked Napoleonic hijinks with flirtations, conspiracies, drunken soldiers, and a comic charge to arms. The performance humbly contrasted with crowd enjoyment and praised lead performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stilberg
Celeste
Napoleon
Burgh
Mdile
Margot
Nettle
India
Webster
Bonaparte
Miss Charles
Strickland
Controverted Etgeriox Petitions at Great Marlow
In Thursday afternoon session witness Gibbons was ordered into custody for prevarication. The committee upheld the Coyle vote as valid and retained it on a Petitioners poll. Callett’s vote was tied and not decided as the committee adjourned. Petitioners held a narrow majority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Marlow
Gibbons
Wigan
Coyle
Thomas Callett
Mysterious death of Miss Stabbins at Worle Somerset
A young lady Miss Stabbins aged twenty seven resided with her siblings at Worle. After retiring to bed she vanished while checking the street door. Her cloak and purse were left behind and her body was later found in the Yeo river five miles away. No cause for the disappearance is known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Stabbins
Worle
Somerset
John Cox
Yeo
Worcester
Worcester Herald
Pevonshire
Peel Ministry
N.B
Peel
Globe
Berkshire
Newbury
W. Clark
Crookham
Sun
Hullmandel
England
France
Citheneum
Wales
King’s Cross
George IV
Prince of Wales
72D
Poplar
Blackwall-pier
Herne-bay
Canterbury
India
Rome
Cardinal del Drago
Duke of Buccleuch
Wellington
Graham
Lord Hill
London Police Briefs From Saturday Sessions
Reports detail a string of petty crimes and assaults across several wards. A young ostler stole a Bank of England note, a husband brutalized a wife with burns, and two women were charged with robbing a constable. Also covered are theatre disturbances, drunkenness, and a severe case of attempted rape of a 11 year old daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of England
Swan Tavern
Mount Street
Grosvenor Square
James Mitchell
Hounslow
Worship Street
Henry Hulsey
Roots
H Division
House of Correction
Clerkenwell
Ropsenry
Mary Ann Maria Cooper
Jane Wilson
Greenwood
Andrew Wyness
Holborn
Cooper
Wilson
Union Hall
William Andrews
Timothy Jones
Cottingham
Wellington-street
Wom
London
Andrews
Mackarel
C' A. Wn Sworth
Robert Swanbury
Clive
Ormsby
V Division
Clapham
Emma Swanbury
Attempted murder and suicide in Bethnal Green tragedy
Thomas Perry aged 36 cut his throat after attempting to murder his wife Mary Perry and four children in Bethnal Green Road area. He had been unsettled by unemployment, earned under 8 shillings weekly, and suffered head pain. After a violent attack, Perry died at London Hospital Mile End Road with verdict temporary insanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Criminal Court
Justice Coleridge
Jane Elizabeth Anscombe
Wood
Great Queen Street
Westminster
Rossery
William Andrews
Chambers
Edinburgh Journal
Bradbury and Evans
Charles Carter
Clarkson
Payne
M. Evans
Bradbury
Whitefriars
Andrews
Witness
London
Thomas Selby
Robert Macauley
Fig-tree-court
Temple
Charnock
Carter
Avender
Holywell Street
Messrs. Orr
Amencorner
Charles Packer
Rachel Sayer
Phillips
Packer
Doane
Mary Sutherland
Daniel Sutherland
Grove-street
Bethnal-green
Scoland
Scotland
Oxit
Longalley
Mrs. Sayer
Sayer
FravorLeyt
Mary Smith
James Bainebrooke
New-road
Hoare
Freee
Eriod
Baker
London Hospital
Mile-end-road
Thomas Perry
Mary Perry
Cog
John Lathan
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pia
CABAL
Harvey Tuckett
India House
Downing-street
Wilde
Henry Hardinge
Igland
Her Majesty's Drawing Room
Law and Police
Haymarket Theatre
Monrinosk BurgHs
Montrose
Jobson
Burg
Hume
Jobeon
Burghs
Forfar
Inverbervie
Chalmers
Joseph Hume
Cullistenunch
Surrey
Churchwarden Gyles
Robert Peel
A. Pellatt
Webb
W. Hawes
Milbank
Parr
Taylor
St. Martin’s
St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields
Churchwarden Cobbett
Pouncey
J. Smith
Ridgway
Churchwarden Hawkes
le Britton
Bannisters
Valentine Blake
Thomas Wilde
Marcus Hill
King's Inn
Dublin
Trinity College
O'Connell
City of
John O’connell
James Graham
R. Peel
Geographical Society
Civil Engineers
Colonel Jones
Finnbury
John Roe
C. Denroche
Geological Society
Meteorological Society
Medico-Botanical
Literary Fund
the Aborigines’ Protection Society
Royal Society
Royal Society of Literature
Society of Antiquaries
Royal Institution
Faraday
Botanical Society
Greene
Marton
Dann
B. W. Home
Trigg
Wickham
Board of Stamps
Pressley
Leeds
Bradford Market
Manchester
Preston
Red House
William Cross
Warburton
Solomon Deal
Weston
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