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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 15, 1843
Page
2
The assembly urged secretaries to prepare petitions to Parliament demanding total repeal of the corn laws. Petitions to be signed widely in localities. The motion was seconded by r. Saul and carried unanimously before Mr. Werbarton spoke and the meeting separated.
The usual weekly Antelcorn Law League gathering at Dalane theatre on Wednesday drew crowded attendance. Dr Bowring delivered a powerful speech in favor of free trade, arguing European polices and urging repeal of the corn laws, with speakers including Mr H Elphinstone and Mr Heworth of Liverpool. The meeting adopted the address to the people of England, urged petitions for repeal, and planned Easter week meetings and requisitions to MPs for May 9.
The Chamber of Peers examined petitions seeking Don Carlos’s liberation. Memoirists urged intervention, but Soult and Guizot argued he is at liberty and respected. petitions were referred to the President of the Council. The commission reported on reviving the ministerial title with a 15,000 franc pension. Post office reforms will reduce letter postage and costs via overland routes, aiding India traffic.
The Augsburg Gazette says Polish Zansinbeciatine interests are at a low ebb and a government commission will seek the cause, blaming an artificial system meant to sustain manufactures. It notes Rasian Serbia dispute talks and a comet seen in Constantinople as omens.
The Metropolitan Police figures for 1842 show 65 704 people taken into custody in London, with 33 009 discharged and 27 664 summoned. Nearly half cannot read or write well, while only 5 177 men and 987 women are well educated. Most offenders are unemployed laborers, traders, or servants, and the bulk of crimes involve property theft or drunkenness. The report notes strong vigilance and a low rate of conviction.
The Royal Free Hospital governors met in Gray's Inn Road to hear a report showing donations and sales totaling at least £2785 14s 11d for the quarter, with 4918 patients aided, including 4643 outpatients and 273 inpatients. The meeting also discussed a public meeting at Mr Moxhay Hall and a memorial urging colonial emigration and local public works funded by government.
A Sunday Brighton report details a sheriff officer proclaiming outlawry against Mr Knight at the parish church and a Halifax Newcastle storm from the Stormont main colliery where 27 men and boys died. The article also covers a dam ages action by Mr Armistead for Miss Ann Crellin and other local notices. The piece notes community shock and inquest findings as families face destitution after the tragedy.
A woman, grieving after plantation losses and fearing a separation from her fiancé, died by suicide in a cistern near her Romford home. An inquest found temporary insanity as the verdict. The report also covers a Taunton public meeting where Cobden and Bright urged free trade, drawing about 1500 attendees and wide support.
The article critiques a Clare county case where poor fishermen were fined and jailed under the Malicious Trespass Act for digging bait on shore. It argues the case was civil in nature, unjustly tried as criminal, and highlights a government-attorney general dispute over legal authority and construction. It also discusses Repeal associations and Irish historic victories as nationalist sentiment.
A Cork Insolvent Debtors Court case details Edward O Shaughnessy, accused of duplicitous marriages. Witnesses testified in America that he married a Hallinan daughter, abandoned her, then tried another marriage with a Protestant clergyman aiding him. The court dismissed the petition and issued a jail term after a £10 maintenance decree surfaced. The commissioner called it one of the era’s most extraordinary cases.
The Scots report ongoing clashes between the church of Scotland and courts over the veto act and quoad sacra ministers. Elections hint non intrusionists will be in the minority, pressuring a repeal. Other items note Dr Chalmers at Edinburgh University and Doubling secessions amid church strife plus a Glasgow Fast Day with broad travel and attendance.
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