Frantic Paris Carriage Show and Balkan War News
A French carriage exhibition at Myde park draws crowds despite a frosty wind as foreign entries impress the Abd el Kader envoy. Separately, dispatches recount French military actions in Algeria, Gibraltar bound Portugal oath ceremonies in Lisbon, and regional updates from Bayonne to Saragossa plus European fortitude during ongoing conflicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longcharcje
Myde Park
Abd-el-Kader
Badauds
Muscadins
Berriere de l’Etoile
Place de la Bastille
Champs Elysees
Avenue de Eailly
Toulonnais
Constantina
Onled Abdezour
Sons of Light
Pate
Conichi
Bayonne
Thae Guerque
Villanueva de Mena
Santander
Gemeral Rapertero
Briviesca
Ripalde
Tarregual
Arragon
Barbastro
Oficers
Don Carlos
St. Etienne
Logrono
Tarreguel
San Miguel
Carmena
Aragon
Estre
Saragesse
Basilie
Almaden
Portfugal
National Guards
Lisbon
St. Bento
Cortes
Banover
Hanover
Frankfort
M. von Schele
M. Leist
M. Schele
Holland
Tust Haave
Zeuw
Batavia
Middelburg
Sshonwen
Diligence
Amsterdam
Turkey
Bulgaria
Roumelia
Macedonia
Albania
Bosnia
Ervie Hug
Belgrade
M. von Waschenko
Servia
Athens
M. von Radhart
Greece
Pest
Vienna
Stearm-Biat Tringe
Berlin
Constantinople
Ingerbors
Arpad
Rothschild
Ofen
Russia
St. Petersburg
Alexander
Stockholma
London
Victoria
Hague
Rhine
Germany
Franzensbrunn
Silesia
Yoplitz
Calamitous Mixed Courier Tales From Berwick to Mysterious London
Reports recount a man named Dunlop secretly boarding the Manchester steamer to evade passage money. After arrival at Berwick he fled, money stolen later traced to Covkburnspath. pursuit failed when police absent. Other items describe Daven port’s assassin, a swan schooner Pincher recovery, and local accidents and oddities across Brighton Hastings Lewes and Maidstone with multiple injuries and deaths.
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Berwick
Tzert
Manchester
London
Dunlop
Barwick
Edinburgh
Genne
Covkburnspath
Birminghama
Drvey
Davenport
Rowley
Bindley
Finigan
Fletcher
Mary Ann Street
Begner
Pincher
Brighton
Se’nnight
Burlington Arms
Caister
Gowen
Fabhmouth
Admiralty
Falmouth
Farnworth
Thomas Longworth
Joseph Lawton
Bere
Lawton
Longworth
Hastings
Jack
Sussex
Rose-hill
Lewes
St Ann’s
Keere Hill
St. Ann’s
Bartholomew
Limerick
Cosgrave
Tipperary
Grange
Whelan
Warn
Hodson
Horsted-place
Green House
Loughborough
Sandsy Isstan
Woodhouse Eaves
Maidstone
Rodney's Head
F. F. Dally
Laura Martha Moore
Wyllie
Etier
Nicide
Sue
Stonestreet
Elizabeth Reader
Stony
Unnerving Murder Mystery and Tragic Accidents Reported
A man faces a suspected suicide after a young woman vanishes following a heated exchange in Mill Street. The body is later found after extensive river searches. a verdict of temporary insanity is returned amid community uproar. Other notes recount criminal confessions, emigration talks, and multiple drowning accidents near Wansford with two women lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lane
Mill-street
Elizabeth Reader
Wyllie
Maidalane
Maresfield
Peter Tidy
George Herrington
William Maghes
Framfeld
Peter Gosling
Waldron
Forser
Thomas Dray
Reigate
Tidy
Petworth
Wyndham
Adelaide
Potteries
Hemsheath
Stoney Stratford
Winkfield
Agar
Warfield
Slack Jack
Wansford
Wansford Staunch
Compsten
Water Newton
Clapham
Charles Haycock
Stamford
Rawlings
Wan
Mies Wing
Heycock
Nsiles
Tragic Balcony Prison Window Incident At St Omer
In St Omer a female servant cleaning high ground floor panes between iron bars leaned too far forward and fell, getting tangled and suspended by the neck. Strangulation nearly occurred before rescuers freed her.
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St. Omer
Murder on the Isle of Dogs prompts coroner inquiry
A long account details the April 1837 murder and robbery of engineer Duncan Crawford near Greenwich Isle of Dogs. It describes Crawford’s violent death over a fence with tenterhooks, a missing watch and money, and suspicion falls on Scott and three others, with Jane MCarthy key to evidence before her death. The coroner’s letter outlines testimony and theories of accidental drowning versus homicide, and notes ongoing police pursuit and impending custody of suspects.
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Scott
Paul
Thames Pilice
Duncan Crawford
Daga
Greenwich
Lovell
Crawford
Waylord
Sfor
Isle of Dogs
Peplar
Christian
Rotherhithe Street
Blackheathhill
Limehouse
Wilson
Middlesex
Deptford
Jane M‘carthy
M‘carthy
Isle of Days
Jane M’carthy
Beadle
Poplar
Baker
Ballantine
Thames
Rchard Tidy
Old Kingstreet
William Pearce
Chemical Works
Millwall
Ayden Collyer
Rotherhithe
William Baker
Imprisonment for Debt and the Pension List Debate
A writer critiques the Whig government over imprisonment for debt and the Pension List. He argues MPs enjoy privilege shielding them from arrest, denounces the pension expenditure, and predicts a demand for duty or removal of officials. He calls Parliament a partisan assembly and urges readers to oppose the ministers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weekly Chronicle
People’s
Committee On the Pension List
Queen’s Bench
Fleet
Whitecross Street
Solomon
Tote
Demosthenes
Harvey
John Russell
Fashion and ships headline a mixed New York scene
A satirical fashion note from New York mocks a newspaper editor and a rogue who impersonates him at a ball, while a lengthy Maritime column recounts the loss and rescue after a lightning strike and fire aboard the ship Rathelia, plus practical tips for cleaning wine decanters.
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New York
Simon
James Gordon Bennett
Firx
New York Commercial Advertiser
N. L. Thompson
Rathelia
Baston
Chevalier Jouett
Johan Robinson
St. Andrew's
Demerara
Robinson
Barbadoes
Ponce
Port Royal
Davis
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