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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 24, 1842
Page
3
A long Bow Street session centers on Daniel Good and companions in Roehampton. Witnesses recount events including a woman’s disappearance, a boy, and suspected thefts and murder. The court hears from constables, lodgers, and a child, with Good showing distress as his case proceeds.
In the Chamber of Deputies a member cited public accusations of Algerian justice failures including 44 executions in one day. Soult ordered inquiry from Algiers and demanded explanations from Governor Negriev. The Courrier Français notes Russia urging US ratification of the right of search treaty and warns against resisting. Spanish unrest near Madrid over bread prices and wages led to militia deployments, with no forced action yet. United States news covers Columbia’s voyage disruptions, treasury strain, Texas border fighting, and a deadly fire in New York. Reports from India recount Kabul uprising details with heavy fighting, casualties, and portends of a broader rebellion, including leadership figures and sieges.
In Bristol on April 18 reports reveal over 50 post office staff detected stealing letters of value in the last three months, many containing jewellery. A general post office clerk guarded jewellery on his person, as mails for the south of England yielded large losses. Prosecutions cost the post office over £10,000 last year with property losses estimated above £50,000 in 12 months.
Thames police station vessel Investigator sprang a leak near Somerset House and foundered at two in the morning. Drained hold, rising tide, crew of Inspector Forty and 45 men escaped to launch lifeboats. Government efforts to raise the ship noted, predecessor Port Mahon had a similar fate.
The letter from India describes a fierce Afghan engagement near Candahar with British victor y and heavy enemy losses. It notes Shah Soojah's betrayal, calls for retribution, and mentions Lady M'Naghten reporting prisoners are well treated while awaiting release.
The quarterly meeting of the Weetminster Mechanics Institution noted a healthy balance of £333 2s and welcomed over 650 members. A new rule allowing reports to remain on reading-room tables for a month after each meeting passed 49 to 39 with 10 in support. Captain Rous, MP, donated £25. Also reviewed was the novel Lady Anne Granard Keeping Up Appearances by L E L with praise for its sharp observation and entertaining style.
In Desrix the crowded court heard sentences for Caldwell and Mills. Caldwell, found guilty of assault with intent to commit a rape, received two years imprisonment with hard labour under the 10th Geo IV act. Mills, convicted of altering a Bank of Ireland note, was sentenced to three years in prison with four weeks' solitary confinement each year.
A Glasgow baker’s shop story recounts an Irishman who ate a half-quartern loaf on the counter after being given it. He claimed poverty and the police declined to arrest for theft, since the loaf was consumed on the spot and the act was treated as debt. Crowds cheered him as he left.
A detailed portrait of Lady Anne Granard's London home shows a cheerful but hollowly pretentious household. The uncarpeted attic rooms, sparse furniture, and rigid social code reveal a false respectability masking poverty and lack of genuine comfort. The scene shifts to a tea invitation from Mrs. Palmer, highlighting the daughters' longing for social acceptance within a rigid class system.
A masked assailant rushed into Morris boot and shoe shop at Above-bar last night and slashed an errand-boy’s chin with a blunt knife before attempting to stab himself. He was seized, restrained, and remanded. the wound is superficial. The suspect, Thomas Maslem, aged about 26 or 27, dressed fashionably and possibly from London, gave no details and is believed insane or delusional. The injured boy is expected to recover. no provocation is evident.
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