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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 28, 1839
Page
2
Shipping delays 130 miles in seven hours for four pounds ninepence prompts notes on Hanover dispatches. Reports cover Berlin Brunswick court moves, earthquakes, financial misfortune, Circassia politics, Peruvian Chilean battles, London poverty relief and civic watchman usage, and railway progress.
The first Sunday in term saw the lord mayor and city officials attend service at St Pauls Cathedral to honor the judges and counsel. Debate at the Court of Common Council weighed delaying metropolitan police court bills, with a plan to postpone the motion and revisit it at the paper’s head. A balloon ascent by Mr Gypson from Shepherds-well Gardens drew attention as a new air voyage with a large gas balloon and crew aboard.
A parade of short notices covers a watch repair theft in Devizes, a Leith gig accident with a gravely injured owner, the Liverpool steamer voyage to New York amid a large crowd and a Russian envoy aboard, plus local obituaries and a melancholy tale of spouses dying within days of each other near Tarlton.
A Paisley fireman’s dog Watch attends every fire for four years and sits on tables amid praise. A Freemason meeting at Townhead tavern honors Watch with a braided collar and toast, while Perth reports a man injured by his bull dog and Sheffield discusses a portrait commission for the Duke of Norfolk.
A London meeting of landed proprietors and merchants urged government to fund three railway lines in Ireland rather than one. Support came from MPs including O'Connell and Lefroy with possible private stock shares to cover any remaining deficiency. A deputation was to seek Lord Morpeth's audience.
The reviewer notes the two volume set edited by Henry Coburn portrays M G Lewis with marked sympathy yet acknowledges some authorial bias. It praises the handsome printing and includes a controversial extract titled Negro Fairy Mythology with a prefatory note on its narrator Gaosee Shoo Shoo, a slave on the West Indian estate.
Two boys flee home to live like Robin Hood in Werton wood armed with bows and arrows. They plan a tent and camp, share bacon and cheese, forage for game, and face misfires and hunger while pursuing a woodland life.
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