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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 30, 1837
Page
3
The piece instructs gardeners to resume sowing and planting after winter damage. It covers kitchen garden crops like peas broad beans cabbages and potatoes and instructs sowing twice monthly if needed. It also outlines care for carrots parsnips onions spinach radishes celery and flowers with upcoming tasks of bulbs cuttings divisions and continuous bloom planning.
A compiled section shows reader inquiries about unpaid letters, college acceptance, marriage legality, tax on railway horses, annuities, and penalties for clerical and public servants. It includes medical cures, recipes, and legal opinions on debt, property, and wills with brief, direct responses.
A long lettered grocery of remedies and notices covers linseed poultice doses and cautions against spirits. It compiles reader inquiries on wills, maintenance, emigration, and legal questions with terse replies about maintenance rights, heirs, and trustees.
The Ordnance listings show a sequence of plays across London venues. Mornings feature MORROW and The Postilion with The Illustrious Stranger and The French Refugee, while ADELPHI presents Victorine and The Man about Town alongside The King of the Danube. Olympic promises a new Burletta with principal actors Liston Oxberry Bland Selby Fitzwalter Murray. Astley’s schedules Ivanhoe and related entertainments with The Battle of Waterloo Finale. Surrey and Sadler’s Wells list multiple pieces including Black Eyed Susan and The Physician and the Apothecary as well as Burletta repertoires and Ivanhoe.
The WEEKLY CHRONICLE sets rates for ads up to three lines at 2s 6d. for six lines at 5s and sixpence per extra line. Advertisements should be sent to the Office early in the week to ensure insertion.
A splendid portrait of H. R. H. The Princess Victoria surrounded by trophies will be given free to every subscriber who joins the WEEKLY Chronicle for two months before distribution on Sunday May 27. The gift is a premium for purchasers and agents may obtain specimens at the office.
The piece harshly lambasts the Whigs as hypocritical while praising liberal churchmen and questioning Lord Melbourne's policies. It argues for adopting voluntary principles for the Irish Church, merit-based church appointments, and a broader push for religious liberty, linking patronage to political reform.
A heated piece questions Whig handling of the Dorchester Labourers pardon debate. It laments their continued exile in a convict colony and warns that return will be postponed by political maneuvering until they can no longer be kept away.
In a letter from the then Duke of Clarence to Sir John Sinclair the king declares George III was set over the islands by the Almighty. The piece questions whether the Duke or later William IV truly believed in divine right or merely expressed pious attribution to the Creator.
The piece notes the country’s monetary crisis is far from peak while American news is more favorable with large remittances reducing some embarrassment. It warns that overtrading and Bank of England privileges have worsened monetary transactions, causing difficulties requiring time to overcome.
The article critiques the pet ministerial measure and Canada resolutions as driving policy, postponing the church-rate issue. It argues the Whigs push warlike aims against Lower Canada, exposing hypocrisy and risking reform, while Liberal supporters may later regret backing despotism.
A Westminster electors meeting condemns Sir Francis Burdett and calls for his resignation. Radicals back Mr Leader as Whigs and Tories unite against him, while the Tory dinner signals the contest. Leader is praised as capable and honest, despite ministerial opposition aiming to block him.
A diabolical incendiarism occurred on Tuesday the 18th at Mr. C. Lerachen not far from Shouldlim Norfolk. At about one in the morning Lemmon awoke to a cry of fire and found the stable burning with a wheat stack a furlong away. The stack was destroyed. Three men were seized, two committed to Swaffham Bridewell for further examination.
Lord Bandon and peers press for Irish Poor Law reforms amid reports of destitution in Ireland. Debate over land tax and Canada tenure act tops the session with calls for reforms, while committees take up railway and bank petitions. Benchmarks include Dublin and Dundalk figures and ongoing church-rate petitions.
Lord Melbourne urges second reading to assimilate laws and liberties of Ireland and Britain. Wellington and others attack the measure, urging reform and caution as debates anticipate committee. The bill is then read a second time and set for Thursday week.
The report covers debated bills on custody of infant children with living parents apart and a proposed select committee on colonial accounts, noting opposition and adjournment. It recounts motions, divisions, and readings across Houses of Parliament including Scotland and Ireland topics and a lengthy Poor Law discussion ending with an adjournment to Monday.
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