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Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Apr 30, 1842

Page

2

Disorder in Staffordshire Coal District and Allied Fire Incidents

Report surveys heavy troop deployment in the district to forestall violence amid unrest and pay disputes. It cites Lord Lyttleton and local magistrates assuring peace, while detailing Wigan handloom weavers' relief protests and multiple incendiary fires in Kent, Wiltshire, Andover, and Havant, with rewards offered for perpetrators.

Queen’s Own Regiment Worcestershire Reigh Pearhend Enniskillen Staffordshire Yeomanry Thinley Lord Lyttleton Clive Worcestershire Yeomanry Staffordshire Wigan Board Room Wigan Union Board-Room 60Th Rifles Bread v. Steel Day Hucking Kent W. Dansey Denhead Wiltshire Avreward Messrs Havant Chichester Softly Hawarden North Wales Stephen Glynne Rigby Hantock Alill Peto and Grissell London Staley Leigh Rigby Mr. Staley Dee Queen’s Ferry England Mr. Rigby Hancock Rie Great Milton Oxon William Loveproye Usm Devel Mr. Surman Surman Peea Richardson Suen Eniad

France M Humann dies in cabinet while signing papers

Foreign intelligence reports M Humann minister of finance dies of apoplexy in his Paris cabinet as he signed papers. Funeral of Marshal Moncey held at the Invalids with military honors. Pageot's mission to Berlin/St Petersburgh discussed. Austrian stance favored alliance Spain. Navy reforms and West Indies steam packet plans noted. cabinet reshuffle leads Lacave Laplagne to take finance post. Slaves emancipated in Martinique Guadaloupe Bourbon total 38,969.

M. Humann Marshal Moncey Church of the Invalids M. Pageot France Madrid Augsburg Berlin St. Petersburgh Paris Vienna M. Bertin de Veaux Journal Des Débats Chamber of Deputies Courrier Francais Gomez Rochefort West Indies M. Saladin Finance Department West India Islands Port Royal Martinique Gomer M. Hippolyte Passy M. Passy Marshal Soult M. Guizot M. Lacave Laplagne Moniteur Tuesaday Financial Department M. Hamann Count Molé Guadaloupe Bourbon

Spain Senate Debates Marliani Criticism of France and royal marriage

Reports from Madrid on the 19th describe Marliani denouncing French acts and Pageot as a tool of hostility while supporting the regent. Gonzales defends France’s envoy status. Marliani’s proposition was rejected 76 to 1. In the lower house Uzal attacks a clerical editor. tumult interrupts the session. Captain general and officers meet the infant Don Francisco de Paula. Three per Cents quoted at 225 cash and 28% at 60 days with 6% at 90 days?

Madrid M. Marliani Marquis de Boissy Senate Messrs. Lasano Gomez Becerra Campuzance Marliani France Spain M. Pageot London Vienna Paris Duke de Glucksberg M. Gonzales Chamber of Deputies M. Uzal Annals of the Propagation of the Faith Don Francisco de Paula

Portugal Execution at Sussex Ends Horrific Lisbon Casting

A Portugal execution in Lisbon on April 18 ends with Mattos Lobo dying by apoplexy at the scaffold after a brutal murder of a whale family. The procession featured magistrates, executioners, and clergy while witnesses describe the stark, haunting scene and Lobo’s sorrowful demeanor before the fatal moment.

Sussex Mattos Lobo Portugal Brotherhood of Mercy Lisbon Eivery Diego Alves

Mehemet Ali pursues irrigation and cotton expansion in Egypt

From Alexandria dated 6th inst, Mehemet Ali is seen in Minet-el-Gamk engaged in agriculture, building 600 irrigation machines, with embankments under construction. He imports cotton seed from Semaar and Georgia to boost Egyptian cotton, while a new device to curb merchant purchases is publicized. Frigates are to be equipped for a show of force, plague ravages Damietta, and cotton sales at auction fail. Gedda reports abuse of duties by Beni Om, with Osman Pacha replacing him, and Athens letters claim war fears with Turkey have eased.

Egypt Alexandria Mehemet Ali Minet-el-Gamk Sharkie Georgia United States Pacha Kosreff Pacha Lin Tahir Pacha Damietta Joussouff Falu Messrs Briggs and Co Constantinople Athens Turkey

London Anniversary Festival and Thunder Storm Report

The Metropolis column details the sixty-ninth London anniversary festival at Freemasons Tavern with contributions from nobles, £500 in subscriptions, and performers including pipers and singers. a separate thunderstorm causes damage across Limehouse, Poplar, Millwall, and Bow with limited injuries and substantial property loss. It also covers the National Convention debates on abstention from alcohol, a Birkbeck memorial meeting urging a professorship fund, vestry disputes at Camberwell St. Giles, and assorted charitable and civic items across London.

Royal Hieutaxp Sexoon Society London Freemasons’ Tavern Earl of Haddington Messrs Broadhurst Hobbs Fitzwilliam Bradbury Augustus d’Este Duchess of Buckingham Duke of Buccleuch Wapping Shadwell All Saints’ Church Poplar East India Road New Gravel Lane Limehouse Church Bow Stratford Edmonton Hampstead Highgate Holloway Royal Albert Bow-creek William Noble Ratcliffe Limehouse Duncen Philp Ireland Bartlett F. O'Connor Beesley Bairstow Dr. Birkbeck Freemason's Birkbeck Lord Brougham Lord J. Russell Dudley Stuart Earl of Ripon Hume M.P Mills Roebuck Mechanics’ Institution London University College Lord Lyndhurst Invant OnpHan Asylum Prince Albert Duke of Wellington Lord Ashley Countess of Pembroke Lady Canterbury Mr. Byng Mr. Mayne Thomas Jackson Glebe-road W. M. Musgrove Parker Lawson ee __Hackhead Gillart Cotton Alston Farringdon-Street Church of St. James Clerkenwell Farringdon Street Yorkshire Fleet Fleetditch St. Bartholomew Cow-cross Smithfield Metropolis Metropolitan Anti Corn Law Association Crown and Anchor Tavern Strand Warburton Bridport Earl of Bowring Col. Thompson B. Bond Cabbell Stansbury Blewitt Huxley Prince of Wales Building Fund

Appointment of a curate at St John’s chapel Deritend

A tightly fought election for the curate of St John’s chapel Deritend, Aston parish, ended with Rev. Mr Smith winning by 298 votes over Rev. Mr Storer. The process highlighted the household suffrage in a Derbyshire area, amid local political interest and ecclesiastical duties.

Birmingham St. John's Chapel Deritend Aston St. John’s Palmer Smith Bordesley Brighton George Wigney I. N. Wigney George CanoLine W Wigney London Adelaide Terrace George Wigmey Bennett Newton Wigney Taraspay Court of Requests John Purfett Jonathan Cheeseman John Buncle Scots Greys Summers Harford Harford London and Brighton Railway Northstreet Doreing Iscenpiang Fing Menry Napper West-street Donaldson

Ireland Evening Journal reports suicides and executions in Kilk Brennan district

A fragmentary Irish notice outlines a young man in Pruskig who attempted suicide after a love affair and a coroner in Westmeath recounts a missing Malone linked murder investigation. The piece also covers Francis Hughes’s execution, a fatal poisoning case near Dalystown, and other local incidents including theft of a St Patrick grave headstone and a suspicious death in Loughrea with post mortem notes. The report notes stricken families, inquests, and the evolving Irish crime and punishment landscape.

Jeal Sussex Express Dover Vax Amaureu Axp RENCE Pratt Lock-hill-lane van Amburgh Folkestone Folkestone Hill Jiro Ecclesfield Gatty Duke of Norfolk W.F. Dison George Ridge W. Smith Mr. Ridge Ridge Sheffield Iris Hastings White Monmouth Snochine Coede Vedw Dingestow Ragland Eliza Hughes Sowan Penrose Maria Hughes Wanless Fam Mechanics’ Institute Staffordshire Srr Josep Murpen Wolstanton Bradwell Farm Wel- Stanton Sudbury All Saints’ Church St. Gregory’s St. Peter's Horn Inn Bury Post Pruskig Westmeath Kilbrennan John Battershiy Fei. My Michael Malone Leigh Wearhs Raghe Pape Malone Cloonyheiph Patt Malone Oruther Ng Michal Dalystown Feild Boo Fox Michael Liv Hughes Pou Francis Hughes Powell Asylan Gies Woods Ty Exerson Rel Dour Rooney Weg UW Lepeeing Mr. Powell Tulivard Franceis Hugues Tom Cemiliv Loaghrea Walsh Tures Kylemack Ben Haigny Mavion Manchester Messrs. Byrne Fy Whelan Dublin Paisley Dublin Eouaty Betas Cross Liam Obrie Mount Jerome Shannahan Monks St. Patrick Bevanlee Patrick Anning Ballsluggan

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