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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 14, 1847
Page
4
The report covers polling events at Boniford and Lambeth with committee meetings honoring a late member. It details close results in Groverstenurat and Moxsmoutuentax races, notable disturbances, and a long-winded address by Mr. Walter Waller. Other items include riot damage, bribery notes, and a poisoning case in Fleet Street with oxalic acid in a child’s bottle and court proceedings.
A collage of letters and commentary from various cities. Alderman Humphery is rebuked for not hearing Mellor in a Guildhall case. Hull member T Baines is praised as a capable educationist. Lambeth readers contest Lord Morpeth’s sanitary bill amid fireworks fears. Chelsea and river traffic face battles over penny boats and regulations. Winchester condemns public school flogging and lax reform. The piece blends sharp opinion with calls for accountability in civic matters.
At a Shakespeare Society meeting a resolution urged aid to locate and preserve a house in Stratford cited as the dramatist’s birthplace. Evidence questions the exact birthplace, tracing John Shakespeare’s Henley Street and Maidenhead Inn properties and noting the Swan and Maidenhead Inn nearby.
Instructions to compute sunrise and sunset times by latitude using offset rules for latitudes above 61 30 and below 51 30, with adjustments to high water times at major ports. Additional notes list weekly calendar details and lunar phase data for August weeks, including day length, dawn, and dusk times.
The Weekly Chronicle surveys three contests in Wes tloucestershire Bristol and Monmouthshire showing Tory independence fraying under leader control. It lauds Lord Somerset in Monmouthshire and criticises Sir Digby Mackworth while condemning Protestant declarations and Maynooth provisions, arguing a liberal strategy for a second seat.
A Guildhall case recounts two defendants fined 10 shillings under the Police Act for knocking on a door at midnight and asking who is there. Witnesses and counsel clash with Alderman Humphrey over rights to be heard, court courtesy, and remarks on magistrates conduct. The report mocks the Alderman and urges proper notice in response.
A fragmentary fable recounts an ass disguising as a lion to scare townsfolk. The ruse collapses when the creature tries the roar and breaks into braying laughter, exposing the deception to all observers. Names and precise setting are unclear in the damaged text.
A discussion on public instructors of the people reconciling trial by jury with settled law. It cites Bridgewater and Bristol murder cases as examples, examines judge versus jury roles, and notes royal visits and local incidents. Cited items include railway workers, a wife’s alleged death by husband, and various legal proceedings amid royal and naval news.
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