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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 19, 1843
Page
6
A Stafford court recounts a bribery and treating episode around the 1837 election. Witnesses describe Ferrand’s gifts to ladies at the King’s Head, leading to a small damages award of 3 8s and a warning on election conduct.
A string of medieval style trials centers on stabbing in a public house and a later assault with a knife. Jurors convict three defendants, with two receiving 15 year transportation sentences. A civil case over Dee Bank Colliery damages ends in 6227 pounds award.
A Halifax Union case sees Shaw cited for failing to support his elderly mother. In Marylebone a shoplifter, Catherine Moore, linked to gloves, is jailed for trial after self harm attempts in custody. Additional notes cover fraud in book trades, Kensington garden fishing fines, a domestic threat case, and a distressed resident sent to Hanwell asylum.
In a Halifax hearing Alderman Musgrove presses the defendant to increase weekly support for his mother. The defendant finally agrees to pay 2s 6d a week from this day, while expenses to and from Halifax are discussed and ultimately refused.
Jones Huggett and Genat charged with burglary at the Red Lion Westminster Bridge foot and with murderous assault on Luxford and landlord Mr Macintosh. Luxford wounded, dragged from back premises, knife seized. Macintosh struck several times. All three remanded. Also Isabella Murray charged with infant poisoning at Curlwick, bail set.
In Brentford a tall pale man accused of religious delusions and violence disrupted Christchurch Turnham Green preaching and was detained for an asylum order. The case centers on his claimed sixty centuries of life and intent to seize a royal heir as police circulate notices. In Greenwich a drunk man roars murder and two suspects face charges for rape involving a Lambeth girl, with depositions detailing a long conspiracy and coercive acts.
A Herald column lampoons funding the Repeal movement with satirical verses about “THOUSANDS A WEEK” and “THOUSANDS PER WEEK” to mock Irish agitation and the appeal for cash. It mocks political leaders, bondsmen, and orators while warning against dependence on rallying funds.
A notice posted at the Cherry Tree in Bromley Middlesex announced a coffin raffle for the evening of August 8, 1843. The winning coffin proved a misfit and was used as a cupboard while alive and a repository for remains after death.
A Bristol court session on insolvency heard a creditor's son refer to his father as Mister Britain. The commissioner ridiculed the remark as the boy claimed usage due to obsolescence of the word father, noting that fathers have become guv ners in an era of refinement amid audience laughter.
A garden plot in Cockhill House holds wheat grown from a single Egyptian grain found in an alabaster vase by Sir Gardiner Wilkinson in Thebaid tombs. In 1840 J M F Tupper raised two ears from the seed, and 1841 yielded a second crop. The seed, shown in Plante Utiliores and Times reports, multiplied about tenfold from fourteen grains to eighty six ears.
A historical notice describes the annual August meteor shower seen across Surrey with bright shooting stars. It traces theories from electricity to cosmical space rocks, citing Chaldini Brandes and Herschel, and notes notable displays in 1799 1832 1833 1889 with a possible Earth sun moon electrical influence.
Parliamentary returns show that up to mid 1841 three pence admitted visitors to Poet's Corner and the nave at Westminster Abbey, with one shilling extra for transepts and chapels. Free Poet's Corner admission began mid 1840, and from mid 1841 onward thousands paid. St Paul’s charged two pence, revenue used to deter free access. The poem Trees laments changing woodlands and the passing of ancient forests.
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