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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Aug 20, 1842

Page

5

Adultery trial over Marlborough marriage case verdict

A jury awards damages to a Marlborough businessman in a disputed adultery case. Evidence centers on alleged loans and visits to London with the defendant and the wife, including claims of intimate conduct at Gray's Inn coffee-house and a church recognition episode. The trial weighs damages for loss of companionship and business partnership.

Tana Hs Marlborough London Gray’s Inn Faringdon Mr. Reed Duck Gray’s-inn Devizes Cockburn Q.C Pilinics Gray's-inn Crown Court Justice Cresswell Robert Rawlings Henry Bone Mr. Slade Hodges Justice Wightman John Noble Noble

Imprisoned Plaintiff In Blind House After Insulting Affair

A plaintiff faced insult and public disgrace when a nobleman Noble ordered his confinement in a blind house after a disturbance at his front door. The case moved through petty sessions with a later agreement leading to damages of one shilling, amid tension over the warrant and oath requirement.

Delage Noble Mr. Noble London Trowbridge Anud Noble Erle Justice Cresswell Leyden Pietur Adrianzoun Vander Werf

Surplus in bankrupt estate raises interest calculation dispute

In a bankruptcy case presided by Commissioner Holroyd, the surplus after a 30 shilling dividend prompts review of interest method under the 6 Geo IV. c. 16. The court reconsiders Higginbotham versus Bower v Maris, favoring dividends paid against accruing interest and treating the surplus as belonging to the creditors until fully paid.

Court OF Bankruptcy Tresmay Imromrvast Expante Desparte Higginbotham Lord Chancelor Cottenham Bower Maris I Craig and Phillips Higginbotham Bayley Stromilly Bower v. Maris Romilly Exparte Higginbotham Lord Cottenham Ward Cottenham Lord Eldon Exparte Mills Vesey

Dividends as Ordinary Payments in Bankrupt Estates

A court opinion urges creditors' benefit in bankruptcy from surplus dividends. Dividends should first cover accrued interest, then reduce principal, following Bower v. Maris. An August 1842 Court of Bankruptcy order closes accountant books Aug 20 to Oct 4, allowing urgent dividend orders.

Bower Court of Bankruptcy Lynxpuvunist Earth

Police Reports from the Guildhall and London Courts

A long, detail filled record of Aldermanic hearing at Guildhall, police cases in Stepney and Clerkenwell, covering a shipping dispute about despatch charges, riotous street activity, placard prosecutions, kitten hunting inquiry, a rape remand, public disturbances at a theatre, assault on omnibus drivers, public notices, and an extraordinary case of arson by a father endangering his two children.

Oxford Jesus Christ Alexander Thomson Hey Tuard Hollyoak Cheltenham Mechanics’ Institution Justice Erskine Remaxp Parswoer Tur Lang Turner Mary Robertson Robertson Newgate Old Bailey Sessions Holden, &c Dickson Hoxton V Division of Police Ann Carter John Blackson Scotland Scuth V Division Police Jewin-street Mr. Jardine William Chillingworth Joseph Palmer Frederick Cartwright Stepney-green Islington-green Stutter Church_tow Bethnal-green Road Ands Stream Navigation Company Prince CastendgaLa Clarkson Wire Commercial Steam Navigation Company J. Cowan T. Wood Prince Castelciala Prince Castelobcala Bianchi Boulogne London Commercial Steam Company Prince Wood Mr. Clarkson Dprince Castelcicalea Hun Fuage Prince Castelchi England General Steam Navigation Company Sir John Cowan Petittes Newell Metropolis Alderman Humphery Manchester Miss Newell Mr. Alderman Humphery Jn. Bell’s Square New Broad Street Alexander Brockleway Peace Society Alderman Humphery: What Society Is that’--Mr. Brockleway Brockleway Chillingworth Carpenters’ Arms Beershop Bricklane Jardine Shaw Palmer End-Road Gaid Carpenters’ Arms Withees Griffiths M 169 Cartwright High Street Southwark Brick Lane Wpulmer Leicester Jeadine Ierder Inspector Rawley St. Pancras Thomas Craven George Atkins Charles Jeans Snow’s Fields Central Criminal Court William Thou Mary Fitzgerald Rawlinson Southampton Place Newroad Roe Rue Harrow-road Fitzgerald Burrianty George Gage Ganey Henry Thomas John Morris Edw. Barnes Grantham Lissongrove Turner Gage Witness Thomas Oni 3Th Regiment Ian Manning Gege House of Correction Islington Thatcher N Division John Wright White Lion-street Pentonville Mr. Combe White Lion Street Combe William Edwards Southampton-street John Hillier Kentish Town Mary Avene Baker Breanicourt Paramill Street Clerkenwell Edwards Baker Edward Hillier Mr. Wakeling Bingham Henry Smith Percy Freedy Tash-street Gray’s-inn-lane Clerkenwell-close Duke-street Manchester Square Union Hall Stephen Aldhouse Allhallows Lombard Street City Paynter Hephzibah Roberts Frances Aldhouse Frances Moss Montague St. Leonard's Shoreditch Holy Orders St. James's Greenwich John Mijimer St. George’s Row Woolwich Road Arthur Ward James Mary Ward Harvey Jeremy Ward

Lad of the Mountain and Other Light Verse Fragments

A mixed selection of poems and quips from Punch style wit. Pieces include A Column for the Curious by Ludwig Ubland translated verse about the lad of the mountain, humorous vignettes on Nelson and sailors, and witty parlor selections like Classic Pedants and Canning’s Wit.

Fragmented British items and science notes in 19th century column

A collage of period snippets covers political quips in the House of Commons, a soldier tale of bomb-proof courage, a boyish moral from Montaigne, a New York hackney anecdote about the Duke of Saxe Weimar, and a long science piece on earth’s history.

Duke of Saxe Weimar New York

A Pleasing State of Things in 1841 Barcelona

In 1841 Barcelona recorded 2614 civil actions 565 criminal prosecutions 19 assassinations or parricide attempts 6 infanticides 2 poisonings 49 wilful fires and only 1 percent death sentences with 12 in default. Also 23 political accusations before tribunals. DEW DROPS poem reflects on heavenly drops and martyred mercy as warning to cherish compassion.

Barcelona

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