Plent y to do and cheap bread in 1841 politics
A long letter from Cotton Twist defends Peel and the Whig majority while attacking the Peel administration. It denounces cherished precedents, Labor distress, and the Corn Laws. The piece links unemployment, emigration, and hunger to political choices, urging action to protect the poor and avoid ruin through policy and taxation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cvortos Twist
Sin Ropert Peel
Sir
House of Commons
Sir Robert
Sir Robert Peel
Locock
Zerald
Post
Robert Peel
Manchester
Eiter
Times
Sance
Morning Chronicle
Weekly Chronicle
Hotspur
Thich
Baal
Goa
Hay Steee
Court and Fashion at Windsor and London Scenes
A royal itinerary reports Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visiting Bagshot Park to see the Duchess of Gloucester with high society figures. Windsor grounds are described, with plans for a grand palace garden and public openings. The piece notes a notable birth anniversary, cabinet discussions, and estate purchases, including the Ampthill estate for £150,000 and festivity plans at Wynnstay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wroosor
Prince Albert
Bagshot-park
Duchess of Gloucester
Duchess of Bedford
Caroline Somers Cocks
Buckley
Wylde
Princess-Royal
Foreign Office
Viscount Melbourne
Marquis of Lansdowne
Earl of Clarendon
Marquis of Normanby
Viscount Palmerston
John Russell
Earl of Minto
John Hobhouse
Viscount Duncannon
George Grey
Labouchere
Lord Morpeth
Macaulay
Windsorcastle
Locock
Globe
Windsor
Marie of Arenberg
Marco Aldobrendini
Heverlé
Belgium
Duke of Bedford
Lord Holland
Ampthill
Wynnstay
Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart
Collinet
Commissioners of Woods and Forests
Marquis of Hertford
Dredge
Sussex-place
Goldsmid
Holford
North Lodge Gate
Grave inquiry into death of Topaz steamer crewman
An inquest at Gravesend on James Walter aged 50, late of the Topaz steam packet, after a ship collision. The body, decomposed, was identified by linen marks. witnesses from Sunderland were requested. Walter left a widow and eleven children. about £300 was subscribed locally to aid his dependents. he carried about £11 for wages when the body was recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gravesend
Sunderland
Own-Hall
C. J. Carttar
James Walter
Topaz
London
Lambeth Reform Festival celebrates MPs reelected
About 800 Lambeth electors and reform supporters feasted in Vauxhall Rotunda after the fourth consecutive return of William Hawes and another liberal MP to the House of Commons. Speakers praised reform, free trade, and broader electoral rights, with toasts to the Queen, the Princess Royal, and the people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lambeth
Friends of Reform
Commons
William Hawes
Eagg
B. Hawes
M.P
Tennyson D'Eyncourt
J. Easthope
Hutton
Dublin
Larpent
Warburton
Harris
S. Palmer
Redhead
Vauxhall Gardens
Surrey Yeomanry
Princess Royal
England
Hawes
Mr. Hawes
Anl
House of Commons
Robert Peel
Ireland
Radical
Reform Party
T. D'Eyncourt
Easthope
Leicester
Baptist Noel
Earl of Fortescue
Morpeth
D'Eyncourt
Anti Corn Law Conference in Manchester Aims at Repeal
The Anti Corn Law Conference in Manchester gathers ministers and supporters to debate the corn law and monopolies on food. Cobden, Dr. Atkins, Pye Smith, and other leaders urge repeal, arguing tax on bread harms the poor and disrupts morality, with American trade links highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mixouesten
Manchester
Atkins
Her Majesty
Pye Smith
God of Mercy
J. W. Massie
Spencer
Cobden
America
St. Stephen's
Alderman Cobden
M.P
Anti-Corn-law League
League
Conference
Earl of Dacie
Chaplin
Curtis
United States
England
United Kingdom
Testator Wood Will Case Admits Executors From Handwritten Papers
In a Privy Council decision Lord Lyndhurst and the judges ruled that paper A signed by James Wood on the date bore date, naming executors, and paper B referring to those executors and the instructions supported a will when tied with corroborating conversations from Sutton and Stevens. They found the codicil genuine and the four named executors valid, though the case acknowledged residual doubts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Said
James Wood
Gloucester
Sir Matthew Wood
City of London
John Chadborn
Jacob Osborne
J. S. Surman
Chadburn
M. Wood
Sutton
Stevens
Surman
Wood
Edie
Alderman Wood
Chadborn
Osborne
Codicil Authenticity Upheld in Ecclesiastical Case
In a detailed ruling the court held that probate could not be granted on handwriting alone and required confirmatory proof. Strong handwriting evidence plus circumstantial facts supported the codicil as the testator’s act. Factors included contemplated codicil, legacies, and conduct after death. Costs were awarded against the estate for all parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chadborn
Bold soldier robbery leads to fatal sword and runaway loot
A soldier in 15th regiment staged a cunning shop crime at Goswell Street, borrowing a blue pilot coat and other garments from Mr. Larom before stabbing him in the throat and escaping. a youth is held, with suspicion linking him to another theft. Elsewhere, Henry Crane alias Collyer is chased after a Feltham committal and a daring jail break from Newgate pursuit ends in capture in Hanworth Park. A series of accidents, suicides, and an accidental ship collision near Richmond is also reported, including a stockbroker Edward Lewis among four anglers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Damixc Roppery
15Th Regiment
Larom
Goswell-street
Mr. Larom
Serjeant Burton
T Division
Henry Crane
Collyer
Hounslow
Chobham
Narrey
Feltham
Newgate
Inspector Otway
Inspector Dowsett
V Division
Hanworth Park
Henry Perkins
Essex
Bull Inn
Aldgate
Bow
Middlesex
Pownall
Bromley
Sutcipe
Wandsworth Common
Wandsworth
Wandsworth,common
Millis Coventry
Battersea
Wandsworth-common
Tooting
McGee
Providence-place
Lambeth
Faraz Stram Weat
RicaMoxo
Carter
East Surrey
Compasses. Inn
Richmond
Edward Lewis
Hobler
Robert Payne Cotton
No. 10
Kensington Square
Havin
Udney
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