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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 25, 1839
Page
7
A miscellany block mixes poetry and short prose items. It includes a daffodill tribute, a cautionary lion anecdote, notes on poetry and painting, reflections on eyes resting after meals, trivia about wafers and butterflies, anecdotes about Paley and Urquhart, and a note on magistrate like crows in the Faroe Islands.
The issue compiles 1839 financial optimism with improved currency, growing cotton and corn crops, and a U S presidential tour. It notes U S specie imports reaching 17 747 116 dollars and detailed casualties in the Pago Largo battle. Also reports a fatal shooting in New Orleans and a critique of frontier news.
London dealers watched bids for four million pounds of exchequer bills with Rothschild and Co and a Scotch bank among bidders. Bank of England accepted half a million at the minister’s price as others missed the target. consols held firm while exchequer bills fell. A Treasury notice later opened subscription books for the remaining 3.5 million with 20 percent deposit and start of interest from July.
At the assize a grand jury debated charging George Thompson and three others with high treason or a lesser conspiracy. Baron Gurney advised against altering the charge. The jury found a true bill for conspiracy, leading to arraignment and a guilty verdict with sentence deferred.
George Whitaker faced trial at the Lancaster assizes after allegedly attacking his wife with a hatchet in Manchester. The jury found him guilty of wounding with intent to murder. sentencing was postponed. The case featured graphic testimony from the wife and a surgeon detailing severe injuries including severed fingers and a fractured skull.
George Coker, aged 19, is found guilty of manslaughter in the Harefield incident over a salmon dispute with Moses Gates. The judge condemns the use of knives in defense and sentences Coker to transportation beyond the seas for life. In a separate trial John Clifton is acquitted of murder by poison against his wife Caroline Clifton after evidence of poison symptoms and postmortem results.
The account recalls a balloon ascent by Joan Hampton on Aug 15 1839. After preparing the parachute and overcoming gear failures two irons gave way but were secured, the descent began over the metropolis but struck a tree and caused a hard landing. Hampton credits observers and Dr Frankui for aid and notes the device failed to bring the balloon down as planned.
A burly coal-heaver asks for a shave in a shop run by a young proprietor who declares they do not shave gentlemen in his line. He insists they draw the line at bakers, warning customers would desert them if they shaved below that, and the man walks out as Noggs looks on amused.
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