Knittens Petition Probes Distresses and Commission
The government agrees to grant a commission of inquiry into the distresses and abuses of the framework knitters and recommends postponement to allow steps toward presenting the subject fairly before the inquiry. Additional notices include obituaries, wills, examinations, compensation for opium losses, and reports on smoke prevention and textile trade conditions.
Who's your Friend 2 or the Queens berry Fete
A vivid review of Mr. Planché's 18th century pastoral satire Who's your Friend 2 or the Queens berry Fete. Cast including Madame Vestris and C Mathews enlivens a Watteau style tableau with flirtation and mistaken identity, amid courtly and rustic contrasts. The piece, praised for taste and humor, plays to popular acclaim at Drury Lane.
Improvement at Merruyrr iron-works and wage rise
The Carmarthen Journal reports a recent boost at Merruyrr iron-works with Mr. Crawshay raising wages by 2s 6d in the pound and hinting at further increases. Also noted is a Belfast to Glasgow steamer attack by a large crowd on Friday evening, clubbing a reputable dealer amid O Connell and repeal chants, leaving him severely injured and bedridden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merruyrr Works
O'Connell
Greenock
Egham and York Races Report From a Rainy Meet
Sporting intelligence covers Tattersall’s Monpar York and Leamington results with heavy rain at Egham and York. Nutwith Prizefighter and The Whaler figure among top contenders while crowds dwindle. The Bayswater extortion case ends with a fourteen year sentence after dramatic testimony. Three lives lost in Bridlington trawling accident.
Extensive fires in the metropolis sweep tooley street disaster
A string of major fires grips London from Tooley Street through Tooley Street wreckage. Raisins tainted with arsenic injure workers near St. Olave's churchyard as ruins flood the Thamesfront. Fires at Cambridge Square Wirton works and Mandeville hemp yards cause heavy damage with multiple injuries and high insured losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tooley-Street
Lower Topping’s Wharf
St. Olave’s Churchyard
Glebe-street
Rotherhithe
St. Thomas’s Hospital
London Bridge
Upper Topping’s Wharf
Messrs. Ward
St. Olave’s Stairs
Messrs. Preston and Co
Sun Fire Office
Union
Phesnix
Atlas
Tur
Weeding
Newberry
Surrey
Rose
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Messrs. Comfort and Falconer
Bartlett’s Passage
Holborn
Mecklenburgh,square
Cambridge Square
Stephenson
Fire Brigade
Braidwood
Tooley Street
Messrs. Mandeville
Kent Street
Borough
London
Mandeville
Royal Exchange Office
Castle-street
Mr. Mandeville
George Dawkins
Cornwall Road
Bourne
Mr. Bourne
Destruction of a Witp Dog at Clewer near Windsor
A wild dog feared to have escaped from a traveling menagerie roamed Clewer near Windsor for over two years, attacking residents. It was finally killed Friday by Mr. Stroud’s loaded gun after being found in a ditch on his farm. The beast, fast and cunning, resembled a wolf-fox mix and had a litter of five pups. a prior litter was taken away last year. The dog terrorized the area, destroying leverets and injuring a farmer, though no serious harm occurred in that encounter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Careless
Windsor
Ascotheath
Slough
Great Western Railroad
London
Challoner
York
Lord Lowther
Ray Middleton
Silvertail
Bartholomew
Mr. Brooke
Ajax
Lord G. Bentin
Duke of Richmond
the Whaler
W. Howlett
Lord G. Bentinck
Colwick
Kitchener
S. Scott
Evening Star
Death
Goodman
Nora Creina
Kimber
Chilson
Idleness
Abdale
G. Heathcote
Dark Susan
Brooke
W. Sadler
Bellissima
Elysium
Mosque
R. Oliver
Mr. Death
Physalis
Lady G. Bentinck
Tripoli
Bayswater
George William Hamilton
Old Bailey
Jesse Hopper
Clarkson
Bodkin
Ballantine
Ellen Shaw
Darby Place
Hopper
Jesse
Emily
Kensington Gardens
Miss Hopper
Emily Hopper
Elizabeth Giles
Puttick
Coburg Terrace
Iensington Gardens
Elizabeth Chandler
Albion-street
Neigbourhood
Joseph Woodhouse
George Phillips
Marylebone
Bell
Hamilton
Cope
Newgate
Baron Rolfe
Bridlington-quay
R. Larcum
Routh
Beverley
Samuel Johnson
Hull Packet
Wixpson
Clewer
Proctor
Crewer
Thom
Sandgate
Carter
Messrs
Grissel and
Peto
Castle
Marine Hotel
Dover Chronicle
Trial of Gulliver and Cuddy for Col Fawcett Murder at Old Bailey
Proceedings open with Gulliver and Cuddy arraigned for the July murder of Col. David Lynar Fawcett. The Attorney General outlines duelling law, noting seconds may be guilty as principals in the second degree, while witnesses place Gulliver and Cuddy at the Brecknock Arms and in a field where shots were fired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Williams
Old Bailey Court
Baron Maule
David Lynar Fawcett
Alexander Thompson Munro
Duncan Trevor Grant
Holland Leckey Daniel Cuddy
George Gulliver
Commissioner Bullock
Alderman Lucas
Sheriff Pilcher
Chapmen Marshall
Earl March
Oliver
Horace Pitt
Richardson
Gulliver
Waddington
Montagu Chambers
Clarkson
Bodkin
Sergeant Shee
Ballantine
Cuddy
Reporters
Mr. Staight
King v. Young
John Holland
Oxford-street
Sloane-street
Colonel Fawcett
Haymarket
Great Portland Street
Brecknock Arms
Great Portland-street
Brecknockers
Pinner
Mr. Gulliver
Camden Arms
J. L. Williams
Chambers
Mr. Cuddy
Mr. Chambers
Benjamin Brodie
Liston
John Jones
James Cook
Brecknock Arms Tavern
Royal Horse Guards
Munro
Regent's Park
Brougham
Fawcett
Lieutenant Munro
Sir B. Brodie
Mr. Liston
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Framework Knittens
Framework Knitters
CuTinc A Cornn
Richard Herbert
Pheasant
Beaconsfield
Cross Keys Inn
Aylesbury
Colonel Fawcetti
Doctors’ Commons
Anne Frances Fawcett
A. Blake
Isidore Blake
Joseph Blake
Clara Neale
Jackson Villiers Tuthill
Queen's Bays
Regiment of Foot
Jane J. Fawcett
University of
Peter Redfern
Queen's College
Edinburgh
Benjamin Mayor Eyre
University College
Nicholas Henry Littleton
James Hakes
Benjamin Lancaster Jemmett
King’s College
Alfred Jackson
Nanking
China
Canton
Lords Commissioners
Patna
Benares
Malwa
Turkey
Her Majesty’s Treasury
Charles Elliot
R.N
Her
Treasury-Chambers
Whitehall
Charles Edward Trevelyan
H. Govanspoury
A. Paixate
J. Youne
Treasury Chambers
Thames Tunnel
All Souls Church
LavaHam Place
Messrs. Braidwood and Co
Stockront
Thomas Stewart
Park Mills
Stockport
House of Commons
Lord Francis Egerton
Viscount Sandox
W. Clay
Plum Tdge
Mackinnon
Ewart
Brotherton
Borthwick
Hindley
FrMate
Greenwich
Touters
J. Jeremy
White
Mr. Jeremy
Manchester
Ashton 8
Leeds
Queensberry
Planché
Theocritus
Dresden
Caroline
Countess of
Rosedale
Madame Vestris
Amaryllis
Felix Lovel
Hall
Strephon
Bob Blazon
Mrs. Glover
Chloe
Viscount Leatherhead
Strickland
Damon
Watteau
Somersetshire
Giles Fairland
C. Mathews
Swain
Clodpole
Giles
Baron
Bob
Rosendale
Duchess of Queensberry
Leatherhead
Gilea
Bab
Hom
Mathews
Olympic Theatre
Drury Lane
Mr. Bunn
Corps Dopera
Benedict
Corps de Ballet
Her Majesty’s Theatre
Orgar
Victoria Theatre
Bristol Theatre
Helen Faucit
Belvidera
Venice
Pauline
Lady of Lyons
Creswick
Bristol
H. Phillips
Victoria Rooms
Madame Grisi
Clifton
England
Europe
Bristol Mercury
Berlin
Brunaiy
Royal
the Prince of Prussia
Adalbert
Albert
Waldemar
Stephen of
Austria
Augustus of
Wurtemburg
Prince of Prussia
Caulomb
Opera House
Royal Library
Sporting Intelligence
Tattersall
Eddison
Nat
Prince of Wales
Brooks
Yorksaige
Anson
Napier
Wrather
Murat
Leamington Staxxs
Forth
Lucy Banke
Fowler
Yardley
Venus
Col. Peel
Collins
Rochester
St. Secgr
Bowes
Cotherstone
Nutwith
Lord Exeter
Lord Chesterfield
Downcaster
Sadler
Ramsay
CriveRion
Crockford
Scott
John Day
Colonel Peel
Orlando
Watt
Volth
Lichtwald
Leander
Mr. Balchin
C. Balchin
Mr. Gardner
Ermine
Mr. S. Scott
Bathyany
Fox
Cox
Mr. John Day
St. Lawrence
W. Day
C. Heath
Mr. Braithwaite
Courage
J. Day
Mr. Robinson
Eliza
Mr. Bulkeley
Express
Monkman
Margaret
Osbaldeston
Mr. Simpson
Aggravator
Boynton
Nev
Butler
Natwith
Noble
Templeman
Gamecock
Carysfort
Hippona
Martingale
Merry Andrew
Ravensworth
What
Quebec
Reviewer
Palma
Gerhambury
Pagan
Barnet
Hatcham-park
Doncaster
Earl of Eglinton
Leadbitter
London Ofice
Etches
Doncaster Gazette
Arundel Yacht Club
Ocean
W. Rees
T. Edwards
J. Gardner
Mr. Cockbourne
P. Davey
Leonard
H. Bailes
Ewma
Greenwich Hospital
Greenhithe
Fay
W.N.W
Metropolis
Lieut. Cuddy
Col. Fawcett
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