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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Aug 28, 1842

Page

3

Chartists dispersed as Birmingham unrest eases

Reports from Dudley Birmingham and surrounding towns describe chartist meetings broken up by magistrates and police. By Friday public calm returns with arrests, warnings, and a return to work as authorities tighten control and pledge to prevent further disturbances.

Fartley Manchester Saddleporth Yorkshire Mosley Hartley James Jees Greenbank Ashton Col. Martin Royal Dragoon Guards Barnes Stockport William Wright John Fletcher Wild Witnoas Sea Fair Play John Bramhall Oliceman Ffice Ind Witheas Hammond New Bailey Knutsford Manchester Guardian Turspay Godley Stockrt Hyde Manchester and Birmingham Heaton Heaton Norris 72D Foot Cooper Bosden Hall Macclesfield Stval Wilmslow Bolton Preston Bolton and Preston Chorley Stephenson Messrs. Ainsworth House of Correction Summerlane Sturge ANG VY Oic Utall Birmingham Minnie Nan Aman Veuley Duddleston Raw St. George's Church Thorn Great Hampton-street Handsworth George White O'Neill Charles Spilsbury Yardley Duddiestonerow Oldbury Yeomanry White Hurst-street William Hall Moor-street Duddeston Row Geonce Waite God Save the People W. Wright Lichfield-street Leicester Lord Howes Keck Goedgier Loughborough Mountserre Samuel Morley John Thompson Thomas Unwin John Dennis Francis Emerson To-Tay Farpay Cotterill Newcastle Rhodes Handley Police Thomas Cooper Wright Francis Smith Smith Gavl Dudley O'Neil Craidley Lord Lyttelton Merthyr Caer Drew Thomas Pugh Aberdare Dowlais England Wales Midland

Cooper’s Arrest Sparks Dense Town Protests and Trials

A private inquiry led to Cooper’s committal and removal to the railway under guard as hundreds of supporters followed the omnibus to the station. Crowds thronged the market, cries of Keep up your spirits rang out, and officials reported further outrages and arrests linked to Cooper’s movement.

George Cooper Mulice Rhodes Handley Burslem Leicester Scarborough Lincolnshire Lincoln Stamford Mercury British Museum Greenwich Gazette Leicester Mercury

Literary Chronicle on Agnes Strickland Queens of England

Agnes Strickland's volumes on England's queens aim to show them as women with private virtues and moral temper, not only monarchs. The review praises her balanced judgment, refutes old calumnies, and highlights Mary I’s courage and Elizabeth I’s danger, while noting Philip of Spain's influence and court life. It also previews Kohl's Russia travel narrative as insightful.

Sheffield Paradise Square England Trailes of Joseph Nelson Charles Skinner Thos. Newton Sam Harris Matthew Bailey Wm. Broadhead Geo Harvey Mting Scotland Agnes Strickland London Henry Colburn Misa Strickland Mary Elizabeth Bess Edward VI Robert Rochester Royal Household Duchy of Lancaster Edward Walgrave Francis Inglefield Earl of Sussex Henry Earl of Sussex Fitzwater Eyremond and Burnell Wyatt Charing Cross Courtenay Old Hollingshed Whitehall Cobham St. James's Charing-cross Pembroke Thucydides Council Renaud Lady Elizabeth Queen Mary Bishop Gardiner Gardiner Bridges Tower Jane Grey Southampton Order of the Garter Earl of Arundel Church of the Holy Rood Henry the Eighth Philip Don Philip Winchester Earl of Pembroke Pest Alva Egmont House of Lords House of Commons Plantagenets Howard Percy Henry VIII Magdalen Dacre Viscount Montague Hampton Court Fair Maid of Honour Dacre Privy Council Cardinal Pole Privy-Council Arundel Paget Petre Ely Rochester Henry VII Elizabeth of York Spain Philip of Mary of Cupid Graces Petersburg Suimmer-Garden

Pictorial Advertising In Petersburg The Signs And Customs

The article surveys Petersburg shop signs painted with images to attract customers, noting diverse trades display entire goods and even people in pictures. It describes the lively street scenes, barbers with bleeding surgeons, midwives with cradles, and lavish signs praised by Russians while hinting at social custom and urban color.

Petersburg Optician Russia Kabaks

The Water Goblet and Imperial Toll of Winter

A fortress governor crosses to the emperor in a decorated boat and presents spring water in a crystal goblet as signs of thaw. The emperor drains it to bless the voyage, returning the goblet filled with gold. The payment has grown from ducats to 1,200 ducats as recompense for a drink of water.

Ice breaking on the Neva and Petersburgs looming flood danger

The article details how ice blocks are cut into parallelograms for transport by sledges on the Neva. It warns Petersburg faces imminent flood risk from west winds, high tides, and ice breakup, with signals like guns and flags used to warn residents as waters threaten the city.

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