Chartist Meetings in the Metropolis at Kennington Common
A massive but peaceful Kennington common gathering of chartists ends with a police-led clearance around six thirty. About 1,300 to 1,400 officers, including mounted units, dispersed crowds after counters and placards warned against obstruction. ClerkenwellGreen and Paddington attempts follow, with police thwarting gatherings and arresting several for stone-throwing while reports of larger crowds linger.
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Kennington Common
Metropolitan Police Force
Kennington
Horns Tavern
Islington
Clerkenwell
Stepney
Victoria
Richarn MagYye
Feargus O'Connor
Blackfriars Road
Common
Paddington
Mayne
Ge Great Western Railway
Breen
Westbourne Green
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Legal correspondence from North Shields on debt law and settlements
A collage of legal notes and questions from a North Shields subscriber includes a 24 George II statute restricting recovery on spirituous liquors, rules on child liability, settlement by hiring, vested interests in reversion, executor duties, and queries about parental support and widow’s rents. The column preserves plain French and English legal terms, offering guidance on wills, guardianship, and property transfers with brief reader comments.
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North Shields
S.H
Jane
Rabbita
D. L
Court of Chancery
A. V
G. B— Wrile
Independence Advocate Defies Mob in Norwich Meeting
A crowd attacked a speaker but he was protected by friends and police to the station. The mayor and magistrates warned against the gathering, yet the group reconvened in the market place on a Tuesday, pledged to memorialize the queen for the charter, and adjourned to Wednesday evening. Norwich, August 25, 1842.
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Clerken , Well-Green
Clerkenwell Green
Bagnigge Wells Road
Division of Police
Massey
Penny
Darton
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Sessions House
Kexsincron Common
Weekly Chronicle
Ian
Kennington Common
Oas
England
London
Fralr
J. Anpurson
Brivton
Drampshore
Robert Quen
Teun
Barmony Hall
Robertson
Harmony Hall
Tytherly
Broughton
Reform Club
T. W. Meskerr
Duke of Orleans
Meterson
House of Commons
Henry Hunt
Cheshire Yeomanry
Lews
Paris
France
Justitia
Tyro—Tail
Magasine
Cambrensis
Paystear Foren
Axaptun
Wrexny Crnomene
Norwich
Ilurrell
Ichy
John Marshall
Sturrell
Anti Corn Law League
Tuches
Hurrell
Br. Hiurrell
Northern Star
Riches
Gall
Wormwood
Market Place
Hell
Calendar for Britain and Ireland Sunrises and High Water Times
A historic note details methods to compute sunrise and sunset by latitude, adjust times by degrees above or below 61 30, and provide high water times for major ports including Bristol Cork Falmouth Hull Milford Haven with specific hour adjustments for each location. Also references notices to correspondents for further calendar information.
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Great Britain and Ireland
London Dock
Bristol
Cork
Cave
Falmouth
Hull
Milford Haven
Brighton
Cowes
Dover
Dublin
Holyhead Harbour
Liverpool
Port Glasgow
Southampton
The Disturbed Districts and the Anticorn Agitation in Britain
The Weekly Chronicle reports spread of strikes and political mood across Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, and Sheffield, noting resumed work in Manchester and nearby towns. It argues against coercion, praises local leadership, and critiques Sir James Graham and the anti Corn Law stance while detailing causes of unrest, including economic distress and loss of markets.
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Sheffield
Birmingham
Leeds
James Graham
Manchester
Oldham
Merthyr Tidvillie
Lancashire
Harvey
Northern Star
Holberry
Resolution
England
Band Fide
London
Homer Stansfield
Marshall
Home Office
Home Secretary
Anti-Corn Law League
Lis Press
League
Potteries
Public opinion and the cost of repression in a democracy
The passage argues that prolonged government suppression of public opinion strengthens not weaken s the nation. It warns that attempts to stifle meetings or form a police backed militia will fail as the majority supports reform. It concludes that even rigid opponents may admit change is inevitable when the country’s general conviction prevails.
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Tun CommManpersnig
Army
Lord Hill
Royal
Prince Albert
Duke of Cambridge
Marquis of Anglesey
Edward Paget
George Murray
Duke of Wellington
Fitzroy Somerset
Jackson
Common Pleas
Ultra Violent
Maynooth Grant
Smith
Hamilton
Dublin Monitor
Swaniowine
Woolwich Dockyard
Marine
Edward Nichol
Sun
Mary
Quebec
London
Murner
Sansevny
Margaret Master
Treaties with United States promise peaceful settlement
The Letters from the Great Western confirm Britain and the United States have settled disputes by two treaties. One fixes the long disputed boundary, the other arranges minor questions. The treaties are under Senate consideration with strong expectations of ratification. Lord Ashburton’s mission is praised for serving both nations and advancing diplomacy.
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Great Western
England
United States
Senate
Lord Achburton
Bodh
Lord Ashburton
New York
Natal Crisis Stirs British Policy and Boer Resistance
A sharp critique of British policy toward Natal, detailing Dutch emigration, contested claims over the inland district, and a disastrous expedition under Captain Smith. The piece condemns Lord Stanley and Lord John Russell for mismanagement, calls for accountability, and argues the time for negotiation passed years ago, now demanding decisive action.
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Cape of Good Hope
Cape
England
Downing
Lord Stanley
John Russell
Lord John
Zorboos
Natal
Ocean
Mr. Jefferson
Mississippi
Robert Peel
Smith
Downing-street
Lord Normanby
Colonial Office
France Regency Bill Thiers Reconciles With King
In a sharp parliamentary passage, Thiers shifts from the Extreme Left to Louis Philippe, accepting Odillon Barrot's backing while openly differing on core points. The Left accuses him of betrayal, likening his severance to past reversals, and mock his stated motives amid the Regency Bill debates. The quarrel centers on principe and power, not personal impropriety.
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Monsieur Guizot
Monsieur Thiers
Louis Philippe
Monsieur Odillon Barrot
National
Courier Francais
John Russell
Thiers and the Left in France A Political Reading
The piece argues Thiers branding the Left as unfit for both Opposition and Government, urges strengthening the Orleans Dynasty with a large Regency Bill, notes Barrot’s opposition, and suggests Thiers may soon return to power, possibly replacing Guizot as a new ministerial deal forms in France.
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Monsieur Thiers
Orleans
Monsieur Barrots
France
Paris
England
Europe
Monsieur Guizot
Ories
Inca
Trial of Nicholas Suisse. A Morally Masked Case of Arrogant Scandal
A London paper denounces the trial of Nicholas Suisse, valet to the late Marquis of Hertford, for embezzlement, condemning Lord Abinger and Croker for lavish praise of Suisse and for weaponizing the will as a distortion of decency. It laments the intrusion of aristocratic court rhetoric into public justice and calls the proceedings unbecoming a sober English jurisdiction.
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Nicholas Suisse
Hertford
Porius
England
Lord Abinger
Croker
Thessiger
London
Suisse
Lord Hertford
Madlle
Borel
Dorchester House
Monsieur Suisse
Marriages Of Lord Prudhoe And Lady Grosvenor
The weddings of Lord Prudhoe and Lady Eleanor Grosvenor at St George’s Hanover Square, and Lord Parker with Lady Mary Frances Grosvenor, were officiated by the Archbishop of York with a grand assembly of north country and Westminster nobility. A luncheon at Grosvenor House followed, with the Duke of Northumberland and other peers in attendance. open house was planned at Sion House and Moore Park in celebration.
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Lord Prudhoe
Duke of Northumberland
Eleanor Grosvenor
St. George's Church
Hanover-square
Lord Parker
Earl of Macclesfield
Mary Frances Grosvenor
Earl Grosvenor
Archbishop of York
Northumberland
Westminster
Macclesfield
Duke of Wellington
Duke
Duchess of Northumberland
Marquess
Marchioness of
Earl
Countess of
Prudhoe
Lionhouse
Grosvenor-house
Parker
Moore-park
Marquess of Westminster
Rickmansworth
Herts
Sionhouse
Tord
Lady Prudhoe
Lord
Lady Parker
Isleworth
Brentford
York
Marchioness
Bishopthorpe
Wrxpson Gisbe
Windsor Castle
Worcester
Pipric
Lox- Dox
London
Berwick
Berwick Paper
Tae Roya
George Vicut
Royal George
Woolwich
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Outhawry
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Red Lion Square
Mr. Temp
Wallanry
William Archibald Campbell
Arabella King
Jacob Connop
William Lionel Felix Tollemache
Lord Huntingtower
George Samuel Ford
John Box
Thomas Park
William Henry Rainsford
Edmund Smith
James Gibbs
Francis Rolfe
Thomas Morgan
George Smith
John William Edwards
Glengall
Charles St. John Fanveurt
Admuand Smith
Thomas John White
Hom D'Arcy
William Sheppard
Henry Spalding
John Henry Blagrove
John Hooper
William Mingage
Gorge Frans
Juin Betts
Henry Verpur
Thomas Henry Doyle
Adam Rivers Steele
John Draham
Samuel Beazley
George Pitt Rose
William Levy
Raxkrerey
Court of Bankruptcy
Lord Brougham
Whitecross-street Prison
Queen's Prison
Queen's Bench
Fleet
Marshalsea
Trtsu
Society For the Improvement of Waste Lands
Ireland
Queen's Head Tavern
Poultry
Mantle, Esq
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