Beer versus scurvy on West Africa voyages
A Geographical Society note asserts beer elicits health benefits for sailors on Africa coast duties. It cites Belcher claiming fish diets worsen scurvy and malt beer concentrates, noting stockfish allowances and later Gambian fresh meat offered less benefit, with beer as a potentially salutary preventive.
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Africa
2Ina
Belcher
Gambia
Journal of the Geographical Society
Breach of Promise Case Highlights Fraught Courtroom Fight
A breach of promise jury trial heard Miss Mary French sue Mr. Hatch over a 1840 marriage engagement. Serjeant Bompas portrayed the plaintiff as respectable. Hatch admitted affection but denied imminent nuptials. Evidence included letters, bans, and family testimony. Defense urged modest damages. verdict awarded £ fifty.
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Frexen
Buisto
Assizxa
Serjeant Bompas
Stone
Cockburn
Carrow
Serjeant
Bompas
Hatch
Miss French
Mary French
T. H
Martha French
Counterslip Chapel
John Nicholls
Gloster Lane
Mr. Cockburn
Mr. Hatch
Niobe
Tommy
Extensive Liverpool robbery elopement case shocks city
Monday reports from metropolitan stations detail a crim con elopement at the Red Lion in Simpson Street Liverpool. Sailor William Davis and Mrs Lewis fled with gold, watches, and valuables, travelling by rail to Birmingham and London. A second item reports a found body in the River near the Rover. a likely drowning with bruises and no waistcoat. Also noted is the suicide of Mr. Wm Stone of Surrey-square Newington and a priest, Theophilus Waters, remanded for alleged charitable solicitation fraud in Bloomsbury.
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Lewis
Davis
Birmingham
London
Rover
William Tyers
Hermitage Stairs
Wapping
Wm. Stone
No. 1
King-street
Surrey-square
Newington
Marlborough-street
Theophilus ‘Waters
Fitzgerald
High-street
Bloomsbury
Griffith
No. 5
Golden Square
Chine
West-End
Charity and corn laws sermon and Deaf charity dinner
In Kentishtown an interdenominational meeting heard Rev M A Garvey report on Manchester ministerial conference and corn law protests. A Deaf and Dumb Charity dinner at Crown and Anchor featured speakers, songs, and subscriptions. Mr Bond Cabbell chaired.
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Kentishtown
M. A. Garvey
Man
Three Kingdoms
Manchester
Deafaxyn Duns Charitable
Crown and Anchor
Strand
Benjamin Bond Cabbell
Mesars
Pyne Foster
Turner
Longhurst
P. Taylor
Hamilton
Thames
John Bruton East
Britannia
West India Dock
Broderip
Archibald M‘neile
London
Jamaica
Symons
United Kingdom
Nisi Prizs
Carrington and Payne
Sir John Burgoyne, Bart
Upper Brook Street
Grosvenor Square
Higgs
Emma Dancey
Baronet
Elizabeth Archer
Dover
Mr Dodd
Bryanstone-street
Hampage
Ann Lemmancoff
Elsegood
St. George's Hospital
Hyde-park-corner
Johan Woods
Marquis of Waterford
Edgware Road
Flocton
Gorman
Baldwin
Ie Bays and Son
King’s Parade
Cambridge
Faral
Silver-street
Bouverie-street
John Toby
Messrs
Tyler
Boltcourt
Toby
Thomas Casserby
King’s Road
Chelsea
Ambrose
Fulham
Penelope
Carttar
King’s Arms
King-street
Greenwich
George Thomas Dear
Royal-hill
Baker
George Public-House
Anchor and Hope-alley
Wapping
Elizabeth Neale
Ship-street
Commercial
Jordan
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le Comte
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Peo
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Wade
Jniy of
Styshes
Hamlet
Mr. Ferguson
Sol
Circassia
Surrey
Mole
Haymarket
Urice
Finchley-common
Hanover Ark
Peckham-rye
Great Britain
Withering
Royal
Prince Albert
Paris
Evry
Lewenhoeck
Tycho Brahe
Wittemberg
Maude- Tapius Pasbergius
Eveno
Manderupius
Tycho
Clement V
Papal Palace
Lina Fardrobe
Fia Settiss Bene Orencs Fakome
Hong
Lady Chatterton
Michaene Stephenson
Stephenson
Chatterton
Bristol
Remus
Garret
Jesara Janes
School of Design
Somerset House
Government School of Design
Haydon
Augustus Calcott
Cockerill
Papworth
Etty
Fox Maule
Norwich
Ewart
M.P
Labouchere
Board of Trade
Williams
Gladstone
Hodgson
Lord Colborne
Gillon
Mr. Wyse
B. Hall
Gally. Knight
R. H. Inglis
Basil Montague
Hawes
Samuel Rogers
Lord Duncannon
Dyse
Cockerell
Louis XIV
Pericles
Medici
Bavaria
George Frederick Lambert
John Patterson
Charles King
J. G. Bridge, Esq
George Dyer
Octavius Hudson
Alderman Copeland
George Thompson
Henry Thomas Hope
John Evans
Mousseline de Laine
J. Thomson, Esq
William Cheseling Wild
J. Thomson
Henry Durant
King
Dyer
Wyld
France
Prussia
Carlisle
Spitalfields
R. Inglis
O'Connell
Highbury-barn
Wigan
Grenfell
Sfanchester Times
Doudney and Son
Lanbartatteet
Taglioni
Ria Doudney and Son
Mbard-Street
Malacca
J. Cheek
Golden Etch
Oxford-street
N.B
Eamonson and &C
Exster Hall
M. Bernard
King of
Saxony
Academy of Paris
Bernard
Sackville-street
Piccadilly
Bermuda
Windsor
Glover and CO
Goodge-street
Tottenham
Court-Read
Lower-street
Islington
Harvey's
EK Lazenby and Son
William Lazenby
Elizabeth Lazenby
Edwards-street
Portman-square
AMIES
Davies
St. Martin’s-lene
New Slaughter's Coffee-house
Elsas
S. Cowvan
Royal Polytechnic Institution
Royal Adelaide Gallery
Lowther-arcade
S.cowvan
Fenchurch-street
Cowvan
Gorman Gregg
Opera-arcade
Pall-mall East
St. Paul's-churchyard
St. James’s-street
Wm. H. Cory
W. H. Cory
Bridge-road
Lambeth
Astley’s
C. Efay
J. Lefay
Stirling
Whitechapel
J. W. Stirling
Orison
Morison
British College of Health
Hamilton-place
New Road
Morison, Moat, and Co. N.B
New-road
Messrs. Perry and CO
Great Charles-street
Albion-street
Leeds
Perry
America
Barapa Perry and Co
H.R.H
Grimstone
G. J. Guthrie
L. S. Brewer
Edge
Terrace
Kensington
Alexander
L.S. Brewer
W. Grimstone
Bell-street
Edgeware-road
Marylebone
E.robson
Caulion
Broad-street
Long-acre
P. Bouily
J. A. Sharwood
Bishopsgate
S. S
City of London
Frameton
T. Prout
Frampton
Thomas Prout
Eaver
Feaver
Friday Street
Teaver
Friday
Cheapside
Barclay and Lane
Farringdon-street
Newbery and Sons
St. Paul's
Sutton Ard Co
Bow Churchyard
Willoughby and Co
Bishopsgate-street
Sanger
Thomas Schofield
J. L. Cuntis
Conrany
Sun Evening Paper
Messrs. Curtis and Co
Frith-street
Soho-square