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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Aug 30, 1840

Page

4

Peculiar Irish and British notes mix in a crowded miscellany

A Dublin Evening Post item notes Marquis of Normanby’s visit and praise of Irish governance. Other items include police appointments, a high court term, a British Museum schedule, railway and stagecoach reforms, temperance meetings, railway tunnel progress, and a theft at Cavendish Square with silver goods stolen.

Rae St. Davin's St. David's Llewellyn Oecree NormanBy Dublin Evening Post Marquis of Normanby Ireland I Lovelace Suffolk Bury Edmund's Maziere Brady Pigott Perrin Dublin O'Connell Ant Colonel Chaterton Cork China Poulett Thomson Baron Sydenham West Ford Farm Devonshire Joseph Pitts Devizes Kent Shoreham Spain Espartero Bath Tours Leeds London Stafford Geach Frost Woodgate Bell Inn Buckfriars Road Miss Woodgate Albion-place Margate Downs Bullock R.N Goodwin Essex Herald March of Temperance Taz Toanes Tuxxel Wapping Rotherhithe Middlesex Temperance Society Theobald Mathew Fehursday Carthany Atl Messrs. Cook Great Western Drayton Paddington Finsbury Duncombe Lord Brougham J. Wrottesley G. C. Lewis Whethe Worth M.P Leinster Nd Chronicle Vale of Glamorgan Gis Swanson Yeomorgan Bush Railway Times Lory Barnam

London Theatres and Performances Overview

Mrs Fitzwilliam returns to Haymarket in The Country Girl and Foreign Girs and Native Graces, with Sweethearts and Wives starring David Rees. Oxford Street Theatre's opera plans shift toward operatic form. Spartacus at Surrey is postponed. many artistes, including Madame Vestris and Mathews, prepare Covent Garden opening. The infant Sappho draws crowds at the Polytechnic. Wilson recovers from a gig incident, delaying Adelphi’s full houses.

Haymarket ThEatre David Rees Billy Lackaday Oxford-Street Nelson Her Majesty's Theatre Castle-street Atheneum Surrey Theatre Albertazzi Netherlands Hull Coletti Puzzi Cerito Milan Laporte Her Majesty’s Theatre Mendelssohn Hym London Birmingham H. Phillips Hereford Dorus Gras Lablache Miss Birch Miss Hawes Bennett Pearsal A. Novello Machina Ies Madame Vestris Charles Mathews Dublin Manchester Covent-garden Theatre Sappho Polytechnic Vinning Wilson Edinburgh Adelphi

Intelligence and police news from London and Europe

Reports from Downing Street and the London Gazette on appointments in Sierra Leone Cuba and Canada. Police trials in Canterbury and London include a murder mystery case, fire alerts, ship and river incidents, a Boulogne affair, and multiple court notices featuring thefts, assaults, and domestic disputes across various districts.

Leopold Brussels Rhine Coane’ Ware Paris Downine-Street Norman Macdonald Sierra Leone David Turnbull Cuba B. D. Baynes Island of Dominica London Gazette Downié-Street Charles Baron Sydenham Canada J. W. Henniker Wilson Chelsea Park Canterbury Meath James Gullen Bibby Birch Messrs. Formby Laces, Clay Myers Carson Liverpool Standard Southwark Litrary and SciEwrtric Society H. Kemble M. P Surrey Alderman Humphery M.P Southwood Smith Horton Tur Boutocue Commission of Instruction Court of Peers Boulogne MM. Bourcaut Bacciochi Byron Rue Favart Fiznines Hammond Temple St Clement Danes Grond H.R.H Cambridge Woolwich Duke of Cambridge Royal Military Academy Captain Villiers Lord Bloomfield Woolwich-common Plumstead Marshes Tur Tate Eastern Counties Railway Pearson London Blackfriars Pier Paul’s Wharf Royal Humane Society Water-lane Thames Hore’s Wharf Wapping Swinford Suffolk Lindsey London Hospital London Fire Establishment Southwarkbridge Rotherhithe Hore Braidwood Bermondsey Frear Messrs. Hasland Hereford Street Whitechapel Rowrie Marcu Connoway HaAstir Doggett Haslip London-bridge Westminster Putney Cornoway Chandler's Vauxhall-bridge Putney-bridge George Marygold Thomas Hazel Charles Hounslow Thomas Bacon Thomas Samuel Hounslow Richard Miller Thomas Blagrove John Sabin Henry English William Robinson George Dodd Richard Sparrow Ozford Herald

Tattersalls Notes on Dull Monday Betting and Local Sport

Sporting Intelligence reports a quiet Tattersalls session with Launcelot Gibraltar and Crucifix trading at varied odds and modest support. It covers a tragic Kish Bay accident, grouse shooting results on Derbyshire moors, and sale of Mr Nowell’s breeding establishment at Underley Park, plus rural notes on Beaulieu fowls and partridge counts in various estates.

Tattersall Launcelot Gibraltar Broadwath Marcon St. Leger Westminster Yates George Bentinck Meikiam Duke of Cleveland Theon Eglinton Dr. Caius Shephard Viceroy Ert Alonzo Loven Erne Yacut Kish-bay Lustymore Island Kish Mr. Saunderson Elias Harris Lony Brace Colquhoun Derbyshire Rowland Walton Crackanthorp Lonsdale Hilson Appleby Carlisle Journal Rydal Lake Oxford ‘Herald Carlisle Nowell Messrs. Tattersall Underley Park Kirkby Lonsdale E. Mostyn Talacre Flintshire Painter Stafford Shipton Fifield Tedworth Wallop Assheton Smith Brilton Bulford Leas Wimmessgill Hall Earl of Chesterfield Massey Stanley Count Chreptowitz Cantalupe Maxse Errington Royal William Sutton

Grand Steeple Chase Plans Loom in Horncastle Fair

The article outlines a projected grand steeple chase with a 100 sov stake over four miles near Market Harborough. Lincoln promoters J Anderson and J Elmore back the event with ground chosen by J Tomline, and 25 sovs due by November 2 to secure entry for the November 26 race. Mountjoy begins a 223 mile Norwich to London test run in 48 hours.

Ipswich Express Horncastle Lincoln London J. Anderson J. Elmore Market Harboro J. Tomline Market Harbore Mountjoy Norwich Thetford Newmarket Cambridge Royston Ware Burnhill Wigtonshire Earl of Galloway Duke Dumries Richmond Twickenham Prince Albert Thames Richmondbridge H. Selwyn Pagoda-house Kew-road Earl of Errol Richmond-bridge Marquis of Ailsa Duke of Buccleuch Edward Redknap Charles Godfrey Red Henry, Rigby William Newwhite Richard Messam James Snell William Jackson James Godfrey White William Bell Joseph Burn George Howard William Wheeler William Cripps John Jackson George Burley Charles Cripps Bell Huddleston Cobbett Bayley Sewell Hampshire Lillywhite Keate F.C. Trawer Hillyer R. Lewis, Esq F. Bathurst C. B. Lee, Esq Chamberlayne Good Hillyer Ma Bayle Bulbeck J. Burgoyne, Esq Lilly- Breen Sir F. Bathurst Wynne, Esq

Very Suspicious Court Case Over a Shilling

An 18th or 19th century court scene centers on John Higgins a chandler-shopkeeper and Henry Fardelly over a shilling. The servant girl testified the bad coin passed in payment for candles on a hot night near Fardelly’s home. The judge and jury hear Higgins insist on suspicions about motive and location, with a verdict for the plaintiff one shilling and costs. The chandler argues costs amount to 3s 6d.

Hatton Joe Curiosity Greenwood Pritchard Duncan Terrace Islington Bank of England King Scott William Russell Worship Street Thomas Chubb Clifton-street Finsbury Harriet Cooper Rogers Farmer-street Shadwell Bingham John Scott Walthamstow Mr. Scott Mr. Bingham Perry Broughton Thames Police Ballantine Mipplesex Court OF Requests John Higgins Henry Fardelly Fardelly Sergeant Heath Mr. Higgins Chandler

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