Rule absolute in libel case against United Service Gazette
Law reports detail a rule nisi for criminal information against the United Service Gazette over libel on Sir John Ommanney. Lord Denman grants the rule absolute after the editor apologizes and asserts truth. The piece also covers related rulings on Captain Reeve and other public notices in bankruptcy court proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Service Gazette
John Ommanney
Hampshire Advertiser
Adelaide
Tagus
F. Pollock
Lord Denman
Warrs
Reeve
Royal Navy
Inman
Pay
Captain Reeve
Mr. Inman
Shea
Borough of
Liskeard
Manning
Corporation of
Murray
Municipal Corporation Act
Lords of the Treasury
Mr. Manning
Treasury
Charles Buller
Canada
Briegstocke
Welshman
Ebenezer Morris
Llanelly
Morris
W. Follett
Central Criminal Court Jury Exemption and Early Trials
The Central Criminal Court sessions opened before the lord mayor and officials with a 232-prisoner calendar mostly for minor offences. A barbers' exemption claim was allowed after discussion of parliamentary lapses. Jurors and officers faced delays over alderman absence. Edward P Wood faced multiple theft indictments. most charges led to pleas and mercy arguments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alderman Lainson
Barbers’ Company
City of London Conservative Association
Jacob Waterhouse
Greenwich
Edward Gardner Coleraine
Tursday
Darixe Roppery
Samuel Jacobs
Robert Sutton
Cheapside
Payne
Alderman Heygate
Leicestershire
Edward P. Wood
Henry Ince
James Sherman
Surrey Chapel
Clarkson
Charles King
Ornamental dispute ends with bail and compensation
In Marylebone a well dressed man claiming to be John George Norbury attacked market gardener Valentine Barford on his Abbey Road grounds. Barford and workers testified as Norbury’s companion fled. The magistrate ordered bail or settlement. Norbury paid £10 to Barford to halt sessions. At Marlborough Street an intoxicated foreman Thomas Richards attempted to stab his mother and sister and damaged the home before police restrained him. he was committed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Rawlinson
Henry Maiulder
Joseph Porter
103 T
Rawlinson
Leicestershire
United Service Club
Marlborough Street
Thomas Richards
Piccadilly
Muport-Street
Haymarket
Turner
Worship Street Arrest of Welsh Chartist in Old Street
John Eveleigh a man about forty was found drunk in Old Street and taken to the station. He claimed Deptford as his home, said he came from South Wales, and had been in Wales eight years. Inspector Jervis questioned him about the Newport insurrection, noting he had heard of Frost and Waters and claimed 4000 marchers with women wearing hats. He had a card for Tom Ward and a stick for support, not arms. He was remanded until Saturday for further inquiry into treason or sedition charges. A Heariness Bicamist case followed regarding intermarriage with his former wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worship Street
John Eveleigh
Old Street
Deptford
South Wales
Newport
Swansea
Mr. Broughton
Wales
Coventry
Waters
Tom Ward
White Hart
Pentonville
George Coxon
William Higgs
Sarah Whitfeld
Caroline
Lombard-street
Fleet-strest
Slee
Essex-street
Messrs
Bradbury and Evans
Jones
Mansell
Bradbury
Braidwood
Messrs. Bradbury and Co
Crerkenwell
Helvers, Bush
London
West Middlesex
Manchester
Greenock
Glasgow Herald
Ferry
Coastguard
Kingston
Sussex Express
LiveRvoor
Liverpool, &c
Walsall
Suppen Mapness
Yates
Great Windmill-street
Haymarket
Vine-street
Tothill
Broad-street
Golden-square
Dustin Mann
Cashel
Patrick Street
Cork Southern
Marquis of Anglesey
Devonshire-street
Lisson-grove
Wakley
William Schofield
Western General Dispensary
New Road
Marylebone
Mary Shofield
William Shofield
Charles-street
Witness
Marshall Hall
Manchester Square
George
Brook-street
Holborn
Edward M.kenzie Meredith
Elizabeth Meredith
Bellcourt
Gray
Ianlane
Heath
Gray's Inn-lane
Whitfield
Edward Roper
John Beckwith
Central Criminal Court
Smpkxers
William Parker
Beerseller
Repton
Parker
Derbyshire Courier
Anurerp
Higgs
King’s Arms
Tothillstreet
Westminster
William Ryan
Orchard-street
King-street
St Margaret's
Wright
Middlesex Hospital
Desperate voyage ends in English desertion and arrest
A troubled voyage from America ends with a woman’s marriage to a man who deserts her upon arrival in England. After a search, she learns he lives with a former wife in Hoxton. The prisoner is brought to the station and faces seven years transportation. An ensuing settlement requires her to accept £15 as recompense and release him. Meanwhile a smuggling case unfolds with a sailor and a customs officer in a perilous struggle in a ditch during pursuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Illinois
England
Portsmouth
London
Hackney
Thither
Hoxton
Walter Mayo
Epticea
Cruextly to CHILDREN and Ghost in Blackfriars Road
Reports describe a found girl named Eastfield aged eleven to twelve, chained to prevent leaving home and subjected to alleged cruelty by her mother in law. A summons was issued. the girl to be sent to St George's workhouse while the mother-in-law faces charges. Also details on a man playing ghost in a churchyard and subsequent police action. Additional notices cover fires at Lombard Street and Craven Street areas, accidents, smuggling arrests, and inquests on deaths linked to injury, neglect, or malnutrition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Hall
Moivision
Eastfield
Jeremy
St. George's
Frerics
Wm. Levens
Christchurch
Blackfriars
Joseph Rowler
L Division
Blackfriars Road
Bennett-street
Complaint over nuisance at burial ground crowds
Mr. Jeremy reported concerns about vagabonds entering the burial ground at night to frighten and gather crowds. He urged the defendant to provide sureties for good behavior and instructed police to prevent such scenes in the future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Son
Jeremy
Le Lad Surge Oy Flowers Poem Fragment
A poetic fragment speaks of a swift flower bearing a single leaf as a message of love. The speaker contrasts flowers with words, imagining a moonlit ride to express passion to a lady, with imagery of a withered rose and broken lily.
Animal Sympathy and English History Snippets
A fragment from Sporting Magazine recounts a dog rescuing a suffering cat from cruel youths at the Talbot Inn, Liverpool, and nursing it back to health with milk. The piece shifts to Archy Armstrong's gratitude toward a scholar, then to Becket era manners and farming, and ends with a rabbinical tale about the peacock feast and ritual legality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talbot Inn
Liverpool
Sporting Magazine
Scott’s Chapter Mottoes and Epigraph Origins
Scott began placing his own mottos in the Antiquary during proof corrections. When John Ballantyne failed to find a line from Beaumont and Fletcher, Scott declared he could craft a motto faster. He then used old plays or ballads as epigraphs, yielding some of his finest verses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
John Ballantyne
John
Johnnie
Lockhart
The Divine Law of Proportion and Ancient Road Making
A collage of 19th century excerpts explores natural proportion in humans and animals, the Chinese subscription method for printing books, beginnings of road making from canoes to wagons, and a poem fragment on love. Notable items include Paley on proportion, Chinese block printing practices, Wade's British History notes, and a dramatic ode to love.
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LAW
Tr Espay
Fonblanque
St. James's Theatre
Carter
Edinburgh
Baldicomb
Royal Marines
Wombwell
Schager
James ‘Sherman -Clesed
Rowland ‘Hill
Mr. Sherman
Mr. Clarkson
Brixton
Baron Park
Justice Bosanquet
Baron Parke
Thames
Simon Ingannia
Cook
Her Majesty’s Board of Customs
Cheries Caseflower
Rotherhithe
Ballantine
Her Majesty's Commissioners of Customs
Maximilian Lavalle
Courrier
Fenning’s Wharf
London-bridge
Brown
Mr. Cook
Customs’ Solicitor’s Office
Crown
Samuel Steel
Custom-House
Broderip
Commissioners of Customs
Clerkenwell
Thomas Sparks
Phenix
Ganett
Phoenix
Irongate
T. Moozr
Archy Armstrong
James I
Solomon
Ezekiel
Tyre
Caméro
Becket
Finglish
Jace
Jsreli
Paley
Chinese Tract Society
Morrison
Wade
J. Si. Knowls
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