Destruction at Rowdeas mansion near Exeter
Mornings damage to Rowdeas, the Nugent estate complex near Exeter, is pegged at no less than £3,000 after a Thursday fire. Other items note a desertion trial of William Davis, alias George Smith, and roving notices on mortality in Myrropolis, clergy quarrels, and assorted public notices and society events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rowdeas
Lord Nugent
Exeter
Sineunan
William Davis
41St Foot
Canterbury
Affghanistan
Chatham Barracks
Nicholas Palmer
25Th Foot
3D Buffs
Davis
41St
George Smith
Rochester
Maidstone
Myrropolis
Hill
Wells
Botolph Lane
Lower
Thames Street
Middlesex
Hicks's Hall
Surrey
Horsemonger-lane
Lord Mayor's Court
Guildhall
Sevenoaks
Anna Maria Colegate
Woottett
Europe
National Benevolent Institution
Woollett
Messrs
Hurst
Robineon
Birmingham
Derby
Gloucester
Brandling Junction
Eastern Counties
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Paisley
Ayr
Greenock
Grand Junction
Great North of England
Great Western
Hull
Selby
Liverpool
Manchester
London
Blackwall
Brighton
Croydon
South Western
Greenwich
Bolton
Leeds
Midland
Newcastle
Carlisle
North Shielde
North Midland
Northern
Essex
Kent
Hertford
Justice Cresswell
York
York Courant
Professor Clark
Mountstuart Elphinstone
Hodgkin
King
Charles Malcolm
John George Shaw Lefevre
Sir Charles Malcolm
Dublin
George B. Greenough
James Cowles Prichard
M.D
Samuel Duckworth
J. A. St. John
J. Postlethwaite
William Aldam
M.P
William Elphinstone Malcolm
Thomas May
Walter K. Kelly
Benjamin Brodie
Thomas Hodgkin
W. Holt Yates
Andrew Smith
Richard King
James Clark
Hastings
Anthony Todd Thomson
Sigutori Mayer
Prandi
Abyssinia
Chas. Johnston
Beke
Ackerman
America
Prince Maximilian
Wied
Fredericks Archer
Bradford
Ashton
Times of Saturday
James Tate
St. Paul's
Edmonton
Richmond
Yorkshire
Sydney Smith
Canon Tate
Somersetshire
Thomas Tate
Mr. Smith
Balfe's The Bohemian Girl at Drury Lane
Review of Balfe's new opera The Bohemian Girl at Drury Lane. The piece relocates to Hungary during the Charles the Second era, with Miss Rainforth delivering a superb arias and an encore for the gipsy queen, while Balfe conducts the overture and earns praise for originality and expressive scoring despite some weak points in the finale and a desire for less speaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balfe
Drury Lane
Mr. Balfe
Fanny Elssler
Her Majesty's Theatre
Scotland
Hungary
Charles the Second
Thaddeus
Austria
Charles
Devilshoof
Gipsies
Stretton
Hudson
One Tree Bridge
Gulf
Miss Rainforth
Bunn
Harrison
Miss Betts
Arline
Borrameee
Mem'ry
Gipsy Queen
Gipsy Pole
Ducrow
Haymarket
France
D’arbley
Penelope
Helen
Chateau
Countess de Merville
Mrs. Nisbett
Marquis
Goquenard
Mr. Buckstone
Buckstone
Racing Odds and Bets at Tattersalls on Monday
Sporting Intelligence reports a fuller attendance at Tattersalls with brisk betting. Horses including Rattan Ugly Buck Loadstone and Voltri feature, with varied quotings and notable “taken” bets. It notes Derby and St Leger bets and announces Running Kein joining Smith's stable at Epsom.
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Tattersall
Paris
Rattan
Loadstone
Voltri
Atlaghan
King of the Gipsies
Sangrado
Javenal
Crockford
John Day
Quin
Peel
Orlando
Bowes
Squire
Goodman
Payne
Watt
G. Heathcote
Lichtwald
Isaac Day
R. W. Bulkeley
Bevington
Lord Chesterfield
Attaghan
Thornhill
Hesseltine
Dr. Sangrado
F. Ongley
Elis
Nanine
Public statement by Mr Duartes Mathews on debts and ruin
In a detailed confession the writer explains he was legally freed from liabilities eighteen months ago but chose to honorably liquidate others' claims. He describes securing fresh £3000 obligations, enduring persecution, arrests, and mounting legal costs as creditors pursue payments. He details drastic measures to pay £1300 yearly into a trustee, and the ensuing legal assaults that followed, leaving affairs insolvent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duartes Mathews
Huis
Covent-garden
England
Ireland
Scotland
Liverpool
Pilot clears 30 feet leap in steeplechase trial near railway terminus
In a field near the Great Western railway terminus a steeplechase horse named Pilot cleared a brook 30 ft 10 in wide while carrying a groom. The event, witnessed by Lord Rosslyn and several guards, lasted hours and covered heavy ground with multiple checks. A sea eagle, three feet long and seven feet wing span, was shot on Fleet beach by Brewer of Chickerel and brought to Weymouth alive after injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Western Railway
Stacy Homps
Salt Hill
Stoke Common
Hedgesly
Buistrode Park
Beaconsfield
Hall Barn
Woburn
Hedsor
Thames
Eagle
Fleet
Brewer
Weymouth
Sherborne
Scorrison Hospitat anniversary meeting and relief efforts
The 178th anniversary meeting in Fleet Street hall and London Tavern dinner were led by the Duke of Sutherland with Rev. Cumming elected chaplain. Distress relief reached 300 cases monthly, pensions to eighty elderly Scots, and sixty-five grants to return to homeland. A £300 collection included £50 from the Duke and £10 from Mr. Cumming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scorrison
Fleet-street
London Tavern
Bishopsgate-street
Duke of Sutherland
Mr. Cumming
Brown
Scotland
Cumming
Committee of Education of the Privy Council
Exeter Hall
May
Walston
Hoo
Rochester
Batton
Sun Fire-Office
Crown Inn
Sun
Globe Fire-Office
Paris Intelligence Signals Shifts in Ottoman Ministry
Paris papers discuss a new Ottoman ministry arrangement with Ahmet Fethi Pacha as justice chief replacing Hafiz Pacha and Mazloum Bey as minister of justice, plus Sayd Bey becoming Moniteur director. Paris municipal elections favor liberal candidates as Duke and Duchess of Nemours arrive in Brussels. Pope ill rumor denied though cardinals Pedicini and Micara show health concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Lord Cowley
Constantinople
France
M. de Borguenais
Switzerland
Ahmet Fethi Pacha
Grand Council of Justice
Hafiz Pacha
Mazloum Bey
Mehemet Ali
Pacha
Egypt
Jahry Salem Bey
Say
Cardinal Pacca
Sacred College
Pedicini
Micara
Rome
Britannia Arrives Liverpool After Transatlantic Passage
The Britannia under Captain Hewitt reached Liverpool at six on Thursday. She left Boston on the 6th and Halifax on the 19th ultimo, making the voyage in a little over ten days. Intelligence from New York elections notes Whig gains limited, Van Buren favored for presidency, Webster backing a national bank and a protective tariff, with emphasis on public lands. In Canada, Kingston and Montreal reports cover Parliament debates, government seat move to Montreal, and a mass resignation led by Mr Morris.
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the Weekly Chronicle
Fentle
Mhen
Little Buckstone
Webster
Miss Bennett
McEtives
C. J. Leonard
Pierce O'Hara
Mathews
Power
Leonard
Benjamin Waenen
Pickett-place
Strand
Princess's Theatre
Brighton
Keeley
Wrench
Don Pasquale
Sir Benjamin
Knight
Moncrieff
Burrowinga
England
Keeley Cess
Belcour
Tristram Fickle
Weathercock
Lyceum
Drury-lane Company
Lord Delacour
Haymarket Theatre
Racter
Dudley Smooth
Captain Wrench
Misa Wrench
Alec
Notter
Covent-gerden
Walter
Lacy
Walter Lacy
Miss Horton
Terence
Phormio
Nationa GallEry
7 Siddons
National Gallery
Lucerne
Joey Fetk
M. Tree
Fauchon
Paul Bedford
Madame Dorval
Made
Eugenie Prosper
Morris Barnett
Mozart
Horn
Gilbert
Miss Ballin
United States
Britannia
Hewitt
Liverpool
Boston
Halifax
Atlantic
Caledonia
Lott
Acadia
New York
Massachusetts
van Buren
Faneuil Hall
Newark
Canada
Kingston
Montreal
Legislative Council
Morris
House of Assembly
Messrs. de Blaquiere
Ferguson
Crooks
Washburn
Sherwood
M‘ray
Dickson
Hamilton
Macanbery
Draper
M‘donald
A. Fraser
Royal visit at Drayton Manor and Lichfield
Details of Her Majesty and Prince Albert's Drayton Manor visit including dinners and shoots at the estate, the terrace walk and farm inspection, a Lichfield cathedral reception, and transport arrangements with the Birmingham and Derby railway. Also covers the Anti Corn Law League monthly meeting at Covent Garden with Cobden speeches, Dorsetshire peasantry distress, wage lists, and Salisbury election notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tamworth
Drayton
Order of the Garter
Lady Peel
Duchess of Buccleuch
Prince
Prince Albert
Royal
Mr. Anson
Earl of Jersey
Duke of Buccleuch
Robert Peel
Lichfield
Whittington
St. John-street
Bird-street
Amworth
Staffordshire
Drayton Manor
Chatsworth
Birmingham and Derby Railway
Hampton
Oswald Mosley
Mr. Letsum
Rumor over Landlord Secretary and Kilkenny election
In Treland on November 29 a rumour swirls that the Landlord and Tenant Commission secretary may be an English barrister stirring local discontent. The Nenagh Guardian notes outrages with 13 of 40 men seized for digging, a brutal head wound for a market-goer, and Kilkenny election speculation favoring Somerset Butler, amid Saxon distrust. A Gloucestershire fire at a Willersey farm kills farmer’s wife and five children. authorities report swift engine aid and insured loss. Extraordinary superstition in Plymout h reveals a witch case leading to three months’ confinement for Charlotte Horn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treland
Dustin
Landlord and Tenant Commission
Nenagh Guardian
Kilkenny
Gloucestershire
Broadway
Campden
Evesham
Phen'x
Plymovta
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sporting Intelligence
The
Anti Cornlaw League
Covent-garden Theatre
Wilson
Cobden
League
Carlton Club
Commons
Salisbury
House of Commons
Durham
the Times
Hear
Wiltshire
Dorsetshire
Dorchester
James Graham
Lord Ashley
Stockport
Lambert
Bouverie
Anti-corn Law League
Campbell
Thompson
Urania
Durham End
Wolverhampton
Mr. Bright
Lancashire
Great League Fund
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