Death at Coventry workhouse sparks inquest and anger
An inquest into George Robson a Coventry workhouse pauper found death caused by long shoulder joint disease and chest effusion worsened by neglect and dietary deprivation. The Coventry directors and governor faced strong public ire as verdict blamed inattention and demanded accountability along with adjourned inquiry for further witnesses.
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Leicester
Coventry
George Robson
Catherine Robson
House of Industry
Palmer
Robson
Mrs. Palmer
Watts
Hinckley
Fox
Humberstone Gate
Spencer
John Holman Tosswill
Mr. Tosswill
Wright
Margaret Hall
Edward Bicknell
Browett
Staines
Rotherham
Law of Humanity
John Palmer
Mr. Palmer
Jarrom
Coventry House of Industry
Calamitous Willersey fire kills farmer's wife and five children
In Gloucestershire near Broadway a large farm house fire claimed the farmer's wife and five young children and a charwoman. The husband and three sons escaped. The blaze threatened nearby thatched structures until engines from Campden and Evesham arrived. Insurance is listed at £800. Inquests at MitBank Penitentiary report two natural deaths, William Biggs and Alice Lyons, as inmates with prior felonies. A Manchester swindling case centers on Sir John Mather promising vast estates and salaries to Holt family members, with James Holt the main witness.
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Broadway
Willersey
Gloucestershire
Rimell
Campden
Evesham
Phoenix
MitBank Penitentiary
Higgs
William Biggs
Alice Lyons
Groves
Salford March
Maidstone Assizes
W. Bayley
Manchester Guardian
Beswick
Borough Court
Manchester
Sir John Mather
Jonathan Holt
Cambridge-street
Chorlton-on-Medlock
Holt
Rawstorne
Preston
Mather
Watts
America
James Holt
Sheldon
Swan Street
John
Sir John
Rawatorne
Col. Rawstone
Bury
London
Mr. Holt
Mr. Beswick
Mr. Maude
The Chemist To His Love In Metaphor And Pun
A playful verse compares love to chemical bonds. The speaker blends poetic romance with chemical imagery ranging from acids and bases to salts. He imagines joining as compounds such as Glauber’s salt or potash and hints at a Johnson Briggs union in playful puns.
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Mary
Glauber
Epsom
Briggs
Johnson
Druidic Stone Altar in Portugal Inspires Reverence
In Portugal I found a circular Druidic altar of immense stones tapering to a scalloped top with a slanted flat cap and a door to the south. Inside, a thorn tree grows as a silent testament to ancient Celt and Cymbrian history, standing amid ruins of other empires. Borrow's Bible in Spain.
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Portugal
Europe
Borrow
Spain
Extraordinary monster fish hauled from Laguayra Roads
A Barbadoes paper recounts a calm August day when a brig Rowena tangled with a giant flat, tusked fish weighing 8,602 pounds. The creature, 18 feet long tail to tusks and 20 feet wing to wing, with a batlike tail, was towed ashore for display. French trial details follow about a murder by Jean Labat, involving a seduced wife and a shameful crime with 66 witnesses.
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Barbadoes
Rowena
Laguayra
C. S. Dit
New Comet Observed Near Orion by Paris Astronomer
A comet was discovered near the star Gamma in Orion by M Faye of the Paris Royal Observatory. Observations on November 22 and 24 1843 show the comet's right ascension and declination shifting, with a visible tail about four minutes of angle long. A letter from J Sovrm at the Kensington Observatory dated November 30 1845 reports the comet near A Ortonis with precise coordinates and telescope details.
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Gamma
Orion
M. Faye
Royal Observatory
Paris
Irish Special Commission Clash in Court over Law
OConnell apologizes for informal attire and snacks in court while Baron Pennefather is honored. A breakfast study session unfolds as barristers brief the jury about the accused, with OConnell contesting a key point and drawing first blood in the legal clash. Ireland and its Rulers since 1829.
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O'Connell
Baron Pennefather
Doherty
Crown
O’connel
Ireland
Extraordinary Sagacity of a Perthshire Collie in Drove Rescue
A Perthshire shepherd recounts a collie that guided about four score sweep seventeen miles home, alternately carrying her own whelps and leading the flock. After delivering the sheep, the two pups died and the dog dug two rabbits to suckle them, then set off to meet her master thirteen miles away. Caledonian Mercury.
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Robert Murray
Samel Richmond
Condie
Dunning
Perthshire
Murray
Falkirk
Collie
Caledonian Mercury
Statistics of a Bee Hive from the Quarterly Review
The article explains that a hive contains two bee kinds the workers undeveloped females and the drones males. The queen rules. In a strong hive workers exceed 15 000 and drones about one to ten of them, a ratio rarely exact. A single family with swarming prevented may reach 60 000 or more, and wild swarms may greatly exceed this in honey yield.
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Bevan
Quarterly Review
Queen appoints Miller sheriff for Selkirk shire
The London Gazettes record the Queen appointing James Miller to be sheriff depute of Selkirk shire, replacing the deceased Thomas Hamilton Miller. Also noted are appointments of Rev. David Williamson to Kinloch Linnart parish, and Daniel Florence O'Leary to be chargé d'affaires and consul general of New Grenada, with other diplomatic and civil notices including Royal Engineers promotions and insolvency declarations across multiple towns.
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Whiterall
James Miller
Selkick
Hamilton Miller
David Williamson
Kinloch Ikart
Kinloch Linchart
Contin
Ross
Alexander Macbean
Leghorn
Crown Orrice
Ember
New Sarum
John Henry Campbell
Wadham Wyndham
Orrice
Onowancer
Corps of Royal Engineers
Edmund Twiss Ford
Bailey
Henry William Barlow
E. T. Ford
Wesleyan
Pateley Bridge
Yorkshire
Russell Street
Dover
J. Clark
Walton
Lancashire
P. F. Faucher
Chelsea
T. Barker
Sheffield
J. Shaw
Upper Bridge
Otner
J. Hilton
Meare
Somersetshire
Clark
A. J. Phillips
Opentreet
Spitalfields
J. Vaughan
Bedwardine
Worcestershire
Whitesmith
W. Payne
Bath
J. Farrell
Ancoats
Manchester
F. Cockman
Taunton
A. Jeacock
Little Carter Lane
R. Crowther
Weston Street
Snowsfields
Southwark
J. Selkirk
Spring Street
Bayswater
M. Ramson
J. Morley
Sussex Street
Bedford Square
J. Ogden
Shoulham Street
Marylebone
H. Grosvenor
Tichborne Street
Piccadilly
W. Saunders
Saunders Street
Chatham
J. L. Adcock
Southampton Street
Fitzroy Square
W. Beards
Brenton
Wolverhampton
J. Hodges
Old Brompton
G. Bennet
Cutthorpe
Derbyshire
J. Clay
Deighton
Huddersfield
M. Leggett
Portsea
W. C. Coles
Hoxton Old Town
Praed Street
Paddington
G. A. Gibbons
Dempsey Street
Commercial Road
Hast
S. L. Upton
F. Finnimore
Great Collee Street
Camden Town
H. Clagett
Newroad
J. Seymour
Neath
Glamorganshire
J. Huckstepp
Lewes
Sussex
Limehouse
C. Robinson
Great Trinity Lane
J. Deakins
Elmley Castle
T. W. Jones
Wellington
Shropshire
Draper—I. Parsonage
Birmingham
W. Miers
Leeds
J. L. Keasley
Long Lane
Bermondsey
Roberts
Maybury
Champion and
Cadman
Kemble
Bow Street
Chapman and Featherstone
Whitby
Park Lane
Lewis and Co
Barmouth
Merionethshire
Workman and Webb
Basingstoke
Miles and Brunt
Fountain Stairs
tar—Baird
M‘crackan
Cardiff
Bowling and Pickering
Hammersmith
Cock and Cragg
Preston
curriers—Richardson and Elmslie
Moorgate Street
City
West India
Relfe and Co
Cornhill
J. Relfe
J. Rylands
Moyle and Minson
Wardrobe Place
Doctors’ Commons
Outhwaite and Ferguson
Goold and Co
Tewkesae
Gloucestershire
S. Stott
Blackburn
J. Booth
Forfar
J. Morrison
Dinburgh
J. Gibson
Glasgow
J. M'Donald
Parkholm
Printfield
J. Stewart
Edinburgh
Queen appoints MacMorland first minister at South Leith
In a Friday notice from Waitsuatt dated November 29 the Queen names Reverend Peter MacMorland to the charge and office of first minister of the church and parish of South Leith in Edinburgh's presbytery, following Reverend Doctor James Grant's move to St Mary's, Edinburgh. Other items list commissions, militia appointments, court appointments, and various bankrupts, dividends, certificates, partnerships dissolved, and Scotch sequestrations.
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Peter MacMorland
South Leith
Edinburgh
James Grant
St Mary’s Church
County of
Brecon
William Davys Harries
County of Fife
Fife Regiment of Militia
John Balfour
John Dalyell
Waitzxart
John Suffern the Younger
Belfast
Ireland
High Court of Chancery
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Great Britain
Henry Bicknett
Grocers’ Company
K. Lowes
Sunderland
G. Boggs, and Co
Great Winchester Street
S. M. Long
Rodney-hall
Norfolk
W. Ward
Blackfriars Road
Draper
G. Bloor
Wharf Road
City Road
Ridge and Co
Chichester
Bankers
J. Gregory
Sheffield
D. H. Brown
Haverfordwest
W. Burton
Great Glenn
Leicestershire
Currier
M. Jackson
East Palekiey
St. Andrew Auckland
Durham
Miller
M. Hanson
Blackburn
Clark and Burbery
Wood Street
Cheapside
Robert
John Edward Evans
New Bond Street
John Healey and Co
Bolton
Lancashire
Joseph Baker
James Butcher
Chew's Ride
Little Moorfields
Goodfellow
National Benevolent Institution Anniversary Meeting Report
The National Benevolent Institution held its anniversary meeting and general election at the Freemasons Tavern Great Queen Street with the Duke of Richmond in the chair. The year’s report noted prosperity and urged renewed effort for applicants. At Christmas 1842 pensions of £20 and £30/24 each were paid to 238 recipients, 18 men and 220 women, average age over 73. Total pensions since formation reached £87,623. Last year’s receipts were £7,322 and disbursements £7,296, with £5,263 for pensions, £1,190 for funded property, and £842 for expenses. Thirty-eight candidates were considered for this year’s election, including 23 pensioners, from 117 names on the list. The motion to receive and adopt the report passed unanimously, with thanks to the royal family and officers, and the meeting adjourned after the ballot between three and four o’clock.
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National Benevolent Institution
Peter Herve
Freemasons’ Tavern
Great Queenstreet
Duke of Richmond
Henry Pownall
Levesque
Bowden Parish Church Robbery Suspects Reward Offered
Information reports Bowden Cheshire parish church broken into on the night of the 21st. Stolen items include a crimson velvet communion table cover, a wine-stained cotton velvet cover, a fine linen surplice, two silk hoods, four large prayer books labeled Bowden churchwardens pew, and other goods. Churchwardens offer a £10 reward for thieves.
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Bowden
Cheshire
Grimstone Eye Snuff Promoted by Royals and Surgeons
An 1842 advertisement touts Grimstone’s Eye Snuff as a universal restorer for eye and headache ailments under royal and treasury endorsement. Letters from users claim relief from pain, improved vision, and cure claims for cataract and ophthalmic conditions. The ad lists canister prices, inventor signature, Queen’s Arms, and distribution addresses in London.
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H.R.H
Duchess of Kent
Treasury
Grimstone
G. J. Guthrie
F.R.S
Upper
Stamford Street
G. W. M. Rernoxps
W. Grimatone
Yeurs
George Smith
York-place
Kentish-town
W. Grimstone
Oxford Street
Broad-street
Bloomsbury
King-street
Long-acre
Cuba
Grand Cairo
Blair's Goat and Rheumatic Pills Advertised Testimonials
Letters from Frimley Brimley and others praise Blair's Goat and Rheumatic Pills for easing long standing rheumatic and gout pain. Testimonies claim sleep returns, pain relief, and renewed mobility after use, with multiple signatories and locations in Surrey and London. Sold by Prout at Strand and other UK vendors.
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Blair
Prout
Strand
London
Frimley
Bagshot
Surrey
John Gites
Pirbright
Edward Bridger
Geord Innwood
John J. Giles
Eng
Blackwood
Giles
Hardy Row
Epon
J. Lance
J. J.giles
Thomas Prout
United Kingdom
Death and inquest on master tailor Henry Butcher at Red Lion
An inquest at the Red Lion Strand discusses the death of 64 year old master tailor Henry Butcher. Evidence shows he collapsed while turning off gas after shuttering his shop. Coroner notes probable fatal brain rupture, and comments on aperient medicines as a contributing factor. Verdict given as Died by the Visitation of God, with a quip about neglect and Parr's Life Pills.
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Higgs
Red Lion
Strand
Henry Butcher
No. 1
Catherine Street
Mr. Snitch
Wild
Westminster
Morning Herald
Parr
Butcher
United Kingdom
London
Edwards
St. Paul's Churchyard
Barclay and Sons
Farringdon Street
Sutton
Bow Churchyard
Manchester
Mottershead and Co
Edinburgh
J. and R. Raimes and Co
Dublin
Machin
D'Olier Street
Paris
T. Roperts and Co
Cranecourt
Fleetstreet
Manhood and its disorders by Curtis and Company
A Victorian advertisement for Manhood by Curtis and Company presenting an eleventh edition on sexual health, detailing ailments tied to excessive habits and infections. It notes press opinions praising the work and urges readers to consult Curtis and Company at Frith Street Soho for private, discreet medical guidance with a £1 consultation fee.
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Birmingham
London
R. and L. Perry
Perry
Messrs. Perry
Berners-Street
Oxford-Street
Samuel Lamert
University of Edinburgh
London Hospital Medical Society
Snow-hill
Peerablaarh
Fargate
Sheffield
Davey
Broad-street
Bristol
D. France and Co
Butcher Bank
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Patern and Love
Nelson-street
Glasgow
Manchester Chronicle
la Mert
Bedford-street
Bedford-square
C.J. Lucas & Co
Gonenleg
Newman-street
Oxford Street
Brittain
Patemmoster-row
J. Gordon
Leadenhall-street
G. Mansell
King-street
Southwark
C. Weaterton
Parkside
Knightsbridge Field
Quadrant
Regent-street
Huett
Princes-street
Leicester-square
T. Lawler
Courier-office
St. Ann's-square
Manchester
Sg Howell
Dale-street
Liverpool
W. Wood
High-street
W. and
H. Robinson
Greensi
Edin. Paige
T. Price
Dame-street
Dublin
Lucas
New Bell
Mae - Messrs
Lucas and
J. . Contis
Messrs. Curtis
Old England
Essex
Herts Mercury
Messrs. Curtis and Company
Frith-street
Soho-square
Land near Manohenoh Aay coniy under guardianship
On time of land near Manchester Dihien, three or four years ago, there have been seventy five loads of potatoes, each 252 pounds, and equal teB7Etons, valued at 45 per ton. The land is under the supervision of the guardians of the Manchester Dihien.
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Chatmioss
Manohenoh Aay Coniy
Haatai
Manchester
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Ihorefelare Road
Sanger
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King’s College Hospital
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