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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 04, 1841

Page

5

Polish anniversary and trials mark a busy Kent Street meeting

The Polish anniversary was celebrated at the Tacts Society Hall Kent Street with Alderman Bilton in the chair. Polish gentlemen spoke for freedom, the hall displayed war implements and a Polish standard, a Polish band performed as Polish and other airs played, and the national anthem God Save the Queen was sung. The week also notes Ward’s murder conviction at the Central Criminal Court with a death sentence to follow, describing the judge’s warnings and the prisoner’s removal from the bar.

Aantsi Tacts Society Kent Street Alderman Bilton Ay Murper Ward Ea Criminal Court Sar Linehouse Sturges Bourne Messrs Hector Sagament For Tne Ev Det Warneford Gloucester Broadclst Storks Ee Bank of Messrs. Hopkins and Co Arundel Canterbury Bank Halford and Co Alristts Hosnouss White Hart Gunning Rade Batchelor Dowding Bath City Watt St. Martin’s-le-Grand Spitalfields Weavers Burdett Coutts Yialfields Weavers Strand Revory House of Commons Evans Shrewsbury St. Chad Bruce Meole Bruce Mt Wonkie Morning Advertiser Ytextal Society The Colonial Society Colonial Society Club St James's Street Wonfer Duke Buccleuch Roxburghshire Lothian Great Britain County of York Earl of Arewood A. R. Cockerell French Institute Pemberton Maule Treasury Old Bailey Kapallu Beaumont Smith Jenning Chronicle Hackney Councu Lushington Drata Sir Henny Freevixc Sir Henry Freeling, Bart Henry Christian Carstadt London Hoes Lang Moorpark Surrey General Post Office Francis Wweling T. Wakley Ictoria Tavern Chester-place Hyde-park-square St George Henry Freeling Anne Beresford Harcourt-street Waterford Dublin Frederick Pollock Samuel Long William Swann M. Manners Sutton House Commons Cambridge Advertiser Jennny Wood Colonel Wood Natchez Mametlea England United Kingdom Bank of England Wales Traand Bank of Ireland Ie Weland Victoria Scotland Sve Ireland

The Wooden Leg divertissement at Covent Garden Theatre

A lively five minute comic piece titled The Wooden Leg entertains between the comedy and farce at Covent Garden, featuring a sailor’s tricked trial of his mistress’s constancy and a lively dance showcase by the Marshalls Gilbert Ballin and a corps de ballet.

Covant Garden Theatre Scotland Tamper Covent Garden Theatre Surrey Theatre M. F. Pyet T. J. Haines John Bull Shakspeare Coriolanus Olympic Theatre Collins Power Mr. Collins Zeddy the Tiler National Baths Westminster Road Batty Ireland Astley RepuiLpine Covent-garden Mercadante Elena da Feltre Norma Lumley Her Majesty’s Theatre Milan Signor Puzzi

Emigration and colonisation scheme for free passage theory

The author argues emigration is a component of colonisation that can be costless to the mother country if funded by colonial land sales. He outlines six conditions for a fair trial: proper land price, dedicated immigration proceeds, sound sale methods, ample surveys, uniform application, and secure funding through loans. He critiques auction versus uniform pricing and calls for parliamentary action to fix a plan and allocate funds for paid passages to laboring migrants.

House of Commons Canada United States Australia South Australia Howick Lord Howick Secretary of Secretary of State Colonial Office

Tower Fire Inquiry Report Details Faulty Watch and Fire Risk

The board of ordnance reports the Bowyer tower fire likely began in the Bowyer tower area with unclear origin between the Round Table room, View room, or back staircase. It blames defective watch, unsafe workshop coupling to the armoury, and calls for better arson prevention, water supply, and upgraded iron mains for future safety.

The Ordnance Bowyer-tower Board of Ordnance Peel Tower Arnott Bell Bowyer Tower Round Table View-room Gollings Morris Edwards Knott Nash Lock White-tower John Lock Smart Royal Artillery London Waterworks J. Peer the Ordnance TL. A. Hart Royal Engineers A. Macbean A. Ponnett

New Professors of Mesmerism and Somnambulism Deemed Real

A Manchester physician James Braid demonstrated that sleep can be induced without touch by fatigue of the eye muscles and sustained gaze. He linked the effects to physiological processes, arguing no animal magnetism involved. A separate City hall display by W H Halse tried similar mesmerism methods with mixed results and public skepticism.

James Braid Manchester Monsieur Lafontain Atheneum Manchester Athenæum Braid Monsieur Lafontaine Chancery-lane W. H. Halse Lafontaine Gold Mr. Gold

Derby favourites and horse racing odds at Tattersall's

Sporting Intelligence reviews Derby favourites Lord of Holderness and Ballinkeele amid tight betting at Tattersall's with Passion the Oaks favourite at 7 to 1 and other odds listed. Also covers the North Star versus Brian two mile race, hare on Croydon railway, and foxhound activities with notable attendees and a fatal inquest into a six year old's death by accidental ignition.

Duke of Rutland Mr. Thornhill Eusebia Col. Peel Chatham G. Clark Lord of Osborne Thomas Bird Dr. Allen Barker Sadler North Star Brian Lim Shilloth-bay Carlisle Roya Earl of Home Lothian Earl of Elgin Caledonian Hunt Edinburgh Courant Croypon Croydon Spa Road Bermondsey Charles Gardener Redcross-street Southwark Rotherhithe Greenwich and Croydon Flockton Turpentine Works Penge-common Sydenham Staunton Wyville Langton Slawson Gleason-wood Heythorpe Tusby Holleston Skeffington-highfield Skeffington-wood Laddington Reddish Cardigan Gardiner de Burgh Greene Lord Gardner Leicestershire Duke of Montrose Selby-hall Northamptonshire Melton Lord Forrester

Alarmed Fire at Grosvenor Square Mansion

A blaze swept the drawing-room and structural timbers of George Henderson at No 55 Green Street Grosvenor Square on Monday night. Firemen battled the flames from 8 to 9 pm, discovering a large beam ignited from the adjacent No 56 kitchen, and extensive damage followed despite extensive brick removal and firefighting efforts. A separate court martial at Chatham barracks adjourned over the trial of John McGuin for pistol misconduct in Dover, with witnesses summoned and the accused declining defence, noting two years service and good character.

Green-Street Grosvenor-Square George Henderson Grosvenor Square Count-Manriat Chatham Barracks John M‘guin 16Th Regiment of Foot Halifax Lockett Smily Carley 2D Foot O'Connell Meredith Robinson Bond Beaty Johnson Loftus Lowrie 63Rd Weare K.H.P.E Pipon K.H Dover William Kain Cannon Mejor Pipon J Hill

Royal clemency granted to well behaved convicts

Her Majesty announces royal clemency on the birth of a royal prince. Convicts who behaved well shall have their punishment remitted and those deemed deserving now on hulks at Deptford Woolwich Sheerness Plymouth Pembroke Cork and other prisons shall be granted liberty.

James Graham Home Department Deptford Woolwich Sheerness Par Piouth Pembroke Cork

Reading Gaol prisoner Cavanagh's gruel fraud examined

A surgeon at Reading gaol reports on Bernard Cavanagh's alleged use of water and altered gruel to feign abstinence. The physician notes the prisoner lacks any real control of excretory functions and deems him an impostor, whose defiance of hunger reveals his deception. Also noted is a Wakefield shipboard dispute over a deserter woman ending in a staged stand-up fight ashore.

Cavanagh Bernard Cavanagh Leeds Intelligencer Lord Langdale Court of Chancery Victoria Eaid Court SY. Amer

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