Multiple incendiary fires sweep Bedfordshire and Kent farms
A week of arson devastation hits Bedfordshire with fires at Lamestead Colmworth Maulden Felmersham Biddenham Apsley Ridgmont Tebworth and Hawnes plus a large blaze at Eames farm Clapham near Bedford. A suspected arson at Farnborough and another at Tilehurst follow with police pursuing a Sunday school master named Ellmer and a later incident in Suffolk offering heavy rewards for information.
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Bedfordshire
Lamestead
Colmworth
Maulden
Felmersham
Biddenhaw
Apsley
Ridgmont
Tebworth
Bedford
Alexander Sharman
Clapham
Crisp
Ouse
Sun
Hawnes
Mr. Eames
Lord Carteret
Stretford
Eames
Thomas Ellmer
Bedford Gaol
Farnponoucu
Kent
Watling-street
Southwark Bridge Road
Thomas Stow
George Inn
Farnborough
J. Lubbock
Sir J. Lubbock
Bromley
St. Mary’s Cray
M‘gill
Southwarkbridge-road
Stow
Bird
King
R Division of Police
John Lubbock
Manster-house-street
Royal Exchange-office
Suffolk
Bow-street
Tyrrell
Pulstead Hall
William Tabor
C. Tyrrell
George Gayford
Rymer House
Duke of Gratton
Suffolk Fire Office
Essex and Suffolk Equitable Insurance Office
Reney
Fakehaw
Duke of Grafton
Suffolk Insurance Office
Blackburn Association
Thomas French
Whitfield
Brockley
Tinghurst
Reap- Ing
Chaurchend
Tilehurst
Reading
Thomas Sherwood
Norcot
Barefoot
George Higgs
Sherwood
Dreadful Willersey Fire Claims Eight Rimall Family
A coroner's inquest at the George Inn Willersey examined seven bodies burnt beyond recognition after a Wednesday fire. The Rimall family of eight children, two adults, and servant Mrs Jeffs perished. the eldest son, who escaped, helped rescue two brothers. Fire began from a bond timber igniting after a chimney fire. The house valued at £800 was destroyed. a charity subscription aids the bereaved mother.
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Evtsyam
Willersey
George Inn
John Cooke
Hannah Rimall
Hannah Jeffs
Sarah Rimall
Mary Rimall
Ann Rimall
David Rimall
Betsey Rimall
Rimali
Mr. Rimall
Mr. Rinnall
Rimall
Campden
Jeffs
Portable fire escapes shown at Manors station yard trial
In a Newcastle Advertiser report, Mr G A Lambert unveils a portable canvas fire escape tested by police and spectators behind the Station-house yard. Six men on each side and four at ends stretch the sail tight so a person may leap safely to the canvas. The device, easily carried, will be sent with engines and kept at each fire office for rapid deployment.
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G- A. Lambert
Newcastle
Tyrell
Pulstead
Suffolk
Thomas Kersey
Fakenham
Duke of Grafton
Thomas French
Whitfield
Northamptonshire
CarTiox
Fletcher
Kings and Keys
Fleet-street
Liverpool Albion
Ashton
Ashton Under-Lywe
Staly Bridge
Thacker
Reyner
Messrs
Keynes
Feargus O'Connor
Newport
Frost
Hag
France
Inquisition on Mrs Hartley, Lunacy Commission Findings
A writ de lunatico inquirendo opened before Commissioner Francis Barlow and a special jury at the Thatched House in St James's to determine Mrs. Hartley’s mental state. After lengthy testimony from doctors, lawyers, and witnesses, the jury ruled she is of unsound mind and incapable of managing her affairs since October 31, 1834.
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Francis Barlow
St. James's Street
Park-street
Grosvenor Square
Carpenter Rowe
Montague Smith
Major Hartley
Hartley
Louisa Saville
Earl of Scarborough
Bath
Grosvenor-street
Cornwall
Crescent Bath
Scott
Harris
Recorder of
England
Mr. Tyacke
Duchess of Cornwall
Countess of
Rialton
George Norman
William Prince Hall
Tomlin's Law Dictionary
Crescent
Northhouse
London
Hall
Royal Poor-law Union
Poor-Law Union
House of Lords
Tyacke
Court of Chancery
Mr. Hall
Langley
Whitmarsh
Sandys
Serjeant’s Inn
Russia
Austria
France
Prince Albert
Bransby Cooper
Spring Gardens
Mrs. Hartley
Crown of
Rosteage
Chancery
Hobhouse
Mons
Mariot
Mons. Mariot
Austin Friars
Mons. Guizot
Alderman Wilson
Dixon
Bague
Marquis of Westminster
Alexander Sutherland
Duchess of of Cornwall
Petty Bag
M. Guizot
M. Mariot
Lord Eglintona
Lord Palmerston
Mr. S
Mgr. Whitmarsh
Carpenter
Mary Hartley
Paris City Debt Totals and Sinking Fund Promise
A Paris debt summary lists loans of 4,000,000f from 1815 8,000,000f from 1821 40,000,000f from 1832 12,830,877f for hospices and 1,373,670f in property cessions totaling 65,703,984f. It says the amount will be paid by 1853 with 1,743,607f set aside as a sinking fund, barring any financial disruption.
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Paris
Newgate
Yorkshire
X. Vitepoo
Mts Linge
The Lieut Dracoon by Gleig in two volumes
A literary chronicle reviews Gleigs Lieut Dracoon based on George Farmers twenty year journal of soldier life. The author reread the private journals and turned them into a serialized narrative later published in two volumes by Henry Colburn. It is praised for faithful war scenes.
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Chelsea
Hussar,” &c
London
Henry Colburn
Colburn
Desecration of Churches by the French in Salamanca and Aftermath
The narrator recalls French troops converting churches in Salamanca into barracks and stables, profaning sacred spaces, while cavalry stables litter floors with manure. He details military police duties, rewarding belts, and saving Belgians from looting, then shifts to recollections of Indian service in Calcutta and Calcutta hospitality, noting adaption to luxury and native deference.
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Salamanca
God's House
Portrait of a Cossack in a Napoleonic Battle Scene
The Dragoon describes a Cossack as a moving mass of ragged swaddling wrapped in bear skin and straw, with red eyes and gaunt limbs. He wields a long lance, bows, arrows, pistols, and forges a higher saddle load as a hardened forager, brave yet filthy, a hornet to enemies. The Waterloo field is later sketched, adding historic interest to the vivid depiction.
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Lithal
After Waterloo Field Darkness and Loot on the Battle Plain
In the night after the battle at Waterloo the narrator recalls marching through a camp of French wounded and weapons, discovering horses and dead soldiers, plundering efforts, and the horrors of war. He details trampled corpses, discarded knapsacks, and the lure of money or keepsakes amid the chaos, while noting disciplined British response and subsequent military policing. He also describes grave consequences of looting and the stark contrast between valor and avarice in war.
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Waterloo
Fallon
Sueh
Also Mentioned on This Page
Literary Chronicle
11Th Dragoons
India
Calcutta
Life Guards
Greys
Duke of Wellington
Westminster Court of Requests
Watson
George Wild
Olympic Theatre
Temple Bar
Wild
Blackwall
Mr. Wild
Lewis
Thames Tuynet
Beachy Head
Coast-Guard Service
Brighton Gazette
Colchester
Esser
Holbeach
Long Sutton
Stamford Mercury
James Linneker
Norton Back Moor
Sheffield
Stamford
Herbert Marsh
Barnack
Peterborough
Miard
Durham
Lincoln Assizes
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