Marriage case reveals long affair and £20 damages
Evidence shows a Marylebone register and Hayward family involved in a prolonged affair. Witnesses describe visits, dinners, and letters while the plaintiff’s wife stayed with him, culminating in a verdict awarding damages of £20 for breach of trust. Cambridge authorities also announce a ban on tandem driving by students.
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Stam
Marylebone
Ai Ee Duvets
Hayward
Sloane-street
Sage
Chelsea
Thessene
I Samiaid
Eigh
Margate
Driver
Laintiff
Epsom
Emily Smith
Sloane Street
Whitehead
Mr. Barlow
Mrs. Hayward
the Cock Public House
Orasloneny
the Cock
Cock Tavern
Plaintiff
Barlow
Mr. Thesiger
Miss Smith
Thesiger
Cambridge
Return of Stamps Issued to London Newspapers 1840 41
Advertisers note details of stamp returns for principal London newspapers for half year ending December 30, 1840 with printing date March 1841. The notice advises how to compute sunrise sunset times for Great Britain and Ireland using latitude, and provides tables for high water times at major ports including Bristol Orkney Cove Falmouth Hull Milford Haven Brighton Cowes Dover Dublin Holyhead Liverpool Port Glasgow Southampton and others. It references further calendar information in Notices to Correspondents.
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London
House of Commons
Great Brain
Ireland
London Dock
Bristol
Ork
Cove
Falmouth
Hull
Milford Haven
Brighton
Cowes
Dover
Dublin
Holyhead
Liverpool
Port Glasgow
Southampton
Aggregate yearly numbers in Weekly Chronicle print
Fragmentary OCR lists various "Weekly Chronicle" print aggregates and assorted periodical names and percentages. The text references Globe and Evening Chronicle style items, shipping gazettes and English chronicles, but provides no coherent event or date.
Legal correspondence offering financial and procedural guidance
A dense column of legal Q and A touches apprentices not freed from contracts without premium, marriage licence costs, local solicitors, and rules about birth records. It also covers court jurisdiction limits, trustee debts, and a note on wills and heirs, followed by miscellany on calendar dates, weather, and public safety advice.
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Plymouth
Amicus
Doctors’ Commons
H. M. (Sutton
France's Speakership Dilemma and Thiers Guizot Clash
The Weekly Chronicle analyzes French parliamentary maneuvering as Thiers and Molé plot against Guizot with Lamartine as a potential presidential spoiler. It notes the fragile unity among opposition factions, the king's hold on advisers, and the harsh press backlash against Guizot. The article also condemns the Quenisset trial as a spectacle undermining France's political climate and warns against linking press agitation to royalist conspiracies.
Colonisation and Government Action on Emigration Policy
A letter by Edward Gibbon Wakefield prompts support for wide scale colonisation. The piece urges government adoption of Wakefield principles, parliamentary guarantees to fund emigration, and safeguards for sale methods, with a call for strong, principled action beyond mere grants.
Emigration Fund and Land sales debated in Parliament
The article argues for a fixed proportion of land sale proceeds to fund emigration to the colonies, preserving the fund as sacred. It discusses views from Lord Howick Lord Stanley Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell, supports a guaranteed emigration loan, and rebuts Chartist opposition. It emphasizes the need to relieve distress, expand markets, and acknowledges long term effects of Corn Law repeal and colonial immigration.
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Lord Howick
Lord Stanley
New Zealand
Robert Peel
John Russell
England
Duke of Buckingham
James Graham
Germany
New World
Saxony
Leeds
Leicester
Nottingham
Stockport
Paisley
New South Wales
PUSEYISM SHREWSBURYISM AND THE ESTATICA OF CALDARO
The Exchequer Bill trials spark debate over alleged government evasion of liability to holders. Lord Shrewsbury's claims of Estatica of Caldaro and Addolorata of Capriana are examined, with skepticism about miracles and stigmata and warning against credulity in religious mysticism.
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Times
Lord Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury
Dr. Pusey
Hsfatica
Caldaro
Doldolorata
Capriana
Ambrose Lisle Philipps
Weekly Chronicle
Estatica
Maria ,Marl
St. Francis
Mr. Gorres
Maria Méri
Monsieur de la Bouillette
Maria
Rome
Maria Mori
Domenica Lazzari
Earth
Ieabe
Taglioni
Catherine Emmerich
Josephine Hume
Tose
Tiger Hume
Public credit fear fuels demand for full inquiry into fraud
Readers urge Parliament to expose all circumstances of alleged Exchequer Bill fraud affecting public confidence. They insist on rigorous investigation, punish those connected, and protect innocent investors who trusted government securities.
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Beaumont Smith
Colonial Office
Smith
King
Rapallo
Baron Parke
Death of Lady Durham Shocks North Society
The death of Lady Durham, at age 45, shocks the north where she embodied influence for Lord Durham during his heir's minority. She leaves two daughters and a son, with a noted blend of feminine sweetness and sound judgment. Her loss impacts families, politics, and society across the district where she was best known.
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Lady Durham
Lord Durham
Lord Durhan
England
St. Petersburg
Canada
Private letter reports Spanish political upheaval and British notices
A Bayonne letter notes dissolution of the Cortes and ministry changes in Spain. Paris embassy figure Olozaga to lead the future council of ministers. Hanover Gazette records Prince Bernard Braunfels opening the session on the 2d inst. French papers show little news. Britain reports a London bridge-master trial with 160 witnesses and a possible Duke of Sussex grand master clarification. Also local incidents include Emma Clarke deserting five children and a life-saving reward for the Millard family fire responders.
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Bayonne
Spain
Ile Cortes
Senor Olozaga
Paris
Council of Ministers
Hanover
Prince Bernard of Sui
Braunfels
Belgium
Uf. Annes
Bluefield
Mosquito Shore
Central America
M‘donald
Belize
San Juan de Nicaragua
Manual Quigano
Omoa
Tuk QueLy' Macnamara
Duke of Sussex
Order of Freemasons
Grand Lodge
Emma Clarke
St. Luke's, Middusce
Dupere and Clark
J. Millard
Mr. Reeve
Princess
Millard
Royal Navy
Seelwert
William Burne
William
William Burnett
Martin Archer
United Service Gazette
Tweed Bavx
Tweed
Berwick
Eit
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John Bull
Britannia
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Standards
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True Suns
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Murphy
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Thirsk
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Oxford
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America
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Manchester
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Claremont
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Wales
R. Ford
Hibernian
Cork
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Fleet-street
Ridgway and Co
King William-street
Antrobus and Co
Strand
Bets-Rincens
Bets-Rincens.—Bolney
Sussez
Cuance Rinoine
Bob Majors
Burney
Sussex
H. Plumber
Trebie
John Potter
Thomas Attree
John Picknell
Richard Potter
James Parsons
P. Parsons
Richard Cook
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Monsieur Thiers
Count Molé
Robert Inglis
Tommy Duncombe
Monsieur Guizot
Soult-Guizot
Duke of Orleans
Louis Philippe
Party of Peace
Monsieur de Lamartine
Monsieur Sauzet
Monsieur Lamartine
Courrier Francais
Henri Quintist
Monsieur Berryer
Gauche
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Dufaure
Europe
Toulouse
Chamber of Peers
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Wakefield
Vernon Smith
Northampton
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