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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 13, 1840

Page

6

Disparaging Bible Terms Run Trial Verdict Guilty

The passage notes debates on publishing harsh Old Testament language and whether such expressions are prosecutable if coarsely or offensively stated. The jury convicted the defendant, with Lord Denman suggesting the court defer judgment to term.

Lord Denman Attorney General Court OF Queen’s Bench Moxvay Guy_v Mr. Huggins St. James’s Street Mr. C. Jones St. Mary Lebone Wright’s Row Pellstreet New Road Charles Day Scotland Alexander Duncan Red Lion Princes-street Westminster Gell Wm. Griffin Jane Binfield Feetham Milbank Weymouth Weymouth Green Barnard White Holt Westminster Hospital Borrodaile St. John's Eethatm Eximaonpinsry Agrenet Ar Svicipe James Arnold Lynn Norfolk Upper Thames-street St. Thomas’s Hospital

Law court fight over church rate discharge in Leicester jail

In the Court of Chancery on Tuesday a motion sought William Barnes to be discharged from Leicester gaol for non payment of a church rate of £2 5s with £1 25s costs. Objections centered on jurisdiction, description in the significavit, and absence of the defendant. Proceedings paused to Wednesday then further argument.

Court OF Chancery E.barnes William Barnes Leicester M. D. Hill Baines J. Hill Salkeld Hill Atches Nash Barn Adolph Bruyere Halcomb Court of King’s Bench Ransom Dundas Common Pleas King v. Mayby Court of Queen’s Bench Court of Arches George III Court of Queen's Bench Clarke Oughton Thorogood Lushington H. Jenner Canterbury Ricketts Queen's Bench Burn Mellor Hinl William Baines Leicestershire Herbert Jenner Arches Court of Canterbury Witzherbert Viner Mr. Hill Burgoyne Free Yad Haggard J. Nicholl Oliver v Haggard Ince Sime Serbert Jenner Hall Bernewall Alderson Mr. Davies Chancellor Brougham Lord Tyndhurst Court of Exchequer Wigram 5Th of Elizabeth

London Trial Reports Pickpocket and Fraud Cases

Long docket of magistrates and jurors detailing various crimes. A piano player alias Moore faced theft charges after a watch and valuables vanished from a drunken Irishman at Café Royal. Separate final examinations involve Russian banknote forgery plots, a purse snatching on a London omnibus, and a drunk prisoner case with a distracting witness lineup.

Bow Strest Lonpures Jacob Moore Demeline Twynford John O'Hara Hatchett’s Piccadilly Adelphi Broad-street Golden-square Twyford Ireland O Hara Mr. T Strand Burke Hall Imperial Bank of Russia Bodkin Bush Mr. Roberts John Forrester Mansion House Rault Portland-street Soho Isabella Auld Robert Auld Cranecourt Fleetstreet George Henry Harsell Oxford Street Auld Red Lion-street Holborn Day Martin’s Witness Red Lion Street Francis Street Newington John Porter Mr. Flower

The Egyptian Vision and Other Fragments from a Column

A poetic fragment titled The Egyptian Vision describes a spectral, moonlit siege of Alexandria with British banners and a haunting imperial gaze. It unfolds into a battle-swept coastal vision, then shifts to a series of small notices on spiders, law and self-government, East reform, and culinary notes about sardines, all in a 19th century newspaper column voice.

Qor Ptolemitus Cour-de-Lion England Richard Mantua Alexandria Bolton Volt Acre Desert Egypt Nile Iskander Atlantic Shadow Karnak Sesostris Britain Roland Lyman Lowell Courter Iman Alexander Persia Cesar Bonaparte Europe Linneal Elneatier

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