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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 13, 1845
Page
3
A fragment from Literary Chronicle reviews a long mixed page of fiction and poems, including a tale “The Private View” and a long extract from The Vorsg Banoxet. It also features a lengthy moral Irish fairy tale about Mick Purcell and a magical bottle that grants wealth, with episodes of deception, family fortune, and a final moral about Bottle Hill’s name. The prose mirrors 19th century concerns with art, celebrity, and popular folklore.
A large 1845 meeting at the Exchange Hall in Shia Town debates free trade for corn, urging return of free-trade members in the county. Speakers attack corn laws, discuss potato and wheat crop failures, and criticize Peel’s government, urging Parliament dissolution and reform. The Lancashire and Stockport meetings echo calls for immediate abolition and open ports.
In a will dated after the passing of Misa Mary Flaherty a residuary legatee is named as Right Hon. Henry Lord Brougham and Vaux with expected property over £20,000 from funded and personal estate. At York Assizes Thomas Wilkinson aged 52 was found guilty of stealing a horse near Selby and of the skin theft. He was sentenced to ten years transportation.
Friday meeting at Mermaid Tavern Yeovil grows tense as farmers and MPs clash over agriculture policy. Speakers recount years of hardship from potato failures, meagre wages, rising rents, and hunger with families living on limited rations. Voices describe beans and potatoes as primary foods and fear winter poverty as wages drop and farms struggle.
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