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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 15, 1839

Page

3

Thames police aid save steamship from fierce blaze

The Thames police inspectors Lewis Farley and Fogg, aided by their men, battled fire on a large steam vessel after a man uncovered hatches. Water from a deck pump and a floating engine helped, with heavy damage to deck and framing but cargo largely saved. Proposals to add a Kilburn bridge railway station are noted for travel convenience.

Lewis Thames Southwark Bridge Farley Fogg Thames Police Paddington Kilhun Bayswater Pimlico London and Birmingham Railway Kilburnbridge Euston Square

Chartists and Attwood flurry amid Birmingham politics

The report counters a prior claim of chartist drills at Holloway Head, recounting a merry group of youths dancing and a sergeant's reaction. It also covers the retirement of MP Thomas Attwood, the Birmingham reform scene, and the probability that Joseph Sturge will be urged as candidate with broad liberal support.

Birmingead Holloway Head Lanigan Joseph Sturge Aly. Sturge Sturge Isyeumg Tee Richard Spocer Apooner Birmingham Attwood Spooner Anti-Corn Law Sturce Deritend Bordestery Brighton Shoreham New England Nomed Wilson Tisnover Terrace John Cate Stubbefield Aml Sussex County Hospital Clayton BE. Ashiswn Dover William Quinton Gestedy Thomas Barton Rutley Quinton Musie London Rutley Condon Aleur Lonian Post-Office Mr. Rutley Moodie Mr. Moodie Paris Dover Chronicle Leicester Marrior Friends of All Saints Thompson John Seal Messrs Smart Markham Roberts Colonel Thompson Sete Leicester Chronicle

Coroner's Inquest on Mr William Taylor and a Railway Accident

The coroner at Islington reassembled a jury to hear the inquest into the death of stockbroker Mr William Taylor found in a cab. Post mortem showed brain congestion from intoxication, with arson and poisoning tests negative. A separate Hooley Lane railway accident crushed a man’s fore legs, forcing immediate euthanasia of the horse and wrecking a coal wagon.

Liverpool Livérpool Albion Western Jackson White Hart Inn March Drage Sutton Sorvidon Griffin Inn W. Pratt Lord Western Church Calvert Gray Woodward Woodward Hoop Hotel Cambridge London The Star Cambridge Independent Press Morning Chronicle Mr. Western Scotland Savoy Reggio Calabria Perthshire Fife Lothians Comrie St. Jean de Maurienne Steyning Sussex White Horse Inn H. D. Goring Shoreham Charles Burrell G. Lennox David Salomons Kent Bramber Salomons Duke of Richmond Charles Goring Wyndham Edwin James Swansea Bazon Spotasco Tilsiey Joseph Harries Somerset-house Baron Spolasco Walters Rees Harries Ireland Tunbridge Medway Seale Slade Meadows Bopy Williamm Wakley William Taylor Pied Bull Tavern Islington Preedy Marshall Joseph Collingwood Pope’s Head Alley Cornhill Tubbs Tottenham Court-Road London and Brighton Hooley-lane Croydon James Peters Merstham Hooley-house Thomas Green St. Helen's St. Helen’s John Heyes Peter Greenall Patrick Staham George Murray John Costello Smithy Brow Murray Costello Stakam Philip Macguire Macguire Staham Gaskell Waterloo-bridge Carter Surrey Lambeth Joseph York Chartered Gas Company Charles Thrasher Wagstaff Russell Waterloo Road Eliza Grimwood Fleet Prison Victoria Theatre Herbert Jenner Apsley Pellatt Mapleton Board of Guardians of the Stockfast Union Poor Law Commissioners E. J. Stanley Treasury Peck Leicester Voluntary Church Society Thorogood Chelmsford Leicester Joan" Easthope Wynn Ellis Bidner Bisa Peking Tor Musgrave Hereford Cavendish

Biographical Sketch of Dr. Butler of Shrewsbury

The article chronicles John Butler later Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, born 1774 at Kenilworth Warwickshire, educated at Rugby and Cambridge, winning Browne medals, Craven scholarship, and senior optimes. It notes his headmastership at Shrewsbury, edition of Aeschylus, various appointments from vicar to archdeacon and finally bishop, his family, and his funeral at St Mary’s, Shrewsbury.

Ohn Butler Kenilworth Warwickshire James Rugby Sohn's College Cambridge Was William Browne Craven Keate Eton Bethell Bangor Samuel Taylor Coleridge St. John’s College Royal Shrewsbury School Butler Viscount Melbourne Lichfield Coventry Ryder Worcester Shrewsbury Schools Benjamin Hall Kennedy Duke of Sussex House of Lords Sarah Apthorp Mary Bather Harriet John Lloyd Thomas Butler Angar Schylus Connop ‘Thirlwall Trinity College Howard St. Mary’s Church Worth

Letter from Dan Wheerster to Duke of Rutland on Anglo American harmony

Read at Leicester agricultural meeting the letter from Dan Wheerster stresses close trade ties between England and the United States. It notes Britain's role as importer of American wheat and corn and warns against disruption to bilateral commerce. The letter invites the duke to visit Niagara Falls and America, promising a warm reception.

Duke of Rutland Leicester London Duke Waltham Agricultural Association Belvoir England United States France Eingland America Belvoir Castle Falls of Niagara Dan

Lipenanity and Labouchere in Railway Compensation Dispute

In a December notice from Satunpay the Railway Magazine defends Mr Labouchere’s stance on a £35,000 compensation to allow a line through his estate. It praises his conscience against opposition and notes a later offer to relinquish £15,000 of his claim after revaluing the estate.

Labouchere Eastern Counties Railway Railway Magazine

Police raid on Jer myn Street Cottage Club gaming house

Police entered 60 Jer my n street in a bid to suppress a select gaming house linked to Crockford's club. They seized dice, counters, cards and rakes, arrested two leaders Thomas Jackson and Thomas Wilmot and five visitors, then charged them under a new act with managing or being in a common gaming house.

Jérmyn Baker Jackson Mr. Long Thomas Jackson Thomas Wilmot George Stewart Thomas ‘Smith Henry Palmer John Jones John Rogers Bodkin Adolphus Wilmot Inspector Jenkins E Division Jermyn-street Jarvis Crockford Colinton C Division Opis Long Crockford’s Queen Lords Commons Jack Son Conmibai Owas Asackson

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