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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 16, 1838
Page
5
A Sunday service at the Chapel Royal Windsor featured Queen Victoria and a large noble attendance including the Earl of Albermarle and the Marchioness of Tavistock. Reports discuss the Queen's potential Brighton visit, palace repairs, a new loan, military and naval affairs, and various societal notices from across Britain and abroad.
Haymarket adds American comedian Hill for six nights amid mixed reviews while Mrs. Dawson and Strickland receive praise. Adelphi features Spring Rice and Jim Crow encore, with Beverley and Wright in new burletta roles. Covent Garden announces Harlequin and Fair Rosamond pantomime with Gouriet, plus plans for the Lyceum reopening and reduced pit and box prices.
The 1839 Weather Almanack foresees a Christmas storm and frost before the new year, then a mix of fair to gloomy days through February to June, with July and August sunny. Other items note a gruesome discovery in Regent's Park with a found body verdict, caricatured portraits of the Duke of Norfolk, a debtor's escape ruling, a Caen cats and cadavers scene, a Plumeton maid case, and a lawyer's client crying incident, all in brief.
Fire at the New Castle Savings Bank in the Royal Arcade, Newcastle, leads to murder and arson. Actuary Mr Bolam and assistant Millie killed or gravely injured during a bold break in. Police and fire services contain the blaze. suspect Archibald Bolam later detained.
A large Bethnal Green and Haggerstone gathering at Middlesex Chapel backed the Hackney Road British and Foreign School. The Right Hon Lushington praised universal education and a school serving 240 daily attendees, with 330 boys on the books and 2,553 trained in eight years.
Grace Darling receives fifty sovereigns for heroic life-saving on the Forfarshire disaster. Troops from Woolwich under Lieut-Colonel Grant embark for Barbadoes, with drafts for the West Indies and Island Bridge Dublin. Court politics include charity grants for widows, police petition relief, and city honors for long-serving officials. Gas lighting reaches Kirkwall as royal naval dinners raise Canada relief funds. A parish meeting debates sending 20 female children to the Cape of Good Hope under The Children's Friend Society, amid opposition.
John Stephen Pardy of Russell Square applied at Hatton Garden police office with a friend for warrants against Christopher Hawdon and the Paul Pry proprietors. He alleged libels and a £50 extortion threat tied to a Wellington Street letter, asserting the press liberty at stake and naming Hawdon as involved. Magistrates Burrell and Whiskin signaled probable felony and invited Pardy to return Thursday for warrants.
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