Haco the Sea King and 1844 Almanack Notes
A literary note highlights a prose sketch Haco the Sea King in a larger volume and reviews Lerr's Diary For 1844 as a shipshape almanack with new features. It also pleads for earlier shop closures inspired by Manchester and comments on social reforms and white slavery in drapers' yards.
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Haco
Metropolitan Drapens’ Association
Prizz
Manchester
England
Joseph Sturge
Lerr
Mr Baring campaigns in Farrington ward festival
The Conservatives of Farringdon Without held their annual festival at the Sussex hotel in Fleet Street. Beaten candidate Mr Baring delivered a lengthy speech denouncing the Anti Corn Law League and urging unity and constitutional guard against the league’s alleged aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sussex Hotel
Bouverie Street
Fleet-street
Baring
Anti Corn Law League
Mr. Baring
League
Covent-garden
St. Stephen’s
Councils
The
Bowrings
Thompsons
Cobdens
Brights
Sies
France
Holland
Belgium
England
Great Britain
Late Atrocious Case in Sidcup Verdict Manslaughter
A Kent coroner and jury return a unanimous verdict of manslaughter against George Plummer in the Sidcup case of Maria Plummer 49. Witnesses describe her dire state, lodging refusals, and alleged neglect linked to cold exposure and shelter. The inquiry centers on relieving officer Banks and the husband’s role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. J. Carttar
Kent
Maria Plummer
Black Horse Inn
Sidcup
Pritchard
Banks
Bromley Union
Thomas Bottle
Perry-street
Chislehurst
Chiselhurst
Mr. Banks
Maria
Poolay
George W. Barnard
Churchlane
Barnard
Mary Hisnam
Mr. Pritchard
Woodfall
Board of Guardians
Mr. Hall
George Plummer
Maidstone
Eton Window Project Advances with Subscriptions
Eton College reports progress on a £2000 east window for the chapel. First £400 instalment paid. central lower tier will depict the Crucifixion, upper tiers the Ascension and the twelve apostles. Completion planned by next March. total cost expected under £2000 with copper wire covering. Subscription goal £320 per term urged to finish within two years. Also note plans for an atmospheric railway between Margate and Ramsgate, aiding a South Eastern branch connection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eton
Eton College
Messrs
Neville
Etonians
J.l.joynes
E. B. Foster
T. Brocklebank
G. Herbert
C. Patteson
RamsGate
Margate
Dublin
Kingstown
Dover Telegraph
Farthing Shirts for the Poor at St Pancras Workhouse
An inquest at St Pancras workhouse revealed harsh pay for shirt making by impoverished women. Witnesses described striped shirts, minimal earnings, and purchases of tea and sugar with wages while meals and comfort were scarce. Jurors returned a verdict of death from natural disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grinpine
St. Pancras
J. G. Mills
Ann Noyce
Legal and Miscellaneous Correspondence Review
A long reader request column offers guidance on secret societies annuities mining wills and legal disputes. It covers subscriber rights trespass rabbits licensing road hedges and officer seizures with brisk opinions from a newspaper adviser and many named correspondents.
Advent Week Sky and Weather Almanac Notes
The item records church calendar details for Third and Fourth Sundays in Advent, including proper lessons, lunar phase, daylight length, sun declination, clock error, and daily weather notes attributed to Legh, Meteo, Ephem, and Zadkiel. It also mentions events like Tyco Brahe's birth and Antwerp's surrender with brief forecasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legh
Meteo
Ephem
Zadkiel
Oxford
Tyco Brahe
Mateo
St. Thomas's
Antwerp
Dissenting College Proposed for Midland Counties
A meeting at Leicester on the 30th alt proposed a Dissenting college to educate youth for secular and Christian mission work, with instruction in medicine and surgery. Leicester named as the projected seat to serve midland counties, aiding spiritual and secular aims.
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Leicester
Midland
Leicester Ercury
Time Rules for Sunrise Sunset and Tide in Britain and Ireland
Instructions explain calculating sunrise and sunset by latitude, with adjustments per degree from 61 deg 80 min and 51 deg 80 min, and provide high water times at major ports. Variations include additions for Bristol Cork Falmouth Hull Milford Haven Dover Dublin Holyhead Liverpool Port Glasgow Southampton and notes on harbor coverage.
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Great, Britain
Ireland
London Dock
Bristol
Cork
Cove
Falmouth
Hull
Milford Haven
Brighton
Cowes
Dover
Dublin
Holyhead
Liverpool
Port Glasgow
Southampton
Sir Robert Peel the Westminster Review’s verdict
The Westminster Review portrays Sir Robert Peel as a reflective mirror of Britain’s ruling class, condemning his career as a sequence of reluctant concessions and shifting loyalties. It argues his opinions reveal no fixed principle, with his policies on Catholic Emancipation, Education, and the Corn Laws shifting over time, leaving his lasting impact unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Peel
Westminster Review
Sir Robert Peel
England
Mr. Grattan
Trish
Ireland
Grattan
Lord Dudley
Orange Lodges
Home Office
Lord Norman
Lord Haddington
Lord Stanley
Spring Rice
Murray
Spencer Percival
Gordon
Lefroy
Sibthorpe
Treland
Cory
Villiers
Chandos
Knatch
Bull Clique
Edward Knatchbull
Tamworth
Wice
Hastings
Ward
R. Peel
House of Commons
Pitt
Fires of Midland Counties Threaten Labourers and Farmers
A period of widespread arson in Hertfordshire Essex Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire endangers farm buildings threshing and the barn the mainstay of rural workers. The piece cites disrupted fire response hostility to fire crews and threatening letters while noting low insurance rates for farm property and social strains between middle and working classes.
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Midland
Herts
Essex
Cambridgeshire
Bedfordshire
Manewden
Bishop’s Stortford
Stortford
Hertfordshire
Origin of mysterious lights and cruel acts in Manenden
The report argues not all phenomena are accidental and notes local acts by residents seen as discreditable. An incident at Manenden involved a goat set alight in multiple outhouses, its agony described as heartrending and louder than any human distress, continuing as volunteers arrived.
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Manenden
Spain’s Olozaga Crisis and Royal Court Intrigue
A London paper condemns the Olozaga dispute in Spain as a deep public crisis. It accuses the Marquesa de Santa Cruz of manipulating Queen Christina through a Camarilla dominated by Ferdinand VII’s courtiers. The piece links the dissolution of the Cortes to Narvaez and Narvaez allied factions, warning of revolutions and royal damage. It likens Olozaga to Peel and Narvaez to Inglis, foreseeing a clash between Army and Cortes and predicting the ministers’ downfall. Queen Christina’s fate, the Camarilla’s influence, and the Spanish political drift are examined with sharp, cautious judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Marquesa de Santa Cruz
Cortes
Senor Olozaga
Prince Albert
Robert Peel
James Graham
Senor Mendizabal
Christina
Camarilla
Castellos
Ferdinand the Viith
Olozaga
Narvaez
Moderados
Robert Inglis
Peel
Senor Cortina
Progresista
Inglis
Lyndhurst
Cadiz
Ferdinand
Naples
Pio
Piza
Pizarro
Segovia
Isabella
Progresistas
Lesa Magestad
Wakefield’s NZ venture ends in tragedy amid colonial peril
A lamentable mishap in New Zealand leaves Captain Wakefield and companions dead while attempting to arrest Chief Rauparaha. The piece critiques colonial defense gaps, noting lack of militia and government support, and links the event to broader wartime debts and Conservative party tensions in Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
Wakefield
Thompson
Rauparaha
United States
Mississippi
Pennsylvania
House of Commons
Duke of Buckingham
Brill
Bath
Lord Lansdowne
Farringdon Without
T. Baring
Moore
Mr. Baring
Baring
League
Fraser
House of Hanover
Don Juan
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Fidcup
Legal & Miscellaneous
Tidd Pratt
Akkub
Staunton
St. Amant
Sheffield
Weekly Chronicle—Livery of
B. J
W. D
Jesus
D. C
E. J
E. W
Exonian
F. M
Highworth
G. T
H. C
J. L
J. P
Chelsea
London
Spitalfields
Weekly Chronicle
Whitechapel Road
Hellers
Wolverley-street
Gloucester-street
Hackney-road
M. M
Narotseon
Saint Helrena
S$ir
Colburn
New Monthly
Napoleon
Saint Helena
Guinness
Kid
Longwood
Hudson Lowe
Briary
J.J. Adams
St. Peter's Church
Hammersmith
Upper John-street
Fitzroy
T.M.E
Manchester Guardian
Afr. White
Shelly Arms
White
Jas. Canter
Theatre Royal
Preston
Welshman
Wood
Thomas
Great Britain and
Irelan
SunpDay
Faipay
the Weekly Chronicle
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