Medical Exposures and the Rise of Fashionable Doctors
A critical pamphlet exposes careless medical pretenders and profit driven alliances between MDs and druggists. It ranks fashionable practitioners higher in ignorance, recounts Spain fever mismanagement, and questions dysentery theory while detailing dangerous home and abroad treatments and the improper use of bleeding and quelled remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Rolland
Ettietteen
Wales
Rue Eviron
Weekly Chronicle
DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS Loss of Seventy Lives
A New York Gazette report describes the Bristol from Liverpool wrecking off Rockaway seven miles east of the Pavilion. Forty saved, over sixty drowned including Captain and crew. passengers Donnelly and Hogan families, and Mrs. Hogan. Cargo losses and insurance noted. pilot negligence blamed. Also coverage of Clansman and Elizabeth and Mary losses, with survivor accounts and piracy concerns.
Ministers and the Corn Laws
Note from Sir Henry Parnell to Lord John Russell dated November 29 defends his Dundee speech on corn laws. He says no statement about government proposing an Agricultural Committee to repeal or modify the laws was made. Parnell argues the committee implies inquiry into the laws and that the government would not resist examining grounds for modification or repeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Henry Parnell
John Russell
Sir Henry
Dundee
Chester-street
Lord John
Denison
Agricultural Committee
Pareets
H. Parnell
Lord John Russell
Henry Parnell
Insolvent Debtor Court Returns Hear Plea and Sees Remand
The Insolvent Debtor Court meets with Chief Commissioner and Mr Bowen presiding. Richard Cornell faces opposition from Cunliffe and relief by Cooke over bills of exchange. Debtor, once a master mariner, now a bill discounter, owes £3000-£4000 with disputed accommodations. Symes and Rose cases follow with fraud concerns and detainers. Other matters include Wil liam Irons and John Gooseman proceedings, detention issues, and remand for ten months over fraudulent property disposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowen
Richard Cornell
Nichols
Messrs. Cunliffe
Cooke
Cheltenham
Law
George Bathurst Symes
Arthur Rose
Trinity-square
Southwark
Sapans
Upper Thames-street
Esquire
Thames Association
Society For
Suffolk
London
Rose
Edwards
William Irons
Jones
Woodroffe
John Gooseman
Kenrick
Hayman
Grant
Iman
William Peter Broughton
Marine Parade
Dover
Clarges-street
Piccadilly
Messrs.Nichols
Middlesex Sessions Move to Issue Bench Warrants Against Gamblers
In Pickering-place St. James's three defendants face a true bill for keeping a common gambling-house. The Chairman orders bench warrants to be issued and placed with the district inspector for execution, pending review by Colonel Rowan and possible police action. Louis Perry, prosecutor, complains police refused to aid in earlier arrests, with the Chairman promising a police inquiry and full evidence submission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pickering-place
St. James’s
Prendergast
Rowan
Louis Louis
Charles Perry
Perry
Commissioners of Police
Brentford Petty Sessions Madman In Chelsea Wanderer
A miserable but well looking man was brought before Magistrates by constable Gough after being found wandering in New Road Chelsea late at night. He answered questions with confused phrases about perch sites and constitutional opposites, claiming he lived on five shillings for two years and giving erratic names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cudd
Cornelius Nepos
Nepos
Mr.Codd
Edward wHeath
Aneboet
Celeeae
Courts Of Requests Expose Slippery Wives In Wage Claims
In Kinascave Street Court of Requests Irish suitors dominate wage cases with sworn claims. Commissioners hear brash testimony as Bridget Macbride and Daniel Murphy clash over pay, board, and clothes. The session ends with a dismissal and a hint to refile.
Directors' liability case in Court of Requests
Binns sues Nicholls for two pounds over rent share in joint stock company formed for offices at Binns's Strand home. Nicholls argues the County Act forbids dividing sums for separate suits. Commissioners dismiss the summons with costs, noting directors face potential heavy disbursements if company fails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Binns
Nicholls
C. K. Nicholls
Loss of the Royan Tar and a daring carriage theft
A letter in New Brunswick papers describes a shipboard disaster where due to no deck fire engine the blaze consumed the Royan Tar. About 60,000 dollars in specie was lost. a caravan keeper swam overboard with 500 in specie and drowned. Passengers, including mothers with infants lashed to them, leapt overboard. only one elderly Irish woman survived among thirty two drowned. Captain Edward Waite of Portland saved a trunk of about 9,000 dollars but secured himself, then shared a raft with a nearby passenger until rescue. Separately, Thomas Smalley faced a Dublin court for feloniously appropriating a carriage owned by Mr Matthews of Summerhill. the carriage was found aboard a steamer to Liverpool after theft, with the coach and horses later recovered or offered for sale at various locations. The prisoner admitted heavy drinking and claimed the horses ran away, the carriage was transferred to a steamer, and the case was ordered to Dublin for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
le Sage
Sangrado
M.D
Dr. A
Mr. B
Tie Deloureux
Ouid
Ireland
Pers B
Faithful
Spain
British Legion
Dover
Rolland
Grant
Elliottson
London
North Wales
Hubard-Hall Council
Hamilton
Edinburgh
New York Gazette
Bristol
M‘kown
Liverpool
Sandy Hook
Highland Light
W.N.W
E.N. E
Rockaway
Hogan
Michael Hogan
Esquire
Valparaiso
Donnelly
Carltons
Mesars
Wilson and Company
St. Petersburgh
Clansman
Blain
Dundee
Hogland
Celerity
Fairlan
Glasgow Herald
New York
Mr. Donnelly
Long Island
New Brunswick
Edward Waite
Portland
Thomas Smalley
Matthews
Summerhill
Dublin
Eastwood
Royal Hotel
Lucas
Hall
England
Flockhart
Liverpool Standard
Manchester
Northern
Central Bank
Bank of England
Northern and
Bank of Enslang
Princi
Chamber of Representatives of
Belgium
St. John’s
Miramichi
Royal Tar
Academy of Sciences
Paris
M. Dutertre
Place de Gréva
M. Garnier
Nantes
Vannes
56Th Regiment
Cantees
M. Severac
Severac
Séverac
R. Peel
Robert
Glasgow
Evans
Forrester
St. Paul's
Somerset-house
St. Paul's Coffee-house
Manchester Guardian
St . Bolton
Jie
Bank Parcel Recovery Overcomes Market Rumor
A Manchester journal notes light on late talks between the Northern and Central Bank and the Bank of England. A parcel valued near £111,406 with various securities was lost then found and returned within hours. The Bank aided by offering loans to London agents, restoring market confidence. Belgians consider bounty to shipbuilders. News covers Masquerade of public notices, naval papers, and a Breton incident.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Johnson
Lennon
James G. Davey
Portsea
Davey
British Association
Insolvent Debtors Court
Middlesex
Brentford
Petty Sessions
Court OF Requests
Kinascave Street
Mary Donalpson
Bridget
Agra
Mistress Macbride
Knavisy Daniels
Andrew
Tipperary
Daniel
Daniél Murphy
Andrew Brenton
Meeself
Allan Ramsay
Daniel Murphy
Dubois
Castle-street
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