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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 22, 1839

Page

3

Cigars and drinks cited at London harmonic meetings

A witness described sales of cigars and bottled stout at dining rooms and parlours used for harmonic meetings where up to 200 people gathered, with tickets and money handling noted. The case involved Mr White and Mr King with intricate business books and profit claims amid related legal proceedings.

London White Edmund King Biscuit Threadneedle-street Eleanor Weston King Miss Meadows Wilson-street Exerise Agricultural Society Cavendish Square Duke of Richmond Marquis of Downshire Earl Spencer T. W. Bramston M.P E. A. Sanford Friends of Agriculture Smithfield Turle Waller Tarle Great Western Railway Dudlas Farringdon Reading Bristol Bath Wells-road Holloway Claverton-street Avon Bathwick Terrace Hampton Bathwick

Extraordinary Crime Accounts From Cardiff To Manchester

Reports span a robbery near Cogan Pill where Edward Parris fought off two men, a Dublin factory fire plot foiled by apprentices, wreck gun finds near Peele Castle, socialist agitation in Leeds, and Wheeler the Chartist's arrest in Manchester, detailing witnesses, rewards, trials, and public reactions.

Cardiff Edward Parris Taff Vale Cogan Pill H’ershman Dublin Messrs Dawson Street Bolt Storey Glamorgan Rees Loughor Monknash Lloyd’s Royal National Institution Glasgow Scotted Reformer’s Gazette Huddersfield Mr. Owen Owen Missionary of Evil Melbourne Loyig Archbold Peele Castle Furness Stephen Lambert Simwell Ireland Newark Simmel Henry VII Martin Swartz Geraldine Sir. T. Broughton Richard II John Arundel Brittany Irish Sea Louis IX Scotland Irish Channel Clyde Woolwich Leeds Brindley Friends of Civil and Religious Freedom Rd. Brook J. Brooke Willans Mr. Willans Matthew Wilkinson Forest of Hans Leeds Mercury Manchester James Wheeler Whittle-street Liverpool Beswick Borough Court C. J. S. Walker John Brooks Walker Wheeler William Willis Hanging-ditch Abel Heywood Oldham-street Perth Ransey United States Aberdeenshire Edinburgh

Return of Bouquin and museum savings headline in Temps and Railway note

The Temps reports the return of French prisoner Bouquin from Russia, detailing his long captivity and destitute state upon reaching St Harbaine. British Museum workmen renew the Elgin marbles display, with walls to resemble red granite and temporary restrictions on drawings. Post office changes show rising letters and expected penny rate reductions, while hay recovery tips and the London and Great Northern Taung Railway proposal connect Midland routes to improve trade, aiming to cut coal prices in London.

Bouquin Russia Smolensko Kiev Kursk Barderiloff France Odessa Moldavia Bessarabia Austria St. Harbaine Haute-Marine British Museeum Elgin Earl of Elgin London and Great Northern Taung Railway Mid Grand Union and Midland Counties Railways Nottingham Northern and Eastern Railway Wareassing Melton Mowbray Stamford Hunting Son J. Neot’s Hertford, &T Trent Grantham Melton Oakham Welland Ouse, New Midland and Eastern England London Railway Magazine

Destitute man dies after workhouse dispute in Holborn

An inquest into a St Luke parish destitute man who traveled from Holborn to St Andrew's to seek relief found he died of natural causes but blamed delays in admission under the new Poor Law. Witnesses criticized relieving officers and urged prompt relief in destitution cases.

Baker Malloy St. Andrew, Holborn St. Jakes Margaret Bonset St. Andrew Holborn Warwick-place Rodert Gray's Inn-lane Hamett Wilks Messrs. Reidan Co Rance St. Andrew's St. Andrew’s St. Luke's Cumberland Head Kay New Turner George Wallis The Holborn Union Oray’s-inn-lane John Cawer Union St. Luke’s George Stripling Hamblin St. Luke

Bishop of Calcutta proposes £40000 cathe dral cost plan

A Standard correspondent reports the Bishop of Calcutta aims to erect a cathedral in Calcutta estimated at £40000. The bishop offers to fund half (£20000) himself with two halves: £20000 now and £20000 later, and intends to raise the remaining £20000 by subscription in India and at home.

Standard Calcutta

Temperance Movement under Father Mathew’s Cork Drive

The Reverend Theobald Mathew in Cork leads a growing temperance pledge movement drawing thousands across Ireland and beyond. From a handful of parishioners to seventy thousand on his registry in Cork, pilgrims travel by foot and boat to take the pledge in his presence, with observable declines in public drunkenness and looming political ramifications.

England Scotland Ireland Theobald: Mathew Cork British Empire Mathew Temperance -Society Temperance Society London Donegal Jerusalem Father Mathew

Extraordinary Murder and Tiger Tale Across Empires

A mixed dispatch of sensational items notes a nine year old boy’s confession to infant homicide in Paris, a tiger slain by Captain Whistler in India, and a vast Boston Nation newspaper claim with a boastful column on American press might. Also hints at a wife accused of killing her husband by speechless Boston woman.

Lancashire Northern Star Ashton Denton Oldham Star Hoolley Hill Leeds Leeds Mercury Madras Hyderabad Nelcondah Secunderabad Whistler Commissariat Sporting Magazine Hervé Rue Richelieu Procureur du Roi Jonathan John Bull Earl Spencer Boston Nation Boston

Antipopopristian Critique Sparks Narrow Wordplay Debate

The piece examines John Rogers's work Antipopopriestian arguing the title is a muddled invention. It criticizes Rogers for linguistic pretension, misused etymology, and verbose prose while detailing defenses and missteps across poetry and prose sections.

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