Incendiary Fires Alarm Town and Surrounding Villages
A series of destructive fires swept towns and parishes including Somersham, Eaton and Buckingham areas, with oats, wheat and hay stacks burned. Incendiaries are suspected. rewards offered and investigations underway as residents, gentry, and workers aided fire engines and saved buildings. Insurance details noted for several properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Danby
Pratt Street
Danby
Ellis Staples
Suffolk
John Dobedee
Rev. H. Rasker
Childs
Aton Socan
J. Hall
Hall
O. R. Wilkinson
Eaton Engine
St. Foot’s
Messrs. G. Thornhill
M.P
Metcalfe
Day
Wilkinson
Squire
Darnell
Carrington
West of England
Devons
Denning
New Park Farm
Axminster
Wottonhouse
Duke of Buckingham
Malin
Dennett
Stowe
Navensy
Navenby
Clarke Hales
Hales
Lincoln
Stamford Mercury
Baxlinc
Robert Storey
Bart
Bourse
Storey
Norwich Union
Brybroox
Johnson
Jzéid
Rhoades
Fortescue Arms
Tattershall
Rawson
Scrivelsby
Horncastle
Corfe Castle
Waters
Rollington Farm
Sherborne Journal
Speen
Speen Church
Speenmoor
T. Price
Royal Exchange Office
Devizes
Frnz
Harrow
Campion
Farina
Mathews
Inspector Low
Mr. M
Low
Chelmsford Chronicle
Manopen
Bishop Stortford
Timothy Bush
Chelmsford
Coroner Interferes With Munro Auction At Brompton Square
A Brompton square sale of Lieut. Munro’s furniture is halted after coroner Thomas Wakley and police intervene. Kirke the auctioneer explains absence of prior notice, while Wakley tests the coroner’s authority and confirms potential legal action. The sale is delayed for a few days pending legal opinion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munro
Middlesex
Brompton Square
Wakley
Lowry
Inspector Barefoot
B Division
Police
Kirke
Brompton Row
Philip Kirke
Brompton
Alexander Thompson Munro
David Lynar Fawcett
Thomas Wakley
West Middlesex
Grapes
Brompton Road
Beadle
Beat Legal
Colonel Fawcett
Pearson Defends London Corporation In Public Address
Mr Charles Pearson delivers the final part of his London reform speech at the London tavern defending the corporation against charges of extravagance. He cites court costs, octroi comparisons with Paris, sewerage expenditure, and reforms in voting and committees while detailing his own salary and disbursements. The meeting applauds his vindication and passes resolutions praising his integrity and the city’s governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithfield
Paris
London
Marylebone
Corporation
Irish Society
Norwood
Pearson
Charles Pearson
Hickson
Fairseat
Wrotham
Kent
Mr. Pearson
Court of Common Council
Broad-street
W. E. Hickson
J. Travers
Travers
Corporation of London
Westminster Review
Hear
Elliott
Blackett
Nicholson
Four men charged with murder in Bilston pit crime
At Bilston, coroner T M Phillips and a jury heard the dying declaration of Mary Jane Wild, an eighteen year oldgirl who said four men pulled her from the turnpike road and threw her into a pit after she refused their advances. Witnesses named Fellows Purslow Perry and Webb and described injuries from the fall as a post mortem indicated a pubic bone fracture and other wounds. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against all four, to be tried at the winter assizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. M Phillips
Bilston
Mary Jane Wild
Wolverhampton
Samuel Fellows
Robert Purslow
John Perry
Daniel Webb
W. Baldwin
Charles Hodgkins
Baldwin, Esq
Fellows
Purslow
Perry
Webb
Stafford
Ann Willis
Haynes
John Turner
Blaze
Johhn Perry
Thomas Tomlinson
Willis
Death From Alleged Neglect At Westminster Inquest
An inquest in Westminster investigated Catherine Smart’s death from hemorrhage during confinement. Witnesses criticized midwives and Dr. Lock of the Belgrave Lying-in Institution for delays and inadequate medical aid, while jurors condemned lack of timely professional attendance and offered support to the widower and three young children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brewer's Green
Westminster
Higgs
Catherine Smart
William Smart
Goodman's Green
Palmer’s Field
Royal Belgrave Lyixsg
Sloane Square
Lock
Chapel Street
Grosvenor Square
Simpkins
Lavies
King Street
Royal Belgrave
Eliza Connor
O'Coek
Anne Barnes
Belgrave Institution
Tothill Fields
Louisa Hare
Mary Bailey
Blandford
Chester-square
Pimlico
Mrs. Bailey
Mr. Blandford
Bott
York-street
Is the Church of England Protestant or Not
A Churchman asks if the Book of Common Prayer is the Church Ritual and whether Bishops enforce its Doctrine. He recounts an November form omitted at Ilfracombe, appeals to the Bishop of Exeter, cites Crown Orders, Archbishop Canterbury, and fears lax discipline risks a drift toward voluntaryism in the Church of England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exeter
Ilfracombe
Bute
Sidmouth
Peel
Russell
Canterbury
Oxford School
Church of England
Presentation to Her Majesty of the Ojibbeways at Windsor Castle
A party of American Indians from the Lake Huron area were presented to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at Windsor Castle. The group included two aged chiefs, four warriors, two women, and a ten year old girl. Carl Catlin guided them, and the visit featured speeches by the chiefs, dances, and a celebratory meal. The Indians, pleased with their reception, received gifts and planned to return home to the Ojibbeways' British‑crown allegiance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolis
Lake Huron
Prince Albert
Windsor Castle
Catlin
Windsor
England
The
Castle
Waterloo
Duchess of Kent
Ah-qui-we-Zaintz
Pat-an-n
Mr. Catlin
Prince Alvert
Mr. Murray
America
Duke of Cambridge
Baron Knesebeck
C. A. Murray
Murray
Hungary
Agram
Whitefriars and Nell Gwyn in Alsatia Taverns
Literary Chronicle review notes Charles the Second era tale Whitefriars shows power and wit, with scenes in Alsatia featuring Nell Gwyn and Buckingham era intrigue. A vivid prose panorama mixes courtly intrigue with rowdy tavern life and roguish chases through London streets.
Scene at Mother Creswold's in a Violent Confrontation
Mervyn gazes on Aurora Sydney in distress as Creswold and others flit about with restoratives. Aurora pleads to return to her father while denouncing her captors. A tense dialogue ensues as characters argue over desire, virtue, and escape in a ill fated intrigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Creswold
Mervyn
Aurora Sydney
Charles
Creswold
Aurora
Broad England
Rowley
Oll
Sydney
England
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mr. Chas, Pearson
Mr. Douglas
Lord Douglas
Egham Park Gate
Symptons
Literary Chronicle
Whitefriars
Nell Gwynn's
Alsatia
Temperance
King’s Guard
Mrs. Temperance
Togues
Holborn
Wilmot
Buckingham
Rochester
Villiers
Earth
Heaven
Odd
Shirley
Sedley
Rogue
Lady
Bess
Brother Knave
Solomon
Claude
Sang Froid
Nell Gwyn
Nell
Neil
Mr. Rowley
Whitehall
Castlemaine
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