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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 24, 1843

Page

7

Deserter Husband Arrested After Betnal Green Death

Policeman Henry Cotton found a dying, emaciated woman at 31 Bacon Street Bethnal Green. She had no food or furniture, and was cared for by parish staff and a workhouse surgeon before dying. The husband, accused of deserting her, was found and detained for further examination as a surgeon testified.

Henry Cotton Béthnal Green-Road Bacon Street Bethnal-green Christey Burnham Shoreditch Church Ead

A Touching Childs Donation to Thames Police Office

A Thames magistrate recounts a half sovereign gift from A C for Holloways distressed family and a neat letter from a child named Exrey. The child asks many others to send sixpences to aid starving poor children, and the widow’s shilling is praised while Holloway endures multiple losses and typhus. A separate report describes a violent lunatic case at Mile End Road, where officers break in, subdue the maniac with a poker, and commit him to St Luke’s hospital after confinement attempts.

A. C Holloway Ellis Exrey Mile-end-road Broderip Wilson Murray Bridge-street Mile-end Road Atory Arank Tory King St. Luke’s Hospital St. Luke's

Hammersmith drivers face manslaughter trial over fatal omnibus crash

John Clinch and Henry Horn, drivers for Hammersmith and Skelton omnibuses, appeared before Magistrate Mr Paynter on a November 9 incident that killed William Knott, a Goding and Co. drayman. Evidence described a collision as two omnibuses attempted to pass a dray near Kensington church, Knott died weeks later, inquest blamed furious driving and deodands on the omnibuses. Bail set at £400 for Clinch and £80 for Horn. witnesses bound to appear at Central Criminal Court.

Lambeth Sleap Clinch Bartholme Horn William Knott Messrs. Goding Belvidere Road Thomas Chapman Swan Inn Hammersmith Broadway Chapman Kensington Church St. George's Hospital Paynter Central Criminal Court

Accidents and a Found Drowned Woman in London

A man named John Edwards, forty, crushed between a wagon and wall at the Queen's Head yard, taken to St Thomas’s with fatal injuries. A South-Eastern Railway goods train collision near Staplehurst causes material damage but no deaths. A hired servant tossed by a bull near Cheriton Fitzpaine dies in hospital. A woman, about forty, found drowned in the Thames near Blackfriars Bridge after an inquest returns a verdict of found drowned.

Falcutrot Queen’s Head John Edwards St. Thomas's Hospital Ramway London Staplehurst Canterbury Journal John Maldon Thomas Melhuish Cheriton Fitzpaine Devon and Exeter Hospital Bopy Thames Blackfriarsbridge Samuel La’mert Bepror-singer Beproro Lennon University of Edinburgh Hono London Hospital Medical Society S. Gilbert Paternoster-rew John Field Regent-quadrant Jackson New Bend-street Gorden Leadenhall-street Noble Chancery-lane Mansell King-street Southwark Westerton Par -Side Knightsbridge Heywood Oldham Street Manchester Newton Church-street Liverpool Watts Snow-hill Birmingham Barracloud Fargate Sheffield Davey Broad-Street Bristol D. France and Co Butcher Bank Newcastle-on-Tyne Patern and Love Nelson-street Glasgow Manchester Chronicle La’Mert Bedford-street Bedford-square C.J. Lucas &Co Anette Surgeons Newman-street Oxford Street Brittain Paternoster-row J. Gordon G. Mansell Kin Street C. Westerton Parkside Ield Quadrant Regent-street Huett Princes-street Leicester Quare Lendon T. Lawler Courier-office St. Ann’s-square Anchester W. Howell Dale-street W. Wood High-street W. and H. Robinson Greenside Street Edinburgh T. Price Dame Street Dublin New Bell Messrs. Lucas and Co Oxford-street

Houseless Poor Charity Opens Western Asylum Plan

A London committee reports on aiding the houseless with nightly shelter. They opened eastern and central asylums and plan a western asylum, detailing 1842–1843 figures, new noble members, and renewed public fundraising. The Lord Mayor chaired, with strong support from aristocrats and churches.

Mansion House Western Asylum C. Hick London Royal Free Hospital Gray’s Inn Road Lard Central Asylum Playhouse Yard J. J. Reynolds Messrs. E. Bowie, Kinton, Reid Jo and Marriott East Smithfield Robert Bowie Bowie J. Sladen Lord Dudley Stuart Lord Ranelagh Benjamin Bond Cabbell G. R. Robinson W. R. Fitzgerald Jocelyn Percy W. Vining Western District Hick Mittee M. H. Pownall Pownall A. A. Goldsmid Western Committee W. Took Archer Market-street Market Street Sir Claude Scott

Public meeting upholds right to public discussion in Ireland

A large crowd in City Hall gathered by the lord provost to protest Peel ministry actions on Ireland's public meetings. Resolutions declare constitutional right to meet and petition, condemn coercive suppression, and urge reformers to assist Irish people, noting most participants were Scots amid a sea of Irish residents.

Ingland Guascow Peel Ireland Clontarf

Prosecution of cow distain case at Macroom Sessions

In Macroom Quarter Session, Matthew Sullivan and Corns. Sullivan faced trial with landlord and magistrate Alexander O'Driscoll as the crown-prosecuted party. Witnesses described distraining a cow for rent on O'Driscoll's lands, with distress leads to protests and a stormy cross-examination. The defense pointed to alleged abuses, and the jury acquitted the defendants after a heated courtroom scene. The case was cited at Cork magistrates as urging government military reinforcement for Skibbereen unrest.

Cork Macroom Moody Alexander O'Driscoll Weekly Chronicle Ireland Matthew Sullivan Corns Sullivan Alexander T. O'Driscoll Skibbereen Gallwey Fitzmaurice T. O'Connell P. O'Connell John Harry Mr. O'Connell O Driscoll Mr. O'Driscoll Dinneen Mr. Gallwey George Bird Mr. Fitzmaurice O'Driscoll Dublin Lord Devon O’driscoll

Desperate poacher before Canterbury magistrates

A noted poacher, long at large, faced county magistrates at Canterbury on charges of poaching on the Marchioness of Conyngham's estate at Bifrons near Bridge. Evidence by gamekeepers described a dawn seizure of two men in a pond with trout and forty-four fish in nets and bags, Powell escaping half-naked. a second charge for setting snares and assaulting gamekeeper Brenchley, ending with Powell's binding over for trial and removal in irons.

Canterbury W. Delmar G. M. Taswell T. Papillon Bridge Apps Elias Wilson Wilson Powell Harefoot Dover Brenchley Deane Denne, Esq Wingham James Brook Deane Brook Littlebourne Priasoner Todmorden Wesleyan Association Great League Fund League Messrs. Cobden Moore J. Vevers London Place Society Barones Tower Ham Baptist Chapel Prescot Goodman’s Fields Charles Stovel Jefferson John Morris Mardel Nantwich Shrewsbury Journal

Song of the Shirt Poem Vocally Traced in Punch

A weary seamstress in poverty laboring at needle and thread mourns harsh wages and inhuman working conditions. The verse laments hunger, dirt, and lack of social care while contrasting the drudgery with fleeting memories of happier days. Tuomas Hoop credits Punch.

Royal appointments and insolvency notices in Peers and trades

The register itemizes royal appointments including John Blakiston to the honourable corps of gentlemen at arms and clerical appointments at Sleate and Nigg. It lists numerous declarations of insolvency across many trades, plus certified solemnization venues, dividend notices, certificates, partnerships dissolved, and Scottish sequestrations with multiple names and towns noted.

Horst Guards John Blakiston 27Th Foot Ajesty Honourable Corps of Gentlemen At Arms Shakeshaft St. James's Palace Gregory Gray Lord Forester Whuirtehalt John M‘iver Sleate Isle of Skye Alexander M‘iver Dornoch Nigg Ross Simon Frazer Shire John M‘allister Church of Scotland W. Thomas Newport Monmouthshire J. White Manchester G. F. Bywater Sheffield W. W. Vaughan Bruce Meore Shropshire E. Weatherstone Cheltenham R. Prichard Park Road St. Marylebone J. A. Smith A. Smith South Row New Road Walcot Place Lambeth J. Chew Blackburn R. Davenport R. Light Eling Hampshire Hubie South Milford Yorkshire W. L. Martin Richmond Surrey W. Ramscar Stockport A. Leigh J. Farr Inkber J. Atkins Shoreditch W. Blanks Rochford Essex J. Smith Hoxton Old Town J. Ivory Meppershall Bedfordshire E. Conden Milton Street Edward Street Dorset Square H. and H. Fletcher H. A. Jameson North Shields I. Ward Devizes W. Perkins St. Welles D. Frazer Little Tower Street J. Prior Bedford High Street Newington Butts Draper S. Gould Liverpool J. Richmond G. Threadgold Finsbury Circus City Road W. Eversfield Gravesend Robinson and Co Norwich Drapers— Capel Cverton Cundy Pope

Dissenters Marriage Act and Bankrupts in 1843 notices

The column lists DISSENTERS MARRIAGE ACT registrations for chapels in Wiltshire and London, followed by BANKRUPTS including W Carpenter Southampton and J Ballard Maidstone. It also records DIVIDENDS, CERTIFICATES, and PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED with numerous names and locations, all dated December 1843 to January 1844.

Bank of England Henry L. Wickham Great Britain Henry Broxweth Grocers’ Company Grocers’hall Baptist Whitbourn Wiltshire Brunswick Chapel South Street London Road Sheffield W. Carpenter Southampton J. Ballard Maidstone Kent K. Munn Stanhope Terrace Hyde Park M. Hadley Walsall Staffordshire J. Whitley Liverpool J. Lawrence High Street Birmingham H. Walsh Readin Berks J. Marriage Moolsham Chelmsford Essex Miller H. Wood Fleet Street J. Hengon Burycourt Saint Mary Axe R. Devne Broad Street Oxford J. Pearcy St. John Street T. and W. Styan Great Tower Street T. Long Beauford Place Chelsea Hobhouse and Co Bathbankers C. J. Townley R. Warren O. Jones St. James Street Lie and Hester J. Berry Rugby Warwickshire S. Rogers Dale Hall Burslem J. Nutter Cambridge TJ. Sutton Scarborough Master Mariner F. W. E. Barandon Philpot Jane A. H. Wagstaff Leighton Buzzard Apothecary W. Espivent Coleman Street R. W. Lewis Shenfield Farmer Jang B. Dorral Ironbridge Salop Mercer H. Ellis Norwich Draper M.D. Morgan Llangattock Brecon Grocer J. Carr Low Southwick Durham J. Harris Leicester J. Sell Union Street Southwark Baker L. and W. Fenner Fenchurch Street Manchester Phipps and Son Eltham Mollady and Caste Daventry Northamptonshire Hatters P. and N. Gandalf and Co Throgmorton Street Taylor and Woods Lancaster D. M'Nicol Johnstone Renfrewshire Cotton

Frampton's Pill of Health and Other Medical Potions

Extract from a Lord Francis Egerton letter praises a gout remedy in strong terms. Advertisements tout Frampton's Pill of Health for bilious and liver complaints with testimonials, and promote Perry and Co medical works and remedies including Cordial Balm of Syriacum and Purifying Specific Pills with London sales details and consultation notes.

Francis Egerton M.P Duke of Sutherland Queen-street Lincoln's Inn Fields Birmingham London R. and L. Perry Strange Petersvstursann Field Quadrant Regent.street Philips Oxford-street J. Gordon Leadenhall-street Guest Bull-street Perry Messrs

Colonial and church appointments hit Crown notices

Friday December 22 reports a Civil Commissioner appointment for George district in the Cape colony, a ministerial vacancy filled in Stony Kirk Wigtown, multiple masters extraordinary named in the High Court of Chancery, and Dec 22 troop promotions and exchanges in the Dragoon Guards and Light Dragoons with several by purchase and without.

Downine-street Edmund Morris George Cape of Good Hope Whitehall John James Campbell Stonykirk Beramaes Shire of Wigtown Robert M‘neil Church of Scotland Waieuatt William Gilbert Carey Calne Nelson Wilkinson Peterborough Bernard Anatis Liskeard Robert Whately Nevill Tamworth Gents High Court of Chancery War Office 7Th Regiment of Dragoon Guards William Maxwell Mills Alexander Kennedy Clark Kennedy Robert Richardson Purchase Mills Thomas le Marchant Richardson Henry Schonswar Ceptain le Marchant Cornet Charles George O'Callaghan

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