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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 25, 1841
Page
6
The speaker vowed to act in the country’s best interests and resign if his principles were compromised. He expressed pride in his duties and confidence of constituents’ esteem, amid applause as the two hour speech concluded and the chairman received thanks.
A detailed report covers a December 10 1841 court order replacing an objectionable affidavit in stock writs, with judges Lyndhurst Langdale Shadwell Knight Bruce and others in the Bank of England case. It also reviews an appeal on East India Company papers, a Queen's Bench musket case in Africa trade, a libel suit against Times publisher Pisani, a bankruptcy examination, insolvency proceedings for Millington, and secondary court fees in Mayberry v Paget, noting verdicts and procedural rulings.
A court session called The Tallyman Case involved Simpson suing Owen Jones over a £2 16s claim for a real cashmere shawl not paid. The plaintiff doubted which Owen Jones was husband of Mrs. Jones, while the defendant denied identity and offered to check with a nephew. the case was dismissed for lack of proof.
On Monday morning the Kingston, a West India Emigration company vessel, departed the West India Docks for the West Indies with a number of enits aboard, eighty soldiers and three officers on board. It is the fifth emigration ship to sail in the last two months.
James Thompson aged 23 was charged with stealing glass plates and a butter-dish from Mr. Brown in Farringdon-street after placing a bag over the goods. A gang of pickpockets and youths were linked to fishmonger robberies in White Hart-street and Stury-lane. Henry Ames faced threats against Mr. Turner and Serjeant Merewether as suspicion and distress overtook his actions. William Waring, a post office worker, was charged with stealing a £10 note from a money letter at Mr. Howard’s Bridge-street receiving-house, after a series of inquiries into the posting and missing funds.
Joseph Adams calling himself Colonel Hill faced final examination for swindling on Marlborough Street. Details show he sent notes from Mrs Colonel Hill to Miss Clapham for expensive dresses, plus a velvet dress sent to the York hotel Southampton. Affected buyer Hailen paid £15 at Southney after Hill, aided by a bag of duplicates, targeted tradesmen in London and Southampton before police nabbed him.
In a country sessions report Mrs. Colone Hill denied signing notes used to request dress from Miss Clapham and witnesses suggested forged documents. A Count de Witt alias John Adams faced drunkenness charges after two separate Haymarket incidents, with brief bail and a Christmas farewell. Another case involved Mrs Humpleby accusing her husband of conjugal punishment amid allegations of her infidelity with Mr Liffy, which Maltby deemed insufficient for redress and the summons were dismissed.
Two men Samwell and Chillingford described as Spitalfields weavers appeared on a begging charge. A constable found Samwell in distress. a local employer vouched for him. They received ten shillings each from the poor box and were warned not to beg again, with a committee set up to aid distressed weavers.
John Grimley a plumber and glazier faced a charge of driving over and injuring Sergeant Millard as a file of constables marched near West Hackney church. Grimley admitted drinking, paid £5 fines, and was discharged. Separate cases involved Robert Barnard threatening his wife and a bogus will paper, plus a violent assault and highway robbery in Spitalfields by Thomas Miller leading to a Newgate commitment.
William Smith, a distressed young man, was charged with threatening to stab Whitechapel parish's relieving officer Mr Hughes after he refused to continue relief in favor of stone-breaking work. Witnesses described Smith’s knife display and insistence on punishment rather than work, while emphasizing his six hours of labor for 7d and dire family needs.
In a parish hearing Mr Henry inquired about a stone-yard employing 30 to 40 workers earning 1s to 6s 4d daily. The guardians bought stone to be broken and questions of profit or loss were raised. The prisoner admitted Mr Hughes had shown kindness. bail for good behavior was set for one month.
A young woman, Ann Chatterton, decorated with artificial flowers, faced charges for causing a disturbance while intoxicated and attempting self-destruction in the station house. She was locked up after a near-fatal strangling attempt with her stay-lace, having previously attempted suicide with garters. Bail was refused and she was committed.
An inquest at London Hospital on 15 year old James Dunbar, apprentice to the brig Collingwood, reveals he slipped on a gangway at Gun-Dock and died from multiple injuries, verdict accidental death. Portsmouth records a Royal Marine artillery captain, Richard Steele, dying of apoplexy after a court martial. Additional inquests at Covent Garden, Stepney, and Waterloo Bridge report natural death, death by visitation of God, and a fatal fall of a laborer near the Strand theatre, aged about 60.
A short verse celebrates a smiling girl, praising purity and radiance from the mind. The speaker questions sin, guile, and eventual sorrow, contrasting innocent beauty with the inevitability of change and time.
A historical note reports blood mass in humans by age for males and females. For males birth 0.73 kg rising to 15.78 kg at forty, then 15.47 at fifty, 15.02 at sixty, and 14.04 at eighty. For females birth 0.99 kg rising to 11.85 kg at fifty, 11.9 at sixty, and 10.89 at seventy, 10.45 at eighty.
A vivid travel memoir notes punctual trains, orderly baggage transfers, and polite porters. Inns provide attentive service with no tips demanded. The author describes leaving Tremont House with kindness, paying three dollars, and enjoying a week in the Union without encounters with greed, drinkers, or disorder, as recorded in Colonel Marwell's Run.
In Comrie woods an oak on a bare rock sends a large root trunk down the precipice in search of soil and nourishment. The structure grows horizontally then descends again, grasping its elusive target with many fingers as it travels in quest of sustenance. Stiring Advertiser notes this remarkable plant instinct.
James Fryer a glasshouse worker at Mexborough near Doncaster has mani factured a glass coffin and left it to his cousin He plans to lie in it at his death while his cousin can observe if he perishes faster than if buried in lead The coffin is six feet two inches long with a quarter inch thick clear glass and blue glass death heads on the sides The inscription bears his name Read in Doncaster Gazelle. Slavery reflected in verse laments the bondage of man and the deprivation of liberty and equality with appeals to freedom, reason, and conscience emphasizing the contrast with beasts and the injustice of arbitrary domination The poem echoes a call for human dignity and equal rights.
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