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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 27, 1840

Page

2

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE AND PARIS FORTIFICATION DEBATE

Long dispatches report on Napier's stipulations with Boghos Bey and a British cabinet trend toward full approval. Paris expects M. Humann to present a 500,000,000 franch loan plan by year end, with details on whether it will be a facultative loan. debate over fortifications of Paris, with advocates for detached forts clashing with the plan for an uninterrupted rampart.

Porte Napier Boghos Bey Lord Palmerston Admiralty Alexandria Charles Napier Paris M. Humaann M. Humann Perp Ann Prince de Joinville Semaphore de Merseilles Levant Tangier Spain Phare Queen Christina Valencia Mapamee Larrance Tulle Gazette de Tribunaux Procureur-General Madame Lafferge Court of Assizes Léotaud Madame Laffarge Chamber of Deputies Marshal Soult Napoleon Messia Lindieres Bertin de Vaux Chamber Tae Navorron Arrain Church of the Invalides Barriere de l’Etoile Douke Brunswick M. Gisquet Charles of M. Emmanuel Arrago M. Curzon M. Chaix d’Est Ange

Royal Tax steamer brings Lisbon news on Douro dispute

Farmouth reports from Lisbon that Portugal plans to resist Madrid's Douro navigation terms. Spain threatens war if Portugal does not ratify within 25 days. Britain urged to intervene while Portugal seeks ally support. Germany and France uneasy over European balance of power amid warnings and mutinies on Turkish ships bound for Syria.

Portugal Cadiz Gibraltar Mediterranean Royal Tar Cape Touriana Douro Spain Great Britain Germany Cologne France Paris Frankfurt Augsburg Berlin Munich Vienna Carlsruhe Gazette Trieste Syria Constantinople Beyrout Anatolia Gazelle London M. Thiers

Metropolitan Prisons Christmas Charity Report and Local Notices

The Metropolitan prisons for debt received Christmas donations of beef bread and beer, except Horsemonger Lane where there was none. Whitecross Street held about 360 inmates many supplied by the lord mayor and sheriffs. In the Fleet and Marshalsea similar aid was given, while 800 prisoners await Insolvent Debtors Court action. A benevolent institution at Allhallows Barking near Tower Street raised over £100 for almshouses and a chapel at Spring Grove Norwood. A vestry election in St Pancras was resolved with a mandamus compromise and new directors elected. Kensington Gardens hosted skating with dangerous ice breaks, several youths rescued by the Royal Humane Society. The frost continued with daily park and Serpentine activity and occasional accidents. An office accident at St Martin’s le Grand left one man severely bruised.

United States Canada Southampton New York Butler Fanny Kemble Baron Norman Belgium Leffler Singer Europe Liverpool Baltimore Havre Ontario London Congress van Buren New York Weekly Herald Roberts Atlantic Margaret Severn Bay of Chaleur Leith Stewart W. L. M‘kenzie Rochester Daily Advertiser Justice Wheeler Rochester Gore Toronto Cameron Commercial Bank Rochester House Daily Advertiser Courier and Enquirer England Delaware and Hudson Amsterdam Bremen Paris Em. Lia Green United States Navy America Chargnes Lima Gamara Thetis Horsemonger-lane Whitecross-street King’s Bench Fleet-prison Marshalsea Tre Fertowsaip Portens’ Providext Benevolent InstituTion Church of Allhallows Barking Tower Street B. W. Noel Springgrove Norwood Surrey J. Robinson St. Andrew’s Holborn St. Pancras Houghton Cooper, Mann Edw. Portwine Court of Queen's Bench Charnock O'Neil Tat Weat Haa Tae Panxs Kensington Gardens Humane Society Westropp The Royal Humane Society Williams Lee David Caird Thomas King-street Kensington St. Margaret's Westminster Knightsbridge William Chitty Hector-place Crawford-street Edgeware-road St. George’s Hospital John Little Church-street Chelsea Henry Owsbey Croydon-street Marylebone Woolley Haining Joseph Perryman East Street St. James’s Park Ensington-Gardens Herajesty Regent’s Park N.E York Terrace Regent's Park St. James's Park Serpentine Henry Wheeler Frome Beer-House St. George's Hospital Jones Smith Cobbett Northumberland-street Strand St. Martin’s-le-Grand C. B. Longcroft Turner Leeds Norhar Escaree Gaaol John Thomas Yorkcastle Halifax Limerick Theobald Mathew Newcastle Rathkeale Ballingarry Alfred Furlong T. Mathew Bamford Susannah Wood Nathaniel Bamford Monmouthshire Beaufort Ironworks Charles Griffin Gloucester Journal Northampton Martha West Shortland Floore Heyford Isaac West Pinnock Young George West West Weedon Scotland Shetland Macpherson Bower Thurso Market Sa Ruffle Babergh Shimpling Melford Halstead Raffle Sudbury Baker Bulmer Tie Ashfield Lodge Southgate Brad Fenn Coggeshall

Provincial railway shares urged to raise capital and calls

A Birmingham and South Staffordshire Railway shareholders meeting heard directors vow to seek extra capital by loan or call. The balance sheet showed a surplus beyond paid up capital, with a proposed £2103 per share call to avoid pressure on debtors, repayable next year.

Birmingham Wwalsatt and South Stapfordshire Flaripshire Meelanctary Medea Arisin William Turner Royal Marine Artillery Turner Haslar Dynely Woolwich Laboratory Marsh T. Hastings Stephens Royal Marine Laboratory

Post Office Robberies and Investigations in Birmingham

A detailed account of post office letter thefts in Birmingham including the indictment of Blackie a clerk for stealing money letters and the examination before magistrates. Proceedings cover confessions under pressure, prosecutorial conduct, and planned trials at Warwick assizes plus additional cases in Bow Street involving a £5 note and other stolen letters.

Beess Irmingham Blackie Birmingham Post-Office Warbe Hee C. Shaw Titup Hi Parke Gem Moon Trates Inee Ir. Peacock Burgess Bose Taleo Immedi Se St Reign Suckling Aaron Eideers Commissioners of Police Peacock Warwick Assizes Mr. Suckling Mr. Gem Bow-Street James Stephens General Post-Office Pearce Mr. Flower William Banks Henry Hall High Holborn Smith Greenwich Collegestreet Mary Ann Doughty Sarah Peck Hall William Blott General Post Office Inland Office Norwich Ipswich Coggleshall Flower John Castles Aird Pring Port Street Miss Whitefield Clapie Adam Smith Alnwick Northumberland London Water-street Blackfriars Messrs Barclay Ringdon-Street

Landlords’ Bread Tax Decried as Hypocrisy and Cruelty

In severe times the landlords maintain a bread tax of 265 8d per quarter on wheat, while pretending generosity by small food handouts to workers. Readers and thinkers see through the sham as injustice, urging true humanity and justice. A cart’s tail and drummer’s thong say we for that humanity.

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