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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 30, 1843

Page

6

Fragmented Local Item Hints At Event Details

OCR fragment mentions Fes and ring with unclear context. Despite garbled text, it suggests an event or meeting in a local setting, but specifics such as date place or participants are not discernible.

Triumphant Meeting at Bradford Aids Free Trade Fund

A large crowd gathered at Temperance-hall Leeds-road for a Bradford free trade meeting to aid the Great Fund of 100,000. William Rand presided, Cobden spoke, and subscriptions soared to about 1700 pounds, tripling last year’s amount as attendees urged open competition over protective corn laws.

Bradford Yorksurne Friends of Free Trade Leeds-road Free Trade Anti Corn Law League Wm. Rand West Riding of Yorkshire Commission of the Peace West Riding Henry Forbes Henry Leach Robert Milligan John Russell Samuel Smith George Oxley William Ackroyd Samuel Clapham Keighley Samuel Laycock William Murgatroyd Harven J. Bateman Titus Salt Bone Buck James Cousin William Briggs Council of the Anti Corn Law Leagne Richard Cobden Colonel Thompson Henry Forbes Rand England University of Apriculture British Agricultural Society Hear Lord Stanley Anti Corniaw League Standard Lam Cobden Col. Thompson Mr. Moore C. H. Dawson Milligan, Forbes, & Co E. Shipley Ashworth League

Somnambulism and distressing incidents at Chatham barracks

A Royal Sappers and Miners private Henry Stirrett aged 20 lay severely injured after waking, leaving his bed and apparently stepping from a window ledge into a yard. He sustained multiple injuries including possible jaw fractures and knee damage, with four teeth knocked out, and remains in a precarious condition at the royal military hospital. Additional reports describe Mrs. Sarah Headbury’s fatal self harm after a fraud case involving Miss Ann Frances Henden Creasy, plus a noisy affair in Clerkenwell court over alleged pawnbroker overcharges and an informer. The informant case ends with the magistrate dismissing for lack of evidence while hinting at potential indictments.

Henry Stirrett Royal Sappers and Miners Artillery Brompton Chatham Royal Military Hospital Chisholm Royal Artillery Stirrett Sarah Headbury Captain Headbury East Mount-terrace Mile-end England Chancery Lane Ann Frances Henden Creasy Mess Queen Street Cheapside Clerkenwell Charles M‘cullum Curtain Road Shoreditch Whitcome-street Haymarket Birch Greenwood Mr. Greenwood Duke Chelsea Police M‘cullum 1St King’s Dragoons Henry Cooper The Deendant Abethell France Paris Christina Spain Madrid Progressistas Cortina Guadalajara Concha M. Mateo Narvaez Gonzales Bravo Olozaga Congress M. Gonzales Bravo General Serrano Bravo Serano Serrano Chamber of Deputies M. Olozaga Burgos Canada Carr —Liverroot Euro Funder New York Caledonia Legislative Council Lafontaine Baldwin Charles Metcalf Daly St. Helena Tench Kingston United Canada Assembly Draper Morris United States Long Island Paterson Stonington Kentucky Norwich Monark Elaware and Hudson Harlem Ohio Queen's Bench Nisi Prius Lord Denman Middlesex Common Peter Townsend Duke of Brunswick Age Vallance Justice Patteson Barnard Gregory Townsend Sergeant Talvord Humfrey Erle Chambers Sergeant Talfourd Henry W. Vallance Bryanstone Square Law Stationer Baron Andlau Mr. Brierly Witnness Simpson Justice Williams J. Bayley Gregory Witness Cross R. Brierly Hatton Garden Brierly

Christmas Day Inmates and Dinners at London Workhouses

Details collected from parish authorities show indoor and outdoor poor counts per workhouse and the Christmas meal allowances. Many houses provide roast beef or pork, plum pudding, potatoes, bread, porter or ale, tea, sugar, and tobacco, with variations for children and out-door paupers. Staff note some exceptions and special arrangements at Norwood Brixton and Brixton establishments.

St. Marylebone St. Pancras Marylebone City of London Union East London Union Norwood Holborn Lower Edmonton Mr. Drouet Brixton West London Edmonton Union Enfield St. Olave’s Union Bermondsey St. Mary’s Newington Stone Yard Camberwell St. George the Martyr Southwark St. Luke’s Poplar Union St. George’s East St. Saviour’s Union Door Lambeth Hackney Greenwich Grove House C. Aubin’s

Public and Charitable Institutions Share Christmas Fare

A London Gazette lists Royal Chelsea and Greenwich hospitals along with Lunatic Asylums and benevolent homes distributing Christmas meals. Inmates receive roast beef, plum pudding, vegetables, and beer. some enjoy holidays, balls, or special entertainments, with various allowances and leave.

Royal Hospital Chelsea Royal Military Asylum Royal the Duke of York Tose Greenwich Copenhagen Nile Trafalgar, &c Bethlem Hospital Lunatic Asylum Hanwell Lunatic Asylum Connolly Magdalen Hospital Blackfriars Road London-road Southwark Philanthropic Society London Road

Prisons at Christmas in London extreme lists and vestry clash

The article lists Newgate and other prisons crowded with prisoners including 96 transports and 246 male 20 female debtors at Queen's Prison, noting Christmas and New Year rations, gifts from authorities, and varied conditions across several facilities. It also recounts a dramatic and contentious select vestry meeting at St Stephen's Walbrook, with police, Aldermen Gibbs Humphery, and Howett clashing over admission, authority, and peace, ending without violence. The report also covers international and Canadian political turmoil, plus brief legal notices and court outcomes.

Newgate Cope Giltspur Whithair Horsemonger Lane Newington Allhallows Bethlem Hospital City Westminster Bridewells House of Correction Brixton Ilford Woolwich General Milbank Middlesex House of Correction Coldbathfields White Cross-Street Queen’s Prison Queen’s Bench Fleet Marshalsea Archbishop of Canterbury Tothillfields Messia, Rock, Howett, &c St. Stephen, Walbrook Maco Harr Glass Wm. Ddison St. Stephen’s Walbrook Ward Beadle Dr. Cruly Mr. Rock Howett Williams Mr. Howett Forrester St.Stephen’s Rock Alderman Humphery Guildhall Rowe Mr. Humphery Irish Society Joshrn C. Howett Alderman Gibbs Roe St Stephen’s Church Gibbs Wildhall Howell Mansion House Church of St. Stephen Wardmote Humphery

Burial Grounds In The Metropolis Raise Sanitary Alarm

Two respectable ladies presented a memorial to Mr. Greenwood about burial grounds in densely populated areas of London. They cited Spafields chapel in Exmouth street where 36 to 40 bodies are said to be interred on Sundays. The ground’s small size and cheapness draw the poor, leading to overcrowding, disinterment, and neglect. alleged coffins near the surface and bone-house activity, with typhus and fevers rising in the area. Greenwood summoned Serjeant Scotchmer for inquiry after receiving the memorial.

Clerkenwell Greenwood Spafields Exmouth Street Lady Huntingdon Vinegar Walk Bowling Green-Lane Saffron-hill Serjeant Scotchmer

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