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Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 31, 1842

Page

3

London Ward Elections and Repeal Debates Highlight Tax Controversy

London voters focus on the repeal of the income tax amid corn laws debate. Ward meetings condemn the income tax as odious and inquisitorial, urging its repeal to end war-time taxes and curb government overreach. The article lists ward results with many incumbents re elected and several new liberal members.

St. Thomas’s London Tower India China Broad-siest Ward Langbourne Ward Gude Que Leng Lao Ward of Common Council Ward Besley Corporation of City of London Peter Laurie Robert Peel Auberscats C.W Clifum W. Green J. Lake B. Massy R. B. Whiteside F. Salter C. Fisher J.ponan Clifton Simpson Bassishaw Messrs Peacock Stevens Pitcher Bennett Wilkinson Johnson Jones Patten Tozer Tapy Hall Thomas Ashby Carr Welsh Bread Street Mi Gsra Southby Bridge Lawrence Main Poland J. Lawrence Bawkey Kipling Davidson Witaix Messrs. Pewtress Cope Lowe Alatthews Davison Hill Riett Chadwick Broad Street Messrs Cortney Heppel Gadsden White Jupp Wharton Moore Aml Cummings Caxprewick Evans Baldwin Bund Dakius Nicholls Caste Bayxard Hicks Yvoplis Hupple Collingwood Bailey Rawnson Farrar Cheap Common Brooke Penning Ganthony Watson Hardwick May Jackson Oliver Coreman-Street Wamp Griffith Cousins Lund Argell Harrison Johnston Eytor CrippLeGaTe Waithis Brown Smith Wilson Houle Bras Cass Beeston Last Dewer Eld Cripplegate Without Eldred Mradway Dowegate Ald Mortimer Gandell Prior Powell Farrincpon Wirgin Messrs. Prichard Westwood Holt Ridley Ashurst Vestue Bonsor Harter Eaginton Hayward Fisher Taylor Wheelton M‘tlauchlan Ruiter M‘laughlan Rutter Court of Aldermen Farrixeoux-WitHous Mmessre Obberd Sdford Stokes Burn Dking Sidney Hodgson Williams Barnard Walker Anderson Harding Charles Parco Woollat Laycuovum Stubbing Dixon Unwin Adamson Frodsham Sneling Collinson Howard Goss Sykes Upton Tower Warn Briggs Sulson Redhead Oakley Maitland Young Aiteliscan Wintry Warn Elwes Marsden King Green Sprapne Watncock Watkins Wire Cuuder Rowley Dawson Hale

Trade Dismus Leeds Market Deep Stagnation Amid Mild Winter

Weather remains unusually mild and demand for winter goods collapses. Cloth halls and warehouses show reduced activity. wholesale orders slow as stock-taking pressures buyers. Holts face reduced work, with pauperism rising and payments deferred. yarn and wool trades lack momentum and supply fails to meet offers.

Leeds Privig of Holintian Bradford

Christmas Day In London Workhouses Report

Christmas day provisions listed for Metropolitan and Suburban Workhouses detailing inmate counts by age and gender, meals including roast beef, plum pudding, porter, tea and sugar. Several parishes show changes from last year with notes on outdoor relief and infant farmed-out arrangements. A separate note covers a bail case involving Hon. Theophatt Fitzwalter Butler and the opening of the Thames police court with £20000 expenditure.

St. Marriesone É&C St. Mantix-in-rue Fielps Rubin's Norwood St. Sexe Mippiesex Drouet’s Grove Brixton Newington ST. Giles Camberwell Reid's St. George St. Luke Chelsea Irantt Union Richmond Union Kingston Union Nouwoon Aubin Lanrates St. James West Minster Belonp Uy Brentford St. Paxcras Hacksey Astos St. Leoxanp Shorepitei Tol Enfield St. Gules-In ST. Grange Marylebone Strasp Ustox Puldinz St. Saviour's Ayrey Southwank Rateliff Mile End Wapping Limehouse St. Many Porran Chox Board of Mardians Gronck Sovtuwank Grovenousk Estantisament St. Mary, Estisgiton St. Mary, Newhrith St. Olave Union West Loxpox Usion St. Sepulchre's Tivisturss Sr. Wary Isnington Tomates Edmonton Eyrle le Cosepein Tne Ehidien St. Mangarrs Axp Sa Joly’s. Waarmisstin Christies Bishopspate Ricard Peckham Sterneys Aerluin Norword Oxave Sr. Mary Lamperu Oeakhons Union Theohatt Fitzwalter Butler Downshire Hall Hampstead James Sherman Wilbraham Furnival's Inn Butler

Horrid Murder near Ilkley Unsolved Blows Fathomless

A man about fifty was found murdered in Nesfield field near Ilkley after an evening with his cousin Joseph Hey. The head was smashed and bruises covered the body. Hey was arrested then released after a coroner's inquest found Wilful murder unknown. The victim, William Hustwick of Beamsley, had last been seen leaving with Hey. The case remains unsolved.

Tikley Addingham Nesfeld Ilkley Beamsley Bolton Bridge Middleton Lodge W. Middleton Middleton Wm. Hustwick Ikley Joseph Hey Roy Thomas Brown Skipton Nesfield E. C. L. Kaye Farfield Hall John Lister Hey Hustwick Illingworth Had Ikley-Bridge Thomas Hardwick Howe Lords Mercury

Crown witnesses under attack in Dublin court case

In Dublin a violent assault case tied to crown witnesses unfolds at Hear Street police office. James Staunton and Haunratty alias Hughes, with Benjamin Wilson, clash with officers during custody. Staunton boasts of crown witness status amid firearms and valuables found. The court fines them. Staunton resists payment, preferring prison.

Treland Hear Dublin Tlomy Street James Stainton Peter Rushes Huanratty Richmond Avenue Benjamin Wilson Trinity Place Duffy Obi Blaed Flanegan Abbey Street Staunton Baliybough Bridge Tam Ballybough-bridge Mr. Dundon Duncan Haunratty Powell Armagh Ballyboughbridge Mr. Duffy Bridewell Mr. Dufy My. Daudon Dundon Dady Mr. Danis Statmtor Sioner Por Hughes Hanratty Eesiast Efurtss H Hughes Hughes Thomas Adams Windor Earl of Liverpool Board of Guardians of the Windsor Union

The Earl to Pledge Wealth Over Daughter's Fate

A mother presses her daughter to wed an Earl for wealth and status while the daughter and cousin Harry Gray resist and favor a poorer Captain Gray shown as more genuine. The dialogue reveals class pressures, debt, and stubborn devotion amid a family dispute.

SINGING FOR THE MILLION AND THE CHINESE AMBASSADOR

A composite page of verse and satire features Mamma and daughter debating high society marriage to an earl, then shifts to a satirical piece SINGING FOR THE MILLION about a society turned musical. The Chinese Ambassador is mocked in verse, followed by a nostalgic wartime poem THE SWORD and a glossy note on Logicnr’s System and Punch humor.

Almacks Belgrave Square Bibliopole Woolwich Great Britain Murray Longman Bat le Jonour Qushea Mann Logicnr Tae Scizxcz London Green Soho-square Tian

Skeleton of a Woman Found in Brickfields Mystery

Discovery at Messrs Tasseaull Co. brickfields Thorvhids reveals a buried female skeleton, six feet down, with a crude weapon and whetstone nearby. Field once a hop garden, suggesting long abandonment until brickwork demand prompted digging.

Aul Co Maidstone Gazette Baker Hell Blane Bromley Westminster Hogs John Badd Putersbeer Korklewhat Vary John Savile Ogle Winchester Ogle Gateshead Tue Fata Finn Goorsasy & Field Nancy Holland Julia Little Prescott Street London Hospital Summers Proudfoot

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