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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 04, 1844
Page
6
A political critique likens Peel’s Free Trade stance to a nurse dispensing draughts, arguing great principles fuel the struggle while opponents act as opportunistic poachers. The author distrusts current leaders and accuses them of expediency over conviction, warning they hide behind a fixed but hollow rhetoric.
A detailed schedule lists assizes for the spring circuit at Northampton Oakham Lincoln Nottingham Derby Leicester and Coventry Warwick and Oxford counties with dates from February 28 to March 30. Court of Queen's Bench hears libel cases against Holt and Brander and an assault case against Strachan with harsh sentences. Insolvent debtors cases cover schemes involving M J O Connell and others with examinations, affidavits and the return of jewels.
The defendant was sentenced to 18 calendar months at Clerkenwell prison and to be kept in hard labor during that period. The defendant was then removed in custody as the court sat late into the night.
Police reports from Mansion House detail the Wills forgerY case with Barber Fletcher Mrs Dorey and Griffin before the lord mayor. witnesses describe notes and forged documents. The Thames division reports an alleged infant murder by William Daisley with court remand and post mortem results. In HMS Hamersmith four apprentices Haylen Pearce Smith and Paine face assault and attempted drowning charges linked to Welsh at Mr Browns wharf with evidence of jalap and river threats. The magistrate adjourned for more evidence and imposed bail and fines.
Mr. Phillips of Albert terrace Hyde Park claims a will alleged to be Mary Hunt's is in Mrs Dorey handwriting and that Jane Rose attesting witness name is also forged. Objections overruled as evidence unfolds. remand ordered with prisoners Fletcher and Barber kept apart pending further examination.
After a dispute on board a vessel the cook allegedly irritated a passenger and was killed. The prisoner gave himself up to the captain but was not irons and remained at large. Ballantine stated the prisoner should be remanded for trial for wilful murder pending captain's evidence.
In Liverpool court, Captain Peter Petre of Lydia faced charges for wounding American Josiah Lawton with a drawn sword during a dispute aboard a Brazil voyage. Eye witnesses described multiple blows to the arms, shoulders, head, and hands as the mate and second mate assisted, while the captain refused aid and later had the wounds dressed. The case proceeded with recognizances set at £500 and £200 each for two sureties.
An inquest at Kingston near Taunton into the death of Sealy, dated April 21, 1842, found arsenic in the stomach and pointed to his daughters Mary and Faith Sealy. Faith Sealy confessed to statements made after caution, with brothers and a sister testifying to their guilt.
In a Taunton district court a sister and Mary Sealy are convicted of wilful murder by poisoning. The narrative details purchase of poison, its distribution in meals, and the subsequent death of their father after consuming tainted fish and powders. The jury returned verdicts of wilful murder against both prisoners, with a split count of jurors, and the coroner’s summing up noted the evidence.
A recent order in council from the colonial office suppresses all stills in New South Wales due to the demoralising effects of ardent spirits on the local population. Government compensation is noted in every instance. The report also covers an accident on the Bristol mail train, the Royal Mint coin changes, and public notices on taxation and fires.
An inquest at Wakley examined the death of infant John Murrell aged months from bronchial inflammation and suffocation. Witnesses from Eton and Uxbridge unions testified delays and omissions in medicine and a hot bath, plus a brutal transfer by cart, while the coroner and jurors condemned the Eton union’s management and the non administration of prescribed treatments. The jury found death due to suffocation from lung inflammation and deemed the removal of the dying child cruel and disgraceful to Eton union workhouse.
The excerpt includes Earl Spencer declining a Spalding Society pressure to resign as president of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. He defends the society, clarifies his stance on corn laws, and emphasizes that resignation would harm the society. The piece also covers Manchester and Leeds market notes on cotton, cloths, and wool prices with trading activity and prices, plus a brief item: Thomas Ellison, Esq. takes the degree of barrister at law.
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