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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 05, 1837
Page
3
The readable text references Great Britain, civil war, and the government’s review by a baronet. It mentions future putification and a sheetair, with a hint of Particunnary Lite and a page 4 reference, but details are incomplete and unclear.
The House of Commons holds ninety six notices of matrons on the order-book postponed from the last session. Highlights include Sir Andrew Aenew on Sabbath observance and royal letters to ambassadors, with debates on Ireland, public works, relief for the poor, mint inquiries, and reform proposals. A death notice follows about a Greenwich stagecoach fatality and various international items.
Vast dispatches describe the Madrid Gazette noting the acquittal of the Bishop of Valencia after a failed attempt to join Don Carlos. Reports from Madrid, Tayonne, and Durango recount Napoleonic era style intrigues, French Legion desertions, and a clutch of confidential papers seized near the Convent of Nans de la Parde detailing plans for a Don Carlos throne and exile.
The Neapolitan Government issues a sumptuary order banning masks and disguises for the 1837 carnival amid Sicily turmoil and a dispute between Prince Charles of Capua and the Naples king. An Essex tiler named Death or a Essex died in an epidemic, leaving about £14,000 in cash, notes, and bank deposits. a will leaves most to relatives while a niece receives nothing, and four grandchildren receive £1,000 each.
A detailed Preston crime report describes William Cookson’s alleged poisoning attempt on his wife with arsenic in tea. Evidence includes arsenic purchase, witness sightings near the wife’s house, and the tea pot test by a chemist. Cookson is committed to Lancaster Castle for trial next Assizes.
A guild of tradesmen pressuring the Megens land Co to sign long three year work agreements led to absences and suspicions of bribery. Eight men faced warrants. Joseph Dye appeared in Lambeth street office. The court sentenced a worker to three months imprisonment with hard labor for violating his written engagement.
Joan Hawkins defends workers against extravagant accusations in a Bell Old Bailey letter dated January 28 1887. She condemns Seaward for alleging £100 per head payouts and argues for fair treatment and impartial justice for both employers and employees amid disputed employment costs and inconvenience.
A city subscription funds relief for Bilboa siege victims, signed by Arroyave Murrieta and Zulueta, inviting Spaniards and British traders to help the destitute families. An article notes a bankrupt’s income as a chief claqueur at Theatre du Vaudeville, detailing 33,000 francs assets and 550 francs monthly, earned from ticket sales and perquisites.
The Gazette records royal directions designating towns as polling places for various divisions. Bath, Derby, Devon, Cornwall, Flint, Lancaster, Stafford, Sussex, York, Warwick, Worcester, Lincoln, Somerset, and other locales are named for northern southern eastern and western divisions with districts to be assigned by justices of the peace.
John Phillips, a London cabman, identified a robber after being offered a bribe to deny the witness. Aldermen granted him weekly compensation and urged police notification, while cabmen allegedly conspired to harass him after his actions promoting justice. In Boulogne, Lorimer v Scott ends with defamation and assault claims, judge postponing judgment.
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