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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 07, 1846
Page
4
Richard Cobden argues that immediate repeal would benefit farmers by reducing panic and transition harms, urging farmers and landed proprietors to back swift tariff changes. He claims free trade boosts long term prosperity and independence, while promising minimal temporary suffering and a broad commercial reform under Queen Victoria's era.
A London court hearing recounts the Greenwich case where War and Ann Maria Richardson face charges of concealing birth and death of a child. Witnesses describe arsenic suspicions, poisoning implications, and family involvement as the couple remains remanded at Horsemonger's Lane gaol. The report notes medical testimony about poison quantities and a grave dug prior to death.
A committee of the whole House considers a resolution to replace duties on foreign wood with a system based on measurement by tale. The April 1 1347 effective date introduces options for entering battens boards deals and plank by tale for goods from foreign countries with specified dimensions.
Paris reports describe a ministerial victory in the Chamber of Deputies on the right of search and tariff reform. The assembly approved the sixth paragraph of the Aug 23 1815 convention against the slave trade and debated the seventh, while other items mention naval moves, railway committee actions, and post office treaty details with Hanover Belgium and Brunswick.
The text details amendments to prior factory labour laws proposed by Lord Ashley and Mr Fielden. It tightens hours for those under eighteen and extends similar limits to females over eighteen, progressively reducing daily and weekly work caps from 12 to 11 to 10 hours per day and from 69 to 64 to 59 hours per week, to be enforced from August 1846 and 1847, with the acts to be construed as a unified legal framework.
The Tory voyage from Hong Kong to England unfolds in London court with Captain George Johnstone charged by the Crown in multiple indictments for murder and attempted murder aboard the ship Tory. Witnesses describe mutinous acts, brutal killings of Reason Rambert and others, and the captain's violent conduct amid dwindling provisions and rising tensions at sea.
A ship captain faced murder charges after a voyage where crew members suffered extreme violence and death. Testimony described torture, threats, and a fatal stabbing, with logbook falsifications, threats against the crew, and mutinous talk. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.
A lengthy critique explains a recent act limiting cost orders against acquitted defendants and links it to broader measures expanding relief from costs in criminal cases. It notes that magistrates previously erred by ordering costs to the injured party and that new laws prohibit such orders, protecting acquitted individuals. It also covers petitions against harsh corn laws, river poaching, and ongoing ministerial political shifts.
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