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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 07, 1847
Page
4
The Middlesex county by election saw Lord Robert Grosvenor contesting as a candidate amid a large turnout despite bad weather. The discourse highlighted reform for religious liberty, opposition to Pope’s influence, and support for government collaboration.
The West Sussex election in Chelmsford devolved into a farce as Col Wyndham retires the Duke of Richmond's candidate Mr Prime appeared set to win with little opposition. Brighton elector Mr Cox condemned the process as controlled by landowners, calling it an unconsulted, staged vote.
Horrific murder case in the borough with Thomas Cross arrested after attacking his wife and Mrs Osborne. Mrs Osborne survives after carotid artery injury. bloodstained home shows brutal scene. inquiry returns a verdict of vital murder.
A Westminster election meeting at Hoos sqeere Rooms chaired by Sir Charles Alder presided over by Captain Houghton endorses Charles Cochrane as Westminster’s candidate. Cochrane denies Whig label, discusses civil and religious liberty, abolition of the Corn Laws, open ports, and reform. A resolution approving his fit to represent Westminster is carried. program notes on Covent Garden Opera and other local items follow.
Barris v Hoorzm before Mr Justice Wightman at Contagant Fab 3. Plaintiff, a Covent Garden housemaid, sued a Covent Garden druggist for damages after taking a bottle from Hooper's shop that caused severe illness. Testimony shows the assistant and pharmacist mishandled a remedy marked the drops. Jury returned verdict for the plaintiff with £150 damages.
The Queen's Bench reverses the judgment in Gossett v Howard and holds the Speaker's warrant valid. The decision centers on whether the Speaker's order to compel attendance and the accompanying warrant justified the officer's detention, with the court ruling the warrant sufficient in law and the defendant justified in executing it. The ruling preserves parliamentary privilege while applying standard legal scrutiny to the warrant's form and authority.
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