Anxious Return to Europe Amid Indian Ocean Plans
An unnamed admiral seeks to return to Europe as preparations mount for a voyage to Calcutta. The American frigate and minister have journeyed from Bombay and Colombo to China, where they were welcomed. Calcutta and Madras residents strive to secure large steamers, arguing it would benefit the Oriental and Peninsular Company by routing mails from Bombay to Suez with branches to Ceylon Madras Calcutta and Singapore.
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Europe
Calcutta
China
Bombay
Colombo
Madras
Oriental and Peninsular Company
Suez
Ceylon
Singapore
Commercial Intelligence from Overland Price Current
A fair extent of business has been done since our last, but heavy importations and fewer buyers due to unsettled Punjaab kept prices down in several items. Copper, tin, braziers, and raised bottoms in fair demand. sheet at 53 rupees per cwt with recent resistance at 53 ½. South American bids 47 to 47 frs. iron varied with English bar around 22 10s to 23 per candy and Swedish bar at 48 10s rising to 51 rs. steel up 41s to tupee per cwt. lead limited. quicksilver 123 rs. Cotton goods show mixed demand with grey madapollams active, bleached shirtings dull, cambrics and muslins steady, prints weak, zebra dresses neglected. Yarns online with some price gains, orange yarn up. woollens dull. Beer market quiet with limited sales. Cotton activity strong in Britain and China. opium cheaper, mocha and Berbera coffee noted. pepper and bees wax traded. Freight rates to Britain edging down as ships arrive. money market firm with government securities higher. Bombay bank shares up, Western bank rising. Death: Boghos Youssouff Bey, Egyptian foreign affairs minister, dies at 71 in Alexandria. funeral simple with European residents and consuls present.
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Punjaab
MeErats
Turkey
Great Britain
China
Chamber of Commerce
London
Liverpool
Clyde
England
Calcutta
Bombay
Fate of Stoddart and Conolly Reported by Distant Officials
A summary from Lord Stuart de Rothesay and Sir Stratford Denning details inquiries into Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly. Accounts from Bokhara, Bokharan envoys, and Rejib Bey describe alleged executions or imprisonments, with mixed testimony on whether the officers were dead. An English Miralai with Abdul Semmet Khan is noted among Bokhara reports, plus arrival of Bokharan natives at Trebizond via Mecca pilgrimage.
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Stoddart
Conolly
Captain Conolly
Lord Stuart de Rothesay
Stratford Denning
Sheil
Orenberg
Nesselrode
Bokhara
The
Khen
Iniasion
M.de Bouteniers
Stuart de Rothesay
Rejib Bey
Herat
Mahomed Sauleh
Allahdad Khan
Meshed
Gool Mahomed
God Mahomed
Rejib
Ameer
Teheran
Stratford Canning
Trebizond
Mecca
Bokharaj
Tabreez
Erzerum
Miralai
Abdul Semmet Khan
Mussulman
Abdul Sewmet Khan
France and Spain Dominate Foreign Intelligence Briefing
Paris reports on M de Salvandy's forced recall from Turin after cabinet and king opposition to his insubordination. Queen Christina prepares to reenter Madrid as Donna Carlotta's death shakes Spanish intrigue. royal mourning lasts 15 days while stocks and rail ventures move.
Grandson acquitted in Maidstone murder case amid public excitement
George Bodle's grandson faced a five day coroner's inquest after arsenic was found in breakfast coffee killing George Bodle and nearly harming others. A Maidstone assizes trial spanned two days with prosecution led by Adolphus and defense by Clarkson Lodkin, ending in acquittal amid fervent court reaction. Subsequent events linked to a £50 theft and fugitive status add ongoing intrigue to the case.
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George Bodle
Maidstone Assizes
Justice Gazelee
Adolphus
Clarkson
Lodkin
St. John-street
Smithfield
Speech by Whiteside in Irish State Trials on conspiracy
Day seven teeters as Mr. Whiteside assails government inactivity over a supposed vast conspiracy. He contrasts English liberty with Irish peril while reciting the case of Mr. Duffy and urging jurors to judge justly in a charged courtroom. The scene shifts to Mr. M Donagh presenting for Richard Barrett as the adjournment ends.
Arrival of the Peninsulas Mails and Krakatoa-like currents
The Pacha steamship arrived at Sour Hampton with mails and passengers from the Great Liverpool and India, plus a fruit cargo. Reports from Mount Etna describe expanding craters and ongoing eruption threats. Meanwhile in Lithuania, an imperial ukase orders Jews to be expelled to distant towns, affecting about 36,000 families and up to 150,000 people, prompting European intervention debates.
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the Weekly Chronicle
Peninsulaas
Hampton
Oriental Company
Pacha
Gibraltar
Cadiz
Lisbon
Oporto
Vigo
Liverpool
India
Naples
Mount Ema
Monte Viveo
Brown
Rivera
Monte Video
Buenos Ayres
Lithuania
Warsaw
Nicholas
Europe
Packet Ships Bring News From America and UK Reports
Five American packet ships arrive this week with updates from Philadelphia and New York, including the famous dwarf General Tom Thumb aboard the Susquehanna. News covers Congress debates on the Right of Petition, party alignments around Clay and Van Buren, shipwrecks, and a deadly steamship incident near Cahokia. Also reports on Texas admission opposition, cotton market impacts, and O Connell chair gifts to Robert Tyler.
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United States
America
Philadelphia
Delaware
New York
Charles Sutton
Tom Thumb
Congress
House of Representatives
W. C. Rives
Great Britain
Richmond Whig
Henry Clay
Martin van Buren
Clay
Daniel Webster
Nock
Tantee
Mobile
John Wade
New Alexandria
George Kettering
Dixon
J. W. Brown
Reisin
Michigan
Pittsburg
Texas
Union
Tom Paine
Age of
London
New Orleans
Briggs
Massachusetts
House of Rothschild
Posticus
P.S
Southern Mail
Justin
Collier
Richmond
Augusta
Georgia
Burns
Liverpool
England
France
Cuba
O'Connell
Mr. O’connell
Washington
Robert Tyler
Eee States
Philadelphia Etter
The Metropolis Coal Worrying Act In Full Operation
The new regulation for coal whippers and cargo delivery in the Thames began full operation on Saturday. Seventy gangs of nine men each are employed to deliver cargoes at the rate of 1d per ton, replacing old agents’ deductions used for debauchery. The item also covers the Coal Worriness Act’s impact on port labor and enforcement.
Provincial. Clergyman charged with abominable offence in Bristol
The Reverend Henry Heathcote faced committal for trial on three counts of solicitation. Witness depositions were read but not published. He requested bail with £500 own surety and two £250 sureties, to be secured with 48 hours' notice. The Bristol magistrates lamented the charges against a man of his profession. Dover opens South Eastern Railway amid French and English ceremony on Dover beach. A grand reception and dinner followed as officials from Dover Calais and Boulogne attended. An explosion at Maldon powder mills destroyed a mill with unprepared powder. no fatalities occurred. At Neath a curate, the Rev. Jeffrey Davies, was found dead in a sawpit near a shipyard, inquest returned verdict found dead. he leaves a widow and six children. Winchester reports a panic in the Fusilier Guards during Sunday service in the county hall lobby caused by a dusty figure shouting to cut for your lives, later traced to a hot water issue. no serious injuries.
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Pennsylvania Inquirer
Leth Ult
Cincinnati
Cahokia Creek
Carondelet
Henry Bry
The
Bry
Robert Bullock
Maysville
Kentucky
State Room
Ohio
Bullock
Tilionois
Cahokia
Manchester
Iliensis
Missouri
Muir
Virginia
Devi Craddock
Davidson County
Tenesse
Snell
Louisville
Mr. Wright
Mecklenburgh County
A. Howell
Covington
Virginia Hotel
Peck
Illinois
Howell
Louis Gazette
St. Louis
Gazette
New Era
Thames
London Tavern
Duke of Cambridge
Messrs
Broadwood
Seamen's Hospital Society
King William
John Labouchere
Gray
Young
Thornton
R.N
Farrar
Probyn
Labouchere
Alderman Gitles
Gore
Pewtress
Wakley
M.P
Kensington Union
William Hunt
Hammersmith
George Hallett
Law
Gazzaroni
Gazzatoni
Henry Hunt
J. Taylor
University College Hospital
Fatan
Payne
Guy's Hospital
James Hillier
Gresham Club
St. Swithin's Lane
Messrs. Payne, Smith, and Co
Mansion House
Thomas Rook
St. Swithin’s Lane
Plun- Stead
Marlborough-street
Joseph Burgen Smith
Drummond-street
Euston-square
Plumstead
Woolwich
Ebristol
Henry Heathcote
Burges
Harmer
Newman
Bristol Gazette
Dover
South Eastern Railway
Boulogne
Calais
Dover Beach
Clark
Baxendales
Dialdon
Maldon
Cheam
Kingston
Surrey
Frederick Taylor
Ewell
Neath
Jeffrey Davies
Cadoxton
Alexander Cuthbertson
Carmarthen
Winchester
Waterloo
Fusileer
Crown Court
Priam
Hampshire Independent
Ireland Repeat Association Meeting Crowded in Conciliation Hall
The weekly Ireland Repeat Association gathering in Conciliation hall drew a packed crowd. Lord Ffrench received hearty applause as he affirmed solidarity with Mr. O Connell. MPs Maurice O Connell Dillon Brown and Smith O Brien backed a motion to form a committee to monitor parliamentary proceedings and promote peace as Ireland seeks repeal.
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Lord Ffrench
Mr. O'Connell
Maurice O'Connell
M.P
Dillon Brown
Smith O’brien
O'Connell
Anti Corn Law League
Ireland
Roche
Lord de Grey
E. Sucpex
Ireland’s repeal trial court session details protest and defense
The court adjourned to Monday as Mr. O Connell asked to limit his appearance while Mr. Mc Donagh offered a minute critique of the evidence. He referenced repeal meetings as a national movement for all Irish, defended Mr. O Connell’s conduct, and read from sources connected to Barrett’s Mullaghmast speech, arguing that impugning Barrett should not suppress press liberty.
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Mr. O'Connell
M‘donagl
Steele
Mc Donagh
O'Connell
Abrahan Bradley King
Barrett
Mullaghmast
Freeman's Journal
Ray
Repeal Wardens
London
Om i
America
Henn
Q.C
Tom Steele
Nis
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Alexandria
Boghos Youssouff Bey
Mohammed Ali
Egypt
Boghos Bey
Foreign Intelligence
M. de Salvandy
Paris
M. Salvandy
Turin
M. Guizot
Saxe Coburg Gotha
Courrier Francais
Guizot
Journal Des Débats
Univers
Chamber of Deputies
Spain
Greece
Robert Peel
Trebizonde
Constantinople
Adrianople
Christina
Madrid
Council of Ministers
Orleans
Rouen
Havre
Avignon
Toulon
Marseilles
Mediterranean
Levant
Doxys Cantotra
Don Francisco Oe Paula
Donna Carlotta
Don Francisco de Paula
Isabel
Ferdinand VII
Don Carlos
Princess de Beira
Ferdinand
Calomarde
Andalusia
Bribon
Carago
Queen Christina
Don Francisco
Lea Granga
Espartero
Donne Carlotta
Duke
Louis Philippe
Don Sebastian
Duke of
Ultimo
Heraldo
Chasseurs of Espinosa
Infante
Retiro
Gaminde
Iturbe
Narvaez
M. Gonzales Bravo
MM. Gaminde
Barcelona
Valencia
Marquis de Santa Cruz
M. Laschera
Ayuntamiento
Viscount de] Pentas
M. Zergolita
Pezuels
Calvary
Serrano
Prim
Schelly
Whiteside
Lord Jocelyn
Drayton
Donnybrook
Privy Council
Gibbon
Aldborough-house
Julius Cesar
Conquer-hill
Brian Bordshmne
Clontarf
Duffy
Repeal Association
Thomas Moore
Mr. Moore
Virtue
Erin
Lord Edward Fitzgerald
Hardy
Horne
Whitewide
M‘donagh
Richard Barrett
Canada
Courier and Inquirer
Montreal
Toronto
Quebec
Draper
Wakefield
Dunn
Atcheson
Crown Lands
Vallieres de St. Real
Lafontaine
Morin
Gaspé
Toronto Patriot
Canada West
Charles Metcalfe
the Metropolis
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