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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 13, 1842
Page
2
The report surveys foreign intelligence from Paris Madrid and Belgium detailing Wheaton’s mission opposing a right of search treaty, print censorship protests in France, Portugal’s toppled constitution in Oporto, a looming clash in Spain, and Belgium’s Buzen scandal with royal mourning notes and political fallout.
Private letters from Athens speak of a ministry change and a Greek ambassador possibly becoming council president. The Creole affair prom ps intense congressional debate in the United States with Calhoun pressing for details on murder and mutiny. Reports also note trials in Philadelphia, bank examinations, and stable markets as of midmonth.
Public meeting of Cannonic Institute members held at Lawcon's rooms Gower Street with Rev James Hold stock in the chair. Hoy and others spoke as the group aims to counter Conservative Operative Associations and the No Popery movement while promoting religious and moral instruction among poorer Roman Catholics.
Reports detail the mysterious abduction of the boy Jones famed for Buckingham Palace visits. After a brief return to his parents he vanished from Westminster in February 1842, with letters suggesting he was persuaded to sail to America aboard the Warspite, while his father and Mr James deny complicity and seek answers.
The text questions why no communication was made to the father about events passing and hopes a full exposure will be elicited. Suspicion targets the same individuals previously involved in an infamous abduction. The boy’s letter is likely dictated by others and an anonymous note requires no comment.
A young lady Miss Rathbone died in Henrietta street after chemist Watts’s assistant Collins used ammonia liquor instead of acetate ammonia in a saline remedy prescribed for scarlet fever. Inquest verdict found death accelerated by the medicine. Curiously, other Bath notices report Miss Tree’s benefit in Bristol, anti corn law petitions, a shipboard tragedy near Cape, a hay mow fire, and civic charter debates in Sheffield.
A Dublin Evening Post report notes the present Orange toast to four names. It also details the Delahunt execution at Kilmainham jail, describing crowds, religious rites, and the grim procession from plea to burial as the man met his end on the gallow s trap.
The confession, prepared for publication after execution, details Joan DeLahunt's claim of no involvement in Garlibardo’s death but recounts her coerced testimony against Cooney and his wife. She admits plotting for two months to kill the child Thomas Maguire for reward, describing the murder in graphic detail and asserting her innocence regarding the Deda murder.
A royal committee selected Paisley shawls to suit Queen Victoria and the Duchess of Kent. The chosen pieces, praised for beauty and distinct styles, are expected to enliven trade while the London committee prepares a notable subscription for the Scott monument with royal patronage and funds.
A Westminster fundraising dinner at Drury Lane raised 1412 pounds 9 shillings. Surplus funds will aid the Licensed Victuallers Asylum and School, with 82 pounds 17 shillings left after expenses. Plate valued at fifty guineas given to the committee chair, Mr Arber, for services.
Literary Chronicle presents Jonas Grubb's Courtship by Paul Pinpar in rustic prose and verse. Molly's maid Aabigail attracts George Gabbett as Jonas clashes in a kitchen scene of jealously and rivalry, with couples quarrelling over a morning meal.
A humorous old verse about a hornet in a hollow tree who boasts of his sting and confronts a beetle, a yuccle passerby, and a lesson on possession and the law. The piece ends with a chorus and a moral about legal jargon and quarrels over property. It also includes a brief aside mocking temperance and a cluttered parliamentary note on corn laws and duties.
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