Invention of a Camera Obscura for Copying and Printing
The author describes building small camera obscuras with sensitive paper to capture solar images, including depictions of buildings, statues, and engravings. He notes the method can copy drawings, engravings, and MSS by exposing prepared paper to sunlight, and discusses the variability of paper sensitivity and potential applications for artists and copyists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metheny
Davy
Wedgwood
Geneva
Inquest verdict on Lovetts tragedy and royal theatre visit
The inquest concluded with a verdict that William Lovett killed his wife and then killed himself while in an unsound mind. The Queen and Duchess of Kent attended Covent Garden Theatre at night. Ministers may wait for the Earl of Clarendon as Earl Albemarle declines Ireland office. Court notes include Chancery injunction in Colburn v Marryat over Phantom Ship copyright and potential early publication. A baby infant corpse found in Vauxhall Bridge Road box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tae Pappine Ton Murper
William Lovett
Duchess of Kent
Covent Garden Theatre
Earl of
Radcliffe
Vauxhall Bridge-road
Court OF Chancery
Anti Corn Law Agitation Dominates Sessions at Brown's Hotel
Delegates and MPs including J B Smith, Hastie, Cobden, Copppock and Barrett gather at Brown's Hotel to press for total repeal of the corn laws. Petitions from Manchester and surrounding towns total tens of thousands of signatures. A debate over precedents and hearing evidence at the bar follows, with Hindley's motion withdrawn. Agricultural meetings across Doncaster, Market Harborough, Leicestershire and Huntingdonshire urge repeal or retention of existing duties. Public meetings in Halifax Oxford and Bolton push petitions. Melbourne meets agriculturists, with ministers framing cautious positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown’s Hotel
Palace, Yard
J. B. Smith
Hastie
M.P
G. W. Wood
H. Marsland
Baines
Thornely
Hindley
Dennistoun
Manchester
Salford
Birmingham
Trowbridge
Wilts
Marylebone
Preston
Greenwich
Halifax
Cupar
Wolverhampton
Hawick
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Nottingham
Kendal
Cobden
Lord Brougham
Walmsley
Sturge
Aiken
Doncaster
P. D. Cooke
Owston
J. Fullerton
Doncaster Chronicle
Epworth
Retford
Market Harborough
Harborough
Leicestershire Agricultural Society
Bell Hotel
Lion and Lamb Inn
Loughborough
Leicester
Huntingdonshire
George Rust
G. Thornhill
Edward Fellowes
Cambridge Chronicle
Beaufort Arms Inn
Monmouth
Melin
St. Luke’s
Bolton
Maisby
Thomasson
George Lloyd
House of Commons
Maccall
Manchester Guardian
Talbot Inn
Huddersfield
Bradford
Halifax Express
Oxford
Lord Melbourne
AGRIC
Northampton
John Russell
Mr. Wickham
C. Shaw Lefevre
Wickham
Kenpan Anti-Corn-Law Association
Mr. Wood
Meeting backs repeal of corn laws amid petitions and lectures
A council meeting endorsed Mr Wood's explanation on repealing corn laws with a 2,666 signature petition about 1117 yards long sent to authorities. Mr Paulton, in a Crown and Anchor lecture, argued repeal would ease misery for manufacturers and farmers, a claim he supported at length in a two hour talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anti-Corn-law Association
Wood
Paulton
Crown and Anchor
Coroners and the Law A surgeon’s rebuke in a Middlesex speech
Mr Wakley argued for medical coroners, recounting cases to show attorney coroner errors. He cited a skeleton inquest, a misidentified bones case, and multiple verdicts on Catherine Moody, illustrating dangerous gaps in nonmedical inquests and the need for professional expertise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crowner
Wakley
Middlesex
Thames
Adey
Catherine Moody
London Hospital
Mr. Unwin
Unwin
Fuller
Gurney Oxy Oil Lamp Demonstration At Royal Institution
Mr Faraday reports a groundbreaking oxy oil lamp by Mr Gurney shown at the Royal Institution. The lamp emits a powerful, steady flame without trimming and could cut oil use to about one pint per hour with ten cubic feet of oxygen, offering potential for lighthouse and domestic scale lighting. The piece also notes Leicester trade dullness and the Bow Bridge opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gurgey
Faraday
Royal Institution
Priestley
Fresnel
Farraday
S. d
M. Fresnel
Leicester
Leicester Chronicle
Ireland
Bow
River
Lea
Middlesex
Essex
London Parcels Delivery Company and Union Gardens Felony Case
The piece notes a parcel delivery arrangement between London Parcels Delivery and Great Western Railway improving trade. It details Esther Walsom, an elderly woman known as a trainer of young thieves, being examined for felony in the Union Gardens area, where Christ's Hospital tenure and derelict houses are described and she is committed after evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Great Western Railway
Esther Walsom
Hexton
Union-gardeng
Christ’s Hospital
May
Bankrupt list of tradesmen across London area
London Gazette notes multiple bankrupts and certificates on March 8. Names include Thomas Bray buck maker Bermondsey Southwark Theodore Augustua Dubken haberdasher Wigmore Street Cavendish Square Benjamin Parabzm seller High Street Shadwell Thomas John Hawkins innkeeper West Smithfield John Currie tailor Orchard Street Portman Square Jeremiah Bonifant Baylis coal dealer Rowington Warwick William Maxey coal dealer Royal Leamington Spa Warwick. Certificates list William Gilbert builder Hackney William Yates iron founder Worcester George Eld miler Coventry William Ellwood butcher Wigton Cumberland.
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London Gazette
Bankrupis
Thomas Bray
Bermondsey
Southwark
Theodore Augustua Dubken
Wigmore-street
Cavendish Square
Benjamin Parabzm
Slo
High-street
Shadwell
Thomas John Hawkins
West Smithfield
John Currie
Orchard-street
Portman Square
Jeremiah Bonifant Baylis
Rowington
Warwick
William Maxey
Corm
Royal Leamington Sas
William Gilbert
Hackney
William Yates
Worcester
George Eld
Miler
Coventry
William Ellwood
Wigton
Cumberland
Insolvent and bankruptcy notices in the London Gazette
Insolvent Joseph Matthews Rath tailor and salesman. Bankrupts include John Chapman Iseworth market gardener J Cooper Newport innkeeper Charles Reesby Stamford master miller and corn factor Joseph Newsome Dewsbury George Jones Taunton silk throwster Robert Hamilton Liverpool master mariner and merchant Thomas Macklowe Duke's Row New Road agent Bankruptcy superseded Thomas Clark Harding Winslow Bucks grocer Robert Neech jun Pakefield Suffolk tle dester Edward Barker Exeter druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Gazette
Joseph Matthews
Rath
John Chapman
Iseworth
J. Me. Cooper
Newport
Isle of Wight
Charles Reesby
Stamford
Joseph Newsome
Dewsbury
Yorkshire
George Jones
Taunton
Robert Hamilton
Liverpool
Thomas Macklowe
Duke’s Row
New Road
Thomas Clark Harding
Winslow, Bucks
Robert Neech
Juns
Pakefield
Suffolk
Ea Tle Dester
Edward Barker
Exeter
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gorn Law
Her Majesty's Board of Ordnance
Lord Townshend
Tower Wharf
Pall Wall
Pallinalion
Lord Townshend Smack
R. Byham
Office of Ordnance
Remnant
Elwarde
Lovell’s Court
Paternoster Row
Jerusalem
Egypt
Christ
Thors
Rubens
Reynolds
West
Jacque Callett
Leonardi da Vinci
Scone
Harvey
Jackson
House of Vizetelly and Co
Thomas Ward & CO
Ondon Parcels Delivery Company
N.B
Rolls Buildings
Fetter-lane
London Parcels Delivery Company
Great Western Railway Company
Paddington
Princes St
Princes-stree
Rolle-buildinge
Cheltenham
Goucester
Bath
Bristol
West of England
Maidenhead
Essing
Hanwell
Southall
Uxbridge
Hillington
Longford
Harlington
Weat Drayton
Iver
Langley Slough
Windsorstoz
Estole
Upton
Salt Hill
Buroham
Taple
Bray, Henley, Marlow
Twyford
Reading
Paul
Turner
London University
C. King
Blackfriars-road
Christchurch
Barclay
Lena
Farringdon-street
Abernethy
Oxford-street
United Kingdom
Oland
Yoland
Anne Spillasxe
Bedford-street
Blackwall
Christopher Tatham
Poplar
Holborn
Furnivals Inn
Yolana
Cooper
H. Loy
Clark
Green
Hannayana Co
Oxford Street
Graham and Co
Helborn
Johnstone
Cornhill
Dorday
the Golden Star
Stones End
Borough
Money Market
Crry
London and Birmingham
Great Western
Brighton
S. Blackwall
Southampton
London and Westminster Bank
London Joint Stock Bank
Londohw Markets
Maxe-Lane
Moxpary
Londo
Smithfield
Carlo
Cheshire
Derby
York
Hay
Tourspay
Covent Garden
Coal Exchange
Farpar
Adairs
Tanfield Moor
Cart’s Hartley
Windsor
Picton
Townley
West Hartley
Willington
Wall’s End
Bell and Brown
South Durham
Yees
West Teese
Slythe
Bordeaux
Buenos Ayres
Maria Isabella
the Two Sicilies
Portici
Col. de Balzo
King of
Kirkby Lonsdale
Geoffrey Metcalfe
Kiraby Lonsdale
Lancaster Guardian
Calais
M. Louis Francia
Helston
Margery Perraw
Balderton
Newark
Barnideston
Upsail
Richard Singleton
Hatfield
Lydia Stoner
Hornchurch
Jane Oxley
James Boaden
James Boaden, Esq., the Biographer of Mr. Kemble
S'ddons
Guirande
France
Monsieur le Comte de Coux de Chatenet
Louis XVI
Mount-terrace
Wiliam Davis
Society of Friends
Belmont
Elizabeth
Wm. Gould
Thomas Strangewaya
Shanwick
Somerset
Edinburgh
William Adam
Jury Court of
Scotland
Christian Flint
Cample Mill
Closebern
Kilpatrick
Flint
Burns
Closeburn
High Tree
High
Mary
Allan Water
Jean
Christian Kilpatrick
Dumfies
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