President's Message Summarizes Caroline Affair and Trade Views
The president discusses the Caroline incident with Britain, M'Leod's acquittal, and the dangers of border invasions. He urges Congress to curb executive overreach, protect territorial sovereignty, and maintain peace while pursuing maritime and anti slave trade aims. He notes British correspondence, slave-trade policy, and proposes banking reforms to stabilize currency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence
Coerots Diieh
New York
Arived
Liverpooll
Nineteer Dews
E Ra Sac
Congress
Mead
Alexander M‘leod
Great Britain
Canada
Caroline
M‘leod
United States
Supreme Court of New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Upper Canada
Grogan
Lower Canada
Department of State
Mr. Fox
Vermont
Navy Island
Schlosser
Court of States
Stevenson
Toeston Tyadean
Ahemat
Treasury
Tyrex
Speech From the Throne Opens French Chamber in Paris
The Paris papers report the King of the French opening the session of the chambers at one o'clock, with the king marching via the Bridge de la Concorde in a close carriage. He pledges peace, railway expansion, and measures to extend commerce, while defending press liberty and warning against factional obstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Bridge de la Concorde
Chamber of Deputies
Tuileries Gardens
Austria
Great Britain
Prussia
Russia
Europe
Ottoman Empire
France
Algeria
Press of
Socie'Sovield
den Gens de Let
Fres
M. Dupoty
Journal
du Peuple
MM. Royer
Collard
Odillon Barrot
Lamartine
Berryer
Dufaure
Dupin
Chamber of Peers
Court of Peers
National Guard
le Commerce
le Courrier Francais
la France
le Temps
L’echo Francais
le Journal du Peuple
la Revue Independante
la Revue du Progres
la Mode
le Charivari
le Cornaire
Arago
Institute
Caucois Lemaire
Felix Pyat
L. Viardot
Claudon
Altarache
Avid
Henri Cellier
Louis Denayers
Charles Didier
H. Lucas
A. Suchet
Henri Martin
Pitre Chevalier
Vay Reybaud
George Sand
T. Thore
Messager
Moniteur
Moniteur Parisien
Journal Des Débats
M. Duputy
la Presse
Constitutionnel
Société de Gens de Lettres
M. Reybaud
Madame Dudevant
Duputy
Upely
Quenisset
Unita
M. Guizot
England
Croler
Colombier
The Metropolis Christening and Burial Registry 1840
A long list from December 15, 1840 to December 14, 1841 details christenings and burials across London parishes inside and outside the walls, with Middlesex and Surrey out-parishes. It records total births by sex, total deaths by sex, and causes including fever, inflammation, and dropsy, plus a section on casualties and a note on stillbirths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
London
Middlesex
Surrey
Westminster
Aia Mob Pepeme
Beroetay Pimperaz
Lorpoy -Mxcuawics
Birkbeck
Miss Birch
Dolby
Cubitt
W. Harricon
Covent-garden Theatre
J. O. Atkins
J. Parry
J. H. Tally
Covent Garden Theatre
Robert Currey
National Life Assurance Society
National Mercantile Life Assurance Society
Zootoical Society
Richard Owen
F.R.S
Fraser
Niger
Nun
West Africa
England
J. B. Harvey
Society
South Australia
Waterhouse
South America
Sowerby
Gresham
Royal Exchange
Charles the Second
Cornhill
Prince Albert
Guildhall
Gresham Committee
Court of Common Council
Lord Mayor
Mehemet Pacha and Greek finances shape regional power reports
Alexandria letters note Mehemet Ali in Upper Egypt while Soliman Pacha sails to Suez to assess canal plans and fortify the port. In Athens, Stavros becomes bank president as Greek officials push for financial reforms. Turkish foreign affairs reply to Greece is judged unsatisfactory and war with Turkey seems likely unless protective powers intervene. Trebizond reports a Circassian victory over Russians with 30,000 men devastated and the survivors retreating through mountain terrain. Further Russian losses are still awaited.
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Izzet Mehemet Pacha T
France
Porte
Alexandria
Mehemet Ali
Upper
Egypt
Soliman Pacha
Suez
Cairo
Athens
George Stavros
Rifdat Pache
Constantinople
Turkey
Constantinoplee
Trebizond
Anapa
Birmingham Chartists Aimed To Spark Public Disturbances
Report notes chartists in Birmingham organized meetings in Bilston and Wednesbury to stir miners facing unemployment into violence. Police dispatched 150 officers and dragoons prepared as crowds gathered, with plans to march on Wolverhampton and torch-light meetings feared. A Brighton incident describes a man who leaped from a four-story parapet, dying after a prior illness and mental distress. an inquest recorded death by self-inflicted wounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Staffordshire
Bilston
Wednesbury
Wolverhampton
Feargus ‘O'Connor
Rmidons
O'Connor
Young
Wks
Lewis, Allenby
Bedford
Drapers
Old Steine
Brighton
H. Gell
Burrows
Death of John Beatty West Q C Dublin representative
A Dublin correspondent reports the death of John Beatty West Q C at Mount Anvilia near Dublin at five in the morning. West, a longserving Tory representative, had not fully recovered from the fatigue of the July election contest with Mr Grogan. The piece notes his kindness and private virtues, wealth from elections, and a contested seat leading to a vacancy. It also covers political maneuvering for the seat, with Mr Vance as Tory candidate and Lord Morpeth as Liberal hopeful, plus implications of the new corporation bill for voting officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deeatn
West
Dustix
Dusum
John Beatty West
Q.C
Dublin
Mount Anvilia
Judge Burton
Grogan
Warren
Mr. West
Vance
Leeds
Tralee
Lord Morpeth
Philipstown
England
Lord Eliot
Col. M.gregor
Monitor
James Graham
High Court of Parliament
Globe
Commission de Lunatica ‘Inquirendo
Ossory
Leighlin
Ferns
Dublin Monitor
Murderous Dumplings Tie Family to Poison Case
In Whixall a couple, Thomas Harries and his wife, are charged after a series of deaths linked to arsenic in flour used for apple dumplings. The inquest found the stomachs of victims distended with corrosive poison, and surgeons testified arsenic caused death. A third victim, John Haycock, may have died on the canal. The couple deny guilt. both are committed for the next assizes.
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Durin
Bronygarth
Oswes
Whixall
Waur Willi
Mary
Harries
Eliza Williams
Thom
St Prae
Williamson
Eliza
Arthur Williams
Hoy
Sacoreels
Mar
John Edwards
Mary Jo
Betty Minshall
Thomas Norway Arthur
Whitchurch
Mary Jones
Groom
Thos. Groom
Arthur
Teader
Elizabeth Minshall
Witness
Jul Haycock
Thomas Minshall
John Haycock
Haycock
Richard Jones
Thomas Harries
Cheshire
Shrewsbury
Inquest on Debor ah Smith and river tragedy at Horslydown
An inquest at the White Hart, Tottenham Court Road, into the death of Deborah Smith finds temporary insanity after she confessed to poisoning herself with oxalic acid following a Sunday disappointment. Separately, a Tower-stairs boat capsized sending nine porters and a lad into the river. Hoggett drowned and others were rescued, leaving a widow and five children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
White Hart
Tottenham,court-road
Deborah Smith
Thomas Smith
Alfred Mews
Tottenham Court-Road
Beanre
Clark
Horslydown
Greenwich
Hoggett
Fountainstairs
Bermondsey
Also Mentioned on This Page
Foreign Intelligence
Franch
Jhout
Dupoty
M. Thiers
Society of Travailleurs Egalitaires
National Guards
Journal Des Debats
Court of ‘Peers
Pasquier
Duke de Broglie
Count Mole
Barthe, Merilhou
Persil
Count Portalia
Count Bastard
Zangiacomi Boyer
Baron -Seguier
Dufour
Boggio
Mallet
Brazier
M. Blot Sequenne
Abbe Grivel
Iepremeares
Geral Darriule
Arts
The
Commerce
Semonadiris
Bastiles
Charenton
l'Epine
l’Epine
Faubourg St. Antoine
Epine
Chamber
M. Sauzet
M.de Lamartine
M. Odillon Barrot
M. Lamartine
Passy
Patente
Lacave Laplagne
Ureans
EPAIN
Mapzip
Duke de la Victoria
Cortes
Senate
Madrid
M. de Salvandy
Espartero
Senor Arguelles
Senor Vadillo
Cadiz
Senor Acuna
Germany
Wurtemburg
Knapp
Hanover
Cassel
Osnabruck
General Assembly
Union Club
M. Riimann
Federal of
Geneva
Constituent Assembly
Ayndir
M. Rigaud
Augsburg Gazette
C. Canning
Vienna
Metterhich
Buroskis
Chamber of Representatives
War Department
Te House
Department of the Interior
Levant Mart
Malta
Smyrna
Raouf Pacha
the Metropolis
James Ghealpf
Edward-Greef
Gahick
Bristol
T. Rozents
Academy
Stoke’s Croft
St. James's Parade
King-street
King-street Chapel
W. Lucy
T. Winter
T. Haynes
T. S. Crisp
Baptist Church
Pithay
Brixham
Gazette
Darlaston
Crezaprot Costrir
Job
Page Taylor
Henry Itch
Chi
Henry Sedle
George Whitehouse
Richard Simcox
Messrs. Taylor
Manchester
Canxck
Witrot Mupper
John Chadwick
Chadwick
Manchester Guardian
TH Weekly Chronicle
Ireland
Shropshire
Biu OW
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