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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 07, 1844
Page
4
A fragment notes that the British Crown may dispense protection across New Zealand, with a subject appealing to a local government body because of residence in Wellington rather than Yorkland, stressing that the entire colony is under royal possession.
The Overland Mail notes a stronger Revenue for the quarter ending January amid British India pressures. Malaria devastates troops at Currachee and Hyderabad while frontier actions by Elenborough formalize a cordon sanitaire. In Ireland, the List of the Panel for a Special Jury is contested, with debates over amnesty or compromise and rising Secret Organization amid Tara Meeting rhetoric and a strained path toward peace.
The Gazette du Berri reports Lord Grey’s improving health at Howick. Antwerp Pank notes Lord and Lady John Russell’s expected visit to Earl Spencer, with Miss Lister step-daughters at Chesham. Also covered are the Count of Nassau’s funeral, Prince de Croy’s death, Bank of England dividend dates, Jamaica post rates, and a Scottish parish dispute over fornication fines highlighted by Rev. M'Kinnon.
A dense miscellany item list reports a Duke of Northumberland sponsor visiting Durham university agriculture and chemistry talks, a Cockspur Street British hotel meeting to select festival stewards, a royal death notice for General Comte d Orsay with his knightly lineage, and Athens Greece constitutional moves. Other items reference duels near town, excise office reforms, bakers asylum fundraising, street pavement fines, Manchester to Leeds line opening, Liverpool and London rail traffic, a brutal assault in Arnold, prison plots, a gun fired at a jeweller, and broad city mortality figures with smallpox notes.
Derbyshire readers report a surge in League fund donations with totals rising from £400 last year to between £1,100 and £1,300 and possibly higher before books close. A landowner contributed £100 amid a broad mobilization following Cobden's speech, while other items note a London customs case and a Wellington-area fire inquiry.
A review notes Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia revived with success at Paincess's Theatro. Wood duo to perform at Princess's theatre in The Maid of Judah. Mr Wilson resumes Scottish music at Store Street Music Hall with admired songs. Templeton's Mary Queen of Scots narrative concert praised though with some judgment on altered lyrics. Brief notices of Bombastes Furioso burlesque at Woburn Abbey Theatre and a roundup of visitors to Glasgow and the Cainese Collection.
Abstract figures for the year ending 5 January 1844 show total income at £50,071,913, up £4,329,865 from the prior year, with a quarterly gain of £725,670. Increases mainly in property tax, but stamp tax and crown lands show declines. excise and post-office parts rise modestly. The period of collection explains a year-on-year decrease in the latest quarter versus the same quarter in 1843.
The Lords Commissioners certify a surplus of £908,541 11s 9d for the year ending October 10 1843. One fourth of this, £227,135 7s 11d 4f, will be applied by the National Debt Office in the quarter ending April 5 1844 to stock purchases, Exchequer bills, and donations. Higman, comptroller general, London. London Gazette.
At Bilston Samuel Fellows Robert Purslow John Perry and Daniel Watt were tried after being acquitted of murder for allegedly violating Mary Jane Wild on the prior November 29. The deceased testified of four assailants forcing her into a pit, the fifth accompanying Ann Willis, with a plea of imminent death. All four men were convicted and sentenced to thirteen months hard labor. In Carmarthen Assizes Becca Outrace David Evans and James Evans faced rioting and robbery charges at Pontycarrig. The deposition described a crowd demanding £5 for cattle damage, dragging the farmer to Bergwin, and threats of killing unless payment was made. verdicts were guilty with sentences deferred.
In Chester Trespax at nine o'clock Justice Wightman presided over the New Winter Assize. Jonathan Pogmore and Thomas Cartwright faced charges of slaying Sarah Cartwright near Monks Copenhall Crewe. After a series of witness absences and judge rebukes, the jury acquitted the defendants with the court criticizing witness conduct and ordering estreating of recognizances and disallowing expenses.
Sporting intelligence from Tattersalls details Monday bets on Derby favourites including The Ugly Buck Rattan Leander Cockamaron Campanero and others with closing prices listed for each. Thursday updates note further wagers and that little action occurred on favourites amid ongoing racing chatter and hedge activity.
Weather limited attendance at Beaconsfield on Monday with only twenty to thirty present for the royal buck hounds. A deer was released near Dorney-luittom and trotted through Hall barn and Woburn-camimon before Holtspur-bottom, taking about an hour in a lively hunt led by Mr. Brooke at Holtspur farm. A second note reports a prize fight at Twyford near Windsor where Osford, the Wychford Forester, defeated M’Grath after an hour and forty minutes of punishing combat.
The playbill notes the little dog is omitted to avoid Victoria era penalties banning dogs from drawing water or other tasks in Metropolitan districts. The Western Times quips the sovereign light affair has tradesmen agitated and jokes about Sir Robert Peel visiting the market on a Saturday with no change for business.
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