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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 10, 1847
Page
2
Mr Ballantine argues no case for bail or remand against his client and praises high character. Mr Yardley calls for bail, while Mr Potbury cites higher bail than Captain Sleigh. the bench overrules objections and securities are posted, with remand for a week.
Paris reports divisions between Debats and Presse over France's alliances while the King approves measures including Cracow incorporation. Spain opens Cortes with Kingly amnesty aims, fiscal reforms, and tariff plans. Turbulence abroad touches Austria and Greece amid notes on Galicia, Cracow, and sovereign gestures.
A Monday meeting at the Literary Institution, Southwark, chaired by Mr. Guillaume, formed a second Building Association to advance £200 per share on each £80 share and £100 on £40 half shares with no immediate advance and five percent interest, via ballot, and a 216d entrance fee with £1s monthly subscription. The scheme mirrors the first association’s success to aid working classes through building societies.
A quarrel between G Webster landlord of the Malt Shovel and Gelder his father in law led to Gelder striking Webster with a poker. Webster died within minutes. An inquest was in session in Leeds as details reached.
Notices recount a Bristol underground tunnel drill with blasting advancing toward bedrock, a Bristol highway robbery case against Flower and Millings with implied peril, and a Hull marriage tale sparked by a widow’s quick remarriage. Portsmouth launches the Dauntless, a 28 gun frigate, while Manchester and Stowmarket report on assaults and arsenic scares amid local crime and public notices.
A woman believing she would end her suffering took a large dose but severe vomiting followed, paradoxically saving her life. She is now recovering.
The Repeal Association held its weekly meeting with Richard Kelly, J. O’Hea, and Mr. O’Connell addressing the gathering. Speakers urged action to relieve widespread hunger and urged government intervention, warning of looming destitution and possible crime unless relief is provided, while noting the distress across Donegal Kerry and the south. The meeting adjourned after detailing a planned petition and a loan proposal to relieve suffering.
City officials announce a plan to remedy crowding by inviting tenders for the sale of under five acres of freehold land within five miles of the Royal Exchange to erect a new house of correction in London. Delays arose over whether to place the prison within city bounds, but consensus now favors rapid ground acquisition.
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