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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jan 15, 1842

Page

5

Privy Council at Wind turday and royal visits described

Long column of notices reports a Privy Council meeting at Windsor with Her Majesty, the Queen’s steps, and various dignitaries. mentions hospitalities, Vienna ties, and Hungarian nobility. also notes Quebec vacancy and Éste family intrigues, with further items on railway fires, tea trade fluctuations, and naval expeditions.

The Drama at Drury Lane and London Theatres Review

A wide review of the London stage notes performances at Drury Lane Hy Market Victoria and other venues. Macready impresses as the Gamester hero while Miss Lucy Bennett debuts at Haymarket and Stuart shines. Handel’s Acis and Galatea looms. Coriolanus and related pieces feature in forthcoming bills as Vestris Kemble and others recover or tour.

Drury Lane Theatre Bates G. Bennet Haymarket Theatre Metropolis Lady Townly Lucy Bennett Birmingham Miss Bennett Lord Townly Stuart Macready Wronghead Miss P. Horton David Rees Mr. Webster Moody Victoria Theatre Geraldine St. Pré Dibdin Pitt France England Handel Acis P. Horton Damon Allen Polypheme H. Phillips Galatea Romer Bramincuamm TuEata de Hayes Calais Elena Uberti Madame Vestris A. Kemble Columbine

Sporting Intelligence from Tattersall's and Related Items

The column reports betting on the Joanna colt and other runners with odds against many favorites, listing latest prices and notable wagers. It notes steward notices from the jockey club about Mr Gurney’s Epsom account settlements, a giraffe death in Norwich linked to Wombwell’s menagerie, a large Dunkirk catch, and fox hunters relocating to Leicester due to rail access.

Joanna Robert de Gorham Wiseacre Agat Auckland Mather Ballinkeele Lord Verulam Wreford Tar Gurney Arrain Jockey Club Woburn Abbey Gurney Epsom Groner Anson Buprorp Gores Byxe Gumney Weatherby Oxendon-street Wombwell Norwich Essex Herald Dunkirk Mediterranean Melton Mowbray Leicester

Rumours of Peerage Elevations and Hoax in Bath News

In London clubs whispers claim Richard Arkwright and Wilbraham Egerton may receive peerages as Baron Willersley and Earl Tatton. The Bath correspondence reports a nationwide hoax claiming a Combe-down collapse and mass casualties, later debunked by inquiries and police.

London Richard Arkwright Willersley Castle Derbyshire Baron Willersley Willersley Wilbraham Egerton Tatton-park Earl Tatton Stockport Bristol Cork Waterford Combedown Sisson Milcom-street Bath Morning Post Combe-down Sligmens Foundation War Milsom-street Prior-park College Campunper University Trinity St. John’s

Wakley M P Escapes Serious Injuries in Coach Accident

Mr Wakley M P coroner and party on a britschka returning from St. Pancras workhouse were jolted when horses bolted into Hampstead road. They were halted at a toll-posts, leaving Wakley bruised but unhurt. the coachman uninjured amid a shattered post and splintered vehicle. Chauffeur fell but escaped harm. A separate Lambeth scene saw parish authorities seizure for church rates at Mr Umpleby’s shoemaker shop amid placards denouncing the action.

Waxley M.P Jzoranoy Wakley St. Pancras Britschka Erasmus Wilson Southampton Arms Camden-town Hampstead Hodes Lambeth Umpleby

Great Social and Chartist Hoax on the Cavanagh Cabinet

The Morning Chronicle exposes a hoax by socialists and chartists posing as working class spokesmen. It claims signatures from G A Fleming Joshua Hobson John Leech Mark Crabtree and Titus Brooke were forged or misused to curry favor with Tory ministers and press. The piece accuses Fleet Prison masterminds and Tory interest of crafting reports to sway public opinion.

Robert Owen Feargus O'Connor Times Leeds Duke of Buckingham Gladstone Sepa G. A. Fleming Joshua Hobson John Leech Mark Crabtree Titus Brooke National Convention Yorkshire Fleet Uastler Morning Chronicle West Riding of Yorkshire Beckett Cavanagh the Times Fide George A. Fleming Owen West Riding Tenterden Goodwin Sands London Fleming O'Connor Weekly Chronicle Walter Nottingham Peter Laurie H. S. Chapman Metropolitan Anticom Law Association Strand S. J. Byng National and Provisional Corn-law Board Tokenhouse Yard Byng Chapman Pee Anti-corn-law Association Anti-corn-law Board Tokenhouse-yard Anti-cornlaw Association Henry Lyons Felix-street Westminster Road Mark Crasres Wych-street Crabtree Association Titus S. Brooke Titus Brooke Horace Hhs Grace Buckingham Lord Cowley Paris Arthur Plantagenet Charitat

Short Time Committee Hoax Exposed by London Press

A critical broadside from Morning Chronicle and others mocks the West Riding short time committee as a sham. It identifies George Fleming and Joshua Hobson, among others, as outsiders with London ties and accuses the group of peddling a New Moral World hoax. The piece cites letters from supposed canvassers and hints at broader socialist influence behind alleged factory reforms.

Morning Chronicle

Anti Corn Law Meeting in Dundee on Trade Distress

A large Dundee Anti Corn Law Association gathering with deputies from Forfarshire Fifeshire and nearby counties met at Bell Street chapel to discuss trade decline in linen and to petition Parliament for total repeal of corn and provision laws. Edward Baxter chaired as others read letters from Lord Panmure and MP George Duncan.

Linen Trade Dundee Anti Forfarshire Fifeshire Bell-street Edward Baxter Dundee Anti-Corn Law Association Messrs. Law and Wighton Perthshire Lord Panmure George Duncan Mr. Baxter Baxter Dundee Osnaburgh Robert Peel Robert United States J. Ogilvy D. Baxter Hecklers T. Saunders Landale Kirkaldy Inglis Dunfermline Canning Arbroath Low Forfar Osnaburg J. G. Stuart James Angus Kirriemuir David Lamb Brechin John Baxter Blairgowrie Kinloch Logicalfiend A. D. Young Butchart Alexander Low

Lunacy Commission and Spanish Legion injunction in chancery

First day of Hilary term opened by the lord chancellor and vice chancellors. A lunacy commission against Janz Gundry was stood over to assess new affidavits and medical prospects. In Macpurr v Hyns, an injunction was granted to restrain a defendant from receiving further pay certificates owed to a Spanish Legion officer, after security advances and misappropriation by Hyde.

Court OF Chancery Rulls England Knight Bruce Wigram Richards Duckworth Janz Gunpry Albany Bethel Gundry Toespar The Spanish Legion Hyde Mc Dougal

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH Sittings in Banco and Libel Cases

In a sequence of Queen's Bench items the court heard criminal information against the Rev Henry Cleveland rector of Barkston for libel and considered the Sunday Times libel against Mr Grove the Greenwich police magistrate. The Postmaster General mandamus petition seeking letters for Arthur Strahan and Co. bankrupts faced nuance over future delivery. Also noted were a divorce-like breach of promise case Darzon v RossER and a habeas corpus bid for Bernard Cavanagh jailed as a vagrant faker.

Privy Council Windturday Sa Vi Bruce Wigram Vienna Cavriani Chorinsky Villiers Corre Spondent Quebec Dilkes Esterhazy Hungary Chandos-house Esteing Hanover Rince Nicholas London Bath Journal Bristol Ordnance Office Woolwich The Ordnance Arvices Ondon Confectioners Aldersgate-street Banne China Braidwood London Fire Establishment Woowich Imiralty Don DrEego Lxrox Madrid Don Diego de Lacy Evans Portsmouth Horatio Soudan Niger Tchadda Albert Wilberforce Thhadda Oliged Fernando Po Strange Wallen Trotter Rabbah Capten Ethiop Becroft Fishburne Air Wakeham Harvey Bombay New Brunswick Nova Scotia Cape Truro Revue Des Deux Mondes Lord Palmerston Lord Aberdeen France Lord Melbourne Home Office James Graham Robertson Blakesley Herts Josias Rowzrzy Sir Josias Rowley Mount Campbell Drumour Leitrim Josias Brighton Pusey Williams Oxford Greenwich Ballant Robinson Newgate Justice Williams Central Criminal Court Justice Bosanquet Common Pleas Westminster Hall Sr Veant Merewether Law Exjeant Goulburn Loxpoy Manchester J. C. Dyer London Road Messrs. Parr, Curtis Adeley Phenix Dyer York Liverpool Waa Ancoatseet Stare-street Court OF Queen’s Bench Tuzspar Banco Lord Denman Justice Patteson Coleridge Justice Wightman Henry Cleveland Erle Lord Fitzhardinge Barkston Lincoln Junius Berkeley Castle Clifton Morning Herald Grantham Philo Junius Melbourne Palmerston Headford Clarke Heally Lord Palmereton Liset Sunday Times Grove Court of Queen's Bench Arthur Strahan and Co Court of Session Post Office Scotland New South Wales Arthur Strahan England Ireland Meirelles Banning Thesiger

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