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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 16, 1842
Page
6
Excerpts from a poetry page reflect mourning and spiritual ascent as a speaker contemplates a mysterious church board, the lay altar, and divine reward. The passaged imagery centers on earthly loss, Edenic fire, and the deceased’s twilight bier. Friends’ intercession lifts toward heaven amid fear and faith.
A detailed report of first day actions across the Court of Chancery and Queen's Bench. Lunacy commission proceedings against a London gentleman. injunction on a Spanish Legion officer over pay titles. libel cases against Rev Henry Cleveland and The Sunday Times. a mandamus issue against the postmaster general over letters to a bankrupt firm. and a damages review for a breach of promise of marriage.
The proceedings recount Bernard Cavanagh seeking habeas corpus to discharge him from Reading gaol after a vagrancy act conviction for soliciting charitable contributions with a false tale of prolonged starvation. Justice Williams contemplates the petition, grants a rule nisi, and weighs if the offense fits the act while noting the committal wording. The report also covers a separate matter in the Northern Star information against O Connor and White over a published letter, with renewed application after affidavits were sworn properly.
Court of Common Pleas opens with judges and motions. Neilson v Harford, patent case, verdict for plaintiff with 1s damages. Taxation of witnesses criticised as rail travel costs debated. Baron Parke presided. witnesses from Birmingham spoke of rail fares. Lords Abinger and Alderson comment on fair costs and travel modes. Rule to show cause ordered.
On the first day of term the Court of Exchequer discussed whether the equity jurisdiction in revenue cases was transferred to the Court of Chancery by the late act 5 Vic. c.5. The barons debated interpretation, with Lord Abinger noting lack of a definite opinion and proposing initial argument before the lord chancellor. The attorney general and peers laughed at the confusion as the matter was adjourned.
In a lengthy court hearing at the Sheriff’s Court the final adjourned examination of a clerkenwell wire-worker bankrupt is heard. Debts are estimated from £12,000 to £15,000 with assets under £1,000, and outlawry is proclaimed after the books could not be found. The case against Theodore Hook’s estate is argued in a crown extents inquiry, detailing John Bull ownership, life insurance, and alleged trustee arrangements amid complex claims.
A jury in Tower Hamlets heard Hutchinson’s election expense dispute. Plaintiff Stevens claimed £12 17s 6d due for canvassing and committee chairing, after £9 19s 6d remained from £40. defendants denied liability. The jury found for Hutchinson.
In the Monnays Insolvent Debtors Court a stock jobber Edward Waley Solomoneon once Edward Waley faced opposition from Louis Steehest’s creditor with support from Cooke and Woodraffé. Debts total about £20,487 with over £17,600 from time bargains and he claims personal debts under £1,000. The German creditor argues a contract flaw and the insolvent previously paid a balance in 1836 while later claiming a rich uncle’s death altered his name.
In three months the insolvent created a debt of £75 1s 2d with Waley. Of this, £38 18s was for cloth bought for a Lewes family and sold by the insolvent at a profit. It was argued the debt was improperly incurred while the insolvent claimed they expected payment. Commissioner Bowen ruled the debt lacked reasonable expectation of payment. The case was adjourned for a special balance sheet.
A London alderman hears a case where fourteen young men, including ringleaders, looted a baker’s shop near Cannon Street then shared the bread among thirty to forty others in the street. Police report no resistance as the group was remanded for trial.
A Green-eyed mobster Miss Betsey Mears accuses Miss Sally Evans of a drunken quarrel over four children and lodging, then the case is dismissed. Adley Howard, a soldier, is charged with assaulting Police Constable Clarke in Grosvenor Market after a riot. A bystander Spencer testifies to the disturbance and Howard’s belt blow.
Eliza Hatch a 23 year old servant before Mr Burrell charged with neglect and concealment causing the death of her infant. Evidence shows the body found in a dust-hole after a December birth. post mortem indicates the infant breathed after birth and may have died from neglect. Hatch is committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court with parties bound over to prosecute.
A long statement describes Irish Jane alias Jane the Lucky before Mr Cumbe on a charge of stealing £1 6s from gas-fitter John Gough after a night of gin and talk at her Gray's Inn Lane lodging. Gough, seeking satisfaction, admitted waiting all night. Jane defended herself, and the magistrate sent her to the Old Bailey for a fifteenth attempt.
Pietro Cetti, an Italian, was charged with a dangerous assault on Thomas Hill at a Skinner Street employer. Hill lost sight in one eye after a violent struggle in which Cetti allegedly thrust a thumb into his left eye. English witnesses described the brutal scene as the two fought during a dispute over a tool and insult. Cetti was remanded for a week and referred to St Bartholomew’s Hospital for treatment and diagnosis of the eye injury.
At Union Hall Tuesday James Atkinson alias Smith faced re examination on a charge of returning from transportation. His brother George Atkinson, a carpenter, hesitated to identify him. Constable George Goff affirmed the 1828 burglary conviction and life transportation, with later commutation. The prisoner remains remanded pending further proceedings.
Dissenting ministers and lay leaders gathered on Tuesday in South College Street Church to discuss the repeal of the corn laws. The meeting approved a committee to draft petitions, heard letters from Cobden and others, and urged a London demonstration on February 8. A second resolution denounced the corn laws as unjust and harmful, citing distress in Forfar and nationwide trade decline, with calls for free trade and action led by ministers and public figures.
Henry Giles and John Howse, former foreman and shopman to Samuel Adams, a tailor in Brewer Street St Pancras, faced Marylebone police court on charges of purloining 200 to 300 pounds. A man named Conner, previously charged, was released for lack of evidence. All prisoners were committed for trial.
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