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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jan 20, 1839

Page

4

Connery Markets Wheat Prices Across Multiple Markets

Market reports from Connery and Appleby show varied grain trading with wheat prices mostly steady to lower. Across cities including Birmingham Edinburgh Dublin Glasgow Ipswich Manchester Dublin and London, prices for wheat oats barley and peas shift modestly, with notable declines in some notes and occasional advances in barley and oats depending on locale and quality.

Appleby Boston Ambridge Carhdis L.E Cocker Alouth Los der LY Devizes Ublin Edinburgh Egremont O&r Exeter Glasgow Canada Gloucester Guildford Ipswich Batley Rendal O'R Market Kirby Lonsdale Matt Carley Clark- Jane Slon Erie Berley York

London and London Bridge High Water and Historical Notes

A fragmented chronicle lists events from January including high water at London Bridge, notable deaths such as David Garrick in 1749 and the Duke of Kant in 1828, and various calendar references and times across January 20 to 26, noting religious readings, tides, and weather markers. The entry mixes historical dates with daily tide timings and observances.

Morylesa Isa David Garrick London Bridge Laamin Wapytscay Duke of Kant

Ledger of medical notices and garden science selections

A long compilation of medical remedies and home treatments with dose lists for various ailments. Includes instructions from multiple correspondents on household cures, allergy questions, and dosage guidance. Also features a dense essay on plant sensation and garden topics with advice on cultivation and seasonal sowing.

Emigration notes and editorial responses in a Victorian paper

The passage discusses sending money idle in the colony of Swan River due to labor shortages and emigration. It also covers editorial inquiries about a controversial Jewish-related paragraph, libel worries, and assurances to readers about portraits and correspondence.

Thomas Habgood Swan River M. A Teller Ishmael James Tytlr London

Royal Oak Benefit Society advertised for workers

An 19th century notice promotes the Royal Oak Benefit Society at Mitre Tavern St Martin’s Lane with admission 3s 6d and monthly 3s 6d. It outlines sickness relief fire loss and survivor benefits and invites eligible industrious men within twelve miles to enroll by January 29 or February 5 meetings. It details rules admission conditions and a medical certificate requirement.

Westly Chronicle Atention Royal Oak Benefit Society Mitre Tavern St. Martin's Ane Mies Housekeepore Iithin Provident Society

Office address change for Weekly Chronicle proprietors

The Office of the Weekly Chronicle is moved to No 337 Strand and all communications should be addressed there.

Weekly Chronicle Strand

Portrait of Her Majesty Offered by Vernry Chronicle

Readers may obtain the Portrait of Her Majesty by purchasing any future issue of the Vernry Chronicle for one shilling fromAgents in town or country, following the January sixth presentation.

Vernry Chronicle

The New Snub Editor Promises Improvement And Expansion

In a pledge to readers, the paper’s new editor asserts knowledge is power and announces plans to extend reach to 300,000 readers, improve the Weekly Chronicle’s content and mechanics, and differentiate from predecessors while awaiting time to prove merit. He emphasizes responsibility, public access to information, and a measured, evidence-based approach rather than appeals.

Briareus Bacon Weekly Chronicle Jeh

Assassination of Lord Norbury Prompts Irish Debate

The article mourns Lord Norbury and questions who benefited from his death. It calls for calm inquiry into who planned and ordered the killing, while praising the victim's amiable character and efforts to uplift the peasantry. It notes mixed reactions in England and Ireland and urges a measured, nonpartisan discussion.

Lord Norbury Lord Charleville England Ireland

Ireland's land crisis and Norbury's death debated

The piece argues the Irish land system, poverty, and violence demand systemic reform. It cites Lord Norbury's murder, notes Catholic and Protestant landowners share interests, and urges a national emigration or public works approach to protect property and avert further bloodshed.

Ireland Treland Nichol Lord Norbury Lord Charleville Park-gate Lord Oxmantown

Morning Chronicle Defends Its French Press Clash

The Morning Chronicle disputes French press criticism over remarks about St John of Ulloa and a potential surrender. It argues it did not assert a fact but suggested a possibility while acknowledging France may view the issue through national jealousy. The piece comments on Louis Philippe’s policy and praises the French people’s alliance with England.

Morning Chronicle St. John of Ulloa Chronicle France England Louis Philippe Norning Chronicle Castle of St. John Mexico

Army lacks scientific corps and education in siege

The speaker notes no scientific men or educational facility accompany the army and no lands to support it. It questions whether the Castle had 170 guns or seven, then remarks that raw recruits managed service and six Frenchmen killed in as many hours is a prodigious result.

Dispute Over U S Policy Drawn From Toronto Address

Sir George Arthur rebukes President Van Buren over the Neutrality Proclamation and Prescott invasion, arguing the United States bears responsibility for frontier disturbances. The letter warns against ongoing lynch conditions on British subjects and calls for steadier leadership to avoid war between the two nations.

George Arthur van Buren United States Toronto Upper Canada Prescott Congress Harrisburg von Shultze England

The Address and the Wind of Change

The Government Papers announce Mr Edward Buller of Staffordshire will move and Mr George Wood of Kendal will second the Address in the House of Commons. The pair are Whigs, Reformers of 1833, with little expectation of major change. Much hinges on last minute Paragraphs added to the Speech and possible modifications.

Bradford Londo Mancha Rochda Wakefield Edward Buller Staffordshire George Wood Kendal House of Commons Charles Buller Matthew Wood Treasury Bench

Infanticide and the Sun in the Courtenay Riots critique

The piece condemns the Sun for promoting a monstrous claim that a Poor Law Commissioner named Marcus authored a poisonous pamphlet urging infant destruction. It questions the Sun and Liberal Metropolitan Press for spreading ignorance, urging rational judgment and faulting sensationalism in the press and politics around the Poor Laws.

Courtenay Stephens Poor Law Marcus Oastler Chadwick Somerset House Operative Northern Star Suz

Gas explosion demolishes two shops in Manchester

A major gas explosion in Grosvenor Square and Oxford Road Manchester destroyed two shops after workmen severed a service pipe to repair gas apparatus. A confectioner's shop housed three Indians at risk, but roofing and wall support kept occupants safe. No lives lost. property damage was extensive. A separate verdict in Goodchild v Pile case found Pile guilty of his own rescue.

Manchester Grosvenor-square Oxford-road Goodchild Pile

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