Trial Testimony on Mullaghmast Speeches and O Connell Remarks
Long courtroom cross examinations detail speeches at Mullaghmast and Donnybrook, readings of addresses to the British crown, and notes by reporters on Mr. O Connell and associates. Witnesses discuss numbers, meetings, and possible government influence as the state trials unfold with mounting pace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Association
O'Connell
O Peney
Donegal
West Canada
Eed Journal
Sheil
Ray
Mullaghmast
Steele
Moore
Tierney
M‘donagh
Barrett
John O'Connell
Daniel O'Connell
Justice Burton
Mr. Barrett
Mr. Ray
Mr. Kemmis
Mr. Whiteside
House of Commons
Oastler
Gurney
Repeal Association
Manchester
O’connell
Abbey-street
Hatchell
Crown
Abbey-street Theatre
Fleming Matthias Leatham
G. Bennett
Queen’s Counsel
Mr. O'Connell
London
Hughes
Corn Exchange
Charles Ross
Serjeant Warren
England
Donnybrook
Ross
Duffy
Loughrea
British Empire
Traversers
F. B. Hughes
Ireland
Serjeant
Warren
Henn
Q.C
Fine Solicitor General
J. O'Connell
Clontarf
Dr. Gray
Rosa
Clifden
T. M. Ray
Mr. Henn
Serj. Warren
Philips
Hardy
Buller
Erskine
Morning Chronicle
The
Times
Standard
the Chronicle
F. Bond Hughes
Important Meeting at Charlemont House in Dublin
After excluding Roman Catholics from the special jury panel, Lord Charlemont calls liberal peers and Catholics to Charlemont House on Thursday the 18th to decide measures for Ireland's current crisis. The Cork and Limerick papers report widespread Catholic meetings and mass prayers for O Connell's safety amid state trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maortine
Chartemont House
Crown
Earl of Charlemont
Charlemont House
Ireland
Lord Charlemont
Marquis of Clanricarde
House of Commons
Cork
Limerick
Traverrser
Clare Journal
Ennis
O'Connell
Dousury
Orange Party
Court of Queen's Bench
O'Connere
Orange
Downpatrick
Carrickfergus
Court of Queen’s Bench
Justice
Dublin Freeman
Dustin
R. Peel
Times
Tipperary
Nicholas Maher
Ponsonby Barker
More O'Ferratt
M.P
Tonbridge Wells
Sheil
Dublin
Mont-O'Ferean
Dublin Monitor
Ieland
Thomas Esmonde
T. Wyse
Ford
Smith
Mansion House
T. B.C. Smith
Queen's Counsel
Treasury Bench
Mr. Shei
England
Daniel O'Connell
Richard
Portavo House
D. S. Ker
Royal Exchange Office
Ballinammuck
Ballinamuck
Michael M‘namee
Drumload
Cornacullen
Drumlish
Mr. Scott
Patrick C. Howley
Barsuarous
Rathfarnham
Roche
Davis
Gentleman
Kilkee
Colonel White
Robert Shaw
Carew O'Dwyer
T J
British Museum Estimates Charge and Visitor Totals
A parliamentary return lists the annual charge to the British Museum as £34,975 for the year ending at Lady day next. It records nine divisions including visitor counts over six years. Visitors from Christmas 1836 to 1837 were 321,151. 1837 to 1838 were 266,008. 1838 to 1839 were 280,850. 1839 to 1840 were 247,929. 1840 to 1841 were 19,374. and to Christmas 1842 were 547,718. Art visits totaled 5,627 to sculpture and 8,781 to the print room in 1842. Reading room circulation shows 359,457 volumes used, with readers numbering 7,494.
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British Museum
Ladyday
Royal Library
Weekly Chronicle Announces Its Open Campaign For Reform
The Weekly Chronicle promotes extended suffrage the ballot and shorter Parliaments while pledging principled reform. It highlights free trade civil liberty education and Irish church revenue reform, and notes editions London Town and Town Country with prices and delivery details.
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Ireland
Weekly Chronicle
London
England
France
O'Connell
Chronicle
Enlistment of pauper children for the army
A Rochester 1844 letter exposes the practice of enlisting pauper children from unions around Chatham for military service. It details cases from North Aylesford and Dartford unions, noting age deception, guardianship neglect, and punitive training. asks for discharge and questions unions’ roles in recruiting for life. The author urges public scrutiny of poor law funds being used to aid such enlistments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fauert
Milo
Weekly Chronicle
Freperic Wurrener
Rochester
Chatham
Chelmsford
Cranbrook
Dartford
East Ashford
Hollingbourne
Medway
Maidstone
North Aylesford
St. Marylebone
Brivton
James Potter
North Aylesford Union
3D Buffs
Union
Guardians of the Union
John Mitchell
Dartford Union
Brixton
63D Regiment
Rochester Bridge
Cannanore
East Indies
India
Poor Law
Weekly Chronicle Law Q&A and Public Notices
A long reader letter collage includes legal Q&A guidance from the Week Chronicle editor, notes on honesty of professional counsel, and letters about mortgages, tenancy, taxes, and cross-Channel postage. It mentions a Christmas calf anecdote, Bath theatre debates, and a scheduled church ephemeris with weather and notable dates for January.
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Weekly Chronicle
Ireland
James Hatreuntox
London
Manchester
John Ormerod
Bacup
Sir Robert Peel
Burslem
Agricola
New Zealand
United States
Yorkshire
Smith and Elder
Archibald
Balbus
Omar
Andrews
G. Hy Reesgood
Batu Tuearnz
East
St. Michael's Church
Kinsbory
St. Paul's Cathedral
Anne
Quebec
Foreign Postace
Hill
St. Omer
Pas de Calais
France
H. B
Jack
Neptune
Honest Jack
P.S
J. R
T. L
Truro
W. R
Sir Francis Burdett Remains Indisposed With Cold
Reports from St James's Place state Sir Francis Burdett, the venerable baronet, remains severely indisposed with a cold. Inquiries at his mansion yielded no change in his condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Burdett
Sir Francis
St. James’s Place
Time of Sunrise Sunset and High Water Rules in Britain
Instructions detail calculating sunrise and sunset times by latitude adjustments above or below 61 deg 80 min, plus minute shifts for every degree difference. It also lists hour additions or subtractions for high water at major ports and packet stations, with many port-specific offsets for Bristol Cork Falmouth Hull Milford Haven Brighton Cowes Dover Dublin Holyhead Liverpool Port Grayown Southampton and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain and Ireland
Lon on-Dock
Bristol
Cork
Coys
Falmouth
Hull
Milford Haven
Brighton
Cowes
Dover
Dublin
Holyhead
Liverpool
Port Gray OW
Southampton
State Trials abridged digest for readers in London 1844
The Times previews a condensed digest of the Irish State Trials to fit readers, critiquing the Attorney General’s opening speech as feeble and diffuse. It notes controversy over jury panel omissions and debates whether conspiracies arise from public meetings against Peel and Conservative rule. The piece questions promised sensational disclosures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post
Lis
O’connell
Smith
T. B. Smith
Robert Peel
Solong
Macaulay and the Free Trade Question in Edinburgh
A editorial voice praises Mr. Macaulay for independence and Free Trade with the Anti Corn Law League. It questions his reluctance to repudiate the Fixed Duty, urging him to align with liberal principles despite League pressure and constituency fears, warning of a political reckoning if he stays silent.
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Macauley
Edinburgh
Lord Melbourne
Mr Macaulay
League
Macaulay
John Russell
Bright
Mr. Cobden
Gibson Craig
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St. Agnes
Meteo
Ephem
Zadkiel
Mownay
St. Vincent
Lord Byron
Tuespa
William Pitt
Frederick the Great
Tunrsday
St. Paul
Brazil
Jenner
Great Britain and Treland
Anti. Corn-Law League
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