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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 22, 1837
Page
4
An adviser to the Weekly Chronicle notes that a distempered horse may infect a whole stud within days, yet argues the issue does not prove an atmospheric origin. The correspondent discusses eye inflammation called trulg, the danger of certain depilatories, and suggests cautious medical opinion while criticizing reader handwriting.
A London Sunday essay attacks aristocratic rule and grants no public oversight of county finances. It laments magistrates as self serving and calls for Staffordshire rate-payers to demand access to expenditure, while urging reform and broader coalition with workers to abolish the Corn Laws and improve cross national ties.
An MP from Northumberland comments on Radicals in England and Ireland, condemning their servility to Whigs and urging bold, principled leadership. He denounces O'Connellites and cautions Radicals to abandon Whig tactics or face contempt, predicting a rise of honest leaders addressing the people’s demand.
A brief essay compares the Conservative Journal's claim that Protestants are oppressed to a harsh scene in New Orleans. The author mocks both the Tory view and a racially charged moment, concluding with a pointed refusal to dispute with the 'blackie' or the Tory.
The piece cites Marshal Clausel on risking lives for reputation and links it to murder motives, then reports political feuds. O Connell cuts ties with Crawford over Ireland's poor laws while O Malley clashes with him in Dublin, widening divisions and tensions over legal aid for the destitute.
A New Testament style note questions Lord Palmerston and Lord Granville for pressing to dismiss a Sultanate officer who mistreated a British subject, contrasting with Beaumont's harsher fate in Louis Philippe's prison and arguing Lords should aid Beaumont as a working-class ally.
The Tories push Operative Conservative Associations hoping to bind workers as slaves through careful management. We welcome it if the whole laboring population forms into Conservative or other associations, but trust they will learn and later gain rights as men and human beings.
The author challenges radical claims that taxation equals suffrage and rejects property qualification. He argues life and action laws merit suffrage, noting tyranny when rulers govern without consent. He asserts the poor have greater stake in the country than the rich, who can flee abroad, making property ownership a weak basis for voting rights.
Preparations advance vigorously in Liverpool and New York to establish steam vessel service linking England with the United States, signaling a major step in transatlantic travel and trade. Officials encourage rapid development and investment to realize regular crossings.
The room was thinly attended with betting flat at Tattersall. Defender led the prices. many horses were laid as favourites or offered. Derby and Oaks bets dominated the talk with odds on Jereed, Pocket Hercules, and Caravans among others, amid a downturn due to turf MPs leaving town and the epidemic. Twenty two horses entered for the Leamington Steeple Chase, only five...
In Frida town Sir Robert Peel enclosed a banker's draft for a hundred guineas to be placed to the public charities fund if festival receipts exceed expenditure. The Glasgow Argus quotes a letter from Robert Lamond, Esq. dated 13 January 1837, requesting the draft be applied to the same charity account.
Miscellany reports several brief items including a royal burial note about Duke William of Bayar, a Sweden bulletin improvement, unverified Polish visit rumors, and a mass of society and legal notices. It covers deaths, influenza among lawyers, fire at Deptford, colonial anniversaries, and local civic affairs with numerous brief mentions.
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